dock rebuild | ota / mingle

[lunchbreaks]

characters: Aziraphale, Crowley, Daylight, Eleven, Stone, Eliot and YOU
location: The docks
date/time: Early Nov through Nov 11th
content: A mingle log for rebuilding the docks and/or generally if you'd like to have your character help with a mini-project. Feel free to throw up your own TLs! I am also still on slowatus until the 6th but wanted to put this up with ample time before Sandman!
warnings: N/A. If you would like to handwave your involvement, please just lmk and I'll add you to a list or something so everyone can just assume your character was around

The wood, cut and planked, sits in a pile on the beach, covered in whatever tarp-like object can be found to keep it from getting wet. On the bright side, the ferry comes in when they finish gathering supplies for the dock - so they don't have to gather more, and they don't have to rebuild a ferry. Still, large trunks are prepared for weather and hammered into the water, and don't get much of a chance to stand alone before a small group of people descend on them to cobble together a little dock. Not as grand nor as finely-made as the previous one, it will be nonetheless sturdy and usable, with hopefully no further changes for the last two years it may need to exist.

Comments

[originallutece]

So you're eager not to disappoint others, hoping they'll provide the maternal and paternal affection you never received.

[Interesting. Not a bad thing, necessarily, but rather something so radically different from her own perspective.]

Personally, I find it more satisfying to demand satisfaction from them, not the other way around.

[axegirlfriend]

I guess that's one way to look at it. A really, way too on the nose way to look at it.

[A way that he knows is probably true but he tries not to think about it because wow that's pathetic as hell. Can you imagine going around to people and just telling them hi I had a real frustrating relationship with my parents and never truly felt loved until I met my girlfriend in my teenage years, but oh boy is that a whole 'nother can of worms.

No, you don't fucking lead with that shit.]

I guess I don't think much about what would or wouldn't be a satisfying way to approach things.

[originallutece]

Perhaps you should.

[It's a light suggestion.]

Taking forcibly tends to get you better results than hoping for approval. For example: ordering, here and now, instead of asking. You notice how quickly he hopped-to.

[axegirlfriend]

Sure, that's true.

[But...just because the results were better, he wouldn't be sure he'd call himself satisfied. It feels so impersonal to talk that way. The lack of conviction is clear in his voice, but he keeps himself from voicing his thoughts on the matter. He's sure if he did, Ros would have plenty to say about it.]

[originallutece]

But you don't believe it.

[Of course he doesn't.]

Tell me why.

[axegirlfriend]

[The look on his face absolutely reads as "do I have to?" but, of course he does, so, of course he answers.]

I just mean, there's...satisfaction in the job done, I guess. But then isn't there also satisfaction in...how you relate to the people around you? It's just a bit of an impersonal approach...

[originallutece]

I don't usually care for other people.

[She says it simply, shrugging.]

So I don't particularly care to relate to others, no. But you aren't me. So if that brings you joy, I suggest you do it in a far better way.

[axegirlfriend]

[Remi scratches the back of his neck. He, thinking about it, doesn't really know.]

I guess I don't, either.

[He's a straight up hermit.]

Thanks, though. For, um, for helping.