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Aug 10, 2011 19:55

[It's been a while since Lenalee has addressed the network. For lack of anything to say that wouldn't be a rehash of what everyone else has already long gone over, maybe. Something like that. There's only so much she can bring up with a group of people she doesn't know or understand, after all ( Read more... )

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VOICE foundanewdream August 11 2011, 04:32:08 UTC

A-ah, I'd like to help with wishing everyone happy birthday on their birthdays, if that's alright? I just have my cleaning to occupy me.

[Not saying a thing about her own, she doesn't know when it is.]

VOICE fallforthesky August 11 2011, 08:25:18 UTC

[Lenalee simply interprets her silence on that matter as not wanting to draw attention to herself. To be honest, she doesn't expect much to come out of asking for birthdays... not when most everyone whose dates she doesn't already know are the kind of people more likely to give her an earful about focusing on something that trivial rather than getting out.

But what she said- specifically, that last part- is sickeningly familiar to her. It actually does make her stomach turn, though not by any fault of Rapunzel's. When she answers, her lips are set in a shaky, kind of desperate smile that she's glad no one has to see.]

I'd... hah... I'd like that a lot, really. I'm sure everyone else would, too.

VOICE foundanewdream August 11 2011, 19:14:36 UTC

[Truly she wouldn't mind! If she...knew her birthday at all. But Rapunzel isn't one of those that is so worried about getting out, she's adjusted to the fact that she'll simply go home when she's able to and until then she's got to survive. And making sure she doesn't break down means cleaning.]

Really? [Hopeful. Then so happy.] This'll be great! I'm sure that I can find something to fix up and give to whomever's birthday comes up next. Do you think they'd mind? I mean if I don't even know them and give them a gift saying it's from all of us?

VOICE fallforthesky August 12 2011, 04:43:43 UTC

[She's just never imagined someone might not know their birthday. Which is funny, given that two of her closest friends both have birthdates made up for the sake of actually having one at all.]

Yes, really. [A little of Rapunzel's enthusiasm gets returned in a short, wondering laugh.] I don't see why they'd mind. And even if they do, it wouldn't be any fault of yours.

VOICE foundanewdream August 12 2011, 04:54:10 UTC

R-right. [Sheepish but still bright tone.]

O-oh. Birthdays. Well... I don't know Pascal's, he's never told me. But mine is July ninth.

VOICE fallforthesky August 13 2011, 07:30:51 UTC

July ninth... [Repeats it in a murmur, not quite able to force the amount of enthusiasm she'd like into the words. She spares a lightning-quick glance towards her door, where Lenalee's scratched just shy of 115 marks into the drywall next to it to mark the passage of time (someone hasn't discovered any calendar functions that may be on the PDA just yet).] I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but it would be nice if we don't ever have to celebrate your birthday here.

[She's not sure if she can stand to see more than four hundred scratches on that wall.]

VOICE foundanewdream August 13 2011, 18:31:53 UTC

[Rapunzel's voice is light enough that it hopefully dispels some of Lenalee's gloom.]

Oh, it's alright. I hope we won't have to either, I like everyone here [Beanstalk aside.] but by then I'd miss my mother and Eugene too much. Plus, I had a pretty good birthday before I showed up here, I don't know if it'd be topped.

VOICE 1/2 fallforthesky August 14 2011, 03:57:20 UTC

[It does, but she has to wonder how on Earth she stays so positive. A Disney Princess Lenalee is not- all this unconditional optimism is way beyond her reference level. "Everything will be all right" is definitely something she's used to hearing at home, but it's always been forced. Rapunzel sounds like she unerringly believes it.]

M-Mm. I'm not sure if we could top it, either. I'd try, of course, but, well... we are in a derelict city...

VOICE fallforthesky August 14 2011, 04:02:58 UTC

[Then, with some unerring fake optimism of her own:] And I'm sure you'll find yourself back at home with Eugene [whoever he is] and your mother someday very soon. Before you even know it.

VOICE foundanewdream August 14 2011, 17:31:59 UTC

[Lenalee would make a lovely Disney Princess, her beginning is certainly tragic enough, has enough adversity. Perhaps all that's needed to freshen that worn out and false saying is the drop of sun that Rapunzel is? The girl finds it hard to be down for long and when she is they pass almost like a cloud blocking the sun.]

Any birthday here I'd probably treasure too though. New friends and new adventures, they're new memories I wouldn't get otherwise.

[Smiles a bit on her end.] I know. And I'll be strong in the meantime! [Lifting an arm in that muscular pose of showing off muscles, or her lack of. And then remembers this is voice and lets out a light laugh.]

VOICE fallforthesky August 15 2011, 09:12:10 UTC

[But she lacks that optimism, all the same. The selflessness. The Prince Charming (and the desire to even get one). The ability to spontaneously compose an entire song to a backing chorus of friendly woodland animals.]

I'm glad you think that way, Rapunzel. [And really, she is, because at least she's one less person Lenalee has to worry, as far as keeping frayed nerves to a minimum goes (she's been doing so terribly at soothing her own that taking care of others feels like a monumental task).

That laugh does wonders to cheer her, though.] If everyone here were as strong as you, I think we'd be a far cheerier group. We could all take a lesson from you.

[She doesn't quite have the heart to tell her that in the end, she probably won't get to keep those memories she treasures so much- but, hey, Allen's already done so.]

VOICE foundanewdream August 15 2011, 16:40:16 UTC

[She's pretty selfless when it comes to protecting her friends. And not all of the Princesses need a Prince Charming. As for the songs, well...that could come rather easily with time, helps with that optimism.]

I just keep telling myself that even if it's one more day here, I've got one day less here as well. I'll get home when my time here is done even if I don't know how long I'll stay.

[Oh, Rapunzel knows, she just rather forget that for right now. Otherwise she might get depressed for like...five minutes.]

VOICE fallforthesky August 18 2011, 00:02:16 UTC

[You'd be hard pressed to get her to see that as selflessness. She's never viewed her version of a map as anything but greedy. But perhaps she can work on the singing- attract a few wolves for Allen and Kanda to catch, maybe.]

...I'd never thought of it that way before.

[It. Helps.]

VOICE foundanewdream August 18 2011, 00:25:23 UTC

[But that's where fresh eyes come in handy, they can see things and call them for what they are. ...And it's doubtful her singing is that bad.]

Even looking at bad things in a positive light makes them seem not so bad.

VOICE fallforthesky August 22 2011, 18:49:20 UTC

[It's not a case of good or bad singing, but helpful singing. Wolves have more meat on them than mice and bluebirds.]

I suppose you're right. That sort of thinking could make living here easier for all of us, maybe.

VOICE foundanewdream August 23 2011, 00:41:56 UTC

[This is true, but they're also not very tasty. Maybe they'll get a bear?]

You miss a lot of people from home, Lenalee?

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