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Ruffnut Thorston ([personal profile] ruffntumblenut) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2014-11-12 05:40 pm

ush little Viking, don't you cry, or the Berserker will stab you in the eye...

Who: Ruffnut and you!
What: Ruffnut has come to the realization that this place blows. 
Where: A cold, dark, wet alley in the Capitol
When: late afternoon after the mini-arena
Warnings: Only the usual about the hunger games so far.

Vikings were highly emotional people.

This contrasted nicely with them insisting that they were not in fact emotional.

While it was perfectly acceptable on Berk to be happy, or angry, and all manners of loud it was typically frowned upon to mope, And while lamenting a loss or two was acceptable it still wasn't easy to do, 

Ruffnut and her brother in particular did not like to mope in public and as such had both simultaneously but independant of one another discovered the magic of the dark soggy alone place.

In the dark soggy alone place no one could see if you let the occasional tear out, and sobs may be stifled in peace because you were alone. Ruffnut had never really considered her life difficult before because despite how many hardships Berk had faced? They were vikings! Living hard was part of their lifestyle.

So being completely unable to cope with the swirling emotions of failure and hopelessness in her, she had set out to find a new dark, soggy alone place. This quest had taken her away from the Training Center to the darker corners of the city till an appropriately dark and ominous alley opened up to her.

With a Chinese restaurant on one side and a bathhouse on the other this alley was everything a soggy, dark alone place could be. The only difference between this and her cave back home was no roof. She could still see the sky turning an orange as the sun set somewhere out of sight.

She was so depressed she had even let her stylists dress her up nice. Clean hair in neat braids, the latest style of jeans and a fashionable dark green leather jacket that counter balanced some of the chill of the wind whistling through the dark soggy alone place.

Wallowing in her misery Ruffnut may lose track of time and miss curfew at this rate. But she finds it difficult to care. 

Gazing idly down into a puddle as she sits on the ground with her back to the wall for a moment she sees her brother in the reflection. Scowling she swats at the water and he vanishes into the ripples.
tricksandmischief: (Doubting)

[personal profile] tricksandmischief 2014-11-13 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Being fairly new, Loki had taken to exploring all the dark little corners of the Capitol - and some lighter ones. But he was searching for possible exits or places and people he could use in order to either further himself here or escape this strange place. Despite his public attitudes, he didn't like it - especially being forced to do things against his will.

But he played along with it. He was good at that.

For now they had dressed him not too differently from the style he usually wore. Tunic, trousers, heavy boots and a long coat in blacks, dark greens and golds.

He wandered down into this alley now, looking around and then he noticed the girl.
tricksandmischief: (Arms)

[personal profile] tricksandmischief 2014-11-14 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, I did not realise that. You should perhaps have put up a sign," his tone was slightly mocking.
notdavinci: (Default)

[personal profile] notdavinci 2014-11-14 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Siroc has been attempting to be careful of the curfew, and of doing anything he could get into trouble for, especially now, but walking around the capitol, for the sole reason that he can still do it, is one of those those things he can't resist, especially, and okay, probably, because his escort seemed to think going out today is a bad thing to do that will make him sick or something.

That's reason enough for him to do it, rebelling in the tiny way he can now, and he's turning a corner down an alley where there seem to be no peacekeepers, when he spots someone, the viking girl who reminded him on television of Jacques, hanging out by the wall there. And she does not look especially happy about something. Maybe it's not appreciated, but he's crossing over closer anyway, giving her a bit of a nod.

"So, it isn't just me, then,"
shedevilwithsword: (We Are Not Amused)

[personal profile] shedevilwithsword 2014-11-14 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"What in the world do you believe you are doing?"

Or what in the world did she think she was doing in the middle of some alleyway in the city...alone. That usually spells trouble, or something was going on in the girl's head.
tricksandmischief: (Hee)

[personal profile] tricksandmischief 2014-11-15 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Signs have many forms," Loki continued. Vikings, hmm... He took a mental note of that. It could be useful.

So he introduced himself, rather grandly.

"I am Loki, of Asgard. They call me the God of Mischief."
tricksandmischief: (Amusement)

[personal profile] tricksandmischief 2014-11-15 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
It took just a moment for him to realise she must know the other Loki. They had spoken, It hadn't gone very well.

"Ah, you must have met my counterpart... But I am better than him. He is merely a child."
tricksandmischief: (Smug)

[personal profile] tricksandmischief 2014-11-15 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Thor is my brother...," he raised an eyebrow at her remark about him but didn't elaborate further. The one here was really his brother, and not some alternate. The other Loki proved that it could have been vastly different. There could be other Thors.

He didn't like that thought.

"How am I doing?" He wasn't going to answer that honestly. He was against this place and against being here, being forced into their little games. But that was not the impression that he wanted anyone to have. He had to play their game to survive.

"I am very well. I am enjoying the sights whilst I await the next Arena," he made it sound as if he was very much looking forward to that.
notdavinci: (apron)

[personal profile] notdavinci 2014-11-17 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
"This place."

Siroc explained, wary of saying that much, but, there was a part of him that pointed out that things could not exactly get worse than they had been for a while there, could they? He was mostly keeping a low profile, and he looked like he had learned.

"I'm finding it's getting to me, really easily." He answered the question with a little sigh.
tricksandmischief: (Devious)

[personal profile] tricksandmischief 2014-11-18 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
"So why is it that you look so miserable then?" He had picked up on that. "Why are you out here all alone when you could be inside feasting and making merry?"

Of course, he also wasn't doing that. It had never felt very comfortable to him.
tricksandmischief: (Eyeing)

[personal profile] tricksandmischief 2014-11-19 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"The first couple of times...? So you have already participated in some arenas then," he noted, looking her over with more interest.
notdavinci: (glasses srs face)

[personal profile] notdavinci 2014-11-21 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
No, he was just, there and wandering around. Really, more just a person looking for somewhere quiet to think, where a peacekeeper wouldn't show up.

"My best friend would love that. especially the food and epic odes." Siroc mused, grinning at the thought of Ramon in Valhalla. Spaniard or no, he'd fit in nicely. Here though, things were different.

"Do you know, it is not so much the fighting, but the rest of this? I can handle stabbing and shooting when I need to, particularly since no one stays dead for long. The Capitol, and curfews and the rest...I admit I have no idea what I'm doing in between this. It's all so weird."
tricksandmischief: (Eyeing)

[personal profile] tricksandmischief 2014-11-22 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
"It sounds like you have been through a lot of... adventurous deaths. You do not seem to be so upset about it as others I have spoken to here," Loki said. "I suppose that it is something to be accepted and some do that better than others."
tricksandmischief: (Proud)

[personal profile] tricksandmischief 2014-11-23 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Loki had been thought dead before, or been close to it or thought he was about to on numerous occasions. The most recent of which he'd woken up here. He'd also been told that people were revived here, so he didn't fear it. But he did feel it could be an inconvenience or an annoyance, so he was determined to do all he could not to fail once he was thrust into the arena.

Or if he could avoid that entirely and do something else within the Capitol - ultimately to bring it down - he would attempt that path as well.

But he was very new here and didn't know how difficult any of that would be, even for a god.

His surface careless yet confident attitude persisted, on purpose. "Indeed. Many here will die, again and again. You cannot all be successful."

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