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Offline Rhi-Rhi

Please don't be crazy. [Aria!]
« on: September 02, 2011, 05:30:56 pm »
Grabbing a towel, Asher mopped the sweat from his brow and sighed, feeling pleasantly sore and stretched after a good, hard workout. There wasn't much else to do and Asher was filled with nervous, angry energy, so he burned it off running laps or lifting weights when he could. Besides, there wasn't much here he could control, but that was something he could control--how in shape he wanted to be, and even after three years of being altered and cut on, he still had his vanity.

Besides, one day he would be getting out of here. He didn't know when, but he would. And when that time came he needed to be fit and ready because it wasn't going to be easy.

He slung the towel over his shoulder when he was done and stepped back into the rec room to enjoy what time he had left. Cassius was out getting tests done or some shit, maybe getting laid by the Director--he stopped that train of thought before it got very far, shoulders tensing, and made an irritated sound. Whatever. Wasn't like he cared.

Scrubbing his hands through his hair, he paused when he saw that he wasn't alone, and squinted a little. Ah. Eos. The weird chick. Not that weird was unusual here where they were all pretty fucked up.

"Hey," he said as he walked over and flopped down into a chair.
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Re: Please don't be crazy. [Aria!]
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2011, 06:44:10 pm »
Eos sat on the couch in the rec room, staring into the thin air just above the couch cushion beside her. The testing of a caustic product that day had left chemical burns on her left arm- every once in awhile she would absentmindedly pull at the bandages that covered them, unable to assuage neither the pain nor itchiness that plagued her. Thankfully- that's how the scientists put it, thankfully they were also testing a in-trial chemical burn salve, and had slathered that on her arm at the end of the tests.

Which was, in itself, just another experiment- as for the next week they would unwrap her arm each day to record the effectiveness of the salve. If it was effective at all, as well as to log any unforseen side effects it may have. So they could work out the kinks.

"Stop trying to scratch your arm, you'll only irritate it."

"It itches..." She muttered to what was, seemingly, thin air. However, to Eos, it was not thin air at all. It was her best friend. There was a toaster sitting next to her. His name was Reginald. The household appliance had been a figment friend for years, since she was a small child. She used to carry around an actual toaster, but it had been left back on Aedolis. So her mind supplied the image for her these days, easily.

"You arm will most certainly fall off if you keep itching it. It will fall right off. Ker-plop. End of story. You will have no left arm. Do you want that? I think not, so do cease and desist." Eos looked scared at that prospect and dropped her hand. "I think you're lying to me..." At the same moment she said those words, someone had crossed the room to where she was seated. They said a greeting, and sat, both actions which didn't happen to consciously reach her in the moments that followed. Eos continued to stare into the space next to her, blue eyes just ever so slightly unfocused.

"Hark! Who goes there?!" The toaster suddenly piped. Eos frowned faintly, hand once more going to pull at the bandages now that Reginald was apparently distracted. "Who goes where...?" She muttered, head tilting. "Intruder alert, intruder alert!" The toaster continued to sound the alarm. "Stranger danger, stranger danger! Prepare thyself, sir!!" Eos blinked slowly, sighing at her friend. He was such an oddball sometimes. "I have no idea what you're talking about, Reginald..."
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Re: Please don't be crazy. [Aria!]
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2011, 07:09:20 pm »
Uhhhh...

Wow. Awkward.

Asher stared openly at the girl and one eyebrow slowly climbed. Reginald? He flicked a glance to the TV, saw it was turned off, and then gave another good look around the room in case he had missed someone. But nope, it was just the girl and himself and the room was empty beyond that. So that left only one possibility, really: he'd gotten stuck with one of the crazies today.

Which really wasn't that big of a deal; he was used to crazy. Surrounded by it, in fact, stuck in a world full of broken people--and he wasn't quite sure how sane he was himself. In fact, he questioned it daily, whether he was the crazy one and everyone else was normal...and it all lead to a crazy downward spiral of doubt and philosophy that his brain just couldn't handle. He was a simple guy and that was complicated shit.

