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ʝαყҽ ([personal profile] tumbleweeds) wrote in [community profile] ataraxion2013-06-07 11:01 pm

010 ☀ video ☀ you'll learn things you never knew you never knew

[ There is white and red and black, bone and blood and rotting flesh, when the camera first blinks on. Some fiddling, dirty fingers tapping at the lens then pulling it back reveals that the rot is not a human passenger but bovine; the cow that has been on board since Strela, effectively smashed by the jump by all appearance, but rotted already -- rotted for months, by the look of it. (For a year, its owner will tell you, and forensic analysis will back up her story.)

More fiddling, those filthy fingers and long strands of dirty golden-blonde hair (falling, from the looks of things, coming out in chunks and joining the cow on the floor of the ship) covering the lens until Jaye can look into the screen properly. Once again, she looks like a mess. It's worse, this time. Worse physically and mentally, and it's easy to tell by how she interacts with the camera, slides her thumb up over the lens and bobs her head like a bird. It's almost like she can't quite remember what she's supposed to do. ]


I heard voices, [ she starts, voice a hoarse, scratchy mess. Unlike last time she doesn't try to save it, pushes on as if she's talking to herself and her dead cow and not anyone who's listening. ] Are you back? It's been so long. I didn't mean to leave -- I couldn't get there. I was so close and just like him, just couldn't get there. The halls just kept going and then the ship screamed and I had to change before I did, too.

[ She shifts onto her haunches, rocking back and forth, not looking at the camera -- looking around instead, taking in how things look with eyes that aren't the compound eyes of an insect. One hand moves up to move some hair behind an ear and the hair simply falls down in strands, leaving a patch of bare scalp behind on her head. ] It was red again. Red and angry, so angry, the whole time. I didn't mean to do it this time, I didn't -- but I figured it out. They're the same, aren't they? Exactly the same. Trickster and hero and villain all at once. "Fear not, I will help you."

[ There's a laugh, then a sob, then both at once. ]

Don't be mad. A year isn't forty. Just-Like-Creator took the flesh and threw it over the land, and there grew the tribes of men.

[ One hand reaches for the skull of the cow, for the rot covering it, and draws. :) ]

((ooc: Explanation over here!))
thatsaflaregun: (It really tied the room together)

[personal profile] thatsaflaregun 2013-06-16 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Not the one they call Smiley, then?
thatsaflaregun: (That is the sound of ultimate suffering.)

[personal profile] thatsaflaregun 2013-06-18 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[The Man Who Wasn't Locke didn't have a name either.]

Either way, I've seen to the end of this bloody farce. I've just got to do it right this time. Then I can rest.
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[personal profile] thatsaflaregun 2013-06-20 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
That'd be it, yeah.

[Oracle. Of course he is. He's no Odysseus. He's just Cassandra of Bloody Troy.]
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[personal profile] thatsaflaregun 2013-06-25 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
So they keep bloody telling me, anyway. So that just makes you a servant then, sistah? You're content with that?
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[personal profile] thatsaflaregun 2013-06-28 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Must be nice, yeah? To be that certain of your lot in life.
thatsaflaregun: (Only I get to streak through the jungle)

[personal profile] thatsaflaregun 2013-07-01 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Aye. We don't get heeded.

[This world loves its Greeks...]
thatsaflaregun: (Life is pain highness.)

[personal profile] thatsaflaregun 2013-07-04 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[He feels pretty cursed sometimes, okay.]

And what more would that be then?
thatsaflaregun: (I'll most likely kill you in the morning)

[personal profile] thatsaflaregun 2013-07-07 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[He laughs, bitterly.] I was a monk once.

[Somehow that's hilarious now...]
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[personal profile] thatsaflaregun 2013-07-10 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Aye. Really. Didn't last. I was... released from my vows.

[HE WAS FIRED.]
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[personal profile] thatsaflaregun 2013-07-13 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Apparently, I wasn't meant to be there. God had other plans for me.

[This is why he's a lapsed Catholic.]
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[personal profile] thatsaflaregun 2013-07-15 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[It would have meant missing a lot of things. Crazy to crazy- he gets it.]

Same. Nice having someone who speaks your language, yeah?

[The language... of cray.]