driftfleet | Judgement has been delivered. (Video)

Who: Claire/Lightning Farron & Open.
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: No - unless you're on the Marsiva.
When: Evening.

(Maybe she has revoked calling herself "Lightning" too soon. Claire blows out an impressed and amused breath as she searches her new quarters. In space. That little detail is hard to forget as she walks by windows clearly showing the stars, bright and twinkling.

Pausing by one said window, a hand on her hip, she admires them. It's hard not to, really. They will always be beautiful even if the idea of their creation and the gods in general are...complicated. At least she knows Bhunivelze isn't responsible for this little interlude.

Flipping open her communicator, assessing the buttons and their various functions, she gives anyone watching a small sigh. Who can blame her, really? She thought she would get a longer break from reality bending oddities.)

Do I look familiar to anyone? (She isn't fond of just giving away her name to a bunch of potentially odd strangers. Unless...

Are we really back to that? Tilting her head, she blows her pink fringe out of her eyes.) My name is Lightning and I don't remember signing up for this voyage.

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[She's raising an eyebrow again.]

So you deal with this sort of thing a lot?

More often than not lately. (She had thought she was done with it.) Few will ever remember what was done.

[She snorts.]

Yeah, I know the feeling.

[At least when it comes to not being remembered by history. Not that she's really complaining.]

But the Atroma have a way of digging things up.

It doesn't bother me except...

(when she gets called on to go through something similar.)

I was on my way to see my friends. I can't keep them waiting.

(Her eyes harden.)

I'm not afraid.

I didn't think you were.

[She sounds mildly perplexed. She didn't say anything about anyone being afraid...]

You won't keep anyone waiting, though. The fleet seems to exist outside of our timelines.

[She knows this from experience. She knows more about the future of her world than she has any right to.]

The Atroma can dig up all they want. I've seen it all, experienced it all.

(That's what she meant.)

Of course. (Isn't that always the way? Timelines don't mean anything beyond the current moment.)

Ever verified that?

[She didn't mean it was scary so much as infuriating, but she's still salty about calibrations.]

Yeah. Everyone else here from my world is from the future. Being here doesn't seem to have changed how things turn out.

(Salt is totally fine in this situation. Deep down, Lightning has a lot of salt too, but she's better at dealing with it now.)

Good to know. (She observes her.) Don't look so down about it. It's not useless to be here.

This is how I always look.

[Or, well, not really. She smiles sometimes, but she is also just completely done with everything all the time, honestly.]

Edited 2017-09-17 01:33 (UTC)

(She almost smiles.)

I used to look like that all the time too.

But not anymore?

No. I'm happier, I guess, and that makes a difference.

[She's quiet a moment.]

Yeah, I guess so.

[awk...ward...]

(She isn't going to apologize or take back what she has said. Lightning's directness can be damn awkward.)

You'll find your way.

[Well Velvet is the same when it comes to directness, but she also just tends to be a mess of feelings in general.]

Yeah, to something.

[Not happiness, though. That's not where she's headed and she knows it.]

(She also just tends to be a mess with feelings... Yes, that sounds familiar. Lightning will likely always fit that description no matter how hard she tries to be otherwise.)

You know your future?

(Ah...that burden.)

Yeah, more or less.

[She might not know every detail about it since she hasn't experienced it yet, but she knows enough.]

Don't let it decide what you do today. (She is clearly empathetic on this point. She also knows her advice might lead to frustration. But it's the best she has to give.) Timelines shift; change. I don't believe in fate or destiny.

[She huffs. It's almost a laugh.]

Yeah, neither do I.

[She won't deny for a minute that she chose the path she's on.]

Then it follows that our actions are what lead us to our conclusions. Change your actions and you'll find a new road.

(Even small alterations can make a surprising difference.)

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No. I have to see it through.

[The sort of wistfulness she had is gone suddenly, replaced by a hard determination. She's come too far to change her mind. Besides, being here has shown her that the choice she makes in the future is the right one, in as far as there can be a right choice in her situation.]

I applaud your conviction and I wish you the best. (She knows how that goes. For Serah, she did amazing things; to do otherwise was not an option in her mind or heart.)

Uh, Yeah. Thanks.

[More awkward. Velvet is good at this.]

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