hellpyre: (man I fucked up this time...)
okumura rin (♀) ([personal profile] hellpyre) wrote in [community profile] thebastion2014-01-21 05:36 pm

[Backdate: 147 | CLOSED] Do you listen to yourself?

Who: Rin + Nathaniel // Those two + the Uras and a Cael
Open: CLOSED
When: Day 147
Where: Nathaniel's room -> Zulf's tent
What: Zulf asked a favor of Rin that she's reluctantly agreed to. It won't end well.
Format: Action
Warnings: Swearing, fighting, yelling, DRAMAAAAA

[She didn't want to do this.

But Zulf had asked, and knowing that the other option was sending Colin in... well, for all her uncertainty, she had known Nathaniel a lot longer than the engineer did.

It... just didn't seem like a subject he would be comfortable discussing that much with Colin.

Not that Rin was sure he'd be comfortable discussing it  at all but...

The half demon stood at the door, staring at it with her shoulders hunched and lips pressed tightly together. Slowly her hand raised, knocking gently on the wood.]


... Nathaniel... ?
bastionpc: (Nathaniel)

[personal profile] bastionpc 2014-01-22 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
No!

[Nathaniel is very firm in his answer.]

You want to know the truth about what happened? I'll tell you the truth. What happened was someone was messing around the observatory. That someone was this guy right here, who clearly is not happy with Caelondia or the Mancers.

When the Calamity happened, it was right after everyone was warned about two Ura who were sticking their noses into places where they didn't belong. And that is the extent of what I know. Doesn't it look suspicious to you? The very moment someone starts poking around at something dangerous, the Calamity happens.

[Now he's pointing an accusatory finger at Zulf, though his eyes are still on Rin.]

And he's not even denying it! He's using double-speak to avoid even addressing the issue!

[Sort of like how Nathaniel is doing exactly the same thing, to avoid talking about the war at all.]
fuckthemancers: (I see your star)

[personal profile] fuckthemancers 2014-01-22 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
[She's agreeing with him. She's agreeing with him and that helps to push back at the pure anger that he always feels when he thinks about the Mancers. He tries to swallow it down and feels his throat ache with the effort. Like swallowing a rock.]

And this is why I want Venn's journal. He wrote down everything about the Calamity- he was the one who knew how to make it work, something none of the other Mancers had been able to figure out. The 'why', the 'how', it's all in that journal.

If the other Ura here find out... Stuart or Zanya- I know they'd do something they'd regret.

[Because he regrets his own actions, even now.]

[He starts to move forward towards her, hands coming apart but loose now as he reaches towards her. This means shoving past Nathaniel, but he's not thinking of that right now.]


I came to Caelondia to do what my father had done in the Terminals. I don't want this to dissolve into another war, Rin!
Edited 2014-01-22 06:03 (UTC)
bastionpc: (Nathaniel)

[personal profile] bastionpc 2014-01-22 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
[How about Nathaniel just punches Zulf in the face? How about that?

It's totally not his fault that there is a ledge right near Zulf's house. Or that Nathaniel is so angry that his punch is more of a tackle anyway.

But yeah, time to learn about some Bastion physics!
]
fuckthemancers: (See your star)

[personal profile] fuckthemancers 2014-01-22 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Fuck-!]

[He's not expecting that at all, focused on Rin as he is, and he goes tumbling back easily enough. Not once has he ever been a proper fighter, not a soldier. That was his parents, the three of them, but not him. He goes tumbling back from both the force of it and Nathaniel's weight. It's only at the last second do old street habits kick in, earning a punch to Nathaniel's ear-]

[And then they tumble right over the edge before he has a moment to realize what's even happening.]




[Three seconds later, and the two of them go propelling right up again by an enormous push of air, somehow untangling in the panic. This, unfortunately, does not leave much room for grace or landing skills and has Zulf at least landing face first. He pushes himself up on one arm with a curse in his own tongue, blood dribbling down now to go well with the black eye he's no doubt gotten from Nathaniel.]
bastionpc: (Nathaniel)

[personal profile] bastionpc 2014-01-22 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Nathaniel lands on his back with a sickening thud, and he doesn't get up right away. His head hurts, his back hurts, and at first he thinks he lost his glasses because everything is blurry and spinning. But no, his glasses are there, it's just the combination of Zulf's punch and weird Bastion physics that have left him dizzy and winded.

Rin, if you're going to intervene, now is the time. These two idiots are momentarily stunned.
]
bastionpc: (Nathaniel)

[personal profile] bastionpc 2014-01-22 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Whoops, he forgot how strong Rin is. And at this point, he hurts too much to argue. He'll just let himself get dragged along, holding his head with his free hand and trying not to vomit from the dizziness.]
fuckthemancers: (See your star)

[personal profile] fuckthemancers 2014-01-22 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Just a very dazed wave. No worries, Rin, he's a bit too out of it because ow he landed on his face. ]