don't blame us!!

[ladybro]

Who: Crew of the Blameless and their visitors!
Broadcast: N/A
Action: Blameless
When: October

[ so, fellow innocents! we're a-drifting again and it's time to hang out with your shipmates aboard the blameless!

as always, visitors are definitely welcome to swing by and bug those aboard. ]

Comments

[precedented]

I'm afraid the most I know are grade-school at best, since I never attended any institution.

[ He swipes his thumb over his chin, thoughtful. ] Though my idea of games are a little skewed.

[ladybro]

Skewed, how?

[ can't help her curiousity. ]

[precedented]

The place I was before played games. Some were fun, but there were generally large affairs and we always competed against each other.

[ladybro]

How large is large? [ -- yep, she's turned nosy. ]

[precedented]

On a smaller scale to the Hunger Games.

[ladybro]

...Were they as -- y'know, dangerous?

[precedented]

Some. But not all.

[ He shrugs. ] Many we survived. Many hurt. Such was the way of Aather and its games.

[ladybro]

[ a little subdued: ] And that's where Cassie was, right?

[precedented]

[ He shakes her head. ]

She wasn't there for long. Compared to me, she did not go to many games, especially the terrible ones.

[ladybro]

That's a relief. Even if I'm not certain she would agree with me.

[precedented]

I'm sure she appreciates the sentiment behind it.

[ladybro]

Some days, maybe. But she's stubborn.

[precedented]

[ His smile is bemused. ]

I can't imagine where she got that from.

[ladybro]

[ kate laughs. ]

You know -- the night I met her? She was fourteen. And she came to me 'cause she recognized me from a news clip about the Young Avengers. Not as part of the team, mind you. Not yet. But she wanted to find the guys who were -- said she was gonna make them let her join up.

[precedented]

She had a way of fighting for what she deserved. What she wanted. I always liked that about her.

[ladybro]

Right? Me too. [ ... ] It's a little tough, back home. She doesn't live in New York anymore. I don't get to see her as often as I want to.

[precedented]

Still.

[ Leto hasn't seen many people since he left Aather - which was given. He had to go home. He had a destiny to fulfill, but he missed them. Seeing Kanda back, without his memories had hurt. Seeing Susan again had hurt too, but he'd take that hurt. ]

It is the little reunions that keep us going, painful as they might be.

[ladybro]

Little reunions.

[ she doesn't know how to sublimate a notion like this one. little reunions. ]

I don't know. Maybe I'm greedy, but I want more than little reunions.

[precedented]

Then you'll need to arrange the world to make them happen.

[ladybro]

Somehow, I think that would make me no better than the Atroma.

[ she doesn't speak it like an argument. more like -- a sudden realization. ]

[precedented]

[ He chuckles. ]

Thankfully, you're not omnipotent, so that particular pitfall can be avoided.

[ladybro]

Hey, now. Let's not give them too much credit. I bet at best they're, like, demipotent.

[precedented]

That seems fair. Partial credit only.

[ladybro]

No need to be their hype-men, right?

[precedented]

They certainly don't need the good press.