knightsoflegend | open ♐ but i still believe, though there's cracks you'll see

WHO || David Levin [OPEN]
WHAT || A Day in the Life of David!
WHERE || Knights HQ, anywhere and everywhere. Pick a scenario, any scenario. Even if there isn't one that works for your character, set them somewhere and I will have David find them.
WHEN || First week of October.
HOW || Prose OR Actionspam, I am totally willing to get my prose on if you are.

For David, keeping close to Knight HQ is more of a necessity than an actual choice. When a guy spends the past twelve years living in a wasteland of magic, gods and Neo Nazis, it's hard to say how he's supposed to behave in a world that's actually civilized. Never mind the fact that the duplicity of being a knight, in addition to the fact that the magic of this world is very different from the magic of his own, and he's not comfortable being in the outside world. It doesn't feel like a place where he can be comfortable in his own skin. The Knights give him a sense of purpose, and it's not as though there isn't plenty of things to do, but he knows that in the back of his mind he knows he's going to have to be out in the world for something more than missions.

Which means, he knows, more than the forced socialization at the squire parties.

(He doesn't remember this being so hard before, not that his memory can really be trusted due to the veil. Maybe it's because he had people with him, people he trusted, people who's faces and names he can no longer remember and he desperately wants to. He can still feel the loss of them, even if he can't feel them.)

He tries putting himself where he knows people will be, all the while trying to learn as much about the world as he can. While most of his mornings are spent training or working out in the gym, early afternoons he can be found in the computer lab trying to acclimate himself to twelve years worth of new technology, or in the TV room watching the news. (Someone will probably eventually tell him that watching the news is not productive if he wants to catch up on pop culture too, but he ... has never really cared about pop culture.) He tries to absorb as much of the information as he can, understand the politics of it all, but he also doesn't know how much of it he can trust, and that worries him more than anything else.

In the early evening, he can usually be found outside, at least if the weather is good. Being indoors all the time doesn't suit him, and as much as he appreciates the very comfortable accommodations that Wynn has provided him with, he can't shake the fact that he should be sleeping outside, among his men, with his sword at his side. Occasionally he looks to the woods, briefly entertaining the idea of going to see his mentor, given that he's supposed to be learning from him, after all.

Nine times out of ten, he decides it isn't worth it to lose his temper.

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David glances between him and the computer for a moment before throwing a frustrated hand towards the screen. "I'm trying to find the news. And every time I look for a specific paper or news outlet, I don't know which ones or real or how valid the sources are and I just want to catch up on current events. I keep winding up on this stupid ... YouTube website."

Really, any sane person would feel frustrated.

Wow. Andrew is not sure whether to laugh or feel bad for the guy. He reminds himself that all sorts of people come through the Veil, and at least this one knows enough to not break anything... yet...

"Alright, so let's set you up with some basic favorites." He wheels his chair over and looks at David. "Mind if I drive?" But he's going to gently nudge the other man out of the way so that he can set up a few tabs of fairly reliable news outlets.

"The trick is to stay away from anything that uses a drunk celebrity as their top news story."

David nods as he slides to the side, giving the other man room to start working. He can pay attention to whatever the man's about to show him, but he's never taken an internet class before. It's what happens when you leave home after they're just getting out of the nineties.

"It's hard to tell who the celebrities are sometimes."

"Fair enough." He has to give the guy that. Plus, some people are famous for the dumbest reasons. "Sadly, the more often you see a name, the less likely it is that they actually are worth paying attention to. Stick to this list and you should be safe, but unfortunately it's not 100%. You'll figure it out as time goes on."

He nods again, before giving him a small grateful smile. "It's been a long time since I've had to deal with news outlets. But so long as I have a place to start, that's good. So thank you."

Then he pauses, and extends his hand. "I'm David Levin."

Oh, right. Introductions are usually things that people do before they just butt into another person's business. Andrew glances down at the hand and shakes it. His handshake is a little stiff and pretty awkward.

"Andrew Gatewood. And you don't have to thank me. It's part of my job. Sort of." Information and technology were really the only things he was good at (and really only the latter). This was pretty minimal as far as he was concerned.

"It gets easier. At least if you keep trying. Some of 'em don't even bother."

"I have to be part of this world. That means getting used to things that I may not want to get used to. I can't be effective if I don't understand half of what people are saying, or don't know what's going on."

And that's all David wants, really. To be useful. To have a purpose and feel like he's part of something, and if he can't have the grand one that he found in Everworld, he wants to at least be able to find one here.

"And most people would have probably left me hanging or mock me, so yes. I think I should."

He just shrugs, modest to the core, but a smile over takes his expression.

"To be honest, I'm just glad you want to learn. Plenty of people who barely know how to turn their phone on, let alone actually use anything in here. Not that I don't get it. Stories I've heard about the Shadow World? It isn't exactly wifi friendly. Can't imagine growing up like that. ... No offense."

"I have a bit of an advantage. I'm originally from a world like this one." He thinks. Maybe. It's hard to really tell for sure. "I just know that the better I assimilate, the more effective I can be." At the end of the day, he just wants to do his job well, since he doesn't really have anything else.

"Makes sense. Just don't burn yourself out on it, yeah? If you try too hard to catch up to where you think you're supposed to be, you might just get frustrated and give up on all of it." Andrew likes when people want to learn about the things he's good at. He would like this interest to remain so he will slap a warning label on it.

David nods. "Got it. I can only sit still for so long anyway." ADHD. Even as an adult it's not really something he ever grew out of. He always has been the kid his parents told to stop climbing on that, or who was always getting himself hurt. Now he tried to get himself hurt intentionally by running with sharp pointy sticks.

Some things never change.

"That's the joy of these things." He says, pulling his phone out of his pocket and opening the browser. "Don't have to sit anywhere. Just don't walk into a door or anything." He may have done that a few... hundred times.

David makes a face. "I can't read on those things. The type is too small and when I try to make it bigger it gets too big and it's usually better off if I just wait."

"Your call. Guess that means we may be seeing more of each other." Andrew isn't a people person, but from what he's seen of David, this guy may just be the right kind of people. Mostly in that he doesn't seem like he wants to force social interaction upon them. They can talk about what's necessary and then be done with it.

"Guess so." David says with a nod. That's not necessarily a bad thing, though. He could use a few more standing acquaintances if he can find them. "Sorry in advance. I don't thing my tech skills are going to happen overnight."

"No need. I mean- that's what I'm here for, right?" Oh, yeah he definitely feels like this is what his job with the Knights is and that's about all he's good for. But at least he's REALLY good at it.

"Like I said, I think it's great that you want to pick it up at all."

David nods with a smile, before pointing back to the screen. "If you want to get back to what you were doing, I think I'm good for now."

Andrew just nods. "If you need anything else, just let me know." And with a quick, polite smile, he shuffles back to his station.

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