noimpulsecontrol: (cheerful)
Della Duck ([personal profile] noimpulsecontrol) wrote in [community profile] starlightcafe2019-12-27 04:39 pm

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor - could you be mine?

Della didn't much mind the cold, so long as she kept moving, which was (part of) why the visit to the other Duckburg's Manor had become a walk out in the slush. According to Scrooge, the snow had been fierce just a week ago, but now conditions were safe enough to be out in, though they were sticking to the Manor grounds just in case things got bad again. Della wasn't nuts about that limitation, but at least she was in good company.

She smiled over at Scrooge. "You do this regularly with my uncle, right?" she asked.
gobetween: (Are you sure...?)

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-12-28 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
He was quiet for a moment or two, staring off to one side. Then he sighed, and his hands closed up a bit.

"Maybe. I don't know."
moneymatters: (Huhm...)

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[personal profile] moneymatters 2019-12-28 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Aye, she's right." He walked ahead a few steps so he was standing on the opposite side from Della, looking up at Gobo on the branch.

"It's entirely reasonable to want time by yourself, even from the people you hold closest."

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[personal profile] gobetween 2019-12-28 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"I know, I know. I even got to teach them that, once."

A short little half-chuckle, then he sighed a bit.

"That's not it... Not entirely anyway, I guess. I just keep thinking about leaving the Rock, and how many times I almost did before. Sometimes it would've been alone, sometimes it would've been with friends, but I never wound up doing it. ...Until I did."
gobetween: (Bold first steps)

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-12-28 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
He glanced at her and nodded. "Yeah. Heck, there was even once everyone thought about leaving the Rock." A thought visibly crossed his face and he smiled somewhat sadly, sitting forward a little to look down at her.

"That day we were in Rainbow Reminisce, and I sang that song? It was one I'd sung before, on that day where it looked like all the Fraggles were gonna leave the Rock. Wembley sang it with me, and.. I think hearing it is what convinced everyone to stay."
gobetween: (Supportive friend)

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-12-28 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
He glanced between her hands, then smiled gently, a bittersweet sort of look. Shifting forward on the branch he stepped forward and, wrapping his tail around it, dropped down below. He dangled a moment, then released his grip and dropped the couple of feet left into her embrace.
gobetween: (Weeeellllll......)

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-12-28 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
He stepped back after the hug, glancing back a moment when Scrooge walked back to join them both. Then he sighed softly and looked up at Della.

"...I don't know. I guess that's what I've been trying to figure out."
moneymatters: (Proposing something)

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[personal profile] moneymatters 2019-12-28 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Took the words right out o' my mouth, lass." He smiled some and glanced down at Gobo, resting a hand behind his shoulder. "Come on. You can join us on a walk 'round the grounds here, and we'll talk all the while. Might help you sort out your head."

When Gobo nodded, Scrooge started off again, leaving space for the Fraggle between himself and Della. At first they walked in silence, then he glanced down at him.

"So, what happened before you decided to really come out on your own?"
gobetween: (Little bit curious)

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[personal profile] gobetween 2019-12-28 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well... I guess it was that I met Doc." He tucked his hands into the bottommost pockets of his vest, pulling it a bit around him. It hadn't been cold enough out here for his full winter gear, just the hat, but without being somewhat curled into his own body heat like he had been on the tree, it was a little chilly at first down here.

"I think I've told you guys about that before, right? About the Honk of Honks, and Doc moving and all that jazz... Heh. Y'know, that was one of the times I almost left the Rock, too. He wanted me to come with him before he moved, but I got scared and went back to Fraggle Rock. Then he did leave, and... I dunno. It still all felt so different, even though the tunnel we found to his new place was almost in the exact same spot as the old one."

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-12-28 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not that long. I guess only about a week?" He shrugged slightly. "I explored around Doc's new home some, and then I started branching out, thanks to this one place in Fraggle Rock that leads to other parts of Outer Space. I knew then that... I finally felt ready to leave, to really leave, and go out on my own just like my uncle."

