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monocled

2nd dream [have to drive]

Jul 02, 2009 01:44

WARNINGS: R for violence / gore.
[ Soundtrack: Amanda Palmer - Have to Drive (please click) ]

A jeep full of men in the mountains, driving. The sun beats down. The smell of cordite, the sound of gunfire, and a head that's just a little too uncomfortably near being turned to fine red mist. A blade on a chain streaks across the corner of vision ( Read more... )

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parousian July 3 2009, 07:07:47 UTC

Did you come from hell!?

monocled July 3 2009, 07:19:36 UTC

Some would say that being alive is Hell.

parousian July 3 2009, 07:21:16 UTC

Being alive is GREAT!

monocled July 3 2009, 07:22:48 UTC

It's certainly better than the alternative.

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Private to Hakkai ura_no_ura July 3 2009, 09:30:50 UTC

[ Guilt and claws and catlike eyes, a battlefield of war and monsters and death. Kakashi knows death and war, knows it well, but not like this. Not quite like this. He's not sure what to make of it, but whatever it is, it's not human.

He knows that much. ]

A memory?

Private to Kakashi monocled July 3 2009, 09:39:08 UTC

Nothing quite so direct, I'm afraid.

Private to Hakkai ura_no_ura July 4 2009, 09:35:39 UTC

Aa... so those monsters were just your imagination, then?

Private to Kakashi monocled July 4 2009, 16:04:33 UTC

The situation was. Running over so many youkai? The splintered bones would puncture the tires and the smell, I don't even want to think about it! I'm sure even after multiple washings Jeep would still stink of youkai filth. What a silly dream! There are so many easier ways...

necro_fantasia July 5 2009, 02:03:48 UTC

The fuck?

[Have a very irritated Yukari.]

Who the hell gave you a driver's license? You just plowed over like fifty youkai.

[Haughty sniff. Yukari is obviously feeling very offended by the lack of respect for traffic laws.]

monocled July 5 2009, 02:25:30 UTC

They got in the way.

necro_fantasia July 5 2009, 05:08:39 UTC

Aha, and I thought you seemed like such a responsible guy?

[Still looking sort of annoyed, but the look is giving way to one of amusement.]

But seriously, what was that all about? [She's honestly curious. There are about a million things it could be - perhaps youkai are warring where he comes from, and he just got caught in the middle, or perhaps he or his companions had angered them somehow, or perhaps he went seeking them out to exterminate them.

Either way, it's interesting, and more to the point it's relevant. So far it seemed as though people around here thought that youkai didn't exist, were just something out of folklore. Yukari is a thing from folklore, but she definitely exists, and it would be good to know if there's anyone out here who believes in her existence.]

monocled July 5 2009, 06:00:33 UTC

What's my responsibility to some youkai in a dream? [ He genuinely doesn't see a problem with it. ]

I have no idea what it's about. I've never done anything like that before. [ He's very composed. ]

papercutrose July 5 2009, 05:42:49 UTC

[Konan isn't used to knowing other people's dreams. Or experiencing their feelings through electronic touchscreen...whatever this is. Isn't used to it. Doesn't like it. Will probably never like it, and she sighs. With one hand, she adjusts her paper flower.]

I 'overheard.' I'm sorry.

[She still can't imagine the proper etiquette for... well. That. Mutual dream voyerism...whatever.]

I don't mean to intrude.

[Those strange weapons at the beginning, like explosive tags but more directed, they made people's heads explode, she's never seen anything like them before. And his feelings at the end are too squirmy and private and undignified and she's wrong to have intruded and shared them and it's so embarrassing because these things are never to be aired by daylight and- she fixes her flower. Calms herself.]

I didn't know you were a soldier.

[A bit curiously.] Are you a mercenary who kills... [Bijuu? Tailed beasts? She struggles for the proper word.] ...monsters?

monocled July 5 2009, 06:15:02 UTC

[ In spite of the intrusion, he seems happy to see her, politely startled. ] Konan-san, good evening!

[ He rubs the back of his neck a little, looking rather humble. ] I'm hardly a soldier or mercenary.

papercutrose July 6 2009, 23:51:57 UTC

[Still a bit ruffled, she manages a small smile.] ....good evening, Hakkai-san.

[Then regards him sidelong, considering whether to pursue this. Curiosity gets the better of her.]

Are you a contracted killer?

[Some people, she knows, prefer to call it what it is.]

Or.. [thoughtfully]... are you just the driver?

[She tactfully avoids pointing out that he seemed to be hitting the 'monsters' on purpose.]

monocled July 7 2009, 05:53:24 UTC

Oh my... I do believe I've given the wrong impression. I'm really nothing of the sort. I was on a journey, a road trip so to speak. Sometimes there were youkai. This dream, however, expresses some rather altered circumstances.

[ Really, he's so peaceful and polite. Can you imagine him running over a bunch of living things in cold blood with that expression? Yes you can. ]

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