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Ivar "The Boneless" Ragnarsson ([personal profile] ragnarsson) wrote in [community profile] riverview2017-10-08 10:14 pm

Video @the.boneless; Days of Vikings Gone By....

[When the video starts, the memory is in the dead of night. The darkness is the kind that you can't get anymore with electric lights all over the place. This is true dark, the kind when only the moonshine can help anyone to see. There's a group of men and women sleeping soundly on the ground. The peacefulness of the scene is broken as a man creeps among them, slitting their throats with cold efficiency. As he moves between them, there's another figure to his right, crawling around doing the same thing. It's hard to tell at first who it is. Then one of the men wakes up. Spotting the figure, he derisively says, 'What do you want, cripple?' Turning to face him, it's clear this is everyone's favorite psychopathic Viking teenager.

Things turn into a blur of action as Ivar begins brutally killing the other Vikings around him. He uses whatever weapon he has at hand, everything from a knife to an axe to a sword. If anyone ever wondered how a teenage Viking who couldn't use his legs ever became a feared warrior, now you have your answer. Soon, he's killed five people in little under a minute, and only one young woman is left. He crawls towards her like something out of a nightmare. She pleads for her life. 'Ivar! Ivar! You don't need to kill me. Because...you can have this.' Offering herself to him, he seems to consider the proposition. Leaning in, it appears for a moment that he's going to kiss her. Then he stabs her in the side, instead ending her life. With all the Vikings around him dead, Ivar flops on the ground, exhausted. Peculiarly enough, there's a happy, satisfied smile on his face, the kind no one in Riverview has ever seen. He clearly enjoyed the carnage that had just taken place.

The scene fades out and comes back in. The man who had initially been slitting throats and Ivar are hunkered down behind some bushes, hiding from something or someone. It's clearly not too long after the first memory, since both are wearing the same clothes. In fact, it's the next day. Watching, whatever they're hiding from passes by. The man beside Ivar has the exact same ice-blue shade to his eyes that Ivar does. This is his father, Ragnar Lodbrok Sigurdsson, one of the most famous kings among all Vikings.

Ragnar pulls out some dried fish and the two talk while eating. 'I bet you wish you'd never brought me along, right? And I bet you wish you would have killed me when I was born, just like you wanted to,' Ivar says. Oh yes, that was something that had happened. Viking childhoods were brutal things.

'Only when you talk,' Ragnar says back, and it's clear where part of Ivar's sense of humor comes from. Ragnar continues to talk, telling of how he thought Ivar's legs were a weakness, but that he turned out to be wrong. Something seems to soften in Ivar's face as he listens intently. 'You are special. Not in spite of your legs. But because of them.' They're the words Ivar has been waiting to hear his whole life and it shows in his eyes. This was the moment he gave his heart completely to his father, receiving the recognition no one has ever shown him. The memory fades out as Ivar says that was the first time he'd ever heard his father admit to being wrong about something. Ragnar replies it will never happen again.]
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[personal profile] talentedscavenger 2017-10-20 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[He didn't need to tell her why, but she could see that he had found his own way to train. To become stronger, and really he was a strong person for doing what he needed to do.]

I wouldn't know if I'm the oldest or youngest. I can't recall much about my family. [So yes, hello fellow orphan. She knows what it's like to be left behind in a different sort of sense. At least they had that in common.] I know...they loved me. [At least that's what she tells herself.]
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[personal profile] talentedscavenger 2017-10-22 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[It wasn't like her to talk about herself. More specifically, her past. It was a topic that didn't come up often, but now, thanks to whatever it was that was happening with Riverview, it was. More people had a glimpse into her a life on Jakku than she would've preferred.]

I don't know. We were separated when I was younger.

[Separated sounds a lot better than abandoned, but it was hard to remember if they left her on Jakku because they were forced to or not.]

They could be alive, but I don't think that's the case anymore.
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[personal profile] talentedscavenger 2017-11-07 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
I survived.

[Not 'it was hard,' or 'I got through it,' but survived. She survived while on Jakku. She didn't enjoy it, but she survived it. There wasn't really a chance for her to be a child except in the few small moments she carved out for herself, but that was only after a long day's worth of work.]

