purple_alicorn (purple_alicorn) wrote in ironman7, @ 2007-08-24 08:11:00 |
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Entry tags: | gundam wing, purple_alicorn, week 1: prompt 3 |
Gundam Wing (Duo)[week 1 - prompt 3]
Title: Truths
Author: purple_alicorn
Rating: FR13
Warnings: pottymouth
Word Count: 454
Author’s notes: This prompt screamed “Duo” to me because of his mantra “I run, I hide, I never tell a lie”. Style wise, I wanted to try a dialogue format, but realised that adding the other sides in could get very messy, so I just recorded Duo’s side. I think it works.
[Fragment of a conversation between 02 and unknown parties, recovered from cockpit recording in GUNDAM Deathscythe Hell. Date unknown]
(Static)
Whadda mean “What do I think of you?” What kinda question is that to be asking at a time like this?
(4 second of static)
Well, yeah, I know that there’s not much else we can do while waiting, but do ya really want to know what I think of you guys, ‘cause ya know I don’t lie.
(5 seconds of static)
That’s not lying! It’s just leading people to make their own assumptions from what I say. Like when I’m introduced by ‘em as, say,” Jonathon Smith”, I don’t actually say that’s my name. I just tell ‘em “You can call me Jon” I don’t actually tell the lie. Anyway what I really mean is I don’t lie about important stuff, like your question. Which I really don’t want to answer.
(1 seconds of static)
Why don’t I want to answer it? Simple, everyone has perceptions about themselves that they don’t want shattered – and if I tell ya what I really think that may happen. And if ya don’t like what I hear, you may not be quite as quick to back me up, and in fights that little bit of waiting could be the difference between living and dying.
(5 seconds of static)
Ya still want an example of what I mean? (Sighs). Okay, but remember you asked for it. Take for an example Heero. Ya like to think that you’re all this “lone warrior” type who doesn’t need anyone else in this fight, but that’s bull. And I’m not just referring to us other pilots either. I mean, look, you’ve got this kickass Gundam but someone else had to build it, and the info we use in planning our missions, ya didn’t discover that, someone else did and it was given to you.
Or Wufei, for someone who’s so big on honour and justice, how’d you reconcile that with guerrilla missions, we undertake, ‘cause no-one could call them honourable. How about Quatre, who while being a kickass pilot and strategist, knows jack-all about survival and the real world. If ya were to be dropped off in the middle of L2 with just what you have on ya, you’d be dead within a week. And finally Trowa, you gotta know who ya are. I don’t mean like who you’re parent’s were and that kinda thing, but know who Trowa is, and carve a place for yourself, not just shape yourself around others.
(1 minute pause)
See. I told ya, ya really didn’t want to know. So anyone else got any bright ideas of what to do to pass the time?
[recording ends]