second year
AKA
tyrannicides
PLAYED BY:
tsundere
the spectacular catastrophe of your endless childhood.
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harbor
Aug 18, 2014 6:13:47 GMT
Post by zahir + thalia brand on Aug 18, 2014 6:13:47 GMT
i.imgur.com/gJavQ.png in the world of two (one is only half). Zahir has two memories of dying, and neither of them are his own. He remembers the shuddering halt of the first death, the incoherent disbelief and the abrupt slide into darkness. His chest sticky with his own blood. The second was quieter: a gentle ebbing away. The long sleep he had prayed for and in the end, been denied. He wants his own death. He wants his own blood, his own broken bones. He wants it to be over. He thinks if he died, at least, he would feel real. If he could create his own ending, he would be something more than a perpetually rotting body stuffed with other men's lives. His dorm is next to Thali's--the privilege of blood relation--and they long ago devised the system for him to enter. He doesn't knock before he enters, cautious of waking up one of the students slumbering on the other side of the wall, but he flicks the light on so she won't be caught unawares. (She has her own fears too, after all.) It's 3am and Zahir feels like he's going to come out of his skin. "You said to cut down on the smoking," he says, voice pitched low. "So you can't complain when my smoke breaks turn into visits."He doesn't wait for an answer. She never complains anyway, not to him. Zahir crosses the room and crawls onto her bed, staying on top of the covers. He still has shreds of dignity, after all. But he places a hand on her shoulder, grips her lightly. His sister is real. She's real. He's here. He's real. sophia + stefan rosenburgLAIKA OF GS!
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second year
AKA
rosenburgs
PLAYED BY:
akane
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harbor
Aug 18, 2014 6:38:03 GMT
Post by sophia + stefan rosenburg on Aug 18, 2014 6:38:03 GMT
i.imgur.com/qh56H7k.jpg [attr="class","stt"] sorry, zahir, your sister is totally not real. except sophia likes to pretend that she is, likes to pretend like a little girl who crawled into her mother's dress closet. except her mother is dead and her humanity is not a dress that she can peel off at her convienience. still, it is an incredible feeling to walk the school grounds with the weight lifted from her shoulders -- as if her existence isn't something wrong, violent. she had been benched for soccer practice, but the sun had never felt so good in her life. except the dream will end and none of this will ever become real. she thinks that is the cruelest part about all of this. she doesn't jolt awake -- rather, she freezes stiffly in surprise. even if he turned on the lights, sophia is not used to entertaining visits from other people. the last time that she had someone to check the underside of her bed for monsters was ... nearly ten years ago. now her brother is gone and the only things that remain at all are the monsters. (he's not a monster -- he's a human being. they both are.) sophia wonders which question wouldn't sound odd coming from thalia. then again, this entire scenario is ... not what she had bargained for when she took the potion in the gym. she's starting to get warm in the face, and it's certainly not from his body heat. but there is something that she wants to know. "...how long will this visit be?" sophia does her best not to sound strained. she does her best not to sound like a girl who has a boy in her bed for the first time. she is not sure if she has succeeded. THOSE DISTANT BELLS LAIKA OF GS! [newclass=.addr:hover]width:106px;height:66px;background-color:#C1C1C1;color: #000;margin-top:-106px;padding-top:40px;font-size:10px;opacity:1;-webkit-transition: all .7s ease-in-out;[/newclass][newclass=.addr]width:106px;height:66px;background-color:#C1C1C1;color: #000;margin-top:-106px;padding-top:40px;font-size:10px;opacity:0;-webkit-transition: all .7s ease-in-out;[/newclass]
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second year
AKA
tyrannicides
PLAYED BY:
tsundere
the spectacular catastrophe of your endless childhood.
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harbor
Aug 18, 2014 6:51:14 GMT
Post by zahir + thalia brand on Aug 18, 2014 6:51:14 GMT
i.imgur.com/gJavQ.png in the world of two (one is only half). He barks out a laugh like she said something funny. "As long as he's here," he says. He sounds as if his voice is coming from somewhere very far away. Maybe it is. "I'm so tired, Thali, but I can't sleep. He's strong enough waking. When I sleep, I'm nothing. I never dream anymore, not my dreams. They're all his: his fears, his memories, his desires. I know it wasn't always like this--I used to be different--but I can't remember what it was like before, and I can't imagine a world after."Zahir pulls his hand back from her shoulder and stretches out on the bed, his head on the pillow beside her. "Tell me about your day," he says quietly. "Tell me about something real I can be a part of."sophia + stefan rosenburgLAIKA OF GS!
