The Gray
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Connected at orange. Not really in the Rut event, just hanging with old friends.
Thinking» "
That's not awkward at all...I'ma just sit here with Nem, K? K."
Feeling» Quiet. Overwhelmed.
Currently» Quiet. Hanging with Nem and those with Nem. So. Out. Of. Date.
Goes By»Zash; Zach
Real Name» Zachary
Fredrick* Conner
Forest Name» The Falling Cherry
In Forest Since» July 6
th, 2012
Species» TEF Deer
Height» #6
In Game Set» Gray/Long Pelt- GB Mask- Owl Antlers
Scent» Dust; Honey Locust; Sea Salt
Age» Mentally in his early twenties
References» Normal |
Winter
Voice» Higher end of the masculine voice spectrum; has a country accent that makes him difficult to understand at points- prone to mumbling. Does not hide his accent like he once did.
Personality» Updating....
Biological Offspring» Arielle [lost], Apollo. [lost]
Adopted» Yara, Basil.
Status» Married since 2016.
Friends»* Nem; Thais.
that's sad Zash you need more frands
Current Art»X * Thank you all for the past art and writings of my boy. ♥ I still have it and may put it up here again if I can figure a way it won't look too cluttered.
Inspirations» Fog; 1900-1920's America; WWI; 1900-1920's literature; fire; conflict.
Notes» This character is IC 90% of the time. Goes OOC for spell help. This revamp may be temporary if Zash proves to not take to it well.
Disclaimer» This character is just that- a character. His thoughts and values are his and his alone and do not represent his player. He, to his entirety, belongs to me. Coding was compiled by me, Kiwara.
♥ it'll go away soon.
Mine.
wlkedmdlq thought I tracked
thought I tracked this ;;
tracking now ♥
Thanks for the track!
Pffft Don does'nt mind
xD He still feels bad. Making
I'm just gonna stick a track
Glad to be seeing this boy in-forest more :3
Thanks for the track! He's
He's so nervous around Phaios. I'm going to try to get him away from that here sometime.
Aww. She's a little crazy
Awww. Poor Phai. He's scared
Oh this boy's a cutie! Seen
Seen him around, but only when Peri had a destination and couldn't sniff every stranger. ^~^
Awe! I've seen Peri's picto
And thanks for the track!
I wonder if I can add you in
Added you!
This guy is so adorable.
Awe, thanks!
Heehee, I love him too.
A bump. Happy birthday,
Happy birthday, Zash.
So glad for Don to have known
Happy Birthday Zashy!!
Happy Birthday for your Zash
SOB I NEED JACOB TO INTERACT
ALSO
Happy Birthday, Zashy! ♥
Profile picture by ahimsa ♥
Pixel Wis by squeegie~
Winged, Soli,
♥
Poppy:
Yes, yes he does. He finds the hyper little guy amusing.
WAIT, WHAT? What happened?
Nope nope, he'll be fine! In
Oh phew! What's going on with
His past came back to settle
Donovan trodded throughthe
And it was one figure,who caught his eye in the distance,a vaguely familiar one at that...Zash perhaps?
He trotted closer,chuckling to himself,what a lazy lump his friend was,mabye he could paint blueberry juice all over the grey bucks face as he slept.
He drew even closer,coming to a dead stop when he noticed red smothered all over his friend...The hell!?
He breaks out into a run,skidding to a stop near the stag,a strangled cry ripping from his throat.
"Zash?" He breaths,nosing the downed buck.
Aria had been sniffing some
~ C.S. Lewis
The rivets of cooling blood
He once considered himself smarter than that.
Zash? the question sounded extremely far away to him, as if someone was shouting to him at some great distance. At most, he recognized his name and the question itself, the flow of the word over the tongue. Some part of him wanted to respond. He struggled against the shadows that dragged him down into sleep, fighting nearly as hard to show that he heard them as he fought just as hard to breathe. Zash... He struggled harder, wanting to say something. Anything, move, twitch a muscle. Show that he wasn't ignoring them to die. He wanted to live, didn't he? Some part of him still held onto that. He wanted to live. He sucked in a weak breath, something that was considered stronger than the faint breathing before, but it tapered out by the blood rushing up from his destroyed lungs.
Please wake up... Every bit of the will he had left was put into the effort as he realized whoever they were had to help him. He got his foreleg to twitch enough to drag across the earth, though he barely felt the motion, or the dirt tugging on his hoof. I'm trying...I'm trying... he thought, though the words were painfully slow in his mind. As if he had all the time in the world, not...giving...up...
{e} Fixing this because it's driving my perfectionism up a wall.
He was aware of Aria beside
His friend's leg moved,barely grazing Don's own hoof.Was he trying to tell them something? He turned to Aria."Do you know who did this?"
