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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2014 3:00:35 GMT -5
- THE TROUBLED SEERESS - "Whoever said that I had my sanity in the first place?" she returns the question to him, looking at the ceiling of the library, a smirk tugging at the corners of her lips. "You and I are different, I can see it now. It'll be incredibly stupid of me to offer something that I don't even know about."
She twirls a lock of hair with her finger before tucking it in behind her ear. "What would I do? That's a completely different matter. Professor Grimp says that I am like water. And water, when trapped, makes a new path. Defies the odds and conquers the elements."
"That sounds fanciful but it isn't. The only thing I can tell you to do is to learn how to take everything slowly - not painfully slow, but moderate in a way. You make teaching sound like a theatrical presentation - maybe it is to you, but for the rest of us, it's one big tough job to crack."
"Touché." she snickers, then chuckles. "I've taught Alchemy and the other subjects for ages long before I landed a job here at my alma mater. Ever thought of making that brain have a rest?"
"Pretty sure you need it."Word Count: 202 words OOC: Shin of GS + Adox
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Post by SKYLAR OLIVER MONROE on Aug 5, 2014 3:26:08 GMT -5
Skylar listened to Nico but of course what stuck in his head the most was the way she described what someone said she was like.. He laughed a bit when she had finally finished and he pushed some of his own hair up behind his ear. To him it was sometimes like a little theatre presentation, not always, but sometimes it was. He had fun with his classes. More often than not they needed to be fast and exciting. He had wondered how people would look at him if they saw him in the midst of teaching a class. He was all over the place, Never standing still, always waving his arms around like he was conducting an orchestra. He wasn't exactly sure what to say to her now because he wanted to address the water bit she had brought up but he was slightly worried she might be offended by the way he would word things.
"You and i are very different. You have someones idea of what you are like and i certainly hope it is not water consider my idea of the liquid. I see you as someone who is intelligent and set in her ways. Someone who is not easily swayed and will defend what she believes in. I see water as a resource that the inhabitants of a planet use and use til they do not require it anymore. I see water as nothing more than something people simply cannot do without and given the chance they would use it to the last drop.. and as for sanity.. well lets just say that sanity and insanity are just opinions, shall we?" He smirked a bit as he looked her up and down.
"And perhaps i should teach things a bit slower. Let's say for the sake of conversation that i should. Skylar should take things slow. How does one go about doing something they view as impossible? " He asked his question and just as it seemed he would pause, He raised his hand and held up his index as if he was asking her to wait because he had something else to say.
"And how would one incapable of sleep give their brain a rest?" These weren't just random questions. He had asked them before to several others, especially when he was younger, and, He wasn't saying that he never slept, He was just saying that it was a rare thing. At the current moment he could have been up for three or four days, he couldn't exactly remember.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2014 3:47:36 GMT -5
- THE TROUBLED SEERESS - She shrugs rather easily at his definition. "Wit sharpens with age. Experience is a weapon gained at the beginning of realization." She's a little surprised his views were akin to the others whom she's encountered as a diplomat. It reminded her of the days spent settling and shortly afterwards, taking off. "People use everything to the last drop, uncaring of tomorrow."
"But there are a few who does think of it. The other minority belongs to those who fear that it will never come. Yes, I fight for what I believe in, especially when I know it is I who is in the right. Then again, how can you define these three: moral, immoral, and amoral? Does knowing society's expectations render you capable of judgement?"She smiles, remembering Grimp's lessons. "Think of it as: Figuratively speaking? Impossible. Literally? Totally possible."
"Do you know what they say? Sometimes, when a person sleeps and he wakes up feeling he hasn't slept at all, it must've been because his soul's traveled somewhere. Now I don't know about such things, but if you can't force that brain to be snapped shut, then you can't. Perhaps you can come up with a way to exhaust it."
"Like thinking of things over and over again - a loop."Word Count: 211 words OOC: Shin of GS + Adox
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Post by SKYLAR OLIVER MONROE on Aug 5, 2014 4:09:47 GMT -5
Skylar turned and slapped both hands down on the wooden table near him. It wasn't in anger, it was his way of expressing excitement and that was noticable in his smile as he turned back to her, standing with his right side to her now. "That is it, That's exactly it. Wit does sharpen with age, yes and experience is a weapon and people are uncaring of tomorrow, a thing that saddens me quite possibly more than anything else but intelligence is a far greater weapon than experience and the fact that those around us exhaust the resources provided by this good earth and move onward into the next day with no care for what they may or may not have the next morning is precisely why i feel as though i must give anything and everything i have, all the knowledge i posess and all of my time to what i teach, because, As time ticks on and days roll by, people use water, papers, trees, gasoline, animals and everything else they can get their hands on and they use it and use it and use it without ever trying or attempting to believe that these things could have a limit, that they could run out. That is why i love knowledge and i want to put as much into what i teach as possible, because knowledge is infinite.. there is no limit to what you can learn." He folded his arms over his chest as he paused. He thought for a moment and then continued.
