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[ Look, it's an Isaac, slouching in his old room - the one that matches the numbers on his arm, not the one he sleeps in. It looks mostly unused because he's only been in there for all of six hours before he moved down to Derek's space. "Mostly" is a keyword, though; he's been staying here infrequently, in between avoiding Derek and other familiar (adult) faces. Maybe Erica knows where he's been. Or Remus, or Hayley, or Tyler, or Seraphim. He's pretty sure no one over eighteen knows, Isaac's gone lengths on the matter.
He's not wearing his mask, even if he's been wearing it a lot lately; Isaac knows a thing or two about keeping quiet, especially about things that can and do hurt you. The confused sad look he's wearing right now, though - it's a bit too clean. It's sincere, mostly.
"Mostly" is our word of the day.
Then he holds up a combat knife for the network to see.]
I don't know anyone she was friends with, but for what it's worth, Miss Rosella's not around anymore. She left me this, for some reason.
It's a pretty big knife.
Anyway, people have been disappearing, and there's this big thing going down about Smiley and stuff, so I guess this is a bad time to ask about gym equipment, and like. Who do we talk to about appropriating one of the bigger rooms or a holodeck to set up a gym? I mean, we probably already have one or two but this one's more of like, a club thing?
More of a thing that's just ours, not something pre-made and ready to use. Is that allowed?
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[ FILTERED TO-- DEREK HALE : AUGGIE ANDERSON : JENNA SOMMERS : JOSH LEVINSON || viewable to erica reyes ]
i checked everywhere i could and i can't find her. network id's 404 error-ing me, so i guess she's not on the ship anymore.
this is the knife she stabbed me with, i'm pretty sure.
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[ ooc: if anyone wants to say they saw isaac sneaking around and stuff, feel free to say something about it! isaac's been: a) helping erica look for boyd, b) helping tyler look for his uncle, c) hiding from hunters, d) hiding from derek, e) hiding from adults in general, so if you're 21+ and you noticed a teenager quietly avoiding you in the hallways, it's probably isaac. team jailbait can just throw him a rock or something, though, because he's been emoting over some of the recent drops. ]
He's not wearing his mask, even if he's been wearing it a lot lately; Isaac knows a thing or two about keeping quiet, especially about things that can and do hurt you. The confused sad look he's wearing right now, though - it's a bit too clean. It's sincere, mostly.
"Mostly" is our word of the day.
Then he holds up a combat knife for the network to see.]
I don't know anyone she was friends with, but for what it's worth, Miss Rosella's not around anymore. She left me this, for some reason.
It's a pretty big knife.
Anyway, people have been disappearing, and there's this big thing going down about Smiley and stuff, so I guess this is a bad time to ask about gym equipment, and like. Who do we talk to about appropriating one of the bigger rooms or a holodeck to set up a gym? I mean, we probably already have one or two but this one's more of like, a club thing?
More of a thing that's just ours, not something pre-made and ready to use. Is that allowed?
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[ FILTERED TO-- DEREK HALE : AUGGIE ANDERSON : JENNA SOMMERS : JOSH LEVINSON || viewable to erica reyes ]
i checked everywhere i could and i can't find her. network id's 404 error-ing me, so i guess she's not on the ship anymore.
this is the knife she stabbed me with, i'm pretty sure.
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[ ooc: if anyone wants to say they saw isaac sneaking around and stuff, feel free to say something about it! isaac's been: a) helping erica look for boyd, b) helping tyler look for his uncle, c) hiding from hunters, d) hiding from derek, e) hiding from adults in general, so if you're 21+ and you noticed a teenager quietly avoiding you in the hallways, it's probably isaac. team jailbait can just throw him a rock or something, though, because he's been emoting over some of the recent drops. ]
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what's up with you? like, generally?
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[ by which he means: yeah, he sees you and he reads your texts and all he's getting is that he'd still trust you more than he would most people on this ship, still, and it's a sense of safety that settles him here. few things on the ship settle him now; derek used to be one of those things, but lately it's like all he sees are the alpha's shortcomings, and how easily other people could manipulate him if they wanted to. it scares him. isaac gets scared for him and fear makes him distrust people when he shouldn't.
he doesn't feel that with hayley. with her, he could fear her - that just means he can trust her in ways he can't with other people. ]
sorry about the radio silence, btw. it's one of those months.
