buildstherobots: (a thousand dead friends can't stop me)
buildstherobots ([personal profile] buildstherobots) wrote2011-09-23 03:44 pm
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[67] life's a game we're meant to lose

[phone]

Fine. You people want to play that way?

Enjoy educating newcomers by yourselves. I'm done helping you.

[And, true to his word, he won't be handing out any more letters, at least for the moment. Explain what he's talking about? Why in the world would he do that? Obviously the actions of maybe three people is enough for him to throw a tantrum over the phone lines.]

[action]

[Anyone who might see Dist walking through the streets can see that he's an absolute wreck. Not emotionally -- his expression is uncharacteristically stony. It's his face that's busted up, bruised across his cheek and mouth and his left eye patched over. Well, the place where his left eye should be, but that's not exactly visible. It'd happened a couple of days ago, but that's not quite long enough to heal fully, so for now he's just combed his hair forward a bit in an attempt to cover it all up.

He does seem to have a destination in mind, though, as he's walking particularly quickly.]


[729 Anderson lane]

[KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK.]

[identity profile] myblimpisbigger.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
It is no longer your gun.

By which I mean, not only did you give it to me, but I have made enough improvements that your original design is all but lost. Thus it is more my work than yours by this point.

Besides, I assume you still have that excessive battle clank of yours?

[identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Excessive?! How dare--

[Dist dials it back just far enough to try and push past Klaus into the house.]

That's not the point! I just... I need it!

[He sounds more than a little bit distraught.]

[identity profile] myblimpisbigger.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
[WOW DIST

R U D E

Besides, Klaus is huge, you can't really move him. The pushing is kind of cute, though.]


For what?

[identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
What do you think I need a gun for?

[This is really frustrating okay. But he backs off, trying not to shake. Klaus you may have to deal with a meltdown here in a minute.]

[identity profile] myblimpisbigger.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Any number of things. Clearing densely-wooded areas. Mounting as a display piece. Shooting me once I give it to you because you are a man that enjoys holding grudges.

[Don't you still hate him for shooting you that one time? HE'S PRETTY SURE YOU DO, SINCE YOU'RE ALWAYS A WHINY BITCH LATELY.]

[identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay, the shaking is totally happening. Dist's whole posture shrinks and he draws his shoulders up, pressing his hand to the bandage over his eye.]

...Nevermind. I should have expected this. It's not even worth it any more. But it's not about you.

[identity profile] myblimpisbigger.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Oh? Then who is it about? The person who did this?

[He indicates Dist's current state.]

Do you mean to tell me in all these months, you haven't made any other useable weapons?

[identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
No. Not even him. I don't give a damn about him any more.

[Dist laughs, but it's hollow.]

Funny. I should have been. Instead, I spent the time helping other people. You know, like when I built you a gun and you turned on me. Why did I think I could come to you now?

[identity profile] myblimpisbigger.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
I did not turn on you. I was manipulated into madness by a third party. What I did was not voluntary, and it certainly had nothing to do with you. You simply happened to be the first person I happened to come into contact with.

[DIST HE HAS BEEN OVER THIS

Wait

Has he

Did they ever actually discuss this...]

[identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[No. No, they never did. Dist looks honestly shocked.]

That's...

...No. I don't believe you.

[identity profile] myblimpisbigger.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
Oh? And why not? Because I've displayed aggression towards you independent of that incident?

Oh. Wait.
Edited 2011-09-24 04:30 (UTC)

[identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
You haven't even spoken to me! Certainly not to explain yourself, or even apologize, which I'd say is something I deserve to have.

[identity profile] myblimpisbigger.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I assumed there was no point in doing so; your likelihood of believing me, as you have just demonstrated, was fairly slim then as well. And I fail to see how I should apologize for something that was hardly my fault.

[identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com 2011-09-25 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
...

[Dist turns around so Klaus can't see his face. How is he even supposed to deal with this? Very, very occasionally, he's introspective enough to recognize hypocritical things, like demanding an apology for things done when droned when he refuses to give them himself.]

Just... just shut up! I still died! I deserve s-something for that!

[Don't break. Don't.]

[identity profile] myblimpisbigger.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Surely I am was not the first, or the last, to kill you in this place. What do you want from me? Sympathy for what, here, constitutes a fact of life?

[NOPE]

1/2

[identity profile] myblimpisbigger.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
[... scuse me what]

[identity profile] myblimpisbigger.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
What does that have to do with this?

[identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
What the hell are you talking about? What doesn't it have to do with it?! If I can't count on the people I trust not to hurt me, what can I count on?

[identity profile] myblimpisbigger.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Given that I wasn't in my right mind, I hardly think that your trust or lack thereof towards me was a factor. I did not betray your trust because betrayal implies a knowing and malicious action.

Not to mention I had no idea that said trust even existed. Being someone's ally has nothing to do with trusting them.

[THIS IS NOW AWKWARD. Did Dist think there was more there than there was?

In a completely non-romantic way.

God dammit, Trek.]

[identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. So I'm learning.

You're a fellow mechanic. I gifted you a piece of my work. That, in turn, was used to murder me, in your own hands. You decided it was barely worth acknowledging, let alone taking how I might feel into account! "I'm sorry; I was under someone else's influence!" Is that too damned much to ask for?!

[identity profile] myblimpisbigger.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
You never asked in the first place!

[identity profile] myblimpisbigger.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
Because in a place where murder is par the course, apologizing for it would be wholly redundant. If you had wanted an apology, you could have asked for one and I would have provided it when the wound was still fresh. As it stands, this happened nearly a year ago and I see no reasons to cut old stitching, as it were.