The first It shouldn't have been there, but it was. Levi knew, looking at the odd symbol hanging in the air in the middle of the street that it was wrong in multiple ways. For one it was floating in midair, but mostly it felt wrong. So much of him was telling him to look away, leave, forget about it and never look back. But there was just enough of him to fight that, to be stubborn and refuse to do what it seemed like he should be doing. Levi was never that great at following rules, if he had been he'd never quit school or started taking drugs. Well, maybe he should have been better at it.
He reached out to touch the symbol and immediately his world changed. For a brief instant his world consisted of a green void, but he was at peace. It didn't last, though, as memories of fighting a god, a demi-god and a creature in the bunker under Prehevil flooded into his mind. As it faded he stumbled backwards, falling on his ass and clutching his head. Just what was that?!
Piano The piano wasn't like the other weird objects. Sure, it was in the middle of the park and it really shouldn't be there, but it felt different. He was almost afraid of the others, but this one felt more...bittersweet? Sad, but not. He'd tried his hand at the piano when he was younger, he can't remember why, but had given up before learning much. Did he still remember any songs? The strange phantom piano probably wasn't the best place to try and find out, but with everything being so strange lately Levi figured he might as well. ??The piano disappeared as soon as he touched it, of course. There was a fleeting memory of tapping away at the keys in some bar but it only lasted a moment. The memories that came after that fit the bittersweet feeling the piano had given him. His mother playing it. She hadn't really, had she? Or not in this life. But in the memories brought forth she did, she even tried to teach him but he was too young to grasp or remember any of it. This time, when the memories faded, Levi found himself crying. He wasn't sure if they were happy tears or sad tears.??
General The items quickly become an obsession for Levi, just another addiction to chase getting a fix of. The wrongness never goes away, but it no longer fully registers. Its more of a rush, an increased heartbeat and the need to see what he gets this time. After the first couple Levi does the unthinkable and stops doing any drugs, aside from smoking. Normally he smokes regularly, but as the obsession with the strange objects and the memories builds he begins chain smoking. He has to, he's nervous constantly. Twitchy, certain that somehow he'll get in trouble with all this. The things felt WRONG, like he shouldn't be seeing them. He took that as some sort of defense mechanism, something that It was trying to hide from him. What was It? He doesn't know. The council? Those Who Were There? The city itself? Maybe some strange unknown force that was possibly pulling the stings behind everything. Who or whatever it was didn't want him knowing these things, so it had him looking over his shoulder at every waking moment. He wasn't going to stop, so he needed to make sure he was ready for anything that might try and make him.
After regaining more memories later in the month, however, Levi returns to the drugs. So many of the memories were bad, terrible things happening--that he'd done or been responsible for. He was in too deep to stop, though. He still needed to know, to do whatever it was he was rebelling against by interacting with these things. Later in the month Levi seems much calmer, no longer chain smoking and looking over his shoulder every few seconds. He was taking anything and everything to calm his nerves, to make him forget about all the terrible memories he'd seen, or simply to feel like he was in yet another world.
It's not like Ange knows Levi - or so she thinks, anyway. But.. really, regardless of whether or not you know someone, it's really hard to ignore someone just seeming to fall down in the middle of the street out of nowhere.
It doesn't help that the street is relatively quiet right now, which means Ange can't spot anyone else when she turns her head to look if anyone else saw that.. and since the girl knows it means no one else is going to check up on this odd guy who just fell over, the responsibility is going to end up on her shoulders. Especially when she's a little more helpful right now than she'd usually be.
So the redhead slowly makes her way over until she's right next to Levi's fallen form, slowly blinking at him.
Levi's eyes widen as he looks to Ange. He'd forgotten he where he was after the intensity of the visions, and remembering he's in public makes him feel vulnerable. He doesn't really know this girl aside from having seen her around town, but right not it seemed she wasn't a threat. Or going to make fun of him. Maybe.
"I-i-i....I...d-did you see it? The..." he trails off. The what? How does he describe what just happened?
She tilts her head a little to the side as she echoes that last word back at him - like she's thinking about it, but doesn't fully seem to realise what he's talking about. If anything, Ange mostly sounds a little bit confused...
Not necessarily sceptical, though. Instead she looks around them, like she really wants to find the thing that Levi was talking about.
He looks back to where he'd seen the strange floating symbol. "There was...some sort of picture. And then there was...I-I don't know. I saw...something weird. Somewhere else."
Ange is still looking around, but she can't see any picture. She's imagining it must have been on one of the walls around them - since she's not going to assume pictures would just appear out of nowhere in the air, that's ridiculous! - so she's looking at those, but.. it's all just empty walls to her..
So rather than trying to find a picture that clearly isn't here, she turns back to Levi. Is he just hallucinating?
"What was that 'something weird'?"