She shook her head softly"No
~ C.S. Lewis
...who did this? Zash tried
I don't know what to do... He felt blood gurgle up from his throat as he took a stronger breath. He couldn't tell where the strength was coming from, in that moment he didn't question it, merely accepted it as a will that was stronger than his physical body. But how strong? He knew he was slipping as he tried to get his sluggish and blood covered tongue to pronounce the right word. He only had one shot, who was to say they would know what he was talking about anyway? They would just sit there and wait him out. Let him die. Any other time he would have allowed that to happen. He would have accepted it as fate. His punishment for existing again. He accepted it in the past, hadn't he? Sure, when he had died before. But the Twins had saved him. They had brought him back. He wasn't going to repay their forgiveness with death from something that could easily have been stopped sooner if he had known how to handle the situation. He hadn't figured it out fast enough. That should be his fate.
He tried to take another breath, only to end up coughing up more blood.
As the breath whistled out of him, he took his only chance to converse, "Twinsss..." He forced his eye to flicker open, but it only lasted for a moment as his energy seeped out of him, his breathing growing shallower.
Figured they could use some guidance. Akhen's helping him stay alive; I know he'd be dead by now, or completely unconscious...
A bump for recovering RP time
Seed picked his way through
"Good afternoon. I'm sorry for disturbing you."
He nodded his head and almost turned to go, but then he noticed a third thing. The deer sitting in the sunlight's eye was swollen. Seed's thoughts moved from embarrassment to concern as swift as the turn of a swallow. He walked out of the bushes and lowered his head, leaning forward for some examination.
"Are you alright? You're not hurt, are you?"
Zash tilted his head toward
You're not hurt, are you? he was stumped on that one. He was, but he was getting better. He didn't know if he could handle saying that or not. Or if that was even the case. He felt a bunch better, just out of it. 'No' seemed to be the way to go about responding to that one, but it was a blunt and definitive type of response.
Then it struck him, he was pondering how a greeting would be taken rather than actually answering. He never cared about that before. He settled for answering the last set of questions, since by then it was a little too late to greet.
"...no...am getting better though..." even though his tired voice said otherwise he flashed a weak half smile, as if he was trying to convince the other male of this. "Name's Zash..." he added after a few heartbeats, "What... may I call you?" his words felt painfully slow and somewhat muddled on the tongue, even though talking seemed to be helping his mind pick up the pace.
"I'm Seed. It's nice to meet
Seed still looked a little dubious about his claims of getting better. After all, even if you say that, you're still hurt now. But... Anyway, it'd do him no good to dispute. Instead, he lowered himself to the wounded stag's level and decided to continue the conversation. After all, it'd be really uncomfortable if it was just 'oh, hi, you OK?' 'getting better? OK, bye.'
But the only vein of conversation that came to mind was...
"You must have gotten in quite a fight. Or...an accident, maybe?"
He was trying not to sound too worried, but Seed's face was the sort that slipped easily into friendly concern, with thin eyebrows fond of furrowing his brow and big, soft eyes that showed his inner monologue very plainly.
Seed. Zash mentally tried to
"My eye...?" his head tilted a bit from where he had his chin resting on the ground, "I lost a fight with that one," his smile returned a bit, though he missed the look on the other's face.
Seed's such a lovebug. I just want to hug him.
Seed hadn't seen all the
"That's... too bad. Need any help?"
He really wasn't sure what to say about fighting, whether winning or losing. It all seemed a rather big waste of effort. But... At the same time, it was very sad to see someone hurt like this over such a waste of effort.
When next he spoke, his voice -- warm and not terribly deep, a sort of amber-colored voice like the fall of sunlight on a warm summer evening -- was a little amused and a little concerned at once.
"You seem a little indisposed, at the moment."
((Aw, thank you!))
Zash couldn't help but
:3 and sorry can't really code at the moment.
"Well, I've no problem with
Seed settled down -- he'd already pretty much sat down, except before it was more kneeling than sitting. It was simply a matter of shifting his weight a bit, letting go of the notion that he'd be going anywhere anytime soon.
His mind turned back to something that was on his mind lately, an idea he was stirring up in his heart. While he had a captive audience, it was as good a time as any to ask about it. He looked up into the canopy, feeling a sudden wind stirring both the branches in the trees and the ones growing like antlers from his own head.
"...Do you think you could do me a favor and tell me something? Is there somewhere in this forest...That's special to you?"
The young stag didn't respond
"Special...like means something to me?" he questioned back softly, but his voice sounded distance. He thought back to when he first entered the forest, back to the spots he had wandered to. He had places he preferred to sit, but they meant nothing to him. The purple flower patches...those held memories. Good memories.
