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Lan Jingyi (AU) ([personal profile] jingyeets) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerexpress2021-08-02 12:02 pm

( open ) i am so high, i can hear heaven

Who: Lan Jingyi ([personal profile] jingyeets) & ( OPEN )
Where: Quiet Carriage; Garden Carriage; elsewhere in train carriages.
When: Merriment 16 to Merriment 21!
What: Arm wrestling; drunken/tipsy wanderings; memorial construction w/calligraphy/painting; etc.
Warnings: Alcohol consumption! Relationship discussions, including potential mentions of gay panic, depending. Will warn as applicable.

ready to rumble (closed to dennis)
Time on the train is a construct even more apparent than the time otherwise passing on worlds, when they're on worlds. He's only seen three platforms and two worlds, but there likely is another coming, and that's something nice to look forward to, assuming he gets to fly. He'd love to fly, he aches for it, having been minimal in application in the illusion world, and always caught and constrained on platform.

Anyway, that was for another day, and for tonight, he has other plans, involving Dennis, the unmarked bottle of alcohol he's ordered, and the two sauce sized ramekins. When he does manage to track Dennis down, he quirks up his brow, holds up both bottle and ramekins (go with him here, the teacups won't work right and no one has proper drinking bowls or cups in his opinion, and there's only so much alcohol in the bottle anyway). "Ready?"

For the talk they need to have, for the arm wrestling already promised, and for tiny, tiny shots of the best alcohol Jingyi could possibly have ordered from back home. A wine, technically... but don't be fooled. It's hard liquor.
arm wrestling and other shenanigans (ota, merriment 16)
Tipsy, Jingyi eases open the quiet car door, and makes a surprisingly upright drift throughout the train, made more chaotic by use of the transgates. For the most part, in human form, he can be found:

in the standard carriage, challenging anyone who feels like it to arm wrestling at the chairs facing each other over a fold down table where he will lose for any younger Voidtrecker who takes him up on it, and most the rest depending;

to the spa carriage where, after prodding at the ICP, he finds the tutorial video for massages and tries to nab a buddy for him to learn on (yes, while clearly inebriated, but don't worry, it'll be fine), after which he'll think going into the pool is the best idea. Which is the last time he'll be in clothing, after making sure no one around is... around, or asking them if they care; sometime in soaking in the hot water he decides he wants to swim, and ends up dragon, the fox-sized form he takes on capable of swimming sinuously through.

At some point he drags himself out and beelines in the air, bouncing himself off walls, ceilings, just about anything, aiming for an eventual stop in the Garden carriage, hoping to swim in the lotus pool there. He's hot.
memorial construction (merriment 16-merriment 21)
Starting from Merriment 16 onward, Jingyi can be found working on using spiritual energy to carve words into a stone in the garden; or sitting and using a bench to work on calligraphy of an odd alphabet that looks pointedly like something untranslated, shown on his SCA. He's using a calligraphy brush and black ink on paper to make sure he has the form right.

Only after he's finished perfecting that does he return to the stone, taking time in the days after to channel spiritual energy through his calligraphy brush to "carve" those letters into its face. He's taking quite a lot of time, because this is not the ideal way to do this (as far as he knows), and the concentration it takes is enough he gets through a few letters then stands up to walk around and be physically active, before returning to his work.

The day he finishes, he brings the censer he ordered and sets the first incense alight. To those who recognise the scent, it's clearly sandalwood based. Pressing his hands together before him, he says, "May you find what it is you're looking for."

On the stone, now automatically translated for all to read, it says:

'What is past I cannot reach again, and what is to come I cannot keep.
The candle has a heart—it too hates parting. In our place, it sheds a tear at dawn.

Dedicated to the Missing and the Lost.
You are remembered.'
wildcard
Hit me up OOC for a starter, or tag in anywhere on train with your own! Roommates, feel free to hit him up for shenanigans.
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[personal profile] agoodsoul 2021-08-04 09:11 am (UTC)(link)
It's oddly enough the first time he's been in the Quiet Car, maybe obvious by how he looks around as Jingyi leads him along. Taking a seat he'll lean back, folding his arms. Still unsure how all of this is going to go he watches Jingyi pour them both a drink, only leaning forward to curiously look at it.

"Isn't drinking against your rules?" Now that he thinks of it, Dennis unfolds his arms and picks up one of the... 'cups', sniffing it.

