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MarinaNova NPCs ([info]marinanova_npc) wrote in [info]marinanova,
@ 2015-07-20 19:48:00

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Entry tags::mingle, aidan reilly, aigis, angelina burnett, artemis crock, carl grimes, carol peletier, charlotte charles, euphemia li britannia, kitty pryde (aoa), leia organa, mgann morzz, nico di angelo, olivia moore, rose, sam winchester, sarah williams, seyn ayliffe, spencer reid, spike, yuuri shibuya

333 - Rubber Ducky mingle
[Rubber Ducky, you're the one. You make everything so much fun. Which is why you'll find them just about everywhere. Maybe even in that pitcher of tea you just made. Never a dull day here in MarinaNova Asylum. Whether you are trying to beat the heat at the beach or at the pool or running errands you're going to encounter a lot of them.]

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[info]forceful
2015-08-20 12:06 pm UTC (link)
[ and while (unbeknown to her) reid may be well aware of who she is and what she does, he's not someone who looks up to her as the symbolic leader of the rebellion, the last daughter of alderaan, a victim, a survivor -- or vader's daughter. maybe only a small handful knew that she was, but as much as she loathed being this perfect shining symbol and figurehead, she feared that image getting tarnished once that truth came out. ]

It definitely keeps getting messier. You think you know who you are, and then--

[ no. vader's not a subject she's ready to broach. if she couldn't handle discussing her biological father with her twin brother, it's doubtful she'd be able to keep her emotions in check when bringing it up with someone else. ]

If I joined the Defense Force, I'd be good at it. More than good at it -- it's what I did, what I do. But, I wonder if joining would just put me back in the same unbreakable cycle I was in before.

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[info]thisiscalm
2015-08-21 08:19 am UTC (link)
[ He's not a physical person in the least, but he can't even blame the fanboy in him for the desire to hug her. Sure, it helps that it feels like he knows her already, makes her closer to a teammate than a stranger. The urge is there, even if he doesn't act on it.

Instead, he latches on to the subject change. ]

I joined the Defence Force a couple of days after I arrived. Back then... it was different. Only way to get a weapon, only way to get any kind of real information about what was going on in the dome. That's not the case anymore.

I left not long ago because it felt like it wasn't a purpose so much as a distraction. Whether that's the same for you... I don't know. Don't let anyone strongarm you into joining, though. Give it some thought. There are other ways to work.

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[info]forceful
2015-08-22 04:17 pm UTC (link)
A lot of people joined our rebellion [ she speaks as if he doesn't know much about her life and the position she was in back home, blissfully unaware of her fame ] for that very reason. We had weapons, resources, information -- a way to do something, even if it didn't always accomplish much. I can't lie. I probably would've joined without hesitation were that still the case, but I'm not sure the Defense Force would be a good fit for me.

[ even if she'd be good at it, could do any task assigned to her in her sleep. and even though she doesn't have any personal quarrels with kitty pryde, from what leia has silently observed -- she's not sure she would be content under the young woman's leadership. leia's a leader herself, but it has nothing to do with being used to answering to the likes of ackbar and mon mothma, and everything to do with disagreeing in a purely professional sense with the way things appear to be run.

and the princess was not the type to refrain from speaking her mind, especially if she felt things needed to be said (more so if nobody else would say them). ]

Are you suggesting I put on an apron and go into waitressing? [ that curl of her lips shows that she's joking, teasing. not at all offended by the suggestion that she do something else with her time. in fact, she's curious to see if he has any worthwhile suggestions for her. ]

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[info]thisiscalm
2015-08-24 03:04 pm UTC (link)
[ He's not sure the Defense Force is a great fit for the prison anymore. Their numbers have dwindled, the threats have lessened and with how open they are with information (at least he was, during his time there) perhaps it's outlived its usefulness. He's certainly not recruiting as hard as he did a while back. IN fact, he's not recruiting at all. ]

No, I didn't mean that. [ Good job on making him smile though. That's a rare thing lately. ] I meant more... individual efforts can be just as good as joining the Force. There are a few of us that work outside of the confines of the group, while still helping each other out.

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[info]forceful
2015-08-24 03:59 pm UTC (link)
[ having a defense force within a prison does sound a little strange in general, but this wasn't your ordinary prison. maybe something like that was necessary, but she'd yet to see an instance where it was. even the flooding was less of a defense problem and more the population's inability to work as a cohesive unit towards a common goal as basic as survival. ]

And you're one of those people?

