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roronoa "sword swallowing fuck" zoro ([personal profile] stopbleeding) wrote in [community profile] recolle2017-09-17 08:05 pm

[OPEN] i feel guilty

WHO: zoro and YOU!!!
WHERE: beach, some abandoned warehouse dump whatever, possibly other places
WHEN: 9/17 - On
WHAT: zoro is like the only person who actually wants more memories back and will do pretty much anything for them + catchall
WARNINGS: i mean it's zoro so he'll probably get injured at some point



I. OCEAN MAN, TAKE ME BY THE HAND, OR MAYBE NOT SINCE YOU'RE BEACHED ON LAND

[It's late. Dark enough that the ocean becomes a menace, swallowing all light that peeks towards it. The beach is quiet, dark, the streetlights providing only droplets of light over a broad stretch of sand. Still, it's enough to line the edges of the waves and countour the silhouette of–a monster? No.

Zoro. Coughing, spluttering, choking as he pushes his way out of the waves. His movement is slow and the further he moves from the water, the reason for that becomes clear. There's not one, not two, but eight cinderblocks tied around either ankle. They leave tracks in the sand as he escapes the tide. He lies there on his side, body lurches as he continues to choke on the water that just won't come out of his lungs. Closer inspection reveals that his hands are tied behind his back.

Maybe he needs some help.
]

II-A. I CAN'T THINK OF A CLEVER TITLE ABOUT WAREHOUSES

[Maybe you're just on a stroll, cruising that sidewalk like a motherfucker, dancing under spotlights like a modern day Fred Astaire. Doesn't really matter so long as you're close to a very specific abandoned warehouse in whatever city district that'd be in. Soon, that peaceful stroll is disturbed by a noise so immense, it sends a slight shockwave through the street.

There's movement from inside the warehouse. Glimpses can be caught between the pane-less windows. A junked car or two goes flying. Some collapsed debris from a nearby demolition rising and falling into and out of view. Closer inspection will reveal a short crawl hole cut into the fence next to a bright "NO TRESPASSING" sign. A well-trodden path winds up to a collapsed wall, providing just enough of a window to see just what the hell is going on.

It's Zoro, probably shirtless and working out. With... cars. And huge chunks of rubble. Hell, it looks like he's clearing half the place out himself and from how soaked in sweat he is, it looks like he's been doing this all night. He looks over his shoulder after a few minutes.
]

Didn't you see the "No Trespassing" sign?

II-B. SAME AS ABOVE X2

[Same bat-place but different bat-time. While equally late at night, there's no sweaty, half-naked brutal workouts. Just Zoro, a can of spray paint, and a large metal partition of sorts. There's graffiti already on it–lazy taggers scrawling their self-important aliases. Zoro does something different.

The teenager tagger's names have been covered in words, phrases. From the simple:
"Crazy dreamer"
"Useless"
"Prideless"
"Idiot"


To the more complex:
"No matter how hard you try, you can't win."
"Losing all hope and dying are two strangely similar things."
"Humans are fragile beings."


All from disparate contexts with a single thing in common. They're discouragment. Relentless discouragement scrawled over each over in multicolored, chaotic layers. And he's still adding to it, a black bandana pulled up over his face as he writes another disheartening phrase in red paint.

The can runs out halfway through the sentence. He reaches for another.
]
imaginex: (♦ wut)

II-A

[personal profile] imaginex 2017-09-18 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
[911 Sakura would like to report a monster on the premises

Okay but. Yikes.

She.

Um.

What is there to say really? As the seconds tick by and she doesn't find her voice, the girl's staring through the window becomes less that of an awkward teenager who's been caught redhanded, and more like a fundamental truth has been shattered underneath her feet. She honestly doesn't know what she's looking at here.

... But it's rude to stare and not say anything, which means all at once the girl straightens, shoulders locked by her neck, and she blurts out the first thing that comes to mind:]


-- I'm lost.

[Nailed it.]
glaciers: (33)

I

[personal profile] glaciers 2017-09-18 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Shouto's been having a hard time sleeping recently- or rather, since the beginning of this week. What's real and what isn't... is a pain. And it's really only getting worse.

But he's taking a stroll on the beach when he sees Zoro coughing out of the water--

And he's running before he can think.]


What are you doing?
imaginex: (♥ appease)

[personal profile] imaginex 2017-09-18 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head, smile reflexive and automatic. While she could point behind her and that'd be true, the devil is in the details and that's exactly what she lost track of.]

