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BAGGINSSSSSssss ([personal profile] invoking) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2012-12-11 11:06 pm

if the elephants have past lives

WHO: GIL and YOU
WHERE: anywhere! The park, a grocery store, the streets, around his workplace, etc.
WHEN: between 12/10 and 12/13
WARNINGS: references to Thunderhungerdome events
SUMMARY: In spite of everything that's happened, Gil has to try and carry on with City life.
FORMAT: starting with quick but tagger's choice!


[ If there's anything Gil is always quick to buy, no matter how stingy he can be with money, it's cigarettes and a brand new lighter. He's not too fond of those cheap ones from the corner stores, even if they do work in a pinch. But so do matches. (The odd stare every now and then doesn't both him when he's craving a long drag of nicotine. While he's well are of the laws against public smoking, when he really needs (re: wants) a cigarette, he can't help himself. When he's working, he avoids it as long as he can before he lights one outside the building.

Attempting to quit doesn't cross his mind. There's a lot on it.

He's even lost count of how long it's been since that night in the stadium. There are fleeting moments it feels like it was a decade ago, buried under the other painful events that seemed to consistently plague his life-- and then the vivid moments like it was just yesterday and his senses are overloaded with the smell of copper and screaming ringing in his ears.

It's the brief seconds of remembering Lenalee and Damian's bodies that jostles him out of his daze and he needs to stop and catch his breath. ]
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[personal profile] psychomancy 2012-12-27 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
[She can't hide how pleased (and relieved) she is that he's accepted her invitation. Though she's literally just met him, she still would have been a bit put out if he'd said no. Not for any particular reason other than being rejected in a way, of course.

But, as he's said yes, a smile lights her face and she simply gestures in front of her.]


Not really. I was just planning on walking around the park for a bit.
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[personal profile] psychomancy 2012-12-29 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
[And she will!]

Might I ask how long you've been in the City?
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[personal profile] psychomancy 2012-12-30 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[She laughs lowly, cheeks going pink.]

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable. I suppose it's... you're mannerisms.
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[personal profile] psychomancy 2012-12-31 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
[She still looks apologetic.] Mostly it's just that I've been here long enough to be able to tell the difference between a native and an import.
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[personal profile] psychomancy 2013-01-01 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[She smiles, pausing as Pippa stops to sniff around.]

I am. I've been here for about two years.
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[personal profile] psychomancy 2013-01-03 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
[She totally agrees!! American accents are so strange. She'd only been in America for a few weeks before coming to the City, but it had almost been the same. Only the slang had changed, really. She's at least used to it now.]

Neither do you. That was part of what led me to deduce that you are also an import. [Because there aren't native people in the City from England, right?]
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[personal profile] psychomancy 2013-01-08 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Her brows raise.] Yes, they did. Are you--not from England? [Wow, she was completely off the mark with that one.]
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[personal profile] psychomancy 2013-01-09 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
I can't say I've ever heard of Reveille... but you're right, it could be the same country anyway. [A beat.] Did you have a queen?
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[personal profile] psychomancy 2013-01-12 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh canon.]

Well, that's something at least. [A beat, then proudly:] I met our Queen, once.
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[personal profile] psychomancy 2013-01-15 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. She deemed me a lady. [This is actually a point of pride.]
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[personal profile] psychomancy 2013-01-16 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Did I forget to mention that Gemma is... kind of... an aristocrat back home...] Thank you. It was years ago now, of course, and I suppose it doesn't mean much in this world...
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[personal profile] psychomancy 2013-01-17 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sob titles mean nothing here. And oh no she's starting to reminisce.]

All the young ladies from the best families were sent to meet her. It was such a grand event.

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