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Lailah ☼ Fethmus Mioma ([personal profile] sansseraph) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2016-10-08 05:32 pm

Why'd You Kill the Merchant?!

Who: ALL O' Y'ALL
Broadcast: If you want
Action: FRICK YEAH PARTY AT THE JUNKYARD...I mean, Waystation. Junkstation.
When: 10/07 - Event End

It looks more like a junk heap than a waystation, but luckily there aren't any math fetishists to add you to the pile (hopefully). Talk to the scavengers and heed their warnings...if you want. Or perhaps you'll approach a shady individual for purchasing or selling stuff.

"Welcome, stranger!"
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[personal profile] throwsdown 2016-10-29 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[He smiles, surprisingly wistful for his age.]

I do! I lost lots of friends, and it made me not want anymore for a long time...

But then I got too lonely! So I decided to try again.

[He laughs, bashful at the thought.]

Nobody plays pretend with me, though. Not really. 'Cus adults can be kind of serious.
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[personal profile] noprophecies 2016-10-29 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[oh . . . he sounds like she does, when she's fed up with losing people in her life]

I am glad you decided to try again. Being lonely is not a nice feeling.

[this child is too precious. She makes a considering noise, before she kneels down to be more at his height]

Adults can be very serious, but . . . I will play pretend with you? But you may have to teach me how. I never played when I was your age.
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[personal profile] throwsdown 2016-11-02 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
It's the worst, yeah! It's easier when you're alone before 'cus that's all you know, but it's worse then you know what it's like to have friends.

[He nods sagely, thinking back at his terrible existence with his mother and her horrid boyfriend. It was hard to look back on, but he tries to do it in stride. And when she offers to play pretend with him, he lights up quite a bit and pushes away those terrible memories.]

I dunno, I can try! I think adults forget how to play pretend... But I think anybody can learn something if they try hard enough! [He smiles.] My mom and dad from the last ship... They wasn't my real parents, but we played pretend. And it was the best time ever, because it became real.
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[personal profile] noprophecies 2016-11-02 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
Mm, that is exactly how it feels. And then you realize you do not want to be alone anymore, yes?

[that's the conclusion she comes to, every single time. Most of the time, it's because no one will leave her be. Other times, it's because she's so tired of it that she gives in and practically clings to the few, important relationships she has.

She smiles fondly, especially when he mentions adopted family. She had that, too. She can't help but reach out and gently ruffle his hair]


Then I will have to try my hardest, won't I? And I am very stubborn. [she tilts her head] It became real?
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[personal profile] throwsdown 2016-11-07 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
[He nods, looking down as he recalls his adoptive parents. It's really hard, because he misses them so bad, sometimes he cries in his bed when he knows nobody'll notice. He's got to be tough — he used to try to not feel anything, when he was trapped on the planet so long ago without them. Now, he lets himself feel. It hurts, but it also feels like it relieves something.]

I was on a ship called the Tranquility... When I went there, I didn't have a mom, and my dad at home wasn't there. He wasn't my real dad either; he adopted me, he said!

On the Tranquility, I got another dad. People said it was okay, to have more than one. And I got a mom. Their names were Heather and Mr. Ned — I, I called 'em mom and dad, though.
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[personal profile] noprophecies 2016-11-07 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ah, adopted family. She was familiar with that, for as often as she tried to pretend she wasn't. She didn't have parents, and rarely was there ever a label placed more specific than "family", but -

She listens to what he says, quiet, before she nods to herself and decides it's okay to talk about it. That it won't bite her in the ass somehow]


Family is what you make it to be, so it is okay to have as many as you want. I am glad you found a mom and dad there. Having something like that is important.

[. . .] There was a boy on my team in the other place I went to. He is like a brother to me, even though we are not related.
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[personal profile] throwsdown 2016-11-17 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
[His smile grows slowly as she speaks, an earnest fondness in his expression from the way she talks about family. He misses his greatly, but it's a sweet kindness, to hear that sort of love held by someone else. It made him feel a little less alone.]

It's okay. Family doesn't got to be related to be good.

My bad family was all related, anyways. Sometimes it's better to just find people instead.
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[personal profile] noprophecies 2016-11-17 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[she smiles a little wryly, giving a little nod]

That has been my experience. I do have a cousin who is a very good man, but the rest of what remains of my blood family is . . . mm, they do not like me much.

Finding family is easier.
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[personal profile] throwsdown 2016-11-24 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[He frowns.]

I dunno why your family don't like you!

You seem like a real nice lady.
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[personal profile] noprophecies 2016-11-25 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
That is very sweet of you to say, dear.

[she reaches up to touch one of her ears, which is pointed like an elf's, but smaller's] They do not like me because I am not like them.
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[personal profile] throwsdown 2016-11-27 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[!!!

He looks mildly confounded, to be sure.]


They don't like your pointy ears?? That's... That's weird!
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[personal profile] noprophecies 2016-11-27 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
Ah - no, it is because I am only half elf. I am half human as well.

That is what they don't like.
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[personal profile] throwsdown 2016-11-29 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[He rubs his chin with his finger, looking very intently at her ears.]

... What's the difference between a elf and a human?

Is it just pointy ears?
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[personal profile] noprophecies 2016-11-29 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
The ones of my world live hundreds of years - sometimes thousands. And they are - connected to nature, in a way that humans cannot be. Humans live significantly shorter lives than that.

Elves are also very tall, and very . . . mm, fair? A lot of them have light hair and eyes. And their ears are much larger and longer - like mine, but even bigger.
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[personal profile] throwsdown 2016-12-01 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
Oh... So....

[bless him, he's trying so hard to understand]

They think humans are gross looking? Is that why they don't like you? Cus you're part one?

'Cus you're really pretty.
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[personal profile] noprophecies 2016-12-01 09:14 am (UTC)(link)
[precious little captain, he's trying so hard]

That is sweet of you to say, dear. I suppose that is close enough - they don't like me because they do not like each other.
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[personal profile] throwsdown 2016-12-02 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
[He sombers a bit as he looks up to her, a bit more serious in nature.]

Oh... Did they try to — kill each other, before?
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[personal profile] noprophecies 2016-12-02 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
A long time ago, yes. Now they put up with one another when they have to.