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Katie McCoy ([personal profile] hollystrike) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2017-09-27 02:11 pm

Y'All Need to Dream of Dancing Fish

Who: Katie McCoy & you
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: Iskaulit or Vanquish
When: 27 September.

[Because it's a matter of survival for the fae, Katie learned to deal with her own nightmares very early on.   It's one of those issues when your existence straddles the line between the mundane world and the dream one and you see both at once.  It can be fun.  It can be beautiful.  It can also kind of suck ass.

What happened to the planet below is still a source of roiling nausea for her, but she is by far not the only one dreaming of it now. 

In one sense, it's good that the scale of destruction is so vast that the human subconscious has difficulty replicating it as echoes in the confined space of the ships themselves, but it doesn't stop her from catching glimpses of horrified faces in the corner of her eye.  Ghostly echoes of copper-skinned victims before their death.   Corridors suddenly filling with flame and screams.  See, that one's jarring as hell and she has difficulty pretending she can't see it.  It's enough that she excuses herself from polite company and locks herself in the Vanquish's personnel room, a ball of wool in her hands and a twitchy cat slinking at her heels.  Licorice can see it all, too.  That's the problem with getting too close to the fae.  She wonders idly if Sam is having issues.

She can't exactly make an announcement to demand everyone get over it already.   You can't get over something like this.  It's healthy to go through that grief.  But if a corridor happens to fill with fire while she's in it, she'll burn.  And it's her job to try and curb this kind of thing, the way she ... totally didn't do that in Bath.  Oh, well.

She does what she can.]


[Video]

Would anyone like a dream catcher?  [She holds up a contraption made from baby blue wool and shells, shaking it a little.  It looks decidedly average.]  Personally speaking, I've always found the ones I didn't make myself far more useful.  But you could always try them out and see what happens.  Might help with the nightmares none of you are having.

Speaking of non-issues, I suppose this is what being a personnel officer is all about.  I really do need my Doctor Is In sign, don't I?

[Decidedly average-looking or not, the dream catchers will reek of magic to anyone who can detect that sort of thing.  And they'll work on the nastier nightmares people have until the magic runs down.

She'll be mostly in her personnel room on the Vanquish because these things take time to make, though she'll visit the Iskaulit later to hang out in the fox park and recharge.]

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[personal profile] scanninggaydis 2017-10-16 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
[He glances at the floor, then back up at her with a small shrug.]

I'm...okay. Just some bad memories. I'm sure everything will settle down again soon. [That's....a little bit bullshit. But maybe not entirely. He'd been getting along fine (fine for him anyway) until all this happened. He's quiet for a moment before he backtracks to her offer.] I don't mind the color.
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[personal profile] scanninggaydis 2017-10-23 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't that terrible.

[Okay maybe a little. And maybe he's just saying that so he can avoid the real point of it. She's not wrong. He's just...usually not ready to address his underlying issues. It's almost reflex by now to brush off offers to talk about things.

Felix takes a couple steps into the room to look at what she's doing.]


I hadn't really thought about it. Would it help?

[He doesn't believe Alvis' helps - he keeps it for the sentimental value, no the practical - but he believes in Katie and whatever extra abilities she brings. He...somehow doubts making them himself will help either.]
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[personal profile] scanninggaydis 2017-10-30 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The fact that you decided to preemptively say that is worrying.

[His tone is very dry.

Felix's initial impulse is to shove the suggestion away, just like he shoved away her offer to talk. It's automatic, this strange grumpy impulse to reject anything that might actually fix or help him. (He has issues.)

...But hey, she could be right. The same way he'll sometimes mindlessly doodle to keep himself from focusing on other things. And it's not like he's only struggling with bad dreams.]


...Okay. Show me. [A pause.] Please.
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[personal profile] scanninggaydis 2017-11-09 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[He does as she asks, setting in a chair and folding his hands on the table as he watches her deposit the wool in front of them.

Felix is still tempted to take this all back, but something about the way she reacted to him saying yes stops him. It's still a little strange to him that she's invested in him doing this to any degree, but...clearly she is. He'll stay put for now and resist the urge to be a stick in the mud.]


What's the first step?
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[personal profile] scanninggaydis 2017-11-15 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Got it.

[He actually reaches for the blue yarn rather than any of the other colors. It's a little lighter than his normal aesthetic but it's kind of a color he's used to. Maybe it's even better that it's not darker, because then won't remind him directly of Galactica.]

What's the tradition?
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[personal profile] scanninggaydis 2017-11-19 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[...Right, of course. It catches dreams, of course the tradition would be for it to look like a net. Felix makes a sound that's almost like a laugh, nodding his head.]

Guess that does make sense.

[He glances over at her finished ones, to see if he can work out for himself how to start. Clearly the yarn has to be attached to the hoop somehow. Felix picks up an empty hoop, and looks up at Katie again.]

I assume I start by tying it on?
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[personal profile] scanninggaydis 2017-11-22 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Felix nods, attaching the wool to the wire and beginning to do as he's told.

He falls quiet while he works. His tiredness becomes more apparent as he lets some of the tension keeping him more obviously alert go. Even before the pattern-making, there is something soothing about this. The repetition.]
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[personal profile] scanninggaydis 2017-11-29 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[He really doesn't tune in until he hears the word 'couch'. It's less tiredness and more getting caught up in the work of it. It's not as challenging as working through a tough mathematical problem, but it has the same effect. It's absorbing.

Felix glances up, absorbing her suggestion after a moment.]


...Oh. I think I'd rather finish this and then get out of your hair. [Because he's such a burden.] But it's kind of you to offer.
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[personal profile] scanninggaydis 2017-12-11 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
I see I made the smart choice.

[He's not too tired to be a little sassy.

...He doesn't actually know what whiskers have to do with it...? Or, no, wait, maybe he does. She's probably talking about drawing on him.

Shit. He is tired.]