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 Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:44 pm
{{*dies and has left the building @ Draa and his dream* rofl rofl rofl Wouldn't that doll be safer with the person it's modeled after?! At this rate, that doll is seriously going to be the demise of Draa}}
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:47 pm
"Stop fussing about me so much..." Zephit felt her hands on his arms and pulled away. Why did she keep making such a fuss about him like he was a kid? Is that how she thought of him, as some kid that couldn't take care of himself?
"Why am I so..." He cupped his head in his hands, realizing he was getting frustrated for the wrong reasons. Amy was just trying to help him out, not make him feel useless. But he still felt useless, regardless.
"I-I'll be alright." Zephit laid back in the water, trying to just relax for a minute.
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:55 pm
Zephit "Stop fussing about me so much..." Zephit felt her hands on his arms and pulled away. Why did she keep making such a fuss about him like he was a kid? Is that how she thought of him, as some kid that couldn't take care of himself?
"Why am I so..." He cupped his head in his hands, realizing he was getting frustrated for the wrong reasons. Amy was just trying to help him out, not make him feel useless. But he still felt useless, regardless.
"I-I'll be alright." Zephit laid back in the water, trying to just relax for a minute. Amy pulled back slightly and frowned. Zephit asked her to help him get to the bath. Why was he getting upset with her? Then she saw him put his head in his hands and she sighed softly. "Zephit, it's hard to have to depend on people sometimes. I know that. It's still very hard for me to do it, and I've been here over a year. We're both very independent people, and it's difficult to ask for help. But if you think about it, if you need help and don't ask for it or accept it when it's offered... then that's just being dumb. That might sound harsh, but it's the truth. You're only hurting yourself." She sighed again and handed him a washcloth from the nearby drawer below the sink.
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:58 pm
Zephit [[Some things are awkward when someone is watching you do them, not when someone else is involved. Like sunbathing or getting your hair cut.]]
... and now we return to your regularly scheduled program. ninja *sees if he can keep his opinions to himself for the rest of the scene*}}
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 1:08 pm
"This is my mess, I should fix it myself." Zephit didn't bother nodding, he wasn't quite sure if that was a fact or not. If someone else was in trouble he would certainly help them. It made him think about Karrie though, as well. Was it better to deal with things alone if other people might get hurt? Zephit couldn't let himself put other people in danger.
"I appreciate you trying to watch out for me, but I won't be a burden anymore. I'll work harder on finding a place to stay for myself." He placed the washcloth over his face, holding it there to cool himself down a little. Was that him just now being so stubborn and trying to act cool? Amy was probably going to boil at that...
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 1:43 pm
{{ rolleyes Zephit asked Amy for her help in the bath and now he's rejecting her help and trying to make her feel bad. Tes is right. Your actions aren't making sense. Zephit is taking advantage of Amy's help and just getting upset at her all the time. Any other person would have slapped Zephit by now. The only person he seems to be treating with respect or kindness anymore is Liada. A person is only as nice and good as they treat others. He had no problem with accepting help in the past and this one thing happens and he's completely different? Others are going to start getting pissed at Zephit, not just Amy.
I think, though I don't want to put words in his mouth, so he can correct me if I'm wrong, Tes is trying to tell you that Zephit's choices and actions aren't making sense right now. It's hard to follow him. Yes, bad incident, but why would he be selectively choosing who he acts naive toward unless he was being somewhat deceptive?}}
Amy scowled and stood up. "You know what, Zephit? I have been trying to help you. You asked for help getting to the tub, taking a bath, and I have been trying to help. Now you're acting like you're too good to get help and I'm in the wrong for trying to. I asked you to stay here in order to help, and yet you leave all the time without a note or anything and then act like I'm insane for asking where you've been. Now you come back like this and you still act like I'm crazy or some kind of bad person for trying to get details and the help you. I don't let people take advantage of me Zephit, and you're starting to do just that."
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 2:19 pm
Did he ask for Amy to help him to the bathroom? Zephit remembered taking her support, but not particularly asking for it. It wasn't like he didn't appreciate what she did for him, but it was becoming too much. She obviously didn't understand at all how it felt to be useless to yourself. To feel like at any moment the people who were briefly your friends could permanently become your enemies. Was it so wrong for him to want to stop relying on her so much? It was a leap to trust any human at all, but to trust so many so quickly... Was it wrong to question and regret who he kept close?
