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themainframe2013-08-26 08:15 am
headup_stickontheice) wrote in themainframe2013-08-26 08:15 am
Tenth Goal - File Not Found. [Video/potential Action later.]
[Early in the morning, the feed clicks on, automatically. On it, is Cam, standing on the edge of a walkway, looking extremely distressed. He waits. He looks down, he steels himself...and he pulls back, quickly looking down as someone walks beneath it, completely unaware of his presence.
Again, he steals himself. Again, he prepares. He closes his eyes and pitches forward, landing hard on his left arm with a sickening crack. He wheezes in pain and tries to get his bearings. Someone rushes up to him, a young woman, a teacher--] "What happened? Is it your arm?" [He nods.] "I'll go get help." [She leaves, footsteps echoing. As she leaves, through his pain, Cam smiles.
Brief static. It picks up, in a hospital, with Cam, an older boy, and Maya, who some might recognize. Static flits through the conversation, until--] I'm not some loser who tries to hurt himself.
[The feed cuts.]
[ooc: The actual video can be reached by clicking the link in the cut, hitting "continue as free user," and jumping to 17:57 on the timestamp. It ends at 18:55. Warning for what you'd see, it's a kid intentionally falling from a high place to break his own arm. Short, not graphic, but unsettling to say the least. After the static, it picks up again at 20:48 and ends at 21:13 or so. The first scene is, under the cut, briefly detailed. The second is not as it has more dialogue, so it needs to be watched, and it is brief discussion of the previous injury with internalized ableism.
Last but not least Cam may or may not respond to people! This post can be used for action if they try to find him, hint he might be in his room.]
Again, he steals himself. Again, he prepares. He closes his eyes and pitches forward, landing hard on his left arm with a sickening crack. He wheezes in pain and tries to get his bearings. Someone rushes up to him, a young woman, a teacher--] "What happened? Is it your arm?" [He nods.] "I'll go get help." [She leaves, footsteps echoing. As she leaves, through his pain, Cam smiles.
Brief static. It picks up, in a hospital, with Cam, an older boy, and Maya, who some might recognize. Static flits through the conversation, until--] I'm not some loser who tries to hurt himself.
[The feed cuts.]
[ooc: The actual video can be reached by clicking the link in the cut, hitting "continue as free user," and jumping to 17:57 on the timestamp. It ends at 18:55. Warning for what you'd see, it's a kid intentionally falling from a high place to break his own arm. Short, not graphic, but unsettling to say the least. After the static, it picks up again at 20:48 and ends at 21:13 or so. The first scene is, under the cut, briefly detailed. The second is not as it has more dialogue, so it needs to be watched, and it is brief discussion of the previous injury with internalized ableism.
Last but not least Cam may or may not respond to people! This post can be used for action if they try to find him, hint he might be in his room.]
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[Leatherhead where are you going with this.]
There are times when the past becomes unbearable...and when I wish I could never be seen again. Sometimes...those feelings are strong. Do you know these feelings?
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I know them very, very well.
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But I must carry on, I must keep fighting. Because if I cannot fight for myself, then I shall fight for my friends.
I will fight for a world that shall never know pain like ours.
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He shuts his eyes tight and jeez, there he is again. Crying. He thought he didn't have any tears left but this proves him wrong.
He can't speak. Not at all. So he just nods with a very sharp intake of breath.]
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I can visit you...if you wish.
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[He tries to compose himself. It takes a minute.]
I can't...but...later we can and... H-have you...ever tried ice skating?
[Something about this is probably lost on Leatherhead. A lot of it is. But Cam tries a watery smile that falls short, but oh, it's something.]
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...what is ice skating?
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I can, show you how.
[There's an undertone of pleading. He needs this.]
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I would like that...
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...Thanks.
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N-no, not... ...I-I've got, Maya over here. My girlfriend.
[Cam is speaking softly.]
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If she makes you happy, go to her.