Alfred Ashford (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
twinsanity) wrote2014-10-23 01:12 pm
twinsanity) wrote2014-10-23 01:12 pm
Entry tags:
- !ic,
- *video,
- asking for it,
- beyond caring that he's asking for it,
- clearly it's story hour,
- daddy issues everywhere,
- entertain him you assholes,
- guten morgen fuck my life,
- not even bothering with anon,
- pride of the ashford family,
- really starting to hate autumn,
- responsible human behavior,
- somebody make him stop talking,
- somebody probably broke alfred,
- this sort of shit's always a good sign,
- welcome to the ashford dynasty,
- where the hell is my shotgun
011. [Video]
[Alfred has been a bit...absent for the last week.
It's not unheard of for him to disappear for long periods at a time, vanishing behind the closed doors of that house he owns in Goldenrod; he's been known to have his reclusive spells, and for all intents and purposes this probably hasn't seemed much different. Granted, it's a longer period of time than he usually goes without being present in the Rocket labs – he's usually in there once every few days at least and he's been taking far more of an interest in chemistry than is really healthy lately – but altogether speaking it isn't abnormal, either.
The abnormal part kicks in when his video feed goes active today.
It's not terribly well set-up, though it doesn't seem like an accidental broadcast, either; the angle is just careless, aimed a bit too low to really give anyone a good idea of what they're looking at, but there's the usual red jacket and the shoulder guard and the medals, and once in a while one of his hands flicking across the screen where it comes in full view of the camera.
His breath is shaking a bit when he draws it in; it sounds almost like there's a laugh behind his words when he finally speaks, but it doesn't seem...right. The way he's speaking in general doesn't seem right, really - a bit too uncontrolled, a bit too high and pitchy and strange.]
So I'm going to assume that this particular week-long bout of sleep was just me...
[He laughs again, under his breath; it's closer to tittering than anything.]
That wasn't very nice of this place, now, was it? Why, it got my hopes up for nothing...I didn't even get to fight anything good, just –
[And he cuts himself off then; hesitates. Adjusts the angle of the camera so he's a bit more clearly seen. He's raking his hand back through his hair as he does so; it looks like he's been repeating that gesture a lot, given that he's far more disheveled than he ever allows himself to be on-camera.
His gaze is what's a bit worrying; it's oddly unfocused, a sense of distance there that isn't usually, not on days where anything's right in his head at all.
His words are still retaining that rushed, manic tone when he continues.]
Tell me, tell me – what's the last thing you remember before coming here? I'm sure you have some sort of story, just because no one here doesn't.
I didn't think I did, not really; apparently I was mistaken about that.
It's not unheard of for him to disappear for long periods at a time, vanishing behind the closed doors of that house he owns in Goldenrod; he's been known to have his reclusive spells, and for all intents and purposes this probably hasn't seemed much different. Granted, it's a longer period of time than he usually goes without being present in the Rocket labs – he's usually in there once every few days at least and he's been taking far more of an interest in chemistry than is really healthy lately – but altogether speaking it isn't abnormal, either.
The abnormal part kicks in when his video feed goes active today.
It's not terribly well set-up, though it doesn't seem like an accidental broadcast, either; the angle is just careless, aimed a bit too low to really give anyone a good idea of what they're looking at, but there's the usual red jacket and the shoulder guard and the medals, and once in a while one of his hands flicking across the screen where it comes in full view of the camera.
His breath is shaking a bit when he draws it in; it sounds almost like there's a laugh behind his words when he finally speaks, but it doesn't seem...right. The way he's speaking in general doesn't seem right, really - a bit too uncontrolled, a bit too high and pitchy and strange.]
So I'm going to assume that this particular week-long bout of sleep was just me...
[He laughs again, under his breath; it's closer to tittering than anything.]
That wasn't very nice of this place, now, was it? Why, it got my hopes up for nothing...I didn't even get to fight anything good, just –
[And he cuts himself off then; hesitates. Adjusts the angle of the camera so he's a bit more clearly seen. He's raking his hand back through his hair as he does so; it looks like he's been repeating that gesture a lot, given that he's far more disheveled than he ever allows himself to be on-camera.
His gaze is what's a bit worrying; it's oddly unfocused, a sense of distance there that isn't usually, not on days where anything's right in his head at all.
