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Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan ([personal profile] dendarii) wrote2017-01-02 09:55 am
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[IC] [Mask or Menace] Contact Post

"This is Miles. Leave a message and I'll respond to you at my earliest convenience."

The line has gone silent; any messages sent to this name only return an error.
jacksonian: (looking down)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-22 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ Let's salvage a bit of masochism. ]

Yeah. Let's hear about them.
jacksonian: (nervous)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-22 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ He swallows hard. His throat is tight and painful. He should get out of this conversation. It's a dangerous, bad conversation. Distracting. Stupid. Really stupid. But...it's useful for him to know more about the Butcher and his witch of a wife. Right? That'll be good for his cover someday. If he ever uses it, if the Komarrans come back. Every piece of information is advantageous... ]

Didn't he have work to do?
jacksonian: (despairing)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-22 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ He doesn't even know what he feels. ]

Things got neglected, then. Just for that.
jacksonian: (brooding)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-22 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...Funny. When he was making up a backstory for this persona of his, Peter, he didn't think about his feelings towards his family. He's left groping now, trying to figure out his relationship to them. These fictional people. Finally he settles on: ]

They're fine.

[ ...nailed it? ]
jacksonian: (despairing)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-22 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ Another long pause. Finally, the reply: ]

You know. They're good parents. They spend a lot of time with me, as much as they can. They have enough money that we live comfortably. They put me in school. All of that. My father is sometimes a little bit stern, but I know he loves me. And my mother is very affectionate. I come home at the holidays, and it's always nice and peaceful. I never doubted they love me. And they gave me a good life, growing up.
jacksonian: (looking down)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-22 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He fights the urge to elaborate further, to make it sound more believable by adding details. My father sometimes had a temper. A little bit of a temper... ]

That's another question. I don't think you've earned that.
jacksonian: (intense)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-22 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I asked it already. Who are you?
jacksonian: (Default)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-22 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The truth. Finally. In return, a lie: ]

Lord? Your planet has lords?
jacksonian: (drunk)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-22 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
An economics student who wants to become a stockbroker full-time. You already know that.
jacksonian: (smile??? painful smile)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-22 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't that sort of an oxymoron? "Surprisingly normal?" Isn't it the abnormal that's supposed to surprise you?
jacksonian: (stressed the fuck out)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-22 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
So what do you want me to say? Birth defects make me special? They're not all that uncommon where I come from. Toxicity in the atmosphere.
jacksonian: (drunk)

[personal profile] jacksonian 2016-03-23 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ Shit. He hasn't thought about what he's going to say here. On the one hand, his bones aren't all that breakable, which might become evident if he ever has to engage in any action, but on the other hand - how to explain the synthetics...? ]

That's another question. You owe me an answer on how being some feudal Lord or whatever is complex.
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