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driftfleet2016-06-07 09:21 pm
passingthrough) wrote in driftfleet2016-06-07 09:21 pm
Windrose June Mingle!
Who: SS Windrose + Visitors
Broadcast: Unlikely
Action: SS Windrose
When: June — anytime!
[Now featuring bathroom rank II for all your bathtub and and additional ten minutes of water per hour needs! We also have more and faster shuttles! Just last month we made it to actual double-sized beds for all your double-sized fun. Special features include a hanging medicinal herb garden in the cargo bay complete with bacon-flavored kelp and Officer Snuggles the resident security fox!
Please enjoy your stay. Unless you're The Stalker. There's a sandwich bag waiting for you.]
Broadcast: Unlikely
Action: SS Windrose
When: June — anytime!
[Now featuring bathroom rank II for all your bathtub and and additional ten minutes of water per hour needs! We also have more and faster shuttles! Just last month we made it to actual double-sized beds for all your double-sized fun. Special features include a hanging medicinal herb garden in the cargo bay complete with bacon-flavored kelp and Officer Snuggles the resident security fox!
Please enjoy your stay. Unless you're The Stalker. There's a sandwich bag waiting for you.]
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[ he nods, and oh god hearing her say 'knock it off' is weirdly adorable, and he's smiling like an idiot now. ]
For the record - I think you're pretty exceptional yourself. I believe in democracy - that's our system of government, where we elect our leader - but if I had to have one appointed, I'd want it to be someone who cares as much as you.
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[ she smiles ]
I would offer you to support the other woman who stakes a claim to the throne but the dragon queen and I are the same age, I reckon. She does not look much older.
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[ he lets is hands fall ]
All I'm saying is, it's always better to have someone who genuinely cares leading the way, and it's really clear that you do. Do I wish you had more time to learn and explore? Absolutely. Does that mean that if I ended up in your world and had a choice I'd pick anyone else just because they're older? of course not.
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[ an odd situation but she does allow Daenerys her title. she will be foolish to take that battle here ]
He is married, I am to be married, I do not know much of the Dragon queen and you are older than all of us.
[ she smiles a little ]
We must look very silly, do we not?
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And I must look like an old lazy underachiever. We all have our perceptional crosses to bear.
[ his tone makes it clear that he's not being entirely serious. ok yes he feels really old on this fleet, and around her he definitely feels like an underachiever because his greatest aspiration in life is help out superheroes - he may fantasize about being one himself every now and again but he really has no interest in being in a fight, make code, not war - but he doesn't think she looks silly, not even a little bit.
he does think it's sad though, that at such a young age she literally has the fate of her world on her shoulders, that she has to think of political maneuvers and alliances, has to subject herself to marriage after marriage, no matter how terrible the husband, for the sake of her family and her country. he's sad for her. ]
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[ she returns to her work ]
His reputation precedes him, ever here. Especially with so many who mislike him on the fleet.
[ though she can only think of one soul who does kine the boy-king and thank the Seven she's not present. ]
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That's the thing with the truth, it always finds a way out.
[ he's glad that people know to keep him the hell away if he ever shows his face, but he's not glad she's been forced to talk about it, he knows how hard that can be. she's just a kid. he thinks back at himself at 16 - he would've rather take a beating than talk about his dad. then again, that might be because that was what he was used to. ]
How do you feel about that - talking about him?
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[ she looks down at her hands ]
I was asked if I fear him. Admitting to fear - I cannot afford to feel it. I am to be Queen. Once fear is allowed beneath the veins, it is hard to remove it, harder still to convince others you are naught more than a silly, whimpering girl. Silly, whimpering girls cannot be Queens.
[ carefully, she adds ]
You must understand, I can speak of it with you. You will not think less of me yet I find it - challenging with others. It is hard to explain how unfavorable my position here is. I know - you have promised to make certain I shall be alright, Lady Stark had vowed to the same and I do thank you for it yet - we are not certain any of us will be here on the morrow, are we? If he comes and you are gone, I am his queen, I shall not dishonor the promise my father has made and if the queen spoke against the king - that would be unwise.
[ she thinks for another moment ]
It is almost a game yet not one anyone wishes to lose.