His words are still retaining that rushed, manic tone when he continues.]
Tell me, tell me – what's the last thing you remember before coming here? I'm sure you have some sort of story, just because no one here doesn't.
I didn't think I did, not really; apparently I was mistaken about that.
private text forever;
likewise, actually
Technically. That's not exactly it, though.
Dreams, more like.
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Maybe you're catching up on all those Zs you missed out on while the bandersnatches were keeping you up.
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So the bandersnatches were there too. Useless things, they didn't even do what they were designed to do.
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Did you get to see your sister?
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Okay. He's okay. Just give him a moment, the pause before the response is a little long but eventually a response happens and that is what matters.]
Yes. My sister and my father both.
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...Hell, who knows, maybe there was a long delay because the guy decided to take a bathroom break, it could be totally benign.]
So that's good, right?
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There was something I had to do before I could see her again, and I managed to do it. That's what matters, in the end.
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Do you remember what I told you, regarding my sister standing a chance of becoming god?
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[He also...did...things...but we don't need to discuss that, really.]
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...Or would she go for a more elegant method? Sorry, I didn't mean to make her sound unladylike or anything.
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This is assuming my father doesn't get to them first, granted; he didn't sound terribly pleased with them, either.
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What's your dad's favorite style of murder?
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And besides, he's always liked this topic.]
He used to not enjoy it very much; he was one of those people who wanted to help people before he harmed them before.
Over the last fifteen years or so he's discovered a fondness for stabbing people. Eviscerating them, if he so chooses that day.
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Stabbing sounds about right for him then. An up-close-and-personal kind of guy.
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...I mean, unless you were the one he was stabbing.
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[Video]
I'm afraid I actually don't have a particularly interesting story for that. The last thing that I remember before coming here is going to sleep late after a long day in meetings. We were having nationwide strikes, and there was a global economic crisis, but those were ongoing.
[He's expression becomes somewhat more noticeably strained.]
It's been four years since I came here, though, so things have doubtlessly changed.
[Video]
(Granted, yours...probably lacks a zombie crisis, but. Details...)
Just the same, the message gives him something to focus on, and while he's admittedly doing a bad job of it, at least some effort is being put forth when it comes to talking to someone that isn't himself.]
I don't know about that...it'd been a bit over a year since I'd seen mine, after all, and nothing seemed to have changed in the least.
Of course, it's a bit hard to tell whether I actually returned or if I just remember more about the state of things, given how these things work.
[Video]
I've had a few from my world here who went into the coma-like states where they awoke with new memories. Although most were from before my current time and simply moved forward in the timeline -
[There's a very brief pauses as France shuts his eyes, clearly unhappy with the lack of vocabulary to properly express himself on this. When he opens his eyes, it's clear he's made the conscious decision not to bring different historical narratives into this.]
Well, I was usually told that things remain in as logical progression as the world can ever be. I must agree with you: it's very hard to tell.
[He pinches the bridge of his nose.]
One person did tell me that there had been an alien invasion, but it got better. He wasn't even the person I would have expected to hear that sort of thing from, so I have no idea what to think of it.
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[Video]
[Because apparently that is what matters out of all that. Thank you, Alfred.]
Well, at least there's some sort of consistent logical progression, though if I'm assuming all of that actually happened...
[...well. It's not pleasant, let's put it that way.]
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[Video]
My world is not actually invaded by aliens, I'm quite sure. There's a lot of things that I would suspect of its condition, but alien invasions are in the very small outlier circle of impossibilities.
[He would expect werewolves, vampires, and zombies before that, to be honest.]
There usually is some sort of logic, at least which can be put into place in hindsight. That's the purpose of our entire school of history back home. I might be what I am, but even I have to depend on written history; memory is a mutable thing.
video;
[Vague as hell because he's still paranoid about discussing things from his homeworld.]
[Video]
video;
[Or was it needless bureaucracy bullshit? Because he's had his share of both.]
video;
[Video]
[He smiles, rather sadly.]
Before Rome, I lived under Gaul and Greece's mother. I remember Gaul in the way I imagine very young human children will remember a grandparent who passes away before their fourth birthday. I can't say I remember Greece's mother distinctly, if at all.