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[info]thisiscalm
2015-08-25 08:15 am UTC (link)
[ It probably made more sense back in the day when there were raptors prowling the night. He's questioned it more than once since arriving and the shift in attention from protection to finding a way back was partially his initiative. There would be no Investigation Team if he hadn't started it and now it'll just have to exist without him. Or not. It doesn't matter much either way. ]

I am. It seemed... neater. Less restrictive.

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[info]forceful
2015-08-26 04:03 pm UTC (link)
[ in all honesty, were leia to join the defense force, she'd inevitably clash with current leadership. she had no qualms making waves within organizations that were in need of reform, but she was hesitant to do so within a facility she had only been in for a handful of weeks vs the time other residents have spent within the domed structure. this wasn't her galaxy, and she would feel like something of a fraud -- even with her experience with government and military -- if she were to throw her weight around when the ground beneath her feet still felt unstable. ]

Sometimes it's best to have the freedom to operate without them. Restrictions can get messy, especially in unorthodox situations which call for unorthodox solutions. Trust me, I've spent enough of my time bac home defending those who took matters into their own hands.

I'd like to help, if you and whoever you're working with need it.

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[info]thisiscalm
2015-08-27 09:17 am UTC (link)
[ Getting approval for his less than kosher ideas from Leia-frickin-Organa is more of a confidence boost than she will ever know. Hopefully this won't backfire horribly. ]

Pretty sure we could use all the help we can get. It's, ah... still in an experimental phase, but I'll let you in on the details when I have more to say.

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[info]forceful
2015-08-30 01:59 am UTC (link)
I appreciate it. I'm not exactly comfortable with the idea of my body being housed in a box somewhere, and would like to do whatever it is I can to help us regain control over our physical forms and hopefully get out from under this kriffing ocean.

[ swearing is a thing she does more regularly than people think, but she has to feel some semblance of comfort in a person's presence before she allows her vocabulary to get colorful. ]

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[info]thisiscalm
2015-08-30 10:08 am UTC (link)
I don't think any of us are. [ He smiles a little, at her cursing and at their potential partnership. It's been a really frickin' awful time in prison lately, more than it's been since he arrived and it's little moments like these that give him the energy to keep at it. ]

I'll get in touch. Probably on a day with less rubber ducks.

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[info]forceful
2015-08-30 04:06 pm UTC (link)
Is that what they are? [ she stoops low for a moment to scoop up a yellow duck from the ground, holding it in both her hands. ] A -- what was that, a duck?

[ the word sounds foreign to her, and she extends the 'uh' sound for a second longer than necessary. ]

I take it a duck is some sort of bird?

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[info]thisiscalm
2015-08-30 05:37 pm UTC (link)
Yeah... a water fowl. The real deal doesn't look all that much like these. These were made when rubber manufacturing became popular back in my world — the original rubber duck was made as a floating toy in the 40s and over 50 000 000 were sold.

[ This means so little to her and yet he can't help himself. ]

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[info]forceful
2015-08-30 05:58 pm UTC (link)
[ maybe it does, but in the wake of her planet's destruction, she's come to appreciate the little things, whether it be stories of one's childhood years or random factoids relating to an innocent rubber toy that seemed to be infesting every nook and cranny of the prison today. she didn't fully understand all of the terminology, but she got enough to get that "40s" was some sort of measurement of time, likely a method of labeling the years, and that 50,000,000 was a large quantity for that time period. ]

I had a few rubber toys as a child, but none that were shaped like bright yellow water fowl. [ she tosses the duck into the air, catches it. ] A couple grazers and a nerf that was purple with bright pink stripes for some reason.

[ nerfs were neither purple nor stripped. ]

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[info]thisiscalm
2015-08-31 04:18 pm UTC (link)
[ This is the moment where he makes a mental high five to his awkward, lonely, scrawny 14 year old self. Hang in there buddy, some day you'll get to talk about rubber with Actual Space Princess Leia Organa. ]

I wonder why toy manufacturers always need to make the toys into something cartoony. Do they not think children respond to realistic representations?

[ And if that's the case, why all the realistic looking firearms? ]

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[info]forceful
2015-09-06 05:49 pm UTC (link)
Cartoony?

[ while animated holofilms exist in her world, they weren't called cartoons. at least not on any of the core worlds. ]

I don't know. I suppose they aim to appeal to a child's imaginative nature rather than let the imagination itself picture the colors they've already painted on the toys for them. A rubber nerf can be pink without actually being pink.