" What is moral, amoral or even immoral is actually irrelevant because it is all opinion. It may be fact that murder is a bad thing and some may believe that while others can say they have the opinion that it is not actually a bad thing and instead it is a good thing. Some muggles believe its a good way to control population. The only thing that i know to be true is that knowledge is infinite and even that can be debated by someone who does not share my thoughts on the subject. Is it really even true that some things are moral or immoral, good or bad, wrong or right. There are those that believe killing an unborn child before a certain time is something that can be considered 'fine' and i do not share that opinion, but am i right? are they right?" He stopped there and leaned back against the table that was now behind him. He looked ahead at her and gave a small smile as he waited to see what she could possibly have to say in return.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2014 4:29:45 GMT -5
- THE TROUBLED SEERESS - "Mkay, slow down, take it easy." she makes a gesture with her hands that indicates he's been too loud. Skylar's gonna get her fired one of these days. She shushes him, then keenly looks for the signs of Vasilisa's hair, or her soft, even footsteps. When there was nothing, she turns to him to finely tune out her thoughts. He was going too fast, and it made Del's head spin trying to make sense out of what he's said. "We live in an opinionated world, a world that's ruled by rules man made himself."
"I don't really think I'm one of the few people you should be asking that. My opinions beg to differ somehow. We do not look at the persons themselves, but on the actions - but how can you see past the persona without having to conjure an opinion of your own?"
"This. We are raised to believe in many things. It's a system. The same way pureblooded families were said to have taught their children to mingle with the elite, and the muggleborns to have been scorned for forever. But sometimes we forget that the situation's not always like that. We have the tendency to allow our morals to not see the other side of the glass. We view one spectacle, and think that we all think the same, but no we don't."
"Take one, arrogant, pureblooded git, sit him next to a bookish muggleborn whom he's adored for life, and what do you expect you'll get? War. Probably. But that's just the first tale revealed to you. You'll never know what's bound to come after the epilogue." Word Count: 271 words OOC: Shin of GS + Adox
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Post by SKYLAR OLIVER MONROE on Aug 5, 2014 4:50:55 GMT -5
"I am of the opinion that we shouldnt not see each other differently and instead accept each other for who we are. We shouldnt try to make someone to be something they aren't. No one should have to change for anyone else but is that right? yes we are raised to believe things and most of the time we believe that the ways we are raised is the right way. Some blood purists are raised to be that way but they shouldnt hate anyone else for their blood and i do not believe whole heartedly that we do look at some based on actions, often times i have seen many judged and thought badly of simply based on the way they looked or many other things that had so little to do with action.. Perhaps its that i dont allow myself to be caught not seeing the other side of the glass, even though some may tell me that i should. While i may not agree with all opinions, i can understand them, for example, we do not all think the same, in fact a lot of us think very differently. Take you and i.. I doubt i could tell you of a time i have run across someone that i have disagreed with more." He paused briefly and took a deep breath. His hands went down into his pockets and he stood there for a moment.
"We do live in an opinionated world, quite obviously. Are you of the opinion that this is a good thing? would you rather live in this world the way it is or live in another, a whole other world where things could be different, where right and wrong was fact and nothing else. Would it be better if we all got along, if the purebloods and muggle borns didnt sometimes hate one another, if we didnt have fighting and murder. Would it be a better world to live in, one with much less choice and free will but also with much less pain and suffering.. would that be a better world?"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2014 7:39:26 GMT -5
- THE TROUBLED SEERESS - This time, she nods her head in approval. "Haven't the situations always been ironic?" she muses, biting on her lower lip, lost in thought. "In this war, I stand fiercely neutral on the sidelines and yet at the end of the day, you are still oblidged to follow a side.""I shall quote from a popular literary figure: 'If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, 'cause everything would be what it isn't. And what wouldn't be, would.' You see?""Such things would only exist in literature - in poems and stories and tales that you would behold. But they'll never come true, because our reality differs from that of fiction, and life is thicker than words could ever express. If everything went in reverse, do you suppose we'd have the peace authorities crave?"
