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[He took a few days to get himself composed, cleaned up, and acquire new clothes. What he'd arrived in had been stained with blood, after all. He couldn't wear that around. So now, as the video shows him sprawled on a couch (in a spacious apartment, though that's out of sight for now), he's dressed just like the locals in Crystalden. Bright, flashy clothes, glowing in places, but still comfortable-at least for him. It distracts somewhat from how unhealthy he looks-pale, with dark circles under his eyes. He hasn't been sleeping or eating much since arriving.]

Right. So what the fuck is this place and why the fuck are we all here? Kidnapping is a crime, especially when you're kidnapping someone like me. [Someone ~important~. Shhh, he doesn't know he's not important here, that no one knows who he is or gives a shit if he's famous. He hasn't gotten to figuring that part out yet.] I had...things I was doing-that I needed to do.

I don't want to fucking be here.

[Coming across as a spoiled brat? He kind of is. He's also been through some emotionally draining, really rough shit lately back home, before he got here, and it's made him even more irritable than he is when he's in a normal bad mood.]

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Like you?

And just in case you haven't figured it out -- none of us chose to be here. As far as I know, at least.

Famous people. I mean, yeah, it's fucked up to kidnap anyone, but it's really stupid to kidnap a musician.

[He huffs a little.]

And I didn't think anyone chose to end up in this shit hole. [Not that there's anything wrong with what he's seen so far of Crystalden, just this whole place kind of sucks when you think that you're stuck here.]

They aren't above kidnapping royalty, so I doubt they have qualms about kidnappnig a musician.

Then I suggest settling in. I doubt many of us want to be stuck here, either.
I, for one, have important responsibilities at home. [ More important than silly music, of course, is the implication. ]

Royalty? Like there's really some princes and princesses or something running around here besides that queen.

Yeah? So do I. Everyone probably has something important back home.

Edited 2013-04-12 23:34 (UTC)

Of course there are. Not from this country, of course.

What instruments do you play?

Of course. [No he's not...mocking just a little, why would you ever think that. Except that's exactly what his tone is.]

Guitar, mostly. Acoustic and electric. [The slightest pause.] And piano. I got famous for singing though.

[ Yea his eyes are going to narrow a little here. He's only used to getting attitude from Axis. ]

Oh? Were you royally commissioned or simply a very well known pub singer?
[ Notably past tense. Also so not going to admit that he has no idea what an electric guitar is. ]

[Dyme is a little bundle of snark and attitude. It's even worse when he's hungover or suffering withdrawal.

He snorts.]

Neither. I had to work really fucking hard for it. Blood, sweat, and tears, as they say.

You and everyone else. Idiot.

Yeah, well, I seriously doubted everyone else just wants to be here.

Then what makes you think anyone would have the answers? Do you think the rest of us want to listen to you whine all day?!

Hey, asking's better than siting around and not asking.

And no one's forcing you to 'listen to me whine'.

Would you shut up already, your voice is annoying.

[Already making friends!

He doesn't care who you are or where you came from. Everyone gets the Yusuke treatment.]

Yeah, well, so's yours.

You want me to shut up? Make me.

[Well they're off to a good start. Not that Dyme wasn't prone to snapping at everyone right now.]

[Don't tempt him, he doesn't get a kick out of picking on the weak.]

Aren't you confident?

You can bitch all you want about kidnapping and how you don't wanna be here but you're just wasting yours and everyone else's time.

[With all of the bar fights he's gotten into and all of the scars he's got, Dyme would be insulted to be considered weak.]

Yup. A lack of confidence won't get you very far, after all.

It's my time to waste though and I'm not forcing anyone else to sit around and listen to me, now am I?

Over confidence will dig your own grave. [Personal experience, maybe?]

Look, I'm not here to lecture your dumb ass on what you should and shouldn't do, just a piece of advise to get over it and accept that you're stuck here.

Guess that's true.

Not so easy to just get over it and accept being stuck here, though.

[Dyme doesn't usually accept things he doesn't like. Gets him in trouble a lot.]

Yeah, I know. It's a bitch to get over. [It took him awhile too, the first time.]

It's just easier if you do, if it were easy to leave, a lot of people would have high tailed it by now.

[Not to say Yusuke wasn't going to go snooping around for any signs of escape.]

So how long've you been here?

Yeah, guess so. Never hurts to ask if anyone knows anything about getting out of here though. [Because asking is better than sitting around, at least.]

Few days.

Good luck with that. [He still needs to do some investigating himself.]

Same here.

Could be worse, I guess. We could all be locked up or something. [Small plus that they're not.]

True, but there's no telling it won't get worse.

If it's anything like the last place I was at, it'll surprise you with a few events.

You been kidnapped before or something?

Believe it or not, more places like this exist. I would be surprised if there were at least a dozen. Probably more. [That's his theory anyway.]

Seriously?

[What's the big deal about kidnapping people, why can't people just be left alone? And not whisked off to strange places.]

Seriously.

Are you someone important?

[She doesn't actually care, but she's curious.]

Well, famous, yeah. I'm a musician.

Around where I live? Everyone knows who I am.

Oh.

[She doesn't think just being famous makes someone important, but she doesn't say that.]

I don't think that matters.

[Yeah, he...doesn't really either, but he doesn't like to admit that. He likes to think there's something that makes him important. Better than the alternative.]

Yeah, doesn't seem like they care here, does it?

[She nods in agreement.]

It'd make more sense if they were holding you for ransom.

[Which...is maybe a strange thing for a kid to say, but that's the reply he gets.]

Guess it would. Haven't heard anything about any demands, though.

[Not that there was anyone who would pay anything for him except himself.]

I don't think that's what they're trying to do. [She punctuates this with a quick shake of the head.] Or everyone here would be famous or important.

[She was just pointing out that the people it would be especially bad to kidnap actually make the most sense to kidnap.]

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Good point.

[Not that he's talked to a lot of other people here yet to know if there's a lot of famous or important people, but from the way she says it, he figures there's not.]

Couldn't be something that easy. Gotta be some kind of...mysterious master plan behind all this shit, or something. [God that sounds cheesy to actually have to say. Why couldn't there be a less cheesy way to try and word his speculations.]

It's a weird kidnapping. [Cheesy or not, she seems to agree.] We're even allowed wander around and do whatever we want.

Yeah, that's the weirdest part. I always figured kidnapping would lead to being tied up or something.

Most of them do. [She sounds matter-of-fact.] But they won't even tell us what we're here for, so I don't think it's a normal reason at all.

Yeah. Don't think there can be any normal reason for kidnapping who knows how many people and then just letting them wander around and do whatever they want.

[Well, whatever they want within...limits, of course. Since obviously everyone wants to go home and that's something they can't do.]

Don't think any of us do... Don't think we have a choice, either.

Yeah, didn't think we did.

[He sighs. It still helped to whine and vent about it though, since there probably wasn't anything else that he could do.]

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