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Tweak says, "Why? Do you think I should?"

Daryl Dixon (littledixon) wrote in makebelievelog,
@ 2013-07-03 10:27:00

Entry tags:

anakin skywalker, annie cresta, ariadne, buffy summers, carol peletier, corvo attano, cosima niehaus, daryl dixon, gale hawthorne, genevieve lefoux, gretel, h.g. wells, harry potter, ichigo kurosaki, ickle anakin skywalker, ickle daryl dixon, ickle helena wells, ickle regulus black, ickle rick grimes, michonne (the walking dead), myka bering, nathan drake, obi-wan kenobi, rachel berry, rick grimes, ruby lucas, siri tachi, tom sawyer, torunn thordottir

Who: EVERYBODY.
What: The TWD crew is hosting a 4th of July celebration. Food, alcohol, fireworks -- come one, come all.
When: Thursday, July 4. All evening.
Where: Down by and around the lake.
Rating/Warnings: Just off the top of my head I'm going to guess language, juvenile delinquents, and possibly some public drunkenness. It is the 4th, after all.
Status: OPEN.

The basic schedule will look like this:

12:00 PM - Those wishing to help setup start arriving.
5:00 PM - Party goers not involved in setup start arriving.
6:30 PM - Grilling starts.
6:45 PM - Plates are being served.
8:00 PM - The Grill is fired down.
9:00 PM - Daryl and Rick shoot off the homemade rockets, six total.
9:45 PM - Hermione's grand finale firework show.

Cleanup and kicking people out will happen whenever people start getting tired. This is a Southern even, after all. They'll let it last high into the morning if that's what people want! No passing out by the lake, though.

NOTE: This is how the group thread is going to go down - Location threads have already been started within the post. The area and time are designated in the subject line. Comment to the areas you want your characters to play at, and put in the subject line of your comment who is participating in the thread or if it is open.

For example, if you decided to comment the GRILLING AREA - 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM thread, you would change the subject line to OPEN TO GRILLERS or DARYL/OPEN TO OTHERS WAITING IN LINE FOR FOOD. Then, as soon as someone joined, you may change the subject line to DARYL/RICK - CLOSED so that everybody would know that it's now become just a one-on-one convo between the two conversations.

Can I be in more than one subthread at once? Yes. Because there are events happening at different times, your character can easily be flitting around from person to person, mingling their lil' butt off. Just remember that it makes sense. You probably can't be standing in line at the same time as you're wandering along the forest edge waiting for everybody else to get their food first as those two events wouldn't work. But you could definitely be waiting in line for food, have a conversation, and then go sit down to eat and have another conversation. It's a party! Mingle!

And if in doubt? Ask! (Oh, and don't forget to tag yourself as you throw your characters in!)

I've added plenty of description for everyone to know what they are looking at, but I am not perfect! If I have forgotten something, feel free to pretend that I didn't and mention that it's there.

Last Note: Snap pops and sparklers are available for everyone.

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	master_kenobi 2013-07-09 12:59 pm UTC (link)
	Ah. Pragmatism. She had his attention. He glanced down. "I can see that they would be useful should these become damaged or irreparably soiled." He glanced towards Anakin. "He's given them up entirely. I haven't asked him why." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neverlosefocus 2013-07-10 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	“You don’t have to decide right now, you know,” Siri told him with a smile. “I’m sure that the clothes aren’t going anywhere.” She followed his gaze to where Anakin stood. “Are you sure you want to know why?” Whether or not it could be worse than anything else he’d found out since arriving she didn’t know. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

master_kenobi
2013-07-10 11:06 pm UTC (link)

"My guess would be that it's some sort of rejection of what he'll become. Like Ani cutting off his braid. Of course, it could be as simple as wanting to be more like the people he's met here. I'm not sure which possibility would be the disappointing one." He crossed his arms. "Anyway, I expect you're right: I should think about it."

Meditate on it.

"Ani tells me that some of the fireworks are magical."

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	neverlosefocus 2013-07-10 11:50 pm UTC (link)
	Siri looked at him, one particular part of what he said jumping out at her. “What do you mean, rejection of what he’ll become?” This wasn’t something she’d been told, yet. She had no idea what he was talking about. And it worried her. “What is he going to become, Obi-Wan?” (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

master_kenobi
2013-07-11 12:23 am UTC (link)

He didn't look at her right away, but when he did there was a steely resolve in his eyes.

"I was hoping he would have told you himself," he admitted. "In our world, some time after..." Her death. He couldn't. He went another route. "Near the end of the war. In our world, Anakin will fall to the Dark Side and wipe out the Order."

Not exactly the occasion, he felt, for such news, but he couldn't simply keep it from her anymore.

"Chancellor Palpatine is the Sith Lord. He'd been poisoning Anakin's mind slowly, for years."

