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Alisha "Friggin watch me" Diphda ([personal profile] princessantly) wrote2016-03-04 10:18 pm
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Week 3; Friday Night; Faize Sheifa Beleth

[ This isn't like her-- rather, this sort of antsy, sadness-dampened anxiety is fitting for neither a princess nor a knight, and Alisha has told herself this sternly more than once as she's tried to relax both mind and body enough to rest for the night.

But, for the eighth time in a row, it isn't working, and she finally decides that maybe she's going about this the wrong way. Maybe she shouldn't try to shove it all down on her own. She'd fared better with company this week; maybe that would help?

After an additional moment of going through her options - Selena had already dealt with her tears yesterday, Gilbert didn't sleep enough as it was, she'd rather not alarm Papyrus or Undyne - she makes her decision.

And that is why Faize, should he answer the knock at his door, will find a princess in a nightgown, hair unbound and looking both melancholy and apologetic. ]


My apologies, for disturbing your rest...
symbologic: wearing my glasses and lab coat, while having an actual scientific conversation? (gaze ☄ Is it weird that I wanna have sex)

[personal profile] symbologic 2016-03-05 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Pajama party, pajama party--! Wait, no, this is serious. It's amazing the difference the lack of a motive makes when it comes to time taken to answer the door though. Hardly any wait at all. Though it does look a little surprised to see her.]

...It's alright. I'm not sure you could even call it a disturbance, since I'd yet to fall asleep. [Though, honestly, Alisha could probably get away with it even if he HAD fallen asleep.] What is it you need?

[Because obviously everything is not okay, so he's not even going to waste his breath on that question. And she obviously needs him for SOMETHING, otherwise she wouldn't be here.]
symbologic: call you to say I was swimming in outer space. (shock ☄ Please tell me that I didn't)

[personal profile] symbologic 2016-03-05 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Well at least he will wait patiently for her answer. Confusedly, too, but...mostly patiently. It's not like he has anywhere to be right now. His schedule at the moment is basically > sleep > wake up > trial. And it's not like he's really looking forward to any of those things, mostly because of the last one..]

[Then she starts crying.]


Alisha!? Alisha, what is it? What's wrong?

[Is it the dead bodies...it's probably the dead bodies. Or maybe the motive is having some lingering after effects? His hands sort of hover in the air like he's debating putting them on her shoulders. Should he do that or is that a bad move? What is the protocol for crying girls? He has no clue.]
symbologic: are too close to aligning to risk this tonight. (unsure ☄ The bad decision stars)

[personal profile] symbologic 2016-03-05 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[He knows many girls and yet somehow this issue has not once come up. How has this issue never come up. TIME TO SINK OR SWIM.]

I-It's alright. [Well, no, it's clearly not alright, but it's alright that she's crying? It's not something she has to apologize for, even if he has no idea what to do about it.] Here come sit down for a moment...

[If she'll let him, he'll attempt to gently steer her into his room. Probably a little forward, but better than just letting her stand out in the hallway and cry, right?]
symbologic: Though that might be because we followed them into an aliens and astronauts party. (unsure ☄ There was tinfoil everywhere.)

[personal profile] symbologic 2016-03-05 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yes, at least Faize is neither dead nor a suspect. That's a plus. But here just...have a seat on one of the beds. Faize, meanwhile will disappear briefly into the bathroom for a box of tissues. Those seem like a good idea.]

[If she happens to look around she'll find that his room is neat and tidy. Really the only thing of note is a small collection of unopened liquor bottles and general store snacks over by the TV. Tokens from Bill's visit on Tuesday.]

[He offers her the tissues when he makes his way back over to the bed. He doesn't sit down though, since he's really not sure if that's the best course of action at the moment. So awkward, concerned hovering it is.]
symbologic: wearing my glasses and lab coat, while having an actual scientific conversation? (gaze ☄ Is it weird that I wanna have sex)

[personal profile] symbologic 2016-03-05 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
It's alright. [He places the box of tissues on the bedside table.] It hasn't been an easy week for most of us and...what we found this morning can hardly be called pleasant.

[Seriously, couldn't we have had like...a stabbing interlude between blunt force trauma and graphic evisceration? Kind of work our way up to the gross stuff?]

Or is it...something else that has caused you such distress?

[Bad dream maybe?]
symbologic: I just auto-tuned and remixed today's western civ lecture (happy ☄ I took boredom to a new level.)

[personal profile] symbologic 2016-03-05 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
You are...hardly the only one who cannot rid themselves of the image. What happened was...excessively cruel. And I fear that learning the truth will only make it seem moreso in retrospect.

[He's still stuck on the part where the two of them likely fought one another, possibly while BOTH were drugged. There's only one thing he can think of to explain that, and he really doesn't like the sound of it.]

Perhaps by a knight's standards, it is a lack of discipline. Truly, I would not know, as I know little of knighthood. But...what I do know for certain is that this is proof of a compassionate heart. And such a trait cannot be frowned upon.

And besides, I would not say you are completely lacking in discipline. Disturbed though you were, you still took the time to examine Youko did you not?
symbologic: that I laminated my history notes so I can study in the shower. (neutral ☄ I just wanted to let you know)

[personal profile] symbologic 2016-03-05 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
And I am grateful for that. [One body was bad enough.] Though I would not have held it against you if you had.

[Just as he doesn't hold it against Hinata for needing to leave. It is what it is.]

Is there anything I can do to help you take your mind off it? Difficult though it may be to do otherwise, dwelling on the murders before all the evidence is accounted for will not do you as much good as a night's rest.
symbologic: I just auto-tuned and remixed today's western civ lecture (happy ☄ I took boredom to a new level.)

[personal profile] symbologic 2016-03-06 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
[He offers a small smile.]

I can do that.

