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ELIJAH MAKO. 22. GEOKINESIS.

[elixmako]

faye-beckett‌.     

Faye smiled and nodded. She got up, shook CHs’ hand and thanked him. “Thank you, I am really grateful for all your help. I hope you have a lovely week.” She smiled and turned to leave. She pulled her sleeve on her sweater down and wiped her eyes a few more times before leaving. She wasn’t sure if Eli was going to want to talk to her after but Faye walked over to the desk and scheduled them another appointment for the following week, same time and day. She turned around and smiled at Eli. “Hey, I made us another appointment for next week. The same time and day okay?” She asked, adjusting her purse. 

“Same time, same place has been how it’s been going on for a while,” Eli pointed out, though he said it with a smile. “I’ll take a look at my schedule, and have my people get in touch with your people.” With a wink, the charade was done, and he rolled his own eyes. “Sounds good.” Over his shoulder, he waved at the man behind the desk. “See you later, Stef. – C’mon, Faye. Let’s get ice cream, or sugar, or something.”

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[elixmako]

lillicn.

“Shush, Eli… Schmli.” Perhaps she was as bad at rhyming as she was at remembering. However, the little blonde smiled at her friend, grateful for his company. “She’s just fine! A little bored, but that’s nothing unusual in this town. What about you, earthie? Got any gossip to entertain me with?”

Any gossip? Eli thought for a moment, wracking his brain of anything worth mention, but nothing really came up. “No gossip,” he said. “It’s Lake Grimstone. I saw like three couples break up at the cafe this week, and I also saw two people go from not knowing each other to fully putting their tongues down each other’s throats in the length it takes coffee to cool down.” Yup –– lots of time spent in the cafe this week. “I wish that was gossip, but it’s so commonplace by now,” he continued, now laying down next to Lillian, the tree answering his silent call, the branches shuddering into a position that shielded him better from the sun. “That’s pretty much it for me and the goings-on of the town,” he said. “Love starting, love dying, and in between, someone even managed to burn a batch of snickerdoodles.”

[elixmako]

aislinn-slade.

Aislinn laughed and nodded. “Alright. You ready?” She asked, raising her eyes at Eli, who was now laying down next to her on the grass. “One - everyone knows I’m in love with Gabe, two -  I started a new job where I get yelled at thirty times a day, three - all my classes are hard and I feel stupid, four - I got asked out on a date by a girl I hooked up with and I said yes.” She sighed to take a breath. “See, there’s a lot of problems up in here.” She stated, pointing to her head.  

“I only hear one problem in all of that,” Eli replied. “Number three. Because for one: it wasn’t a secret. Trust me: I know exactly how that feels. Two: that’s easy. Quit. Don’t pick up a job until you find something you actually like; it’s not like you need the money. And four: if you don’t like her, you’re allowed to change your mind. If you like her but don’t want to go out with her, let her know. Maybe she’s cool with it, maybe she’s not, but your problem is solved.” He leaned back on the heels of his palms, settling into a more comfortable position. “Now, for three. I’m kind of an idiot, but I figure that you’ve got control of this part. Put in the work. Like, really do it. Stuggle. Yell at the books some more. It’s now you put more in there.” At there, he tapped his temple. “Come on: give me more problems. I’m on a roll.”

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[elixmako]

lillicn.

“I’m sorry, were you talking to me?” Lillian said, looking up from the book, about gardening, she was currently reading. It was rare that someone would genuinely seek her out for company, so the small blonde could only assume that she had done something wrong. “I can move if you want. I’ll find another tree to sit under, if you want this space..” She continued, quietly. 

“Lil, chill,” Eli said, enjoying the dumb little rhyme of Lillian’s name as he sat down, wincing only slightly at old aches which had been showing their faces recently. “I just came over to hang out. I haven’t seen you for a while, you know? How’s my favorite petal-pusher?”

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[elixmako]

aislinn-slade.

She reached out and took the book back and placed it among her other stuff and sighed. “Sorry, Eli. I didn’t mean to hit you.” She shook her head. “I just didn’t think college would be this hard.” She shrugged and put her head in hands and groaned. “If you wanna sit and listen to me complain, I’m all for it. I have more issues than that stupid textbook too.” She replied. 

Eli fell down next to Aislinn gracelessly, collapsing into a pile of bones to her left. Hell –– he liked listening to other people’s problems; it satisfied the helper in him, and allowed him a respite from his own obstacles. “Lay it on me,” he said. “Every issue, rapid fire. I’ve got you.”

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[elixmako]

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[richard-madden-archived]

what a dork

[elixmako]

charlielastic.

“is there not? what about the ones keeping us in here? the ones stopping us from living a life we want to live instead of the life we’re forced to live.” charlie had always had plans to go travelling, see the world and honestly? be that person that parties hard in every damn place they went. it was hard for them, to think that maybe they would never get to see the seven wonders of the world, or travel across europe backpacking. “i’m not saying anyone here said any of that, or haven’t been great at those things. it’s not about that, eli, jesus. it’s about having the parade, having the march. it’s not going out and getting shitfaced that’s the important part, or do you not know anything about stonewall?” charlie had thought that maybe eli would understand, but perhaps they should have picked someone else. they had contemplated asking nicholas, but with a guard for a girlfriend it didn’t seem the greatest idea and they knew that even this would push dear theodore too far. “it’s hard to have a march by yourself, and the rainbow will look beautiful, it doesn’t need to educate. it just needs to be seen. oh, and comparing one non-binary persons experience to anothers? doesn’t mean shit. we all have very different experiences.”