"Those...those flower patches. The purple ones with the little butterflies...they hold happy memories for me, if that's what you meant." it troubled him to think that he had nothing other than those flowers to hold happy memories for him. He thought he had more than that. "What about you? What's special for you?" he prompted, curious as to where his train of thought was headed.
Hmmm...That was rather a
"Oh, lots of places. The logs where my first love slept -- the ones by the ruins, that form sort of an A if you approach them the way she did, sleeping in the top half of the letter... The bridge, of course... The dandelions where my ex-wife and I came to understand our feelings... Places like that. For the most part, I've written of a lot of them already, though."
He hadn't, he realized, written one for that set of logs, which once would send him into waves of sorrow and even now, though it'd been many years since they had said goodbye there for the final time, made his heart stir with old sorrow, like a scar twinging in the wake of a coming storm.
"It's unfortunate for you to
"I'm sure you'll find someone
Seed nodded with certainty. But as for his own memories... That was difficult. Were they happy memories? Well, no, not exactly. The memories were mostly happy, but when he thought of them, he was also sad. To say that their nature was either happiness or sadness was wrong. When he spoke again, his voice was very soft and wistful, full of old feeling, gentle and tender as a spring leaf unfolding.
"No. 'no attachment' is why I wouldn't want to think about something, not because it's sad...What I feel in those memories...Is love. The love that brings happiness to think of the time spent with your beloved. The love that brings loneliness and sorrow when you're apart. It's the same love, even if it feels different... But the memory lets those feelings combine."
He spoke smoothly, his voice growing lonely and heavy-sounding. But, unbeknownst to his companion... He was smiling. It was a heartbreaking smile.
" In those places, I feel the shadows of those times, and that love feels new and sharp again in my heart. By remembering, I don't abandon them. I don't abandon my own heart. I couldn't surrender those memories, detach them from the places they occurred, even when I've truly wished it." He shakes his head.
Zash listened to the other's
"I understand..." he replied quietly, tucking away the wise words. Maybe they could be of use when he got lost in memories. "Yet, I can't help but wonder how you can still feel love toward those of the past if they've hurt you? You mentioned your ex-wife, surely that caused pain?" he turned his head to look at him. Like with Riley. They were "even" but Zash wanted to know to forgive him. How to remember him with kindness and not frustration or pain.
"...It hurt a lot. There were
He had never admitted that to anyone, but, being unable to see him meant that Seed felt Zash wasn't going to look at him judgingly. Being a stranger, this person wouldn't worry about him. And, anyway... It was over a year ago now. His voice sounded strained and self-derisive, feelings coming and going across his heart and face quickly as he spoke.
"But I love her, even so. Foolish, isn't it? I can't escape my own feelings. When I remember the time we spent together... It does hurt. It is sad. But at the same time, the memories are warm and happy. Otherwise, their being memories would not hurt. I'm happy to have memories of her and I... I'm happy she got to be happy, even just for a while. Being happy when you're hurt, sympathetic joy for someone who hurt you. That may be what love is."
He said sounded, for all his speculatory words, resolute. There was a small sniffling sound as he surpressed a tear.
"You speak wisely..." he
"I'm sorry...About your
Seed said, regaining his smile and the smoothness of his voice by a dint of will, shaking off his own mood to allow for some empathy.
"I originally asked, though, because of a project I'm working on. Well, thinking about working on. I'm a little stuck."
The stag was giving a small
( I dunno if you want to keep
--
The midnight pelted doe slunk through the woods, miles of worry racing through her mind. Several friends she had not seen in a while... And her son seemed to be gone now, too. She was a bit on-edge, and a bit worked up. Her face was drawn in a soft, pout-like scowl as she limped around. Her wounds were just now starting to scab over, but they still wept blood when she moved the muscles under them, as she was so smartly doing now.
She was following a scent without even knowing it. It was something familiar, welcome, yet something seemed to be weighing heavily on this scent. She walked out from a shrubbery and towards a sunny patch she intended to sunbathe in. But it seemed to already be occupied. Oh w- Wait. She recognized the occupant. Uncertainly, Nadezdha stood in front of the grey, silently and off at a distance. Her eyes had yet to really focus and take in his current physical state, and so, like the lump she was, she just stood and stared blankly.
Seperate would probably be
Zash didn't know what to make of them stopping short in front of him. It was like they didn't know what to make of him, or were startled into seeing him. He inched his head around to try to see them, making out blue, gold and some feathers. It took him a few heartbeats to recognize them, feeling more relieved than he initially thought that this was a friend over foe. Or at least he hoped so.
"Nadezdha...is that you?" he questioned softly.