ii. you're falling apart so you're running away [night]
Lina's taken to walking the streets tonight and most nights since the beginning of the month. Why should she bother staying inside when everyone she loves seems to be losing the app and her apartment doesn't even feel like home anymore? It's a night like this that you might run into Lina with a small squadron of black spheres following her, rolling behind her like they have minds of their own and a goal in place.
It's easier for Lina to justify just... doing things like this. Whether it's something as simple as walking into a grocery store and taking something—who's going to notice? who's going to stop her?—or cutting through a construction site to get to the other side of a city block, breaking the rules seems to come with an unnatural ease to her. It's after one of these things that another black sphere seems to pop out of Lina's body and join the group, and it's around that point that she actually stops and looks behind her.
She recognizes the spheres as grenades, though she's only ever seen them in movies before. It's strange, but not as strange as anything else lately, and her gaze turns skyward instead once she realizes she's standing in the moonlight. She focuses on the second moon, the shattered one—the one that Jen remembered. "This is your fault," she says bitterly to nobody that she's noticed around, though it's definitely directed at the moon. "Everything was fine until you showed up."
iii. i think the problem is your pride [daybreak]
It's another cold morning in Recolle and Lina's spent all night out of her apartment, going from bar to bar to diner to iHOP when even the diners started shutting down. It's harder and harder lately to fall asleep, which means she has to hear Jen's alarm go off at 4:45 so she can go work out, but knowing that it's not her in that body anymore is tearing Lina apart inside.
She has fewer grenades with her tonight, fortunately, and she looks into the sky from her booth in whatever place she ended up at just before dawn. The bodies in the sky are doing their weird dance like they have for the past couple days, but it's harder for her to focus on it than usual. Maybe because she's looking at an eclipse and it's not burning her eyes out of her skull.
Maybe because the longer this goes on, the brighter her expression gets, until she's looking at one of the other people in the diner and smiling without having to force it very much at all. "Hey," she offers. "You want to have breakfast together?" This doesn't feel... too terrible. Being social. It's the only way she can keep herself going, right? Meeting new people, spending time with them. She just needs to be as stubborn with her determination as she is with everything else.
x. you're shielding your heart 'cause you're too scared to stay [wildcard]
((here's my plotting comment for Lina, or i could also be swayed to throw Anna more into this, hit me up here or at roseward if you're interested in anything!!))
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Lina's taken to walking the streets tonight and most nights since the beginning of the month. Why should she bother staying inside when everyone she loves seems to be losing the app and her apartment doesn't even feel like home anymore? It's a night like this that you might run into Lina with a small squadron of black spheres following her, rolling behind her like they have minds of their own and a goal in place.
It's easier for Lina to justify just... doing things like this. Whether it's something as simple as walking into a grocery store and taking something—who's going to notice? who's going to stop her?—or cutting through a construction site to get to the other side of a city block, breaking the rules seems to come with an unnatural ease to her. It's after one of these things that another black sphere seems to pop out of Lina's body and join the group, and it's around that point that she actually stops and looks behind her.
She recognizes the spheres as grenades, though she's only ever seen them in movies before. It's strange, but not as strange as anything else lately, and her gaze turns skyward instead once she realizes she's standing in the moonlight. She focuses on the second moon, the shattered one—the one that Jen remembered. "This is your fault," she says bitterly to nobody that she's noticed around, though it's definitely directed at the moon. "Everything was fine until you showed up."
iii. i think the problem is your pride [daybreak]
It's another cold morning in Recolle and Lina's spent all night out of her apartment, going from bar to bar to diner to iHOP when even the diners started shutting down. It's harder and harder lately to fall asleep, which means she has to hear Jen's alarm go off at 4:45 so she can go work out, but knowing that it's not her in that body anymore is tearing Lina apart inside.
She has fewer grenades with her tonight, fortunately, and she looks into the sky from her booth in whatever place she ended up at just before dawn. The bodies in the sky are doing their weird dance like they have for the past couple days, but it's harder for her to focus on it than usual. Maybe because she's looking at an eclipse and it's not burning her eyes out of her skull.
Maybe because the longer this goes on, the brighter her expression gets, until she's looking at one of the other people in the diner and smiling without having to force it very much at all. "Hey," she offers. "You want to have breakfast together?" This doesn't feel... too terrible. Being social. It's the only way she can keep herself going, right? Meeting new people, spending time with them. She just needs to be as stubborn with her determination as she is with everything else.
x. you're shielding your heart 'cause you're too scared to stay [wildcard]
((here's my plotting comment for Lina, or i could also be swayed to throw Anna more into this, hit me up here or at