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 Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:33 pm
(Sorry, dinnit know what to name it. Suggestions welcome. xp )Lita Rutherford Neri of Tinros Evi took Kalli into her arms, smiling warmly at Mirala. "Go on, Mira, Eli and I can take care of everything here."Mirala nodded, still not understanding why Coal had ben blushing so much. She wondered if there was actually some truth to what Kalli had said, that he liked her... He was pretty cute, now that she thought about it... Not paying much attention to where she was going as she walked after Coal, she had soon lost track of him. Finally looking at her surroundings, she sighed. "Oh, great! Coal could be anywhere by now!" She crossed her arms in annoyance. "Good job, Mira! Well, might as well go back to Evi and the others..." I hate my internet...accually just the fact my step-dad won't fix my internet... stare So i'll be scarce Neri, sorry. ^^; Kalli smiled and looked at Evi. "Mira Stupid doesn't listen well does she?" she asked.Coal glared at his reflection in the water of the little stream he sat by. He was so....Well he didn't know what this mood was. Pissed, embaressed, confused, and just over all feeling like crap. He looked at his reflection and looked about for some moss or somthing he could use as a wash cloth to try and get this soot off. Yes, Coal had gotten into one of his moods. He wanted the soot off. He hated it. He looked dirty. He snorted. "Dirty and looking after three kids, oh yeah Coal your SUCH a great taur." He said a bit loudly as he started to attempt to scrub the soot off. But he knew it was useless. He'd always be a soot covered taur. His skin turned red under the soot as he continued to uslessly scrub.Neri of Tinros Emily_Kinny ((Oi, sorry about disappearing so suddenly last night. My internet died and I couldn't get it back up e____e )) "Oh, this is Talshan. Jamia spotted him in the river and I jumped in and got him before he drowned. Talshan was Jamia's name for him." Synn smiled and ruffled her hair. She smiled back up at him happily.
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:29 pm
"O-okay." Jamia mumbled, throwing Synn a scared glance as she stumbled after Rey. Synn smiled and nodded, and she turned back to the other taur shyly. At least she was good at picking things off bushes. She and Synn did it daily to get food.
Synn turned back to Mirala. "Really? I didn't know she...she had a real brother." Not that that was a surprise. He didn't know much about Evi. "I'm sure he has his reasons for being cross. I've met plenty of mean taurs. I'm sure he will lighten up eventually." Synn smiled and draped the now wet cloth over his back to dry, and then shifting Talshan, who was now fast asleep, in his arms.
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:00 pm
((I wish you would put the previous posts of this rp & the page numbers these were all on, Neri, but whatever. XD Thanks for allowing me to join, guys. Sorry I took so long. RL issues.))
"You are, you know," a voice called to Coal from nowhere. "You're greater than you think." However, its tone wasn't one of praise; it was of pure envy. And what was more, it was familiar.
"But hey, I'll gladly trade places with you any day, so just point the way and I'll go back to wherever you came from pretending to be you, Coal."
A second sooty centaur stood on the opposite side of the stream, sulking, his arms crossed, watching Coal with narrowed, bright blue eyes. Under one arm was tucked a small, crudely-made bow just the right size for a child. It looked somewhat awkward being held by the older teen.
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:17 pm
Coal didn't even look up. "Go away Lyco." He said, no anger or annoyence in his voice. "I'm sick and tired off dealing with you." He looked up now, his eyes cold. "I'm sick and tired of having you copy me, i'm sick and tired of being dirty, i'm sick and tried of you showing up at the worst possible moment." He glared at him. "So go the heck away, i'm not in the mood."
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:25 pm
((Be back soon, Lita. Sorry, Aunt unexpectedly taking me to the mall. I'll reply asap! I'm SO SORRY! gonk It won't be too long!))
"Go away?" Lyco frowned, unsure of what to do. "But..." He hadn't expected this. After being used to so much attention all his life, he found it hard to understand that someone actually didn't want him around. Even Leila enjoyed his company, even if it was only to hunt him down. But for the first time Lycoris was being told he wasn't wanted.
Of course, being told to go away for the first time wasn't enough for him. He didn't really believe Coal could reject his company so easily. The truth was, he really wanted to talk to Coal, even if Coal didn't want to talk to him. The look in the dark centaur's eyes froze the zebrataur where he stood. Still, he had to try.
