watermarks: (Two Tiny Seas)
Katara ([personal profile] watermarks) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2018-03-23 10:22 pm

.01 [ action | video ] have we lost our way back home

Who: Katara and you!
Broadcast: Video, from the Marsiva
Action: Action on the Marsiva and then then post!Shuffle on the Vanquish
When: Friday, 3/23

[Katara wasn’t always a heavy sleeper, but she never did enjoy waking up. It was a slow process, even here, as if her subconscious had already registered the wrongness of where she was and was well on its way to the land of Denial.

Eventually, though - her eyes opened. And she stayed very, very still as fear replaced sleep in an adrenaline spike sharp enough to make her stomach heavy. Okay. Okay. She still had her bending, in fact, that was at full force for the first time since the last draft, she can feel water in a distant room. But these lights… those walls… that… well, actually, she kind of likes the music, but she can’t -- this is definitely not…

And then she feels it - or she doesn’t feel it - and she forgets her caution and bolts upright, straining her head to take a closer look at her back.]

[She doesn’t expect a response, but she does get up out of the bed and glance around. Her balance is off when she moves, so she takes careful, deliberate steps, as she takes stock of what she has and doesn’t have and exactly where everything is in the room and pauses as the fact that there is music seeps in. What... what is going on here?

But that’s nothing when she spots the viewing bay. She pauses, transfixed for a moment, and then walks very carefully over to the window. She places one hand against it and whispers:]
...there are stars.

[As she spends more time on the Marsiva, she’ll explore the food and take advantage of the exercise equipment, doing what she can to try to get her balance to where it should be without the added (useless; she tells herself she’s glad they’re gone) appendages.]

[ Video Broadcast while on the Marsiva ]
[Serious blue eyes peer out in stark contrast to dark skin as a girl of about eighteen addresses the fleet.]

Hello, my name is Katara. I'm from the Southern Water Tribe, but I've spent the past four years [Had it really been that long? Her expression flickers for a moment.] in a place called Luceti. I understand a... lot of basic information about this place from the augment, but I'm sure there's more to this place than just what is implanted in our heads by our captors.

[Frowning, angry at that, needing to take a visible breath before she can continue.] I'd appreciate any additional information you feel it's safe to give out over these things. And... [Her gaze drops for a moment before she regains her composure and looks back at the camera.] ...if anyone knows the name Luceti, or has heard of the Southern Water Tribe, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know about that too.

[She manages a brief smile.] Thank you so much.


[Action on the Vanquish]
[Katara had been working on her balance on a make-shift balance-beam in the gym section of the Marsiva when she was suddenly teleported -- fortunately close enough to grab a wall. She bats at the confetti with a frown with her other hand as she straightens -- so this is the ‘shuffle’, huh?

The happy little jingle just makes her frown deepen. Jerks, playing with people like this… She gives a deeply exasperated sigh.

Hopefully no one is there to catch frustrated!Katara as their first impression; she will try to make a better second one by exploring the ship, sticking close to the walls, and looking to see who her new shipmates are with a pleasant smile on her face in a few minutes. Feel free to catch her walking around with a smile in a moment or two, but right now, she is having a few mental words with the Atroma and they are Not Nice.]
hollystrike: (without my mask on)

Vanquish

[personal profile] hollystrike 2018-03-24 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[In the hallway, she'll find a door, partly ajar. The door has a sign on it saying THE DOCTOR IS |IN|, and if you're now thinking of Lucy from Peanuts, well. She directly ripped the sign from there. (Lookit that, all this glamour and she's not original.)

What can be seen from the open door is a huge pile of neatly folded blankets, dreamcatchers woven from baby blue wool and shells decorating the walls, and a pitch black cat sitting on the floor and yowling up at someone unseen.

Someone that can be heard though:]


Wait your turn. You ruined the last one! I'll make a wool monster, just for you.
rebuildyourruins: (To be continued.)

video.

[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2018-03-24 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
[The name rings a bell for Thor, so he opens a video feed to check.]

Katara - would you be Sokka's sister?
alwayscomeback: DNS (HEY LOOK MEAT)

Video

[personal profile] alwayscomeback 2018-03-24 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
[He hears her voice and his heart stops. He's quickly up and looking at his communicator in five seconds flat. It is her. Aside from trips home, he hasn't seen her for nearly three long, long years - he was honestly losing hope of ever seeing her again, period. But here she is. She looks about the same age she was when he last saw her, back home.

A part of him feels guilty she's trapped here (did she say she was in another place before this? for four years?) but it's overshadowed by the sheer overwhelming happiness of seeing the most important person in his existence once again.

God, he's missed her.
]

Katara! It's really you!

