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ataraxion2014-12-29 08:21 pm
humanistic) wrote in ataraxion2014-12-29 08:21 pm
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My best mate disappeared. One Jump he was here, the next he was gone. They do memorial services over less. They play sad CDs and run video, put out photos, and everyone gets together for a meal and a cry and a few drinks. I haven't been to a funeral in years and years. I know it's not changed. Humanity doesn't change.
I don't know why I waited a month to say anything about him. I suppose it doesn't matter. Those memorials, and the wakes, and funerals, those are all for the people left behind. I know that and I'm still writing this. You want it to matter. You want them to matter.
I don't know if he's dead or not. And if he is, I don't know what happens to him next. There's no ghosts here, except the ones that have come in with the rest of us. I've been on this ship nearly two fucking years and I don't know any of it. And that's the worst of it. People talk about this ship like it's sentient. Like it's got some bloody personality, someone behind the wheel. We're always trying to figure out bits of it, like it's all somehow going to come clear. Like there's logic to it. There's no logic. It's like a wheel. It turns, and shit happens, and then it turns again, on and on and on. You can trust me on that. I've lived a long fucking time.
What I know is I'm tired of this. Being the last one left.
His name was George Sands. I wanted to put it down somewhere. It's stupid, but now it's done.
I don't know why I waited a month to say anything about him. I suppose it doesn't matter. Those memorials, and the wakes, and funerals, those are all for the people left behind. I know that and I'm still writing this. You want it to matter. You want them to matter.
I don't know if he's dead or not. And if he is, I don't know what happens to him next. There's no ghosts here, except the ones that have come in with the rest of us. I've been on this ship nearly two fucking years and I don't know any of it. And that's the worst of it. People talk about this ship like it's sentient. Like it's got some bloody personality, someone behind the wheel. We're always trying to figure out bits of it, like it's all somehow going to come clear. Like there's logic to it. There's no logic. It's like a wheel. It turns, and shit happens, and then it turns again, on and on and on. You can trust me on that. I've lived a long fucking time.
What I know is I'm tired of this. Being the last one left.
His name was George Sands. I wanted to put it down somewhere. It's stupid, but now it's done.
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I mean it's not like the original was some masterpiece, but the space version actually works pretty well and ends up with better dialogue instead of just two characters saying each other's names about fifteen hundred times in a three hr film with some icebergs in the background
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It doesn't sound like a masterpiece, certainly. Sounds like a period drama. Passengers going from one place to another. My father loved them but I need something more than "I don't want to marry that bloke" for plot twists.
[Something here doesn't belong in a summary of the Titanic.]
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Something does seem a little off. And it's not his understanding of Titanic, right, because he's seen it enough to know a great deal about it (unfortunately).]
The bit where the boat sinks is kind of exciting. Not exactly a plot twist, kind of saw it coming, it's only too bad the Titanic didn't see it coming, but...
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[HUH.]
All right, that's a new one. As far as I know, the Titanic is still being used for basic transport purposes. Unless the bloody Nazis shot it out of the sky.
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Your Titanic flies. What's the year, for you?
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We're a bit farther along than most, I know.
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No flying. And no Nazis. And they made a film out of it, also with no flying and no Nazis. Yours sounds a bit more military.
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[Overall, the only thing she recalls about the Titanic is what it's designed to do, which is ferry a large group of people in the sky, most of them in quite fancy conditions.]
The Titanic isn't supposed to be military, but not many people want to use air travel during wartime. So they use it for whatever's needed. A lot of passenger ships end up that way. I suspect that now the war's over, it's being thoroughly cleaned and then put back on regular duty.
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It's just weird, the way things end up different. Aeroplanes in one world, ocean liners that sank in another. It's like someone did a remake of a film and tried to update some of the details. Seems like Nazis end up being universal but maybe that's to be expected.
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[There's also another complication in the form of the Inveterate Order. Fortescue thinks destiny is a load of nonsense, but perhaps it was inevitable that the Order's puppets would arise. The Order has grown and festered for who-knows-how-long.
Before she had, effectively, cut off its head, only a few months ago.]
We've avoided a few mistakes, that I know of, but you can't change one thing without changing another.
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What's that mean? That you can't change one thing without changing another. What were you changing?
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Before my time, there was a warlord who was supposedly going to depose a government and destabilize some of Imperium's holdings. The King had him killed. A year later, his cousin deposed the government instead, out of revenge. You can't see everything coming.
[And probably shouldn't be able to.]
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Where were people moved to, when they were moved?
[And how, because that's unsettling, but. First things first.]
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