The Reckless and the Brave [ALEX]

[leonard james scott]

★★★★★

Honey Tree town, Leonard reflected, wasn't quite as bad as he had expected it to be. For a boring town full of supernaturals (even though that statement was rather odd, it was the absolute truth-- Honey Tree town had seemed dull), it was quite okay-- if only just because it had a duck pond. Leonard grinned as he ripped more of the bread up and tossed it to the ducks, who gobbled the pieces of bread eagerly. He figured that this might be a good spot for him to hang around if he were ever bored-- according to prior observation, ducks were significantly nicer creatures than human beings, anyway. It would be a relief for him to be able to hang out around ducks instead of annoying humans.

Speaking of humans, Leonard grimaced at the sickening couples near him. Why someone would want to tie themselves down emotionally and only be able to be together with one person for the rest of their lives made absolutely no sense to him-- in his (14-year old but still relevant) opinion, flirting seemed the best way to go. After all, dating meant the possibility of marriage, which was the equivalent of finding a girl he really, really hated and giving her a house. Leonard was quite against buying any girls any houses-- it sounded absolutely distasteful.

Still, though, as he watched the picnic-ing couples and families around him (for his attention had long since left the ducks, fascinating creatures though they were), he couldn't help but wonder how his old friends were doing. He was still in contact with them even though he moved away, and to his knowledge, his two best friends had gotten together. Perhaps it was only his continual presence there which prevented it from happening-- in which case he should have stayed there longer, because Leonard was completely convinced that romantic relationships ruined all friendships. Girls were icky, anyway. Why someone would want to hang out with a girl all the time, Leonard had no idea. Sighing, Leonard turned back to the ducks-- and great. Even the ducks were nuzzling together now. Ugh. Stupid couples and stupid ducks. Why did everyone seem to want to get romantically involved?

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★★★★★

Notes: --- Outfit: Clicky! Tagged: Alex :3

[alexander jay garcía torres]

[atrb=border, 0, true][atrb=style, background: url(http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w450/BluuBluuie/alexcoding.png); border-radius: 50px; border: #867457 1px solid; padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom:15px] To be truthful, Alex didn't really mind days like these. Despite being in the throes of a bitter winter, today was mildly pleasant; the sun was out, watery, bleak and clear, without a blanket of slate clouds to block its warming rays. It wasn't enough to completely dry up the dew that'd dampened everything last night, but at least the air was crisp and fresh, a touch on the numbing side, but still very welcomed. From the looks of things, Alex wasn't the only soul to think this since today there seemed to be more people out, revelling in the much-appreciated good weather. More people meant more people to listen. And more potential tippers. There were quite a few couples out today. Almost everywhere he looked there was at least one making googly eyes, holding hands or being all mushy. Shrugging, Alex had decided to take advantage of that and had come very close to exhausting his library of love songs. Worked though. Even if he physically couldn't play for too long. His fingers didn't appreciate being bared to the elements and cramped terribly, even with fingerless gloves. Sucked but what could he do about it? Being an air faerie, he could only really conjure things to do with, well, air. And he knew his powers weren't good enough to create breezes of warm air. It'd be cool if he could though. But he couldn't, so he ended it with "Unwinding Cable Car" by Anberlin, a particular favourite of his. Cradling a coffee in his thawing fingers, Alex wandered aimlessly about with his guitar case gently bumping against the back of his legs. He'd gone to that café where he could get free coffees because that the café worker was, like, a total fangirlboy for Fall Out Boy. Alex had poured a shot of vodka into the polystyrene cup when no one had been looking and disappeared back out into the cold - what? It was to warm his frozen bones a bit more? He unintentionally ended up finding his way back to the duck pond. The couples were still there. Bleh. He didn't mind the romance when he was getting a good few bob from it, but not when he was just looking for something to entertain himself with for an hour or so to pass the time. But... he spotted something that caught his eye. Some guy, alone, by the duck pond. Aww. Poor man. Looked lonely. Alex could fix that though. Fix that easily. Sipping from his spiked coffee, the sprite wandered up to the man and... the closer he got, the younger he seemed to look. Shit. He looked... school-aged? Wasn't he meant to be in school or something right now? Oh well. "Hey there." He smiled, hoisting the guitar a bit up on his back with a roll of a shoulder. "Crush stand you up or something? 'Cause you ain't half glaring at those ducks. " [/style] tagged: alex's fan! *snicker* notes: :3 outfit: clicky!

