War in the Water

I saved them, the girls I mean. I didn't get to be the hero without the wet work, though, and you need some spine to live down here. ---------------------- Indie RP for Jack of the Bioshock series. Willing to RP with selectives. I track the tag #rapturesparagon Please read my rules before interactions.

[rapturesparagon]

[[ Im not reading that ]]

[runxlittleone]

  Since we are on the topic,

lets talk about the ‘Jolly Rancher Story’.

Strangely the story left me feeling it between my teeth.

What about you Ty Dye, what did you feel?

[rapturesparagon]

[[ I nearly vomited at the desk that's what ]]

[runxlittleone]

I found my calling, Ty Dye.

Today is a good day.

[rapturesparagon]

[[ That's a hell of a calling, nato. But I'm glad you have something lol ]]

[kingofrapture]

How could he answer that question? Say that Jasmine Jolene hadn’t given two shits about the brat when she threw him away? That she just wanted a cheap abortion and Frank Fontaine had been only too willing to help?

Or tell Jack that he hadn’t even been alive before the transaction had been completed. That his whore of a mother had deemed him less valuable than the pittance that Tenenbaum tossed her for her troubles. That he had been a slave since the moment of his conception.

No matter what he said, the boy had been right. Ryan should have been there, he should have stopped her. If only he’d known…

"It wasn’t- It didn’t have anything to do with you. Your mother was selfish. She was nothing but a parasite." Somewhere, in the back of his mind, he understood that the two ideas contradicted one another, but things were no longer as black and white as they had once seemed. Especially now.

[rapturesparagon]

For several seconds, he allowed his thoughts to drift along his mind, mixing in with the words Ryan said to create a veritable storm of anger, uncertainty and pain in his head. He wanted to react. He wanted to do something.

Though in all his deciding, he couldn't find the answer. He simply stood in silence.

He had rehearsed this moment for so long, he nearly forgot what to say anymore without sounding as if it were scripted lines. He wanted to find answers, but now he found himself looking for a question to ask, anything at all other than looking like a pathetic fool.

Breathing in slowly, fingers wiped at the corners of his eyes to prevent waterworks from showing while he managed to collect and steady himself once more.

"Well if it wasn't that, then why. Why any of it? Why am I here? How do you expect me to feel about bein' forced into this whole damn mess?"

[rapturesparagon]

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[xenraptured]

           Several inches of reinforced glass is what separates them from a watery grave. Buried at sea——his words, spoken with the authority of a man resigned to a life without meaning, a man who’d been ready for the grave years ago.

                       “I never knew my family. Not until recently that is.”

               She places a hand against the cold surface of the glass, seeing only her reflection within the gloom.

                      “The people who I thought were my family were frauds. But my father——my real father. He tried. I’ll give him that.”

[rapturesparagon]

How much he could relate to such a thing.

He resented them both, his 'parents', finding more comfort in the fabricated ones that gave a sense of home and love.

'Son, you're special.'

Much better words to hear than 'greatest disappointment'. But she never displayed this much grief over such a thing.

"Oh. That's good that you got to see the real ones and be kinda happy about it. I uh...I mean yeah it's really good, right?"

[biioluminescent-deactivated2014]

"That sweater is a disaster."

[rapturesparagon]

"Well, why don't you try livin' in this dumb and keep a clean shirt, huh?"

[xenraptured]

               “It certainly sounds like a problem to me. If there’s one thing I’ve learned time and time again is that there’s no running away from your problems.”

[rapturesparagon]

"Well, there's no need to focus on it so much when all it does it make for a bad day. I don't like bad days and I think it's ridiculous to make myself go about having them for no reason."

[xenraptured]

             “Well, that’s your problem now isn’t it? Given how I’m no longer allowed to care. But trust me, mysteries like yours have a way of unravelling themselves eventually.”

[rapturesparagon]

"I don't unravel, and it's not a problem if I don't want it to be, so I won't need to think about it if I don't want to!"

[xenraptured]

                   ”What I ask is pertinent to understanding you. I have little desire in a travelling companion I know nothing about, but if you take issue with the matter then fine, no more questions.”

[rapturesparagon]

"I have issues with people tryin' to ask me things that I don't even understand anymore! How'm I supposed give an answer when I don't even know them for myself?"

[xenraptured]

            “Can’t honestly expect a girl to travel with you for this long without question.”

[rapturesparagon]

"Yeah well I think you ask too much for stuff I don't even know about. And my past...that's even worse."

[rapturesparagon]

"You know, I think you ask me too many questions. Too much pokin' at me. What are you tryin' to get at?"

[rapturesparagon]

[rapturesparagon]

"I miss hearing the rain, even if it was fake..."

[rapturesparagon]

Mother's Strife

[Recording begins]

All she does these days is sit at her desk and shuffle a couple a' papers around. Whenever she's not doing that, she paces around the rooms checking on the girls, asking them stuff, gettin' them snacks. It's kind of ...I dunno.

I remember before coming here, how she'd have a bunch of audio things around saying how bad she felt about doing all those test on them. Who would do something like that in the first place? Was this ADAM stuff really that great? Pfft....Yeah, looks like it was a real class act for this dump.

She might feel bad about those kids, but she doesn't really ever check on me like that or ask if I'm okay...I wonder why that is...

[Recording ends]

[rapturesparagon]

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