Sighing, he dropped his crossed arms to his sides, still clutching the child's bow. "Look, Coal. Sorry if this isn't such a good time, but it isn't for me either. I've been looking for Wasibru around for days. She hates me because I'm covered in soot, but I need to give her back her bow." He held it up. "She's probaly defenceless without it. And I'm really worried."
Shaking his head, he looked down at the water at his own reflection. "I mean...she can probably take care of herself...but I'm jealous of her because of it. You and Wasibru...you're like my idols. And I'm sure you already know that, but what I mean to say is we got off on the wrong hoof and I'm sorry. Can't we start over?"
He took a step toward his 'rival', his sapphire hoof revealed as the soot washed off of it in the cold stream.
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:46 pm
(Ooooh, conflict. ;D Sorry Tymiko, I dun know the pages. It's kinda spread out throughout the thread. >_>; )
She grinned. "I hope you're right." Glancing at the cloth, she asked, "Isn't that cold on your back? I can take that for you, if you'd like."
"Yay!" Reyamet exclaimed, glad that Jamia was helping. He now considered her his new friend, although he really never thought about if she even wanted to be his friend. "Eron, Siam, Kalli? Wanna help too?" he asked, wanting his other friends to join in as well. Kalli wasn't technically his friend, but he still wanted to be hers, even if she did call him a freak. Besides, she was Eron's and Siam's sister too, and probably felt lonely at the place Evi had set her down when hugging Synn.
Seeing Rey stuffing his face with as many berries as he could grab, Evi took what she held to Kalli. "Here you go, sweetie! Or would you like to go over there with the others? Jamia's around your age I think, maybe you could make a new friend!"
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:31 pm
Kalli, Eron, and Siam all hung back, eyeing the unknown taurs wearly. Even with her bold nature, Kalli wasn't certain. She was little, and had yet to really meet alot of those she didnt' know. Truth be told she felt comfortable around Evi and Mira, and even Rey, cause Coal seemed comfortable. Even if he was a stupid boy, he was a good way to gage if somthing was ok. But he wasn't here now. She shook her head and saw both Eron and Siam mimick her. "No thank you." she said to Evi.
Eron was stickign close to Kalli and Siam, smiling but no making any attempt to talk. Coal wasn't here and tho he liked Evi and Mira and Rey...Coal was the one he trusted.
Siam had sat down, staring at the others with fright. He was the farthest back, watching them, almost on the verge of tears. He was scared.
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:58 pm
"Got off on the wrong hoof. Oh yeah. sure. tramatizing me as a child really is that simple." He snorted. "Wasibru is probubly fine, she's strong." he shruged. "And yeah, oh yeah, Idol...yeah just what i want to be. an idol to a freak." He rolled his eyes. "oh but your not a freak because your colorful. Oh no, your a freak because you obbsesse over trying to be diffrent. I might not liek how i look but i don't think of it every second of every day. Oncei n a while i try and see if i can get the soot off. But i know i can't, and i accept that. But you....you try and be diffrent, try and be somone else, jsut because you got teased? grow up. You know somthing, we coudl have vary well been friends, Easily. But you screwed that up the moment you started to change yourself."
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:57 pm
((Lita, do you think it would be a terrible idea to stick Fritzi in here to comfort the little ones? I know if he were here, he'd be dying to. Or, at the very least, Matteo would enjoy easing their worries. XD))
At this accusation, Lycoris actually pouted. "Hey, how was I supposed to know you'd be scared of me? You're the only one who ever has been, you weirdo! I mean...I've never met anyone like you before." He softened, avoiding Coal's gaze and staring down at his hooves near the water's edge instead.
He opened his mouth to retort in response to Coal's 'freak' reference, but before he could, the dark taur had rolled his eyes and continued. Lyco's mouth failed to close; so shocked was he to hear what Coal had to say about him being a freak. He couldn't believe the guy would be so brutally blunt about everything. Then again...he was relieved at last to know Coal's opinion about him. And loathe as he was to admit it, the original sooty taur had made some points.
It was a while after Coal had finished speaking that he summoned the urge to reply. In that awkward silence, he absently waded into the shallow stream, trailing his long tail and sooty hooves in the water until before he knew it they were wet and the ash had washed off.
