round 05 [video]
Sep. 15th, 2012 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
districttwo[Post this, Cato has finally emerged from the common room. and he is...full of unease but playing it cool. Oh so cool]
Are there mutts here?
[he hesitates] Is that part of the rehabilitation process? If inmates get...out of line are they fed or forced to square off against muttations?
[The saddest part about this, barge, is that he is beyond serious. Don't expect anything beyond nods and okays as far as responses go however.]
[Private to Dylan]
...There was...a thing. I thought it was a small mutt but it was just a regular dog I think but...
[and he lets that hang. Because. Dogs. He can't handle it.]
Are there mutts here?
[he hesitates] Is that part of the rehabilitation process? If inmates get...out of line are they fed or forced to square off against muttations?
[The saddest part about this, barge, is that he is beyond serious. Don't expect anything beyond nods and okays as far as responses go however.]
[Private to Dylan]
...There was...a thing. I thought it was a small mutt but it was just a regular dog I think but...
[and he lets that hang. Because. Dogs. He can't handle it.]
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Date: 2012-09-16 07:56 am (UTC)[Clint breathes deep] good.
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Date: 2012-09-16 10:06 am (UTC)[And then, because he has to know, considering.]
...Did you run into a dog, kid?
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Date: 2012-09-16 02:31 pm (UTC)[Private]
Date: 2012-09-16 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-17 03:44 am (UTC)...and what if I did? Dogs aren't mutts. They're dogs.
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Date: 2012-09-17 03:45 am (UTC)Re: [Private]
Date: 2012-09-17 03:46 am (UTC)[He's pretty far gone] Why?
...Is something coming?
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Date: 2012-09-17 03:46 am (UTC)[Private]
Date: 2012-09-17 03:58 am (UTC)Re: [Private]
Date: 2012-09-17 04:09 am (UTC)...don't tell anybody.
Please don't. I can't stand being laughed at. Being some hopeless...stoner kid. [The stoners, the lower class of District 2 society and a derogatory term for those who don't conform.] having people make fun of you.
Keeper's kids don't do that. How can you protect somebody if you're scared?
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Date: 2012-09-17 04:24 am (UTC)But you know what? I've been in the military for over twenty years now, and I've been scared lots of times. But I never failed in my objectives because of it. Fear can keep you sharp. Fear is just survival instinct and your survival instinct can help you stay alive when things get dangerous. The secret isn't to stop being afraid but to just keep on doing what you've got to do anyway and learn not to let it control your actions.
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Date: 2012-09-17 04:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-17 04:57 am (UTC)[Private]
If you saw a dog, what did it look like?
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Date: 2012-09-17 05:25 am (UTC)[Cato is shaking. Unintentionally shaking.] It had teeth. Brown.
White.
...[And now he's struggling] medium size. I bumped into it..
[Private]
Date: 2012-09-17 05:35 am (UTC)You uh... what they're not tellin' you is that in some places, like my world, people can turn into dogs and back again. They're not Muttations or whatever. They're people. We even have people that stay dogs, and just talk and go about their lives as dogs. Because that's just who they are. They're not born messed up or anything.
So, you gotta be real careful here, because you might hurt a person.
Re: [Private]
Date: 2012-09-17 05:42 am (UTC)[Cato is stunned.] You're telling me that it's not a muttation but it's a person and then it's not?
[Cato that's the wrong thing to say. Seriously. Because the muttations that they brought out-borrowed genetic appearances from the tributes. It was designed to fuck with people.]
....But it's possible, for people to become those things? [He doesn't sound angry, just-scared.. terrified] I wasn't watching where I was going. I t-tripped and it chased me and that was a person?
[Private]
Date: 2012-09-17 05:49 am (UTC)You tripped and it chased you. Did it even so much as bite you?
Re: [Private]
Date: 2012-09-17 06:03 am (UTC)[But it growled. It barked. Cato looks terrified.]
...No. No. No bites. [Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale.] It didn't bite me. It didn't rip me apart. It didn't eat me. It barked. It growled. It chased. But it didn't eat me. It didn't.
[He hesitates. He was babbling and he knows it.]
I'm sorry.
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Date: 2012-09-17 06:30 am (UTC)I don't think it would have hurt you. I think it was probably tryin' to run you off 'cause you scared it, too. [He doesn't know how scared Tommy would have been, but he knows he's super reluctant with his identity and that says enough.] The best way to get over bein' scared is learning more about somethin'.
[Private]
Date: 2012-09-17 04:49 pm (UTC)...Okay.
...Is it. [slowly, stuttering.] Are they going to come back and kill me for what I did? Should I be armed?
[He almost asks should my warden know. progress.]
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Date: 2012-09-18 12:52 am (UTC)[Private]
Date: 2012-09-18 02:36 am (UTC)Nobody's gonna put a hit out on you over it. [Don't worry, he is going to talk to his warden.]
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Date: 2012-09-18 09:28 am (UTC)[He's friendly enough for now, all things considered, but he already dislikes your face, Cato.]
[Private]
Date: 2012-09-19 01:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-19 01:16 am (UTC)