mylittlejamjar | Entry 011 [Accidental Visual] Post body switch panic (Forward dated to the 2nd)

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Entry 011 [Accidental Visual] Post body switch panic (Forward dated to the 2nd)

[The scroll comes on without him being aware of it, and it's showing what looks like a small ruined town and a horrified looking dragon staring at his own claws and the soup all over him. He looks back and fourth a few times, the panic and fear on his face is pretty clear too. Nobody would believe he hadn't done this, he was sure if it. The path of destruction wasn't enough, the few claw marks he could see through the soup made it pretty clear... even if he hadn't been in control of his body, how many would believe that?]

No... no... no...no.....

[Skyfire doesn't look for the scroll, he doesn't even stop to check if he has his saddle bags on... he just starts running and bolts in the direction of the closest forest. He'd never be able to go back near a populated area again... It would be like being stuck back on earth again... alone... Why... Why had he even thought that he'd have a chance here...]

[The scroll cuts out with a visual of him running out of sight, and one might get a glimpse of the despondent and hurt look on his face. He was totally unaware that it was just Minako's movie set... Being in the same area as any destruction on earth had him blamed for it, why would it be any different here?]

((ooc: Action replies welcome and encouraged, sine he left the scroll behind. Also, Link of lego town for scale, assuming ponies would be about chest height to an average human))

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[HUFF.]

Look, whatever you think I did in your body? I didn't.

You don't need to worry.

... You didn't use my body to tear up and destroy a large chunk of somebody's property and leave me to take the blame?

[Because that seemed like exactly what she did. The irritation and hurt in his voice is pretty clear...]

Um...that was my property. My scaled movie set. I've been filming a movie for the past several weeks!

[Pointing to the remnants of soup on him.]

Its called Earth vs. Soup R!! Its partly a disaster movie! Of course I'm going to be doing damage to it and covering it with several thousand gallons of soup and setting parts of it on fire!!

Edited 2014-11-02 21:08 (UTC)

[He turns his head to look at her, and gives her such a dirty look.]

And I was to know this how?

[It's not the same... but... he tries to explain what he felt seeing that...]

Would you have liked to have woken up to finding yourself holding a knife and a can of paint, seeing that 'you' had destroyed every expensive piece of clothing in a high end shop? You know that you will be held responsible, because they saw 'you' do it and the evidence is all over you. Now picture yourself like that, and think of being blamed for everything else that ever went wrong in any shop, even if you didn't do it.

You got punished harshly for things you weren't even around for, what do you think you'd be feeling when they had 'proof' that 'you' had done it? They never listened to you before...

Look, I don't know how it was in your world, and I'm sorry that's how it was. But I'm not blaming you for anything! Nopony in their right mind is going to blame you for this! If anything, I'm going to be the one they'll get mad at! At least I should be!

[Wait.]

I already had one of your friends ask me what I was doing, after all, while I was in your body. They figured you'd be worried about it; I did explain it to them!

Edited 2014-11-02 22:08 (UTC)

[That gets a very hard stare from him.]

And it never occurred to even consider contacting me yourself after hearing that? That maybe knowing ahead of time what you were planning on doing with my body would have been nice.

Thanks for passing it off to someone I didn't even really get to see during this mess. That was a lot of help. [Yeah, cranky dragon is cranky... and itchy. That soup was in places soup should not be.]

Well, I just figured you'd use my body for your own everyday and important stuff?

[She lived on the SoL, where this kind of stuff was normal. Sorry, Skyfire.]

Edited 2014-11-02 22:27 (UTC)

... I would have killed your body if I had done my normal, everyday 'stuff'.

[Flat look is flat. Pegasus bodies weren't meant for working with extreme temperatures, reinforcing the caverns for the shelter or hauling tons of rock. A tired sigh.]

How long do you think you would have been able to work with molten metal? Carrying rocks bigger than you are? Pegasus bodies aren't meant for doing things dragon bodies can. Be glad I was able to remind myself that you couldn't eat gems and minerals... no matter how much I wanted my favorite treats. [He was still a bit sore about the party too because of that inability... but that was a whole other kettle of fish. He blamed that on whoever had done the switching.]

[... an actual apology for not considering his feelings on the matter would go a long way... As would helping him clean that 'soup' off. He wasn't sure he even wanted to know what was in it.]

Edited 2014-11-02 22:49 (UTC)

...You'd be surprised what I'm capable of withstanding.

[She sighs.]

Whatever, though, that doesn't matter. Look, at the very least, you need some help cleaning that soup off of your body. You're more likely to keep everypony away from the stench of day-old tofu chowder than anything else right now.

It doesn't matter? Well excuse me for caring that you might want to have a body to go back to or that you didn't want a crippled body that is covered in burns and in massive amounts of pain.

[He grunts and gets up, giving her another dirty look.]

Just because you don't care what anyone does with your body doesn't mean everyone else feels the same about theirs. Maybe I should have gone and gotten your body drunk and left you to deal with the hangover, alcohol poisoning and any compromising positions you'd found yourself in. You would have been capable of withstanding that wouldn't you?

