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dilf quixote ([personal profile] icanfixer) wrote in [community profile] citynet2024-01-15 10:37 pm

@DONQUIXOT3, video (free for all, really)

[ let those wounds heal and come clean--to everyone, angela had told her.

well. the wounds won't heal for some time, as many as there are, but she fears they never will 'til she does the latter. but it's hard, it's difficult, and there are many more who have not even thought about it... such a possibility is ever in the back of one's mind, of disappearing as althea had done, as gregor and roland and gebura, as the young ken amada and so many more--

but no one really stops to think about it until it happens. their population has dwindled, month by month, without a word.



the background is colorful and a myriad of various crafts, not her own room at home (home, what a funny concept it is to call such here, and yet--) but at the host club of which she works. don quixote is not here to advertise her space nor is she here to show off some new craft, and everything from the oversized sweater she wears to the attempt at a bright smile despite the darkness under her eyes speaks to those even who may have met her once that something isn't quite right today. she's always a cheerful, upbeat girl to any she meets, any she passes or knows,

just not today. ]


Ahem! Kehm. Good day to thee all, new faces and old. I am Don Quixote, holder of several positions and jobs both here and in the world I hail from; it is alright if we have yet to meet, but prithee do not retire just yet! I have something I wish to speak to thee about... something that is quite important, and shall perhaps change the way thy time here is spent.

[ ... huuuuf. okay. ]

Some months ago, perhaps four hence, I found myself upon the train as if I had died -- and I can assure thee, as one who has died purposefully before, it was the same but different. With my return, I found I had gained many new memories and experiences... as if I had gone back to my world and lived it, from the very moment I had left. Those who were here still appeared and acted as they ought there, without a word about this city, this world, and... in truth--

I did not recall this city whatsoever when I was gone from it and remembered my time only once I had returned.

[ shot out, without a pause save the stumble before, and don holds the gaze of her device a moment before exhaling. ]

To those whom I lied to, I am sorry. It was not my intention to hurt thee, nor to give false hope unduly, but I did not want any to think their time here meaningless simply because one does not remember it. I am certain there must be a way that we may-- we may keep them, or to leave our mark upon the world in hopes of jogging our memories should we find ourselves in the same circumstance, just as others have left theirs with pictures, with scratches in tables and walls, and-- and so on! But... I do not know, so I only wished to be honest and frank. For it is only once we are armed with knowledge that may we be able to solve a problem, or so I am told.

[ ... and she wanted to come clean, too. for herself. it's a lot easier like this than doing it one on one, she finds, not having to worry about the other's reaction so soon, though she shrinks a little all the same. ]

I am not the only one who has experienced this coming and going, that I know for certain, but I understand if it may sound unbelievable, or that one may wish to deny it. Do what comforts thee best, but know that what I say is true -- and allow this space to be one in which we may exchange ideas to ensure that these memories of ours last beyond our time spent here.

[ and,

as tempting as it is just to close off completely and throw herself back into her work without further replies, she'll still very much be around. for better or worse. ]
justscribing: (❖ 06)

Text @Alhaitham

[personal profile] justscribing 2024-01-16 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
What makes you so sure you really went home?

[I'm

so sorry Don Quixote he is not here to make things better.]
justscribing: (❖ 134)

[personal profile] justscribing 2024-01-16 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Is that a question you really want an answer to?

[That's genuine, actually, does she really want an answer to that question.]

What I'm saying is, you have direct experience in their ability to either remove or suppress our memories. What makes less probable that you didn't regain memories that already existed?
featheradrift: (irritated)

video, un: Hat Guy

[personal profile] featheradrift 2024-01-16 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ The Wanderer looks very unimpressed and slightly irritated, actually. The irritation is not because of her, promise. He just has some things on his plate. But, the unimpressed part is for her. ]

Don't tell me you're dumb enough to fall for the oldest trick in the book. You really think they'd let you go home happily like nothing happened and then yank you back because they suddenly realized, 'Oh, she was actually an important test subject, we need her!'? Please. Give me a good reason they'd let you go home and maybe I'll actually give this stupid idea some real consideration.
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[personal profile] justscribing 2024-01-16 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
It's possible, isn't it? Think about how difficult it must be to transfer people between entire worlds. We're a valuable resource to them.

