death_begins: (~~Is it bright where you are?)
Yuca Collabel ([personal profile] death_begins) wrote2010-09-18 11:19 pm

Thirty-second rebirth [Accidental Video]

[He's standing on the edge of a tall, tall building- the very lip of it- staring out into the distance. As if one slight breeze wouldn't knock him over and topple him to what would probably be his death.

Ys (not Yuca, Ys) takes a deep breath. Looks down toward the ground, lets the wind sway him where he stands. His eyes are hollow, dead. He looks like he's going to jump.

He's ten years old.



...but it wouldn't accomplish anything, would it? He would just come back. Come back in Adstring, come back in his world, it didn't particularly matter. It was absolutely and utterly futile. Trapped in this body, in his memories, a prisoner of life itself.

Still standing on that ledge, he looks to the sky and his tiny frame is wracked with a small sob.]


[[ooc: Due to canon update event, Yuca is now Ys, his future reincarnation. I'm a bit shaky with his voice, please forgive me D8]]
waterbends: (kind of surprised!)

[voice]

[personal profile] waterbends 2010-09-19 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey. Um, hello? Are you there?

[Have the slightly panicked voice of a girl coming through your PCD, Ys. She doesn't mean to be nosy -- okay, nevermind, she always means to be nosy -- but the way you're standing has disconcerted her a bit.]

[voice]

[identity profile] neverquitedies.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a long pause, almost too long, before-]

...I'm here.

[His voice is hoarse, broken.]

[video]

[identity profile] kill-joo-ded.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
...yo.
waterbends: (:/)

[voice]

[personal profile] waterbends 2010-09-19 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[Katara doesn't actually record the sigh of relief, but -- it's there.]

Please don't fall.

[video]

[identity profile] neverquitedies.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[His gaze turns slightly to the video (he doesn't really recognize Killua, but then again, they haven't spoken that much.]

Hm.

[voice]

[identity profile] neverquitedies.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Does it matter if I do?

[video]

[identity profile] kill-joo-ded.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's alright. Killua doesn't really recognize this kid. He has an idea, but that doesn't matter. The problem is what the kid's doing.]

That bad, huh?
waterbends: (neutral look)

[voice]

[personal profile] waterbends 2010-09-19 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
It would hurt. So - please don't.

[She'd be lecturing him about now, if she knew him any better, if he weren't standing on a ledge. Right now, she just thinks he's a depressed child.]

[video]

[identity profile] neverquitedies.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Something like that.

[He rubs at his eyes and takes a deep, gasping breath.]

Not that it would change anything.

[voice]

[identity profile] neverquitedies.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
It wouldn't hurt.

[He lets out a humorless laugh.]

At this height, it wouldn't- not for longer than a split second, anyway.
waterbends: (arms crossed)

[voice]

[personal profile] waterbends 2010-09-19 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
You can't be sure - and besides, it would hurt the people here who care about you.

Where are you staying? You need to get off that building.

[video]

[identity profile] kill-joo-ded.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Just screw you up worse. You and everybody you know too.

[voice]

[identity profile] neverquitedies.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
They're all dead.

[He sighs, like it's too much trouble to explain.]

She said it was my fault. It is, really. But you never really think about it, do you? [Quiet pause.] Death, I mean. It's always there, but we try to forget about it. Omnipresent. Like God, death is there.

[Another pause, and he sighs.] Like God, death isn't here.

[video]

[identity profile] neverquitedies.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[He closes his eyes, breathing in the air here, at the top of the building. It seems fresher up here, for some reason.]

It's nice to think about though.
waterbends: (sideways glance)

[voice]

[personal profile] waterbends 2010-09-19 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[There a minute's pause before Katara actually answers, though there are a few second-long, empty voice feeds, as if she's started recording and then abruptly decided to stop.]

If death isn't here, then you shouldn't go chasing it. Please come down off the building.

[video]

[identity profile] kill-joo-ded.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Not really. I'm getting pretty sick of it.

[voice]

[identity profile] neverquitedies.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[A little rustling of fabric.]

I'm sitting down. [On the ledge, but you can't win 'em all, Katara.] It's just such a nice day, I don't want to go inside. The sun is always too hot- but it's not terrible right now.
waterbends: (:/)

[voice]

[personal profile] waterbends 2010-09-19 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Better than TEETERING OVER IT oh god.]

I grew up near the south pole. Everything always feels too hot for me.

[She.. doesn't really have anything to talk about. She can't just, in good conscience, stop talking to him, though.]

[video]

[identity profile] neverquitedies.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd imagine you would.

[Not that he recognizes him, but- most regular humans do.]

I remember this place, you know.

[voice]

[identity profile] neverquitedies.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I've lived there once. Near enough, anyway.

[He takes a deep breath.]

It was cold, but I got used to it, after awhile. But it was quiet. Peaceful. I don't think places like that exist anymore.
waterbends: (Default)

[voice]

[personal profile] waterbends 2010-09-19 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe not in your world. But they do in mine.

[Oh, homesickness. She can't complain -- everyone else is likely just as homesick as she is.]

[voice]

[identity profile] neverquitedies.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Do they?

[Voice]

[identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't bother. It probably won't accomplish anything.

[video]

[identity profile] kill-joo-ded.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[He isn't exactly regular, but he's seen enough and killed enough to have a grasp on the fact that dying sucks.]

Yeah, so do I.

[video]

[identity profile] neverquitedies.livejournal.com 2010-09-19 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Slowly, slowly, Ys moves to sit down on the ledge.]

This is another event?

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