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driftfleet2019-01-05 11:34 am
rebuildyourruins) wrote in driftfleet2019-01-05 11:34 am
Entry tags:
- haggar,
- loki,
- lup,
- taako,
- thor odinson
action and video.
Who: Thor + you
Broadcast: yes, video
Action: First Breath and Blue Fish
When: January 3rd - 4th
closed to Natasha.
[It takes some time for Thor to calm down enough from the shock of his memories to even think about what to do next. He had effectively chosen one thing of importance - Loki - and firmly shoved everything else to the side for hours. To take stock of the rest of it, look his own glaring mistakes in the face, was too much for him at the outset. But Thor isn't selfish at heart. There's only so long he can take focusing on himself before his mind turns to others.
He has to review what he knows from those last shattering moments on Earth with a grim objectivity before he gets in touch with the others. Once he does, it's easy enough to put together some of the pieces from his conversations with Natasha and know she's the one to call.
Not call exactly, but text.]
Can you meet me in the Space Bar?
[He briefly considers saying something else, bracing her for what he wants. There's no way he can think of to put that into text, though, so he doesn't. Once it's sent, he heads over to the Iskaulit to wait.]
action - first breath.
[Thor hadn't exactly been subtle when he came hurtling through the First Breath the night before, running straight through the ship in full battle armor before shutting himself in Loki's room. And that's where he stayed for a long time.
He does eventually come out though, rubbing tiredly at his face and heading into the kitchen. Thor's been here enough times to know where everything is. After a few moments of staring blankly at the countertops and cupboards, unreality threatening to unmoor him, he shakes himself and smacks the coffee pot onto the stove.
He'll be there for a while, drinking coffee at the bench and gazing vaguely at some fixed point on the wall. Still in full cape and mail sleeves. The bone-deep exhaustion in his face might have something to do with it.]
action - blue fish.
[Thor returns to his own ship during the day, knowing abstractly that the Fleet is due to depart this world soon. In the past he would prepare for this, restocking the food supplies and ensuring everything in the armory was locked back into place and accounted for. That was when the ship had more crew, and he hadn't yet become captain. Still, it needed to be done. Regardless of how unworthy he feels when he enters his own bedroom and sees the captain's bed in there.
Thor can be found stacking up crates in the cargo bay, checking through the fridges and freezers, and doing systems checks. Later on, he opts to sit on the top of the ship, watching the snow fall in silence.]
video.
[It's not the sudden reappearance of the short, jagged hair Thor used to sport or the incongruous brown eye where his eyepatch usually is that most dominates Thor's face when the video switches on. It's the weariness etched in hard lines all over him. There's no mistaking it, regardless of his otherwise composed demeanour. He merely nods at the camera before he starts, gruffer than usual.]
For those who knew her, Riona Cousland Theirin has left the Fleet. She was here for over three years, so I know she will be missed by many of us.
[There's a pause as though he might say more, but decides against it.]
The captaincy of the Blue Fish has fallen to me in her place. If you have any questions about that, you can bring them to me. [Thor shuts his eyes briefly, shaking his head.] Or... anything else.
[No doubt there might be some. He switches off the feed.]
Broadcast: yes, video
Action: First Breath and Blue Fish
When: January 3rd - 4th
closed to Natasha.
[It takes some time for Thor to calm down enough from the shock of his memories to even think about what to do next. He had effectively chosen one thing of importance - Loki - and firmly shoved everything else to the side for hours. To take stock of the rest of it, look his own glaring mistakes in the face, was too much for him at the outset. But Thor isn't selfish at heart. There's only so long he can take focusing on himself before his mind turns to others.
He has to review what he knows from those last shattering moments on Earth with a grim objectivity before he gets in touch with the others. Once he does, it's easy enough to put together some of the pieces from his conversations with Natasha and know she's the one to call.
Not call exactly, but text.]
Can you meet me in the Space Bar?
[He briefly considers saying something else, bracing her for what he wants. There's no way he can think of to put that into text, though, so he doesn't. Once it's sent, he heads over to the Iskaulit to wait.]
action - first breath.
[Thor hadn't exactly been subtle when he came hurtling through the First Breath the night before, running straight through the ship in full battle armor before shutting himself in Loki's room. And that's where he stayed for a long time.
He does eventually come out though, rubbing tiredly at his face and heading into the kitchen. Thor's been here enough times to know where everything is. After a few moments of staring blankly at the countertops and cupboards, unreality threatening to unmoor him, he shakes himself and smacks the coffee pot onto the stove.
He'll be there for a while, drinking coffee at the bench and gazing vaguely at some fixed point on the wall. Still in full cape and mail sleeves. The bone-deep exhaustion in his face might have something to do with it.]
action - blue fish.
[Thor returns to his own ship during the day, knowing abstractly that the Fleet is due to depart this world soon. In the past he would prepare for this, restocking the food supplies and ensuring everything in the armory was locked back into place and accounted for. That was when the ship had more crew, and he hadn't yet become captain. Still, it needed to be done. Regardless of how unworthy he feels when he enters his own bedroom and sees the captain's bed in there.
