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Jean-Luc Picard (tea_earlgreyhot) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-10-28 12:58:00

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Entry tags:	helen magnus, jean-luc picard

[ day 242 ] backdated - closed to Helen
Jean-Luc no longer has the presence of mind to control anything the one wearing his body is doing. He tried for awhile. But until his crew intervenes, Locutus is the one in charge. And Locutus has been throughout the dome in search of the tech to repair himself so that he can begin assimilation of the inmate population at large. Seven’s regeneration alcove has been tampered with, even if his attempt at modifying the tech was a futile attempt at best. There are clean cuts on the right side of his own face where he had tried to begin repairs on himself. Dried blood coats his skin on that side.

At the moment, he is standing still near the edge of the dome in Sector Five as he contemplates his predicament and considers what the next logical move should be. He’s heavily leaning toward repairing the other malfunctioning drone within the prison. A lone drone isn’t nearly as powerful as two or more. Being a malfunctioning one of none is very… lonely. Assimilation is the only path to take.

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lifelines
2013-10-30 01:09 pm UTC (link)

She's more than willing to wait him out, her arms still firmly in place across her chest and her chin still lifted in defiance. She hears every word he says, making note of the specific references he's giving her, particularly the years. This is more than Jean-Luc has given her and while she's interested in his history and background, she would much prefer to hear about it from him. And even after all of this rattling off, she still has the gall to laugh derisively at the information he's supplied her.

"You sound like an encyclopedia entry," she responded, her voice nothing short of a sneer. "Oh you certainly know his history from top to bottom, but you don't actually know the man you claim to, do you? You don't know what makes him tick, why he would choose to thwart you like this, why being like this could never have satisfied him. I don't think you understand humanity at all and that is your greatest weakness."

Her voice softens just a little as she continues, once again speaking for Jean-Luc's benefit and not Locutus. "History alone does not make a man. Experiences do. You may know what happened to him, but you will never know what he truly experienced and because of that, you will never truly know him." As she hopes to one day know him. Perhaps this experience will be enough to help them move forward with whatever is between them. Helen refuses to believe she won't get him back.

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tea_earlgreyhot
2013-11-04 01:20 pm UTC (link)

"Irrelevant." A token Borg answer, of course. But he does seem genuinely curious as to why his knowledge of Picard is not on equal scale with her own knowledge of him. Facts. Moments. That is what makes up the life of every civilization the Borg had ever conquered.

Thusfar, he looks nonplussed with her goading him. Merely emoting a detached curiosity. "Humanity. Is inferior." It's said simply. But the unasked question is why he would want to understand an inferior race.

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lifelines
2013-11-04 02:38 pm UTC (link)

"As I said: your greatest weakness is underestimating and being unwilling to understand those who are different from you is why you will never succeed. It's why Jean-Luc won against you once before and why he will again here."

Helen is being as positive and hopeful for Jean-Luc as she possibly can be. This conversation hasn't been a simple conversation between Helen and this Borg persona for a while; she's been speaking for her friend's benefit. (Friend, potential romantic interest, whatever he is or was to her.) Normally, she might be a little more reserved in such a situation, but she's trying very desperately to give Jean-Luc what Seven gave her:

Hope.

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