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goneawayworld2020-05-01 01:10 pm
wheyoftheadept) wrote in goneawayworld2020-05-01 01:10 pm
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Shadowrunner
Who: Saturday… and you?
What: Open prompts
Where: Locations noted in title
When: in the period between the intro and the next big event
Warnings/Notes: Second prompt may lead to discussing disturbing events in Saturday’s past. No sexual assault, but warnings for violence, child abuse, and eldritch horrors.
1. Free Tickets to the Gun Show [location: communal bathrooms]
Saturday looks at herself in the mirror and nods, satisfied. Even Maggie couldn’t argue the rightness of this; these uniforms were hideous, and too long, and she didn’t like them. Therefore…
She picks a thread out of her newly-created sleeveless jumper. It won’t stop unraveling, so she yanks and breaks it. Her former sleeves lie limply on the sink before her as she admires herself. The room is empty (to the best of her knowledge); her dignity is safe. She starts striking poses.
In her defense, those muscles are pretty impressive.
2. Let Sleeping Adepts Lie? [location: gardens]
The gardens aren’t really gardens, except for the patch that Bunny and Gadget have taken over, but they’re green and they’re quiet and it’s easy to avoid people. These qualities are why Saturday is kneeling in a remote corner of them, hands cupped open in her lap the way her father taught her. Holding emptiness. Control is an illusion. Go with the flow.
Keep your distance, and she looks peaceful. Come closer, and you can see her jaw is tight and trembling, and tears are trickling out from under her closed eyes.
3. Come Fly Away (Or Dream You Can) [location: rig exterior]
The rain never actually stops, but sometimes it lessens into a misty drizzle, the kind of thing a true Seattleite scoffs at. Saturday, being one of those, is out on the deck. It’s evening, going on full dark; the western horizon in orange fading into pink, and the sky above is clouded velvet. She’s tied cloth around her hands and feet for grip, and is running the pipes. Her shoes are sitting neatly at the base of a large beam. She has no destination in mind, no particular purpose; she isn’t in the training area because she wants to be outside, unrecorded, unmeasured, moving for the sheer glory of it. It almost feels like freedom.
What: Open prompts
Where: Locations noted in title
When: in the period between the intro and the next big event
Warnings/Notes: Second prompt may lead to discussing disturbing events in Saturday’s past. No sexual assault, but warnings for violence, child abuse, and eldritch horrors.
1. Free Tickets to the Gun Show [location: communal bathrooms]
Saturday looks at herself in the mirror and nods, satisfied. Even Maggie couldn’t argue the rightness of this; these uniforms were hideous, and too long, and she didn’t like them. Therefore…
She picks a thread out of her newly-created sleeveless jumper. It won’t stop unraveling, so she yanks and breaks it. Her former sleeves lie limply on the sink before her as she admires herself. The room is empty (to the best of her knowledge); her dignity is safe. She starts striking poses.
In her defense, those muscles are pretty impressive.
2. Let Sleeping Adepts Lie? [location: gardens]
The gardens aren’t really gardens, except for the patch that Bunny and Gadget have taken over, but they’re green and they’re quiet and it’s easy to avoid people. These qualities are why Saturday is kneeling in a remote corner of them, hands cupped open in her lap the way her father taught her. Holding emptiness. Control is an illusion. Go with the flow.
Keep your distance, and she looks peaceful. Come closer, and you can see her jaw is tight and trembling, and tears are trickling out from under her closed eyes.
3. Come Fly Away (Or Dream You Can) [location: rig exterior]
The rain never actually stops, but sometimes it lessens into a misty drizzle, the kind of thing a true Seattleite scoffs at. Saturday, being one of those, is out on the deck. It’s evening, going on full dark; the western horizon in orange fading into pink, and the sky above is clouded velvet. She’s tied cloth around her hands and feet for grip, and is running the pipes. Her shoes are sitting neatly at the base of a large beam. She has no destination in mind, no particular purpose; she isn’t in the training area because she wants to be outside, unrecorded, unmeasured, moving for the sheer glory of it. It almost feels like freedom.
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He looks directly at Saturday. "Will you be all right? Emotionally, I mean. I don't imagine there is much in the way of camraderie or counsel here."
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There's been way too much for her to ever be okay again. But it's horrified her to realize - she was trained for this. This was what 'jisan had meant, all those years.
"That's what the meditation is for, right?" she adds, with a touch of humour to disguise how tired she is.
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He is quiet, and moves to leave, before stopping, and says, "Don't let your loss swallow you, don't become only a soldier and a machine for revenge. You are young, and still have a chance to become something other than a weapon."
As for himself, well, that choice was made well before the heresy began. He is a weapon, though his humanity comes from being a weapon that still questions its' purpose.
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She's touched, nonetheless.
"I'll keep it in mind. Thanks."