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Felix Gaeta (didwhaticould) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-08-03 20:46:00

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damon salvatore, felix gaeta, jack harkness, kitty pryde (aoa), martha jones, nico di angelo, yuuki kuran

Day 387 - Open Action
[Around the Dome]

[The worst thing about this prison—besides, obviously, being stuck in a universe without all of his friends and family—is all of the free time. Felix likes working. Loves it, in fact, and the lack of time that he devotes to having fun has made him the butt of any number of jokes on the Sphaira, not that he cares. He's excellent at what he does, and his recent promotion to captain makes all of the crap he gets from his peers worthwhile. Who needs friends when you can have inferiors?

Except he hasn't entirely bought into that and, without work to do and jerks to feel superior to, MarinaNova is getting kind of lonely. He's met a few people, sure, but what he needs to do is get out there and try to have fun. Fun people attract company, and he'd like company.

And so Felix, armed with a camera, spends a good part of the day taking a leisurely stroll through the dome's streets and parks. Wandering around and pausing to snap the occasional photo might not be the kind of madcap adventure that his peers at home might find amusing, but it's different enough from work to make him think that it falls within the realm of fun. As long as he's enjoying himself, it feels like it must count.

And he is enjoying himself. Photography was one of his many hobbies before he devoted himself to science and the Colonial Fleet. He doesn't know if he's any good at it, but there's something satisfying about looking for exciting angles and plays of light and trying to frame things just so. Although Felix focuses on architecture (another interest that fell by the wayside), he does try to get the odd inmate into his shots.]

I'm sorry, but could you hold still for a moment?

[Lyrical]

[Evening—or what passes as evening in an underwater dome where days are delineated by dimming and brightening artificial light—sets and Felix has tasked himself with finding a new kind of fun. This workless wasteland has presented him with an unparalleled opportunity to explore all of the hobbies that he stopped having time for at home. Hobbies like singing.

And that is why he is at Lyrical. Felix has skipped the drinking part of the karaoke bar (he'd like to keep his wits about him while he's enjoying himself) and is going through the selection of songs to find something he knows. Singing in front of strangers is fun, right? Right?

He might need encouragement.]

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foreverjack
2016-10-21 05:01 pm UTC (link)

He glances at Felix, recognising that they're talking about different aspects of the AIs' games. "Some of it is," he acknowledges, grinning slightly. "Some of it is lovely, and great fun. But there are also times when people end up together who wouldn't otherwise. Or who can't otherwise without getting a black band slapped on them."

Like himself and Kitty, who spent one day thinking they were married, and have spent most of the time since wistfully remembering what they can't have. Or Spike and Ianto, who spent that same day in a relationship. All right, they then went on to actually forge a relationship, but there's been a lot of pain along the way, especially when Ianto spent a day feeling invincible enough to get away with fucking Spike, and got the two of them black-banded. That was pretty hellish, for all three of them, even if it's ended up better than any of them could have hoped.

"There are a lot of things that are bordering on non-consensual, and some things that absolutely smack of it. I really don't appreciate having my consent played with like that."

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didwhaticould
2016-10-23 11:02 pm UTC (link)

Oh. That--that's very different and absolutely horrible, and Felix is appropriately ashamed. He really should have thought through all of the potential consequences of that sort of meddling before deciding that it's one of the less unpleasant things the AIs have done.

"Right, no, that's... I didn't think of that. I'm sorry you've--that you've experienced that sort of thing."

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	foreverjack 2016-10-24 10:46 am UTC (link)
	"It's okay," he shrugs, with a small smile. "Clearly you haven't, yet, so I'm really pleased for you in that respect. It's rather nice to meet someone they haven't really fucked over yet!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	didwhaticould 2016-10-24 09:52 pm UTC (link)
	"Yet. I'm sure they'll get around to it eventually. I haven't been here all that long." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2016-10-27 04:07 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh yeah, almost certainly. But make the most of it while you can, eh?" He smiles and takes another drink. "Or maybe they'll bring you someone you thought you'd lost. Or something even better. Who knows? They have done some good things, even if I'm not sure they were intentional!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

didwhaticould
2016-10-27 11:09 pm UTC (link)

"I don't have any great lost loves for them to bring in, but sure, maybe," he replies easily. The probably not is strongly implied. His life hasn't been particularly interesting or dramatic or full of loss; the prison might have to get creative if it wants to bring him someone he'd be glad to see here.

"What if there aren't any intentions? Maybe there's no purpose or reason to any of this."

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	foreverjack 2016-10-30 05:18 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh, I'm certain there's some kind of purpose behind it," he says darkly. "Even if it is just trying to fuck with our heads. I do feel that a lot of it is them trying to work out what makes us tick. The things they do, the way they do them..." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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