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Ace D. Portgas ([personal profile] hiken) wrote in [community profile] high_seas2014-04-27 04:56 am

Masquerade Ball - Totally not an ambush

Who: Anyone going to the Corsair Island Masquerade Ball!
Where: ...IDK?
When: April 26th - 27th (Early AM)
What: The Masquerade Ball + Ambush (12am)
Warnings: D for dancing, V for violence, A for Ace, L for Luffy
Style: Action or prose.
Status: Open to anyone attending!

There are going to be two main threads. One for the ball itself and the other for the Ambush! There will be an obligatory third thread for FASHION. Just remember to tag your muse in the subject header and OTA or 'Closed to ???' as you comment.
sun_goddess_sacrifice: (pic#5790270)

[personal profile] sun_goddess_sacrifice 2014-05-02 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
I Never said I only thought of you as a tool!
yatteyanyo: (constant chill deep inside)

[personal profile] yatteyanyo 2014-05-02 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Then what?

What am I to you?
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[personal profile] sun_goddess_sacrifice 2014-05-02 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
You are a dear friend, but you keep refusing to accept that.
yatteyanyo: (she screams in silence)

[personal profile] yatteyanyo 2014-05-02 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
What sort of person... does this to someone they consider a dear friend?
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[personal profile] sun_goddess_sacrifice 2014-05-02 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
The same sort of person that orchestrated and allowed their brother and family to die in cold blood. Also....

[This was harder to say, though she knew it to be true.]

A coward.

[Because in the end that was the most of it. The fear of losing her place, the fear of everything she had worked towards with Miko being jepordized when Tojiko was added to a picture Futo had never expected.]
yatteyanyo: (my justice for you)

[personal profile] yatteyanyo 2014-05-02 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
-Tojiko... hadn't expected that level of honesty. She'd wanted it, but still... just that one word spoke volumes. And explained so much... Maybe... maybe she had been a bit cruel to Futo, with all those expectations she had placed on her shoulder. She had suspected, but never quite known how much Futo had really done in the downfall of her own clan. All Tojiko knew of Futo in that era... was the kind, gentle woman that had helped raise her into who she was standing there that day. It was... easier to pretend that was all there was. And because of that...-

... And I am a coward, too.
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[personal profile] sun_goddess_sacrifice 2014-05-02 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
You are simply innocent and naive.
yatteyanyo: (dead alive)

[personal profile] yatteyanyo 2014-05-02 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
That as well... but I also knew things were different and refused to face the frightening truth of it all... that is cowardice as well.
sun_goddess_sacrifice: (7)

[personal profile] sun_goddess_sacrifice 2014-05-02 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It is not as if we showed you that world. Your experiences are only what transpired later.
yatteyanyo: (and your innocence I will consume)

[personal profile] yatteyanyo 2014-05-02 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
... I didn't need to be protected from the truth, you know.
sun_goddess_sacrifice: (14)

[personal profile] sun_goddess_sacrifice 2014-05-02 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
And yet that is what adults do for children, and what people do for those they care about.

Would you not do the same?
yatteyanyo: (constant chill deep inside)

[personal profile] yatteyanyo 2014-05-02 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
-Tojiko just sort of sank at that, clutching at her arm. For some reason... she really did feel like a child just then. That Futo once more towered over her, scolding her for playing too rough and scraping her knees. She didn't have any real way to respond... after all, she never got to raise her own son. But even beyond that... would she have? If it was to keep Futo and Miko happy...-
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[personal profile] sun_goddess_sacrifice 2014-05-02 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you see?

[Things weren't and never were simple and black and white. Futo and Miko came from an ugly world and had been prepared to do ugly things for their goals.]
yatteyanyo: (I tried to see and it's useless)

[personal profile] yatteyanyo 2014-05-02 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
... But why me? -That part... she probably still couldn't get over.-
sun_goddess_sacrifice: (14)

[personal profile] sun_goddess_sacrifice 2014-05-02 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
What do you mean? Why were you caught up in it all?
yatteyanyo: (what is there left for me?)

[personal profile] yatteyanyo 2014-05-02 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Was it fate? Was it simply meant to be this way? I won't have my eternity with you two... eventually I will fade away...
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[personal profile] sun_goddess_sacrifice 2014-05-02 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
It is how things went....

But do not worry, I have already considered that inevitable and there are methods to preserve you from fading.
yatteyanyo: (when you were young)

[personal profile] yatteyanyo 2014-05-02 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
... In the end, I still love you... and you still care for me...

But we can't keep things the way they were. I... I deserve better. I want more independence, but... -She also wanted Futo back.-
sun_goddess_sacrifice: (7)

[personal profile] sun_goddess_sacrifice 2014-05-02 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
You have independence. But I also have my responsibilities. I do not know how to change the way things are.
yatteyanyo: (I don't feel a thing and I stop remember)

[personal profile] yatteyanyo 2014-05-02 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Futo... I can't make you change. You are... well, we're both stubborn fool. And we can't change the past, as much as I wish I could... -And not just for herself... but to give Futo the happier life she had deserved back then as well.- But... if I am not a tool... and I am not the little girl you met back then... then please do not treat me as either. I am not simply your responsibility... am I not also more? If the past is truly that... then we should accept that times are different. We are different.
sun_goddess_sacrifice: (All is for my lord)

[personal profile] sun_goddess_sacrifice 2014-05-02 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
There is also my obligation to Miko, and my responsibility within our group. Those things have not changed....
yatteyanyo: (my justice for you)

[personal profile] yatteyanyo 2014-05-02 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
... Maybe it's just that naivety, but I can't see how this is a compromise. Futo, please... I can't truly be at peace until I know what we are to one another.
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[personal profile] sun_goddess_sacrifice 2014-05-02 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
We are friends, if you agree to that. We are also part of a group. I am your elder, and you are the consort of my best friend.

We are many things depending on the context and what is kept and what is not....

Tell me, what are we?
yatteyanyo: (lips like licorice tongue like candy)

[personal profile] yatteyanyo 2014-05-02 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
-There was a pregnant pause between them that seemed to last a full movement of the stanza playing in the distance before Tojiko stepped up, hesitantly lifting her arms and placing her hands at Futo's shoulders, not to push her away, but to hold her there.-

We... are us. Together. More than all of that, and yet nothing more at all. Because it's what all of those mean together, and how much you mean to me... that is what matters, in the end. I love you, Mononobe no Futo.

-She left 'family' unsaid, but there was something of an implicit meaning there. She was Miko's wife, but... She also had a deep connection with Futo. And when everything had come to light...- Back then, when you confessed to everything, I panicked... because I thought it meant I was losing you. That everything I had believed about us was a lie. But here you are... your voice as gentle as it was when I was a child.
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[personal profile] sun_goddess_sacrifice 2014-05-03 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
You need not fear such a thing, for you will never lose me.

[She gave Tojiko a soft smile, it seamed finally she had gotten through to her. What there was currently was not a lie, what was the past was the past, though not gone, not on going. They were what they were, an accumulation of all their experiences and actions.]

If we have been able to resolve this trial, do I not owe you a dance?

[She thought it sounded really good to say that, but then, she also realized she had no idea how to dance in the first place....]

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