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bulwark_ ([info]bulwark_) wrote in [info]incompletedata,
@ 2017-11-21 19:28:00

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Entry tags:marvel: mcu: bruce banner, marvel: mcu: claire temple, picture of dorian gray: dorian gray, star wars: canon: armitage hux, the adventure zone: lucretia

I may be alone in this but I think that that was...quite fun, actually. It felt good to be able to paint again. And to be relieved of my memories for however brief a time Alright Lucy, that's enough of that I have spent a lot of time living a lot of lives, though, so perhaps that is why.

Love the jacket I received, too. Capes improve everything.


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[info]hedonist
2017-11-22 12:45 am UTC (link)
You make an excellent Basil Hallward.

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-22 01:02 am UTC (link)
I am glad to hear as such. I hope that I did him some honor.

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[info]hedonist
2017-11-24 03:21 pm UTC (link)
The story is a sad one, no matter who tells it.

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-26 04:32 am UTC (link)
Most stories end in sadness, if we're being truthful. I can't speak for your Basil but if it brings you any comfort, I didn't hate the Dorian I knew, even as [...] it was happening. I felt more sad that something had driven you to that moment.

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[info]hedonist
2017-11-27 05:35 pm UTC (link)
I think [...] When someone is told they are bad, or perverse or evil enough times, it's something they begin to believe. Something they act on.

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-29 05:09 pm UTC (link)
I understand, Mr. Gray. I understand very well. You do not have to worry, with me.

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[info]hedonist
2017-11-29 05:15 pm UTC (link)
Dorian, call me Dorian.

Did you learn anything about yourself? Being Basil, I mean.

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[info]bulwark_
2017-12-01 02:20 am UTC (link)
Lucretia. A pleasure to meet this version of you, Dorian.

I've had enough experiences in this world that I don't think that there is anything more to learn about myself, but... I felt [...] innocent, in a way. Perhaps younger is a better way to put it. The way that I did a very, very long time ago. It was almost invigorating.

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[info]absorbs
2017-11-22 12:46 am UTC (link)
How many lives have you lived?

And I'm pretty enamored with the dress I got outta this scenario.

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-22 01:03 am UTC (link)
Quite a few. A hundred as myself, though perhaps an edited version depending upon what was required. And one as the opposite of who I wanted to be, but who I had to be. That is the one I came from.

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[info]absorbs
2017-11-22 01:09 am UTC (link)
I'm over the 8 billion mark but I'm guessing we live out lives a lil bit different. I live other peoples and not my own alternate versions.

Do you think you'll get another after this one?

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-22 01:33 am UTC (link)
And here I thought I would win. Impressive.

I hope not. I did what I did so that my friends and I could finally settle. It didn't work out as well as I'd hoped but we got to live for a few years. We were in the middle of getting ready to hopefully defeat the force that was causing this when I was brought here.

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[info]absorbs
2017-11-22 01:36 am UTC (link)
Kinda cruel for them to pull you from before you'll know if'n you succeeded or not.

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-22 05:49 am UTC (link)
Given everything else that has happened here, I am honestly not that surprised.

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[info]jadegiant
2017-11-22 12:48 am UTC (link)
It was pretty ... cool, I guess.

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-22 01:06 am UTC (link)
I'm glad this treated others well. Before I died I saw that there were already the beginnings of something bad happening.

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[info]jadegiant
2017-11-22 01:08 am UTC (link)
I had a small but simple part. There was a great big universe and I was just little old me. It felt good.

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-22 01:31 am UTC (link)
I agree. I do not think that I was very important, in the grand scheme. It was such a nice feeling.

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[info]jadegiant
2017-11-22 03:53 am UTC (link)
Remembering that we're just specks of dust is a good thing to do from time to time.

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-22 05:48 am UTC (link)
Indeed. Perhaps it's because I always felt so central to the world's safety, whether what I did truly helped or not, but it was relaxing to be so insignificant.

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[info]jadegiant
2017-11-22 10:56 am UTC (link)
And as for myself, I feel central to the world's destruction.

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-23 02:05 am UTC (link)
Well then, we make a bit of a pair, don't we.

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[info]jadegiant
2017-11-23 02:11 am UTC (link)
Yin and yang, I dare say?

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-23 02:55 am UTC (link)
I can agree to that.

Although, I think that we may be more alike than you think. I only felt the need to protect in order to prevent the destruction that I brought about. Is there a bit of a less black and white comparison to make?

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[info]jadegiant
2017-11-23 03:01 am UTC (link)
I can't think of one, but I've protected in order to control my own destruction. So I get where you're coming from. Peas in a pod?

