.08 stop all the clocks

[touchofrogue]

Who: Rogue and anyone who likes!
Broadcast: Yes, text, first part
Action: Yes, second part!
When: Today

[In the weeks since Rogue woke up from her coma, she found that: a) dealing with atrophied muscles really sucked, but she at least had her feet underneath her again; b) they were on a planet with space invaders and going down there chronically endangered every single native and she hated it; c) ...so many people were gone.

It hurt. It hurt enough to drive her to public communication. She writes:]

Okay, so for those of ya who've been at this for a while... I'm comin' up on eight years in one of these interdimensional sewer stops, an' I know we're supposed ta be stay positive but sometimes... positive just doesn't cut it. Here, in no particular order, are my top five reasons for why these places are the worst. Feel free to share your own.

5. Even when something changes, nothing ever changes.
4. Old faces are new faces.
3. The absolute boredom only spiced with moments of sheer terror.
2. Explainin' the same old 'stuckness' ta every new face.
1.

[Everybody leaves. She can't quite bring herself to write that down, though, and so temporarily abandons the post to get back on the Iskaulit and train. She heads to the gym to do very basic strength training exercises over and over and over again. At least she's gotten so she can do this on her own, but Rogue is still far from satisfied with her progress.

Much later, she'll be at Nami's bar, ordering some food and, finally, checking the journal to see if she has any responses to her list.]

Comments

[scanninggaydis]

[Pessimism is a thing Felix can get behind, unfortunately.]

You know, I was going to add to your list but honestly I think you've covered just about everything.

Don't know if it applies to this place, but:

1. Possible social experiment on trauma responses.]

[HIS OLD PLACE WAS A PEACH.]

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[experiencepoints]

1. The sheer difference in all the worlds, so you're constantly having to explain that no, you're not crazy, your world really works that way.

[There's a lot worse, she knows. But it's hard to write down all the things worse than that, because then she starts thinking about them. It's easier to focus on the one that just makes her mad.]

Action

[cajunspice]

[Her initial post had gone unnoticed during the day, Remy having been on shift at the Space Bar and only getting a chance to go over the com on his break, making a plan to catch up with her in person after his shift ended, only to catch sight of her coming in to the bar later in the day.

Picking out her order among the list he had finished up for other tables, Remy wiped his hands clean before picking up the food she ordered and telling Nami he was taking a quick break and to give him a yell if she needed him, before heading out to Rogue's table. Setting her food down for her he also put another plate on the table too, a slice of something that looked similar to pecan pie but made with the local nuts of the green planet, before taking a seat across from her.] Hey chere.

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[grandstanding]

[While he hadn't responded to Rogue's last broadcast, having not felt it necessary, he had certainly taken note of the fact that she had been gone for a while. This time he does send a response.]

The reasons for being in these places to begin with. [He finds those alternately offensive or horrifying.]

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[theboogieman]

[he's not normally a talk-to-people-randomly-over-the-network kind of guy, but... he had a bad day, and the blatant negativity kind of appeals to him right now.]

1. questions with no answers.

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[ladybro]

I like number one left blank. It seems appropriate.

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[passingthrough]

1. Everyone leaves.

[She's not a psychic or even a bracket reader. She has no idea what Rogue would have topped off with. This is also 100% Kitty's answer. It's always been her answer even before getting sucked away. Sure, sometimes the answer is "everyone dies" but death, disappearance, forgetting you—it's all a form of leaving.

And now instead of Rogue in bed it's Winn. He'll wake up in a few days, but she doesn't know that yet. She doesn't know if it will be days or weeks or months or if it will be like Logan where he sleeps until he disappears. Or maybe he'll sleep until he wakes up happily in love with someone else because he has new memories of his life since he still has a life to live back home.

So, yeah, everybody leaves.]