[leonard james scott]

★★★★★

Leonard had just been in the middle of a very entertaining glare-session (yes, things like that existed, no judging, damnit) with the ducks when a random guy came up and asked if a crush had stood him up or something. Leonard snorted. A crush? He wasn't stupid enough to wind up with one of those-- those meant real relationships, which was a big no-no. And Leonard had better things to do with his time than go out, anyway.

"No, just... really hate couples," he offered lamely, and while it might seem odd, Len really did. "They're annoying. Even the ducks are a couple." Using his powers, he conjured up an illusion of a sappy cartoon couple and made them go through a sped-up version of life-- meeting, falling in love, getting married, having kids... blah, blah, blah. And then he killed the male off with a certain amount of sadistic pleasure. And after the cartoon male died, the cartoon female slowly withered away and died, too; showing how unnecessarily co-dependent couples were and how stupid that was. "What's the point of being together with someone, anyway? Exclusivity and shit. It sounds horrible." Leonard would know-- he saw his father waste away after his mother had died (at least when he was home from being in the army).

Then Leonard finally looked up at the man. Well, he didn't look that bad... not creepy crazy hobo stalker murderer kind of person, at least. It didn't seem... although one could never be too sure. "If you're here to kidnap me, you're not going to be able to manage it," he said anyway, playing a bit more with his illusions. "I know how to fight. But I could use some company; ever since those two stupid ducks started nuzzling, they stopped caring about my breadcrumbs. Stupid ducks."

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★★★★★

Notes: --- Outfit: Clicky! Tagged: Alex :3

[alexander jay garcía torres]

[atrb=border, 0, true][atrb=style, background: url(http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w450/BluuBluuie/alexcoding.png); border-radius: 50px; border: #867457 1px solid; padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom:15px] Ooh. He'd found himself an angsty teen. They were the best kind to bitch with about everything and anything. Alex lipped the rounded edge of his cup with a faint, amused smile. So the guy hated couples, eh? He might've just encountered a new friend. He sighed into his cup and paused to inhale the soothing aroma of coffee tinged with the tang of alcohol. "Yeah... annoyin'." Alex hummed his agreement and tilted his warm drink up for a sip. "Even more so if you want in someone's pants." What? It was annoying. Like Ray. God. Ray. He was married, for fuck's sake, but that hadn't made him stop Alex's advances. Stupid cockteases that just wanted their ego's stroked. It wasn't fair. Alex's shaped eyebrows lifted in mild surprise when the boy beside him conjured a cartoon of sorts as a demonstration of his thoughts on the whole "love" issue. He hadn't exactly expected the guy to be a... a trickster was it? Or illusionist? It wasn't everyday he bumped into people that were quick to use their powers in front of him. He didn't mind though... the cartoon was entertaining... although a bit disturbing towards the end. Especially how the man died. Alex passed the shiver he got down his spine from the cold. Not from being creeped out. "Being tied down to one person is... kinda borin' after a while. I tried it once. Not my cuppa tea." Jóse. Wow, it'd been a long time since his thoughts had gone back to his old flame. But, yeah, even though it'd gotten a bit dull sleeping with the same person who wasn't all that keen to try new things... it'd still hurt to end it. Alex blamed the car crash he'd had on him. If he hadn't been so... hard to break up with, Alex probably wouldn't have popped those pills and washed them down with drink. Then maybe he wouldn't have crashed. Ugh. Why was he even thinking about this? That was a long time ago. The only scars he had was the one hidden in his hair and the repressed memories that surfaced every so often. "I'm not gonna kidnap you so.. relax." Alex chuckled, shaking his head and taking a larger swallow of coffee. It was cooling down fast now so it was best to drink it while it was still a bit warm. "You'd be another mouth to feed and I honestly wouldn't have space for you." Kidnapping a boy and stuffing him in his van? No way. It was a squeeze as it was with JD and Tootie who demanded her own space. And it wasn't like Alex earned enough to keep a possible hostage fed enough. He shook his head once again and downed his coffee, grimacing a bit at the strong tang from not having stirred his coffee enough after he'd slipped in another ingredient. "Shouldn't you be, like, in school or somethin', cielo?" Alex asked, glancing sideways at the boy as he reached into his back pocket. Cute, he decided, but probably a bit too young for him. Nothing wrong in humouring himself though. Still looking at him, subtly letting his eyes silently rove over the kid, Alex slid a cigarette out from a carton and tapped the end on the bottom of the packet. "Nothin' wrong with nuzzlin'. 'Specially with this cold weather we're havin'. Kinda nice actually. Keeps y'warm." [/style] tagged: alex's fan! *snicker* notes: :3 outfit: clicky!