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-12-28 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, it's something I'd been thinking about for a long time, remember. Like when I'd felt like I had explored every inch of Fraggle Rock that there was to even see."

He breathed out a sigh, the breath pluming at the end of his snout and then buffeting backwards. "I had felt a little lost, because what does an explorer explore when there's nothing left? But the Storyteller told me about a trip that not even Uncle Matt had finished, so I set out on it with my friends. It was supposedly an impossible quest that no one had ever completed, to find nothing less than the meaning of life itself." Weak, humorless chuckle. "We had different levels of confidence about this a'course, but to me this sounded like just what I needed.

"We struggled a little to make it, but eventually we got to the outskirts and found a literal point of no return, with a map and a message carved on a wall. 'To learn the secret you must walk alone, and never return to all that you've known. This map is but the first of many more. Each map found, the further to explore. The meaning of life awaits those who pay the price. A lifetime of wisdom for a lifetime of sacrifice.' One by one the others decided that the Rock needed them more than they needed the meaning of life, but in the end... I continued. Wembley was there at first, but then even he realized he had to go back. I pressed on for a bit, but then... I decided, too, that I had to go back, and I did."
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[personal profile] gobetween 2019-12-28 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Something like that, yeah. It was scary at first, Outer Space. But the more I got used to it... The more I wanted to see it."
moneymatters: (Eh?)

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[personal profile] moneymatters 2019-12-28 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"I can understand that feelin'. Realizing that your experiences, while making you grow the entire time, have grown you too large for your home, and it's almost like you just don't fit in anymore. Right?"

He glanced down and when Gobo, after a pause, nodded, he continued. "That happened to me in my youth, actually. I'd spent the previous couple o' decades gaining wealth for back home, to support my family. And when I finally made it, was finally rich beyond my wildest dreams, I thought I would move back into my home in Scotland." He sighed, nostalgic at the memory but not regretful, having long made his peace with this. "I was wrong. Scotland, that part anyway, had become too 'backwater' and I had changed too much because of my travels. It's not necessarily a bad thing, to feel like you don't belong where you came from. Home is where you make it, after all. And ultimately, I made a new one. My living family members and I decided to travel together for a while, and 'twasn't long after that that I founded what would become the modern Duckburg. Everythin' since then has been history, as they say."
gobetween: (Feeling unsure)

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-12-28 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
He thought about what they both said, and at length nodded slightly.

"Yeah, I guess that's... why I'm not really upset my friends came with me. Fraggle Home is exactly what it sounds like it is." He was quiet a bit, then sighed again. "It's just that... Fraggle Rock was a lot. Still is. You're right, when you say places don't change. And I'm not talking about the parties or the music or anything like that either. My friends, and the other Fraggles, they.." He paused, trying to put words to it. "Well. It seemed like I was always getting picked for the big and important stuff, or led things happening, or was always being asked one thing or another, or that others just wanted me. Some days I couldn't get a bit of peace. There's even a couple times where everything almost ended entirely because the Rock as a whole decided to listen to what I said."
gobetween: (Can you believe this?)

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-12-28 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
He took her hand gratefully, if a bit without thought. It just seemed natural, and he didn't even glance up at it.

"No. The first time was when I was still a kid. Uncle Matt had always said that, if ever there was too long a time between postcards, that he wanted me to go out there and find him. There had been a couple of weeks without any news, and... I wasn't a true explorer then, not yet, but I knew I had to do my duty and go out there. The entirety of Fraggle Rock got behind me, and then threw me a goodbye party completely by surprise. In the end I didn't have to go because a postcard came in, explaining that he'd been sick, but..."

He trailed off, looking down a moment in thought. "That was the first time for a lot of things, I think. The other Fraggles getting behind me for something, the thought of me leaving the Rock for Outer Space... and only a week before I'd been stuck out there in Doc's Workshop! I couldn't think of anything but getting back into Fraggle Rock, and now here I am out here thinking about how far I've gone from Fraggle Rock."
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