"No, impossible. Pathetic. To hope for something as idealistic that...""It's like saying you'll be able to breathe underwater one of these days without a charm. Your poor, poor, pauvre coeur, crushed in high hopes. That's an ending better fitting for the storage of a book."Word Count: 189 words OOC: Shin of GS + Adox
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Post by SKYLAR OLIVER MONROE on Aug 5, 2014 8:02:06 GMT -5
Skylar had so many things he could say, so much that he could continue his constant ranting and rambling with but he wouldnt say much at all this time. He brought his hands up and used both to run a few strands of hair behind his ears. He adjusted his shirt and then bent over a bit. He reached into one of his brown leather boots and from it he pulled his wand, Or a wand rather. He held it up for a moment, remaining totally silent the whole time. After he was sure nico had seen it, he turned and placed it on the table and stepped to the side. His face was blank and expressionless. He raised his arm, his right one and he pointed to the wand with one index finger.
"Let us not choose between someone else's sides and instead make our own." He continued to point at the wand on the wooden surface. "Lets make our own side peacefully or forcefully if we must but let us not be obligated to choose between two parties." He paused briefly but then continued. "Let us build from the ground up and do so without harm but show those that would try and stop us the tip of our wands." He stopped there and grabbed the bottom of his wand. He picked it up from the table and looked it over briefly before turning it upside down and pressing the tip into the wooden table. He left it there for a moment before lifting it up again and giving it a swift movement. In a blue and white light a lion sprung from the tip of his wand and bounced around the space between shelves before finally vanishing into the air. Skylar said nothing else. He simply lowered his eyes and wand and didnt look back to nico.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2014 4:57:57 GMT -5
- THE TROUBLED SEERESS - 'Ah, there, the madman got pushed past his limits.' This fateful charade with Monroe has amused her so far - not in the same way it would delight her as with Hagrid, but in a way that he kept on coming up with conclusions Grimp could've assumed as well. He is an erratic boy, what with the constant twitching and shuffling that would've driven her mad had she not played along. To Del, it was like acting the role of a playmate rather than a colleague. When Skylar got serious, however, it made his irregular routine. One moment he seemed excitable and ready to burst through a wall, now he's offering to build an allegiance. It made the logical side of her mind harden, and fight against this idealistic vision. "What shall be our mission?" she asks him, testing if he was that determined. Man has the tendency to crawl upon new beginnings, devour it greedily firsthand, and yet tire of it at the end . "If we do not choose someone else's side, then wouldn't that mean we think of it all as child's play? It's not an easy joke to script Skylar." She calls him, for the first time, formally, by his name, indicating that she has indeed heard of him. "For a moment the horizon will steer clear of heavy clouds, but the next, heavy rains will fall and once again we would have to revert to our past and rely upon preconceptions.""Yes, let's build our own devotion. Let us allow it to stand on the foundations of what we believe in, and hope that it won't crumble into shambles come day it is challenged." she flicks her wand, and if a lion emerged from Skylar's, then a viper appears from hers. It slithers on the polished wood surface, before baring its fangs at Monroe venomously... Word Count: 308 words OOC: Skylar is delightfully mad He makes Del want to strangle him to his death Shin of GS + Adox
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Post by SKYLAR OLIVER MONROE on Aug 6, 2014 5:55:57 GMT -5
"Come rain or shine, hell or high water we remain a beacon of hope. All the misfits, all those that think they aren't understood or dont belong. Those are the first to come with us. We can give those that have wanted nothing but a place where they were understood and a family, just that. We can lead that, we can lead the new era of great wizards and witches into the future and a thousand years down the road, you never know, there could be a school somewhere that you and i built. Built on the very things that we saw missing from everywhere around us. Built from the very things that kept everywhere else from being perfect." he stopped there and knelt down. His thought process stopped for a moment. He went from kneeling to sitting and he just stared at Nico's patronus. It was like it took away all thought from him and just made him watch. That wasn't the case of course but it might look as though it was to a normal person.
"Let us believe" He said as he began again "that should the heavy rains fall upon us in the future.. we will act as water.. And water, when trapped, makes a new path. Defies the odds and conquers the elements." He said softly while still sitting on the floor with his legs folded.
He had intentions, that much was clear and while he was nervous looking and fidgety one moment and then completely serious the next, he never changed in his mind. Before a conversation ever started he knew how he wanted it to end, after that it was simply a matter of determining how he would reach the end with the other person on his side of things. Skylar sat there for a moment and only offered a quick glance up to Nico once before lowering his head. His face told that there were no lies in his words, no secrets behind his eyes, He did mean that this was the future he wanted.
