Prompt Post - Part Ten
I am REALLY, REALLY SORRY about taking so long, guys, and about not being around much recently. I've been busier than I have in a while, and it just kept slipping my mind between uni applications and volunteering and all sorts- for some reason I thought we were much further off a new post.
If there is anything I haven't responded to, as of now, I'm ( Read more... )
So, it's an indeterminable time in the future, and the real Roy is found! He's ~14 or so and really confused. Why do all of you people know me? Why are Green Arrow and Black Canary so upset? What do you mean, it's 2012?!
Clone!Roy isn't having a good time of it either. He's lost a life that used to be his, shafted and not feeling real, like he doesn't deserve the other Roy's life. But it isn't exactly the real Roy's life, either. The one that Clone!Roy built for himself made his life completely different from the real Roy's, but because it's so different real Roy doesn't feel like it's his either.
So they say screw it, and run away on a cross-country finding themselves road trip. Or something. And make political commentaries on America.BONUS: Jade helps or stays in touch. Real Roy is really confused ( ... )
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Six months after the fact and it's still strange to him, like looking in a mirror with some kind of age-reversal charm on it. He honestly doesn't think it will ever stop being strange, but he finds that he's okay with that, and as he sits slouched at the small round table with his head resting in one hand, he absentmindedly wonders if that small smidgen of acceptance is a sign of progress or just the medication talking.
“So, um...”
The boy sitting across from him fidgets under his gaze, clearly uncomfortable whereas he feels calm - okay, yes, he knows that much is the medication at work - and really, he doesn't mean to stare, he knows it's not helping anything, but like he said before, it's just strange. The face is so young, just barely turned fifteen last he'd heard while he ( ... )
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“It's just, everything's so different now,” Roy finally whispers, and grinds out, “There's nothing I can fucking do about it either.” He lets go of his hair, his hands dropping down to the table. He sits up just the slightest bit, but his eyes stay downcast, glaring at nothing, his breathing picking up every now and then, “Maybe I should be in here too...”
Red Arrow's mouth presses into a thin line, and there's this.. almost protective feeling that kind of baffles him, but there it is, and at the same time he can sympathize. It combines, in a way, those two feelings, into something that roils inside of him, and maybe it's a bad idea to be making any kind of judgment calls or decisions when he's on medication like this, but he's already standing up and there's a half-assed plan forming in his head that at this point could only be stopped by someone of sound mind - of which there's none around, save for the hospital staff, and he already knows they won't try and ( ... )
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THE MENTAL HOSPITAL AND SO ALIKE AND SO DIFFERENT AND WE'LL TELL OLLIE AFTERWARDS AND HNNNNNG
THIS WAS AWESOME AND YOU ARE AWESOME AND THE WEDDING SHALL BE SPECTACULAR.
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This is really better than anything I imagined this prompt coming to. I mean, Roy - Red Arrow - admitting himself to a mental hospital completely threw me for a second. And no one had even told Roy that his... clone... is in a mental hospital. What about the others? Do they visit? Oh, you've left so much to speculation, and it's amazing.
Please post more if you feel up to it, no matter when. Stalking this thread FOREVER!
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