"Jeez...you really are in a bad mood today, aren't you?" he murmured softly, not bothering to ask why. It was obvious that if Coal wanted him to know, he would have been told by now. Finally, the sooty zerataur crossed the stream a short distance away from Coal and slowly approached him, shaking his tail free of the excess water. He was nearly free of all soot and ash and dirt, save for the some he had rubbed on his face and in his hair to hide the bright blue markings and hair roots.
Taking a deep breath, he exhaled, pausing to stand beside Coal. "It's not my choice to think about it," he muttered almost inaudiably. "But what else do I have to think about? What a failure I am at everything I try? How much I can't stand any of the girls I've met for one reason or another? How I've got no real friends? What do you think about Coal? I bet your soot doesn't cause you half the problems my stripes cause me!"
Placing his wet hands on his torso, he regarded his fellow centaur closely. "You're the one who keeps whining because I tried to be your friend once. We were both younger then, and I admit it, I was freaked out, but teenagers are liable to do that, aren't they? Why can't you grow up and forget what happened between us then?"
Shaking his head, Lyco ran a hand through his hair, only to realize he still had soot in it. With a deep sigh, he knelt beside Coal and bent his head so he could rinse it out. However, he still seemed oblivious to the fact that the soot was still smeared across his face.
"If you know you can't get it off," Lyco continued as he rinsed his hair, "How come I watched you try to do it again just now? You were turning red, I swear; you were trying so hard. So what right have you to tell me I should be happy with who and what I am?"
With a bitter laugh, Lycoris grinned crookedly at Coal's last statement. "You know, Coal...you and I are the same. No matter how you look at it, that's how it is. We both can't let go of the past, and we're both trying to be what we're not. So let's face it, shall we? And what do you mean we 'could' have been friends? That mean we have no chance of starting over?"
He inclined his head toward his peer, close enough so he could speak into his ear. "I won't worry if you won't. But see, thing is I already know - you'll never stop worrying about your appearance. Soot or stripes, I doubt either of us will ever learn to live with it."
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:14 pm
((XD lol I don't mind who you wanna add, lol. more the merrier.))
"I think about alot of things, Lyco. And no real friends? Thats your fault. You whine and moan and your not somone that is pleasent to be around. I tell people i think i'm a loser but i don't whine about it. Then i get told i'm not a loser, and i get friends. I dont' worry about what people in the past have thought of me, i don't think about what i think of me. If somone new judges me one way, then so be it. I move on, get a new friend. And yes, my soot...it bothers me somtimes...but you want to know why? because there is somone i've met and she's extreamly nice and tho i don't belive my soot is a horrible thing and makes me a freak, i do belive it cuts my chances with this particular girl to null. Thats why i was scrubbing myself...Thats why i'm out here in the first place. I am happy with myself, but i do think that being so...dirty all the time makes me un-lovable. Sure i have friends, its easy to have friends. But love...thats somthing diffrent, harder to obtain...Somthing i'm afried of not obtainign. But if you notice, i don't paint myself with zebra strips to look like you. I may not always be happy, but i accept that i can't change who i am. I DO live with it Lyco. Everyday. Because i have others who have told me its ok to be a sooty taur. Its ok to be diffrent. I take care of three kids, and even Kalli, who is always calling me a Freak, only does so cause i'm male and for one reason or another, she hates guys. I've never been told i was a freak for my soot, and even if i was, i wouldn't listen. because i have friends. I have people who don't care. And guess what Lyco, you have people who don't care too. I don't give a crap what you look like. I really don't. Heck you look pretty cool to be honest. and what, is Wasibru not friend. she seems to care about you. Mabye you should stop complaining and open your eyes." He paused and shook his head. "Mabye we could still be friends, if you can stop imitating me, and learn to live with your apperence."
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:49 pm
"HEY! My fault?! The majority of people I've met are after my hide rather than me, and they also happen to be mostly made up of girls. So I meet you, my one true hope, and then you want nothing to do with me!" He had begun to shout again without realizing.
Flinging up his arms in exasperation, he cried, "I DON'T WHINE! And I don't moan either! That's just what Wasibru's always complaining about. You know girls! They thing EVERYTHING is whining when they're the ones that do all the compaining and groaning themselves! It's insanity!"