[leonard james scott]

★★★★★

Leonard nodded along when the random guy talked about the wanting in someone's pants-part, which was true. Being tied down to one person seemed terrible, especially if that one person couldn't keep it in their pants; that just resulted in screaming and fights and infidelity and divorce. Which was, of course, not really anyone's cup of tea. But he was too young to be thinking of shit like that, of course, so he just nodded along, letting his illusions play out what he had been imagining. They did that a lot. He didn't really mind.

Then creepy busker-dude mentioned that he'd had a lover, once upon a time, but he got bored of being tied down to one person. Did that mean that he cheated? Because if there was one thing that Leonard couldn't stand, it was creeping bastards who had a perfectly good lover at home but couldn't keep their legs closed. Not that he particularly approved of relationships, anyway, but if someone was going to go through all the trouble to just get in one, they might as well treasure it the best they could, right? Ah, whatever. Still, Leonard found himself curious as to what had happened to the guy's lover and their relationship. "What happened?" he asked, looking up. "Amicable break-up? Death and destruction? It's okay if you don't want to tell me. I'm probably asking too many questions again."

He laughed when creepy busker-dude chuckled and told him that he wasn't at risk of being kidnapped, not that Leonard thought that it was a particuarly dangerous threat anyway. Still. And then came the all-important question about school. Schooooool. Bleh. "I'm new in town and I'm not technically enrolled in the school system yet, so it's all good... I don't even have a place to stay yet, because I came here looking for a long-lost brother or something. It wasn't too smart a decision that I made," Leonard confessed. And then he looked down at the cigarette being offered. If he'd been a bit older he probably would have taken it, but oh well. "It's okay, save it for yourself I guess." His little cartoon illusions ran on, showing-- well, mostly showing the numerous ways people could die from smoking. Yeah. Smoking was bad and killed people.

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★★★★★

Notes: --- Outfit: Clicky! Tagged: Alex :3

[alexander jay garcía torres]

