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but you're caught in your own glory
WHO: Katurian and You! (Open)
WHERE: Central Park
WHEN: Backdated to March 14th, all day.
WARNING: Likely descriptions of morbid fiction!
SUMMARY: Katurian tells his stories in the park.
FORMAT: Starting as paragraph, but feel free to tag as you'd like!
Today, Katurian wants to make something of himself. He wants to step outside and suck in the fresh air. He wants the breeze in his hair. He wants people to look him in the eye, to smile at him, to remember his name. He wants to tell stories.
You're manic, he tells himself. He doesn't know much about psychology, but he isn't sure what else it could be, given the week he's had. The bruise he received after wiping Margaret Marks out of existence is a healing, but sickly yellow, and the concussion that came with it hangs between his temples as a dull, but ever present headache. His dreams are fragmented. Awful. He looks in the mirror and isn't sure who he sees anymore. He's a mess inside and out, but today, there's a distant tinge to it, a why does it matter? A vague acceptance.
Acceptance? Of inevitable punishment? Of Death's promised protection? Of the man (ghost?) he's becoming?
Or maybe he wants to enjoy what he has while he still has it. Katurian doesn't know much about himself these days, but the one thing that's constant and will always be constant are his stories. With them, he stays afloat.
At eight in the morning, he brings a crate to Central Park, stands on top of it, and starts telling fairy tales. He tells the ones he's already told the Network, and the ones he hasn't. He tells stories from home, too, although there are some he can't tell, some that left a sickening taste in his mouth when he practiced them in front of the mirror beforehand. The Pillowman was one of them, but that isn't surprising. He knows he doesn't want to use that one anyway.
WHERE: Central Park
WHEN: Backdated to March 14th, all day.
WARNING: Likely descriptions of morbid fiction!
SUMMARY: Katurian tells his stories in the park.
FORMAT: Starting as paragraph, but feel free to tag as you'd like!
Today, Katurian wants to make something of himself. He wants to step outside and suck in the fresh air. He wants the breeze in his hair. He wants people to look him in the eye, to smile at him, to remember his name. He wants to tell stories.
You're manic, he tells himself. He doesn't know much about psychology, but he isn't sure what else it could be, given the week he's had. The bruise he received after wiping Margaret Marks out of existence is a healing, but sickly yellow, and the concussion that came with it hangs between his temples as a dull, but ever present headache. His dreams are fragmented. Awful. He looks in the mirror and isn't sure who he sees anymore. He's a mess inside and out, but today, there's a distant tinge to it, a why does it matter? A vague acceptance.
Acceptance? Of inevitable punishment? Of Death's promised protection? Of the man (ghost?) he's becoming?
Or maybe he wants to enjoy what he has while he still has it. Katurian doesn't know much about himself these days, but the one thing that's constant and will always be constant are his stories. With them, he stays afloat.
At eight in the morning, he brings a crate to Central Park, stands on top of it, and starts telling fairy tales. He tells the ones he's already told the Network, and the ones he hasn't. He tells stories from home, too, although there are some he can't tell, some that left a sickening taste in his mouth when he practiced them in front of the mirror beforehand. The Pillowman was one of them, but that isn't surprising. He knows he doesn't want to use that one anyway.
I AM SO SORRY
To be fair, that doesn't rule out any intent of ripping him limb from limb, but let's pretend for a while. Riful stands, one arm crossed over her stomach and the other cupping her chin, and listens to the story.
AAAH
When he's finished, the crowd thins out more than he'd like but about as much as he'd expect, and although many people clap hesitantly (and some don't clap at all), he can tell that some people genuinely enjoyed it. And then he notices Riful.
Oh.
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"Hello," she says, hands still knit together. "That was a very interesting story."
She has to tilt her chin up to speak to him face-to-face (especially given the crate); it would be irritating if the power balanced wasn't set so staggeringly against him. Truth be told, Riful actually has no idea who the man is, but the vague sense of familiarity--and the soft glow of capability that always identifies imPorts--are more than enough to make him worth further observation.
"Did you write it yourself?"
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She doesn't seem to remember him, at least.
"I did write it myself." He steps down off the crate - he's never very good at keeping himself in a position of power, figurative or otherwise. "I write all of them myself, the stories. I've got quite a few of them, by now." He shifts his weight. "I'm very glad that you liked it."
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"It was a very sad thing that happened to that girl at the end," she adds, not sounding particularly upset (but perhaps less happy than she could be), "but every animal does need to eat."
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Death told him she's a nice girl, he tells himself. Death told him she's a nice girl.
"Yes." He clears his throat. "That's the funny thing, because people, you know, are more inclined to blame the wolf in general in this kind of story. They're more inclined. But it's a bit of a twist, because everyone made mistakes just as equally. Everyone's just as to blame."