#nokturnas

[bithand]

( before the devil breaks you // accepting ) KARAAS [ @nokturnas ] WROTE: ❝Rules exist for a reason. Even within disobedience, we need order.❞

VAUQUELIN TOOK A FULL THREE steps back just so he could better look Karaas in the eye. The almost forty-five degree angle he'd bent himself back into brought his baffled expression into full light, exaggerated by his heavy makeup. Hands on his hips, too. He'd learned that stance from a tough-as-nails matron back in Halamshiral. He didn't realize he was mimicking her, but she'd left such a strong impression he'd always carry the memory regardless of whether he realized it.

He let the weight of it sit on Karaas for a good while before replying. ❝That makes no fucking sense.❞ But, he was going to argue it anyway. He had to. It would bother him too much if he didn't.

❝Fine, rules exist for a reason, but say that reason's shit.❞ As far as he was concerned, it near-always was. His tone gave that away. ❝What's the point of disobeying if you're just gonna make more shit rules? Shit is shit no matter who's on the pot. I mean, you can't cure stupid, but you don't have to smear it on the walls.❞

[vipier-a]

          TRISTAN’S INVOLVEMENT IN ANYTHING IS A BIT OF A GAMBLE FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO EMPLOY HIM THROUGH ANY MEANS.       his immense skills counter his unpredictability  -  but all of it comes with a risk, with at cost, and he refuses to compromise, to make himself  lesser  or  more palatable.  she’s a strange foil to him, upright and   VISIBLY   confident, where he practically stinks of the chaos in which he operates.   ❝   I told you that I was  trouble,   ❞   he says airily with a wave of his hand.  he’d done as he promised ;  his methods were simply  ...   UNEXPECTED.   ❝   you know that I’m  no good.   ❞

@nokturnas​  ( kleya )  sent  🎧  for a   lyric starter   !!

[riverising-archive]

@nokturnas sent:  that doesn’t mean anything to you, i’m sorry. / cass from bodhi!

cass shakes his head, looking over to where bodhi was perched in the pilots seat. he had been putting together a rifle, a new one, and he wanted to learn it inside and out before he needed to use that. “explain it to me, you’ve nothing to apologize for.” he might not understand what the other man was saying, and he won’t pretend he did, but he’s willing to listen and learn.

standing from where he’d been working, cassian walked towards bodhi, placing himself carefully in the seat beside him. a bit like he’s trying to keep bodhi from getting more nervous, he’s seen that type of behavior before. the apologizing, the nervousness.

“tell me, i want to know.”

[riverising-archive]

@nokturnas sent:  i try to guess your trajectory and end up telling my own story. / bix @ cassian ​

he can’t do anything but nod at that for a second, just a moment in time where he sits in silence and lets those words settle on his skin, figures out what she’s trying to say to him. it could mean a thousand things, and despite how long they’ve known each other, despite the hours they’ve spent together, and the dreams they shared, he does not know her mind inside and out. and he certainly doesn’t now, after what she went through in the hotel on rix road. whatever he had known about her is changed, for both of them. 

in the end he settles on a reading, and settles down beside her too, letting his knee bump her’s but doesn’t touch her in any other way. she isn’t made of glass, he knows that, but he still feels compelled to be careful with her. he doesn’t want to stain her further than he already has. 

“bix,” he trails off for just a moment, unsure how to say what he thinking, unsure if she wants to hear it. “we have a different path, but whichever way yours leads you i will find you again. if you want to join the rebellion i will find a way to make that happen, if you want to find a place to settle down i will help you there.” it’s a promise in his voice, convection that he hadn’t had for so long in his life. but he has it now. for so, so many things. “just tell me what i can do.”

[gask1ll]

5 for Javier / @nokturnas [man's world by MARINA]

SHE   HAS   GOTTEN   TIRED   OF   THIS,   Grimshaw   working   her   to   the   bone,   some   of   the   men   looking   at   her   as   if   she   is   a   prize   to   be   won,   the   fact   she   was  STUCK   there,   needing   PERMISSION   to   leave   the   camp.   And   poor   Javier   had   sat   next   to   her,   soon   to   become   a   victim   to   her   complaining.   Mary-Beth   does   it   gently,   expressing   the   frustration   that   she   was   experiencing.   It   was   tough   being   a   woman   in   this   world,   and   she   was   not   going   to   be   quiet   about   it   for   much   longer.

"   If   you   have   a   mother,   daughter   or   a   friend,   maybe   it   is   time--   time   you   comprehend   the   world   that   you   live   in   ain't   the   same   one   as   them.   So   don't   punish   me   for   not   being   a   man,   "   she   says,   talking   generally,   though   angrily.   It   wasn't   Javier's   fault,   but   she   doubts   that   he   had   taken   notice   of   her   discontent.   

[doomdays]

@nokturnas said,  ↳ “i need to make my life count. it’s all i can do. it’s all any of us can do.”

aaron understands the sentiment — he's always believed it himself, and he's always worked to make sure his life counted,  not just for himself,  but for everyone around him.  maybe it’s easier to see that success in other people than to understand you’ve already fulfilled it yourself,  because he looks at tommy,  and he sees a man who’s done nothing but make his life count.  

he brings his hand up, resting it gently on his friend’s shoulder, a warm smile spreading over his lips.  ❝  you already have, ❞  he says, without hesitation, without doubt.  ❝  and you’ll keep making it count.  i know you will. ❞   he’s right, though, because aaron has never been good at sitting back and doing nothing;  he’s always looking forward, trying to figure out what more he can do, but he already sees that in tommy,  too.  ❝  you’ve got a lot of people here backing you up.  and i’m always going to be one of them.  ❞