"Er. I go here?" he offered, waving a hand to get her attention.
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Re: Please don't be crazy. [Aria!]
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2011, 07:26:27 pm »
"Quickly!! Man your battle stations!" Eos frowned at Reginald, simultaneously hearing another figment giggling quietly over her shoulder, and she turned to look. But it was just a shadow, and it slid away as quickly as it came.

"How odd." She turned back, and that was when the movements of a hand, quite close to her face, startled her. She gasped, flinching backwards into the couch. Then she stared, eyes caught by the motion. Reginald was still yelling about something or other, but Eos was distracted, by the fingers. All at once, the hand melted into a body, sitting in a chair by the couch. She blinked as it clicked in her mind, finally registering and slowly, she looked at the person. Male. Boy? Man. A man figment. Young man figment. A rude one, too, just thrusting his hand in her face like that. "Rude..."

"Vaguely familiar..." she muttered to herself, still staring at the young man. Probably just a friend who didn't visit often. Or maybe he was real. Who knew? She certainly didn't. Eos reached over, abandoning her useless attempts at scratched her arm, and pet Reginald to try and quiet his indignant yelling. Of course, to everyone else, she was petting the air. But to Eos, it quieted the voice in her head.
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Re: Please don't be crazy. [Aria!]
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2011, 07:41:25 pm »
Asher made a face. Rude? Him? Well, alright, so he was and was proud of it, dammit, but that was beside the point. Scowling, he let his hand drop back down to his lap.

"Uh, yeah. We're in the same wing," he said slowly, still eying her oddly--and unable to shake the unsettled feeling that washed over him. Whatever was wrong with her, that was exactly what he was terrified of becoming. More than the pain, more than the experiments, that freaked him the fuck out. And, despite himself, he felt the hairs all along the back of his neck raise on end when she started petting the air.

"I've seen ya around. Uh, I'm Asher and--the fuck are ya doin'? Stop that."
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Re: Please don't be crazy. [Aria!]
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2011, 08:00:42 pm »
Eos watched the expression on his face change, her own expression remaining unfazed. Sometimes she caught on to the social cues of other peoples emotions. Usually though, she didn't. Or the illness just stopped her from caring one way or another.

His words became jumbled somewhere along the way, like interference breaking up a radio broadcast. "Same... wing." Eos paused. "Birds have wings..." She watched his agitation with a blank face, completely oblivious to his discomfort. Vaguely, she thought to herself, Hush little baby, don't say a word... She finished aloud,"Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird."

His outburst caused her hand to pause in its petting motion, while beside her Reginald yelled,"Oi!! What was that?! You wanna say that to my face, punk?! HUH? C'MON SONNY, LETS RUMBLE. LETS TAKE THIS OUTSIDE." Eos turned her gaze away from the young man figment Ashy, to give Reginald an admonishing look. "Shush. Don't be rude."
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Re: Please don't be crazy. [Aria!]
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2011, 08:43:52 pm »
"Ooookaaaay, then," Asher said, still watching her with an expression that was caught somewhere between agitation and unease. This girl was obviously not on the same plane that he was on.

And he was stuck with her for now.

Nervously, he rubbed the back of his neck. Even after living here for years, he still wasn't sure how to interact with the nutjobs. Cassius he was used to, but he had shared a room with him since he'd gotten here and the kid sometimes had moments of lucidity. That, and his big issue was regression--but he still existed in the same reality.

Unlike this one.

"Uh...so...uh, who the fuck ya keep talkin' to?"
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Re: Please don't be crazy. [Aria!]
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2011, 11:27:24 am »
Eos turned her gaze from the seat next to her, to look at Asher. "Reginald. He's a toaster." Her answer was simple, and, as far as she was concerned, explained it all. Beside her,"As per usual, nobody can see me. Lucky for him, too, otherwise I'd wipe that look off his face and shove it up his scrawny-"

Eos tuned out her friend for a moment, and, just like that the toaster disappeared. It sometimes happened like that, the figments coming and going. For a second, she expected rude Ashton figment to be gone as well. But no, she realized after a few more moments of staring at him, he wasn't gone. Yet.

Maybe he's real, a voice whispered in her head. Maybe he is, she whispered back.
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