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My name is Max. ([personal profile] theroadwarrior) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2018-01-17 05:55 pm

ACTION / ANONYMOUS TEXT.

Who: Max and you.
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: Iskaulit, SS Starstruck.
When: Throughout the month and stuff.

Introspection and whatnot.

[Max has had a hell of a two years, eh? Though one supposes he's had a hell of a last two decades, really, but for him this place has been better and worse than home in ways he'll never be able to particularly prescribe to paper. The visions are lesser. The social ineptitudes are still so-so, though one could say he's at least warmed up to the idea of having a name and people he particularly gravitates towards. He doesn't... know a lot of people in the fleet. Not know them, not like he knows his crew, but he doesn't seem to particularly mind how limited he's left his pool of trusted.

Because he only just figured out how to trust people, like... a year ago. Not counting Furiosa, for whom he'd grapple the imperator of Hell itself over, but that's a whole 'nother series of strange emotions he can't put to pen and paper. Anyway. Big two years. Gained faces, lost most of a leg, figured out how to not always fly with swinging fists when the memories seep out from his brain and into the veins of his eyes and whatnot.

He's still the weird guy who sits, silent, in almost any situation, but... at least he's wearing different shirts and doesn't have a beard down to his nipples. These are entirely big improvements.]


Iskaulit Gym Action.

[Now that he's got his fake leg, courtesy of one Howard Stark, he's started getting back into shape. Because suddenly having a prosthetic doesn't mean you magically are the bionic man, yunno? Gotta actually learn to use it; use it or lose it. He's in the gym aboard the Iskaulit, training himself — running, weights, tripping on his own two feet, the works. One can find him here, wiping his face with the hem of his shirt before leaping right back into motion.

Nothing better than to have this to focus on, when you're Mad Max. This is far better than what he could be focusing on, all of which are hallucinatory and far out of date. Still, Peggy's talk of marriage has managed to dredge up a few things that he has a hard time shaking. Things like pillow talks and burping ankle biters and curly hair he had to sweep to find eyes. High school lovebirds. Picnics n' stupid shit that don't actually feel so stupid. The past.

He goes to the punching bag when he gets to the end of the film reel in his head, the one that ends the home movies and starts the terrible trek across the desert to find a place to die. He's getting better, though. Really. His brow is always creased like that, like something's offensive.

He stops to take off said leg for a bit, because even if it's science fiction garble, it's still a stump and it still hurts when you walk on it for a long time (or run on it, or jump on it, or curse on it). Anyway. Come visit the idiot in the gym, whatever he's doing.]


STARSTRUCK. | cw: PTSD episode (but coping strategies, thanks Sam)

[A darker night, at some point, brings him to the lounge. Or rather, you're brought to the lounge by the sounds of the record player, playing one of those old vinyls. It's a low tone, low enough that it would make sense — the sounds of someone not wanting people to know the record is playing, instead of inviting the company openly.

Max is sitting on the couch there, head bowed low, one hand rolling the pieces of a bracelet on his wrist compulsively, an open bottle of whiskey opened beside him on a table. He's apparently still in his night clothes - an undershirt and sweats, something of which is a new thing, the concept of putting on 'sleeping clothes' instead of being hyper-alert in his regular battle garb - and has foregone putting on the leg. The crutch leaning on the couch explains how he got out here without too much fuss.

Judging by the fervent but inaudible mumbling and the careful fidgeting of the bracelet, he didn't come out here enjoyably, though. If one listens closely enough past the music, they could hear the repetition of names, names of people aboard the SS Starstruck, and then the names of the other fleet ships.

Reminders of where he really is, instead of where his mind tortures him with.]










TEXT. | ANONYMOUS.

what's changed you here on this ship?
how's it changed you?


you think it's for better, or worse?






[OOC: Or...! If you have a wildcard or prompt you wanna do, hit me up at [plurk.com profile] simpledog, because I'm down for anything!]
mikangirl: (orly)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2018-01-18 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Nothing. I am unchangeable.

[...she might be kidding. But hell if she knows.]
rednecking: (15)

[personal profile] rednecking 2018-01-18 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Nope, can't say it has.
And if it has it's for the worst, probably.
rednecking: (02)

[personal profile] rednecking 2018-01-18 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
A person.
Who're you.
rednecking: (16)

[personal profile] rednecking 2018-01-18 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Just a guess. I'm a realist kind of guy.
mikangirl: (oh please)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2018-01-18 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
If you're gonna get that detail-oriented I guess I should also point out that I change clothes every day.

Besides, I started with long hair. We're just returning to form.
mucked: (☂ 'cause the hypnotist entranced him)

starstruck »

[personal profile] mucked 2018-01-18 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ usually, peggy is a decent sleeper. her nights aren't plagued. she sleeps soundly and easily and without complaint. but usually isn't always and tonight sees her sneaking barefoot through the ship to get a glass of water. but it's the sound of the record player that pulls her away from her quest.

maybe the volume isn't meant to invite company but peggy doesn't think of herself as merely company. she walks into the lounge, herself wearing only silk pajama bottoms and one of steve's t-shirts. her curls have long since come undone and her hair is plaited into one braid. there's not a lick of makeup on her.

she watches -- listens -- for a moment before speaking up. ]


-- Pour us a glass, hm?
rednecking: (43)

[personal profile] rednecking 2018-01-19 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Shit life with shit luck, more like.
mikangirl: (smug af)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2018-01-19 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Hopefully it's still giving some stupid sea monster one hell of a stomach ache
I kept it short for practicality after.


[That and she was tired of losing it to random things with GIANT TEETH.]

Atroma grew it out for me again apparently.
poisontippedcure: (Default)

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[personal profile] poisontippedcure 2018-01-19 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
This ship hasn't changed me any worse than being back home has, no. But it's been much more unpleasant.
willynilly: (this starry serenade)

action;

[personal profile] willynilly 2018-01-19 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
[it's unusual for Ochako to be out and about this late, but drifts frequently make her restless- on account of not having much to do, but also because she loves to stargaze, and traveling through unknown space is more exciting than just looking up at an unmoving night sky.

She happens upon Max by way of hearing the sound of the record player; it's faint, but the sound carries just enough while the rest of the ship is quiet. She peeks in and sees him there, considering her options quietly for a long moment, then tiptoes away. She returns a few minutes later with two glasses of water, sets one on the mismatched endtable, and curls up in a chair with the other to sit silently with him. She's not too close - she knows better than to startle him by now - but she has no illusions about her presence going unnoticed.]
mrfancyhat: (037)

[personal profile] mrfancyhat 2018-01-19 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think I've changed at all.
rednecking: (02)

[personal profile] rednecking 2018-01-19 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't got the patience to sit here and list it all.
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[personal profile] mrfancyhat 2018-01-19 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Change is a sign of growth, isn't it? That would make it a bad thing.

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