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driftfleet2015-11-08 04:28 pm
deshabille) wrote in driftfleet2015-11-08 04:28 pm
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Who: Mal and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: The Marsiva
When: Right meow (November 8)
Is everyone having fun?
[You know . . . if her expression were any different, that would sound absolutely sarcastic and pretty condescending. But she's positively beaming. Gleeful. Mal is having a great few weeks.]
It's more fun on the ships, I have to admit, but everyone's minds are so interesting. People can look almost exactly the same on the outside and be absolutely distinctive on the inside. [And she thinks that's beautiful.]
Also, a question - most of these videos and things are from Earth, yes? Well, I'm not, so someone ought to tell me where to start. My requirements thus far are: no folk music, no Taylor Swift.
[A beat. She frowns.]
No romance unless there's also a lot of punching. [Or you're Cassandra. The only exception.]
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: The Marsiva
When: Right meow (November 8)
Is everyone having fun?
[You know . . . if her expression were any different, that would sound absolutely sarcastic and pretty condescending. But she's positively beaming. Gleeful. Mal is having a great few weeks.]
It's more fun on the ships, I have to admit, but everyone's minds are so interesting. People can look almost exactly the same on the outside and be absolutely distinctive on the inside. [And she thinks that's beautiful.]
Also, a question - most of these videos and things are from Earth, yes? Well, I'm not, so someone ought to tell me where to start. My requirements thus far are: no folk music, no Taylor Swift.
[A beat. She frowns.]
No romance unless there's also a lot of punching. [Or you're Cassandra. The only exception.]
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[The rest of the answers are rather interesting, though, and make sense to boot.]
You said you were stronger than humans-- are you more resilient too? Stakes work on everyone, yes, but if I were to be gutted, I'd go quick. Does it only work through the heart with you, or's it like everyone?
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Only through the heart. You could stab me anywhere else and it would just piss me off. Could behead me, too, it would just be an inconvenience. I had a friend--
[Well, now she's just grinning. It's fond, reminiscent.]
Have a friend, back home, lovely and clever but very odd. She used to lecture us on where exactly the heart is, in case someone had to put me down.
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[He holds up his fingers, ticking them off.]
Silver does nothing for me, wolfsbane is rather the same as garlic-- I get a mild reaction, but nothing particularly harmful. I can't infect you while I'm not transformed-- actually, I don't think I'd do anything to you, transformed or not. But biting a regular human while I'm human will just lead to them becoming fond of rare meat and looking at the moon while in the woods-- lupine tendencies, but not the curse itself.
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[She leans forward a little at the last part, curious.]
We don't have that, I don't think. Just the traits. There's rumors that there are sort of - halfway or backwards werewolves. Wolves that turn into men? But I've no idea. I never--
[Mm. She hesitates, tips her head to one side.]
It's actually a bit limiting, you know. Gothic castles. I've only ever met one werewolf, before you.
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[She pulls a face.]
Not anymore, though. I left. Because it was terrible. I'm a soldier now, generally we get tents if we're lucky, dirt if we're not.
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[He tips his head.]
I wouldn't classify myself as a soldier, but, ah, there was a war going on in my home. Which I'm participating in.
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[At no point during this conversation has Mal's intense focus wavered at all. However, at that, she does sit up a little straighter, and quietly hopes he has someone like Polly to guide him along.]
It was a stupid war. Really and truly. Not for any noble cause, not for justice or to defeat some great evil. Territorial disputes going so far back in time as to make them totally irrelevant, if not for national pride in - I have no idea what. Turnips, probably. A lot of very stupid powerful people doing very stupid things.
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[His smile is sad and sympathetic.]
I'm sorry. Those are the worst kinds of war.
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[She smiles back, brief but genuine.]
You can tell me, if you want. Or we can keep talking about me. I can talk about me for hours.
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It's . . . god. Over a lot of things, honestly. I don't know how James has told anyone, really-- but there's a man. A leader of a movement which hates anyone who isn't what he calls pureblood. Anyone who has any relation to nonmagic peoples-- which includes myself, by the way, my mother wasn't magical in the least-- he wants to kill them all. A mass genocide, leaving behind only those he deems pure enough.
Idiotic, but he's attracted a vast amount of followers.
[He doesn't look twenty-one anymore. Now Remus just looks tired, tired and sad. There's a bit of white in his hair, he knows, because it's been such a long fight so far.]
So. We fight. James is part of it, though he doesn't know it yet. We join right out of school. Run missions, fight against Death Eaters-- that's what they call themselves, because their entire motive is to spread terror. And they do it very, very well.
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[Resting her chin on her hand, she leans in a little, curious but making an effort to be less oppressive in her curiosity than usual.]
You'd be surprised at how attractive hate can be to a certain kind of person, who's used to power. Or, well. Maybe you wouldn't.
What's his name? In case he shows up here, so I can kick him in the fork preemptively.
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[WHO DOES THAT.]
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