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savetheearth2014-04-16 09:33 pm
amajin) wrote in savetheearth2014-04-16 09:33 pm
I want to break free, but will they break me?
Who: Jin + Yoko Aznable; Beet J. Stag.
When: April 12th, Evening
Where: The Aznable Home
What: Jin's finally echoed back his 14 years of imprisonment in hyperspace, and the reason why his body is still so young. It explains a lot, but it's not a pleasant explanation.
It took him the better part of a day to even comprehend what the echo really meant. Darkly, in the deep well of his heart, he understood immediately. But his brain was full of denial, as always. The denial heaped upon the denial that his past self had, and he managed to function for a few days after the echo without any real trouble. He just ignored it.
But for the first time since the alien trio's broadcast, he's not busy. His higher-ups had told him to stop staying late for work to deal with their charitable work in the aftermath of the Wise Snake battle. So he went home, and he'd just been... sitting there.
"Jin," murmurs his phone. He switched the J app to auto after he found out J had numbers all of a sudden, and was complaining to the network about how lonely he was. "Jin, you have not moved for several minutes. Are you ill, Jin?"
"Go away, J," he says. "I just... I'm fine."
"No you are not."
He groans. "I gotta tell Yoko."
"I can tell her, tell me what to say."
"NO. No. This is the kind of thing I've got to tell her, I mean. Look, I'm just going to... sit here and think until she gets home, all right? Don't... don't get too weirded out. I'm thinking." He sighs and leans wearily forward onto the kitchen table.
J chitters quietly in thought. "Very well," he says, and then lapses into silence.
When: April 12th, Evening
Where: The Aznable Home
What: Jin's finally echoed back his 14 years of imprisonment in hyperspace, and the reason why his body is still so young. It explains a lot, but it's not a pleasant explanation.
It took him the better part of a day to even comprehend what the echo really meant. Darkly, in the deep well of his heart, he understood immediately. But his brain was full of denial, as always. The denial heaped upon the denial that his past self had, and he managed to function for a few days after the echo without any real trouble. He just ignored it.
But for the first time since the alien trio's broadcast, he's not busy. His higher-ups had told him to stop staying late for work to deal with their charitable work in the aftermath of the Wise Snake battle. So he went home, and he'd just been... sitting there.
"Jin," murmurs his phone. He switched the J app to auto after he found out J had numbers all of a sudden, and was complaining to the network about how lonely he was. "Jin, you have not moved for several minutes. Are you ill, Jin?"
"Go away, J," he says. "I just... I'm fine."
"No you are not."
He groans. "I gotta tell Yoko."
"I can tell her, tell me what to say."
"NO. No. This is the kind of thing I've got to tell her, I mean. Look, I'm just going to... sit here and think until she gets home, all right? Don't... don't get too weirded out. I'm thinking." He sighs and leans wearily forward onto the kitchen table.
J chitters quietly in thought. "Very well," he says, and then lapses into silence.
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"You had plenty to live for last time too," she says, her voice half-muffled. "You just didn't have the chance to get to it." Her hug tightens, and she's silent for a long moment. Eventually, she pulls back, and tugs her phone out of her back pocket. She settles it on her palm to navigate the menus, and then tucks it between her arm and her chest.
"There's your hug, J," she says, "Dad, you really should build him something I can hug! Phones are too tough."
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He listens to her murmuring with a frustrated frown. He knows she's right. But he also knows that the past version of him wasn't just cut off from his family by the walls that separate universes. He was also separated by his feelings of inadequacy. That's not something that she really needs to know, though. He sighs into her hair as she pulls away.
J can, of course, not feel the hug. He breathes a sigh through his speakers. "Thank you, Yoko. I will give a better one back when I have a body."
Jin puts his fingers to his lips. "Ehhh, I don't really know what I could build that would be huggable. But I can brainstorm."
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J's sighing gets him picked up and poked at. "I'm holding you to that!" What she remembers of J makes her think hugging him might not be totally comfortable, but they'd make do.
"Put him in a pillow," she says, "oh! Oh, like a pillow pet." She imagines a stag beetle pillow pet with a speaker, idly.
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J lets out a cicada's cry. "I promise!!"
Jin chuckles. "I don't know if I have the sewing skills for that, but we'll see what I can come up with given some time." Maybe he would commission the plush from someone else. He would like it if J was... able to get his body back soon. Other than building all these robots being kind of inconvenient, he kind of needs J to transform.
my face is in my hands
"He's probably going to look up and be a robot one day just as soon as you come up with something," she muses. "From the frying pan into the fire."