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Jean-Luc Picard (tea_earlgreyhot) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-02-16 19:46:00

Current mood:	uncomfortable
Entry tags:	buffy summers, data, jean-luc picard, lacus clyne, rose tyler, seven of nine

[ day 206 ] action :: open
[It’s very late at night in the prison, if anyone is still awake or out and about. Were anyone to pass through Sector 0 they might find an older gentleman in his Starfleet uniform sitting on a bench in the recreation area. He’s quiet and still, somewhat unassuming. He might even be mistaken for peaceful from far away. But were anyone to come closer, they’d find that he has somewhat of a perplexed look on his face, troubled or thoughtful perhaps. And his gaze is turned up to the top of the dome. Obviously he’s not as peaceful as it might initially seem.]

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doesntdamsel
2013-02-25 07:49 pm UTC (link)

She shrugs a little at his commentary on dying. "It's not like there's a choice. You have to keep going and figure it out. I just...didn't quit." Which is a defining trait for Buffy, but not one she considers that extraordinary. Her head tilts to one side. "Did you die too?"

She nods a little at his summation of how the slayer thing works. "Pretty much. Later we used magic to make more slayers so there's...maybe 100? But they're all kind of losing their oompf, except for Faith, the one that's a slayer because I died."

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tea_earlgreyhot
2013-02-27 07:03 pm UTC (link)

Not quitting is something that they both have in common. And Jean-Luc finds himself respecting the young blonde even more than he already had. There was certainly something to be said for never lying down and taking it. "That is the question, yes. I nearly died when I was a young, arrogant fool of a boy. A dagger through the heart in midst of a bar brawl. And once again in a Lenarian attack during what should have been peaceful negotiations. Another time the Enterprise was caught in a temporal loop in space. We all died many times over until we understood how to break the loop. There was the Borg and... as Kaman..."

He drifts off, deep in thought for several moments before he draws in a deep breath and squares his shoulders. A curt nod. "Yes, I've died many times over under the strangest of circumstances."

It isn't the first time he's heard people mention magic, which of course can be perceived in many different ways. He's seen species with amazing talents in his time that might seem magical to his own ancestors. "Have you any idea what is making their power deplete? One would think having their help might relieve some of the burden from you and this... Faith."

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doesntdamsel
2013-03-05 08:52 pm UTC (link)

Buffy feels some sort of paternal warm-fuzzy thing with Jean-Luc. He reminds her enough of Giles that it was triggered almost immediately upon meeting him. His age and his demeanor toward her has only reinforced that.

"Like Ground Hog Day minus Bill Murray." She had a day like that but thankfully there was no dying.

"Willow tried to explain it to me once. There was something about a cycle and recharging and power returning to some kind of pool. Possibly there were Wheaties involved, but that was probably a metaphor. Basically there's only supposed to be one. Two will be tolerated. Three or more gets kicked out of the super exclusive slayer club."

She hesitates and then nods because that had been the idea. "It did. Does. Did. At least until a faction of them decided they wanted to kill me for ruining the nice, normal lives they had going on."

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tea_earlgreyhot
2013-03-05 10:45 pm UTC (link)

"Ah, with power comes both responsibility and the potential for corruption. There are some, Ms. Summers, who fail to handle responsibility with any sort of grace. There are some who might grow drunk on power and continue to crave more. But I will tell you from experience that although the path might be the more difficult one, those who traverse the road of using said power without abusing it can and will have the final say."

He can speak from experience as those who had sought time and again to corrupt Starfleet had been defeated. The Borg had been defeated. And even the Q had eventually learned to not only tolerate but respect humans. "You do very well to remain steadfast in your beliefs, to cling tight to those you can trust to keep you honest, and to keep both feet firmly planted to fight for what you believe to be right. Therein lies a true hero, Buffy, someone to look up to and admire... perhaps even to emulate."

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	doesntdamsel 2013-03-06 03:31 am UTC (link)
	Buffy smiles a little at his words. She understands them, appreciates them and it makes her a little teary because she misses Giles so much and it's different knowing he's dead rather than in England or Scotland or someplace that's not here, but very much in the world. "Being heroic shouldn't be so hard. There might be more heroes if it weren't." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

tea_earlgreyhot
2013-03-06 04:46 pm UTC (link)

"It's true. And yet it can be said that the greatest moments in history have spawned from ordinary men and women making difficult decisions and there by all world altering moments are fraught with difficulty in which the individuals in them have the chance to either be heroic or take the route bared with the least obstacles."

He offers Buffy a small, soft smile. "It is something of a tangled web, as it should be in spite of how we might want for a path less complicated."

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doesntdamsel
2013-03-06 07:32 pm UTC (link)

"It's the hard things that make you be the hero." At least that's how she interpreted what he said. The context of her life provided a good deal of her interpretation as well.

"It's funny, because you're all hero-y too and in a different way than I was. You always think of the apocalypse as the way your apocalypse went, but everybody and every world has one and it's all personalized. Like, is there a division of the PTB: Apocalypses personalized for you!."

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