stabgremlin: (26)
Cipher Nine ([personal profile] stabgremlin) wrote in [community profile] 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.
measuringdistance: (09 - Lemme show you my bro's baby pics)

[personal profile] measuringdistance 2020-06-07 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, he's real stubborn about it. Dunno why, he's way too young to be worrying about shit like that." Of course, that's not entirely true - he's not blind, after all. His brother's anxiety about the future was obvious, and his determination to help was touching at times, in a way that Chikai couldn't help but give in to. More often than he should, probably.

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."
measuringdistance: (17 - HA)

[personal profile] measuringdistance 2020-06-08 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ha, oh, absolutely." His own memories of his childhood were for the most part faded things he hadn't bothered to maintain, but since he was still like that even now, it was a safe bet.

"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."