i don't need your authority

Unlike Dio, Tona doesn't feel weighed down when returning from the dead; instead, he's up and about, jittery and driven by a nervous paranoia he can't quite shake. The shock of the death and the return haven't completely abated yet, and he's looking, almost frantically, for something he can't name. He's walking around, picking things up, moving them, touching the walls, and occasionally putting his hand to his pocket for another cigarette, lighting it with the end of the last one and smoking it in hopes that it'll calm him down a little. For all his pacing, though, he never makes it out of the room he's in, because he's trying to keep in mind that it's more likely someone will find him than he'll find them, especially when he's this wound up.

It's hard to say how he might react to anyone else right now, beyond a little histrionically, though it's easy to predict that he will be relieved to see almost anyone he knows.

( My life's story, or how I became a songwriter )

Typist: I couldn't decide whether to post this in my ficjournal or here. Tona insisted that he wrote it, however, and therefore into his blog it goes. Visible to whoever wants to read it.

When you were... (6-17 yrs.)
Use estimates for your age. Skip section if you're not that age yet.
6 years old...
Did you have a best friend? Who?:	Lin. I guess he's still kind of my best friend in that we-grew-up-together way.
Did you have a birthday party?:	Yeah! What's the use of turning six if you can't do pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey?
Where did you live?:	With Mom and Dad, separately. Olympus was kind of overwhelming, gods everywhere and everything, and I was kind of scared of it.
Was there anything you did that annoyed people?:	Shit, do you really think that's a recent development?
Did you have a favorite TV show?:	Probably Muppets reruns or something like that.
Did you wake up really, really early?:	Before six every day. My dad hated me.
10 years old...
What school did you go to?:	I was in 5th grade in Eagle Heights Elementary, and I ruled the school.
What music did you listen to, if any?:	Everything. That was when Dad was really into European continental folk music, so a lot of that by default, but also a lot of classic rock and stuff he wrote.
What did you do after school?:	I played a lot of piano and soccer.
How did you have your hair?:	On my head? Cut however my mom or dad wanted? I was ten for Christ's sake.
Who were your closest friends?:	Still Lin, and Ollie at school. We kicked ass at kickball together.
Who was your teacher?:	I can't remember if it was Mrs. White or Ms. Gustafson that year.
12 years old...
Did you have glasses by this age?:	I still don't have glasses.
Did you live in the same city you did when you were 6?:	I didn't live in a city when I was six. But I hadn't moved.
Who did you hang out with?:	Tia, Teides, Tori, Lin, and Harvey and Boyce. Ollie had moved away.
What kind ofclothes did you wear?:	Oh, shit... I wore a lot of really cheap shit that was popular then. I looked like I was trying to sell low-quality crack in the 'hood.
Did you still have a birthday party?:	Yeah, but not like I did when I was six. This was a big-kid birthday party with big-kid games, like Mortal Kombat.
Did you have an allowance?:	$20 a week. More than I get now.
15 years old...
Did you have a cell phone?:	Yeah. My dad used it to text me. That's the only reason we have phones, really.
What kind of music did you listen to?:	Still classic rock, and also all the punk rock around here. I started going to concerts when I was 13 or 14.
How much homework did you get?:	A lot, but I never did it.
What did you do after school?:	I'd go over to my girlfriend or boyfriend du jour's house and hang out and smoke pot, then go to a concert.
Did you swear a lot?:	More than I do now.
Did you get a myspace?:	That site is like so 2006.
17 years old...
Did you get your driver's license?:	When I was 16, yeah.
Where do you hang out?:	Dad's, a lot, because all my friends by this time are music freaks and like it there with all the instruments.
Have you done drugs by this age?:	I had gotten so fucked up by this point.
Are you still friends with the same people when you were 10?:	With Lin, yeah.
Do you wear the same style clothes you did when you were 12?:	Shit, no. I actually had, like, taste by this point.
Did you celebrate your 17th birthday?:	There was the handing-over of the car and there may or may not have been discos.
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*because it's been a few days since, Tona's cleaned himself off thoroughly and stepped out of the shower, intending to shave and dress and put on fresh eyeliner and go on with his life-- however (devils and damnation!), he had set his clothes down to rest on top of the toilet and found them fallen in, sopping wet.

he's doing what anyone would do in his situation: standing in the hallway with his wet clothes on a hook, towel around his waist, dripping wet, and attempting to dry them with a hair dryer.

anyone at all, feel free to help or humiliate him.*

( Further adventures in the Land of Things Tona's Done. )