I was still waiting for my family to come back, but things changed. You had time with your father, memories--stories that you can tell other family members or friends.
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[personal profile] talentedscavenger 2017-11-07 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
[There's something of a half chuckle from her. She never thought about how good of a job she was doing. It was either survive or die, nothing really in between.]

Or maybe I was too stubborn to die.

[She went through a lot, and this conversation was supposed to be more about Ivar rather than her. She wasn't used to talking about herself this much....or at all.]

I don't think it ever will be. You'll always want more time, but...guess that's natural. Do you miss any other members of your family?
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[personal profile] talentedscavenger 2017-11-07 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
For that, I would've hit them or done worse. [But not kill over it, but a got ass kicking would've made it known to not pick on her. To simply throw that insult in front of him was infuriating.]

I'd imagine you made a considerable effort to be a pain in the ass then? In addition to surviving out of stubbornness and spite? [In hindsight, it may not be very thoughtful to take on a joking or somewhat playful tone about surviving a hard childhood, but to Rey it's a bit funny...and perhaps a bit morbid, but not too many people could relate to a childhood like hers.

And she went from talking about a somewhat happier subject to death again.]


...I shouldn't have brought that up...I'm sorry. [Because saying 'sorry for your loss' would be overkill right now. ]
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[personal profile] talentedscavenger 2017-11-07 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
It's harder when you're younger. You don't have the skills, or the resources...but time changes that.

[There's a bit of a light chuckle, maybe a hint of a smile on her face.]

Dunno about that. You haven't been a pain, not with me. [Though, she maybe speaking a bit too soon on that front. She didn't know him too well, so there was always enough time for him to be a pain in her ass, and vice-versa.]

It never does. [She pauses for a moment, trying to choose her words carefully and not give away too much.] Some days, it's easier and other days, it's harder. The loss, it stays with you.
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[personal profile] talentedscavenger 2017-11-08 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
That a challenge?

]Spoken in a soft, almost teasing tone.]

Mmmhmm. [There was a soft hum of agreement. Sometimes hope was all someone had. Hope that things would get better, that tomorrow would be better.] Yeah, and you have to try your hardest to not lose that hope. Some days will be better or worse than others...

Which is why you find ways to distract yourself.
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[personal profile] talentedscavenger 2017-11-09 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
You don't...do anything else? [Then again, she was one to talk. She mostly worked...and tried a new food here or there, when she had the funds for it. Rey was still in survivor mode, trying to do as much as she could and get paid properly for it.]
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[personal profile] talentedscavenger 2017-11-09 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, that was something she didn't know before.]

You have a daughter?

[It doesn't shock her, considering...well, to each their own. She also doesn't know how old he is, but if he's able to care for her, then who was she to say anything about it?]

I knew you have your pets...the pokemon, but I didn't know you had a child. What's her name?
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[personal profile] talentedscavenger 2017-11-09 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Sure?

[It's a question she was expecting to be thrown at her, but she didn't know if he meant in person or anything of the like. Rey was still in her room, sitting on her bed with her legs crossed.

When the camera turns on she can see the little girl all bundled up. She's nearly forgotten how small a baby can look.]


She's...all wrapped up in blankets. [Give her a moment, she's really trying to take it in. A small little girl with a big name...but the name suits her.] But, she is beautiful. [There's even a hint of a smile on her face.]
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[personal profile] talentedscavenger 2017-11-10 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Rey stays quiet then, watching the child's face on her screen. It's....sweet really. To know Ivar has this side to him, and that his daughter can look utterly adorable (not that she'd say it out loud). There is a part of her that wants to ask about Winter's mother, but it isn't her place.

To not disturb the young babe, Rey switches to text again.]


I don't want to wake her, but if you want to continue talking, we can.
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[personal profile] talentedscavenger 2017-11-10 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Rey would just assume Ivar read her text and thought it would be easier to reply over the phone. She waits for another response....

And learns the child, and her mother, had powers. Well...okay then.]


So your daughter... [She's trying to wrap her head around this, give her a moment.] She can take life force from other living things and just...heal someone.

[Wait a moment...]

Wouldn't that weaken the other living thing?

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