24th Devotion: Quelling Rumors

[favoritetraitor]

[Video; Action for anyone at his home]

[Solomon frowns, staring at the monitor in disgust at

.]

I suppose this is someone's idea of a joke. Is that supposed to be me?

[He types a few commands into the keyboard, but the image plastered on the screen and transmitted over the network refuses to be erased.]

Honestly. How dumb do you think people are? This photograph has clearly been doctored to make it look like... well. Preposterous, to think of Hagi and myself being in such a situation.

[Calling over his shoulder, he speaks to someone who is off-screen.]

Hagi... have you seen this? There's a picture of you on the network, although what you were doing (or with whom), I don't even want to conjecture. Do you have anything you want to say about it?

[He sits back, crossing his arms deeply in thought.]

Either someone has it in for one of us (seeking to discredit us or cause us embarrassment), or this is something more wide scale. A curse perhaps. Although I don't see how something physical of this nature could be called a curse rather than some sick fabrication.



[ooc: Solomon once again finds himself the victim of a curse. This time it's 'TABLOID TRASH'. Feel free to show no mercy when it comes to this, as just last week he was suffering a 48 hour curse that could make this photo VERY plausible!]

Comments

[hematophagy.livejournal.com]

...

action

[favoritetraitor.livejournal.com]

[Solomon glances behind him to see his beloved Saya. He cringes slightly, wishing that he could spare her of such a sight. He sighs.]

Oh, uh... Saya. Well, I suppose you were bound to hear of this some way. But I assure you... this did not actually happen.

Re: action

[hematophagy.livejournal.com]

Um...

action

[favoritetraitor.livejournal.com]

... surely you believe me? Hagi doesn't like me that much.

[toobad-sosad.livejournal.com]

A strange picture.

[favoritetraitor.livejournal.com]

... purely fabricated, I assure you.

[toobad-sosad.livejournal.com]

What is fabricated? I do not know this word.

video

[favoritetraitor.livejournal.com]

[He smiles gently at her comment.]

It means that the thing you're seeing in the photograph did not actually happen. Someone created it to make it look real.

[vampbratprince.livejournal.com]

Well now. This opens the door to all kinds of teasing.

1/2

[favoritetraitor.livejournal.com]

...

2/2

[favoritetraitor.livejournal.com]

I only care in that this rumor happens to be false.

[vampbratprince.livejournal.com]

A picture is worth a thousand words.

[favoritetraitor.livejournal.com]

... even if they are lies. I think someone is attempting to tarnish my name.

1/2 Tee hee~

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Private;

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

How terrifically unfortunate

Private;

[favoritetraitor.livejournal.com]

... "terrifically"?

Private;

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

You've never heard the word used that way?

1/2

[symphoniae.livejournal.com]

I--

[symphoniae.livejournal.com]

... That cannot be real.

[favoritetraitor.livejournal.com]

Agreed. But it's definitely you in that picture... But who were you really with? Can you recall a time when such an image could have been captured?

[symphoniae.livejournal.com]

... Nothing comes to mind.

[branchofsin.livejournal.com]

...That's...your perogative...

[favoritetraitor.livejournal.com]

Excuse me? What's my perogative?

[branchofsin.livejournal.com]

That picture of you and that other guy.

[favoritetraitor.livejournal.com]

I hardly see how...

Are you implying that that really happened?