❂ one | video post
Sep. 14th, 2009 01:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gazingup [ Betraying the heavy mood of the City, the center of town is relatively quiet. Only the soft patter of foot steps here and there and the murmuring of hushed voices reach the air, but if anyone was to pay attention, they might notice a orange-yellow orb making a low course across the sky. An orb that's heading for a direct target-- which just happens to be a certain ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shiningdown. Ironic, isn't it? And the orb dips, gaining speed as it begins to fall toward earth, the light peeling back to reveal a young man with look of death (or at least shock) across his face. Finally he reaches his target, colliding directly into the woman, and in turn knocking them both into the fountain. There's a rather loud splash, as there obviously would be. ]
Oh, Mother! Mother, I've gotten you all wet!
[ absolutely furious splashing, like someone's just flailed her arms in exasperation...which Yvaine has ] Mother? Who's 'Mother'? Ow, would you get off of me already? ... [some more indignant splashing]
You are my mother! [he still hasn't gotten off her yet, probably too caught up in the moment to realize that he just might be heavy.] See, I've got this candle- I've got the candle you gave me, and I thought of you just like I was supposed to...then suddenly I was here!
[ a long pause........silence.....maybe just the sound of the fountain ] I'm as much your mother as you are a genius. Weren't you listening? I said, move! [the sound of...well she's trying to push him over now, not really caring if she tips him right over back into the fountain next to her or not because...he Isn't Listening fff ]
[ he lands beside her with another splash, choking on a gulp of water in the same motion.] But this candle is- [a fit of coughs] ...this candle should have taken me to my mother! Unless-- [ there's a stunned look on his face, his mouth half agape and eyes wide as he focuses them on Yvaine. ]
...I was thinking of my mother, and then Victoria popped in my head -- the star! I was thinking of the star! Then why- then why am I here in a fountain? On top of a woman! There's no star around here! Is this ruddy candle broken or something?
[ equally stunned silence but not of astonishment...unless you count astonishment by what Yvaine considers the closest personification of the word idiocy she's ever been so unfortunate to encounter ] ...of course. It had nothing to do with you not being able to follow simple directions. [sarcasm, would you like some more? because there IS more...lots]
You're unnecessarily cruel, you know that?
Only if you've earned it!
How have I earned it? I haven't done anything to you!
shiningdown. Ironic, isn't it? And the orb dips, gaining speed as it begins to fall toward earth, the light peeling back to reveal a young man with look of death (or at least shock) across his face. Finally he reaches his target, colliding directly into the woman, and in turn knocking them both into the fountain. There's a rather loud splash, as there obviously would be. ]Oh, Mother! Mother, I've gotten you all wet!
[ absolutely furious splashing, like someone's just flailed her arms in exasperation...which Yvaine has ] Mother? Who's 'Mother'? Ow, would you get off of me already? ... [some more indignant splashing]
You are my mother! [he still hasn't gotten off her yet, probably too caught up in the moment to realize that he just might be heavy.] See, I've got this candle- I've got the candle you gave me, and I thought of you just like I was supposed to...then suddenly I was here!
[ a long pause........silence.....maybe just the sound of the fountain ] I'm as much your mother as you are a genius. Weren't you listening? I said, move! [the sound of...well she's trying to push him over now, not really caring if she tips him right over back into the fountain next to her or not because...he Isn't Listening fff ]
[ he lands beside her with another splash, choking on a gulp of water in the same motion.] But this candle is- [a fit of coughs] ...this candle should have taken me to my mother! Unless-- [ there's a stunned look on his face, his mouth half agape and eyes wide as he focuses them on Yvaine. ]
...I was thinking of my mother, and then Victoria popped in my head -- the star! I was thinking of the star! Then why- then why am I here in a fountain? On top of a woman! There's no star around here! Is this ruddy candle broken or something?
[ equally stunned silence but not of astonishment...unless you count astonishment by what Yvaine considers the closest personification of the word idiocy she's ever been so unfortunate to encounter ] ...of course. It had nothing to do with you not being able to follow simple directions. [sarcasm, would you like some more? because there IS more...lots]
You're unnecessarily cruel, you know that?
Only if you've earned it!
How have I earned it? I haven't done anything to you!
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Date: 2009-09-14 07:43 am (UTC)...I have a cousin on Earth who may not ever see the things I have seen.
1/2
Date: 2009-09-14 07:56 am (UTC)[the next two sentences are muttered under his breath]
It is somewhere where a star fell. Perhaps not the one Victoria and I saw, then, if we are no across the wall.
2/3 i lied.
Date: 2009-09-14 08:00 am (UTC)My name is Tristan. A name give to me by my mother, I've heard.
3/3
Date: 2009-09-14 08:03 am (UTC)None of it matches up. It's like you're- you're not my father at all, even though you have his face. Are you- Is he not telling me things? Events that happened before I was born? He kept that a secret from me for so long--
you are always lying 1/2
Date: 2009-09-14 08:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-14 08:15 am (UTC)But if I was your father and a good one as you have said, any reasons for secrecy would have been for your own sake, because someone believed you might be a better man this way.
1/2 it's for your own good
Date: 2009-09-14 08:26 am (UTC)She's not my friend.
2/2 /wonders if tristan has any other relatives. more likely in the book, but the movie...
Date: 2009-09-14 08:34 am (UTC)I don't know. I can't imagine any reason right now. I- I'm just completely and utterly ... utterly confused right now.
1/2
Date: 2009-09-14 08:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-14 08:40 am (UTC)There are a few men here who share a similar face yet they are all unrelated.
[Another pause ftloa, incapable of confirming or outright denying it.]
...I didn't mean to make you think your father doesn't like you.
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Date: 2009-09-14 08:51 am (UTC)[ a pause of his own. ]
It's alright. I would never worry about that.
no subject
Date: 2009-09-14 08:55 am (UTC)[Wait a second, now he's remembering something, but he keeps this to himself. For now.]
If you or your...not friend need help you can ask for me.
1/2
Date: 2009-09-14 09:08 am (UTC)My father is a kind man.
Not unlike yourselfI'm sure you'd like him.2/2
Date: 2009-09-14 09:11 am (UTC)...Though you might have to tell her that yourself. My words are useless against the venomous spider-woman.
no subject
Date: 2009-09-14 09:24 am (UTC)It is my pleasure. And I will do just that.
no subject
Date: 2009-09-14 09:49 am (UTC)Good luck.
no subject
Date: 2009-09-14 09:57 am (UTC)1/2
Date: 2009-09-14 04:49 pm (UTC)2/2
Date: 2009-09-14 04:55 pm (UTC)Unless he's had a entirely different, completely strange past life he's never told me about. Involving making up an identity and moving to a new world, but ... I- I highly doubt it. I mean, why would he ever? It's impossible.