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MarinaNova NPCs (marinanova_npc) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-09-05 11:48:00

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392 - Kite Mingle

[If you're outside today it will be hard to miss all the whimsical, high-flying kites. Might as well get some of your own or spend some time getting them out of trees.]

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trappedinresin
2016-09-07 04:16 am UTC (link)

Nico-kun...!

[Catching sight of him, Yuuki lifts a hand up to grab his attention, before she manages to catch up.]

Hey. Did you come out to fly some kites? [Hands in his pockets or not, it's been a little while since she... discovered the disappearance of Yuuri. Knowing what close friends they were, she imagines he's feeling just as upset, if not more so than Yuuki herself.

Which is why she's glad to see him about.]

There's all kinds of different ones.

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	nico_di_angelo 2016-09-07 04:44 am UTC (link)
	[He turns at the sound of his name and untucks a hand to wave back.] Yuuki. Hey. [The hand disappears again once she's caught up to him. He shrugs in response to her question.] I came out to come out. The kites happened to be here. There ... are a lot... [That was awkward.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	trappedinresin 2016-09-08 02:58 am UTC (link)
	Mm. I like the big giant ones in the sky. [There's a giant octopus, it's really cool.] I'm going to go fly a couple myself! We should get you something neat, too. Maybe we can get a big octopus, too? Oh! Or a dragon. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2016-09-09 04:15 am UTC (link)
	Mm. They're cool, I guess. [He's not sure how the octopus hasn't got itself tangled in all the other kites around it yet.] Oh, um, I wasn't planning on flying anything, actually... [He doesn't even want to be out here at all, if he's being honest. But he's trying not to fall back on old habits.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	trappedinresin 2016-09-10 02:36 am UTC (link)
	You can just fly one with me, then. [Because he's not getting out of kite flying one way or the other. Welcome to the wonderful world of bossy women!] What's your favorite animal? I'm sure we can find one! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2016-09-10 05:21 pm UTC (link)
	....... [Sigh. Fine.] Hellhound. [He's not just saying that to be difficult.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	trappedinresin 2016-09-10 06:23 pm UTC (link)
	A wolf then. [Probably the closest thing they'll find unless there's a scary version of one.] I'm sure there has to be something like that. I saw a dinosaur one that I want to try myself. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2016-09-10 06:29 pm UTC (link)
	No wolf. A puppy. [Cerberus and Mrs. O'Leary were more like big - big, big - slobbery dogs than wolves. Anyway, he wasn't particularly endeared to wolves. Wait.] Wait. I have to fly it...? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	trappedinresin 2016-09-10 06:31 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I think finding a puppy kite will be even easier. [Right? Everyone loves puppies!] And of course. Don't worry, it's not so hard. Today is my first day flying them, and it seems easy enough to me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2016-09-10 06:47 pm UTC (link)
	A black puppy... [Because hellhounds are black.] I didn't think it was hard. It might be my first time flying them too. [He's not sure.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	trappedinresin 2016-09-10 07:17 pm UTC (link)
	But still no wolves...? [Wolves are super cute though.] Oniisama made the cutest wolf. [It's impossible to find cuter.] You can't remember if you did when you were little? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2016-09-10 11:45 pm UTC (link)
	[He shrugs off one shoulder of his jacket and pulls up the sleeve of his T-shirt just enough to uncover a row of jagged scars.] No wolves. [He rights his clothes with a shake of his head.] No. I lost most of my memories. [Lost isn't the right word. They were taken. Washed away. Wiped clean.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	trappedinresin 2016-09-11 06:07 pm UTC (link)
	Oh... [Eyes lifting up to his, she frowns in apology.] I'm so sorry something like that happened. [No wonder he'd prefer something different, then.] And even more so about your memories. [ . . . ] Do you want those memories you can't recall? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

nico_di_angelo
2016-09-11 08:33 pm UTC (link)

It's fine. It was necessary. [You should see what he did to the other guy.

The memories are something else. Almost everything from ten years old and backward is gone. Some things have come back, little flashes here and there, but nothing solid, no whole picture or clear faces. Just echoes to remind him that he had belonged somewhere, with someone, in another decade. He frowns.] Of course I want them. But they're gone.

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	trappedinresin 2016-09-11 08:49 pm UTC (link)
	[ . . . ] I'm not sure what caused such a loss. It might be something completely out of my power. [Especially considering the differences between everyone's worlds.] But if you want them back, and those memories still exist somewhere deep inside you, I might be able to help. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2016-09-11 09:17 pm UTC (link)
	I ... I was bathed in the River Lethe. It's a river in the Underworld that makes any who come in contact with it forget. [In case she didn't know.] What do you mean, help? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

trappedinresin
2016-09-12 01:20 am UTC (link)

I mean... [Her brows knit together. Honestly, it's difficult to explain.] Assuming that I'm still capable here, I'm able to halt and correct interference in the body.

[At least she had done it once before. During that occasion, she had just moved without thinking. This would be more intentional.]

Not all that long ago back home, there was a child who had stopped responding to anyone. She couldn't cry or laugh, she was just frozen after a vampire had stolen her memories. But I was able to reverse what that person had done.

[she doesn't know anything about a strange lake or river, but... this might be something to look into, at the very least.] Vampires in general are able to manipulate memories. But I'm a little different from a normal vampire, and so some of my skill sets are a bit more advanced than that.