Why would they release you if they had any intention of bringing you back?
fussiest: (pic#16494241)

video. @kaveh, private

[personal profile] fussiest 2024-01-16 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ kaveh looks. she had cried on his shoulder, had wondered if she deserved more than her lot in life. he smiles into the camera: ]

Don, you did the right thing in letting everyone know the truth. I'm proud of you.
yyds: (pic#16810538)

video. @hong lu ☆

[personal profile] yyds 2024-01-16 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
Don~

[ she looks terribly serious, their don. hong lu considers this. ]

Oh, right, this thing. So, is it alright for me to talk about it now? It's not a secret anymore?
featheradrift: (looking up)

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[personal profile] featheradrift 2024-01-16 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ This is meant to be a serious discussion, but— ]

Don Sombrero??

[ He does in fact sound indignant. Look, just because he's accepted Hat Guy doesn't mean he's about to accept another stupid sounding name— ]
featheradrift: (hmmmmm)

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[personal profile] featheradrift 2024-01-16 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ Okay, whatever, it's fine, he won't get so worked up about it. He won't. ]

It's a manipulation tactic, plain and simple. Once you realize what you've built here won't go with you once you leave, you'll think maybe it's better not to leave. They want us to be docile, obedient little lab rats.

Or maybe they just want us to think we have a chance of returning home. Hah. I'd believe that only when I see our captors' dead bodies in front of me.
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video | @stray

[personal profile] kampfgeist 2024-01-16 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ heine's sitting on the floor of the living room. he would be sitting on the fire escape, but it's fucking cold as hell outside.

to be honest, he can't say this surprises him. there was something cagey about the way don had responded to him all those months ago when heine asked her if she'd missed him when she was home, cagey enough that heine had assumed that the answer she gave was probably not the whole truth.

of course, he didn't think the truth would be this stark, but then again he's from a world where so few niceties are easily afforded. ]


You okay?
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action bc why not

[personal profile] abstractart 2024-01-16 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
[well. he happens to be at the club when he sees this-- lazy as he is, he's started showing up despite still needing to be careful of his injured shoulder. it's fine, he can help with some things one-handed.

when he shows up to her room, it's with his good hand wrapped around the necks of two beer bottles.]


Hey.

[he lifts them up for her to take one.]

Sounded like you'd need one.

[mostly because he definitely still does, whenever he's thinking about the topic...]
Edited 2024-01-16 06:56 (UTC)
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[personal profile] fussiest 2024-01-16 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
I think many people will feel this way, hearing the truth. But again - how can we work on a problem we know nothing about? How can people take the time to process their emotions, and become their better selves without the full context? I don't think it's wrong to protect others, but I don't think it's wrong either to let the truth be heard.

[ kaveh looks at the screen carefully. he says, ] Have you spoken to Netzach and Yesod since, Don?
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[personal profile] yyds 2024-01-16 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
I think sometimes secrets are still necessary, even if they hurt others. Well, you just have to be willing to take that pain? It's like eating medicine that you don't like to get better.
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[personal profile] fussiest 2024-01-16 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ kaveh looks. he knows, he thinks, the rhythm of it. of all the falling-ins and falling-outs, it's the silence that steeps between him and alhaitham. but silence can mean many things. hurt and dismay, contemplation, the space needed to arrange your thoughts.

silence is not always an unknown terror.
]

This is between you, Netzach and Yesod. I shan't pry. But... from what I know of them, I am certain that they do not hate you for it, Don. Perhaps they simply need time to understand how they ought to feel it for themselves.
yyds: (pic#16810597)

[personal profile] yyds 2024-01-16 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ motherhood???? don?????? ]

Maybe you should stop being an honest woman, then? It seems like that will make it hurt less.

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