+ Wanted to get it real home-like... +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: EVERYONE!
Where: EVERYWHERE!
When: ANYT-- Friday, February 20 to Monday, February 23
Rating: An average PG-13? (Consider warning for explicit sexual or violent content in your thread's subject line)
Summary:
For the duration of this event each character will discover that their room has been replaced with one of their own memories, one that they find themselves particularly happy or "at home" in. More information can be found here.

This log is an opportunity for your characters to describe the memory playing in their room, so that other characters might visit, and watch the scene unfold. To help browse the collection better, please include your character's name, and their room number in the subject line (e.g. Seta Souji - 100, 6th floor) of your top-level comment.

Rooms/Comments may be locked to certain people, or be available for all to see & visit. Log participation is completely and entirely voluntary.

Have fun!

Comments

[kickassqueen]

[ Her mouth presses into a line, giving him a sympathetic look before she turns back to the memory. ]

Yeah, that whole 'gypsy curse' thing. That's gotta blow pretty hard. [ She's always so eloquent, but hey is she lying? ] You ever wonder if he'll, you know, show up sometime?

[vampdetective]

Yeah. It was supposed to be a punishment, but the real punishment would be the curse breaking all over again.

[That, he doesn't know if he can deal with right now. He's seen enough of Angelus to last him another century.

He goes quiet when she asks about Connor, a frown pulling at his lips as he looks back to his son.]

Every day. [And in some respects, he feels like it might be better, like this could be a real second chance for them-- but Connor had a better life now than any Angel had ever been able to offer him on his own.] It's selfish, but I wish he would.

[kickassqueen]

We've all got our little selfish wishes, it's no big. It's only a bad thing when people are actively trying to make them come true regardless of other people.

[ Selfishness is inherent in everyone, and this kind of selfish want just seems incredibly human to her. Who doesn't want their family with them, especially family someone has such a complicated history with? ]

Not that there's some secret summoning ritual to bring people here, I'm sure we would have heard of that by now.

[vampdetective]

I should be glad that he's not here. He has a good life now. Provided Los Angeles makes it through what's about to be unleashed-- he could keep having one.

[Angel had told him to leave town, to take his new parents and run as far as he possibly could in order to keep them safe, but Connor had already defied him once in that respect. He knows his son, despite spending so much of Connor's life apart from him. Listening was not his strong point, just as it wasn't always Angel's.]

When I go back, there's no telling what will be left. Maybe not even enough of a world to have a life in.

[kickassqueen]

[ Charlie tries to keep a positive outlook on many things - maybe she's not the perfect optimist but it's better than being a Debbie Downer all the time.

Still, she can't say that LA would be super great once he is back. ]

Maybe... [ She trails off a little, falling silent as she watches the scene in front of them start over. ] But it probably won't stay like that forever. Nothing ever really does, right?

[ Gettin' all existential up in here. ]

[vampdetective]

Hard to say. I'd like to believe that we'll pull through it. That it can be better. That's what we do-- we're supposed to fight, do whatever we can to make the world a better place.

[It's their calling as Champions, what the Powers have chosen them to do. He doesn't believe in letting anyone else pull his strings, no matter what side of the struggle they're on-- but he does believe in doing good.]

I brought those demons to Los Angeles. If I go back-- when I go back, I'll do whatever it takes to clean up the mess.

[kickassqueen]

Word. Fighting for a purpose is always worth it in the end, even if it doesn't feel like winning at the time.

[ Rome wasn't built in a day and so on. It takes time to fight back, regardless of what someone is fighting against. ]

Kinda ironic, LA getting a Hell full of demons. City of Angels it ain't, am I right?

[vampdetective]

That's what they say. Nothing angelic about it, if you ask me.

[Even considering the irony of him naming himself the city's protector, in a manner of speaking. LA might not have a hellmouth beneath it, but there's still evil at the heart of it. Wolfram & Hart's roots run deep, and while LA is only one of their power centers, they still control a hell of a lot.]

You know, most people wouldn't agree with me. They'd say that fighting without any kind of end or reward in sight isn't worth the effort.

[He looks to her, his face carefully neutral as he takes a moment to study hers.]

You're different.

[kickassqueen]

[ Charlie's only been around LA a couple of times, but prefers the mid-west to anything. Probably since it's closer to home. ]

If everyone took that attitude, then we wouldn't have had any progress at all. It's always an uphill battle, it just comes with the territory. [ Fighting any good fight seems that way. At his statement, she glances over at him, just a little puzzled. ] What kind of different?

[vampdetective]

[He smiles, just a little, one side of his mouth hitching upwards.]

You see the bigger picture.

[That's a rare thing, in his experience.]

Most people don't. They think if you're not being rewarded-- that something's not worth doing. But not you.