THE DAY IS LONG *

[rob]

RELAX AND STAND IN THE WARMTH OF THE SAND
THE DAY IS LONG AND HERE FOR US TO
take for granted

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Robbie liked documenting the places that he went to. From taking pictures to filming on his video camera or writing in his journal - which was something he had done since he was eighteen - he liked to have the memories. It was something he could look back on, maybe if he ever had children of his own he would hand it all down to him. He got to visit a lot of different continents and countries, be it to service active duty or simply to undergo specific training (for example, artic warfare training in Norway) and it was an aspect of the army that he really enjoyed. He was pretty used to the dusty, sandy and dry surroundings and the heat (though due to the time of year, it wasn't as nearly as warm as it could be in Morocco). Though just because he was used to it, didn't mean he liked it all that much.

At least this time he was a in place like this, he didn't have to wear a heavy armoured suit. That was definitely one of the bad things about his former job. The bomb disposal suit - if the bomb didn't friggin kill you, it was amazing that suit didn't do the job via dehydration. Having to lie around in the sweltering heat while you did your job, adrenaline and anxiety buzzing around you that was making you sweat anyway and because you had your helmet on with the protective front, you could barely fucking see because of the condensation. But safety came first, and while he could complain about it until the cows came home, he would rather have endured the struggle of that suit then risked life and limb without it.

It was bizarre to be here, it was the perfect place for a holiday and yet at the same time was often used to portray places of war? He knew that Morocco was the place they shot one of his favourite films - Black Hawk Down - using Morocco as a replacement for Somalia. Rob hadn't been in the acting business for very long, before taking on recognisable and credited roles he played a lot of extra spots. But he was happy to be a part of this team, it seemed like a good story line and it was the second post-apocalyptic film he would be featured in. He loved it, they were the exact kind of films that he enjoyed watching himself and he knew his friends would be pleased back home. Though they'd probably tease the fuck out of him at the same time, in a loving way of course. Rob was in his full kit, it was quite similar to the army getup he would wear when he was an actual soldier, except this was an American uniform.

He was enjoying a nice drink of water, sitting under a basic gazebo, on top of an unturned plastic crate as he looked out into the place they were filming. It seemed so dead and empty, yet at the same time beautiful. Which was why he couldn't resist lifting his hands which held his digital camera, trying to get the perfect wide shot of this beautiful country to add to his collection. And he sighed, pulling at his collar a little bit to let some air in before he started sweating like a biatch and that sigh of his turned into a lion's roar of a yawn. His body clock was pretty fucked up, it didn't know what timezone it was in anymore.

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TAG: OPEN. STATUS: COMPLETE. OUTFIT: ACU GEAR? CREDITS: LYRICS; IMG BY ME. NOTES: open to cast or crew of six lives only. closed to first replier!

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Lucia came to Morocco with the rest of the cast of Six Lives to continue the filming that had started in Los Angeles. Now, Lucia was only in a few scenes in Morocco. The production team was using her as the President’s First Lady as well as an extra, and since she played a minor role, she was gone by the time April was over. This was one of her first acting gigs, other than some other comedic parody teenage movies. This was her first serious role. She was interested in the military and the fighting that was currently happening over in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although this was a futuristic military movie, she was still glad to be a part of it. She had met some other Hollywood actors, like Tristan Silvers and Cameron Adelaide. She already knew Jack Bailey enough to know that he wasn’t a big deal, and in her eyes he never would be. To her he was just the scrawny kid that she met eleven years ago, and he was far from the person who he was now.

The lingerie model did not fit in on set. Sure people tried flirting with her and attempted to include her in off screen activities, but often times she refused. She did not want to seem as if she thought she was better than the rest of the cast, because she didn’t. Lucia liked her time alone, she had always been the quiet girl, not necessarily shy but she kept to herself. She figured that people would like her better that way. She already had filmed her scene for the day, and so she sat on the sidelines and watched everybody else film theirs. Of course she had changed out of her ridiculously hot costume first. She stayed to be polite, because she knew that the production team didn’t want her to disappear in case that they needed her for something, and in the midst of fanning herself and wiping sweat off of her face and chest, they needed her for something. ‘Lucia, do you know where Rob is?’ She had to think about, ”Uh…Yeah, I saw him earlier.” She had seen him earlier, walking off set with his costume on. How could he want to be outside in all that gear?! ‘Great, well we are going to need him here soon, could you go get him for us please?’ Lucia nodded and hopped out of her lawn chair to go find the man.

