patheticvillain: (ʭ you stumble & you fall)
Cassel Sharpe. ([personal profile] patheticvillain) wrote2013-04-30 11:50 am

nine ➢ filter + private

video | 1 friendly conversation filter, sans chris + cass

[Cassel chooses the video option deliberately, as well as the angle: dead on his face with a view of his shoulders and the top half of his torso. His face and posture bleed honesty tinged with regret - a little confusion, too. The confusion's the only part of this that's true, and his anger, frustration, resentment are well-hidden. That's why he's excluded Cass, because she could call him on this in an instant. Chris is out because he doesn't lie to Chris. Everyone else is fair game.]

[He takes a half-breath before he starts, looking at the camera, off to the side - guilt, shame.]


I shouldn't have done that. [Lie.] If I worried you, I'm sorry. [Half-truth, and a self-deprecating smile.] I'm not great at, uh, planning, I guess.

I know there's no way I can make up for worrying everyone, but if it's any consolation I feel like a total ass. Lesson learned, scout's honor, not happening again. [Smile evolved into smirk! Still self-deprecating, though.] I'm also considering putting up a suggestion box. "Shit Cassel should never do" for Barge input.

[And then he gets quiet, tilts his head a little sadly at the camera. Sincere regret, only not.] Seriously. Don't worry about me. And don't take it out on him.

private/video | zane

[Mask down: Cassel is pissed. Royally. About as angry as most people have probably ever seen him. Definitely angry enough to blatantly ignore the previous lie he told, that he didn't trust Zane - he does, and they're clearly the only two people here who have any clue what happened.]

[Again: video, same frame, but Cassel's not looking at the camera; too busy fuming.]


People get in your personal business here. [It looks like that's all he's going to say on that subject, but then a half-shrug:] Are you out of Zero yet?

[The rest is sent as text, more information than he has ever in his life given one person at once, but he's been watching. Zane understands him, he thinks, at least in part, certainly better than most other people do, and he's been inconvenienced by idiots like Rorschach with no intention of even attempting understanding. It's owed. That, and he needs it known, comprehensively, by somebody who understands what it's like to be manipulated.]

I think you like to know things, so here's some info. You chew screws, I wear gloves, because back home everybody wears gloves. It's how we stay safe. Work comes from hands and work can kill you or ruin your life. It can make you forget. That's why if you ever touch me [by which he means bare skin, the punching was fine really] with bare hands again I'll bite your fingers off. Nothing personal, that's just how it is.

Watch out for Barron Sharpe and Touko Fukawa.
bitteraftertaste: (just don't steal from me)

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[personal profile] bitteraftertaste 2013-05-12 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
I'm almost surprised no one's thought to put up a general suggestion box for this sort of thing.
bitteraftertaste: (and I'll be gone)

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[personal profile] bitteraftertaste 2013-05-12 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Evidently.

How's your warden been handling all this?
bitteraftertaste: (poisoning your fantasy)

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[personal profile] bitteraftertaste 2013-05-12 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Does anyone get it?
bitteraftertaste: (where he slowly let me drown)

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[personal profile] bitteraftertaste 2013-05-12 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Does it bother you, that so few people do?
bitteraftertaste: (take what the water gave me)

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[personal profile] bitteraftertaste 2013-05-12 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
That doesn't stop it from being frustrating.
bitteraftertaste: (the world's beast of burden)

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[personal profile] bitteraftertaste 2013-05-12 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[It's not her job to, and she knows what it's like to just not want to discuss motives, or to explain why you did something self destructive.]

I'm glad I could do some relative good, then.
bitteraftertaste: (another one)

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[personal profile] bitteraftertaste 2013-05-12 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe. You're not exactly uncomplicated, either.
bitteraftertaste: (my love has concrete feet)

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[personal profile] bitteraftertaste 2013-05-12 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
I had noticed that.
bitteraftertaste: (with the golden tongue)

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[personal profile] bitteraftertaste 2013-05-12 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think anyone who hasn't noticed it lasts long around here.
bitteraftertaste: (you've been holding on a long time)

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[personal profile] bitteraftertaste 2013-05-12 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
I hope so, anyway.
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[personal profile] bitteraftertaste 2013-05-12 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
What do you think it's about?

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