respired: might as well let it die (there's no relief in bitterness)
ᴋᴏʟᴛɪʀᴀ ·sᴜɴsʜɪɴᴇ· ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜᴡᴇᴀᴠᴇʀ ([personal profile] respired) wrote in [community profile] futurology2016-09-14 06:32 pm

video; un: deathweaver

[ Koltira's back to his usual self once again--his hair pale as ice, his eyes burning with lichfire. His skin sallow, tinted with hypothermia, and shot through with spiderweb cracks. He wears the black ALASTAIR uniform as he sits on the edge of his bed, twisting a new ring around one gloved finger.

Beside him, his lynx cub rolls around sleepily.

His voice is still deceptively lilting, but the ethereal echo, the underscore of a guttural scratch, haunts him. ]


I must ask for a favor, should you have the capacity to grant it.

[ He glances back at the lynx cub. ]

The dead are not meant to care for the living. If one of you would take responsibility for this creature, I'd consider myself in your debt.

[ A pause. He frowns slightly as he goes on. ]

Recently, some of you met me as I once was. Understand something now. That man is gone. He died nearly twenty years ago, and nothing--nothing--of him remains in me. His house is ash, and cannot be recovered.

[ Not entirely true, though Koltira maintains otherwise.

Another beat, longer this time, as if he's unsure whether to keep talking. But, eventually: ]


Many of you recognized me, yet you did not ruin the past with visions of the future. For this ... I thank you.

[ And that's all. ]
grunehexe: (dramatic)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-09-19 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
I am living an adults life now, for all anyone seems to notice!
grunehexe: (admission)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-09-19 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
No, you meant it.

[Everyone means it. She wishes she remembered what it was like, to be older. She's sure no one treated her like this- like they often do, and no one would say dismissive things and chalk things up to "childhood", and "youth", and-]

But I have patients whose problems will not wait for the "fullness of time", so, if you will excuse me.
grunehexe: (outburst)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-09-19 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
[She has to bite her tongue, because no- not everyone believes that at all. If they did, she wouldn't be this sensitive about it, wouldn't be so defensive. She had some with brains who could apparently "see past" her age, but few who just accepted it from the beginning, and even then... but if she argues that point, it will just be fuel to the fire, look petty and "childish" even though it's true.]

Motherhood and- I do not need either of them! Once I have an heir, the Green Witch's duty will be complete and I may unbind myself from- from whatever ribbon it is that humans draw for themselves, or whatever else can be expected! It will be done as soon as I can, and be done with, not just happen whenever it is deemed proper-

Do not think it is only I who does not understand.
boneafide: (pic#9770156)

[personal profile] boneafide 2016-09-19 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
I have but one thing to say to that, Koltira...

[Taking a pencil nearby and the scrap of paper that says "anime" on the back, he draws a "U". Now he brings it up to his face, the "U" upside down to look like a frown over his teeth. And then slowly, he flips it the other way, to make it a smile.]

Now you try!
hardnosed: (shadowboxing when i heard you)

[personal profile] hardnosed 2016-09-19 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
The organic living, maybe. It's not efficient.
twinpeak: (pic#9745305)

[personal profile] twinpeak 2016-09-19 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
You never even tried to before now.
boneafide: icon by <user name=crenando> (pic#10358998)

[personal profile] boneafide 2016-09-19 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, you're really being grumpy over this, huh...

[ Papyrus frowns, crossing his arms and thinking. ]

Anime? Oh, yes, it's a cartoon for children based on human historical documents! I used this paper for my demonstration and I just kept it. I don't know why, actually?
grunehexe: (iron maiden)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-09-19 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[... Ah.]

Is that not also why you do?

[He's just bound by something else. Not duty, but death.]
heavyhitter: how many times have i kicked you out of here? (don't know if i can yell any louder)

[personal profile] heavyhitter 2016-09-19 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, 'cuz we are friends. [ She sighs and, braving another look up at him, looks decidedly more miserable. ] And... that was pretty shitty of me. I'm sorry.

[ She debates pressing forward for a hug, and wonders if he's still too pissed for that. Nothing's worse than a one-sided hug, but man she wants to. That feeling of abandonment — not just from Sigma, but everyone who'd forgotten her — still isn't quite banished. ]
hiddenlights: (pic#9204604)

[personal profile] hiddenlights 2016-09-19 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
[He suspected it would be.]

It's a monster that resembles a white lizard. And a Pyron is a legendary creature with the power of flight, a firble can evolve into one if given the right kinds of food.
winces: (( twenty-five ))

[personal profile] winces 2016-09-19 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you, [ she winds up breathing out, her shoulders dropping in relief.

she does not bother to ask him for his room number. she seeks him out using the magitek, finding him almost instantly. it only takes her a few minutes to get there. like he'd said, the door was open, but she still lingers around it and gives the wood a gentle tap with her knuckles. ]


Koltira...?
secondnature: (i don't keep coffee here)

[personal profile] secondnature 2016-09-19 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh, yeah—I guess not being alive for twenty years would probably make those old habits go away. [Keith could beat himself up for things, but at least he knows about eating and sleeping habits of a living creature.]

I was thinking of teaming up with my teammates from home to take care of the cub if you let us. We all excel at different stuff, but we work best as a team.

[And Keith is a cantankerous child, but he loves his team a lot.]
strikingtwice: (let me tell you a thing)

[personal profile] strikingtwice 2016-09-20 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
It's not the same.

[There's a part of him that feels like he shouldn't be arguing with Koltira about this when his goal had been to apologise for what happened, but he can't accept that the other elf is the same as Meallan had been that time. It had been different, surely.]

I wasn't like you then, I couldn't... I couldn't hold a conversation like we are now, I could barely tell who was in front of me. I only saw people I wanted to hurt and kill, Koltira. You're not like that, otherwise how could we be talking now?
digophelia: (Forsaken deep in the sullen tide)

[personal profile] digophelia 2016-09-20 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ Alice figures asking him if he would like help is a moot point. ]

Are you somewhere safe?
figureitout: (◐they're trying to catch you)

[personal profile] figureitout 2016-09-20 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
That's... weirdly formal, but, uh, thanks.

[ He has a plan, and that plan involves what ALASTAIR is fighting against: changing timelines. But what they don't know can't hurt them... ]

And she doesn't? Then... wouldn't it be nice, to have an animal with you who doesn't run away from you for a change?
hardnosed: (but now i got a new tour)

[personal profile] hardnosed 2016-09-20 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She rejoins immediately, in a tone that's very... well... purposeful. Also: doesn't clarify the organic thing at all. ]

Battle.
racking: (40.)

[personal profile] racking 2016-09-20 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ better to be a stranger than navigate the awkwardness of people he has no recollection of greeting him nicely :c ]

I'm not asking to rush you. I was just curious if you had candidates lined up.

[ no pressure! ]

It's a cute cub. It must be hard to part with it.

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