Quickly she found him, sitting in the shade underneath a gazebo. Why couldn’t she have been sitting underneath a gazebo? She had been baking in the hot sun. She would definitely be ready to sleep at five o’clock. When she neared him, she noticed that he was looking at the land through his camera. Which made her look out at the land too, and for the first time she really realized its beauty. Since the Six Lives movie shoot was happening here, people weren’t allowed on the land, and so you could everything. Suddenly she forgot why she was there, but when she looked at Robert again she remembered, somewhat. ”They want you on set soon.” Was the message she relayed to him, as she stepped into the shade. A look of relief came across her face now that she wasn’t under the hot sun. ”How can you sit there in all that heavy gear and survive? She questioned, leaning against a beam that was holding the roof on the gazebo. Obviously she did not know that Rob had been a part of the army.

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this post was made for rob / laura. and it is complete with 600 words.
the graphics were made by dayna so don't steal. the tunes are by nobody.
and you can view this characters outfit here. notes: here you go! yay for lucia thread.

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[rob]

RELAX AND STAND IN THE WARMTH OF THE SAND
THE DAY IS LONG AND HERE FOR US TO
take for granted

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He was no photographer, but with a decent enough camera you could get some pretty stunning pictures. His step-mum would be keen to see these, she always did love seeing where he had been. Rob glanced away from the view through his camera as he heard someone approach and saw Lucia, an actress who played the role of the First Lady, the wife of the President in this movie in which the daughter of the couple gets kidnapped. He smiled at her before his face went back to that usual expression, cold, distant and bland. He never meant to look this way, it was just his natural expression when he wasn't purposefully making another kind of face. He probably looked like such a grumpy old fuck, but he had always been that way. He was nice and friendly (most of the time) really! He had a weathered face, wrinkles across his forehead and his entire face was just plastered in freckles. The kind of mass freckles that made your mother scrub at your face as a kid because she thought you were dirty.

He had grown his hair out a little bit because a shaved-short hairdo he looked his age of thirty two, but with longer hair and a clean-shaven face he looked more youthful. He'd just have to keep shaving every other day to keep the look before his gingery-brown beard grew back. Rob always did prefer looking casual, the formal attire he would happily wear was that of the army variety. Especially because everyone would gush about how handsome he looked in it. Lucia relayed a message and Rob nodded his head in understanding. Time to get to work soon. He didn't mind, after all it was what he was here to do. But sometimes you were eager to work and sometimes you just wanted to sit down and have rest! Sadly, it wasn't your schedule that would be followed, it was theirs! "Ah right, okay. Thanks for letting me know." he said in a northern English accent. Despite not growing up there, he was born in the north and whenever he came home on leave, he was in the north and his parents were from the north. He was a northern boy no mattered where he was in the world!

He smiled lightly and shrugged his shoulders. "Oh, this is alright really. Once you've donned a bomb disposal suit in heat worse than this, I think you can just about handle anything." he said light-heartedly, pulling at the protective vest that the cast wore as if they were real military though some of the weight inside had been removed since no real bullets were going to fly at them therefore there was no need for panels inside the vests had weighed them down even more. During basic training you had to be able to run with big massive packs on your back. But he had always been athletic and strong, he had played rugby as part of a team since he was about eleven and keeping fit was important to Robbie. "And anyway, it's not as much as the real thing. They've cut it down a bit. So it ain't too bad, it's not as hot as it could be right now." he explained, because you usually had more bulk than this. In a weird way, it brought back memories. While he left because he lost his passion, he still sometimes missed the lifestyle and being with all of his buddies that he had made his friends for life.

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TAG: LUCIA F. STATUS: COMPLETE. OUTFIT: ACU GEAR? CREDITS: LYRICS; IMG BY ME. NOTES: n/a.

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Robert and Lucia were similar in how they appeared to people. They both had faces that only showed emotion when they wanted. Naturally they were sober faced, and when Lucia talked, her face usually showed little expression, except for when she laughed, and that was when her nose decided to wrinkle up and her pearly whites would make appearance. When she acted, she really had to work on her facial expressions in front of a mirror while saying her lines. She was passionate in her voice, but her face could have the same blank stare the entire time if she didn’t make it move. Not moving your face while acting was only good if you played a selfless bitch. With this role Lucia found herself smiling a lot and also crying a lot, and yelling at people with disgust. Considering her characters daughter gets kidnapped and all. She just imagined as if somebody kidnapped one of her nieces or nephews, and the emotions came. She took her acting seriously, unlike some people. There weren’t very many models that transitioned into acting successfully, and Lucia wanted to prove that it could happen.

