Dorm Log: Scorching Summer Edition

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Who: Who else.
What: Dorm log!
Where: Student and Teacher dorms, and quite possibly beyond campus. Frankly? I don't care where. Go have fun, kids.
When: The span of June 14 - June 28th. Pick a date.
Warnings: Yeah, it got pretty naughty in here.

Ripped off the last one and all its friends: Basically, here's how this works. We all know our characters experience downtime after classes and their busy schedules, and this is a good venue for those kinds of miscellaneous dorm-shenanigans to take place. Not only does it give your characters the easy chance to meet new people in a laid-back environment, but it's a good mechanism for strengthening CR. It's easy!

Feel free to begin in any way you please! Plan with (a) fellow player(s) if you'd like! Or, set up a thread and wait for characters to bite! Whatever you want. It can all be yours if you make a thread. Stay up all night watching reruns of Teenage Mutant Ninja Squirtles? Break out the ice cream and industrial fans to beat the heat? Get a bad suntan while you're asleep with the help of your friends? Whatever you get your bad self up to. Your good self is welcome, too. Now put your copy of Animal Crossing: New Leaf down for one second and tag this thing!


DIRECTORY
Alter Ego | Baconator | Banjo | Byakuya | Blake | Blaze | Byrne | Caim | Cammy | Carter | Chell | Chiyo | Connor | Cress | Cyrus | Daisy | Douggie | Eggman | Eirika | Ellistree | Garry | General Guy | Goombella | Gordon | Henry | Jin | Jon | Kazooie | Kiyotaka | Knuckles | Kyogre | Lucca | Mac | Mary | Milimili | Nabooru | Phoenix | Proton | Pulseman | R.O.B. | Red | Rhys | Ron | Sable | Samus | Schezo | Seth | Shadow | Sonny Moe | Ulki | Watt | Wheatley | Zelda | Ziio

Comments

[nottheproblem]

"You feel tension with me."

She said it very simply and briefly, Ziio looked a little... sad. If there was a word for it. But how could she expect anything else? Of course there was tension. She eyed him with a mother's gaze for a few moments longer before she finally looked away.

"Of course you do," she said, as if reassuring herself more than him. "We're much more alike than I would have thought."

I, too, have things I want to ask for. Things to ask of you. Things to ask of Haytham. And yet I cannot ask for any of them. For all of the same reasons you say.

"I can't be the mother you missed as a child and I can't treat you as the child I left in Kanatahséton. Sitting here with you now..." She thought for a moment before she pressed on, "I don't know how to be the mother you need me to be, or if you need me at all."

[mohawk_tomahawk]

I need you.

That was what he wanted to just simply say. But he couldn't. He just. Couldn't. He wanted her to be his mother, really bad. He now felt like he was pushing her. He didn't want that even more than reverting his own age.

There always had to be a way. Another way. To be himself, and ask for her to be with him.

He can't just keep pushing the issue away. It wasn't going anywhere. And it shouldn't be an issue to begin with.

"No...there is much to be done. Much to tell. But...I want be a son to you. Your son. I do want that."

[nottheproblem]

She wished she knew what to say. She wished she knew what she was feeling. A sense of disdain for not being able to go home. A lot of disappointment in herself. A lot of bitterness staining her heart when she thought of Haytham, who served as a grand reminder of how just vulnerable she could still be.

Ziio nodded.

"With time," she found herself saying, as if she was reassuring him. Always reassuring him. When would she reassure herself? Did she believe anything she was saying? What did she really think? And she couldn't answer that. "It'd seem I will be here for... a while." In talking with Shadow, it seemed like forever.

"We have time."