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dilf quixote ([personal profile] icanfixer) wrote in [community profile] citynet2023-07-15 08:33 pm

@DONQUIXOT3, video

[ yes it has been some days. yes this is not the first time she's spoken to the network at large. this time, however, she is showing her face and standing quite proudly this morning in front of a parking lot. cars, empty of gas but otherwise whole, scatter the background. ]

Good morn, dear fellows! I have come to thee today to ask a favor, to grant thee an honor, and help this young knight with a missive most important to all!

[ a beat. she swings into frame an umbrella, popping open the apple printed "lance" with a laugh before closing it as she continues, easy-going like she isn't going to be talking about what she is.

unbeknownst to most, don quixote needs this. ]


Thou may have seen some days ago an anonymous message regarding murder. Well! I am here now, asking thee to assist me with something like it -- nay, the exact same! I would like to see for myself, and as proof of the effects for others, what happens when one dies.

I shall not fight thee, unless thou shall wish for it for I am most happy to oblige, and I shall take only one volunteer. Whomever has the daring, the will, and the capacity to kill, I ask that thee throw thy hand up and seek to claim my life! My dear friends need not apply, for I shall reject thee post-haste!

[ she is NOT letting a fellow sinner do it. not her coworkers. she's been fussed at and she's going to be fussed at again. she might let one of the other city-dwellers do it, given they're both fixers (or formerly) but not her coworkers, war vet be damned.

gregor couldn't do it the other time, after all. ]


However, allow me to lay bare the possibilities of what may happen to thee should thou take it upon thyself to do so.

There is a chance thou may forget that which is most precious to thee, that thou will forget the moment of my death itself, and face... certain difficulties in speaking about it. [ she doesn't know if kromer mentioned that, but it's something regardless. ] I may suffer the same. The goal of this is to learn if it is the victim who forgets, if it is the murderer who doth, or if both have it struck from their mind; the secondary goal, a more personal one, is to learn if both may suffer from the others I have mentioned.

... I understand it is difficult to think of killing another, but I can assure thee, such a thing comes up frequently in my work. We are ever prepared to do so, and to die just as well!

[ helps they don't stay dead but she's not. gonna. say that. it might be odd to wonder what effects who in this case, but. well. a lady keeps her secrets. ]

Any who wish to act as witness may attend as well, for we will have need of thee. I thank thee heartily for thy time and thy consideration on the matter.

[ a small bow, hand to her chest and umbrella tucked behind her, and that's that. ]
fussiest: (pic#16494261)

[personal profile] fussiest 2023-07-17 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ for the first time, the smile kaveh paints is one that's much like a line stricken from a book, the single sliver of something still-gleaming lifted from a waterlogged bog. ]

I like to draw.

[ he says, equally simply. ]

The glint of starlight off of an evening waterfall, an orange cat's dangling tail curled along a bakery's edge, seven studies of sconces in the Akademiya's halls. I'll draw anything that catches my fancy; once it has been translated onto the page through oils, charcoals and paints, it transforms from something that belonged to the world to something that belongs, at least for a brief moment, to me.

What's the favourite thing of yours that you've drawn? What did you do it with?
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[personal profile] fussiest 2023-07-19 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ kaveh:
kaveh: i've made a Mistake
]

Enemy?

[ enemy, kaveh's mind echoes. well, shroomkin were considered enemies to the general populace back in sumeru city. more nuisance than true danger, but they did tend to be somewhat of a ferocious force whenever it rained a little too much, and many people did enjoy drawing them. perhaps the round and squishy thing was particularly fluffy, like a riboshland tiger.

makes sense, kaveh thinks.
]

Well, with a promise like that, how can I not hold you to it? I'd love to see a recreation of that painting of yours. There's quite a bit more art to draw and friends to spend time with when you come back, you know that right?