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Marty Mikalski ([personal profile] foolproofed) wrote in [community profile] ataraxion2013-04-11 02:14 pm

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[Marty has retrieved his things from the locker; themos-bong, I've missed you so much. So, so much. He has it in his lap and sets it aside, plenty done with it for a good while. It's given him clarity; time to reflect on his life, on his future, on an evil ship doomed to ruin him as much as everything else has.

Okay, so he actually just came into his room, curled up, and cried for a little bit. And then smoked more. It's his depression solution.

But he's good now. He's cross-legged on his bed, looking as though he's been pondering considerably on the state of the Marty. Only whatever redness to his eyes can be contributed to his bong, if anyone questions it--he's too busy focusing on the now, instead of the then. It'll do him no good to let it drag him down; he can keep having all this doubt and survivor's guilt, but he can't let it crush him--because it wouldn't be fair to the others, when they never got the chance to come back.

No, he can figure it all out. He can think long and hard and maybe he can help these people where he couldn't help his own.]


Have you ever wondered if this place is your world's future? I know that's really morbid thinking and all, but this has to be in somebody's future--doesn't it? Maybe something crazy happened, people had nowhere to go, so they ran off to space. It's not like it's the craziest idea out there; we had--whole movies dedicated to stuff like this. Syfy originals. Books. Hell, I think I heard a radio story from ye olden days about it.

[He waves a finger at the air, looking off distantly.]

... I just can't figure out where everything went crazy aboard the ship--maybe there's some... entity. Like a spirit, or a god. Maybe it's getting its sick thrills off making us dance around like little lab rats. Or maybe it's whatever those hypothetical entities created. Maybe--maybe we're just being watched by something that brought us here just to see what we'll do. People say there's no reason we're here, or we haven't found one. But if I had to bet my piggy-bank back home on something... it'd be that. I'd guess it's also why it won't let anyone go out too far from home plate. Or why there are people who aren't people anymore.

Whatever we do, we gotta stick together. Or else... things'll just go from worse to worser. We gotta hang in there. Fuck Smiley and the monsters and the lack of wonderful snack foods--we gotta... just stick together...

[He's rambling now, whoops. Sighing at the sir, he reaches over, grabs his bong and talks as he turns the top, condensing the whole thing down into a normal thermos mug. ILU, thermy.]




I'm gonna go try to invent new things in the kitchen. Anyone wanna go? This place needs way more comfort food, and I'm pretty competent at Macguyver-ing together something worthy of consumption. Might even be able to do it without setting the whole ship on fire, too.

[HA HA it was a joke

just a joke

and then he wanders off without shutting down the feed. Distantly, and growing fainter:]


Maybe I can manufacture some space strain of toaster strudels. 

[And true to his word, he'll be in the kitchens to see what awful abominations he can make wunderbar. He'll answer anything there, too, while he's at it and he remembers to retrieve his comm. Now... what does this place have in the way of sweet stuff? Surely lots of cans and cans and cans and oh look boxes. Feel free to actually find him there, casually drinking from said thermos.]
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[personal profile] unparental 2013-05-04 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
I used to get really worried about trees. They just seemed... kind of sad.

[ reflective pause... pause i guess ]

Wow, that's pretty weird and specific itself now that I talk about it out loud.
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[personal profile] unparental 2013-05-04 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
And running water, right? Mason and I used to go skip school and smoke by the falls-- mini-waterfalls being in every new age store I've ever seen makes so much more sense after that.
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[personal profile] unparental 2013-05-07 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
We actually have some space ones in the therapy wing-- along with every pillow ever.
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[personal profile] unparental 2013-05-08 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
It's also my... technical place of work.
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[personal profile] unparental 2013-05-09 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
You can absolutely try.

[ jenna's number holds the lock and someday she will rule all with her pillow army

most snuggly dictatorship ever ]
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[personal profile] unparental 2013-05-10 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ holding up her nanite tattoo briefly. ]

No, just this.

...again, starting to worry about how fast you're coming up with all these.
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[personal profile] unparental 2013-05-11 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
...my first answer to that is way too horrible to say, so let's go with yes.
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[personal profile] unparental 2013-05-17 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
Grad student, sorry.

[ marty you're a legit bro in the best way. ]

That seems counterproductive to it feeling like a safe space.
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[personal profile] unparental 2013-05-17 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
I'll take it under advisement.

[ not for clients, maybe, but damon deserves a fair amount of pranks.

like every prank tbh. ]