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ataraxion2012-06-08 12:53 pm
blondeandperky) wrote in ataraxion2012-06-08 12:53 pm
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[Buffy didn't know Hotspur -- beyond what she could see of his transmissions -- but that doesn't stop her from caring, in part because she's her and in part because that's just...a truly horrific way to die. So she does what she's used to doing: she writes a poem. She sees that poetry could be a touchy subject, given the preponderance the smiley grants it, but its been around and offering comfort to people for thousands of years longer than the smiley has been taunting them with it. She won't let that thing take it from them.
She's torn between reading out the poem to mark the difference, that this comes from a person with a heart and a soul, but she doesn't want her patterns of pronunciation to guide the words.]
"Hotspur"
So gone, so lost, so driven out
So far from home, so close to doubt
Whereby, what for, how and why?
What he made here we won't let go
This knowledge that we have to know
Here to live or come to die.
What hope have we, for what we've lost?
What can we gain for what it's cost?
"Once he was," we can but cry.
She's torn between reading out the poem to mark the difference, that this comes from a person with a heart and a soul, but she doesn't want her patterns of pronunciation to guide the words.]
"Hotspur"
So gone, so lost, so driven out
So far from home, so close to doubt
Whereby, what for, how and why?
What he made here we won't let go
This knowledge that we have to know
Here to live or come to die.
What hope have we, for what we've lost?
What can we gain for what it's cost?
"Once he was," we can but cry.
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Y'know, I think I talked to him once. It was when I first got here... I'm pretty sure I scoffed at his religion.
[Yeah, he feels terrible about that now. Self-loathing is go.].
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We never know what's going to happen. At least you were honest in your interactions with him?
[ She knows that that's not particularly reassuring, but she doesn't know what would be. ]
I didn't ever talk to him at all.
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[Not that from what she'd seen of Hotspur's faith she agreed with it. Well, at least she's used to dealing with agnostics.]
I highly doubt he was thinking about your disagreement when he died.
[Buffy, the most comforting! Only not.]
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Yeah, that's not... the point. The thing is, we're all stuck here and it's like we don't even know each other. I'm not saying we should all get along or have feelings jams or anything, but... It's not like I ever took the time to talk to the guy after that and I could've lots of times. It's just... weird to think that he's not gonna post to the network anymore and I'll never have the opportunity to know him, I guess.
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[Her response is automatic, and she offers an apologetic little shrug after it.]
I get what you mean though, I think.
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[ Data is new, but he pauses over the poetry, because it's something that he hasn't, himself, ever gotten the hang of. The words are passionate and emotional, and have a deeper meaning--a truth that is made of it by the reader, rather than simple facts conveyed in rhyme and rhythm. He wants to know more. ]
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[ As far as Buffy's concerned not having spoken to him doesn't disqualify her from expressing emotions, or from marking the fact that now he's gone. Still, she's aware that Data might have known him, for all that she doesn't recognize his face from anything that's been on the network previously. ]
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[ The ease with which humans make emotional connections; another thing that evades him. Generally he has to become more used to people to make a connection like that himself. ]
Do you document every incident on the Tranquility with poetry?
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[ But then she hasn't been here more than a month herself, and she's still learning how to cope. ]
I used to do this sort of thing where I'm from, though.
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[ He's at least aware this isn't the time for it, that people are in mourning, and tries to be delicate about it. ]
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I write stories too, even if most of them so far have been about the world I came from.
[ Partly because most of them were written there. ]
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May I inquire as to your name?
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I'm Buffy Meissonier, just Buffy is fine.
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May I ask about how you came to have that name?
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It is merely the designation that was chosen for me by my creator. How did you come to have your name?
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[ He pauses for a moment, stating this as more of a question ] You are a poet.
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[A wry smile.]
The intended cure for cancer combined with a viral cure for the common flu released before it was intended to. We ended with something that made the dead behave pretty much identically to how zombies did in all the old movies.
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