Bomb disposal suit? She listened to him curiously, wrinkles in her forehead as she thought about his words. What she gathered was that this guy was tougher than most of the other guys on set. While the weather killed all of the other cast members, it was not much of a problem for Robert. Lucia pretty much only had her privates covered and her stomach, and the weather was even getting to her. She just pretended it was a tropical getaway, even though it was not. Everybody was here for work, but she loved work, and certainly didn’t mind it. ”Oh, I hadn’t felt the suit, so I just assumed it was gruesomely heavy and hot.” She told him, feeling a little ignorant. But hey, she wasn’t working in the costume trailer, how was she supposed to know? All she knew that her costumes were made out of heavy material.

So Robert had been in the military. How could she not know this of her cast member? Admittedly she had never paid much attention, but now she was interested. She twisted the cap off of her bottle of water and took a long sip. ”So, you were in the military?” Lucia finally asked him. It was certainly obvious by now. But some people told her things, and she assumed they were something, and they weren’t. Like how people were experts on a subject, but their job title had nothing to do with that subject. ”I suppose that was an obvious one…” She said, mostly to herself, but still loud enough so that he could hear. The role he was playing in Six Lives was perfect for him, except that he dies. She wondered if being in a war movie brought back any negative or positive memories for him. ”How long did you serve?” She found it interesting that a lot of people over thirty years old she met had once been a part of a military branch. Her family wasn’t from America, but her father and grandfather had served back in Israel.

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this post was made for rob / laura. and it is complete with 533 words.
the graphics were made by dayna so don't steal. the tunes are by nobody.
and you can view this characters outfit here. notes: here you go! yay for lucia thread.

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[rob]

RELAX AND STAND IN THE WARMTH OF THE SAND
THE DAY IS LONG AND HERE FOR US TO
take for granted

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He still felt the strain of the heat and the weight. But he could handle it, everyone could if they stayed strong mentally! "Well it is, I guess. Just don't really bother me." he said and gave a brief little chuckle. It was hard to explain in a way. He had just adapted to it, he had been through the feeling before and at first it was always tougher until your body adapted. You had to drink a great deal of water in the beginning because you had to stay hydrated. He didn't know he could piss so much during those first couple of days. But soon you were used to it and you just had to deal with sweating a lot. It wasn't a big deal, people just were more vocal with their complaining about it then others. "Aye." he said, in response to Lucia guessing he was in the army at some point in his life. He was hoping to soon break out of his current box. It was his own doing, he had typecasted himself on purpose because he was a rookie in the acting world and it would be wise to stick to a subject you were used to!

He just needed more confidence on the matter, more confidence in his acting abilities to move away from his military roles. "Uhm..." he said, trailing off as his eyes looking away while he had a think and he licked his top lip in his time of thought. "Just over ten years." he answered, trying to calculate in his head. He didn't need to really, it was roughly between eleven and twelve. Joined at sixteen, left at the age of twenty seven going on twenty eight. "Went to a military boarding school so I joined right out of high school." he said, as British teenagers left high school at that age, which seemed a little ridiculous now that he was older and had come to understand that American teenagers left at eighteen. His teenage self would kick up shit about having to stay for two more years, but adult Rob actually thought it was wise. Sixteen didn't make you an adult, but enough of the youth of today happened to think it did. And it pissed him right of. Then again, he did grow up fast too.

He went straight out of school and into the army. He had to grow up right there and then during the first weeks of basic training. Luckily, he was a tough lad both in his body and in his head. He could take being shouted at, he could take the mind-numbing tasks and training. But he had always kept his youthful spirit. They were all a bunch of jokers, you had to have a good sense of humour, particularly if you were in a place like Iraq or Afghanistan. Places like that would tear you the fuck down if you let it. Rob couldn't let it, one of his dad's best friends during his time in the army suffered from the Falklands war and struggled with alcoholism. He couldn't let himself get like that. "You done for the day?" he asked Lucia. He knew she was not considered part of the 'main cast' but she was still important in the film. It was why he never felt put out or left out being an extra. It was like in the real world, you needed the bus boys and the cashiers and the street cleaners of the world. Just like extras and minor roles helped piece movie productions together.

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TAG: LUCIA F. STATUS: COMPLETE. OUTFIT: ACU GEAR? CREDITS: LYRICS; IMG BY ME. NOTES: n/a.

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