Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2020-02-17 09:33 am
Entry tags:

Shrike's Heart (#1)

The woman before you is beautiful—fair of features, with lovely golden skin and luxurious long black hair, petite. You have the immediate and distinct impression that she's just let go of your hand, and she steps back, and smiles.

It's not quite a happy smile.

"I'm sorry," she says. "There's just nothing I can do, as things are. But the way is there; it just needs to be lit."

You open your mouth—maybe to say something, or to express confusion—but you have to cough, and taste something metallic, spattering black blood onto the ground in front of you. Then you realize—blood seeps from opening wounds in your arms, your chest, your stomach, your face. It rims your eyes and trails from your nose and you feel like you're dissolving—

—and you fall through the ground like it's the surface of a lake, and go down, down, down.

> Wake Up

Re: THE BARRACKS

[personal profile] handpuppets 2020-02-18 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ Unrolled, the unfinished letter reads, in an antique script you seem to nonetheless be able to read:

Dear Lark, I don't know how to find you again. I don't know why you'd put yourself in danger for me again.

I also wish I wasn't so weak as to only find a way to see the world is beautiful because of you. I wish I could see what everyone sees in it.

I wish I could have been who you needed from the start, but I guess that might have not been meant to be, either. I'm not sure I'll ever be as much as you deserve.


The letter is unsigned. ]
Edited (html why) 2020-02-18 05:13 (UTC)
jokesaboutrighthands: kochei on tumblr (045)

Re: THE BARRACKS

[personal profile] jokesaboutrighthands 2020-02-18 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[reading that upside down from across the desk, then lets out a 'i am so tired' breath and grabs a pen]

Alright. What the hell kind of memo do you leave inside someone's brain?

[he's not asking jason DIRECTLY, he phrases it as if talking to himself but.]
mind_blown: (It's nice to meet you sir)

Re: THE BARRACKS

[personal profile] mind_blown 2020-02-18 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
One you don't care if they get or not.

Or maybe something brutally honest they'll never remember.
jokesaboutrighthands: prismfruit @ tumblr (011)

Re: THE BARRACKS

[personal profile] jokesaboutrighthands 2020-02-18 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
To be brutally honest...

[sets his pen to paper and thinks a moment]

I have nothing but respect for the lady.
mind_blown: (Things are looking up)

Re: THE BARRACKS

[personal profile] mind_blown 2020-02-18 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not 100% on whose heart this is.

[timey-wimey, he hasn't been to his brother's heart yet.]

But Avante...

This feels like Shrike aesthetic.
jokesaboutrighthands: (024)

Re: THE BARRACKS

[personal profile] jokesaboutrighthands 2020-02-18 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
[nods once]

If I'm wrong about that... well, it won't actually matter any.

[his letter just says "You're doing fine."

he goes to sign it but pauses, having realized he doesn't know his fucking name, and then after a moment signs it 'Bat'.

he doesn't bother to hide it away or fold it up, it's hardly personal]
mind_blown: (Things are looking up)

Re: THE BARRACKS

[personal profile] mind_blown 2020-02-18 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[he considers for a moment.

welp.]

Ah, young love.

[he has no clue if this is young love or not.

but he does not want to be part of it.

time to look around the room, aside from the desk.]

Re: THE BARRACKS

[personal profile] handpuppets 2020-02-18 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ Most of the rest of the room is cots. The beds are made tidily; perfect corners and everything. On each cot but one is laid out a suit of white clothes—not a military uniform—with a lotus flower placed atop it.

The other guy seems to have set up a... tiny little shrine with a picture and a few items next to each?

Outside the window, night is falling. ]
mind_blown: (So you wanna start a war.)

Re: THE BARRACKS

[personal profile] mind_blown 2020-02-18 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
[honestly...

he's just gonna mess up the cots a little bit.

look like you live there.]

This place is so clean.

I hate it.

Re: THE BARRACKS

[personal profile] handpuppets 2020-02-18 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ you untuck those perfect military corners, like the renegade you are.

something makes you think someone makes her bed like this normally, too. ]
mind_blown: (All these broken backs... tragic.)

Re: THE BARRACKS

[personal profile] mind_blown 2020-02-18 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
[so

there are six people here, they can't all love making their beds.

but time to get a load of the military uniform.]

Re: THE BARRACKS

[personal profile] handpuppets 2020-02-18 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ the beds aren't laid out with uniforms, but rather a plain white garment; the top wraps across the front, and the pants fit loosely. it looks like either spa gear or some cultures' idea of a funeral garment. ]
mind_blown: (I try to make it through my life.)

Re: THE BARRACKS

[personal profile] mind_blown 2020-02-18 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
[this is... frustrating.]

Funerals the whole way down.

Re: THE BARRACKS

[personal profile] handpuppets 2020-02-18 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ funerals the whole way down.

well, except the one cot that doesn't have anything on it, apparently. ]
mind_blown: (Don't know who I am dancing with.)

Re: THE BARRACKS

[personal profile] mind_blown 2020-02-18 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
[honestly, what's up with that cot.

is what he'd say if not for beasts.]