[He doesn't even think about his age, it's left by the wayside. And, of course, because this is Sokka, he gives a wry smile- though the real ecstatic one is barely concealed beneath it.]

I might know a thing or two about the Southern Water Tribe. Titbits, you know?
skaterbrain: (let's do this thing)

action: Marsiva

[personal profile] skaterbrain 2018-03-24 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[While Katara may be waking up slowly and taking in her surroundings with awe and care, there's another person on the Marsiva doing the exact opposite.

As soon as Beat wakes up, he's running. Normally, he'd be skateboarding, but since some jerk has taken his skateboard, running is his only option. From room to room, from door to door, Beat is running and yelling as he slams a fist or a shoulder or even his feet into every surface he thinks might let him out. His augment explains what's going on to him, but he's never been great at understanding explanations even at the best of times.

These are certainly not the best of times.
]

LET. ME. OUTTA HERE!!!!

[Like a blur, Beat speeds past Katara and slams into the nearest wall with a grunt.]

GAH!
skaterbrain: (can't nothin' keep me down)

i'm so glad lololol

[personal profile] skaterbrain 2018-03-24 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[It sure did hurt! But like that's going to stop Beat for even a second!

Okay, maybe it will because he's shaking his head trying to clear it from the millions of mini-concussions he's probably given himself today, but then! THEN! He will continue smashing into all of the things and trying to get out of this stupid (but kind of cool?) spaceship.

When he hears someone talking to him, he whips around, fists up just in case he has to fight. The girl cautiously approaching him seems to be unsteady, but that could just be a ploy to throw him off his guard. Even if she isn't wearing a hoodie, she could still be a Reaper or worse, an alien.
]

I ain't fine! I've been teennapped and this sucks!

[Speaking of which--]

Hey! You ain't the one who teennapped me, right?!
skaterbrain: (dot dot dot)

[personal profile] skaterbrain 2018-03-24 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I ain't a kid, yo.

[And yes, it is important. He isn't a kid and he doesn't want to be treated like one!

But wait.

Beat squints suddenly and frowns. He made sure to check he was wearing all of his Pins when he woke up, including his Player Pin, and yet he can't hear any thoughts. He's definitely still dead so that leaves only a few options for this girl.
]

Are you dead, too? 'Cause I can't hear your thoughts.
skaterbrain: (just a little shy)

[personal profile] skaterbrain 2018-03-24 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Huh, so she isn't dead, but he still can't read her thoughts. Was he in the RG then? Did they make it back? Did--??? No, okay, this was too hard to think about. Either she's a Reaper then or....uh, Option C? Alien? Something else?

Damn, where was Phones when he didn't want to think about this stuff?

Katara might be seeing a range of emotions play across Beat's face as he thinks - going from confused to angry, then back to confused, then a sort of serene inner peace as he decides to just not think for a moment.
]

Huh, but you ain't a Reaper 'cause you ain't got the wings, so.... [He shrugs his shoulders.]

Eh, as long as you can see me, good 'nuff. I'm Beat. You get teennapped, too?
alwayscomeback: DNS (Reassuring)

Video

[personal profile] alwayscomeback 2018-03-24 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's her, it's really her. He's absolutely misty eyed, and not really doing much to hide it. ]

Welllll~ I have had a couple bumps to the noggin since then. It might have slipped out. You never know.

[And then, a little mroe seriously, his smile softening. ]

It's really good to see you. Sorry you got...uh kidnapped. Again? But it's good to see you. I've missed you, you giant pain in the butt.
rebuildyourruins: (15)

[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2018-03-24 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[It may be harder to place Thor, given the dramatic change in his appearance from wherever Katara might have seen him years ago. He knows that kind of look, though. It's something he'd felt himself months ago in the Fleet, when people had mentioned his own brother. So he's glad to be able to reassure her immediately.]

I do. Sokka's on my ship. I have no doubt he'll be thrilled to see you.
rebuildyourruins: (Why don't we?)

[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2018-03-24 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It's no problem. Sokka has spoken of you many times.

[With great fondness, too. It's no wonder to him that Katara might be a bit overwhelmed with the information, especially if she had been somewhere else for years as she had said.]

I am Thor, son of Odin. It's good to meet you, though I am sorry you've ended up in the Fleet,
rebuildyourruins: (Hark! A vagrant.)

[personal profile] rebuildyourruins 2018-03-24 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes - not so long ago, really.

[Part and parcel of Thor having to explain his own fractious relationship with his siblings. Sokka proved a good counterpoint in what that sort of family could be, if circumstances were better.

At the question, Thor shakes his head, though he grows more serious.]


Not long in the scheme of things. I have been here four months or so - I know that others have been in the Fleet for years.

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