Appointments Post
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[He may not look it, but he can keep up no problem! Especially now that his arm's all better! ...Maybe. Maybe not if Asch makes a hasty retreat.]
[Actually he'd like to say "I'll stay out of your way" which normally he'd try to do anyhow, but Ginji is pretty sure insisting that Asch hand over his scissors counts as getting in his way...]
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Ugh. It is way too much work to argue with him right now, so whatever.]
Fine, but don't get in my way, either.
[And off he's marching. To...
...well, probably to find a good spot to curl up and have another nap, because hell if all this hasn't made him exhausted.]
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[He'll be tucking the scissors into a coat pocket (out of sight, out of mind) and following Asch at a relatively safe and "out of the way" distance. Looking around, keeping quiet, wondering where they're even going. It's not terribly exciting, comparatively, but at least he'll be around to call for help if something unexpected happens to Asch.]
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[STEPPING BACK. Except his back just hit the door.
SCREEA - SIDE STEPPING THEN.]
I'm not going to let you have this back, okay?!
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That's it, you're getting charged at. LET THE SCISSOR WRESTLE BEGIN.]
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[FUUU-
Luke does manage to move, but he still didn't expect a charge, so he's left standing with one hand on the scissors and one on Asch's hand, trying to pry it off.]
Let go! You don't need this!
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I can't cut my hair without it, dreck!
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Rrgh - Why do you even want to cut your hair in the first place?!
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You really think I haven't been alone thanks to me being Luke?
[Too late, Luke figures that he shouldn't argue that point. Asch has been much more alone than he has. But Luke destroyed thousands of people, nearly the world. Luke was abandoned by his friends when he needed them the most. Luke was left in the manor and stared at as if he was a monster.
Luke is not a very good name to have.]
Being me isn't as great as you make it out to be. Changing comes from acknowledging who you are and what mistakes you've made, or what you don't like about yourself, and fixing it. Not from stealing someone else's identity.
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I wouldn't be stealing it! It should be mine anyway, so I'd just- I'd be taking it back! Why can't it be me? Why is it always you?
[There's a sliver of desperation in his voice, a pained tinge he can't quite erase.]
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[Right then, he is so very close to just giving up and letting Asch have the name. There's pain in his chest and he knows why - it's sympathy and hurt and guilt. It's always been there, ever since he learned he was a replica of Asch, and ever since he realized what he took from him. And it's stronger than ever.
But... not yet, not yet. Not when everyone's acting so strange. Asch could... very well be doing the same thing.]
And look what you're doing to yourself! You took my clothes, and you're even trying to copy the way I cut my hair! You never wanted that before, why do you want it now?! Why now and not two weeks ago?!
[He isn't angry either; it's that desperate tone, that pained tinge, making their voices near identical.]
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...why is he asking for it now...?
Isn't it his right? Isn't this what he's always wanted? The life he could never have lived after his kidnapping... isn't that what he's after now?
Why didn't he take it when Luke offered before?]
...I... couldn't say it before. I couldn't ask. Everything was too different... there's no going back. I couldn't move forward if I kept focusing on the past all the time...
[Though that's what he ended up doing anyway. Maybe that's why it was always so painful.]
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... Was it those things in our journals?
[It's the only thing Luke can think of. It's why he acted weird, so now... maybe...
Why was Luke so reluctant, anyway? It wasn't just because of the fact that Asch might kill him for it later, not just because he wants to keep his name. For once... he's actually thinking of what he wants rather than what Asch once. This... rarely ever happens with him. And he's so torn about what to do that he can't help clenching his fists to hide the tremors.]
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[Asch pauses, lips pursing, and reluctantly takes a step back, away from Luke, to tug his journal from a pocket and flip it open. It can't possibly be that simple, can it? Just a simple little line in the-
....
Oh.
Oh.]
It's...
[...why does he feel so... disappointed?]
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Now Luke feels even worse. He reaches out his hand again, as if to touch his shoulder once more, before he slowly fists his hand and brings it back down to his side. Luke had learned of what the journal was doing to them back when he kept confessing his "love" to all the males of the village, and kept scrambling to explain himself. It was the only explanation he could think of.]
Do you...? [Does he still want his name back now? Does he... want his identity back?]
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