[He takes a seat on the opposite bed.]

I'd offer you a legend in exchange for the one you shared with me the other day, but I'm afraid my people have very few legends we still cling to. And the ones we do do not make for much of a story. So...
symbologic: That way it's like an intellectual glory hole. (happy ☄ Do it through the bookshelves.)

[personal profile] symbologic 2016-03-06 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Alright. Well...I'm not sure I would call my life on Eldar itself all that interesting. I was raised and educated in the care of our government, and it wasn't until recently that I finally left our solar system to aid in planetary exploration efforts in a more direct way. Beyond designing spacecraft, I mean.

[Just thinking about this is enough to make his eyes light up a little in excitement. He's really passionate about space travel, it's the best thing. Let him go back to space.]

Though my time working alongside my spacefaring brethren did not last nearly as long as I'd always hoped. Whilst in the middle of routine investigations, our crew was called to aid our Earthling allies, who had crashed on a nearby planet. Their first attempt at planetary exploration had not gone quite as smoothly as they'd hoped. [He chuckles in a fond sort of way. It happens to the best of us, sometimes you just kinda fuck up and crash into a planet.] In a rather surprising, but fortunate turn of events, I was reassigned to a composite team with two Earthlings, Edge and Reimi. And the three of us were sent out to continue both our people's planetary exploration efforts while our comrades stayed behind on Aeos to explore the planet and repair the damage done to the rest of Earth's ships.
symbologic: That way it's like an intellectual glory hole. (happy ☄ Do it through the bookshelves.)

[personal profile] symbologic 2016-03-07 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Don't feel bad, Alisha. You are hardly the first person he's tried to explain all this futuristic bullshit to, only to have his excitement be the only thing that the other person understands. Hinata could sympathize with you, if he were here.]

[But as is, Faize just seems to get even more excited. He is just really fucking passionate about this, apparently.]


Indeed, it truly is! It's been a long-standing dream of mine, I suppose you could say. And to finally have the chance to live it is truly nothing short of amazing. And my companions have only made it all the moreso.
symbologic: showed up today. He's on vacation for the next week. Bacchus and I are installing Windows 98 on it. (happy ☄ My coworker's new computer)

look....i got there eventually......

[personal profile] symbologic 2016-03-07 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I have learned quite a bit already. Yet Edge is a man with much to teach, and I am not even half the man he is yet. So I still have a ways to go.

[Hero worship, it seems, is yet another thing that Faize has absolutely no middle ground on. Either there is none at all, or it's above and beyond.]
symbologic: I figured that out 45 minutes into my exam. (shock ☄ It wasn't a normal cookie.)

[personal profile] symbologic 2016-03-07 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Only in Faize's mind is he impressive. He's a good guy and all but really. Edge himself would be the first to tell you he's not all that impressive. As he has told Faize on...multiple...occasions...]

[And yet...]


Of course! I look forward to the day that I can finally stand on equal ground with him. Though...I am worried for him, admittedly. He cares deeply for others, and for his planet, and shortly before I found myself here, that kindness and trust was taken advantage of. I have no doubt he will recover from such a blow, but it seems that it will take time. And it pains me to know that I cannot support him when he needs it most.

[He trails off, before looking suddenly shocked. Like he only just realized what he said.]

Ah! My apologies, we are supposed to be speaking of brighter subjects. I should have kept that to myself, please forget that I mentioned it.

[Has he been bottling up all of his feelings these past three we-- yes.]
symbologic: for a cooking show and then proceeded to throw cookies at people. (unsure ☄ Apparently I had an idea for a)

[personal profile] symbologic 2016-03-08 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, of...course. [Not keeping your problems to yourself? That sounds fake, but okay. Despite having both feelings and friends, the process of combining the two to get "tell your friends about your problems" has always been beyond him.] It just seems...somewhat pointless to speak of problems neither of us are in any position to do something about. We have enough to deal with here, as it is.

However, I must admit...I do find you one of the easiest to talk to here.
symbologic: I just auto-tuned and remixed today's western civ lecture (happy ☄ I took boredom to a new level.)

[personal profile] symbologic 2016-03-09 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Well I do feel oddly...relieved, to have spoken about it. As though some of the weight has lifted. So perhaps there is some merit to your method after all.

[He shakes his head.]

But still, I would prefer not to discuss it further at the moment. With the trial looming before us, you have more than enough to worry about tonight. We all do. And I'm not certain such a discussion would help either of us sleep any better tonight.
symbologic: I just auto-tuned and remixed today's western civ lecture (happy ☄ I took boredom to a new level.)

[personal profile] symbologic 2016-03-09 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ugh. It's not helping him sleep, no, but not in a bad way? He just wants to stay up and keep talking to her.]

You are welcome, of course. I was made with two perfectly functioning ears, it would be a shame not to be able to put them to use listening. And as you said...we are friends, yes? It would be rude not to extend the same courtesy of listening to your troubles.
symbologic: as everyone else. All things considered, I'm leaving here three-to-five times richer than when I arrived. (happy ☄ Twice as smart & half as drunk)

[personal profile] symbologic 2016-03-09 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Because space elves. Or something. Seriously, who knows. It's just the way Eldarians are.]

I am glad to hear that. [Especially given his designation. His shame....... He's pure, he swears. See how perfectly safe it is to come to his bedroom at night?] And I hope that it will be enough for you to rest easy once you have returned to your room.

[He'd offer to let her stay since there are two beds and all, but that would be 2forward.]
symbologic: We got drunk and threw a sword through his windshield. (happy ☄ You should have been there.)

[personal profile] symbologic 2016-03-09 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ugh, he's trying. He's just really, really bad at the making a move part. He's even worse at the making a move before the girl dies part.]

[But he'll move towards the door to let her out.]


And you as well, Alisha.