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-23 03:02 am UTC (link)
Peas in a pod. That sounds much better to me.

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[info]jadegiant
2017-11-23 03:03 am UTC (link)
I've been finding more and more people who I can relate to and I don't know if that's scary or comforting.

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-23 03:14 am UTC (link)
Perhaps a diplomatic mix of the two. Comforting because you know that you aren't alone in having to make these decisions. Scary because there are so many out there who had to make them.

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[info]jadegiant
2017-11-23 03:25 am UTC (link)
I've spent so much time running away from everyone but everyone is having the same problems I'm having. They just deal with them better.

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-26 04:20 am UTC (link)
You may be surprised. People who appear to be coping and have it together are sometimes dealing with things the worst out of anyone.

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[info]jadegiant
2017-11-26 08:14 pm UTC (link)
Sometimes I don't realize how selfish I am. You're right.

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[info]arkanis
2017-11-22 02:29 am UTC (link)
I have never in my life looked so much as twice at a painting.

What a curious feeling.

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-22 05:47 am UTC (link)
You were impressively adamant about it. Perhaps you have a calling as an art critic.

I wonder if this is what they felt like

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[info]arkanis
2017-11-22 01:32 pm UTC (link)
Bafflingly adamant.

Although, now that I've had occasion to consider it ... Artistic expression is an important vector for moral decay.

Hm. Hm.

I may have gotten something out of this after all.

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-23 02:06 am UTC (link)
I like to think that that is the purpose of these experiments. I doubt that it is the intended purpose, but I suppose hope is all that we can have at this moment.

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[info]arkanis
2017-11-23 03:47 am UTC (link)
We must make our own purpose, yes. I refuse to trust the stated motivations of men who cast me as a drunken art critic.

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-26 04:20 am UTC (link)
I do wonder what our character choices were motivated by. I wish that we could be given some more information.

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[info]arkanis
2017-11-26 04:30 am UTC (link)
They were motivated by the desire to fuck with us.

Plain and simple.

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[info]bulwark_
2017-11-26 04:34 am UTC (link)
Perhaps. But I find it odd that they chose me to be an artist, of all things. I loved to sketch and paint when I was younger, so it seems almost purposeful in a way.

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[info]agentthirteen
2017-11-22 07:47 pm UTC (link)
There's an entire museum for you to criticize now.

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[info]arkanis
2017-11-22 09:47 pm UTC (link)
I look forward to acquiring some context regarding the world so very many of you come from.

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[info]agentthirteen
2017-11-22 11:27 pm UTC (link)
I'd suggest the Museum of Natural History, but I think it's just out of bounds.

Even then, many of us come from very different versions or times of the same world, but there is a clear bias for Earth environments so far. Where is it that you come from?

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[info]arkanis
2017-11-23 03:49 am UTC (link)
Different versions, yes. But it seems to me there's a certain common history. A shared matrix of cultural references. Perhaps I'll find a helpful guide in the gift shop.

I was born on a planet called Arkanis, but I was raised on a ship - on a number of ships. We were from many different places, but all driven there by the same catastrophe. Not unlike here.

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[info]agentthirteen
2017-11-23 04:31 am UTC (link)
It's surprising how a few but significant changes to a shared history impacts and compounds the differences between worlds so greatly. I imagine context would help make that more clear. I think we take for granted that the majority of us are from Earth, from a certain time period, and the same region. I often wonder what the significance of that is to our selection.

What was this catastrophe?

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[info]arkanis
2017-11-23 04:49 am UTC (link)
As to how we've been selected - I doubt any of us could say. But your disproportionate representation certainly has other effects.

The galaxy-wide government was suddenly and violently destabilized. My father was a prominent member of that regime. Quite a lot of us were forced to flee.

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Lucretia
[info]clairetemple
2017-11-22 04:22 am UTC (link)
I'm sorry.

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Claire
[info]bulwark_
2017-11-22 05:46 am UTC (link)
Don't be. That's not the first time I've died here, nor the first time in general. And it was not you who was doing it. We were all in our roles. We may not know each other well but from what I have seen, I do not think that you would be the type of person who would do this normally. I know a thing or two about having to fulfill a destiny that you may not want to take on. I do not blame you in any way.

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Lucretia
[info]clairetemple
2017-11-22 07:44 pm UTC (link)
It felt real enough at the time. Our friendship. Maybe we can start over, without the painting or the stabbing.

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Claire
[info]bulwark_
2017-11-23 02:06 am UTC (link)
If you would like. I would definitely prefer no stabbing, though if necessary, keep it to a minimum.

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