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revivalproject2020-06-03 03:08 pm
stabgremlin) wrote in revivalproject2020-06-03 03:08 pm
Keyword: Onomatophobia
WHO: Aden Nahain & Open
WHERE: Aden's Calibration Room!
WHAT: Calibrations! Aden will be angry about this eventually.
WHEN: During the calibration event.
WARNINGS: Uhh... Torture, violence, murder, xenophobia, brainwashing, drug use... Will add if more comes up.
On first glance, it looks like a normal boyhood room.
There's a small bed, and equally child-sized furniture like a desk and chair, a shelf with toys on it, and a white kite propped up against a wall.
The sheets on the bed are midnight blue and have clouds and stars on them and there's many soft-looking pillows, and a stuffed animal that's seen better days. Its fur is slightly dirty, and one button eye has fallen off. Though it's obviously been ripped in places, there's obvious clumsy attempts at patching it up with mismatched thread, and there's hairpin stuck onto its head.
There's a glossy button glinting beneath the bed, and further beneath the bed, there's a wooden practice blade.
On the wall above the bed, there's a large model of a space ship clumsily put together.
Looking around more though, there are things that are very out of place.
There's a blaster rifle leaning against a bookshelf, and on the windowsill where sunlight is shining in, and the wind is making sheer white curtains flutter, there's a holo of six young women and one teenage boy- not out of place, but what is out of place is the shiv next to it.
A bottle of pills lays open next to the small trash can by the desk, a few white pills having spilled out.
Looking in the trash can itself, there's a lot of discarded cards that have been crumpled up or torn to pieces- one card is still intact.
Even the toy shelf holds things that are out of place- there's a fragmentation grenade, and a strange metal mask.
There's a lightsaber hilt too, though that's next to the room's occupant- Aden himself, seated on the floor, looking toward the window at the clear skies outside. Somewhere in the room a music box plays, though it's hard to pin down where the sound is coming from.
WHERE: Aden's Calibration Room!
WHAT: Calibrations! Aden will be angry about this eventually.
WHEN: During the calibration event.
WARNINGS: Uhh... Torture, violence, murder, xenophobia, brainwashing, drug use... Will add if more comes up.
On first glance, it looks like a normal boyhood room.
There's a small bed, and equally child-sized furniture like a desk and chair, a shelf with toys on it, and a white kite propped up against a wall.
The sheets on the bed are midnight blue and have clouds and stars on them and there's many soft-looking pillows, and a stuffed animal that's seen better days. Its fur is slightly dirty, and one button eye has fallen off. Though it's obviously been ripped in places, there's obvious clumsy attempts at patching it up with mismatched thread, and there's hairpin stuck onto its head.
There's a glossy button glinting beneath the bed, and further beneath the bed, there's a wooden practice blade.
On the wall above the bed, there's a large model of a space ship clumsily put together.
Looking around more though, there are things that are very out of place.
There's a blaster rifle leaning against a bookshelf, and on the windowsill where sunlight is shining in, and the wind is making sheer white curtains flutter, there's a holo of six young women and one teenage boy- not out of place, but what is out of place is the shiv next to it.
A bottle of pills lays open next to the small trash can by the desk, a few white pills having spilled out.
Looking in the trash can itself, there's a lot of discarded cards that have been crumpled up or torn to pieces- one card is still intact.
Even the toy shelf holds things that are out of place- there's a fragmentation grenade, and a strange metal mask.
There's a lightsaber hilt too, though that's next to the room's occupant- Aden himself, seated on the floor, looking toward the window at the clear skies outside. Somewhere in the room a music box plays, though it's hard to pin down where the sound is coming from.
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She'd kept him out of trouble, for the most part. At least back then. His trouble-making tendencies hadn't kicked in until much later, when it was way out of her hands. Way out of Aden's too. It was strange, getting a look back at who he'd been.
Himself with an open expression, unguarded.
"She taught me a lot."
Cooking, cleaning, budgeting, mending clothes. Life skills.
Skills he'd taken with him when he'd set out on his own.
The other man's comment about how he'd shank someone over being called a poor thing for something like that made him laugh. There was a hint of that cold, humorless laugh that had become the norm for him, but a bit of genuine amusement too. That was rare.
"Honestly she'd probably kick my ass if she heard me say it. Or if she ever hears that I've so much as thought it..."
How long had it been, since he saw her? Years. If it hadn't been for this, he was sure he'd have forgotten her voice.
"She's probably started her own family by now. Husband, kids. That sort of thing."
They all probably had.
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A shame, but not really a surprise. Relationships were fickle beasts, even between family. Maybe especially then. It was all too easy to take people for granted when you counted on shared blood to always grease the wheels. Not that Chikai ever did that, obviously.
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Not like she'd stopped being his sister, after all, even if they hadn't spoken in quite some time. Family was family, and he missed her sometimes. Not that he could ever go home to the Ascendancy, much as he might want to.
"We don't," He confirmed, with a slightly tired smile, "Her place is in the Chiss Ascendancy. Mine isn't, any more."
And even if he should be able to return, it wasn't like he was the same person who had left. And his sister- all of his sisters- deserved better than what was left of him.
"She's safe where she is though. That's all that really matters."
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Something about the guy's attitude about the whole situation - the easy acceptance he seems to have - rubs Chikai the wrong way, though he can't quite put a finger on why. He decides not to think about it too deeply. It doesn't really matter, probably. Instead he simply continues on with, "My little bro's always bugging me about wanting to tag along, no matter how many times I tell him not yet."
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That was why he was the one who went away. Through training, both Chiss and Imperial, and he became someone who's not the brother who left. They deserved to be around people who hadn't cracked under the pressure. They deserved peace, and the safety of living in the Ascendancy.
He didn't.
And he wasn't suited for peace any more. It was why he hated this place so much- too much peace. And he didn't know what to do with himself.
"Your brother wants to get into your line of work then. Unsuited as he might be right now?"
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He shakes his head a bit, clearing it of the passing thought. That was all just temporary, so it didn't really matter. Once they were together again, Chikai was sure he'd be able to convince his brother that he didn't have to worry about every little thing so much. He heaves an overly dramatic sigh, spreading his hands in a 'what can you do?' gesture. "It's funny, y'know? He'll listen to me about pretty much anything, except when I try to tell him no."
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He spoke from experience there. After all, he'd always been told no when it came to playing in the nearby shipyard. And yet, when everyone who worked there had gone home for the day, that was where he'd been playing, climbing on things not meant to be climbed on, and should he have fallen, he would not have survived.
"Weren't you like that when you were a kid, too?"
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"But he's not a problem child like I was." Sure, from an outside perspective, a kid who wanted to follow his big brother into a life of crime would probably seem like one. Chikai knew better though. "He doesn't do things just to be difficult."