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All that is true, but Margaery if he comes here - he won't be king, he won't be anything, just another person trapped on a spaceship. We exist out of our time here. I know...it's a huge gamble to take for you, trusting that if he showed up here he really won't remember any of it when you go home, I get that. [ he has a hard time trusting any of the rules of this place, because they're not laws of nature - they're the atroma's. who knows which one of them are arbitrary and can change with policy, and which ones are set in stone? not him, and that means he can put his faith in none of them. ] I know it's hard. I wish I had easy answers for you, I really do but I think...the best thing you can do, is find more people you can trust, so if one of us goes, you'll have another ace up your sleeve. But what you can't do -- you can't let someone hurt you because of a promise that wasn't even your own. Even your own - in my world he'd be in jail, and he should be.
[ he sighs, running a hand through his hair. kara would know what to say here, how to inspire her. all he knows is how to try and hope it's good enough. ] Margaery, fear...it doesn't make you weak or silly, fear's there to let you know that something is dangerous, something needs to be avoided. Sometimes you have to face your fears, and sometimes you have to listen to them. Knowing which is which is a sign of wisdom and strength - and a good leader. Worrying about perception of strength is how people get tangled up in unnecessary wars.
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Not to himself. You have not met him, the entirety of space will not convince him he is not king and not even here shall I not honor a promise my lord father has made him. It is not a risk only for me. Our house is an honorable one. He shall not hurt me, that I trust.
[ her charm and wit and herself, moreso than anyone ]
In my world he is king, in his mind he is king and I am his to be his lady wife. Our entire world is dangerous. We have all thought Renly shall make a good king and yet he was stabbed with a dagger, some would say by his own brother. Entire houses have been - put to the sword, queen Daenerys is the last of her own house. They say that when the rebellion was done, the men killed even the youngest of babes in front of their mothers. Fear is but another thing we must all reign.
[ she smiles ]
Until the war shall be done and we would be able to think of flowers and banquets and happy matters instead of all this grief.
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[ which is good, because he deserves to be, but he doesn't want to see margaery caught in the middle of things, especially not to protect someone who doesn't deserve it.
but that doesn't matter now. he's not here now and if they have any luck at all - he, his dad, reverse flash and zoom, astra, apocalypse - none of them would ever show their faces.
he pulls her into his arms for a hug because what else can you do in face of such a world? he knows she won't abandon her family, her people, but he can't help but wish that she would, that she'd come with him to national city where she'd be safe. ]
I hope that day comes soon. [ he knows it's complicated, it's less than unlikely because even if the fighting will end tomorrow - wars leave scars that take generations to heal, if they ever do. but if they don't have hope, they don't have anything at all. ]
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[ somehow, she is certain of it. with so many here hating joffrey, with his love of weapons, there would be bloodshed and someone would earn the title of kingslayer all over again. ]
As do I, I pray for it daily. For the Gods to bring us peace and for my family's well being.
[ a little smile ]
And for you to accept my compliments without the regular fuss.
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[ he squeezes a little before letting go of her. he knows he can't really promise that - he could disappear tomorrow for all they know - but that's one of the reasons he wants to surround her with good people. kara will take care of her, as will kitty. vision, too. maybe he could talk to jim as well, ask him to make sure she's looked after in case he disappears. and he's sure he's not her only friend. if each one of them made sure she had 2-3 people looking out for her - they could make sure she's safe. he has to believe it.
he laughs at her last comment. ]
Are you saying I'm bad enough to be counted in the same breath as war? Damn, I need to check myself.
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[ a hum and a smile ]
That would be a sure path to pleasing me.
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[ he thought restoring kara's powers would be a task he'd never accomplish - but he's almost there. he'll find the way home too, he has to believe it. ok, he won't end wars, not even supergirl can do that. but it's nice to dream, isn't it? ]
Well, I promise to try. [ he puts up a concentrated expression, pretending to take this super seriously. ] Go ahead, lay one on me. [ he does love the compliments. ]
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[ just as seriously. ]
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[ because he loves you, margaery, but he has enough trouble sleeping as is, and he already has one kid jumping in bed with them in the middle of the night. ]
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[ a pointed little smile ]
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[ he's been flustered enough he refuses to be flustered about this, he's an adult in a committed relationship with another adult, he's not doing anything wrong.
...
it's a very fragile little wall between him and renewed fluster. ]
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[ as it always catches others by surprise ]
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[ he nods. his best friend is a superhero, his girlfriend is a superhero, and he's pretty sure his boss would never show up here because even the atroma know better than to mess with cat grant. ]