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Billy Kaplan ([personal profile] wearingthestars) wrote in [community profile] revivalproject2021-04-03 02:19 pm

What is grief?

WHO: Billy/Various, some OTA (will be noted)
WHERE: First Breath, Vanquish, Temba, YA house
WHAT: Sad
WHEN: Day of Return
WARNINGS: Sad



Return
(OT Vanquish [or First Breath if you want to see him worrying on the ship], Mostly meant for Jon and/or Lauri-Ell)

When the compulsion to return to the ships had come, Teddy hadn't been there. It set a knot of worry in Billy's stomach, even as he tried to reason it didn't mean he was gone. He might have gotten up early, or felt the compulsion before him, or...something. Right?

Still, that dread kept him from messaging during the trip back, mind running over the dark possibilities until they had landed and Billy went running to wait outside Vanquish. He was just worrying for nothing, right??


Storm Clouds
(OTA)

Billy was at a loss. What was a he supposed to do? He was trying very hard not to fall back into that deep depression that had claimed him after Cassie- that dark numbness that seemed to swallow him up for months.

The weather around him seemed to be reflecting that conflict, isolated clouds, dark and stormy, possibly attracted by the electricity that occasionally flickered unbidden at his fingertips.

He didn't know how to find a proper balance, to feel these emotions without losing himself to them.

The clouds rumbled overhead, rain pelting down, and Billy offered up an apologetic look as he wasn't the only one caught up in this downpour.

"Sorry-"


Hold Me
(for Tommy)

The house didn't feel the same without him. Billy tried to set aside that steadily growing weight on his chest and put away some of what he'd brought back from their trip, but he kept seeing signs of Teddy everywhere. He couldn't quite bring himself to touch any of Teddy's stuff, leaving it where it was.

He tried to sleep that night, laying on his side of the bed, switching between tears and long stretches of sleepless silence, before finally giving up and leaving their his room for Tommy's.

He peered inside hesitantly, voice a little rough from the boughts of crying.
"...Could I sleep with you?"
ezra_of_lothal: (Default)

[personal profile] ezra_of_lothal 2021-04-20 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"That universe, yeah. I'd never been even close to Coruscant before. I'm from Lothal, which is a planet that has a decent sized city, a few smaller ones, but it's most farmland, grassland, and mining."
ezra_of_lothal: (Ezra thoughtful by recadreuse)

[personal profile] ezra_of_lothal 2021-04-21 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
He tilts his head, thinking. "I do miss Lothal. I miss my family more. I am glad I got to see the Jedi Temple, full of Jedi. There's only a few survivors, when I'm from."
ezra_of_lothal: (Ezra eyebrow raised by redacreuse)

[personal profile] ezra_of_lothal 2021-04-22 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mutants. That's...people with unusual abilities?" he checks.

The thought that wiping so many people with powers out is something so many times and places have in common - that's discouraging.
ezra_of_lothal: (Ezra determined)

[personal profile] ezra_of_lothal 2021-04-26 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'll go ahead and say that sounds less bad than mass murder, but still pretty not cool. If it was done intentionally," he ponders out loud. "If it was some sort of....cosmic rebalancing that just happens, it'd be hard and upsetting, but-"

If he had to lose his Force sensitivity as part of something that would be better for the vast majority of beings? He thinks his task as a Jedi would be to make his peace with that, as best he could.

"Oof. Yeah. It'd be tough."