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second year
AKA
rosenburgs
PLAYED BY:
akane
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harbor
Aug 18, 2014 7:26:34 GMT
Post by sophia + stefan rosenburg on Aug 18, 2014 7:26:34 GMT
i.imgur.com/qh56H7k.jpg [attr="class","stt"] (no, call me sophia, call me -- ) she's not sure what he's talking about. of course she isn't, but she has to pretend. it helps that she is the sister to a brother who is potentially equally as crazy -- see, she's not even sure. stefan says nothing. but zahir trusts this 'thali' that he believes is in front of him, and sophia can't bring himself to betray that kind of faith. she can't do it. "who's here?" she surprises herself with how much she wants to know. it's been two years and -- no. no, it's not fair to compare her brother with thalia's, it's the reason that she's in this entire mess to begin with-- "no one's here. no one's here except the two of us." she says with a somber kind of finality that doesn't sound like something that would come out of thalia's mouth, not to her. (are you more afraid of the man who crawls into your bed, or the space that he will leave the morning after?) zahir's request is simple enough, and one that she can actually satisfy. "i woke up at six in the morning." it had been much harder to wake thalia's body up than her own, somehow. as if it was meant to be asleep after twenty waking hours. "i finished paperwork before school and went to potions class at nine. a cauldron blew up and class was dismissed five minutes early." she does not mention that it was hers. "i sprained my ankle during practice, so i'm out for the week." if she sounded oddly cheerful about it, then zahir was probably imagining it. "a midfielder invited me to the movies tomorrow." she had talked to sophia like they had been friends, and she probably was. thalia's friend, that is. she didn't mind so much, so she accepted anyway. "there was cake for lunch." her eyes light up a little before she remembers that she is supposed to be thalia brand. not some giddy cake-freak. what is she doing, babbling on like this? she decides to stop and listen for zahir's reaction, as a confirmation that he hasn't seen through her pretense. THOSE DISTANT BELLS LAIKA OF GS! [newclass=.addr:hover]width:106px;height:66px;background-color:#C1C1C1;color: #000;margin-top:-106px;padding-top:40px;font-size:10px;opacity:1;-webkit-transition: all .7s ease-in-out;[/newclass][newclass=.addr]width:106px;height:66px;background-color:#C1C1C1;color: #000;margin-top:-106px;padding-top:40px;font-size:10px;opacity:0;-webkit-transition: all .7s ease-in-out;[/newclass]
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second year
AKA
tyrannicides
PLAYED BY:
tsundere
the spectacular catastrophe of your endless childhood.
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harbor
Aug 18, 2014 7:41:39 GMT
Post by zahir + thalia brand on Aug 18, 2014 7:41:39 GMT
i.imgur.com/gJavQ.png in the world of two (one is only half). Zahir doesn't listen to her words as much as her voice. Her recollections are nothing more than images in the abstract to him, as distant and unimaginable as grasping the moon through the window, but the sound of Thali talking is a golden thread that ties Zahir's world to the true world. When she's talking, he can almost break through to the surface. And when she falls silent, he veers off into a non-sequitur. "I'm sorry you lost the competition," he says. "I read your text, even though I didn't answer. And even if I like Sophia, I know it must gall you that you lost to her, but it sounded like an absurd contest anyway. Not a real judgment of merit. I'm sorry. You must have hated it. I'm sorry we came here."His words have the tone of ritual, often repeated and worn into dust. sophia + stefan rosenburgLAIKA OF GS!
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second year
AKA
rosenburgs
PLAYED BY:
akane
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harbor
Aug 18, 2014 8:00:27 GMT
Post by sophia + stefan rosenburg on Aug 18, 2014 8:00:27 GMT
i.imgur.com/qh56H7k.jpg [attr="class","stt"] as long as the incest square isn't real, maybe tonight won't be so bad after all. sophia processes every word of the conversation. she does not see the ritual in the flow, but rather the chunks of meaning that build into something with distinct form. rather like the way that she plays her music, come to think of it. "it was an absurd contest." she agreed before backpedaling to something else that he said. "is that why you gave tha-- my sizes to her? you...liked her?" there's a feeling in her stomach that she can't quite identify. over his own twin sister? she can't quite think of a scenario that stefan would choose someone over her without some form of obligation. she could be wrong. maybe stefan threatened him. somehow, that seemed equally as unlikely. THOSE DISTANT BELLS LAIKA OF GS! [newclass=.addr:hover]width:106px;height:66px;background-color:#C1C1C1;color: #000;margin-top:-106px;padding-top:40px;font-size:10px;opacity:1;-webkit-transition: all .7s ease-in-out;[/newclass][newclass=.addr]width:106px;height:66px;background-color:#C1C1C1;color: #000;margin-top:-106px;padding-top:40px;font-size:10px;opacity:0;-webkit-transition: all .7s ease-in-out;[/newclass]
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second year
AKA
tyrannicides
PLAYED BY:
tsundere
the spectacular catastrophe of your endless childhood.
