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maskormenace2016-08-20 12:37 pm
insinerate) wrote in maskormenace2016-08-20 12:37 pm
003 🔥 VIDEO
[When the broadcast begins, the scene is an unfamiliar one for most imPorts. A small, tidy shop, complete with glass display cases and well-dressed mannequins standing alongside the walls—and not a customer in sight. Plenty of boxes, though. Some closed and taped, set aside upon the glass counter top or on the floor, and some open...one of which is presently being filled by Yuri, color-coordinated and packed spools of thread being neatly tucked away with no word as to why.
Not that the answer is difficult to extrapolate.]
For nearly two years I have lived in this world, but there is very little I have allowed myself to celebrate with the abandon I've witnessed in so many others. [If this fact upsets him, he gives no indication. Only the briefest of glances up from the task at hand, to address an audience not actually before him.] Most holidays were either wrought with disaster of my own creation, or spent alone. For so long solitude was preferred to the company of those I might someday be required to pass judgment upon. I could not risk becoming...attached.
[And it seems not much has changed.]
However, in a few days...
[Here, he pauses to examine a beautiful wooden box full of ornate watchbands, of which only two appear to be missing.]
Well, I'll be another year older on the twenty-fourth. This will mark my second birthday in this world, the first having been spent nursing an injury I sustained in Greenland Park, Heropa...but I've no desire to relive that experience. In fact, I was hoping to spend the day doing something I seldom seem to have time for: unwinding.
[The wooden box is packed away, its lid closed softly and without a sound. Leaning then upon the counter, Yuri gives those listening his undivided attention.]
So, I find myself curious. How is it you all prefer to spend the commemorative occasions in your lives? Perhaps one of you has a quiet suggestion that will appeal.
Not that the answer is difficult to extrapolate.]
For nearly two years I have lived in this world, but there is very little I have allowed myself to celebrate with the abandon I've witnessed in so many others. [If this fact upsets him, he gives no indication. Only the briefest of glances up from the task at hand, to address an audience not actually before him.] Most holidays were either wrought with disaster of my own creation, or spent alone. For so long solitude was preferred to the company of those I might someday be required to pass judgment upon. I could not risk becoming...attached.
[And it seems not much has changed.]
However, in a few days...
[Here, he pauses to examine a beautiful wooden box full of ornate watchbands, of which only two appear to be missing.]
Well, I'll be another year older on the twenty-fourth. This will mark my second birthday in this world, the first having been spent nursing an injury I sustained in Greenland Park, Heropa...but I've no desire to relive that experience. In fact, I was hoping to spend the day doing something I seldom seem to have time for: unwinding.
[The wooden box is packed away, its lid closed softly and without a sound. Leaning then upon the counter, Yuri gives those listening his undivided attention.]
So, I find myself curious. How is it you all prefer to spend the commemorative occasions in your lives? Perhaps one of you has a quiet suggestion that will appeal.
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she hates that. hates that it makes sense, that it rationalizes choices which led to so much heartache for herself. it couldn't be allowed, not even in a world without Crystal Gems.]
Did it really take that much thought to make a hat?
[a real question, but a bit distracted in tone. the shifting of her mind is more tumultuous than she first assumed.]
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[It's just one of the most fashionable.]
Is that truly what concerns you?
[Because he can't help but notice her distraction.]
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...I was just thinking. It must have been hard for them to do anything by themselves.
[it's also difficult for her to phrase even the start of an explanation in a way that won't trigger more of that dangerous empathy, but she's trying.]
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Humans?
[Yuri shakes his head.]
Even a fragile species shouldn't be underestimated. Humanity is...frighteningly proficient when it comes to destruction.
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[I'm pretty sure that she doesn't need to be repressing empathy to land on the desperately needs help radar. case in point, her expression right here.]
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[How prejudiced.]
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[very Malachite, but she can't say it.]
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[looks like someone might have taken this a little bit out of the realm of the hypothetical]
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Not all humans hold onto that which has become obsolete.
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[and very difficult, given their lives. everything here was stuck in some part of the past.]
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