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Kokoro no Ukeire
"HEART'S ACCEPTANCE" Just a journal filled with stories ideas, poems, personal entries, things to remember, etc. If you have nothing better to do, just relax and read. Who knows, maybe you'll see what the hell goes on in my head everyday.
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In my world, grace is everything.
“I’m a class A ballet dancer! Please look over my application!”
“No, I’m a gymnast! I can do all the formations a ballet dancer can and more!”
“Do you see my posture? These girls may be graceful, but I’m graceful even when I’m just walking, unlike these waddling low-lives!”
If you dance, good for you. You have a great chance of a decent life. Posture is an absolute must, and it must be the best of the best if you want to get anywhere.
Can you move like I can?
Dance like me.
Walk like me.
Eat like me.
Move like me,
Or die.
Can you do it?
But in this graceful society, we all know there are people who can’t or will not conform. They can’t be graceful. They can’t.
So what do you do? You join a group, of course. Each group - or gang as the Gracelings call us - has its own name, a theme, and something that makes us unworthy.
GRACR is a gang that allows Gracelings to join. We are hated by both the Gracelings and the gangs. We are constantly fighting, but where’s the fun if you’re not?
I joined the GRACRs because I’m done with dancing with the baton. I don’t want to anymore.
I’M FINISHED.
I am one of four GRACRs.
Number One is our leader: he’s really strong, and a great leader, but he has a temper and a stubborn streak like you wouldn’t believe. He hates it when someone calls him Shorty (even though he is incredibly short for a twenty-one year old). He was a noblemen’s son, but one day during his etiquette classes, One just got up and left. He’s been on the run from the cops ever since and he still refuses to tell us his real name.
We call him Shadows because you never know what hit you when he comes.
Cennah is our vice. She pretty much covers for One whenever he’s sulking or refuses to agree with the rest of the team. She’s only sixteen, but she’s really pretty and looks older than her age. I used to watch her ballet recitals when she was on her way to being one of the only black Prima Donnas of our city’s history when I was younger. She never really told us about her family.
She was nicknamed Feline for her green eyes when she stalks prey and victims.
Kamio is weird. He’s been with the GRACRs before One came in as our leader; Cennah tells me he’s been with the gang since its founding about seven years ago. And unlike Cennah, he actually looks very young, even though he says he’s nineteen. He was also a ballet dancer, but he quit to join the GRACRs when it was created. Apparently he’s the only son to a middle-class family and according to One, he’s hiding a big secret from us about the gang’s origins…
The people who have seen him in action usually refer to him as Lock In because of his accuracy and talent with video games.
Then there’s me, the newest recruit. I twirled the baton for as long as I can remember. My family’s been on the look out for me ever since I ran away when I was twelve. I’m fourteen now.
They call me Poison because of my baton’s poison dipped ends.
And like all gangs, we do one thing: hunt down Gracelings who have insulted us. The bigger the catch, the more power your group becomes. We also fight other gangs for reputation and fame.
And we’re making our way to the top.
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Terry Marlton is a Graceling: an average person in the city of Vovex. Or, at least she was until she ran away from home to become a GRACR when she was only twelve. Now, at the age of fourteen years old, Terry is pretty comfortable with her life as a GRACR.
GRACR was a small gang compared to the other groups of the city of Vovex. But hey, quality over quantity, right? Then again, with the future battles GRACRs must face - groups with over fifty members, kick boxers, and laundry men?! - how will they ever survive?
And if they do, will they live long enough to find out what the GRACR’s origins are?
Note: Don’t ask. I was reading Air Trek, okay?!
 Ukeire · Sun Jan 31, 2010 @ 06:07am · 0 Comments |
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