"You don't make any sense." Zephit touched the etched scars on his chest. They were hardly visible at all now, as if someone had washed over them with some kind of miracle cure. The skin stayed sensitive, though, or was that just the way he was flickering? Somehow it brought him comfort to distract himself with a physical sensation. Like laying in the rain, focusing on the pain of losing his eye.
"I-I don't understand why you are so upset. Should I just let you do everything for me? Is that taking less advantage of you?"
[[Let me address this one step at a time. Zephit is hardly trying to make her feel bad. He was struggling with the idea of taking so much help from people before his incident, because he didn't think he deserved it. Considering his infatuation (very childish and rushed, certainly) with Liada, and his concern that she'd feel guilty, he did try his best in the last scene to brush her worries away. So far he hasn't interacted with anyone else since becoming coherent.
As for the second step, it hasn't changed him permanently for certain. Though I think his near-death experience is addling him pretty well, and making him uncertain of a lot of things. Even the kindest, most naive people put on their adult pants when they are shot, stabbed, robbed, etc.]]
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 2:36 pm
{{I guess we'll just have to wait and see how he interacts with others, then. Though either way, he might just look like he's being two faced with Liada and with others. It just might appear that way. But like I said, guess we'll have to wait and see.}}
Amy sighed and rubbed her temples. At one moment it was like Zephit was speaking like a grown man, but then the next, he acted naive and confused, and his actions spoke of that of a little child. She didn't know what to do anymore. She was starting to think Karrie was right. Dammit. He usually was... though she was still certain that him feeling like he needed to protect her was wrong.
Amy dropped her hands and looked at Zephit. "Zephit, I'm upset because you're giving off two different personalities. At one moment you seem like an adult who might be lying or taking advantage of someone, and the next you're acting confused. I don't know what to believe, Zephit, and that makes me nervous. I want to help you out. I want to help you get better, but it makes me nervous because I don't know if I can trust you or trust that what you tell me is the truth."
She knelt by the tub again. "Letting someone help you does not mean you're letting them do everything for you, and I think deep down you know that. You just don't want to accept help, but you ask for it because you physically can't take care of yourself right now."
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:11 pm
[[Amy's perception of reality is interesting. Since Zephit has only asked her for one favor recently, and she refused him bluntly.]]
"If you are nervous then you shouldn't trust me. You are right, I could be a dangerous person who is lying to you. Letting me stay here is a mistake." Zephit pulled himself up onto the edge of the tub, an amazing feat of strength to him. Then he let the water start draining out, intently watching it swirl down the drain. Why was Amy being like this? He barely asked for her help at all, and as far as he knew he always treated her the same. Except for when he frustrated him by being too pushy with her advice.
"I shouldn't trust someone who can't trust me, either. Let me get my things together and I'll leave you be. Sorry for making you nervous, Amy." Zephit didn't want to think about this nonsense anymore. Amy was becoming a headache to deal with, and he needed some fresh air. Did she really think he acted differently from time to time? Did he act differently? It was so hard to consider these things right now. It made it too hard to focus on the important things, like breathing and moving.
He let out a pained sigh a few moments after he stood up, and had to catch himself on the wall. Though after that he guided himself into the room he was borrowing slowly, and without further incident. Now he just had to get dressed in something.
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:36 pm
{{Honestly, I could be making a mistake right now, I don't know. I'm just trying to keep up with this sudden changing behavior, and I'm getting lost and confused on what to post. You have changed things so quickly and so suddenly that it makes it hard to respond to. I'm trying. But what favor was that? Tes even pointed out that Zephit did ask Amy for help with the bath.}}
{{And would you just let her take him to the hospital? This is getting ridiculous. He needs help. Don't turn this around like Amy is being unreasonable or different right now when you know that's not the case. It's been pointed out to you, so own up to it and either say in OoC you've decided to change your character or just go back to how it was. Amy has nothing to do with this.}}
Amy sighed and rolled her eyes. Maybe his moving out was a good thing. Karrie said she should be wary, and he didn't seem to like Zephit. Karrie got along with everybody. If he had a problem with Zephit, then there was probably a reason. She should have paid more attention. What happened to her street smarts? When had she allowed herself to let her pity for other creatures and people get the better of her than trusting her instincts and being more careful? She was surprised that Liada would want someone like that. She talked and acted like she was really strong.
