pearheaded | 10th Partridge [(anonymous?) Voice/Action]

[One thing that's always a bad idea to do: give a tree man something that is typically fine for humans.Case in point, just about anything they stuck him with during his stay with the Malnosso. Yeah, it's one thing to have to deal with cells—hello, unpleasant memories—but dealing with drug poisoning, too? This day couldn't get any more hideous for him.

Well, except he appears to have... tiny branches crawling off his wings and around his back. Complete with little withery leaves (no worries, Ian, they'll go away in a few days).

He's a little too out of it at first to notice them, but about an hour into his fever he finds them. Along with orange tips on his otherwise green hair. Orange, and coarse like straw. The best thing to do, he decides? Curl up into a ball and not talk to anyone for a week. It'll go away, he knows. Besides, he's too busy revisiting his past and being confused to get proper help.

In the middle of his hazy, poison fever, he speaks up on the journal. The little box that would otherwise show his face is masked.]

... I was thinking. You go through life looking for nothing but acceptance and to be like any other person. But then something horrible happens, and you're not sure if it's ever possible—if maybe, just maybe, you're stuck being on the outskirts of everything you wanna be... Maybe someone you thought you could trust turns their back on ya'... or–or maybe you think people can be good, and you suddenly get caught against people who just seem too awful to even exist.

[Malnosso, you're the reasons for this, aren't ya'? Experimenting and tossing people like garbage... like people he's met before.]

How... how do y'cope with that? [a deep, unsure breath; he's busy laying on his back with his palm over the screen]

How do you turn it into something good? Do you keep trying to believe that good things come out of all the things that happen to you...?

[You can actually bump into him while he's sulking in the forest, but he's a hot mess at the moment. Forgive 'em. :|]

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[Okay. Let's try to rationalize a route of action through this.

Find man > man is kind of a tree > normally would fanboy over it but this is NOT THE TIME > think of Dream Tree > Dream Tree was poisoned > healed it with Hermes Water > no Hermes Water > backtrack. oh wait this means he could be poisoned?... > PSYNERGY IS ALWAYS THE ANSWER.

Which means that right about now, he'll be casting Cure Poison, Psynergy that usually heals any type of poison/impurities/venom. Or at least it could alleviate some of the pain. ~~Whether it works somewhat or not is up to the mun, of course.~~]

[Unfortunately, poison in Ian isn't the poison people deal with. But at the very least, he actually feels a strangest alleviation of discomfort, and turns over groggily to reveal a head of orange-ing hair and tired, confused eyes.]

Eh...?

[.../pokes. Even though he knows he's alive.]

...Did it work?

[Ian sits up on his hands, looks toward the familiar face with a sleepy-sick expression, moves forward on one arm and then

promptly faceplants]

Hnnngh...

...I take it that you feel at least slightly better.

[At least he almost kind of...didn't flop over. But he did.]

... [blink, blink...

He rolls over to look at him. Squint at him, if you will; forgive the disheveled-ness.]

You're... that guy who uses ice.

How specific of you.

[he's annoyed, but also glad he's okay.]

[dazedly, as he looks a little to the guy's left:] ... I didn't know you had a twin brother...

[Well. Semi-okay.]

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I don't.

[siiiigh. Semi-okay is better than not okay.]

What happened?

[He stands shakily up, leaning against a tree with his hand; suffice to say, he's wobbly.] I'm fine—I just... Just a little sick. Probably just caught a cold. Yeah.

[and he falls backward onto his butt, slouching tiredly.]

I'll be okay. I'm always okay...

Your lying could use a bit of improvement.

[Then again, he's hardly one to talk.]

That bad still, huh...?

[Did the orange on the tips of his hair spread just a little more toward the center? Perhaps. :|]

It'll go away eventually... I'll be fine eventually.

[...yeah. Even though he's definitely not one to talk about strange hair color, that's worrying.]

You sound rather sure of yourself.

It's how it's always been. I've always gotten better.

[Dealt with this before.]

The people who held me used drugs that my body can't handle like a normal person's... s-so I just have to wait it out, 'til it starts to wear off. That's all.

[He hopes.]

How long do you think that will take you?

[because even if this guy is kind of annoying to him, he can't just leave him to suffer like...this.]

...

Just, uh, a few days. I think.

[It's going to be a long week.]

Is there anything I can do to help?

[His Psynergy...kind of eased a bit of discomfort. It's gonna be a long week indeed.]

[Despite his situation, he grins.]

Tell me a story. Maybe something about yourself, huh? Or your world.

I'm afraid I cannot recall many stories.

[Sheltered and whatnot until he left with Matthew and his gang. There's the one about the Warriors of Vale...but that would be tactless, given that two of them are actually here.]

...But I suppose I can tell you about my homeland, if that is acceptable.

Very acceptable! I like stories about home.

[This is going to make him a bit homesick, but if there's one subject he knows a lot about, it's this. Now, where to begin...]

To start, my kingdom is located in the Lamakan Desert, in the Ei-Jei region.

... Wow. You guys really put a lot into your names, huh?

[That actually makes him chuckle a bit, though he doesn't know why.]

I suppose it could seem that way. But I would be a poor ruler if I didn't know them.

... Did you say ruler?

Yes. Why?

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