[atrb=border, 0, true][atrb=style, background: url(http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w450/BluuBluuie/alexcoding.png); border-radius: 50px; border: #867457 1px solid; padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom:15px] This teen was a curious little guy, wasn't he? Not that Alex minded, of course. So he decided to indulge his question. Watching those quirky illusions that the trickster kept going, the sprite spoke: "We just wanted different things, I s'pose. He didn't think I was serious about trading in my home for the road." They hadn't exactly been dating officially for all that long when Alex bought the camper van with the money he'd been saving since the age of fifteen; when he'd first decided what he wanted to do. "Got a feelin' he thought that our road trip was just gonna be a summer thing, y'know? Couple weeks in, he wanted home. Got all moody 'cause I told him I weren't turnin' back for anyone. So, one mornin', we said g'bye and I took him to the train station. Haven't seen him since." Alex shrugged. It'd been one of those things that just didn't work out. He kind of hoped that his ex had found the person he was waiting and looking for; the person Alex couldn't be for him. Whoever that was. The thin man looked at the kid with a bit of a surprised expression. He'd dropped everything and headed out into the open with an undetailed plan. A bit like what he'd done four years ago. Already, Alex was beginning to see that they had something in common. "Lookin' for a long-lost brother, eh? Sounds a bit like a soap." Alex chuckled, looking away from the younger guy and towards the duck pond once more. "Mightn't of been a good decision but just make the most outta it, cielo." Seeing that his casual offer of a smoke was denied, Alex rolled his shoulder and put the filter end between his lips. Fair enough. He did seem a touch on the young side to be smoking anyway. Maybe he shouldn't have even bothered offering. Smart kid, though. "Yeah, yeah, whatever." Alex chuckled once he saw the cartoon on smoking, nudging the boy in his side with his elbow as he cupped his hands by the cigarette to light it with his zippo. "Gonna die anyway. But, like, thanks for the reminder." [/style] tagged: alex's fan! *snicker* notes: :3 outfit: clicky!

[leonard james scott]

★★★★★

A few cartoon caravans popped up at the mention of a road trip, and they basically illustrated Alex's story. And while Leonard thought the entire story was really interesting and all, something that was actually a whole lot more interesting was: this guy lived on the road? Alone? "How old were you when you left to live on your own? Why'd you do it? Sounds dangerous yet absolutely wonderful. I probably would've done it if I could."

He smiled, playing with his illusions a bit more. "My brother did end up taking me in, but I doubt that I'm going to be dependent on him for anything. It just comes with being used to taking care of oneself, y'know? I was prepared to find someone else to stay with in the event that my brother didn't." His cartoons showed the image of a young boy making friends, stealing the hearts of parents and getting a place to stay-- and okay, so maybe the mansion depicted was an exaggeration, but that had honestly been his plan if Chase didn't allow him to stay. And despite the fact that Leonard knew it might not actually be possible, seeing as to how awkward a 14-year old he was, a boy could dream. He'd always wanted to be popular, anyway, because popularity brought all sorts of benefits and he wanted in on that. Who didn't?

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★★★★★

Notes: --- Outfit: Clicky! Tagged: Alex :3

[alexander jay garcía torres]

[atrb=border, 0, true][atrb=style, background: url(http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w450/BluuBluuie/alexcoding.png); border-radius: 50px; border: #867457 1px solid; padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom:15px] The cool little illusion the boy was conjuring now showed a caravan... God, Alex wished he had a caravan. Even one of those small ones. He'd have so much more fucking room in one of those babies. But, then again, living in his Volkswagen had its novelty, so he wasn't about to complain. It was more than what some people had. "I was seventeen at the time... did it 'cause, y'know, I didn't feel like stayin' in one place. I wanted the experience of it all." Alex paused to take a slow drag on his cigarette, lungs pulling the unhealthy fumes into his body steadily. "Met some good people, some bad, some terrible, and some awesome. Done some things I kinda wish I hadn't along the way but, y'know, that's life." Man, this kid was such a dreamer. But that was cool. Because he was a bit of one himself. If he hadn't been, Alex probably wouldn't have even hit the road and might've stuck with college, maybe even until the end of his course. "Oh, tha's good. Do I know him?" It was good that the kid's brother had accepted him into his home. The streets weren't a good place for someone so young, even if the one here in Honey Tree weren't as bad as some of the ones he'd seen. Alex decided, while he exhaled a steady stream of smoke, that the teen had been mighty lucky. The teen which, right now, didn't even have a name. "So what's your name, cielo?" He asked, the fingers on his free hand curling around the strap on his shoulder, the others daintily holding the lit cigarette which was poised close to his pink lips. "I'm Alexander Jay. Just Alex or Jay s'good." [/style] tagged: alex's fan! *snicker* notes: :3 outfit: clicky!