"Let us build our own deovtion, let it stand on the foundations of what we believe in, Yes and if ever the day comes where we are challenged then before the end we will truly know how strongly we stand by our beliefs."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2014 5:50:53 GMT -5
- THE TROUBLED SEERESS - It stuns her how unrealistic Skylar’s goals are. She’s been there before. There’ll always be no place for them but the shadows. Sometimes it is the misfits themselves who decide to belong - and it is also the misunderstood that takes the right words into the wrong consideration. She got lucky with her fathers, but knew that others may have not really been. “That’s a huge Enlightenment you’re planning there.” She doesn’t notice the way he looks at her or even hear his thoughts beckon. She’s seen it once, this false barrier of hope. It’s not really one of the things that amuse her or anything. It just reminds her of the bloodshed, the horrifying screams, and the pain endured by the few who chose to descend down their proper paths. They can’t be hidden from their reflections that long - one thing leads to one another. This is what she’s dubbed ‘The Domino Effect’ - and until now she could still feel the shards of fallen, glistening hope turning to dust in her fingers. “A school…” she muses. “A place built from the very ashes that kept everyone from perfection, wherein one will be able to find his or herself, regardless of status, blood and heritage.” she smiles. She quite likes that idea. He quotes her and it sends her crashing right down to reality. Nicolaiza comes to a decision and that is when she looks at him once more. “Let a dream stay a dream lest it be broken. Let those who never bleed not understand.”
“Allow fear to have its reign until those who emerge from it - those who are to be called brave fools - be bearers of this, blessed light our peers so value.”
Word Count: 285 words OOC: Ara can't really think of how Del's supposed to respond xD
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Post by SKYLAR OLIVER MONROE on Aug 11, 2014 7:31:53 GMT -5
Skylar loved her words. He loved them more than those he found in his books, more than words he had heard from his own flesh and blood. It seemed so poetic to him. A world the way they described it was something that he ached for, something he desired more than anything else. When he truly took the time to think about it, nothing would be better or more peaceful, nothing would make him happier than a place like what they spoke of, nothing but a single thing and only he really knew what that was. His eyes fell on her again and they remained there. He looked at her with no intention of ever looking away again. "Perhaps it is us who should teach those around us to live without fear. Fear shouldn't exist among us when we are united. Perhaps we could even shape a new future without fear. A world where no one has to worry." His goals were truly unrealistic, that was no lie but it is what he wanted, at least some part of the interesting man wanted it.
"Would such a place not be perfect? Imagine walking through doors and into a place where your blood means nothing, your family name doesn't provoke curses underneath the breathes of others. Imagine living in a truly free world and know that it is something we can build." His eyes never came off of her. He stood up and leaned back against the table. His madness seemed to be gone, that is of course if you didn't consider his dreams of a different world to be madness. He took a deep breath and folded his arms over his chest.
"Think of a world without fear. no more worry of rejection, no more worrying about if you'll ever be good enough. No more sleepless nights.. wondering if the day will come when you get the news that the one you cared about the most met their end. I want to live in that world. I want to create it. It can no longer be a dream, it's been that way for far to long, lurking in the back of my mind. I do not possess the ability to go back and change what makes me desire this the most but i can ensure that no one else has to watch from afar as their world is torn asunder and shattered into a thousand irreplaceable pieces. My heart has been broken and nearly all my will removed but what little remains will be used to make things better for those that deserve it." He spoke without thinking, perhaps saying too much but he somehow managed to alter his words and keep what he meant from coming out completely.
He couldn't help but sigh as he thought about what he had just said. His eyes finally came from her and he lowered them straight to the floor. He stared at the space between them and said all he could think of. "Let us be brave fools." He spoke very softly, almost like he was saddened by having to say it. He said nothing more after that, he just remained silent.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 3:16:11 GMT -5
- THE TROUBLED SEERESS - He was beginning to make the darkness bridle within her in an unfavorable response. "Fear cannot be mastered," she turns in, "Nor slain, nor stowed away, nor locked in a box and kept stagnant for an amount of time. Courage cannot be taught by demonstration, nor by example. It is the person himself who must find it in him to be foolish enough to support a stance. Corruption is influential and underhanded. Innocence is a rare delicacy that could be savored but is easily thrown away. Unity is a dream not even butterflies could comprehend."