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[info]thisiscalm
2015-09-07 05:44 pm UTC (link)
I suppose. I never understood it. [ But he was also an exceedingly weird child. ]

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[info]forceful
2015-09-07 05:47 pm UTC (link)
I understood the point, but I never really got it. I wasn't exactly what you'd call a model daughter. Most girls named their pet pittins things like 'Fluffy' or 'Ribbons.' Me? I go and name mine AT-AV: All-Terrain Attack Vehicle.

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[info]thisiscalm
2015-09-08 07:45 am UTC (link)
[ He can't help but chuckle at that. ] Sounds like something I'd do.

It's... hard. Being different like that, growing up.

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[info]forceful
2015-09-14 04:45 am UTC (link)
[ her smile fades into something much more somber. ]

I had no idea just how different I really was. Those things you saw me do that day with the flooding -- I didn't know I was like that. Not until fairly recently, actually.

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[info]thisiscalm
2015-09-14 03:37 pm UTC (link)
How did you find out? [ He knows. He just doesn't want her to know he knows. ]

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[info]forceful
2015-09-18 02:17 am UTC (link)
My brother. [ she almost doesn't answer him, but maybe she needs to talk about it. ] He was... running off to do something incredibly foolish, and wanted me to know the truth before he did. In case--

[ no. she's not wading into that "what if" territory. ]

He told me I was his sister, and that I had the same power he did. That someone I very much wish I wasn't related to was our father, and that I'd have to find a way to utilize these abilities to do what he'd been doing if he failed to return.

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[info]thisiscalm
2015-09-19 09:10 am UTC (link)
[ Even though he knows all this, could probably recite the lines word by word given the chance, it's a different thing to hear it from her. It makes her more than a princess in a gold bikini, turns her human and relatable and she's right there, so close he could reach out and hug her if he wanted to.

He doesn't do that. Not for lack of wanting, of course. ]

I'm sorry. That must be... difficult. [ And while his own dad is no Darth Vader, he knows a little bit about not wanting anything to do with your dad. ]

This probably doesn't mean much, but... I think you're amazing. You would've found a way, if you had to.

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[info]forceful
2015-09-19 03:10 pm UTC (link)
[ she wishes it meant more, but the sad truth is that leia's been listening to such flattery since childhood. it's only increased in the wake of alderaan's destruction, as if certain parts of the alliance are convinced that she'll start coming apart at the seams if she doesn't recieve such constant reassurance in spite of how well she holds herself. she doesn't know if that's any better than the portions who are convinced she's made of stone and ice, cold and unfeeling due to her refusal to let her feelings and emotions get in the way of duty. ]

I don't think I would have. I'm not Jedi Knight and frankly, I don't want to be. Maybe I would've taken it upon myself to end the war, but I was already in a position to lead armies. I didn't ask for this so-called birthright. It may be partially mine, but I don't want the responsibility.

[ looking up, leia fixes her gaze on him. ] I don't know what I'm doing, Doctor. How do I go about accessing a power I didn't even know I had?

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[info]thisiscalm
2015-09-20 08:38 pm UTC (link)
Just because you don't want to be a Jedi Knight, that doesn't mean you can't find some use for it.

[ He has two choices here, going with what he knows or treating this like something unknown. During the six months he's stayed here, he's come to understand that the latter choice is also the better one. There's so much he doesn't know, so much nuance lost on the big screen and even more so he doesn't want to end up in a position where he has to explain how he knows all this. ]

Organise yourself. What you know of the power, what you already believe yourself capable of. With the power cap here, that can be difficult but it's a start. Something to work from.

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i am so sorry she's dumping all of this on you, reid
[info]forceful
2015-09-20 11:40 pm UTC (link)
Anyone who could tell me anything about how to use this [ the most she can do is levitate one of the little rubber ducks, and it hovers centimeters away from her fingers in demonstration ] is dead. The Jedi were slaughtered and anyone without a modicum of Force-sensitivity hunted down. My brother had teachers, for a time, but they're gone and not here, and neither is he.

[ her voice cracks upon mentioning luke, but she thunders past the urge to cry. tears never did her any good, and she rarely caves to it. ]

The only I think I really knew how to do beyond this [ the duck falls obediently into her palm, her fingers closing around it ] was find him. I spent most of that first week trying to do just that, but I can't reach him. This is the one and only time I haven't been able to find him.

[ hopefully, he was still on bakura following that senator around like a lovesick gundark. at least whoever was running this place had the decency to grab her from a point in time that was relatively calm, all things considered. she stuck worrying about someone encased in carbonite or facing the emperor. ]

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never be sorry, this is what he's here for. - [info]thisiscalm, 2015-09-21 06:12 pm UTC
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