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Tweak says, "Make it so."

MarinaNova NPCs (marinanova_npc) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-05-27 15:11:00

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Day 221 — Morning mingle : Main shelter
[Wake up and smell the lack of coffee. You're on a bunk bed. Maybe you're a top and maybe you're a bottom. There are five other people in your room. Maybe they're friends or enemies or faces you barely recognize if at all. It doesn't matter much. You can leave this room and you don't need to come back to it.

You should get your rations though. You're probably hungry. You're definitely a little sluggish of body. What happened to that bruise you got sparing yesterday? What happened to your newly dyed hair? Mystery, mystery... Move along. Find the public bathrooms and do your business with a hundred of your closest friends.

Find the kiosk and get your rations. Careful not to let anyone steal them. You won't get more until tomorrow and the bots won't care. They aren't here to hold your hand. If you get sick or hurt and they deem it necessary they will take you to the hospital whether you wish it or not. But why dwell on such things? You're here now and you might as well enjoy it. You even get a free day today.]

(OOC: OOC info. This mingle takes place in the Main shelter over the morning hours.

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blue_eyed
2013-07-16 02:35 am UTC (link)

Isn’t it? [ of course piter picks up on that pain, and he ponders it, wondering why this should wound reid and how reid has come so far in this little game of theirs, so dangerously far across the board.

he looks at reid with searching, questioning eyes, even if reid doesn't look back. he doesn't press that; he realizes what reid is doing in looking away, and a part of him, the part that is trying in vain to suppress a building, violent shudder of withdrawal, is heinously grateful. ] How could it be that you seek nothing?

[ there's a tiny hint of wonder in his voice at such a notion. all he has known for more than twenty years is manipulation and sabotage. there is no alliance made without such things, or the threats of them dangling overhead. there is no one who exists without knowing the touch of greed. there is no one to truly protect piter save for himself. ] Why should my life be precious to you?

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thisiscalm
2013-07-17 08:35 pm UTC (link)

[ He isn't faking it, but he does know what playing up your vulnerability can give you. It's his secret weapon after all, pretending to be less of a threat than he is, more plagued by a headache or more nervous around firearms, less capable. It's surprising how effective it can be and it sure has saved his life many times over.

He's not sure what he's trying to save now, if anything. Accomplish might be a better word, but even there the lines are fuzzy. ]

Because it is. [ A beat. ] Do I really need to spell it out?

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blue_eyed
2013-08-30 04:37 pm UTC (link)

[ and here piter is, trying to do all in his power to downplay the vulnerability that plagues him. he feels too weak, too open; the things he wants to say betray too much of the man beneath the mentat facade, and that frightens him. just a bit, of course, but there is still a touch of fear there that he despises. ]

Correct your tone. [ it's the only reply he wishes to make for the moment, defensive and harsh. ] I'll not be spoken to in such a way.

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thisiscalm
2013-08-31 07:17 am UTC (link)

[ There's something in that response that makes him straighten up, shoulders tensing up, bristling as if the agitation of constantly having his motives questioned is finally catching up with him. Not just Piter — oh no, Kitty too at times. Sam. They have their reasons but he's tired and quite frankly, he will not be spoken to in such a way either.

Dark eyes shift up to lock with the blue within blue and although his own whites are clear, the rest is a near-black. Pupils dilated. So much to read just in the dilation of a pupil. ]

I protect people. I keep them safe and I keep them alive and if I can't do that, I find the one who hurt them and I put him away. It's what I do. It's my life and whether you like it or not, you're included in that.

[ The dilemma of the profiler. It's never as black and white as one would like, never a case of "pure evil" like in fiction. Nature versus nurture, the long, winding path that leads a man all the way to murder. Brain damage. Malformations. Synapses that aren't firing the way they should. They talk about killers and victims, but at the end of the day they're all victims in one way or the other. ]

If I can keep you alive, then I will keep you alive. Deal with it. [ This is good. This is a step back from friend without taking the word back. ]

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blue_eyed
2013-09-28 11:20 pm UTC (link)

And if there is nothing you can do? No one to save, no one to put away— what then? What use will you be with nothing left to protect?

[ faced with ruin, faced with the destruction of all it holds dear, a heart is lost. piter has seen this ring true in the dear doctor yueh's agony at the suffering of his wife, and piter thinks, perhaps fantasizes, that he heard this truth resonating in jessica's voice so many weeks ago, in the way she said the word mourning. piter has seen hearts like reid's bleed over loss, and they have bled at his hands— yet when he looks down to find his hands shaking and weak, piter is just as lost.

the way he speaks is cruel and spiteful, but that bitterness is at least familiar to piter, and in the heat of the moment he considers it warranted, a way to combat reid and throw his words back in his face. venom and bile sullying his words are not strange to him; they are in his nature. hatred can spring into his tone as easily as his fingers can curl around the hilt of a blade, yet there is no real certainty that what he feels for reid is hatred. it's a terrible union of bitterness and fondness and yes, the barest glimpse of alarm at times, but piter sees the futility in true hatred, and his most bitter hatred is reserved for another. ]

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thisiscalm
2013-09-30 06:06 pm UTC (link)

It'll never come to that. There's always something I can do.

[ Spoken with the conviction of a man who's met that desperation time and time again, nearly drowned in it not once or twice but uncountable times in his life and yet every single time he pushed himself back up. Dilaudid, his mothers illness, Gideon, Emily, Elle, everyone he's lost, every time he's lost himself, every sacrifice he's made since he was too young to even properly remember... it has bled him white. It has crushed him in ways that made him doubt he'd ever recover (and will do so even more in the uncertain future) but every time he recovered. He found his way back. ]

Nothing you say can convince me otherwise.

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