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greyerrant ([personal profile] greyerrant) wrote in [community profile] destinystrings2013-03-03 05:23 pm

The silent wolf is a hurt wolf.

Who: Garviel and you
Where: Aquarius ward, Later Saggitarius ward
Summary: Garviel works with Day care, and is generally hugenormous. Later on, he gets mistreated by the citizens of Hinoto-Ri
Warnings: Introspection

Within a day care in Aquarius ward, an 8 foot tall giant, in roughly-made white clothes and still scarred from battle, white and pink markings all over his face, livid and clear is functioning as a sort of human jungle gym. Children climb his legs and are lifted up in his arms, as the warrior serves humanity in quite a different way from his normal warlike work. He fusses over the children as they scamper away, or try to play games with him, his expression always somewhat distant, grey eyes very unreadable even as he gently makes sure everyone is safe and well cared for, sometimes carrying one, two, or even three children in his arms at one time to make sure they are safe and don't run off from the day care. He doesn't react poorly to having blocks thrown at him, or little children crawling all over him, he just faces it with the same stoicism that he faced everything else, from monster to the great daemon Nyarlathotep. It is all to the same to Loken.

Later on, he arms and armors himself once more, and walks in the Sagittarius district, seemingly looking for something even in his wargear, as if stalking a ghost of some sort. Where the children of Hinoto-Ri accept their huge protector and playmate without fear or resentment, this is not the case for the adults, hurrying away in terror of the war-machine, or pelting him with stones, or whatever else they have at him. Whispered words of "monsters", other similar comments are snapped at him, and he trudges on in a silent patrol, a vigil no-one cares about as he prepares to hunt demons. He walks on through it all, his shoulders slightly hunched forward as if in a storm, completely immune to anything they can manage with blade or gun, but hurt somewhat by their words. He has always wondered if he is monster or man, and these other men, these people he has chosen to protect, for whom he struggles to be pure, to keep his honor intact, have rejected him.
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[personal profile] likescats 2013-03-04 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
YOU DON'T MIND?

[He's just curious because that seems strange. Also he's pretty sure he knows you from Mayfield, but apparently people don't have memories all the time, so this information is kept to himself.]
likescats: (QUITE ASTONISHING REALLY)

[personal profile] likescats 2013-03-04 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
YOU COULD OF COURSE ASK THEM TO STOP.
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[personal profile] likescats 2013-03-04 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[He nods. Now that is something he knows all too well.]

I BELIEVE THAT IS WHAT YOU WOULD REFER TO AS, HUMAN NATURE. THEY TEND TO FEAR THINGS THAT ARE DIFFERENT, OR THINGS THEY DO NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND.
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[personal profile] likescats 2013-03-04 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Death looks back, empty eye sockets with pinpricks of blue light barely visible in the darkness.]

QUITE TRUE. I AM DEATH, FROM THE DISCWORLD.
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[personal profile] likescats 2013-03-04 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
IF I KNEW WHAT IT WAS, IT MIGHT MEAN SOMETHING, BUT I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, SO I SUPPOSE THE ANSWER IS NO.

[He's not really sure why you're asking about signs and numbers, but you're not one of his people so he doubts very much if he would know]

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU?
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[personal profile] likescats 2013-03-04 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
NO, I RATHER LACK THE FLESH FOR THAT.

[He doesn't seem very disturbed by the conversation, he's Death after all. You get more then a few people who'd like to destroy you in his line of work.]

AND I TEND NOT TO GET INVOLVED IN FIGHTING. I AM MERELY WHAT HAPPENS AFTER.
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[personal profile] likescats 2013-03-07 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT. PERHAPS YOU HAVE SIMPLY NOT MET YOUR WORLDS VERSION OF DEATH. UNLESS YOU ARE DEAD, IT'S UNLIKELY YOU WOULD HAVE.
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[personal profile] likescats 2013-03-13 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
REJECTED YOU?
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[personal profile] likescats 2013-03-15 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
ACTUALLY THAT IS QUITE COMMON.

DEATH REJECTS NO ONE. IT SIMPLY MEANS IT WAS NOT TRULY YOUR TIME YET.
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[personal profile] likescats 2013-03-24 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's always awkward running into someone who is looking forward to meeting him in his line of work.]

RETIREMENT IS NOT AN OPTION I TAKE IT?