Might as well ask, regardless of whether it's fake or not. At worst she'll just have a kind of funny story to tell Ragna once she gets home, she figures.
"I...uh..." Did he just have a daydream? Was that even how those worked? He never remembered his real dreams, but he remembers this one. "I-I guess? You didn't see anything weird?"
She shakes her head. Pretty quickly too, like she's just being honest about this.
"Nothing at all." Granted, maybe she was just too late to see what he saw, only seeing the aftermath.. But Ange figures that if there really had been something there, surely it would have stuck around for long enough for her to see it too, right?
"You haven't been drinking or something, have you?"
.. maybe kind of too blunt a thing to just ask someone so plainly..
But then again, it's a more logical way to explain this than anything else in Ange's mind. Hence why she goes for it so quickly.
"No, I haven't, uh..." Well he hasn't been drinking and he didn't think he took anything that'd cause hallucinations. Especially ones that felt as real as that. "Nothing that should have done something like that. People don't usually just trip out in the middle of somewhere unprompted."
He didn't like hallucinogenics anyway. His mind seemed to only be able to picture horrible things.
Okay, Levi. She heard that pause there. That mighty suspicious pause.
There's no way Ange won't raise an eyebrow at that, definitely giving him a suspicious look to go along with it.
"Did you have anything?" Specifying that it was nothing that should have done something like that does kind of imply there was something, after all. Maybe it was just stronger than Levi anticipated. Ange knows a lot of other people in general are idiots who overestimate themselves.
Levi just assumes everyone knows him as the loser drop-out junkie that he is, thus eliminating the need to pretend to be anything else or try and make people respect him. He just looks at her for a moment, "Cigarettes and pot. It wasn't laced, that's not how that usually works."
"It could still cause something like this though, right?"
It might be obvious that Ange has never partaken in either of those things herself.. She's saying this so confidently, but she actually has no idea whatsoever what she's talking about here. If anything, it's more likely that she's parroting other people's talking points.
"You should lay off on those if they're making you fall down in the middle of the streets. Before it gets even worse."
Dang, Levi. What a thing to admit to while being on the defensive. Ange is definitely - if not momentarily - making a bit of a face when he says that, because she reads the implication that he must have tried a whole lot of stuff loud and clear. Seems like Levi's reputation really isn't lying, huh...
"Well, it was inevitable that this would happen sooner or later."
It's a convenient thing to blame whatever is happening to Levi on. Especially when Ange has no idea what it's like to use drugs, other than in the 'they're bad and don't do them whatsoever' stories she's heard. This fits right in with those.
"Maybe stop touching that stuff, and then you won't get bothered by weird visions again."
"At least I'm not falling on my ass in front of the entire town," Ange says with a shrug. She doesn't really sound annoyed, even in the face of his eyeroll.. Though it's mostly because Ange knows (read: figures) that she's the one in the right here.
And having the moral high ground is giving her quite some guard against getting annoyed over being called this.
It's a fitting answer, really.. Though it doesn't seem to bother Ange all that much.
And considering she's figured out the situation now - or so she thinks, anyway - it doesn't feel all that interesting anymore either. Nothing she can do to help someone if they're taking drugs, after all.
So when she spots that lineface, Ange just shrugs, and then moves to continue walking on, leaving him to his trouble.
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Lost & Found
It shouldn't have been there, but it was. Levi knew, looking at the odd symbol hanging in the air in the middle of the street that it was wrong in multiple ways. For one it was floating in midair, but mostly it felt wrong. So much of him was telling him to look away, leave, forget about it and never look back. But there was just enough of him to fight that, to be stubborn and refuse to do what it seemed like he should be doing. Levi was never that great at following rules, if he had been he'd never quit school or started taking drugs.
Well, maybe he should have been better at it.He reached out to touch the symbol and immediately his world changed. For a brief instant his world consisted of a green void, but he was at peace. It didn't last, though, as memories of fighting a god, a demi-god and a creature in the bunker under Prehevil flooded into his mind. As it faded he stumbled backwards, falling on his ass and clutching his head. Just what was that?!
Piano
The piano wasn't like the other weird objects. Sure, it was in the middle of the park and it really shouldn't be there, but it felt different. He was almost afraid of the others, but this one felt more...bittersweet? Sad, but not. He'd tried his hand at the piano when he was younger, he can't remember why, but had given up before learning much. Did he still remember any songs? The strange phantom piano probably wasn't the best place to try and find out, but with everything being so strange lately Levi figured he might as well.
??The piano disappeared as soon as he touched it, of course. There was a fleeting memory of tapping away at the keys in some bar but it only lasted a moment. The memories that came after that fit the bittersweet feeling the piano had given him. His mother playing it. She hadn't really, had she? Or not in this life. But in the memories brought forth she did, she even tried to teach him but he was too young to grasp or remember any of it. This time, when the memories faded, Levi found himself crying. He wasn't sure if they were happy tears or sad tears.??