His mouth twitched in a twisted frown. "Oh, believe you me, I've heard their lies to no end. 'You're not a loser, Lyco!' But no, I know better. They're just trying to get close to me because they want me to like them and then they want - " he stopped himself abruptly, his face buried in his hands. Lyco had finished washing out his gradient hair, but now his hands were being smeared in the soot of his face. He wouldn't look up, though.
"They don't really like me...they just pretend..." he mumbled in a muffled voice through his fingers. "If I was like you, Coal...at least I would know that they liked me for who I am, not what I look like. That's all I really want. And I want to learn to be someone that I can live with. I mean, could you live with yourself if your childhood consisted of fears of heights and terrible cattaur cubs and scary streams and trees that bullied you? I'm a laughing stock! All you've got to show for childhood fears is me - a psychotic zebrataur freak who tried copying your appearance." His voice turned hard. "You've never known true fear, Coal. You don't know what it's like."
He remained silent as Coal explained the reason for his dilema. A 'she'. Another female. "If she can't accept you for who you are," he asked, still muffled, "Then why bother changing for her? Girls...they're nothing but trouble...I can't...I don't know how you got caught in that mess too, Coal." He shook his head slowly, his face still burried in his palms. "I never thought you'd be one to fall. Guess I was wrong. Maybe we're less alike than I thought. Isn't that how it goes? 'How the mighty have fallen'?"
Lycoris turned his back to the centaur then, but he continued to listen. What he heard of this alien feeling...this 'love'...it caused him to shudder. Matteo had told him about it and Lyco had always considered it some sort of disease. A disease of the mind. "Stop...stop that...I know...I KNOW you didn't paint yourself to look like me!" he yelled in a sudden outburst.
"Why the HELL would you want to do a STUPID thing like that?!" He turned on Coal, once again on his hooves, standing over the ashen taur. His bright marking over his right eye was now almost completely visible, the soot wiped from it onto his hand. "It's clear you don't want to be like me. I don't blame you. But I don't want to be me either, so I can't see why you have such a problem with what I want to be. It's easy for you to say, 'You shouldn't try to be someone else, you should accept yourself', because you're already PERFECT!"
He clentched his fists at his sides, gritting his teeth, but he would not move. Not from his spot. "Being 'different' is one thing. Being called a freak is another. But having consequences that go with your differences can ruin your life. So what? You're a little dirty. I've seen foals and kits dirtier than you! You've nothing to complain about! You can hide if you ever wanted to! You're dark enough to hide in the shadows! Is it so much to ask if I want to be able to do the same?"
Lyco made a face. "Big deal. A girl you take care of hates guys. If she's so ungrateful for you taking care of her, let her go play with Wasibru! They'll have so much in common!" he mumbled with false enthusiasm. "Girls are nothing but trouble."
Though he looked away, his eyes widened slightly at Coal's mention of Wasibru. His voice dropped in volume, and suddenly he sounded very distant and sad. "You idiot..." he uttered. "It's because I know you don't care about what I look like that I thought we could be friends. You're the only one I know who doesn't care about my stripes, but I guess I only know that because you hated and feared me as a kid."
"As for Wasibru...she's just as stupid. That female left her own herd from the mainland to follow me here. And for what?" He glanced at Coal out of the corner of his eye before spitting into the stream. "Out of pity."
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:02 pm
"your blind Lyco. you want to know somthing? She came to me to ask me for help to make you see how your not as bad as you think. she wanted mt to paint myself with strips. I almost did but then i lost touch with her, havn't seen her in a while. She cares about you, you idiot. But your so negative you can't tell when somone cares and when somone doesn't. She does care. I've seen it when she talked about you. You think everyone is out to get your but your wrong. Just cause somone things you have funky strips doesn't mean they are being mean, or they only liek your stripes. Jsut cause somone is mean or rude doesn't mean anything. And just cause you've had problems with girls, guess what, it doesn't mean all girls are hell. I've met nothing but girls. Your really the only male i've met, besides Siam and Eron but they are babies. And yet i havn'g said, well i'm staying away from all other males cause i had a bad experience." He stopped and shook his head. "I dont' know why i'm even trying. I really don't. No matter what i say i'm wrong to you. No matter what i say, i dont' understand and everythign you say is ten times worse then it really is." He backed up and started to turn. "Nice talk Lyco. when you really wanna listen, if you really wanna change, we might talk again. But your being rediculous. And your pissign me off. Open your mind, take a risk. Don't let your past control you. don't let it live your life for you."