"Perfection is a demon in disguise. A coward won't dare come anywhere near a rose garden in fear of being pricked. A fool, however, would wonder what other wonders that garden could possibly hold, and thus wander far but fall into torment. It is truly better to close one's eyes forever and prolong that vision, but once the blinds snap shut and you are thrown right back into the harsh asphalt road, it ceases."
"We can pretend, but the moment it comes to an end, what about it? True, I'd like to build another universe separate from this one - a place wherein life is as sheltered as hidden gold. Where dreams would not halt the same way a Springtime illusion would. Where the dewdrops of the morning wouldn't vanish before my eyes."
"Wherein you can appreciate the nothingness of it all. Wherein a broken heart could be pieced, wherein a clockwork could be turned back."
"We can never make everything better but we can at least exhaust those dreams."
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Post by SKYLAR OLIVER MONROE on Aug 12, 2014 3:41:52 GMT -5
Skylar shoved back against the table and moved it a bit. He raised a hand and pointed a finger at Nico. "That's bullshit and you know it. He didn't yell it at her but he made sure to say it in a way that made it sound like he was mad. "Fear is an illusion and with time we can teach everyone how to pull the veil from over their eyes. We can always make the world a better place. If it's what we want. If it's what needs to be done. If two people... if people stick together they can do anything. One day this world will be different, better, and i for one don't want it to be a thousand years down the road. I want to live to see that day." He started to sound a little more selfish than mad but truth be told he was starting to get a bit irritated.
"I will lead us into that future and if i have to do it alone then i will. I will make things a better place for yo-- everyone." It was clear when he got upset because he spoke before he thought. he wasnt always good with making sure he said the right things when his feeling got the best of him. "and as foolish as it sounds maybe i plan to find a way to right wrongs. maybe i'll figure out a way to turn back time and fix things so that i wont be on the side lines." He did want a better world but he also wanted things for himself. Turning back time and switching things around just wasn't something he was capable of and he very much knew that but it didn't break his desire.
He took a deep breath leaned his head back. He seemed like he was thinking but the words that would fall from his lips next and the following expression would tell that he wasn't actually thinking at all. "How can i see someone so opposite me, someone responsible for pieces of a broken heart, someone who views things so very differently than i do.. as perfect?" He wasn't sure why of all words those found the end of his tongue. He froze a little just dropped his head.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 4:26:41 GMT -5
- THE TROUBLED SEERESS - It's the way his tone appeared to convict her that made her want to pull out her wand and hex him. She doesn't. Instead, she shoves at the table with an equal force - the mere wave of her hand sending it back to its proper position. His accusations brought back the demons from her past, and try as she might, the same memories of a particular somebody poisoned her mind at that moment. She stands from her seat, pushes the chair a little to align it with the others, and purposefully strolls over to him. Once there, she grabs the lapels of his coat angrily, and taps into his mind. What she couldn't deliver through her words she delivers through her visions. She shows him snippets of her life with Emil, then snippets of her life in Salem. Threads of her life scattered through - she intertwines them all and shows it to him, like a tragic film that's been directed. She shows him the girl she used to be, the girl who intruded upon their friendship years ago, who shattered it with her presence. She shows him what she saw of humanity - the nature of man that he had always so valiantly ignored, because he is Monroe, and Monroe always ignored what was set before him - and interprets the hidden agenda of everything. She shows him everything she wanted to show him, until her pupils get consumed by the whites and white lines appeared around her eyes, extending to her cheeks, like leafless, eerie branches, or scattered ink. When the little charade was done, she pushes him away, and distances herself from him, lowering her head. She was about to walk away from him when she stops, feeling the need to apologize, but not intending to. She gathers a response, but this time, she doesn't look at him nor raise her voice nor face him any longer. Instead, she acknowledges him with a slight turn. "You chose me. You could've chosen someone better, someone who would hold that heart for you forever, someone who would reciprocate your glances and not make you feel like you are being turned down. We are opposites, but you never were-"
She reduces the harshness and the clarity of her message: "But you're not the one I chose Skylar. No matter how much of an accomplished liar I am, I could never lie to you and your friends. I can't fix the gears of a heart whom I've torn apart myself. It wasn't my intention to ruin a friendship the three of you had, and believe me, I've spent years wondering why it was me whom you've picked."
"But I realize now. I can't pick up the pieces and be there for you. There's only one person whom I think of that way. Whom my heart bleeds for."
"And forgive my reality, but it isn't you at all."
Her feet pushed forward and she left him that day, closing the library doors softly behind her. Word Count: 500 words OOC: I don't want to give you any feels but now you made me! Shin of GS + Adox
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