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Sep. 4th, 2012 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wonmyownhand[Merida’s face is showing up on the journals, and she looks more than a little disturbed.]
Ach, ye got some rather disturbin’ methods here, Lord Deior. [There’s quite the sarcastic emphasis on the word ‘Lord’.] Last time I hopped a gate, I can truthfully tell ya that I didn’t have a bit a’issue asides a scratch or two.
[And she definitely didn’t DIE or lose her MEMORY or anything like that. Merida is still really shaken up about all that.]
Anyone up for a wee bit of huntin’? Got an itch to shoot me bow for a time.
[And that’s that. She’s not saying another damn word about hopping that wall.]
Ach, ye got some rather disturbin’ methods here, Lord Deior. [There’s quite the sarcastic emphasis on the word ‘Lord’.] Last time I hopped a gate, I can truthfully tell ya that I didn’t have a bit a’issue asides a scratch or two.
[And she definitely didn’t DIE or lose her MEMORY or anything like that. Merida is still really shaken up about all that.]
Anyone up for a wee bit of huntin’? Got an itch to shoot me bow for a time.
[And that’s that. She’s not saying another damn word about hopping that wall.]
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Date: 2012-10-13 04:28 am (UTC)She stares at him for a long moment, until she finally just blurts out-]
Oh, that's just fockin' wonderful.
[Action]
Date: 2012-10-13 04:32 am (UTC)Really, you think? That's exactly what I need, an outside opinion on my life. Thanks for your input.
[Yeah, he's being more surly than usual, but this is touchy for him, and is reminding him why he keeps this a secret. He's used to people hating and looking down on him for being a werewolf, but that doesn't mean he likes it.]
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Date: 2012-10-13 04:36 am (UTC)She awkwardly shifts from one foot to the other, and chews roughly on her lower lip, already chapped from the night air.]
Er. Sorry. I just-- havena had much luck with people changin' into things besides... [She gestures to him, then her.]
Y'know. Human.
[Action]
Date: 2012-10-13 04:42 am (UTC)She's the first person he's actually told here, who didn't just know because they were a shifter, or find out when he was sick and couldn't actually have a conversation about it. He doesn't really know what to do, and he really hates getting stuck in situations that he doesn't have a plan for.
Derek likes plans, okay. They're his thing.
He crosses his arms over his chest, trying to hide it - there's a reason he always wears baggy clothes, but it's because he doesn't like people seeing that he's actually very well built - and then changes his mind when it pulls at his shoulder.]
I haven't either.
[And he might be including himself, there.]
A wolf, or another shifter?
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Date: 2012-10-13 04:47 am (UTC)No. Not another shifter. Not like you, anyway.
[Kicking at a rock, she looks reluctant to speak but it seems like one of those situations where she sort of had to.]
I followed the Wisps, yeah? Right to the doorway of a witch and wished for somethin' that would change me mum. She gave me a tart, an' it turned her into a damned bear.
[Another rock kick.]
Almost didn't get her back.
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Date: 2012-10-13 05:01 am (UTC)[He shifts his weight, even more awkward.]
Witches can be nasty. Or just stupid, even if they're trying to be nice.
[Of course, Derek's only known one witch, and he pretty much despises her. Not to mention there's this sort of witch-sorcerer feud going on in his world, and both his adopted dad and brother are sorcerers. But it's not like he's biased at all.]
This isn't magic, though. It's just what I am.
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Date: 2012-10-13 05:04 am (UTC)I don't think...she was tryna be nasty. [Not really. She HAD left Merida a message on how to fix it, cryptic as it had been.]
I don't think I understand. [How was it not magic?]
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Date: 2012-10-13 05:10 am (UTC)[Not speaking from personal experience, nope.
And then he shifts, scowling and looking away.]
I'm just - a werewolf. I was born like this.
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Date: 2012-10-13 05:37 am (UTC)Ah. [Doesn't explain a damn thing to her.]
There wasn't any...tarts involved? Nothin' y'ate?
[Action]
Date: 2012-10-14 05:50 am (UTC)Derek frowns at that slightly, but he looks back at her.]
No, nothing like that. Just me.
Re: [Action]
Date: 2012-10-14 05:51 am (UTC)I...see. [Sort of] So y'can go back an forth, just like that? Can I see?
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Date: 2012-10-14 05:54 am (UTC)He starts to explain, but her question makes him stop, and just kind of stare at her for a moment, confused.]
...you want to see? Really?
[Derek hadn't meant to add the 'really' there, but, well. No one's ever actually wanted to see him change.]
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Date: 2012-10-14 05:56 am (UTC)So long as y'don't try and eat me, yeah. 'S interesting.
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Date: 2012-10-14 08:27 am (UTC)[He honestly doesn't know what to say to this. It's never come up before, okay. This is entirely new for him.]
Yeah. Okay. But I won't be able to change back right away, so if you have any questions that actually need answers, ask them now.
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Date: 2012-10-19 02:05 am (UTC)Right right, o'course. I'll stay outta yer way.
[Mostly.]
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Date: 2012-10-20 03:17 am (UTC)It takes him a moment, because he's never actually changed in front of someone who wasn't a shape shifter themselves. ...or Chloe, but that - hadn't been intentional. And isn't something he wants to think of right now.
But the anxiety is actually helping a bit, getting him riled up enough that he can feel the wolf stirring under the surface, and he grabs onto it. Then he's changing form, dropping to the ground on hands and knees to accommodate bones twisting and muscles shifting, fur sprouting up as his spine reshapes itself.
It's not exactly the prettiest of processes, but before long, he's in full wolf form, kicking off his jeans before sitting down, not looking at her.]
Re: [Action]
Date: 2012-10-20 05:11 am (UTC)A wolf. You just -- to a wolf.
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Date: 2012-10-26 08:39 am (UTC)But he looks up at her, almost hopefully, even as he raises and lowers one shoulder in an approximation of a shrug.]
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Date: 2012-10-29 01:53 am (UTC)Can I?
[Now she felt really bad about shooting him with her arrow.]
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Date: 2012-10-29 03:46 am (UTC)But he nods anyway, pretending that's not happening at all.]
Re: [Action]
Date: 2012-10-30 02:43 am (UTC)He's a little softer than she expected and it makes her grin with childlike glee before she starts to give the top of his head a good scritch.]
[Action]
Date: 2012-10-30 11:40 pm (UTC)Then he pushes his head slightly into her hand, leaning into her stratching.]
Re: [Action]
Date: 2012-11-01 01:30 am (UTC)Bloody adorable, y'are.
[Action]
Date: 2012-11-01 05:55 am (UTC)Derek snorts, a disgruntled huff, but that doesn't stop him from butting his head lightly against her shoulder, tail still wagging.
It's hard not to be tentatively happy, with her reacting so well to him in wolf form.]