"Huh?" No toast him? Just cause things were tense between them because of what was going on didn't mean he couldn't follow tradition. Dennis shakes his head, holding his drink up.

"To your uh, good health?" Is that considered a toast? Is that right? Dennis sounds uncertain, "Cheers, mate." and he'll bring the Emperor's Smile to his lips taking a drink of it and-- oof. Excuse him if he coughs that down.

"... wine?" Are you sure?
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dw decided I didn't need a notif for this

[personal profile] agoodsoul 2021-08-07 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Can be." It's not a lie, though most people just drink to drink. Not to wish well to others. That's typically saved for weddings and such. Jingyi is much more used to this stuff, downing it easily, but Dennis won't be left behind, finishing his off and setting it down for it to be refilled. Okay, alright, he's got this.

At Jingyi clarifying that the train is indeed not Gusu, Dennis can't help but huff in amusement. He's got him there. Look he's all for twisting rules if it's for a good reason, having a drink counts he figures. Dennis is about to down his second cup when Jingyi squares up, ready for their wrestling match.

"..." Alright. That's how it's gonna be huh. Nodding he tips his head back, downing the whole thing this time and sets it aside wincing. Ugh, that didn't taste any better going down quicker. Dennis follows suit, elbow set and firmly grasps the hand at the ready.

"We counting down or just going for it?" He'll raise a brow.
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dw put your fists up imma fight you

[personal profile] agoodsoul 2021-08-08 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
Well if Jingyi doesn't care how they start then he'll just go for it. The only warning is the little squeeze of fingers as he makes a valiant attempt to move the other boy's arm. Even just a smidge. Anything. He'd feel more of a failure if Jingyi didn't sucker punch him verbally with that line of questioning.

Shit. His grip weakens considerably, gaze uncertain as he looks at the other across from him.

"Look it's- ain't that simple." Jingyi wants him to just remove everything from the illusion world as if it's not part of things too. It is, very much so.

"I like him, he's my friend." And Dennis tries again, straining to try and bend Jingyi's arm at all. Good lord what kind of arm strength is this?!
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[personal profile] agoodsoul 2021-08-08 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
At this point Dennis doesn't even care about the arm wrestling, in fact he never did, but it was part of whatever this was supposed to be. An intervention? The more Jingyi talks the less Dennis tries to even engage with this, completely pulling away in the end.

"It's not that bloody simple!" Jingyi talks like it's so clearly black and white, like him and Sizhui didn't both experience things in Jinnjar that could complicate everything, make them question shit. Why does it have to be one way or the other immediately?

"I can't just pretend I don't remember everything from there, all those memories that felt so fucking real. Don't know if what I'm feeling is from them or really me." Or maybe a bit of both. Let's not get into the cluster fuck of mentions of marriage now. Dennis just looks overwhelmed at this point, sitting back in the booth.

"I know. I know!" He knows that Sizhui deserves better than the mess he's making right now, knows Sizhui would give everything. He hasn't known him even a fraction as long as Jingyi, but anyone could tell you that Lan Sizhui is that. Loyal and loving with his whole heart. Even if it's just friends.
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[personal profile] agoodsoul 2021-08-09 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
The alcohol goes untouched as he's already agitated and more of that won't help. He does shoot a hand out to make a save if the bottle did try to fall of the table, thankfully it doesn't.

"Wha- you think I'm leading him on?" Now it's starting to make some sense why Jingyi is coming at him like this.

"Look I told him, I'm not... m'not gay, even if that place did that to us." There's a big ol' stack of denial in that sentence, but that's another problem for another day perhaps.

"Said I wanted to still be friends, no matter what happened back there, if he took something else from that it wasn't what I meant." And if that's really the case he needs to talk to him again about it. Clear things up. Even if the idea of "clearing" up makes his stomach knot.
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[personal profile] agoodsoul 2021-08-09 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no no, he's not trying to insinuate that he's saying being gay is wrong is he? Cause it's not, he's got nothing wrong with that, just... himself. Look, it's complicated. Shitty bad male role models all his life, give the kid a break.

"That's not what I fucking said," It comes out biting, but not shouted, because he's getting frustrated that Jingyi seems to be twisting things a little each time he opens his mouth. At least in his eyes that is. "I know what I told him and it's got nothing to do with his dads, not like that."

Them being gay and him clarifying he's not to Sizhui wasn't some slight or slander at his friend.