[It's just an idea]

I've only done something similar once here in the past, and I don't remember it myself. But- if you are interested in such a thing, we can try at the very least. If you're up to it. [There's a number of reasons why a person might not be. And knowing that her powers are weakened here in Marina, it might not have the same effect that it should at home.]

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nico_di_angelo
2016-09-12 04:33 am UTC (link)

[The explanation isn't all that important to him. It's background that he filters away somewhere, but his mind is already moving ahead to the more important point: He could get his memories back.

He knows some things. He knows he came from Mussolini's Italy. He knows the second World War was spreading through Europe when his family fled to America. He knows how his mother died. He knows all of that was erased before he was pushed seventy years forward in time.

He knows he has a sister. Had. He loved her more than anything. Still does. But his memories of her amount to handful of months. Not even a year.]

If you think you can, I... How... What would I have to do?

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trappedinresin
2016-09-12 06:21 pm UTC (link)

It's pretty easy, actually.

[To be honest, there's nothing to actually do. It's a simple procedure, but she'll still double check that he's all right with it.]

All I have to do is touch your head. You don't have to worry about doing anything. But- if you do allow me to draw up those memories, they are memories that I'll witness, too. I can't drag them back up without experiencing them myself. At least some of them.

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	nico_di_angelo 2016-09-13 02:53 pm UTC (link)
	[Oh. It wouldn't be the first time someone had been witness to his memories. The only difference here is that he has no idea what those memories are. Either way, he's not exactly thrilled with the prospect. Could they be as bad as or worse than the last four years? He doubts it.] Will you only see the recovered memories, or... or all of them? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	trappedinresin 2016-09-15 03:40 pm UTC (link)
	Well... [She frowns, brows knitting] I don't suspect that I would get too much beyond that, but I can't promise that glimpses aren't still possible. I can only tell you that I would not go personally looking for them. [For all of how curious she can be sometimes, she's not nosy when something might be personal, or if someone wants it kept private to begin with.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2016-09-15 07:59 pm UTC (link)
	[He nods. He can't say that he fully trusts her - he trusts very few people. But Yuuri had been fond of her, and he trusted Yuuri immensely. He's willing to let her into his head, if that's the trade off.] Okay. Please try. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

trappedinresin
2016-09-17 01:02 pm UTC (link)

If you're ready then, okay...?

[The build up is disappointing, if he expects a great affair. But she herself prepares, knowing what it is like to feel another's emotions and memories wash over her. And should it work, the onslaught of memories could be difficult for him, too.

Hand lifting up, she hesitates a moment... before her fingers gingerly brush his bangs aside, and then gently touches his head. And the moment she does, immediately she submerges her conspicuousness within his mind. At once she spreads throughout, sinking deep within and pulling upon memories, and moving to repair any anomalies or blockages that prevents them.]

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nico_di_angelo
2016-09-28 07:35 pm UTC (link)

[He tenses and holds his breath, though he doesn’t know what to expect. He doesn’t want to get his hopes up. His current memories are mostly painful and miserable. What he does remember of his life before Bianca died and everything spiraled downward is distorted and fuzzy, like trying to piece together a television program through heavy static.

He doesn’t regain his lost childhood. Maybe those parts of him are lost down the River Lethe forever.

But Yuuki does untangle a more recent memory. All he really remembered was rage, and screaming, and then seeing the looks on Coach Hedge and Reyna’s faces before he collapsed. It could have been the trauma of the act, or some kind of mental self-defense, or maybe his body gave up the memory because it was dying anyway.

Bryce Lawrence was in front of them, threatening them with execution and torture. He’d called up skeletal soldiers that Nico couldn’t control or destroy – oathbreakers. Nico was fading, his hands transparent and smoky. One more jump through the shadows would end him. And then Bryce attacked Reyna.

It was more the threat to expose her darkest secret to the Roman counsel than the line of blood he left across her cheek that set Nico off. All of his anguish – his pain, his anger, his misery – as well the memories that caused it – his days struggling through the hellscape of Tartarus, the giants who eventually caught him there stored him away in a jar to rot, his confrontation with Cupid, who forced him to expose his own closely guarded secret - poured out of him and assaulted everyone around him. The earth turned black, then white with frost as the temperature around him dropped dramatically. The skeletons Bryce had summoned fell away into ash.

Bryce sank into the earth, clawed at it to escape. Nico ignored his begging. There was no mercy in the Underworld, only justice.

“You’re already dead,” he said. “You’re a ghost with no tongue, no memory. You won’t be sharing any secrets.”

Bryce slipped farther into the earth. His body became whispy and dark, indistinct. His final pleas gave way to a whisper before he fully dissolved into ghost and was swallowed up into the Underworld. ]

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nico_di_angelo
2016-09-28 07:36 pm UTC (link)

[He had told Yuuri about Bryce. He knew he had killed him, and he knew how he was going to do it when his rage exploded. He didn’t know the details. Yuuri continued to accept him, regardless. Of course he did. But he’d never told anyone else.

His memories of his world don’t extend beyond his dropping into a dead faint after banishing Bryce. He has no idea how Reyna and Hedge feel about him now (and it hurts).

Nico jerks away from Yuuki’s touch, his look a little accusatory, a lot frightened.]

I, um…

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