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❀ elize lutus ([personal profile] princessia) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2015-07-19 08:08 pm

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Who: Elize Lutus and... YOU, maybe?!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Huntress
When: 7/19

[ When Elize awakens from cryosleep is when the network decides to record her panic as she sits up with a jolt, like she'd just woke up from a nightmare. It felt like a dream, but she's certain it wasn't. Before she even acknowledges the fact that she's back on the fleet, away from Rieze Maxia, she's searching around her bed frantically, patting at the sheets for something that should be there. ]

Teepo... Teepo?

[ She clasps her hands near her chest where she would normally hold her doll. It's the almost exact behavior during her first days on the fleet. Although she knows the full truth about the toy now, old habits die hard.

As she sits in her bed, she looks around at the metal walls of her room on the Huntress, taking deep breaths to calm down. She reaches up, gently running her finger around the augment behind her ear and confirming where she is. The memories are beginning to sink back in. ]


It's this place again.

[ A pause. ]

...Cullen?
arcanepower: (🙧 don't look at me with those eyes)

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[personal profile] arcanepower 2015-07-21 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
Elize! You're awake.

[He closes the book he's been reading so he can pay complete attention to the monitor.]

Are you-- are you all right? Do you feel sick or-- should I talk to a healer?
arcanepower: ([hooded] i lied but you lied smarter)

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[personal profile] arcanepower 2015-07-24 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't lack empathy, exactly. He can tell she was crying-- that's how he looks after crying, anyway.]

But you look hurt. Did someone say something terrible to you?

[HE WILL SET THEM ON FIRE.]
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[personal profile] arcanepower 2015-08-09 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
[He blinks.]

But you were... asleep.

[Maybe it was bad dreams? Oh man, he has a lot of those.]

If you are having trouble with nightmares, I have a potion--
arcanepower: (🙧 don't look)

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[personal profile] arcanepower 2015-08-16 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her vehemence startles him. He holds his hands up in a gesture of surrender.]

I believe you! I believe you...

[He bites his bottom lip for a moment.]

I... I am sorry. I know that will not ease your pain, but I know what it is like.
arcanepower: (🙧 for redemption)

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[personal profile] arcanepower 2015-08-24 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
[It takes him a moment to look at the screen. He's afraid she might start crying and then he won't know what to do.]

I thought about the future. I thought about what I wanted to do and every step I needed to take to get there.

Sometimes it feels frustrating, or even impossible, because there are countless steps and plans change all the time. But if I am dwelling on changing my future instead of what I cannot do about the past, then the pain seems far away.

[A small, delicate pause.]

When... when the pain was unbearable and I thought I would die, I thought about the stories I'd read. I imagined rewriting them with myself in them, making my own happy endings... baking an impossibly-high cake. Anything to keep me going.
arcanepower: (🙧 each confession i make)

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[personal profile] arcanepower 2015-08-24 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
[He nods, listening.]

Then focus on that. Focus on what you want to do for your friends. If you want to travel somewhere, or learn as much as you can, then those are good to focus on, too.

[The corner of his mouth twitches upward.]

I've never been to school, either. My-- my sister taught me everything.
arcanepower: (🙧 to a god he doesn't believe in)

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[personal profile] arcanepower 2015-08-30 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. We couldn't afford a tutor or classes, so she taught me at home.

[A slight headtilt.]

You lost your memories?
arcanepower: (🙧 he drank but finally drowned in sorrow)

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[personal profile] arcanepower 2015-09-01 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
I... well, I am actually older than I look so it would probably be a bit different than you are imagining.

[He rubs at the tip of his left ear.]

I heard that, at times, people forget things because the memories are too painful. I think the memories might still be within you, but only a very talented healer could help you find them.
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[personal profile] arcanepower 2015-09-09 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
[He nods.]

I am around sixty in human years. But in terms of my own people's lifespans, that is barely fifteen.

[It's kind of a sore point.]

I... envy you, in a way. There are some things I wish I could forget. [A pause.] If you want to reclaim your past, you can look into healing. You may be able to find out who your parents were and the kind of life you lived.

But you also have to be prepared for the things that come after. There may be things you might not be ready to know.

In the end, it is your decision to make and no one else's.
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[personal profile] arcanepower 2015-09-16 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
[It is old, but usually people don't factor in those years of experience when they look at him. He's got an eternal baby face, as most elves do. Really it's only served to make him more grumpy.

He's surprised by her answer, and then he smiles a little. Just a little.]


... You're brave.
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[personal profile] arcanepower 2015-09-21 09:44 am (UTC)(link)
You are. Most people would rather not deal with things they do not understand.

[A pause.]

I... run away from things a lot.
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[personal profile] arcanepower 2015-09-23 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[He nods.]

I'm small, too, and not very strong. I've been hurt by people before.
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[personal profile] arcanepower 2015-09-24 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
[He's shocked by her offer, so much it takes him a moment to recover.]

I-- I'll protect you, too. I can fight!