The only thing Eli could think to say was the only stone wall I can think about right now is the one I’m talking to, and he, really not wanting to escalate the situation, bit his tongue. Hard. “Whatever, Charlie. Do what you gotta do. You say that you need to educate, then you say that this isn’t about educating. You say that you need it here because people don’t know how to use pronouns and stuff, and then you say that people are great here. I don’t care anymore. You said that we were gonna have some dumb fun, which was something that, honestly? I could use right now. But then we got here and you said, and I quote, that you wanted to stick it to the man. So whatever. You do you, because honestly? Dick move.” Eli waved a hand and started backing away. “We got bigger shit to deal with around here, Charlie.”

[elixmako]

charlielastic.

“you don’t need to tell me what it’s like out there for the community, when many don’t even include my identity in the damn acronym. i know what it’s like out there, and i know what it’s like in here. sure, people are more accepting but some still need EDUCATING. like, when someone asks you to call them by a certain name, or pronouns, you gotta try your best to remember that, right? and this shit about accepting trans but not accepting that you can identify as both or neither or something inbetween?” sure, no one had said that to charlie whilst they had been in grimstone, but they knew people would always be confused unless educated, even those who did think that they knew a lot about the LGBTQIA+ community. “it might be pointless to you, but it’s not to me and the fact that you think that it is proves my point even more. it might be pointless to you but to some of us? it’s the most important thing. to celebrate whether we already feel the place we’re celebrating in is accepting or not because some of us went through that shit you saw on the streets and now want to celebrate POSITIVELY. and it’s the fucking war that’s stupid, and this place is mostly stupid, not this. you don’t wanna join in, feel free to go be geo-force some place else but considering pride month was ignored, i’m bringing pride month to grimstone. besides… this place needs a little COLOUR.” after charlie’s little speech, they used their power to help them reach high with the aim to make the rainbow one that could be seen for miles. 

Eli rubbed his temple for a moment, shook his head, and shrugged. “Last time I checked, no one cared when Peyton asked to be called they. Everyone just did it. And who said you couldn’t be one or the other or neither or both? You’ve been here how long? Three, four years? Something like that? Go celebrate. No one is stopping you. My point was that there’s no man you have to stick it to. It’s not an act of rebellion in here. You’re not proving a point or educating by defacing the building, and you’re not doing something big and brave.” Eli sighed, hating the gross feeling that always cropped up when he felt angry. He didn’t like being irritated; he felt totally bamboozled when Charlie had asked if he wanted to do something fun, and then had brought him here to tag a building. Eli waved his hand, shaking his head. “Looks like you’ve got it under control,” he said. “Next time, tell someone that’s what you want to do instead of dragging me out here under false pretenses.”

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Man, I love that girl.

[elixmako]

aislinn-slade.

Aislinn just started taking classes at the college and they were hard, to say the least. While sitting in the park and trying to understand the statistics class, Aislinn rolled her eyes and thought about how much longer it would take her to understand the material. She closed her textbook and tried to throw it across the park. Tilting her head back, Aislinn groaned. She wasn’t sure where the textbook landed but hoped it was far away from her. She sighed loudly as she heard footsteps and didn’t open her eyes. “If I hit you, I didn’t mean it. But you can just leave the book and go.” 

There went the idea that training in the park would be peaceful. He’d had this crazy vision that he could head out to the park, and just… look like the sort of dirty guy who did a version of Tai Chi in the park. Then, the corner of a textbook managed to try to hamstring him. Eli picked it up, spotted Aislinn, and trotted over. “If you wanted my attention, you could have just asked, Ais,” he joked, sitting cross-legged next to her. “Wanna… I dunno. Talk about it, or something?”

[elixmako]

charlielastic.

“you don’t think pride is important? that we should be doing things in LG that we should be able to do out there? the place they’re keeping us from?” charlie asked as they looked over the other. “it’s not about just that. it’s a STATEMENT, eli.”

Eli blinked. “Honestly? No, I don’t think it’s that important around here,” he said. “I think that it’s a dumb statement when there’s no one around here who is, like…” Eli shrugged, his hands bobbing up and down as well. “I remember seeing some of the stuff when I was on the street,” he said. “That was a statement. Around here, no one cares if you’re LGBT. Like, fine if you are, fine if you aren’t. We’re in the middle of this civil war with people who think that it’s okay to put people in hospitals just to show off their powers. –– So, no. Painting a giant rainbow on the science building wasn’t what I was thinking when you asked if I wanted to help with something fun. This is pointless.”

[elixmako]

charlielastic.

“well, i’m doing it because if they’re not going to paint the town rainbow, i AM. i don’t know why you want to paint the town a different colour. thinking an earthy murial?”

“This is stupid,” Eli said. “I don’t even know why I came along in the first place. This place doesn’t need to be painted rainbow. We have bigger problems to worry about, don’t you think?”