Text; another poll

[alsohawkeye]

Hey everyone.

I'm sure some sort of demographics survey has been done in the past but I haven't seen one since I've been here and I'm curious. I've tried to keep it pretty basic. I know people are touchy about their privacy, and I know some aren't cool with being asked about special abilities/skills/powers/whatever, so obviously skip questions if you want to, no hard feelings. I'd rather just get name/age/planet than nothing at all, you know? Not like I'm going to hunt you down and force you to fill it out. But if you're willing to be more complete that'd be awesome and if there's something you think is important that I didn't include a field for, let me know.

Maybe there's a pattern here somewhere, maybe there's not, but at the very least it might be interesting or provide some useful data for department recruitment or something. Maybe you'll find some friends, whatever.

Thanks!

<font face=courier><b>Name:</b> <b>Age:</b> (if physical age =/= years lived please indicate? if you feel like it, whatever i can't make you) <b>Species?:</b> <b>Place of birth:</b> planet/country/kingdom, whatever <b>Place you were just pre-TQ:</b> <b>Date of the last moment you remember pre-TQ:</b> <b>Last thing you remember:</b> <b>Occupation pre-TQ:</b> <b>Special abilities:</b> <b>Relationship status:</b>

UPDATE: On request from several of our fellow passengers, I'm adding a 'relationship status' field. You're all welcome. Feel free to edit/update your entries accordingly if you want to.

(ooc: feel free to treat this as threadjack city as far as I'm concerned. if you squint it's kind of almost like an ic cr meme?)

Comments

[capsize]

How often do you miss? [ Casually ignores that super informed opinion. ]

[capsize]

[ If Captain Hook ever types 'omg' it's your fault, buddy. ]

Are you familiar with the Enchanted Forest?

[uncurse]

[ Grateful for the change of topic, actually—let's not talk about how much she DOESN'T want to learn to abuse magic like Regina does. ]

Then what's it about? Why do you care what I'm doing about MY magic?

[lostkings]

I went to help my father with a machine that was being built.

[capsize]

[ Grateful for two seconds, maybe. Time for Real Talk with Captain Hook. ]

Believing in yourself.

[ He hasn't got magic. He doesn't want it, either, but he's seen enough of it to have ideas. Except that's the Tink end of the spectrum; as for the rest: ]

Or your cause. If you want to get your son back from Pan, you'll need it.

[lostkings]

[ okay that's adorable. ]

I think they appreciate the attempts.

[alsohawkeye]

[ Please also casually ignore the broken html. Kate rolling her eyes can be noticed or ignored as you will. ]

Very rarely. But more than never. It's not even a matter of skill, someday something is going to happen that you didn't anticipate and you're going to miss. Unless you're completely omnipotent. Or magical. Or delusional.

Re: text;

[cabins]

there is nothing else I would rather be doing than getting drinks with you.
Level 18 bar?

text;

[cargojet]

18, huh. You want me to meet you there, or come pick you up like a real gentleman?

[80% encryption kate pls]

[lostsoldier]

sorry i assumed you had a reason

[capsize]

Are they not? It seems you've got better luck than me, mate.

[uncurse]

[ #regret.

Literally she is so mad right now that he acts like it's so fucking easy to identify why she's uncomfortable with it — why she's denying it. That he can see straight through to her insecurities does not feel like a balm, it feels like being stripped bare of her defenses. ]

It's not Pan I'm worried about. I can handle a bunch of ten-year-olds with sticks. The only thing keeping me from my son is this ship, and magic hasn't done anything to change that.

[seidhr]

[incorrect]

[80% encryption bucky no]

[alsohawkeye]

I have a reason, it just isn't interrogation.

[civilwarring]

[Hold on.]

--They're not douchey.

[endureandsurvive]

sweet make it happen dude

[endureandsurvive]

nope :V

[alsohawkeye]

[ There is a pause, in which Kate is sort of sideways squinting at her device. She tries, very slowly: ] Ttttoooolish?

Re: text;

[cabins]

oh if were going to be all official about this, I suppose you should pick me up.

[80% encryption but privacy kate]

[lostsoldier]

^ a good reason

[capsize]

[ Hook briefly considers switching to voice or video, even finishing this in person— but he's aware he's pushing it, so he'll give her the distance of the devices, at least. ]

Not yet. Regardless of how long it takes, your son will be waiting for you when you get back. There's nothing to be gained from losing hope.

[ The ship doesn't faze him, not in the long run. It's just another kind of Neverland, removed from time, and a few months doesn't hold a candle to a few hundred years. But that's a perspective that was a few centuries in the making, and it's much easier said than done. ]

[civilwarring]

My eyes are sensitive.

[All faux offended. Kate, please.]

[alsohawkeye]

...and those are specially-formulated sunglasses that only come in that particular style?

[ She is attempting not to laugh. (But also serious they are so douchey get some RayBans or something dude come on.) ]

[uncurse]

[ She doesn't have his perspective.

Emma has burned out. The first six months on the Tranquility felt like one long adrenaline high — if she fought hard enough, worked hard enough, pushed hard enough, she could get off this boat and back to her son. Henry was never far from her mind, and the pressure to get him home and safe was all that could carry her through.

That wind has left her sails. Each day that creeps by is a day longer that she feels like she's abandoned him. They'd had less than a year together — she's been on the ship almost that long, now. She's letting him down, and if it were her? By now, she'd already be lost. She'd already have given up hope that anyone was coming for her.

Regina and Belle's news tempered the sentiment, but it still sticks in her gut. It feels like she's out of time. It feels like she's already lost him, and the notion that she just has to hope and leave him waiting doesn't do much to help. It sounds exactly like what Mary Margaret would say, and in some ways, that just makes her heart ache because god, she misses her mother.

She misses her mother and she doesn't feel like there's anyone she can explain that properly to because she's never even felt like she had a mother until they were separated, and now suddenly she's orphaned all over again.

Maybe that's why she can't pretend that she's just fine with the notion of Henry waiting. Emma spent 28 years waiting for her parents to come back, to find her, to swoop in and save her, and they never did. These lonely months on the Tranquility only remind her of a lifetime of loneliness, of feeling unloved. ]

Hope won't change the fact that one day he's gonna stop waiting. Just like I did. Hope can't get us home.

[newnova]

lemme know where and when and ill be there