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 10:36 pm
Lycoris was dumbfounded. He was speechless right up until Coal began to leave. It was then he finally came to his senses, splashing his own face with water before turning to address Coal.
"Wait," he called weakly, his heart not really in it. "Coal...look, I'm sorry. I've been a jerk and I didn't come here to pick a fight. I really just came to ask if you knew where Wasibru was. I really need to find her. I'm...well, worried. I don't care how strong she thinks she is; without her bow she's as defenceless as the rest of us."
He held up the child's bow rather pitifully. "She's just a little girl. She could get into serious trouble. If you've seen her, I need to know where. She's...er..." he swallowed, looking suddenly uncomfortable. "She's not the girl you were talking about earlier, is she, Coal...?"
Lyco kicked his sapphire hoof at a random pebble in the dirt. "You know...she's afraid of fire. But she'd never say so. I just happened to see her once...she was in tears, and I'd never...I never thought she could be so scared like that, with the way she goes on...you know how she is."
He began to grumble some almost uncomprehensible words. "You know...I think I knew all along she cared, Coal...but I can't stand being around her if all she does is pity me because he herd cast me out when I was little. I don't want to be pitied, and I'm afraid she likes me. If a girl liked you, and you didn't think you could ever like her back in the same way, wouldn't you...well..." He seemed determined to avoid Coal's gaze. "Wouldn't you try to avoid her too? The last time I saw her she ran off crying, and I think it was because of me...because she thought I wasn't grateful to her for everything she's done."
Thrusting the child's bow into Coal's arms, he murmured, "Give that to her for me, will ya? I don't think she'll want to see me for a while yet. And...and tell her I'm sorry. Please?" His bright blue eyes finally rose to meet their equals. "Tell her I'm grateful."
((May I take this random moment to announce this song as Lycoris' theme song? XD
There's a lot of interesting references:
"...I'm too scared to choose, scared to refuse
Tell me what I am supposed to do?
I'm too wrong to be you, too right to blush
And too many times I've not done enough..."
Too scared to choose between all the suitors/suitresses he's come across...too wrong to be Coal, too right to blush... XD Out of humiliation? And he feels like he's never been the brave taur he wanted to be when he was little, so he's not done enough?
And of course, this is SO Iryl's theme song.
So...anyone else have any theme songs for their taur that they'd like to share?))
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 11:05 pm
"No, its not her." He said calmly. "And you need to tell the diffrence. Mabye she pitied you but pity is a stupid emotion and you cant' care about them and pity them at the same time. you can worry, which i'm sure she does all the time. She's talked about you, and she just seemed....upset." he shoved the bow back to the zebrataur. "You find her, and you tell her. Its meaninless to send somone else. Grow up. Your not a little kid. Suck it up. If she gets upset when she sees you then tell her you want to talk. Don't assume stuff and done' avoid her for things you havn't proven, it only makes you look like a jerk. Your her friend, she's yours, you need to talk to her about any problems your having. If your worried about her then find her, tal to her, make she is ok. She's your friend. Sure i've talked to her before but you know mroe about her then i do, i'll bet. and To anwser your question, no, i wouldn't avoid somone i thought might like me just cause i might not like them back. You can ruin a friendship that way. If you have a friendship hold onto that. and never say never..." He stared at the blue taur. "Your words mean nothing unless you say them. Tell her you are greatful...see what happens."
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 11:14 pm
(XP No theme songs here.)
Pouting, Rey padded over to his friends. "Come on!" he urged, tugging Eron's and Siam's hands. "Berries are yummy!"
Evisule smiled down at her 'little brother', knowing he just wanted everyone to be happy. "If they really don't want to, Rey, don't try to force them, okay?"
The bright blue cattaur grinned up at her with a sparkle in his innocent, purple eyes. "Okay, Evi! But berries are yummy!"
The cervi nodded. "I know sweetie," she replied, smiling.
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