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Post by Markise Sterling on Aug 22, 2009 22:23:34 GMT -5
That they won't be loved. Markise shook his head. "That's just part of life," he said softly. It felt like he shouldn't feel that way, but he did. He cared about Ariel so deeply, but he'd loved Dare, and none of that had ever been returned. He didn't want to think about it. He didn't want to think of all the rejection he'd been through in just the past two years, and he didn't want to think about Ariel's assertion that he could never love, that he'd never love him. He held tight to how good it felt to be together.
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Post by Quinn Ashwinder on Aug 22, 2009 22:29:42 GMT -5
Quinn shook her head, speaking passionately, "it shouldn't be that way ever. I had a sister who taught me that. Everyone should be loved for who and or what they are, we can't change what we're born as. I'm a mudblood and I couldn't care less." Her step-father did, but then since he was a murderous bastard, she could forgive or rather forget his opinions on the matter. That she was the reason her sister died though was something she could never love about herself.
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Post by Markise Sterling on Aug 22, 2009 22:40:12 GMT -5
"Things aren't the way they should be," Markise argued, though he knew he shouldn't. He'd only just gotten back to Hogwarts, and already it felt oppressive. It had felt oppressive since the train ride, when all the freedom he'd had over the summer had disappeared, leaving him study buddies with his boyfriend. It shouldn't be that way, but it was, and Markise didn't see how it could possibly change. "I'm not telling you not to try," he clarified. "Good luck an' everything, but maybe I'm a little cynical."
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Post by Quinn Ashwinder on Aug 22, 2009 22:42:54 GMT -5
Quinn shrugged at least glad he hadn't stormed off, "it's fine to be cynical. But sometimes things happen....in your life...horrible things." Fingers fisted on the side of her head that Markise couldn't see, she let out a deep breath, "those things change what you think, how you feel. I don't have the option to be cynical anymore." She was happy for the people who did have that option, but she could never go back to that shell. She wasn't happy there, wasn't happy here, but at least she was true to herself here.
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Post by Markise Sterling on Aug 22, 2009 22:47:10 GMT -5
"Sometimes those things make people cynical," Markise said. He knew all about those things. He certainly hadn't thought people were so unforgiving until he'd come out at SWIM. People he'd known, people he'd gone to school with for years, a lot of whom hadn't had any problems with him. One little confession, one little truth, and so many had turned against him. And that had only been the beginning of it.
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Post by Quinn Ashwinder on Aug 22, 2009 22:50:35 GMT -5
"I suppose, living in an ideal world is called ideal because we don't actually live in one, then it wouldn't be ideal, it would be what we live in. But for all the people that are cynical, I intend to try to make changes, even if I'm ostracized so that they won't be. They deserve that much," and I, I can live without that much. I can live on memories and ideals if I need to, she thought to herself.
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Post by Markise Sterling on Aug 23, 2009 0:42:29 GMT -5
Markise could hardly keep up with Quinn's reasoning, but he got the basic point of it. She wanted to make people accept things somehow. He only nodded this time, agreeing instead of arguing details or realities. He'd already wished her luck, and that was about all he was going to do. He'd had enough of stirring up social boundaries at SWIM, and only had minor deviations since. As far as the general public knew.
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Post by Quinn Ashwinder on Aug 23, 2009 10:49:43 GMT -5
Quinn sighed as she realized she might have done it again, Markise was being quite and she didn't want to end what had started as a good conversation on something that stagnated most conversation. She really needed to learn how to handle her activism in a way that encouraged people not made them silent. "So, what are you planning to do once you graduate from Hogwarts?" She was planning on maybe trying to get into the wand business as well as lead the life of an activist.
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Post by Markise Sterling on Aug 23, 2009 11:02:19 GMT -5
"I'm not sure," Markise said honestly. There were so many things he'd wanted to do once, but they hadn't gone nearly as well as he'd expected them to. He'd promised that he'd try again, but most of what he expected from the running of his shop this term was an excuse to be alone with Ariel for a few hours a day.
"I know I wanna go back to New York, but I don't know if I will. I have friends out there, but I have friends here too, and I don't think I'd see 'em again if I went. I'm thinkin' I'll have to find somewhere else." If he and Ariel were still together, which he refused to admit might not be a possibility, he knew Ariel wouldn't want to stay in New York permanently. But there was no way he'd stay here, and he didn't know if he'd be able to handle the open nothing which was apparently Queensland.
"What do you want to do?" He returned. "Do you know?" She looked younger than him, so she probably had some time to figure it out.
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Post by Quinn Ashwinder on Aug 23, 2009 12:16:23 GMT -5
Quinn nodded, "I either want to work in the Ministry, under Hermione Granger," Hermione was a huge advocate for equality, having started something called SPEW for house elves even when she'd been in Hogwarts. Hermione was a huge influence in Quinn's life. "Or, maybe and, I would like to create a wand shop. I know Ollivander's in huge in London, but I want to create a wand shop that specializes in low impact wand designs."
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Post by Markise Sterling on Aug 23, 2009 13:40:31 GMT -5
Low impact. Markise had never heard that applied to wands before, but he could guess, if only part of it. He had never wondered how wand cores might be obtained, and so his thought was about the number of trees it must take to keep a wand store stocked. "There's a wand store in Diagon Alley, a lot of students work there." Markise paused a moment, thinking before he went on. "The owner took off in the spring, so it might be for sale." That had definitely stung.
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Post by Quinn Ashwinder on Aug 23, 2009 14:16:00 GMT -5
Quinn thought about and thought about the work load involved with that, but she knew that if it truly was for sale than it was an opportunity of a lifetime. It would offer her the opportunity to start expanding her horizons even before she graduated from school. "Really, maybe I'll look into that," she murmured, her mind already turning the possibilities around in her head. "Isn't Diagon Alley where Ollivander's wand shop is thought?" The competition would be intense, that closely located to the man who had essentially been creating the majority of wands in London for years.
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Post by Markise Sterling on Aug 23, 2009 14:25:51 GMT -5
Markise had to think about that. He'd never actually wandered Diagon Alley to look in the shops. He'd never bought his school supplies there, either. He'd been to visit DareandMichael, he'd been to visit Mano, and he'd gotten lost near Knockturn Alley, though he still didn't know how he'd gotten there and it wasn't a good memory in and of itself.
"I know the students don't shop there," he said after a moment. "And any kind of specialty has got to be good." His nose wrinkled when he heard himself. "Or maybe not. People around here like, resist change." It was the same in most of the wizarding world, even worse than Muggles.
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Post by Quinn Ashwinder on Aug 23, 2009 14:28:10 GMT -5
Quinn chuckled a little bit at that, "but I like change," she liked to inspire it and be it. "Would you come and visit my shop if I bought it?" There wasn't a plea or an advance in her voice, just the honest sincerity of someone wondering if they had a shot at a business. After all, she'd thought that it would be years before she could open her own shop, not weeks.
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Post by Markise Sterling on Aug 23, 2009 15:17:01 GMT -5
"Yeah," Markise said, without a moment's hesitation. "I've got a shop in Diagon Alley too, so I'll be there." He looked aside at Quinn. "It's not doing very well, so don't take any business advice from me." He absolutely refused to sell the same boring mediocre-quality things everyone else sold! But it seemed like everyone wanted mass-produced crap. Trendwhores. He had no issues with trends, but he didn't invest in throwaway purchases.
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