http://sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com/ ([identity profile] sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] slt_archive2011-07-31 09:26 pm

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Who: All the good little anti-entropy engine girls and boys and others
Where: On the way back towards the dorms
When: Day 258, evening, so very shortly after Good Ends
What:

[As the festivities end and it’s time to head back to dorms, there seems to hang an uneasy feeling that has nothing to do with bittersweet goodbyes. The particularly astute may notice an uncomfortable stillness about; not a living thing is out and active, save the Blanks. Even the river seems stilled, as if holding its breath. The more sensitive can probably feel it coming, whatever it is. Even the insensitive may find something about the walk home distasteful.]

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] hemogobbled.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
[pets]

The unrequited love is a really merciless master.

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] brother_con.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ducks his head forward a little, hiding his face] ...

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] hemogobbled.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
[slooow hair petting]

You might not believe this, but Rolo can do anything he wants. Including finding his own life. And finding a new love.

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] brother_con.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
As long as I have Brother... I don't need anything like that. I knew it... when I died, too. I didn't have to die for him. And I didn't want to die. But I could save Brother's life, and I loved him, so it was really ... that simple. That's how it is. That's still how it is...

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] hemogobbled.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
I've been there too. But I can be okay with it ♥ And I've loved far, far more than one person. I won't scold you for throwing your life and happiness at Kitten's feet, if that's what you want to do. But if it's just that you're afraid of losing the only thing you value, maybe what you should be thinking of recapturing that feeling with someone who actually wants it.

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] brother_con.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
He wants it! ...he wants it... if he didn't want it, I'd have been discarded...

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] hemogobbled.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
Shhh...

[pet]

I mean wants what you want to give. I don't doubt at all that he loves you, and wants you to love him. But isn't it true that you're always going to be second fiddle? Or third?

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] brother_con.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
[a little muffled, just kind of... taking the cuddles while they're being offered]

Yes, it's true.

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] hemogobbled.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 09:14 am (UTC)(link)
So... either you can learn to accept things the way they are, and find your happiness in that. Or your can accept things the way they are and suck up the dissatisfaction. Or you can move on, and look for what Rolo really wants.

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] brother_con.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 09:19 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know that what I want exists! I don't know ... Brother's given me more than anyone. Even Mikaila... changed, and left, and got a new brother... I'm not... I can't deal with people, Cobra. Trying is exhausting, all the time. I don't understand how people think or feel. I never had anyone until I had Brother. I really only existed as a tool for murder until I had Brother... no, until I died. Brother had promised me a future... is still offering to share his future with me... I don't like people, I don't like talking to people, or meeting them, or pretending to get along with them when I know they don't care about me.

I just want to be as important to Brother as he is to me, but that's impossible, so... like you say...

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] hemogobbled.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 09:27 am (UTC)(link)
I know you're kind of messed up, kiddo. And I guess that explains why. But your problem isn't a new song. A lot of people go through life not knowing if they'll find The One. That's just growing up, being human.

Not liking people is a kink.

[drums fingers on your head =|a]

You got any friends?

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] brother_con.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 09:31 am (UTC)(link)
[leaning away from the drumming]

I don't know what you mean, a kink. A hitch, or erotic? [cranky]

...There's Lulu, I guess. She's not so bad. And I have my brother.

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] hemogobbled.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
Hitch. Hitch. Though I'm sure there's some who find it kinky, too.

Here's what I don't get. If people are so hard for you, why Kitten?

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] brother_con.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 09:36 am (UTC)(link)
[twists a little to look up in his arms, measuring something, looking him over cautiously]

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] brother_con.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
...I'm not his real brother, but he'll treat me as one regardless.

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] hemogobbled.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
I know that bit.

But what makes you think he's the only one? If Kitten can be your family, so can others. How many fake brothers did you try on before you landed him?

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] brother_con.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
I don't like the way you put that. "Try on". I don't like that.

I never interacted with anybody who wasn't either part of the order that trained me or someone I was supposed to kill before I met him.

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] hemogobbled.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
Touchy.

So the first person who was nice to you you fell in love with.

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] brother_con.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not trying on Brother. I'm completely serious about staying his sibling.

"Nice" is an understatement. Brother, when he believed I was someone I wasn't, treated me like the sun and the moon and the stars had come down into the palm of his hands.

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] hemogobbled.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
It wasn't a serious comment, thus: touchy. It would take a dead man to miss how serious you take your relationship with Kitten.

Does he still treat you like that?


Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] brother_con.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
...

Things obviously got complicated when he broke free of the brainwashing. He used me. I let myself be used. Because I have a degree of power he wants to control, I let him control me. And even though he's come to love me, it's not the same. It isn't. But... my feelings... which I discovered in that time... they're real. So... It's fine. I'm not... Nunnally. He'll never love me like Nunnally, no matter how much I want to feel that again. But... nobody will love anybody like Brother loves Nunnally. He still... I genuinely do believe in his love. It's just hard that other people can step in... and take priority over me too.

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] hemogobbled.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
[soft pettings again]

I don't really believe that your path is as set as you think it is. It seems to me you're experience with humans and a normal life has been too limited to say what will never happen.

But for the record, I'm sure Kitten loves you too. And loves you to love him, because he's greedy that way. But what he wants most is what Sunny can offer him. Not you. Not me. And even if he shies away from putting it in words, his actions make his decisions clear.

But if you're going to be second fiddle, you may as well be the best damn second fiddle you can be.

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] brother_con.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
...[sags a little into it again]

I don't know what's set. But if I have something I want, I'm not going to let go of it. That would be foolish...

The best damn second fiddle...?

Re: [Everywhere]

[identity profile] hemogobbled.insanejournal.com 2011-08-03 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
Interpret that whatever way you want. Be the best at what he wants you to be, or milk it for all it's worth. Just don't go along half-assed, uncertain, and flip-flopping between the two.