He looked away.

"He sees it now. All of it. He's horrified by it. He's done everything he can to distance himself from it, but he takes full responsibility as well. If you feel a heavy cloak of guilt on him, that's what it's from."

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neverlosefocus
2013-07-11 12:56 am UTC (link)

Siri stumbled back a step, his words hitting her like a physical blow. She scarcely noticed his hesitation, so strong was her shock. It was only sheer force of will that kept her standing, kept her from giving into the unsteadiness in her legs, the trembling of her hands. Anger and disbelief and a sorrow so deep she couldn’t breathe from its intensity washed over her. A snarled knot of raw emotion that pulsed so strongly in her she ached with it.

And no matter how hard she struggled to accept the emotions, to let them go... she couldn’t. It was just one blow after another. He kills them. Destroys them. Destroys us. On the heels of that thought was another; could she have done something if she’d still been alive? Would she have made any difference? Or would she just have been another body on the pyre?

“Anakin is why the Order turns to ash...” It took her a moment to regain the ability to speak, and when she did her voice was pained. “And Palpatine was the Sith Lord. He was behind... behind everything.” How could we have been so blind?

She couldn’t breathe.

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	master_kenobi 2013-07-11 01:27 am UTC (link)
	"I think part of him is relieved you didn't live to see it. I, apparently, did." Another, longer hesitation. "If the future remains unchanged, Anakin is going to kill me." A pause. "Himself." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

neverlosefocus
2013-07-11 03:08 am UTC (link)

Those were exactly the words Siri didn’t want to hear. No. It was better to know the truth, she was sure, no matter how painful... but it didn’t feel like it. Knowing that Anakin would kill Obi-Wan... felt as though she’d been stabbed through the heart, burning as white hot as the blaster shot that had killed her. Guilt and horror welled up in her chest, as her knees buckled and she collapsed to the sand.

I should have been there. She should have been there, beside him... Beside them all.

She took an unsteady breath, bowing her head and closing her eyes, as the weight of everything settled onto her, an aching chasm that was growing steadily deeper with every new piece of information she was learning. She felt so lost. There were no words. She couldn’t find them. All she could do was kneel there on the sand and mourn.

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	master_kenobi 2013-07-11 03:19 am UTC (link)
	"Siri." He knelt next to her. "Siri, it wasn't him. You know what the Dark Side does. It's a danger to all of us because anyone can be tricked and twisted. Please don't punish Anakin - the Anakin that's here - for things he hasn't done and would never do now." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

neverlosefocus
2013-07-11 05:57 am UTC (link)

Siri couldn’t help laughing, a soft, heartbroken sound... because that was so very Obi-Wan. And she wouldn’t have him be any way but what he was. No matter how easily he could irritate her at times. “I know. I wouldn’t - ” Her voice was ragged. Logically, she did know, she was well aware of the dangers of the Dark Side. She knew that the Anakin that was there with them hadn’t done those things. But she’d just had her world torn apart. Again. Logic wasn’t playing a very large part of her thought process currently. “You’ve just told me that not only will our Order be razed to the ground by the Sith, but that Anakin turns to the Dark Side and does it... you’ll have to give me a moment.”

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master_kenobi
2013-07-11 02:09 pm UTC (link)

He thought she meant to back off, and he did, sitting back on his heels to give her physical space. He understood how hard it was to accept; he'd had to face the same news not long ago. The same news coupled with the fact that his life's most important endeavour - the training of Anakin Skywalker - would be turned into the weapon that would destroy the Order. He felt... involved. Responsible. Dirty. No matter how much Anakin reassured him that his hands were clean, he didn't feel clean.

"I'm sorry; I shouldn't have told you here. Not like this."

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neverlosefocus
2013-07-13 11:45 pm UTC (link)

That hadn’t been what she meant, but it didn’t matter. This wasn’t something she could accept in a moment. It wasn’t something she could accept in a day, or a week. Months or years, perhaps. But this wasn’t... Force, it made her ill.

“There’s no way to tell it well, Obi-Wan. Not news like this. And I would rather hear it from you than anyone else. You don’t have anything to apologise for.” It wasn’t the first time she’d told him that since arriving in the Land of Make Believe, and any other time she would have been amused. There was no amusement in her now; there was nothing but horror and sorrow and a sort of aching numbness lingering around the edges. Guilt and anger, too, laced through everything else.

Anakin was going to kill Obi-Wan. That was... She wasn’t certain she could forgive that.

