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Characters: Orihara Izaya and the world of Vatheon
Location: Most likely in the Plaza, but anywhere really.
Time: Monday evening
Style: Action or prose.
Status: Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide open

[This might be considered a warning sign for mental instability but if anyone actually knew Izaya, it wouldn't be that shocking. It's still a pretty interesting sight regardless.

Izaya is pacing back and forth. Between one street lamp and to the next. He's walking in a quick, even line back and forth, back and forth. He stops at each street lamp and occasionally pulls out his starfish communicator but only to put it back away and continue pacing. If anyone had been watching for a while now, they might've known that he's been doing this for a good twenty or maybe even thirty minutes.

He's muttering to himself too. Even better. Oh but the slightly worse part is the flick blade he continuously snaps open and shut in his other hand- of which is clicking loudly over his ramblings. He doesn't look upset. Actually, he looks kinda of energetic and excited.

Go and interrupt his thinking time?]

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It is.

[He contemplates that but then shakes his head.]

No. I wouldn't be. I'd spend all those years reading, observing, seeing the world change and evolve and be destroyed. There's a lot to do in immortality- if only you know how to handle it.

I strive for immortality, Jacob. Death is scary and at the same time -it's an embrace. In a way, Vatheon's a heaven for me. I can't die here.

[The man stares at Izaya for a while, blue eyes almost poring into him, as if digging for things he knows he can reach. And then Jacob does something a bit unexpected.]

[He lets out a small laugh.]

[It isn't a normal laugh, more like an sharp exhalation of air than anything else. But it is a laugh. Whether it is an amused one or a laugh to hide one's sadness is hard to tell- Jacob's expression doesn't change, but the key to it may lie in his eyes, which look slightly full of pity suddenly.]

It sounds good to you...doesn't it? Immortality. Living forever. Never having to worry about the dangers lurking ahead. Knowing without a fact that you'll see people come and go, live and die, while you remain motionless at the edge of time.

[A pause.] I can imagine that people who are immortal are the loneliest of them all, though. Could you live with that, Izaya? Being forever alone?

[He hates that pitying look. But he doesn't show a single expression that suggests such. Instead, he merely stare coolly at Jacob. He can pity him all he wants but Izaya knows himself better than anyone else. Even Jacob.

Or so he likes to think anyway.]

Yes. It does.

[It's a firm stance. He's spent a long, long time thinking about this.

It's Izaya's turn to laugh. He hugs an arm around his waist and nearly falls over laughing. Finally, he stops and just smiles at Jacob, his expression gleefully optimistic.]

I'm already alone, Jacob. I've been alone for my whole life. I don't have friends. My family is estranged.

[It's not said in a sad or a pathetic way. It's sad as a matter of fact because it simply is.]

I'm used to being separated from society. I never really get lonely.

So yes, Jacob. I could live with that just fine.

[But then Shizuo's face flashes in his mind and his smile fades. For a moment, he wonders--- but no. That's not important. Izaya's pretty convinced that that won't be very...existent. He was a creature born out of loneliness and he would exist as one forever.

Yes. Izaya was convinced of this. Regardless of his newly obtained...lover.]

So, immortality is something you want beyond anything else, is it? Beyond people, beyond society, beyond friends and family. A person detached from everything. You do seem like a good candidate for a power like that...most people would react with extreme emotion after a while.

[He tilts his head slightly at the faded smile, eyes narrowed in curiosity.]

But there's something else, isn't there? There always is. Are you absolutely sure, Izaya, that you would throw away everything for a chance to live forever?