paper cities burning

[collector]

Characters: Braxiatel and anyone ever. It's an open log! Tag in! Join in origami art!!
Location: The Astral Plane. Somewhere near food, probably.
Time: After Narvin has been made into a wee-bitty thing. Before the hypothetical future where Braxiatel jumps into a ravine because he hates babysitting.
Summary: Braxiatel needs to do something in his spare time. This is it.
Warnings: Origami awesomeness.

Among the stars and spaces between them, free of the heavy weight of unease that had haunted the Plane, a man was putting his supreme talents in dexterity and mathematical genius to use by making art out of folded paper. Or to put it more simply, Irving Braxiatel was going slightly mad playing the babysitter and so had resorted to origami to try to keep himself sane.

He had begun with a few simple flowers and had quickly gotten sick with the mundanity. That was how the paper model of the Palace of Versailles had ended up at his feet. Then, when he had gotten bored with that, he crafted for himself origami warriors, the grand life-sized sazu game pieces that once were placed in the floating tombs of the Deathless Emperors of Draconia, that they may battle one another in their sleeping death.

Presently, Braxiatel was putting the finishing touch on Nelson's battleship. He had done a fairly good job of representing the Battle of Trafalgar, as far as he was concerned, and was rather pleased by the final product.

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[collector]

It's a question that only comes about when people stop to really think about Brax's name and heritage. Bernice, obviously, never has bothered, or at least she has such an intuitive understanding of Braxiatel that she knows she is free to use whatever name best suits the tone (usually sarcastic) that she wishes to throw his way. Most others don't consider it. So Braxiatel let's a dispassionate hand dismiss the concern, and he says, "In a sense, 'Irving' is my actual name, at least as much as 'Braxiatel' is. 'Irving' is the name I choose for myself. Both are used in equal measure by friends and enemies of various degrees, so it's really not something I concern myself with."

[bonnypiperlad]

Bernice is a special case, in Jamie's opinion. He feels she can get away with quite a bit, given her and Braxiatel's rather unique relationship. However, Jamie does understand the concept of taking a name for yourself - he's quite aware that the Doctor has done the same at some point in his past, even if he's unclear on what the Doctor's real name actually is.

So he nods, and says, "Well, then. I'll just have to keep that in mind." It likely will mean that Jamie falls into the habit of calling Brax 'Irving' as well. It does suit the Time Lord, in an odd sort of way.

The movement causes another stray bit of straw to float off, and Jamie notices it out of the corner of his eye. "I suppose I should go back to the cell," he says reluctantly. "I know they won't know I'm gone while I'm here, but I've got to figure a way out of there somehow, aye?"

He had been hoping coming here would help him think. All it seems to have done is provide a distraction, however. Not a bad thing in and of itself, but it doesn't help his current situation. At least he's got a book now, although he really can't think of much to do with it besides possibly hit a guard in the face with it as a distraction.

Given the look he's giving the book right at the moment, he may very well be planning on doing just that.