"Just cause I ain't don't mean I think it's bad, Jesus." His eyes focus on that tail for a moment, thud thud thud... it should annoy him but it grounds him some how, "I'm trying to figure out if the shit that place made me feel is real here too." Ugh, he rubs at his face, realizing that wording was also shit.

"Not shit, fucking- that's what's got my head done in, it was amazing, Sizhui is amazing. I just don't want to ruin everything cause my head's all screwed up." Cause he doesn't know yes or no right now. "But I told him, we talked, we're friends." That's it. He never alluded to anything else with him.
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[personal profile] agoodsoul 2021-08-10 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe alcohol was a bad idea for this little get together. Not Jingyi's fault, a drink was definitely due for the traded frustrations between them. Dennis sits back, arms folded across his chest, telling himself he's got to calm down, getting upset at Jingyi won't help, but it's hard when it feels like he's being blamed for something neither him nor Sizhui had any control over.

At least it seems they're both relatively on the same page, which relaxes his closed off posture some. Any anger left on his face shifts to concerned shock as Jinyi further explains things, laying it all out basically. Part of him thinks it's ridiculous, only falling in love once? One shot and that's it? But it's not his place to judge or think poorly of their ways just because it's different, if that's how it is then... as long as it's okay with Sizhui of course.

In the end Dennis can't look at Jingyi across from him, quiet, nodding a little at his question. Yeah. Yeah he supposed he was right. Now even more he felt like there was a lot to think about, but he knew one thing for sure.

Why would he try to be romantically involved with Sizhui, if that was an option he was interested in, when one day they would be returned to their separate homes? If Sizhui could only do this once, love once, why hurt him like that? Swallowing thickly he reaches now to pick up the neglected "cup" of Emperor's Smile, downing it in one go.

"... I'll clear things up. It's like you said, he's worth it." Friend or romantically.
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[personal profile] agoodsoul 2021-08-12 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Even if I did, why would I put him through that?" He shakes his head, face pinched in confliction.

"Not for some nobody from London," Just some rookie firefighter, barely a man, "He don't deserve that, he deserves someone who'll be there for him." Someone from his own home. Someone who'll go back to that same home after things with the train. Besides, why is he putting so much thought into this? He's not that way, he's not romantically interested, right...?
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[personal profile] agoodsoul 2021-08-15 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
This is the most whiplash of a conversation ever. Here he figures Jingyi would be happy he's resigned to not even try at all and yet-!

"Course I bloody care, he's my friend!" Now he's just exasperated more than angry. It was easier when Jingyi was pretty much telling him off, now he's almost encouraging him to go for it. He opens his mouth to deny liking Sizhui, but eh, well. Just going to shut his mouth and slump a little in the booth. All of this is a lot to take in and doesn't make any of his decisions easier, but when have things ever been easy in his life?

Eventually with a put upon sigh, "Is it always this intense with you lot?" He asks if only because it had been the exact opposite of this with Sizhui. Or is this just a Jingyi thing. Catch him shifting so he can push his cup closer to the Keeper of Wine.

"Like his dad's ain't gonna track me down and corner me about this too are they?" Please say no. Please just let him think about all of this now that he's had it dumped on him.
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[personal profile] agoodsoul 2021-08-17 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
Guess in a way this is no different than his job back home. Being a fire fighter was as intense as shit could get at times. Not that... uh not that this was like running into literal fire, but it sure did feel almost as hot.

"Yeah if I uh figure things out, I mean when I do..." And Dennis trails off as he watches Jingyi fall apart over true love. This poor bastard is absolutely shitfaced. He's starting to feel it as well, but he's used to drinking, even if this stuff is strong.

"... you okay, mate?" Do you need a hug?
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[personal profile] agoodsoul 2021-08-18 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Besides how fucked up the missions could get and this recent relationship drama, Dennis has actually been pretty great here on the train, but he's not going to say anything about that. Not the time for it.

"You're right. Guess it's all we can do." But also... he might be reaching for that bottle of wine to drag it to his side of the table. Might be time for Jingyi to lay off the alcohol.
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[personal profile] agoodsoul 2021-08-23 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Sure you ain't had enough?" Dennis does not pour. Dennis is no fun.

"M'not dragging your ass back to your room cause you're pissed." Jingyi can just. Sleep it off here as far as he's concerned. Quiet room is now the nap room.

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