contempsi: ({why me})
Hope Estheim ([personal profile] contempsi) wrote2011-03-30 03:49 pm

003 || {Video or Action}

[Hope's life has certainly been thrown into turmoil over the past few weeks, and there's certainly more to come. Now that Lightning's returned, and seems to have gathered her strength... he admittedly can't take his mind off his own problems at hand. He saw her brand—but what's to become of his?

His days, too, are numbered.

After a slumber fraught with nightmares, the boy awakens to find a more urgent, pressing problem at hand.
]



[Somehow, by the grace of whatever deity is over this place, he finally manages to open the journal by his bed and paw his way into a video broadcast.

The screen is filled with a fluffy white puppy face.
]

RUFF!

Um... w-what's going on!? Am I dreaming!?? Someone help! Lightning? Aerith?!

[Later on that day, he can be found sulking outdoors in the grass by the pathway that separates Community House #4 from the other residential homes, head on his curly fluffy paws.

He can, in fact, be understood if anyone attempts to converse with him. Translations are in italics.
]

Are italics translated?

[identity profile] gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com 2011-03-30 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww! [ She seems to... not... immediately notice the distress here. 8|a ]

Woops, forgot to mention that! They are.

[identity profile] contempsi.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Aerith... help me!

[He gives off a whine and paws pathetically at the screen, which does nothing except give a great close-up of the little pads underneath.]

\o/

[identity profile] gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[...Oh, okay, whoever this is isn't happy. Aerith... skips over the question of who they are (because seriously, dog, how can she tell) puzzling it out in her mind as she focuses more on helping.]

Don't panic, okay? Everything will be all right.

Re: \o/

[identity profile] contempsi.livejournal.com 2011-04-01 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
No it won't!

[Okay, so that might be a little melodramatic. But he's a DOG. And he has no OPPOSABLE THUMBS. And there's white fur all over his bed!]

Why did this have to happen to me?

[He turns his head then, and a scratching can be heard at his door... followed by an excited bark. Yup, Baldr can smell his buddy through the door, and he's absolutely thrilled that they can now play on the same level.

Hope, however, is not.
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Edited 2011-04-01 14:27 (UTC)

[identity profile] gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com 2011-04-03 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Wait, that sounds like Baldr. Which leaves two options of who he'd be so close to.] Oh, Hope! I thought it sounded like you. [What does that even mean Aerith.] ... Looks like there's an experiment, and you weren't so lucky.

[identity profile] contempsi.livejournal.com 2011-04-03 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's the angst and drama, isn't it. Just say it.]

An experiment? Are you serious?

[A puff of breath not unlike a sigh.]

Great... just great. How long is it supposed to last?

[identity profile] gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com 2011-04-03 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[They don't sound like Light, that's for sure.]

A week. But you might change back before that. Cross your fingers! --Paws.

Do you need help? Is Light up there? [Leeeet's start moving upstairs, just in case.]

Sorry for the lateness. LJ kept going down whenever I had a chance to tag. ;-;

[identity profile] contempsi.livejournal.com 2011-04-08 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure she is... but... I don't know if I want her to see me like this. Or anyone ever. [Ignoring the fact that you broadcasted your state over the video feature in everyone's journals, Hope.

Still, he can tell she's already moving, so there's really no arguing it. Instead, he stares down fruitlessly at his paws when she tells him to cross them.
]

I can't even do that. I can't pick up anything, either. How can anyone even function like this?

[Sulk, sulk.]

[identity profile] gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com 2011-04-09 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Hope, it's Lightning. She's not going to make fun of you. And she'd worry if she didn't see you.

As for how you function, well... Baldr does it just fine, doesn't he?

[identity profile] contempsi.livejournal.com 2011-04-09 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
But Baldr's always like this... it's not like he's aware he's supposed to be something else. Because he's not.

[Hope lies down with his head on his paws. This whole thing is so crazy.]

[identity profile] gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com 2011-04-10 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
[A soft sigh, because Hope, you are switching tracks on her. Or maybe just on a one-way train to Angstville.]

Looks like we need a distraction~

[identity profile] contempsi.livejournal.com 2011-04-10 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe... [A huff of breath not unlike a sigh. How can he possibly be distracted from something this huge, though?]

[identity profile] gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com 2011-04-10 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
We could play a game! [...She should not be considering "fetch" just for the indignant reaction AND YET...]

[identity profile] contempsi.livejournal.com 2011-04-12 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Is Aerith about to troll him!? Because she totally should.]

What kind of game... [Somewhere between mournfully and sulkily.]

[identity profile] gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com 2011-04-12 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I have a ball around here somewhere...

[identity profile] contempsi.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
. . .

I don't want to play with a stupid ball. I'm not a real dog. [A momentary pause there.] Maybe if Baldr plays too. I can teach him how to play kickball or something.

[identity profile] gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com 2011-04-20 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
See? You're already coming up with ideas.