pearheaded: (× Poison)
Ian Kolansky ([personal profile] pearheaded) wrote2011-05-28 07:30 pm

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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[identity profile] mikangirl.livejournal.com 2011-05-31 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Or at least she does until she trips over an outstretched ankle on the way home. Nobody saw that.]

[Action] Forest of coincidences, man |D 1/2

[identity profile] mikangirl.livejournal.com 2011-06-01 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[OH MY GOD THIS GUY'S BEEN SKEWERED BY BRANCHES--]

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[identity profile] mikangirl.livejournal.com 2011-06-01 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
[...wait, no, there's no blood. Uh.

...what.

We'll distract ourselves by checking that out gingerly while our heart rate slows. And shaking a shoulder.]


...hey. Hello?

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[identity profile] mikangirl.livejournal.com 2011-06-01 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey. [Dammit, if this is-- well, if he's sick she can't help him. And one assumes having branches coming out of your back is beyond her league as well... sitting him up now. How's your fever, Ian 8|]

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[identity profile] mikangirl.livejournal.com 2011-06-02 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
[...oy. So this is the idiot she was speaking to an hour ago. Nami scowls.]

If you were this sick, you should have said something. [Well, then. This is where we get to find out how heavy you are, because she can't leave you out here.] Does your back hurt?

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[identity profile] mikangirl.livejournal.com 2011-06-02 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
Liar.

[She'll prove it. By not being particularly gentle as she hauls you up. :|]

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[identity profile] mikangirl.livejournal.com 2011-06-03 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, that answers that question. Her voice is gentler, then.] I'm not taking you back. I'm finding you a doctor.

[C'mon, totter this way, Nami'll support you.]

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[identity profile] mikangirl.livejournal.com 2011-06-03 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
[But you don't have half a mind, obviously. 8| So just shut up and take the help that's offered.]

Ahh, it's okay. I'm sure I'll find a way for you to make it up to me. I'm assuming those branches aren't meant to be there?

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[identity profile] mikangirl.livejournal.com 2011-06-04 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[That gives her pause. Branches are... uh. Well, she's seen stranger.] They grow branches where you come from, huh?

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[identity profile] mikangirl.livejournal.com 2011-06-05 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Well yeah, that's weird. But more, it points out to Nami that there might be another problem--] Are you human now?

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[identity profile] mikangirl.livejournal.com 2011-06-05 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Chopper will be able to help. [She has faith, okay. :|] He's my doctor, and he's brilliant.

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[identity profile] mikangirl.livejournal.com 2011-06-06 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, you've met? [That makes things easier.] He'll take good care of you.

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[identity profile] mikangirl.livejournal.com 2011-06-06 09:11 am (UTC)(link)
[She tenses herself at that. Why do people keep bringing that stupid experiment back up. D| But it's hardly Ian's fault, so she ...well, she's dragging him more now, isn't she. Nami sighs.] And he'll help you again. [...actually, maybe she should call Chopper out to help. They're still a good ten minutes away.]

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