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Tweak says, "MAKE US WHOLE"

Dirk Strider (smuppeteer) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-05-28 12:45:00

Entry tags:

aradia megido, bak chang, bro strider, calliope-caliborn, dirk strider, jake english, roxy lalonde

Day 221 | Voice
[ Closed to Jane Crocker, Jake English, and whichever cherub is awake at the moment ]

Where are you?

[ Open ]

Who wants to start some hardcore prison barter system? Give me your candy bar for my piece of cabbage or I'll shank you with my toothbrush, etc.

Actually, are we even still calling it "prison"? This place has a more backwater feel to it than MarinaNova, so I feel some slang is in order. "The slammer", maybe? "The clink" implies metal cell bars, so I don't think that's appropriate. "The big house". I don't know, I'm still relatively new to this life of crime shit. Thoughts?

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	[filtered] smuppeteer 2013-05-28 09:34 pm UTC (link)
	Weaned off liquid mind-fuckery. Free of its compulsion forevermore. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[filtered] ophiuchus 2013-05-28 09:35 pm UTC (link)
	I don't understand. Doesn't she just drink it to feel happy? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[filtered] smuppeteer 2013-05-28 09:38 pm UTC (link)
	Alcohol doesn't make you happy. It distracts you from what's making you sad. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[filtered] ophiuchus 2013-05-28 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	... [The weight of the implication makes her heart sink, followed by her stomach.] Oh. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[filtered] smuppeteer 2013-05-28 09:43 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[filtered] ophiuchus 2013-05-28 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	I knew she felt bad about a few things, but... [Calliope pauses to try and get her thoughts in order.] Can you explain what's wrong with her distracting herself? I mean, I'm sure you agree that she deserves to at least feel okay. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[filtered] smuppeteer 2013-05-28 09:50 pm UTC (link)
	Minor, temporary distractions are fine. You can't wallow in your own shit 24/7. The problem comes when you refuse to ever face your problems. They're still there no matter how much you pretend they aren't. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[filtered] ophiuchus 2013-05-28 09:54 pm UTC (link)
	But if she doesn't have to face them, why force her to...? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[filtered] smuppeteer 2013-05-28 09:57 pm UTC (link)
	Because otherwise she'll permanently be in a state of denial. Drinking won't make her problems go away. All it'll do is fuck over her brain and her kidneys. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[filtered] ophiuchus 2013-05-28 09:58 pm UTC (link)
	Her- What do you mean?! [What's a kidney, while you're at it.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[filtered] smuppeteer 2013-05-28 10:00 pm UTC (link)
	Sustained, excessive alcohol consumption works wonders on one's health, and I mean that in the worst possible sense. People used to die from it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[filtered] ophiuchus 2013-05-28 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	[Silence.] [Complete, horrified silence.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[filtered] smuppeteer 2013-05-28 10:04 pm UTC (link)
	[ He's awkwardly silent as well. The sound of water running can be heard as he makes Roxy a cup of tea in the kitchen area. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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ophiuchus
2013-05-28 10:07 pm UTC (link)

[She feels so awful. The silence stretches on longer as she starts thinking about how she enabled Roxy to drink, over and over, thinking it was helping her and there was no harm, even if it made her kind of pathetic sometimes.]

[It was fine. She was looking out for her friend's welfare and happiness. Or so she thought.]

[Now she feels infinitely guilty, but she is just as much determined. She's already at the zephyr quadrant, but she's pausing so they can finish the conversation without Roxy overhearing]

We need to make sure that she never touches it again.

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	[filtered] smuppeteer 2013-05-28 10:11 pm UTC (link)
	Glad to have you on board. I'm out of the room right now. Once you find it, go ahead and head in. I'll be back shortly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[filtered] ophiuchus 2013-05-28 10:17 pm UTC (link)
	Okay. [These are Way Bigger Feelings than she was expecting to have to deal with today.] [they were just going to make shivs.] (Reply to this) (Parent)

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