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[othellovonryan]

Noise.

It starts as just irritation. A metaphorical crawling under your skin. Things are too noisy, too bright, there is too much happening all the time and you can't take it all in-

Then silence it, make it yours, make it you, take control and destroy what will not submit

It sounds so inviting, a freedom from the noise, but its wrong, its wrong, its wrong and the noise is getting louder, mechanical and foreboding as it sees you, it knows you are there, and it wants to make you apart of it.

Anatawa hitorijanai

For a moment, there is quiet.

You breathe.

And fall through water.

Comments

Re: The Core

[allevilthings]

... the heart of you, huh.

[she whispers it, unwilling to intrude.]

Re: The Core

[othellovonryan]

[He nods, walking into the memory. No one else seems aware of her, continuing like nothing had happened.]

[He puts a hand on the projector.] First thing I fixed.

[The first time he understood an intrinsic part of himself. The first time he fully knew the good he could do for his family.]

Re: The Core

[allevilthings]

Something to be proud of for sure.

[a pause.]

His stance is too wide to hit anyone successfully. They're covering it with the angle they're shooting the movie from, but it's glaringly obvious at a glance. What is this?

[yes, she's been briefly distracted the movie.]

Re: The Core

[othellovonryan]

Kung Fu movie. A recorded play.

Villain needs to stand dynamically. Most actors can't do impressive real moves. Dad can. They need to fake harder to keep quality.

Re: The Core

[allevilthings]

[there's no grasp of what he means till he says 'recorded play' and then there's a visible sense of 'wow. now there's a concept.' like if scrying wells could permanently store what they'd displayed/seen. a bit horrifying to contemplate if she thinks about it too long, but what isn't, these days ...]

Huh. So this was from before he was a ... mouse? And you all get to see it.

[a beat.]

My dad used to share some of his past with me like that, but I only got to watch it happening in my dreams, you know?

Re: The Core

[othellovonryan]

Rat. Same day we were made.

[Because they were definitely a made thing.]

Technology difference. Didn't know it was dad until last year. Took a while to open up.

[He looks at Splinter and smiles fondly.] I could help them after today.

Re: The Core

[allevilthings]

Huh.

[she gives him a sad, if fond, smile.] Is that right?

... but yeah. Sometimes ... sometimes dads don't tell you what's on their mind till it's too late. [especially for heroes, she doesn't add aloud. if she hadn't learned better, she might've even thought, wrongly, that parental death was a given. but she knows better - it's just the case for most of them. points for Below - and her emotions twist internally at the thought; she isn't an exception to prove the rule, not on this one - at least most of those on her side only lost their parents after killing them at their own hands.] You get to consider yourself a lucky one that too late didn't come too soon for him.

Re: The Core

[othellovonryan]

[He snorts.] Got close a lot. Dad took on a lot on himself. To protect us. To run from it. A lot of reasons.

He opened up when it counted most. He messed up a lot, but never when it counted most.

[He looks at Cat.] Dad is complicated. Family is complicated. But worth it.

Re: The Core

[allevilthings]

... yeah. That it is.

[she looks at the image.]

I still want to go back and cut that chain tying the other part of you to his Big Idea, or whatever that was, now that I - took care of the other problem. Think we can do that, before this all runs its course?

Re: The Core

[othellovonryan]

[He nods in agreement.] The bunker. Better to stop that.

You should read your dossier too.

Re: The Core

[allevilthings]

[she nods, ready to move on and go do just that - then gets brought up short.]

... dossier?

[a beat.]

You already have enough on me to put me in a dossier? Donnie -

[she stops herself, clears her throat.] - actually, no, mostly I'm ... impressed. Especially that you're willing to show it to me, considering.

Re: The Core

[othellovonryan]

I don't want people to be confused what I think of them. I'd look.

[He gestures to the back of the room and a blue doorway and an orange doorway appear.]

Re: The Core

[allevilthings]

Right. This isn't an either/or choice, is it? Not at this stage.

Re: The Core

[othellovonryan]

I'll leave the doorway open. Don't need to give emotions or memories if you come back here.

Re: The Core

[allevilthings]

Then let's get that chain cut first ... much as I really want to see that dossier already.

[and idk she's probably going to talk to that Donnie again too a little but if we just want to cut to her having broken the chain and come back through the blue door already and on into the orange one, we can do that too]

Re: The Core

[othellovonryan]

[I mean if you want to just do dual threads, you can do that to, Lab probably won't change anything major for dossier reading. The Lab is also how she left it.]

[The Music Room is very much tentacle free, there is no orange glowing box, but there is a freed Mikey, a freed Donbot, and computer terminals now visible after all the tentacles with a scattering of handheld puzzles in front of them.]