Amy rolled her eyes again and followed Zephit out of the bathroom. "At least let me take you to the city to get some help. You can't find medical attention here, and you need it."
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 4:07 pm
[[Tes was actually referring to when they first moved in together, and Zephit asked her for help bathing -- a method of questioning why there was a sudden lack of boldness in having someone watch him bathe. So the incident he referred to was from like three weeks ago.
Anyway, I'll spoil it for you, but the way he is acting right now is a ploy to push Amy away from him. Both because she is frustrating him and because, in the long run, he thinks it will be better for her.
Also, it was you who established that a doctor came by and saw that Zephit's vitals were fine. They are fine, because he isn't suffering a physical ailment. He has already realized this himself.
I'm still playing the same character, just responding to new situations. His mood will shift under circumstance, and the current circumstance calls for him to be a little testy, I think. If I'm really so bad at this that I'm totally wrong, someone other than Cuwen please let me know.]]
Zephit got dressed into a simple outfit and started gathering the small amount of his other things into a bag. It was hard enough to get dressed while listening, but to talk, listen and get dressed would be impossible. So after he was done getting his things together, he turned to Amy with a small frown on his face.
"It isn't a flu or something, Amy. I can't just keep laying around until I get better. I've laid around for two days and I don't feel any better at all." Zephit stopped talking so he could focus on moving past her and back out of the room. He needed to figure out what these etching on his chest meant before they faded away completely. There was only one person to ask, really, however dangerous that was.
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 4:20 pm
{{I'm tired of arguing. You don't really seem to understand or listen to what I'm saying. *shrugs* I shouldn't have let it get this far in OoC, anyway. I knew better. It distracts from the story... no matter how confusing the story might be at the moment.}}
"Look, I'm not asking you to lie around and wait to get better. You obviously won't. That's why I'm saying let me take you to the city to find someone who can help Nekos possibly. I texted Kits awhile ago and asked what doctor she uses. This isn't the flu, you're right. You need your body examined. You probably have internal bleeding. Let me take you there."
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 4:42 pm
Zephit rested his head on the door, just as he was going to turn the knob and leave. Would she just leave him alone so he could focus on existing already? It was hard enough to do without having to focus on what she was saying. Though she brought up internal bleeding, which made him try and focus on his knowledge.
He was weak and his vision wasn't strong, symptoms of bleeding in the head. Though he had no external wounds to match such an assumption, and the pressure of blood on his brain would have killed him by now. It would have at least presented pain, in the very best case, and his insides didn't feel strained at all. Not those kinds of insides, anyway. Something more fundamental was out of order.
"It isn't physical. There is physical pain when I move, but... That isn't it... Just leave me alone, you can't help me." Zephit turned the knob and opened up the door slowly. His intent was to do it in a frustrated rush, but it was hard to balance and move quickly. It was amazing that he could even talk and escape, with the way that he felt. It felt just like it did that day in the alley, just waiting for death.
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 5:01 pm
Amy scowled. "You think you can handle yourself? Fine. I can't fault you for being like that since I used to be that way, too, and still kind of am."
She went into the hallway where Phoenix was watching all of them. She pointed to Zephit while looking at Phoenix. While she knew that Phoenix couldn't really understand her, she knew that the kitten loved being near Zephit. So he'd follow him for a time if he wasn't well. And he'd go find someone for help if Zephit collapsed. She had seen Phoenix do it when Zephit had been in bed the past few days.
"Follow Zephit, Phoenix. Go on."
Phoenix looked from Amy to Zephit and then trotted after Zephit through the door. She knew Phoenix would come back home after awhile. If not, she'd go find him.
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 5:19 pm
Icy Reign {{*dies and has left the building @ Draa and his dream* rofl rofl rofl Wouldn't that doll be safer with the person it's modeled after?! At this rate, that doll is seriously going to be the demise of Draa}} ((I was thinking that too... lol )) *while getting ready for her birthday dinner with Rod, Kits checked her phone and found the texts from Ryzan and Amy. She'd stop by Aqua Springs later tonight to pick the gift up, and meanwhile she'd reply to Amy* text from Kits to Amy Doctor? I haven't been to one in years. Haven't needed to.
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