General
The items quickly become an obsession for Levi, just another addiction to chase getting a fix of. The wrongness never goes away, but it no longer fully registers. Its more of a rush, an increased heartbeat and the need to see what he gets this time.
After the first couple Levi does the unthinkable and stops doing any drugs, aside from smoking. Normally he smokes regularly, but as the obsession with the strange objects and the memories builds he begins chain smoking. He has to, he's nervous constantly. Twitchy, certain that somehow he'll get in trouble with all this. The things felt WRONG, like he shouldn't be seeing them. He took that as some sort of defense mechanism, something that It was trying to hide from him.
What was It? He doesn't know. The council? Those Who Were There? The city itself? Maybe some strange unknown force that was possibly pulling the stings behind everything. Who or whatever it was didn't want him knowing these things, so it had him looking over his shoulder at every waking moment. He wasn't going to stop, so he needed to make sure he was ready for anything that might try and make him.
After regaining more memories later in the month, however, Levi returns to the drugs. So many of the memories were bad, terrible things happening--that he'd done or been responsible for. He was in too deep to stop, though. He still needed to know, to do whatever it was he was rebelling against by interacting with these things. Later in the month Levi seems much calmer, no longer chain smoking and looking over his shoulder every few seconds. He was taking anything and everything to calm his nerves, to make him forget about all the terrible memories he'd seen, or simply to feel like he was in yet another world.
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It doesn't help that the street is relatively quiet right now, which means Ange can't spot anyone else when she turns her head to look if anyone else saw that.. and since the girl knows it means no one else is going to check up on this odd guy who just fell over, the responsibility is going to end up on her shoulders. Especially when she's a little more helpful right now than she'd usually be.
So the redhead slowly makes her way over until she's right next to Levi's fallen form, slowly blinking at him.
"Is.. something wrong?"
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"I-i-i....I...d-did you see it? The..." he trails off. The what? How does he describe what just happened?
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She tilts her head a little to the side as she echoes that last word back at him - like she's thinking about it, but doesn't fully seem to realise what he's talking about. If anything, Ange mostly sounds a little bit confused...
Not necessarily sceptical, though. Instead she looks around them, like she really wants to find the thing that Levi was talking about.
"What do you mean? What did you see?"
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So rather than trying to find a picture that clearly isn't here, she turns back to Levi. Is he just hallucinating?
"What was that 'something weird'?"
Might as well ask, regardless of whether it's fake or not. At worst she'll just have a kind of funny story to tell Ragna once she gets home, she figures.
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See, that sounds way less weird.
.. and way more embarrassing.
"That sure must have been some daydream." To have that much effect on Levi, she means.
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cw: mentions of drinking
"Nothing at all." Granted, maybe she was just too late to see what he saw, only seeing the aftermath.. But Ange figures that if there really had been something there, surely it would have stuck around for long enough for her to see it too, right?
"You haven't been drinking or something, have you?"
.. maybe kind of too blunt a thing to just ask someone so plainly..
But then again, it's a more logical way to explain this than anything else in Ange's mind. Hence why she goes for it so quickly.
i rase your cw: drinking with cw: drug use
He didn't like hallucinogenics anyway. His mind seemed to only be able to picture horrible things.
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Okay, Levi. She heard that pause there. That mighty suspicious pause.
There's no way Ange won't raise an eyebrow at that, definitely giving him a suspicious look to go along with it.
"Did you have anything?" Specifying that it was nothing that should have done something like that does kind of imply there was something, after all. Maybe it was just stronger than Levi anticipated. Ange knows a lot of other people in general are idiots who overestimate themselves.
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It might be obvious that Ange has never partaken in either of those things herself.. She's saying this so confidently, but she actually has no idea whatsoever what she's talking about here. If anything, it's more likely that she's parroting other people's talking points.
"You should lay off on those if they're making you fall down in the middle of the streets. Before it gets even worse."
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He might want to watch where hes going better, but she's got him on the defensive so he won't admit to anything.
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"Well, it was inevitable that this would happen sooner or later."
It's a convenient thing to blame whatever is happening to Levi on. Especially when Ange has no idea what it's like to use drugs, other than in the 'they're bad and don't do them whatsoever' stories she's heard. This fits right in with those.
"Maybe stop touching that stuff, and then you won't get bothered by weird visions again."
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Levi rolls his eyes and sighs, "Whatever you say Ms goody-two-shoes straight edge."
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And having the moral high ground is giving her quite some guard against getting annoyed over being called this.
"Consider it a tip. Do with it what you want."
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And considering she's figured out the situation now - or so she thinks, anyway - it doesn't feel all that interesting anymore either. Nothing she can do to help someone if they're taking drugs, after all.
So when she spots that lineface, Ange just shrugs, and then moves to continue walking on, leaving him to his trouble.
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