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Alisaie Leveilleur ([personal profile] scattershot) wrote in [community profile] tinylittlebox2021-05-27 09:51 pm

day 365 ● this space to rent

[So sometimes all you can think of to do about a situation is steal a horse and ride it anywhere.

[There's something not quite right about it, admittedly - the foursquare shape of it, the solid barrel of the body, the close, velvety hide. But Alisaie finds she knows how to saddle it; knows, after a brief period of hang-about-wait-what adjustment how to make it start and move and go; it's something the body doesn't know how to forget, for all her mind is a stubbornly intractable blank on the subject.

[After that it's simply a matter of working out where to go, and since all she wants to do is get lost, that's straightforward enough.

[At least a coastline is a coastline, no matter how strange the land it borders might be.]
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[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-05-28 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Skylark, on the other hand, walked to the beach at some point. He realises it's a little silly, given his room is a beach, but sometimes he didn't like the reminders that it was ultimately all 'artificial'. From the barrier that kept people from swimming too far out and the obelisks that served as his closets to the crystal bathroom he most acquired.

Besides, the coast is long enough that more often than not he'll be alone. ... Or so he thought, but by coincidence he sees a familiar face when he arrives. ]


Ah, fancy meeting you here.
inspiteful: (Singing songs of peace)

[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-05-29 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ Showing up with a horse would require knowing how to ride one, which Skylark does not. He waits for Alisaie to get off the horse. ]

It's no problem. I wasn't really expecting to see anyone else here.
inspiteful: (Because you gave love)

[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-05-29 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ He shrugs. ] As good as I can be, after all that. This sea is a good place to think.
inspiteful: (I will surely continue to doubt)

[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-05-29 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
It's a city called 'Tokyo' from ... well, a number of worlds, apparently? A lot of people here come worlds where such a city exists, anyway. But you're right that at least beaches seem to be the same anywhere.
inspiteful: (So I say it's always been wrong)

[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-05-29 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ah, this feels familiar. Even before he remembered much about where he came from, he was already something of a cynic (or maybe that was just in comparison to others?). Remembering more just underlined why. ]

Well, I wouldn't consider it a bad thing. [ And he means that. ] A fair number of people here, though they may not necessarily have had peaceful lives themselves, come from places where ... [ He pauses, as he tries to figure out how to articulate this. ] ... I suppose you could say they come from places that distinctly lack hostility towards everything else? Or, mmm, where the worst possible scenario happening isn't thought of as being all that likely.
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[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-05-30 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It isn't, despite what some people might say. [ He watches her pick up the pebble, expecting her to throw it into the sea at some point. ] And like I said, it was reckless for anyone to assume there'd be such a convenient loophole that would allow for everyone to walk away unscathed. If things had played out differently, it could have easily ended with more people wounded or dead.

[ He sighs. ]

... To be honest, I thought he knew better. Hope and optimism is one thing, but not taking into account the precedent the production has set is another.
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[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-06-02 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Skylark can't help but think it's almost refreshing to see someone express their frustration like this. It's blunt and — relatively speaking — straightforward. It's easy to understand, compared to what they'd just gone through.

(Not that these were good circumstances, and in a more ideal world she wouldn't have had reason to feel this way.) ]


... I would have given him a piece of my mind if the worst had happened. He was basing his conclusions off someone who had a really difficult choice of pictures to give answers with. I don't want to imagine how guilty Tsukasa would have felt if things had gone wrong.
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[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-06-13 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
We were given a number of pictures to choose from, and only those.

[ He sighs. ]

Well, there's not much point to me giving him a lashing when things did ... more or less turn out better than it could have. It doesn't really drive the point home.
inspiteful: (Swallowed by the cycle of despair)

[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-06-13 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That's also why I didn't yell at him. It wouldn't actually achieve anything, except make me look like an asshole.

... Well, that's his problem, for whenever it happens. A person like him is only going to get a wake-up call when something or someone that matters to him personally is at stake.
Edited 2021-06-13 17:10 (UTC)
inspiteful: (Without doubt)

[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-06-19 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Hm? What makes you think that?

[ He's curious, mostly. ]
inspiteful: (Whether your true self or mask)

[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-06-20 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
I see.

... To be fair, I can at least say that your frustrations weren't unfounded. Speaking from my own experience, anyway.
inspiteful: (I will surely continue to doubt)

[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-06-20 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Well ... [ He pauses to think on this. ] ... Honestly, most of the time I put a lid on them, especially if trying to voice them to the people won't be met constructively. Afterwards, I vent to someone who's willing to listen and who I can trust won't spread around what I say. It helps keep the frustration manageable.
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[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-06-20 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's the pause of someone who's trying to not flashback, just a little. Ye gods, first Tsukasa, and then Alisaie bringing up the possibility of it happening in the future...

Man, just when he thinks it's been put away into a box for good. ]


Do you have any reason to think you might disagree with them one day?
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[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-06-20 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Right, Skylark. Get a hold of yourself and try to maintain perspective. ]

Disappear as in, taken away from the show?

I can't say I know much about the current unit, but does anyone give you the impression they'd be unwilling to try and reach a compromise in the event of a disagreement?
inspiteful: (Your justice ends in darkness)

[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-06-20 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... Well, he has some guesses as to who are the culprits, or at least some of them.

Still, he's relieved that Zhongli apparently has tried to deal with that. ]


Let me guess, Hurricane is one of them? The shopping list is a pretty good idea, actually.
inspiteful: (Because all of it is my "fault")

[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-06-20 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ...

Hey Skylark this is what you get for just speaking your mind without thinking further ahead. Fuck. ]


I don't think anyone needs to have masterful powers of observation to notice he can get highly avoidant and guess it's him.
Edited 2021-06-20 16:05 (UTC)
inspiteful: (Whether your true self or mask)

[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-06-21 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm ... [ ... Even now, he isn't really sure how he would advise this sort of situation. Damn. ] Well, it's tough when at the end of the day, it's about not wishing to burden you or anyone else on the unit, as ridiculous as it is when you think about it. Though, I'm not sure how one is supposed to proceed from there.
inspiteful: (Swallowed by the cycle of despair)

[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-06-25 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ The thing he has to wonder is whether it can work like that with Hurriccane, though he supposes that may just be his own cynicism giving him a dim view. ]

I wish you good luck, then.
inspiteful: (Without doubt)

[personal profile] inspiteful 2021-06-25 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Are you feeling a little better, at least?