Thor can be found stacking up crates in the cargo bay, checking through the fridges and freezers, and doing systems checks. Later on, he opts to sit on the top of the ship, watching the snow fall in silence.]
video.
[It's not the sudden reappearance of the short, jagged hair Thor used to sport or the incongruous brown eye where his eyepatch usually is that most dominates Thor's face when the video switches on. It's the weariness etched in hard lines all over him. There's no mistaking it, regardless of his otherwise composed demeanour. He merely nods at the camera before he starts, gruffer than usual.]
For those who knew her, Riona Cousland Theirin has left the Fleet. She was here for over three years, so I know she will be missed by many of us.
[There's a pause as though he might say more, but decides against it.]
The captaincy of the Blue Fish has fallen to me in her place. If you have any questions about that, you can bring them to me. [Thor shuts his eyes briefly, shaking his head.] Or... anything else.
[No doubt there might be some. He switches off the feed.]
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[Something in his expression falters for a moment, recalling his eyes meeting Heimdall's and their coming to that decision. The last act Heimdall ever made, only because Thor asked it of him. He heaves a sigh, drinking from his glass.]
Was Stark there? I don't remember seeing him.
[At first he thought the Hulkbuster was him, only he had seen Bruce in the armor at the end. An abstract observation that he's only now putting together.]
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That was the last anyone saw or heard from Tony. The ship left, him on board. Both him and the Time Stone.
[Bruce had been able to bring them up to speed on that.]
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[That was worse than Thor had thought. With the benefit of his Fleet memories he knows Tony had been estranged from a lot of the Avengers, but surely it hadn't mattered when something as big as this was descending on them.
It sinks in that there's no way of knowing if Tony survived. Thanos already had the Time Stone when he reached Earth. The odds... are low.]
I don't know where those ships would have gone. Thanos had a command ship they must have come from, but where the smaller ones would go otherwise...
[If Thor knew, he could go looking for Tony. With Stormbreaker he could travel between planets. Only, he needs to know where he's going.
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[Natasha shakes her head. She wishes she knew Tony's status, but she doesn't. She can't say. They haven't always been the closest members of the team, but they are a team.
And she thinks there's a certain understanding there. At least there used to be.]
Not sure what the best case scenario is here.
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If he still lives.
He stirs himself and shakes his head, turning his mind from those pessimistic thoughts.]
If he's out there, he'll find a way to let us know. He's probably building something as we speak.
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[Far be it from Natasha to ever dismiss Stark.
But he faced Thanos, and he lost too. She doesn't like what that means, not for Tony.]
Even if just to tell us he told us so.
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[Even if it doesn't happen often. Thor holds out hope that Tony is still out there. He has to, if he wants to think that Valkyrie and his own people have survived at all.]
Vision and Wanda - they don't know either, do they?
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He's so happy about him and Wanda, I think he doesn't mind staying in the dark.
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And isn't that just fitting. The Atroma saddling some of them with horrible knowledge that they can't, or won't, give to the others. No doubt that's the point.]
I suppose if he's making the choice not to know, it's better than the alternative.
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[She'll own it. She doesn't want to pass the blame on, and it was her choice.]
It wasn't going to make them any happier, either.
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[Much like it won't make Thor or Natasha happy to tell them. In a way it feels selfish to say nothing to his friends, when they ought to know what's coming. Yet it's also a relief. Being a bearer of bad news like that... he's not sure he can stomach it right now.]
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Perhaps no perhaps about it.]
It bothers you.
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I'm not fond of keeping things from people, even if it's painful to hear it. Too many secrets were kept in my own family... maybe that's why.
[Nothing but misery had come out of those lies. He shakes his head after a moment.]
This isn't about me, though, in the end. It's about them.
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And what to keep is a choice all of them have to make on their own.]
Maybe. It seemed like the best idea at the time.
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[Thor doesn't know what he would do in Natasha's position. Being the only one here who knew. He's fortunate that Natasha already has those memories, that he knew immediately that he could go and talk to her about it. Little joy though it brings.]
There's... no right way to do this.
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[Which is somewhat to say that Natasha won't be angry if he tells other people about what happened.
Even if she's still not sure it's the best solution.]
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[Even if, in Thor's experience, doing the best he can hasn't been as effective as he wanted it to be. Turning the glass in his hands, Thor looks to Natasha again.]
Because we may be here for a long while yet.
[It's a long time to sit on knowledge of the end of the universe as they know it.]
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It's all waiting. At this point, there's a good chance we'll be waiting until something else like this happens. All that waiting, then—
[Then that uncanny memory skip, where two things seem to happen at once retroactively.]
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Then a burst of something more from home, whenever it suits them. [Norns, he hates the Atroma. Even despite the fact they've brought Loki back.] I hate it. There has to be something we can do.
[Here, and there. What that is yet he hasn't turned his mind to. But Thor isn't about stopping in his tracks forever. He simply can't.]
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[She has to believe that. There's always a moment, an opportunity. Not necessarily to undo what happened, but to do something.]
Be ready when it happens.
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You know I will be.
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She sort of wishes there'd been someone around to do that for her after she remembered.]
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So there's barely a pause before Thor is hugging her back, exhaling heavily.]
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