December Logs

[darkcharge]

Who: Vanitas + Whomever
When: All throughout Dec
Where: Various
What: Mostly previously discussed threads. I can write individual starts for anyone who would be interested in threading something out though.
Warnings: None, yet




( OOC Note )

[ Want to do something this month with Vanitas? Feel free to contact me at jardaan if you want to do something. Or put a placeholder up and I will write you up something myself. I am very open to having new and old CR and always looking for more to do! ]

Comments

[wordsinthesoul]

And so naming them makes perfect sense. Are they good company, then?

[Secrets to be revealed when someone asks, perhaps.]

I'd think so. Someone else is bound to have had a similar problem in the past.

[darkcharge]

They're negative emotions manifested as creatures. Do you really think that they are good company?

[ He hates them, Thancred. Downright loathes them. As for Thancred's secrets... Vanitas is going to get to that. ]

[wordsinthesoul]

It's an odd thought…. Why manifest them, then? Have you manifested any positive emotions?

[ahaha. Not something he's quite looking forward to.]

[darkcharge]

[ Prize Pods are probably the closest thing that Vanitas has to a positive emotion. Even his 'happy faced' Unversed are still born from more darker desires. ]

No, I haven't. As I am of Darkness how could I create anything positive?

[ Again, questions that sort of answer themselves. ]

Why, oh why, do I manifest them? The world may never know.

[wordsinthesoul]

…you believe that of yourself?

[Not that he's had good experiences with dark powers, but- it bothers him, and he tilts his head, looking Vanitas over again to try to estimate his age.]

Perhaps- how often do you feel those emotions?

[darkcharge]

It is what it is. You'd think that if I were capable then I would have experienced it by now, right?

[ Good luck with that, Thancred. Vanitas wouldn't even know that exactly. But he looks to be about 16? 17? ]

All the time?

[wordsinthesoul]

It surprises me that you haven't.

[Younger than himself, but- capable enough. But- if he's only felt negative emotions, all his life…]

That doesn't seem right. I wonder…. Do you like song?

[darkcharge]

Song? As in singing?

[ Should that mean something to him? ]

[wordsinthesoul]

Yes. Song's known to be good for the spirits, so- do you know any?

[darkcharge]

No?

[ Honestly... ]

Do I look like some magical princess with little woodland friends?

[wordsinthesoul]

Not particularly. But song is hardly restricted to those individuals.

[darkcharge]

Where I come from, those are the only individuals that sing all nice and pretty.

[wordsinthesoul]

…You mean, there are no bards? No carollers at Starlight? What of shanties?

[Surely anyone could raise their voice in song.]

[darkcharge]

I don't understand a word of anything you just said.

[wordsinthesoul]

None of it? At all? That's… most unexpected. I fear I could not imagine a land without song, nor poetry…. Would you care to learn?

[darkcharge]

I never said that things like that don't exist...

Only that I don't get what you are saying. But what is the point of learning anything like that? It doesn't sound like a useful skill.

[wordsinthesoul]

Would you care for an explanation, then?

The point? Music can lift the spirits, and bring people together. It's a way of keeping stories alive, as well.

[darkcharge]

Maybe.

[ Okay so maybe he would like an explanation - if only because Vantias is a curious sort. ]

Just how does it bring people together then.

[wordsinthesoul]

Where should I start, then? With bards?

Ah, well, that's simple enough. To perform a piece together, the performers must listen to each other and work together to create that music. The experience itself can be enjoyable- and listening seems to bring people together just as much.

[darkcharge]

There can't be that much to sing about.

[wordsinthesoul]

You might just be surprised. There are plenty of songs about love, naturally, but then there are work songs- of which shanties form a part, song for any number of occasions and rituals, ballads, and lullabies.

[darkcharge]

Work songs. So basically people will jsut sing about whatever it is they are dong?

[ But why? And who would want to listen to that? ]

[wordsinthesoul]

That's part of it, but not necessarily all. Some are more of a narrative, some to keep tedium at bay, and keep everyone in tune.

[darkcharge]

Huh?

[ Thancred you're talking in a language that doesn't make any sense. Someone sings just to keep people singing correctly? ]

[wordsinthesoul]

It's a little like this…

[He starts clapping out a rhythm, lightly to start, and slowly building up before he begins a song in full- now comes a sailor from the sea- continuing on into the chorus.]