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Koby ([personal profile] kobes) wrote2024-06-09 04:14 pm

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[personal profile] holyposition 2025-01-15 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He couldn’t turn it off, even if he tried. Maybe in this one instance, for this one person, Tim can admit that he alone can’t offer him redemption, that no amount of patience and grace is going to save him if he doesn’t want it for himself. You can lead a dragon to water, but you can’t make him drink. He'll see the best in him, locked up with a key he doesn’t have.

These things happen. How weak would he be, to let this taint his relationship with anyone else, to blind him to the good in other people? To let some spoiled prince hold that kind of power over him? Aemond’s already said he doesn’t want it anymore. ]


I know. [ Downing what’s left in his glass, and setting it empty on the bedside table. ] And well put. You’re smart. My favorite nerd in the world.

[ Smiling, even as he sniffles and wipes at his eyes. Small blessings, that he’d left his glasses at Alicent’s when she roughed him up, so they’re not fogging up now. Perhaps he’s starting to feel it now, how quickly he’s taken those drinks to the dome. ]

I don’t want to cry. I want to throw things.

[ He won’t do it in Koby’s room, but. Let the record show. ]

You too. [ reaching for a bottle to fill up Koby’s glass. ] It’s pathetic if I’m drinking alone.
money: (pic#17338916)

[personal profile] money 2025-01-16 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Sanji wants a princess. More, Sanji needs a princess.

Those are the rules! I have dibs!!

I didn't hit my head. Who hit their head? I'm fine. Better than fine. I'm perfect.


( her aura is, notably, different. not so much the rich sunset of vibrant colors that koby is used to, but a dulled aura, almost entirely devoid of color. like everything nami used to have dialed up to ten is now at a respectable number — say, zero, for instance. )
holyposition: (water u doin)

[personal profile] holyposition 2025-01-20 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His lip wobbles as he nods – Koby's right. Tim has all those things in him, and nobody sees it or acknowledges it because he chooses kindness anyway. It’s what drew him to Aemond to begin with, that he saw it and appreciated it, that he didn’t think he had to be just one thing or another – at least at first. As time went on and things got hard, he started underestimating him too, until his regard for him fell so low, and so quickly, that he could be dismissed and taken out with the trash.

Koby’s disregarded in the same way, he thinks. It's good to have that understanding, to feel known in their shared grievances, but it also means he doesn’t seek his affirmation, at least not in this. In the crying, complaining, what Quentin lovingly referred to as fussing hen behavior, yes. Koby is perfect. ]


It has? [ that almost never means anything good. Especially here, no news is good news. Tim looks down into his own glass, embarrassed. He didn’t even ask Koby how his day was, he just started ranting and raving. Selfish. ] What’s going on?
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divorce era.

[personal profile] missed 2025-01-21 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ there's something to the calm that comes after the holiday party that's worth noting. the house settling after months of chaos, but waiting with teeth set on edge. koby might feel a disturbance one day in the early morning. a pulse of something intense - the gale force winds of a storm, a hurricane swallowing the sea, a foundation splitting - then nothing. a torrent of squall and destruction to nothing but absolute, pin drop silence with nothing but the hint of earthy green left in its wake.

it's a few days later when whatever door had been locked opens again, releases the pressure just a little to sit ajar. ]


If you need me, I'm staying with Lestat for a little while.
Armand and I

We've separated for the time being.
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[personal profile] missed 2025-01-22 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm angry.

[ honest. raw. furious. betrayed. hurt. all of this radiates across his aura. ]

I was lied to for a very long time.

Maybe I knew it, deep down. Maybe I didn't.

It changes everything.
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text — un: stein

[personal profile] missed 2025-01-22 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I wanted you to know before I told everyone.

Daniel's gone. Not dead - but he's gone back home.

I know you two were close. I'm sorry. I'm here for you, though - you got that?
holyposition: (lips pursed. very pursed.)

[personal profile] holyposition 2025-01-23 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[ Oh. Tim deflates, the anger in his dissipating with that long exhale, and finally stops. He stops the pacing and the ranting, goes quiet and still except to sit down next to Koby and put his arm around his shoulders. ]

I’m so sorry, Koby. [ Quietly, guiltily. On and on about his own self-inflicted wounds, when there’s a higher power in charge of this place, taking people away on a whim with no foreshadowing, nothing anyone could have done to avoid this outcome. The departures have yet to hit him too closely, but there’s an awareness in the back of his mind that it could happen, that he could wake up one day and be without Hawk, without Koby or Quentin or any of the other people that make this place bearable. ] I know what they mean to you.

[ Luffy especially. ]

Are they gonna be okay?

[ Back home, or in their final, God-given resting place. A question he’s not sure will ever be answered to his satisfaction. ]
missed: (inkonic08 (1))

[personal profile] missed 2025-01-23 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
He's not sick anymore.

[ there's weight to that. he's been turned - goes without saying. he doesn't want to go into the details. ]

Think he's happy in much the same way as he could be here.
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[personal profile] missed 2025-01-25 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm safe.

There's history here, but I think I'm seeing things clearer than I did before.
In fact I know I am.

You can trust Lestat.
holyposition: (so heartfelt all singing)

[personal profile] holyposition 2025-01-28 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ every day, two ideas wage war within him, that this is some version of purgatory that none could have predicted, and their actions here will determine where they end up when they mysteriously disappear, or that they will eventually go home, and remember all that happened while they were here. Nothing else makes sense, nothing else is bearable. To go home exactly where he’d left off, fleeing from Hawk to join the military, with no idea how evil this war will get or that things can and will be better, it isn’t something that he can accept. Werewolves and vampires and dragons and witches, sure, the meaninglessness of anything but those two options would gut him worse than any monster. Tim has to be sure, has to have that faith.

He knows that Koby feels differently. ]


You always say that. As if you don’t have a choice. But you always have a choice. 

[ He used to say the same thing to a certain prince who doesn't deserve the tears shed over him today. Maybe Koby will actually listen. ]

The Marines can't make you hate good people. I know you, and I don't even think you can.
holyposition: (they talk about)

@t.laughlin

[personal profile] holyposition 2025-01-29 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
stop staring at shanks
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[personal profile] holyposition 2025-01-29 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Next to where he's bent over stocking the low shelves?
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[personal profile] holyposition 2025-01-29 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Right, obviously. I'll talk to Nami tonight about getting brighter lightbulbs in here. So you can ogle people better.