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	master_kenobi 2013-07-14 12:47 am UTC (link)
	"I feel like I do," he admitted. He held out his hand to her. "Come on. Let's get a drink. Perhaps something a little stronger than fruit juice." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neverlosefocus 2013-07-14 07:15 am UTC (link)
	“I know you feel like you do.” That was simply a part of who he was. “But you don’t.” Something almost smile-like flickered across her face. “Trust me.” Her eyes dropped to his offered hand for a moment, before returning to his face. “Okay.” She reached out and took it, needing the physical contact more than he could possibly know. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	master_kenobi 2013-07-14 01:24 pm UTC (link)
	He stood, pulling her to her feet, then he let go of her hand... one could be forgiven for thinking there was something reluctant in that. He glanced at her. "Perhaps I should have tried a stiff drink sooner. Apart from your arrival, it seems there's been little but bad news since I got here." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

neverlosefocus
2013-07-14 11:03 pm UTC (link)

That he considered her arrival good news made a faint, but genuine, smile flicker briefly across her face. The fact that she felt the loss of his hand from hers so keenly wasn’t something she let herself dwell on; it was simply a reaction to the news he had told her, that was all. “Well, I appreciate you waiting for me,” she replied. There wasn’t as much teasing to her tone as there might have been, had she not just had her feet knocked out from under her, but there was some.

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	master_kenobi 2013-07-14 11:23 pm UTC (link)
	"Nobody enjoys drinking alone," Obi-Wan replied with a wan smile. He glanced at her again. "Have you considered what you're going to do with your second chance?" he asked her. "Not many get a chance to revisit their regrets after they've thought it too late." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

neverlosefocus
2013-07-15 12:21 am UTC (link)

Regrets...

Siri met his gaze for a moment, before looking away. Their conversation, one of their last before her death at the hands of Magus was all too fresh in her mind. They’d spoken of regrets, of the past... She shook her head. No. That wasn’t something she should dwell on, either. They hadn’t had that conversation yet, for him. “No. I haven’t. Not yet.” She hadn’t even begun to come to terms with the fact that she wasn’t dead (what was she, anymore), and with the news he’d given her now... she was more lost than ever. “I’ll figure something out.” She always did.

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	master_kenobi 2013-07-15 01:50 pm UTC (link)
	"You know you don't have to do that alone," he reminded her with another sidelong glance. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

neverlosefocus
2013-07-16 01:06 am UTC (link)

“I wouldn’t presume. Not here. Not...” There was a difference in not being alone, and not doing something alone. She was all too aware of the first, and the relief familiar faces brought. For the second, he was the one person she would want to have by her side, here. Anywhere, really. And Siri wasn’t sure she had the right to. She wasn’t sure of anything, at the moment.

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master_kenobi
2013-07-18 02:48 pm UTC (link)

"It's not a presumption; we've been friends for a long time." Friends. They always called it friendship. It was friendship, of course. That was where they chose to halt things. "Do you think I'd let you do it alone, even if you said you wanted to?" he asked. He looked at her. "Would you let me, if our places were reversed?" Not that they were entirely dissimilar here.

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neverlosefocus
2013-07-20 09:22 pm UTC (link)

The word was... weighted, for them. Had been for a very long time. But he was one of her closest friends. Having him there with her was something she appreciated. She smiled. “No, I don’t think you would. And no, I wouldn’t. You’re stuck with me.” It would be easier, being there for him than it would be dealing with her own issues. She reached out and touched his arm. “But we’re in similar positions right now. We’re both finding our footing. Dealing with the situation we’ve found ourselves in.” And she had DIED. It felt like a presumption to assume their friendship would continue as it had for so long, after something so... final. That was supposed to be final. Though he hadn’t yet lived through it. “It would be understandable.”

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	master_kenobi 2013-07-20 10:16 pm UTC (link)
	"Would it? I think it would make little sense, when we're so clearly in the same boat, to abandon each other to the current." He glanced at her sidelong. "It would amount to abandoning ourselves as well." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

neverlosefocus
2013-07-21 12:57 am UTC (link)

“Yes. It would,” she told him. “There would be nothing wrong if you dealt with acclimating yourself first.” He’d told her he would be there for her, and she knew he would be. But she couldn’t burden him with this. Not with her death, and the after-effects of returning to life. Not when he was in a similar situation, dealing with the same displacement and news of their future. It was bad enough she’d broken the news of her death to him so poorly.

Her smile was crooked, and fond. “But I appreciate that you are so stubbornly refusing to go anywhere.”

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master_kenobi
2013-07-21 01:35 am UTC (link)

"It's not about stubbornness," Obi-Wan insisted. "Acclimating will be easier for both of us with a familiar... element around." He looked at her. "Anakin's life here is different, Siri. I can accept that, but he's not my student anymore - not the adult - and he's not practicing the Order's beliefs. He outright contests some of them. Having someone around who understand how I see things, why I feel a certain way about things, will help the process, not hinder it." He half shrugged and glanced down. "Maybe that's selfish. But I've felt less... alone since you arrived."

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