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thenearshore2017-01-09 01:45 am
eternalshield) wrote in thenearshore2017-01-09 01:45 am
[open] why you mad? fix your face
Who: Zeno + you
What: Drowning.
When: June 3
Where: The beach.
Warnings: Drowning.
[Zeno was... subdued. Shin-ah's disappearance was enough of a blow, but having to turn around and... do that... to the people he's loved and lost, well. Hopefully no one noticed him removing himself from society for a week or so. While even he's not sure exactly where the line between his natural personality and his usual exuberance is drawn -- people change so much over the course of their lives, after all -- enough people have seen enough of his unhappiness that he just wanted to rest and recoup before he attempted living again.
So he'd gotten it out of his system and was now idling along the beach, shoes off and feeling the sand burn his feet.]
A
[Some sort of glimmering fin catches his attention near the horizon line... A bit like a large fish waving? Which is silly, fish do not wave. But Zeno waves back, all the same, enjoying the flight of a fancy that a fish might be waving to him.
He wades into the water, just to speed up the process of the sunburn healing on his feet. That same fin seems a little closer... too close, maybe, after so short a period of time, but it wouldn't be the first time Zeno's perception of time failed him.
The fish jumps a little higher than Zeno would expect it to, but maybe that's also because it's too close? Hm.
He starts heading towards it...]
B
Aaah!
[Zeno yells out right as he's dragged underwater, and that doesn't work well, that involves choking on seawater. There's a horrible moment where he inhales, feels it go down his windpipe where liquid is not meant to be, where it's too thick and the inability to breathe makes him gasp in desperation again, suck in more water, and he's not sure if it's lack of oxygen or pain in his chest that causes his vision to blacken around the edges.
He struggles to pull himself back up over the surface, but his limbs are screaming against the strain... for a horrible second he's convinced that this is what will finally kill him and he's resigned to that, because-- but no. It's taking a minute, because he's far from Hiryuu Castle, but his body suddenly expels the water, suddenly the tiredness and strain from the lack of oxygen heals away, and he breaks the surface, gasps in just enough air to hold his breath, and gets dragged by the feet right back down to the depths by this-- it must be an ayakashi, this fish he saw waving earlier.
Zeno closes his eyes, not really looking forward to his options. Either he's going to black out from lack of oxygen, or he's going to breathe in water and drown again-- before his body resets the damage and he gets to make that awful choice all over again. The ayakashi has a hold on him, and unfortunately, inability to breathe is not the kind of injury that will give him the strength to fight his way out.
But his reverie is interrupted by a splash from above, as the ayakashi drags down someone else, and he frantically paddles his way over, the hold on his foot be damned.
You need to breathe, after all!]
C
[From the depths... of the ocean... he emerges.
Water and seaweed drip from every surface of his body as he emerges on the beach. He's shivering in the breeze, a small crustacean is hooked on to his sleeve. There's shells and driftwood stuck in his hair, complementing his beautiful gold medallion.
He begins the trudge out of the shallows and into the beach proper... and grimaces at all the sand that clings to him as he walks.]
What: Drowning.
When: June 3
Where: The beach.
Warnings: Drowning.
[Zeno was... subdued. Shin-ah's disappearance was enough of a blow, but having to turn around and... do that... to the people he's loved and lost, well. Hopefully no one noticed him removing himself from society for a week or so. While even he's not sure exactly where the line between his natural personality and his usual exuberance is drawn -- people change so much over the course of their lives, after all -- enough people have seen enough of his unhappiness that he just wanted to rest and recoup before he attempted living again.
So he'd gotten it out of his system and was now idling along the beach, shoes off and feeling the sand burn his feet.]
A
[Some sort of glimmering fin catches his attention near the horizon line... A bit like a large fish waving? Which is silly, fish do not wave. But Zeno waves back, all the same, enjoying the flight of a fancy that a fish might be waving to him.
He wades into the water, just to speed up the process of the sunburn healing on his feet. That same fin seems a little closer... too close, maybe, after so short a period of time, but it wouldn't be the first time Zeno's perception of time failed him.
The fish jumps a little higher than Zeno would expect it to, but maybe that's also because it's too close? Hm.
He starts heading towards it...]
B
Aaah!
[Zeno yells out right as he's dragged underwater, and that doesn't work well, that involves choking on seawater. There's a horrible moment where he inhales, feels it go down his windpipe where liquid is not meant to be, where it's too thick and the inability to breathe makes him gasp in desperation again, suck in more water, and he's not sure if it's lack of oxygen or pain in his chest that causes his vision to blacken around the edges.
He struggles to pull himself back up over the surface, but his limbs are screaming against the strain... for a horrible second he's convinced that this is what will finally kill him and he's resigned to that, because-- but no. It's taking a minute, because he's far from Hiryuu Castle, but his body suddenly expels the water, suddenly the tiredness and strain from the lack of oxygen heals away, and he breaks the surface, gasps in just enough air to hold his breath, and gets dragged by the feet right back down to the depths by this-- it must be an ayakashi, this fish he saw waving earlier.
Zeno closes his eyes, not really looking forward to his options. Either he's going to black out from lack of oxygen, or he's going to breathe in water and drown again-- before his body resets the damage and he gets to make that awful choice all over again. The ayakashi has a hold on him, and unfortunately, inability to breathe is not the kind of injury that will give him the strength to fight his way out.
But his reverie is interrupted by a splash from above, as the ayakashi drags down someone else, and he frantically paddles his way over, the hold on his foot be damned.
You need to breathe, after all!]
C
[From the depths... of the ocean... he emerges.
Water and seaweed drip from every surface of his body as he emerges on the beach. He's shivering in the breeze, a small crustacean is hooked on to his sleeve. There's shells and driftwood stuck in his hair, complementing his beautiful gold medallion.
He begins the trudge out of the shallows and into the beach proper... and grimaces at all the sand that clings to him as he walks.]