It's okay. I'm used to it. [New city and all. They say you truly don't know a place until you get lost in its alleyways]

I, um... didn't mean to interrupt your workout.

[Is that what he's doing???]
glaciers: (5)

[personal profile] glaciers 2017-09-18 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[JFC, what did he do? How did this happen?

... Wasn't he trying not to die? Or get injured?

He kneels down and starts untying Zoro's hands.]
imaginex: (♢ observe)

[personal profile] imaginex 2017-09-18 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
I'm new here.

... Well, not new new, it's already been a month and a half, but this city is much bigger than where I used to live.

So sometimes I just, um... lose track of which direction I'm going?

[She is aware that's a piss poor excuse for trespassing, but it's the best she's got under pressure.]
imaginex: (♦ unsure)

[personal profile] imaginex 2017-09-18 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Did

this man who was lifting cars just call her weird.



... Y'know what? She's gonna let him have that one. No arguments, just her quickly following orders, bowing under what passes for a doorway and excusing the intrusion in Japanese.]


Um.. not really. [She offers that with reluctance.] My family isn't here. [And she doesn't have friends really? Which makes her sound like an orphan abandoned by fate]
imaginex: (♦ look)

[personal profile] imaginex 2017-09-18 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
I won't be attending college until the winter, sir.

[The last question she makes no attempt to answer; instead she looks about, hoping to find some relatively undirtied tire to sit on or something. Whatever won't immediately give her tetanus.]

I'll find a main road eventually. And I don't work until the afternoon, so it's not like I'd miss my shift.

[The true concern here]
imaginex: (♢ doubt)

[personal profile] imaginex 2017-09-18 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Jesus and Sakura alike will be weeping if this goes where she's afraid it might go. Her eyebrows pinch and she tries to... think... of some way to make this sound not terrible.]

Mm, yes. I have my own apartment.

[Which surely makes her an adult]
blondferret: (wtf)

I

[personal profile] blondferret 2017-09-18 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Derek is taking an evening walk on the beach when he sees a body washed up on shore. Derek stops and his hand naturally goes to his gun at his waist. He slowly starts to inch forward to get a better look. It is then that he realizes that to body is moving and sputtering!]

My god he's alive.

[Derek rushes over to the man and to his horror realizes that his hands are tied behind his waist and a huge amount of cinder blocks tied around his ankles. How the hell is this guy alive? When he reaches the man he takes out his pocket knife and starts cutting away at the ropes on his hands.]

Are you alright? Who did this to you?
glaciers: (4)

[personal profile] glaciers 2017-09-18 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[He starts with the cement blocks around Zoro's legs now. Did he just do this to himself?

... That seems impossible.]


Should you go to the hospital?
imaginex: (♦ bow)

[personal profile] imaginex 2017-09-18 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[At this point Sakura is certain Zoro is an oni. Straight-up Japanese mountain troll.]

Thank you.

[And she'll just slide into that car like this is completely normal]

... Though, um... could I have a name? [So she at least knows who she's supposed to thank for saving her dumb ass this random night]
browbeater: (Fuck you Hasook.)

I DO WHAT I WANT, THIS IS A WILDCARD TAG. JUST FOR YOU. 9/20

[personal profile] browbeater 2017-09-18 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Look, honestly, Mako was always awkward. But he's never looked downright uncomfortable in crowds of people? But he definitely looks uncomfortable, and like he's having trouble focusing. Even off too the side, he looks like he might just break if someone approaches him. His hands grip the railing he's resting against, his knuckles white.

Hopefully, no one needs a cop today.

Besides that, though... it's obvious that he isn't sleeping. But by now, he's reached that paranoid stage, where he can't quite focus on anything, and this is all... way too much. He really, really should not be at work.

But he needs the money.]
twostringsonebow: (31 until i can't)

ii-a

[personal profile] twostringsonebow 2017-09-19 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)




[oh god in heaven are you hot.

Goro had been going to investigate the racket -- he can't help himaelf, danger is a calling and... this is nice. When Zoro turns with his question, the teen can feel his face on fire and George Michael's "Careless Whisper" playing in his mind.

He has a boyfriend now?? He can't be ogling other guys?? Ah... but he'd be forgiven for this God-sent blessing, wouldn't he? Akira would understand. Look, don't touch. Look at the menu, don't order off it. Um. Oh. He needs to speak.]


I have a habit of looking for trouble. That is, I was wondering what was going on and decided to investigate.

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