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greyerrant ([personal profile] greyerrant) wrote in [community profile] goneawayworld2021-01-29 07:56 pm

The Lost and the damned

Who: Garviel and you!
What: Being sad, sparring, Eating, Gardening
Where: Rig Gardens, Top of the Rig, Cafeteria, Gym depending on prompt
When: Post Babadon't
Warnings/Notes: Will add if they become necessary



Prompt one: Garviel is eating in the Cafeteria. There are plenty of seats nearby as he consumes the best slop Jorgmund has seen fit to send his way as nutrients. He doesn't appear to be enjoying it, just scowling and it gamely. He is approachable enough, and seems ready to talk if someone were to approach.

Prompt two: Loken is doing sword forms in the Gym, 3 blades lying out and ready for use, his chainsword, which is exactly what you might think, an oversized sword with chainsaw blades which he cycles doing his practice, a Power sword, which is a large two-handed weapon with crackling energy pouring off it once activated, and a gladius force sword, which has intricate circuitry which doesn't do much as he continues close combat forms with it, a lot more punching, stabbing, and shorter cuts than the other two heavier blades.

Prompt three: Loken is breaking a sweat in the Gardens, planting a few columbine plants as he continues to dig and transfer them from pots, covered in sweat and with cut-down overalls that barely contain his too large to be human form as he labors mightily to create a little ephemeral beauty in a sad, ugly world.

Prompt four: Garvi is on the top of the rig at night, bundled up in his best attempt at clothes that fit him that are mostly just other people's stuff sewn together in a sort of cloak. He'd probably look a lot more badass in his actual war plate but Jorgmund has got that locked up, as usual. He stares off into the distance as the below-freezing cold hits him, sternly refusing to acknowledge the cold beyond his clothing. It's like a contest between him and the weather. Or maybe he's just dramatic and likes to stand outside at night on top of large buildings. He watches the Helipad and seems to be occasionally looking over the rig and taking note of -where- things are. Like he's planning an assault, or an Exfiltration.
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[personal profile] bothbarrels 2021-01-30 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
North's still recovering from the burns he received during the battle with the shapeshifter, but they're fairly small and it's not going to prevent him from doing his daily exercise. He enters the gym, intending to go about his usual workout, but he immediately sees Loken performing sword exercises and pauses to watch. He's trained with a lot of weapons, including knives, but not anything sword-like.

After Loken reaches a point where he seems to be winding down, at least with one of the weapons, North decides to make the fact that he's watching known. He steps a bit closer.

"You look like you're pretty good with those. Feel like giving a lesson?"
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[personal profile] zerofield 2021-01-30 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
And then, in the seat across from this mountain of a man, here's a tiny slip of a girl setting down her tray. She has to crane her neck a little to look at him. It would make a great image for a postcard.

"Hi."
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[personal profile] zerofield 2021-01-30 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
"I wasn't eaten by a black goop monster, so I can't really complain."

It always feels a little disingenuous to say she's doing well here, given that their entire situation is unacceptably crappy, but by the comparative standards of How Things Could Be Going, she's in one piece and not totally traumatized, so it also feels pointless to say things are awful. Things are always awful, so the complaints, she's sure, are probably best saved for when they really give her something to complain about.
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[personal profile] bothbarrels 2021-01-30 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
North indicates the gladius force sword.

"Without armor, this one seems more my speed."

He hasn't been allowed to use his armor in any situation on the rig, although he's been promised he'd have access during missions at some point.
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[personal profile] bothbarrels 2021-01-30 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
"All right."

North accepts it, holding it out, in the kind of position and with the kind of stance he's seen in movies, which is really the only frame of reference a man from his era has.

"Like this?"
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[personal profile] valkywhee 2021-01-30 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
If Loken wants to eat alone, too bad. Nora slides into the seat across from him, tray loaded down with all the suspiciously grayish food the cafeteria staff would give her. It's enough for an adult man, easily. She's very athletic, okay? It burns a lot of calories!

"Hi, Loken!"
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[personal profile] zerofield 2021-01-30 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
"One of the babies. Not the big one, thankfully." She takes a bite of her own slop, then frowns. Whether at the taste or at the topic is anyone's guess.

"I wasn't able to do much without my equipment." One good fire art at her disposal would've tilted those scales dramatically. Thanks for nothing, Jorgmund.
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[personal profile] valkywhee 2021-01-30 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
"I thiiiiiiink it's meatloaf." Nora prods at the substance in question with her fork. "'Good'...well, I've had worse." That is the epitome of damning with faint praise—she was a homeless orphan for a while. Her culinary standards cannot be considered high.
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[personal profile] valkywhee 2021-01-30 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds like tofu to her, and tofu's fine. Bland on its own, but fine. However, any comment she'd been preparing on that evaporates at Loken's dryly delivered punchline.

"Wait, you can't just mention 'that time I ate a rock' and not explain." She gestures with her fork for emphasis. Happily, it is empty and no one ends up wearing any meatloaf.
Edited 2021-01-30 05:31 (UTC)
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[personal profile] valkywhee 2021-01-30 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
Fortunately for Loken, what Nora knows about biology would fit on an index card, so she doesn't think to object to the concept of someone sitting down to a plate of gravel for dinner.

"Yeah, at that point I'd be hitting up the army to share, too." Long before that point, probably, Nora being Nora.
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[personal profile] valkywhee 2021-01-30 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Why? You're a marshmallow on the inside, and not very far inside, either." She frowns, pausing with her fork halfway to her mouth.

Granted, Nora can shrug off a punch from a genetically engineered super-soldier in power armor, so her perspective on what counts as scary should not be used as a benchmark.
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3!

[personal profile] garmr 2021-01-30 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Guts typically takes to the gardens when he needs to clear his head. He's had a lot of time to ponder by himself as of late, and finds the green of the foliage soothing and familiar. It wasn't a rich forest, but it'll do.

Piled there among the dirt and the flowers is Loken, his huge frame easily dwarfing all the flowers he was tending to. The mix of gentle action and giant frame reminded him a lot of someone else he used to know...

"Hey."

He looks at the plants.

"I'm not much of a farmer, but I've got an extra hand if you need it."

He wiggles the metal fingers of his prosthetic - though the offer is still genuine.
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actually it's because horus got magic demon hepatitis at a sketchy space hospital

[personal profile] valkywhee 2021-01-30 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Because you're people and people make really dumb choices sometimes?" Nora says, as though it should be obvious. "That gene-seed stuff made you better physically, but it didn't necessarily make you better people. That's the part that matters."

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