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and I'd ask about the radio silence but I think that'd just defeat the purpose of radio silence?
you can come over if you want.
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telling you about it soon enough, actually. there's some things that came up, not that that's anything special on this ship. there's always something, right?
ps. mask containment stuff, any suggestions?
WOW THIS IS SO LATE i didn't even see it till now i'm so sorry ;3;
some people are offering to take them.
i still have mine, so i guess you know where i stand on that. but i have someone else's. if you wanna get rid of yours.
dude it's way cool, i'm in the negatives with catching up myself
i'm thinking about it, tbh. just can't stand to be looking at it and having my whole body feel like it's being carved inside out every time.
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she wonders, faintly, what it looks like. what secret part she'd see of isaac, if she could see the mask for herself. ]
i can keep it from you. you won't be able to get to it.
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He wants to put it back on again and just see things better again. See his dad again. Get back to remembering why he never wanted to have to trust his life into anyone's hands, because you can't trust people by a mile and then some. ]
lemme figure out why it looks the way it does first. i'll throw it your way in a bit.
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hayley can respect the need for privacy if not the privacy itself- but it doesn't keep her fingers from flexing, curling around the communicator. following the ridge like a trail- at the end of which, she might find what she's after. or maybe just something worth looking for.
isaac's reply looks back at her, and hayley wonders if maybe see can see need in it. a desperate sort of fulfillment. the same one that hides in half-crazed eyes of every person who puts it back on, eager to be reminded of their ghosts. eager to see what haunts them. isaac doesn't have the right notes in his voice, the right flicker in his eyes to be someone who's running away. trying to get away from something (someone) dangerous. whatever had been in that house, back in beacon hills, is permanently out of reach. dead, probably. not for the first time, she wonders faintly if she's found someone.
someone like her. ]
what does it look like?
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[ Enjoy.
Isaac has no inclinations about hiding his mask, at least in terms of when people ask about it. It's a goddamn mask, and everyone got one - what's the point of hiding it when everyone knows you've got your own? And he's figured on his own that it's representative of something specific about a person, but good luck rolling the dice and figuring out what it means. Definitions can be subjective, and anything could mean anything.
Point is, it's a mask. Isaac's only investment in it is with what happens to him when he puts it on. Hayley might understand why - and honestly, Isaac would bank on her figuring it out. ]
gross, yeah? and kinda cool, in a horror kind of way. what do you think?
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[ which is neither here nor there in the world of potential compliments or insults- but it's a thing nonetheless. she leans back on the bed, rolls the communicator around in her hand and stares at the ceiling for a moment before she replies. the thing about her curiosity, she's found, is that isaac is- unusually forthcoming about indulging it.
and she hasn't decided if that makes her wary or not. ]
i guess they're supposed to say something about us.
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[ He can't say that sometimes, under the right light, the mask looks eerily like the disfigured face of his own father as he saw him in the nightmare world. He's the only one who could have possibly recognized the stalking figure in the basement; the kanima had left distinct wounds all over Mr. Lahey's body, and Isaac still remembers each one.
But his dad is dead. Nearly everyone who matters is either dead or gone, at least back home, and he's just a young son rebuilding a house from the pieces left in ruin.
This is why he doesn't have much hesitation to answer questions — all of his secrets are worn into his skin. There's no way to lie around that without forgetting who died to keep those truths alive. ]
couldn't these things have come with a manual or some shit, really.
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i'm not afraid of the big bad wolf.
[ he's the first person she's told- and hayley isn't sure if the smile that flickers over her face is because she's said it at all, or because she finds some modicum of humor in the whole bit.
maybe it's because she wants to be known, but at this point, hayley herself isn't sure what that means. if it means anything at all. she stopped looking for who she was ages ago, and if there'd been a cost, some price to pay for it, she tells herself she hasn't noticed enough that she believes it. ]
who do you see? when you wear it.
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[ it's a very telling answer, and isaac recognizes it to a degree. but he's never been all about introspection; that's what derek does, and what stiles does, what everybody else around him likes to do when things go quiet and there's people possibly dying very soon.
isaac does what he needs to do to survive. that's the only thing he feels he needs to think about. everything else is a privilege he can sometimes afford. ]
sometimes wolves don't look like wolves, you know.
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hayley'd say, with the boy's silences, that it doesn't matter.
but it does. ]
i learned that a long time ago.