1st Judgment ⚖ Action ⚖ Open

[whatisright]

Who: Justice and You
Broadcast: N/A
Action: Evac Station, SS Caprine
When: After the destruction of the planet, and then after everything can be done for the refugees.

Evac Station - Action

[Justice is tireless about getting the refugees settled after the planet is destroyed. Literally tireless--he never stops to eat, drink, or sleep. When there is a pause in the work, he only stops to hover by his two unconscious friends, watching them with naked concern on his face but never speaking nor attempting to wake them up.

He's just putting away more supplies when he pauses, head turning to watch a refugee man sitting on the floor, rifling through a bag. When he speaks, his voice is a touch more stern than usual.] What are you doing?

[The man looks up at him, fingering the bag.] "Just, uh, looking at my stuff."

You're lying. That's not yours.

[The color drains from the man's face even as he tries to smile and instinctively clutches the bag tighter.] "What are you talking about? Of course it's mine."

[This just sours Justice's mood further, and he turns the full weight of his glare on the man.] You stole it from a family while they slept. Your misfortune is no excuse to steal from those suffering just as much as yourself. You will return it with all its original contents immediately.

SS Caprine - Action

[Justice never actually properly explored the ship he was assigned, so enchanted he was by the planet they were on.

So now he's just getting to know what's supposed to be his home now. He unfortunately doesn't have a lot of social awareness, as may be evidenced by the fact that he chooses to look like a walking corpse, and he just wanders into random rooms, bedrooms included, to stand at the center or pick up particularly well-used objects and run his fingers across them.

Congratulations on your new weirdo, Caprine.]

[Edited to add: Justice has psychic and object-reading abilities. For more info and to let me know what's cool for him to pick up, here's a permissions post.]

Comments

[wolfehawke]

No.

[Wolfe barks the word and it has an edge, like ice cracking in the dead of winter. Even his breath comes out in a small cloud for a moment, his magic rising up within him to throw off the invasion of his mind, but Justice is too quick and too practiced and the spirit is gone from his thoughts before any magic even touches him.

He whirls on Justice, seeming larger in his anger, shaking his finger at Justice if only to prevent himself from punching instead. Maker knows both Anders and Riona would have his hide for starting a fight now.]

No, you don't get to go digging in people's heads! That isn't how the mortal world works. You can be left in the dark about the future just like everybody else.

[He pauses there for just a moment, just barely restraining himself despite his hands balled to fists and his posture speaking of a want to not just punch but to wound. But he doesn't. He holds himself back for his friends and for himself because he knows, he knows that Justice likely doesn't know much better. He's in a world so different from his own and should be given the benefit of the doubt.

With an icy look, Adalwolfe turns heel and leaves the makeshift medbay, deciding he'd best find something else to do before he gives into his darker impulse.]

[whatisright]

[Justice flinches back in surprise like a child who's been slapped for reasons it doesn't understand. Frankly, that's not far from the truth. No mortal has reacted so strongly to his power before, and he doesn't know why this one is so different. He doesn't understand what he did that is so upsetting, and the only thing he can think of is that the man is angry that Justice tried to find out about something he doesn't want Justice to know, which is all the more suspicious.

He almost asks what's wrong, almost asks him what he's hiding, but the man radiates a desire to hurt him. Justice doesn't need to tamp down on psychic background noise to feel that. For a moment, he thinks that Anders' boyfriend will actually attack.

But he doesn't. He stomps off, leaving Justice with more questions. But left to assess the situation on his own, Justice simply goes back to his earlier impression: the man doesn't like spirits. The man may even think he's a demon, and any reminder that he has power that a mortal doesn't is something to snap or yell about. It does not occur to him that some of that power, even the neutral power universal to all spirits, is inherently offensive to any human for reasons he does not understand yet.

But he also knows something else: something happened in the last ten years. He doesn't know what, and he doesn't know why people are so resistant to telling him, but something happened.

He scowls, settling in to stand vigil over Anders and Riona.

Well, at least the silence isn't so awkward now.]