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harbor
Aug 18, 2014 8:07:23 GMT
Post by zahir + thalia brand on Aug 18, 2014 8:07:23 GMT
i.imgur.com/gJavQ.png in the world of two (one is only half). Zahir props himself up on his elbows and shoots her a wry smile, almost invisible in the dark. "Are you so annoyed by my crush you've started playing dumb now?" he asks. "I'll take it over being constantly berated."His smile softens into a more thoughtful expression, and he reaches out for Thali's hand. "I'm not going to be hurt," he says. "You don't always have to try and protect me. You're the little sister, remember?"As quickly as that, the smile slides back into place. "Besides, I only gave her your bra size, it wasn't that terrible of a betrayal. I don't know your other measurements, thank god. You'd probably haul me out as a pack mule on your shopping trips if I did, and disguise it under you need to get out more, Zahir."sophia + stefan rosenburgLAIKA OF GS!
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second year
AKA
rosenburgs
PLAYED BY:
akane
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harbor
Aug 18, 2014 8:24:03 GMT
Post by sophia + stefan rosenburg on Aug 18, 2014 8:24:03 GMT
i.imgur.com/qh56H7k.jpg [attr="class","stt"] she's not sure what kind of face she's making right now with thalia's bright eyes and soft cheekbones, but sophia cuts her losses and turns over so that all that zahir can see is a swath of red hair. at least her next words are perfectly in character for thalia, she thinks. "you can't forget what she is." she speaks with a very real level of disdain. "she's a corpse propped up by blood and a very real danger to you." the conviction in her voice is also real. she knows, because she's destroyed stefan's life before. the truth is supposed to set her free. so why does she feel a little bit like crying? at least the sourness is an excuse to ignore the brand twins bonding moment that she can't hope to understand. THOSE DISTANT BELLS LAIKA OF GS! [newclass=.addr:hover]width:106px;height:66px;background-color:#C1C1C1;color: #000;margin-top:-106px;padding-top:40px;font-size:10px;opacity:1;-webkit-transition: all .7s ease-in-out;[/newclass][newclass=.addr]width:106px;height:66px;background-color:#C1C1C1;color: #000;margin-top:-106px;padding-top:40px;font-size:10px;opacity:0;-webkit-transition: all .7s ease-in-out;[/newclass]
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second year
AKA
tyrannicides
PLAYED BY:
tsundere
the spectacular catastrophe of your endless childhood.
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harbor
Aug 18, 2014 8:32:35 GMT
Post by zahir + thalia brand on Aug 18, 2014 8:32:35 GMT
i.imgur.com/gJavQ.png in the world of two (one is only half). For the first time since he stepped inside, he feels adrift. "Thali...?" he says, unsure. "Did something happen in the gym? After everyone was cleared out, between you and Sophia? I know you don't like her, but--you sound vicious. Are you okay? What does her being a vampire have to do with anything? I thought it was her superior science grade that was your real objection."sophia + stefan rosenburgLAIKA OF GS!
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second year
AKA
rosenburgs
PLAYED BY:
akane
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harbor
Aug 18, 2014 8:51:29 GMT
Post by sophia + stefan rosenburg on Aug 18, 2014 8:51:29 GMT
i.imgur.com/qh56H7k.jpg [attr="class","stt"] if this was a chinese comedy, there would be a gong going off in sophia's head right about now. she had thought that she had calculated her trajectory, but obviously not when she overshot by this much. "nothing happened in the gym." she says just a little too quickly, but hopefully zahir does not notice. "it's just -- it's nearly four a.m. and it's been a long day." the time that most students were asleep on a weekday. "can you sleep?" THOSE DISTANT BELLS LAIKA OF GS! [newclass=.addr:hover]width:106px;height:66px;background-color:#C1C1C1;color: #000;margin-top:-106px;padding-top:40px;font-size:10px;opacity:1;-webkit-transition: all .7s ease-in-out;[/newclass][newclass=.addr]width:106px;height:66px;background-color:#C1C1C1;color: #000;margin-top:-106px;padding-top:40px;font-size:10px;opacity:0;-webkit-transition: all .7s ease-in-out;[/newclass]
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second year
AKA
tyrannicides
PLAYED BY:
tsundere
the spectacular catastrophe of your endless childhood.
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harbor
Aug 18, 2014 8:54:12 GMT
Post by zahir + thalia brand on Aug 18, 2014 8:54:12 GMT
i.imgur.com/gJavQ.png in the world of two (one is only half). "I can sleep," he says after a brief hesitation. "Thank you, Thali. Love you. Sleep tight."And with that he squirmed under the blanket, and rolled over to face the wall and close his eyes. sophia + stefan rosenburgLAIKA OF GS!
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