passingthrough: (Watchful)
Kitty Pryde ([personal profile] passingthrough) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2017-03-02 09:49 am

Video/Action Open

Who: Everyone
Broadcast: Open
Action: Tourist, or find her later on the Twin Roses or Iskaulit
When: March 2

[Kitty's morning on the Tourist did not go as planned. It's another hour or so before she makes this announcement. She doesn't even know what happened to the minutes in between. But she's all business when she looks into the communicator. No hiding behind text.]

Winn Schott is in a coma. [Blunt. Direct. Maybe she should have called a few people individually first like Kara, but she wasn't going to make it through this if she did that.] He always has projects going, so they're going to be late. If something is important let me know and I'll see if it's something I can work on in his place.

I already fed his slug today, but someone on the Tourist should take care of that until lazy wakes up. [The mild insult to cover feelings is so classic Kitty, circa home it may not even fit with what people of the fleet know of her. That Kitty had walls around her walls, but those are gone now.]

He's always checking on ship systems on the Twin Roses since we managed to merge and still not get an engineer out of the deal, so if anyone else can help us out with that in the meantime let me know. I'll also be working on the new dance studio later today if anyone wants to help. [Because this mission is almost complete and she needs another one so she can hold it together. Can't fall apart if she's sanding down floors.]
therewerefifty: (oh it's you.  um. hi.)

[personal profile] therewerefifty 2017-03-26 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Luckily it's actually as innocent as it could be.]

There are no shops in Adstringendum, no ways to replenish food with money. The town is a ruin. To put meat on the table, I have to hunt. Some of the wildlife is... quite large.

[But it's still not a fight, even if the only scar she carries is from one of those hunts. It didn't count. She was having an existential crisis at the time.]
therewerefifty: (let's try this again)

[personal profile] therewerefifty 2017-03-27 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[A ghost of a smile.] It's nice that sometimes it's the... lighter option.
therewerefifty: (shadowed concern)

[personal profile] therewerefifty 2017-03-29 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
Actual hunting? Or...

[She leaves it there. The darker version.]
therewerefifty: (folded arms 2)

[personal profile] therewerefifty 2017-04-03 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. That... I think that's about the same amount of time for me, actually. Perhaps a little longer.
therewerefifty: (regret)

[personal profile] therewerefifty 2017-04-05 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
It didn't surprise me. [She smiles a little blankly, but her eyes close.] Killing is just in my blood, it seems.
therewerefifty: (haha... who was I kidding)

[personal profile] therewerefifty 2017-04-05 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[She hums thoughtfully at that.]

My father and brother taught me when I was very young, just for a while. It was probably an indulgence for them. [Before she grew old enough that her studies had to be turned to more ladylike areas. Samurai wife.]

After that, I trained myself. I had not much else to do. Strong martial skill ran in my family's bloodline. So they said.
therewerefifty: (side shot)

[personal profile] therewerefifty 2017-04-07 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[...hah. She ponders that for a moment, working out the best way of answering.]

...in my time, a girl child on the streets with a weapon will be called upon any number of times to defend herself. I did not lack for opponents.

[It was still training.]
therewerefifty: (ah...yes. that.)

[personal profile] therewerefifty 2017-04-12 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
That's... somewhat complicated.

[She hesitates.]

My mother and I were cast out when I was ten. There are few places to go for the outcast wife of a samurai in my time. She ended up... becoming a prostitute to keep us both fed.

There is no place for a small child in a brothel. So I spent most of my time wandering Edo and its surrounds until I was... old enough.
therewerefifty: (heh)

[personal profile] therewerefifty 2017-04-14 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
[She doesn't move away from the hand, letting it rest on her shoulder. And she glances up to smile very faintly.]

It's not necessary to say anything. That life is long past. [It's not a secret either, though she could regret bringing the conversation down, especially when she's here to keep Kitty company. Makie fails at the cheerful support thing.

So she carries on, just to add a hopefully more uplifting ending--]
My mother was a very strong woman, and I'll always be proud of her for her choices.
therewerefifty: (yeah I should have thought that through)

[personal profile] therewerefifty 2017-04-16 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a momentary stillness, and then Makie gives a nod so tiny it's noncommittal, and she turns deliberately to look at the room.]

We should... you should probably show me what we need to do here.

[Point of fact, Makie's never been proud of anything she's done. Completely the opposite.]
therewerefifty: (not so bloody relief)

[personal profile] therewerefifty 2017-04-22 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
...I appreciate that. [She does. She's not used to such statements and probably never will be, but they're reassuring. And to be honest, she's not sure what she'd do if Kitty left the ship with Vash as the captain. Probably leave herself.]

I doubt anyone begrudges the time the two of you spend together. Is he satisfied on the Tourist? [Unspoken-- maybe he could always come to the Twin Roses.]
therewerefifty: (just talking)

[personal profile] therewerefifty 2017-04-23 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
I see... [A sentiment she's heard from several people, now. She glances up at Kitty now, genuinely curious.]

He's not from the same world as you, is he...?
therewerefifty: (thinking)

[personal profile] therewerefifty 2017-04-28 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
...it might be possible.

I know that sounds odd, but there are a few of us here that should... be able to travel between worlds, once we leave the Fleet.

[Look she's trying to be helpful.]

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