[Yeah, that was a kind of a mean, cheap shot... But he's feeling really annoyed and can't help but be snippy at the way she seems to be blowing off how much what she'd done had hurt him.]

HEY!

[Minako's own voice sharpened.]

I do care! I'm just used to this type of crud happening! Heck, even being dead isn't exactly a new thing for me! I'd be annoyed at you, sure, but I wouldn't hold it against you!

Look, I'm sorry if what I did angered you and made you upset, but I didn't use it to actively hurt anypony, or you! And if anypony assumes it was you or that I was, then they can just stuff it because that's not what was happening and anypony who wants to see the proof can see it!

Edited 2014-11-03 01:18 (UTC)

[He huffs at her, still a bit short tempered.]

Then maybe you need to remember that not everyone else is used to this or gets to come back from the dead. I've had to watch nearly everyone I've come to care about die, and none of them got to come back. I've lost every home that I've ever had eventually. I've been hated, hunted and hurt, just for being different.

[Skyfire lets out a tired sounding sigh.]

What you did hurt. Yet you did everything but apologize for it, and you sure as heck didn't seem sorry for it. Next time try apologizing first, because right now? I'm not sure if you're really sorry, or if you're just sorry that you got called on it.

[Oh, he'll forgive her... eventually, but right now, he wasn't feeling very charitable.]

Heck no its not just because I got called out on it! I own what I do!!

Well it sure doesn't seem like it. You sure did dismiss how I felt didn't you? You admitted to not knowing 'how it was in my world' and then promptly dismissed the idea that I might have been hurt by your actions. It was all you, you, you. Your movie, your set, you taking the blame. You. Not one word out of your mouth was "I'm sorry for hurting you" or "I'm sorry that I didn't think about how this would make you feel", now was it? Not until I all but called you on it.

It wasn't your body that did the damage. It wasn't you people would see destroying things. You weren't the one that would have to deal with the consequences of what you'd made MY body do if something went wrong. [He growls] Lets see what proof there is that it wasn't me doing it. You seem to think I shouldn't be upset? You have the pure and utter gall to think that I don't have the right to be mad at you for what you've done?

Maybe you should have thought about somebody else besides yourself.

[He's going to just glower at her, get up and start walking towards the closest source of water now. He's tired of trying to deal with this. She obviously didn't see what she did wrong..]

You are right about one thing though. They should be blaming you. Too bad that the blame never falls where it should when it comes to me. Call it a hard learned life lesson... a long, never ending, life lesson that's stretched over a million years.

[Skyfire is just going to go and soak in the cold water, because he doesn't want to lose his temper anymore than he already has.]

Oh, for the love of--

[Was he seriously serious?]

You're getting angry at me for taking the blame for something I'm admitting to doing!? How is that being selfish!?

I came here because I was trying to tell you it wasn't your fault! I was trying to tell you what was happening, and why it happened! I am sorry about what happened, and maybe I'm not good at saying I'm sorry, but damnit, there's a line between being upset about something that happened, being genuinely upset at someone, and just...just...feeling sorry for yourself!

[Hoof clench!]

You talk about how you've lived a million years and how the blame never falls where it should, and how it always seems to fall on you. Well, newsflash! No one is blaming you for this!

[Hoofpoint!]

You don't think I get being hated or blamed for stupid crap, or don't know what that feels like? That I'm just selfish and don't genuinely understand or want to understand how you feel? Then fine, you can just assume whatever you want about me! Just like you're assuming things about how everypony else feels or will feel about you!

I am sorry about using your body that way without telling you first! But I will refute anypony that tries to claim something that's obviously not true, and I refuse to let you use my actions against anypony else again!

[He just sighs. Bubbles rising out of the water as he tries to settle down. She'd really rubbed him the wrong way.]

Taking the blame only works if they believe you... I was calling you selfish for not considering someone's feelings before you did something that would effect them. Telling someone you have 'plans' does not count. I didn't get blamed for destroying stuff? You did it? Great. [sarcasm]Wonderful. [/end sarcasm] That still doesn't mean that you didn't hurt me.

[Skyfire sinks into the water as deeply as he can, looking old, very old and very tired. Take a good look at those eyes Minako, because those are eyes that have seen more pain, sorrow, death and destruction than any one should ever have to witness.]

Not all scars are physical, and you hurt me, badly. I hope you realize that you all but dumped me into one of my worst nightmares? You want to know the difference between the nightmare and the reality it's based on? I never caused the any of the destruction in reality, I had only been passing by, and I was still almost killed for it.

If it weren't for Trixie talking me down, I probably would have thought it was real and never come back... [Essentially, Minako's little stunt had sent him into a flashback and caused him to relive a very traumatic, very real event... and he was still reeling. His voice is quiet and filled with pain now that he was running out of anger. Now he was just tired.]

[She's quiet. She doesn't say anything in response.]

[He's just going to lay in that water, blow bubbles into it... and try to get the feelings of shame, betrayal and anger out of his system. Skyfire didn't like those feelings at all. He could handle the loneliness, the self doubt and the alienation... But he refused to give in to the anger and become what he'd been accused of so many times before.]

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