✨ℜeggie "ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀꜱᴛ" ℳantle✨ (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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maskormenace2015-05-27 10:13 pm
mantlepieces) wrote in maskormenace2015-05-27 10:13 pm
Entry tags:
- laurie collins | wallflower,
- roxas | the key of destiny,
- † ana ramir | taranto,
- † armin arlert | n/a,
- † commander shepard | blasto,
- † hazel lockwood | n/a,
- † kamala khan | ms. marvel,
- † karen starr | power girl,
- † kitty jones | n/a,
- † lucy pevensie | the valiant,
- † mary watson | chímaira,
- † reggie mantle | n/a,
- † robert callaghan | yokai,
- † sabriel | abhorsen,
- † sera | your mum's tits,
- † shuichi nakatsu | n/a,
- † tatsuma sakamoto | motormouth,
- † traci thirteen | n/a,
- † winry rockbell | n/a
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[ It's dark -- mostly because it's late, but there aren't an excess of lights on, either -- though Reggie's face is faintly illuminated by the light of his communicator screen and also something off-screen that might be a TV or bedside light. Either way, he's recognizable enough, and though he's smirking faintly his expression is otherwise somewhat blank.
He's been staying out of most of the current drama as best as any survival-oriented, cowardly narcissist can, which is pretty damn well. All things considered. Basically he hasn't been leaving the house if he can avoid it, for which has his reasons. ]
So, all right. Hear me out. Anyone else ever noticed how once you're here, you have to just start believin' in everything? Like that any kinda crap is possible and you just gotta get used to it... after a while you don't even have to think about it anymore. [ Which is, you know, nice. In his opinion. ] Nice thing about that is not having to worry so much about whatever happens, I think. No matter how bad things have gotten here, it's never been the end of the world.
... Well, not yet. [ And his brow crinkles at that, but only briefly. ] Kinda makes you think, huh? Like what's the best way to take advantage of being stuck in some world that actually takes okay care of us? Don't even bother arguing with me about that part, it's true and everyone oughta know it. We get a lot of free, fake time to kill being here, so I say it should be obvious: we can do whatever we can't do back where we came from. Anyway, what I actually wanna know is--
Anyone here made a bucket list yet?
He's been staying out of most of the current drama as best as any survival-oriented, cowardly narcissist can, which is pretty damn well. All things considered. Basically he hasn't been leaving the house if he can avoid it, for which has his reasons. ]
So, all right. Hear me out. Anyone else ever noticed how once you're here, you have to just start believin' in everything? Like that any kinda crap is possible and you just gotta get used to it... after a while you don't even have to think about it anymore. [ Which is, you know, nice. In his opinion. ] Nice thing about that is not having to worry so much about whatever happens, I think. No matter how bad things have gotten here, it's never been the end of the world.
... Well, not yet. [ And his brow crinkles at that, but only briefly. ] Kinda makes you think, huh? Like what's the best way to take advantage of being stuck in some world that actually takes okay care of us? Don't even bother arguing with me about that part, it's true and everyone oughta know it. We get a lot of free, fake time to kill being here, so I say it should be obvious: we can do whatever we can't do back where we came from. Anyway, what I actually wanna know is--
Anyone here made a bucket list yet?
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Okay. How would you say you're doing that? What are you doing, exactly, to make the best of things?
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Just enjoyin' myself, living it up as best I can. Doin' whatever I can't do back home.
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Get it on with chicks who got superpowers.
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Be left alone by my family and everyone else I know. Get treated like a celebrity most of the time. Not have to sweat it about work or school. Or anything.
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Because if you don't, that's not actually making the best of things, is it. It's letting things happen to you. I mean - if you don't take initiative, then you're just a passive observer. The things that happen to you, good or bad, have nothing to do with you.
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What was the last thing that you did? The last decision you went out and made.
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Me being out here doesn't count?
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[ He frowns for a moment, but then shrugs his shoulders flippantly. ]
Honestly? I dunno. I'm not about making change while I'm here, the last thing I want is that sorta responsibility.
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What's your home even like?
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Right. And what does boring smalltown life consist of?
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What's with the twenty questions? It's boring and small, that oughta tell you enough.
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London. Balham, specifically. Which is about as far from small-town life as you can get, so no, I can't just guess at what your upbringing was like.
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[ He says it like the statement that it is, not a question. ]
Being in a small town means you know everyone, you grow up around the same people all your life and if anyone does anything, everyone else finds about it real quick. So most people figure out their lives pretty quick, 'cause all everyone wants to do is leave and go anywhere else.
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[ She asks that incredulously. ]
Where I'm from, people just stand by and watch the police beating their neighbors. A little bit too much concern doesn't sound that bad.
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[ Frowning more deeply, he shrugs again. ]
I liked having my space, that's all. Same as now. Maybe you don't like how things are, but I'm fine with 'em.
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