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come_sailaway2023-02-04 07:53 pm
redlightgreenlight) wrote in come_sailaway2023-02-04 07:53 pm
Love Does not Discriminate
Who: Valdis and Open with Some Closed
What: Valdis does stuff around the Serena Eterna, feel free to join her
When: February
Where: All Over
Warnings: In Starters
It takes and it takes and it takes | Erin | CW: Nightmares
She’d be lying if she said she hasn’t been avoiding Erin a little, despite their conversation at her hollow. But the woman is important to her, even if just as friends. Sometimes she thinks Erin is trying too hard to be something else, but Valdis isn’t anywhere near ready to move forward in that manner, and Erin has implied very strongly that she is willing and happy to wait. But Valdis can’t stop thinking about what Erin told her back when they first met, about her ability to enter dreams, and there’s something just outside of her reach within the nightmares that plague her every night. If Erin can help her go that extra step, then it’s worth a try, even if the intimacy of it may be uncomfortable for them both. She knocks gently on Erin’s door. It’s a little late for visits, but she can’t go another night in those hallways without knowing what lies at the end of them.
“Erin?”
And we keep loving anyway | Max Maximum | Stellar | CW: None
It’s their first actual date, and of course it’s also Valentine’s Day, which, for the first time in a long time she’s not going to spend alone. The short, tight, sequined black dress with a plunging neckline leaves just enough for the imagination that she knows he’ll be delighted to remove it later. It’s nothing he hasn’t seen before, but she loves how he marvels every single time, like he can’t believe he has her.
For once, she’s early instead of exactly on time, feeling like a schoolgirl on a date with her first crush. Childish perhaps, but the next step beyond just friends with benefits. She may never have his whole heart, but she is happy enough with just a piece of it. The memory of how he felt when he learned she returned his affections was pure magic. The one time that being able to feel what others feel is more of a blessing than a curse. Who else has the power to feel love so incredibly deeply from both sides, especially when one side is your own?
We laugh and we cry and we break | Reading Around The Ship | Open
The Library is the best refuge she has these days and she’s reading romance novels this month. The spicy kind that she’s actually hiding behind a larger book. When she’s not reading romance, she’s rereading the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, or Pride and Prejudice, or some other less spicy book. Occasionally she’s reading out by the pool, lounging in an almost sheer wrap in the sun, she is wearing a bikini underneath so not too much can be seen. You may also find her reading in the lounge or in Sanddollars.
And we make our mistakes | Just Around the Ship | Open
From trying different foods at the various restaurants around the Serena Eterna, to Sundries and the sports deck, Valdis is all over the ship. She meditates every morning on the top deck, practices sword maneuvers or works out in the gym later in the day. In one instance she is lugging a beautiful red ball grown across the ship, grumbling about how Friday needs to stop giving her dresses she’s never going to wear. In another she’s watching Aladdin on the TV at Sanddollars (she borrowed it from Klaus), and sketching cartoon versions of the passengers she’s met on the ship. When they aren’t cartoon versions, they are detailed sketches of flowers, places and people she doesn’t really want to talk about, but ask the right questions and she might be willing to tell people a bit more.
And if there's a reason I'm still alive | Palamedes | CW: Rolled a 5, so there is blood
Sleep doesn’t come easily these days, especially since opening the box with the three feathers from Friday. It’s restless, filled with images and twisted memories. Dreams. But she’s mostly able to cope without causing any issues for her roommate. Until the dreams burn into reality with a searing, stabbing pain in her side. The massive amounts of death energy seeping into the room are suddenly banished by a flash of light and soul energy. The pain increases, followed by something wet streaming down her stomach and back. Blood.
She tears off the sheets and races into the shower fully clothed, almost breaking the handle as she turns on the cold water to fight the burning pain. The pink water swirls down down around her feet. Palamedes is likely awake, that light is still so bright it might as well be daylight inside their room.
“Crap.” At least the bleeding has already stopped.
I'm willing to wait for it | Wildcard
Choose your own adventure! Valdis can often be found in the library, on the sports deck, or wandering around the ship, so anywhere you wish to encounter her works.
What: Valdis does stuff around the Serena Eterna, feel free to join her
When: February
Where: All Over
Warnings: In Starters
It takes and it takes and it takes | Erin | CW: Nightmares
She’d be lying if she said she hasn’t been avoiding Erin a little, despite their conversation at her hollow. But the woman is important to her, even if just as friends. Sometimes she thinks Erin is trying too hard to be something else, but Valdis isn’t anywhere near ready to move forward in that manner, and Erin has implied very strongly that she is willing and happy to wait. But Valdis can’t stop thinking about what Erin told her back when they first met, about her ability to enter dreams, and there’s something just outside of her reach within the nightmares that plague her every night. If Erin can help her go that extra step, then it’s worth a try, even if the intimacy of it may be uncomfortable for them both. She knocks gently on Erin’s door. It’s a little late for visits, but she can’t go another night in those hallways without knowing what lies at the end of them.
“Erin?”
And we keep loving anyway | Max Maximum | Stellar | CW: None
It’s their first actual date, and of course it’s also Valentine’s Day, which, for the first time in a long time she’s not going to spend alone. The short, tight, sequined black dress with a plunging neckline leaves just enough for the imagination that she knows he’ll be delighted to remove it later. It’s nothing he hasn’t seen before, but she loves how he marvels every single time, like he can’t believe he has her.
For once, she’s early instead of exactly on time, feeling like a schoolgirl on a date with her first crush. Childish perhaps, but the next step beyond just friends with benefits. She may never have his whole heart, but she is happy enough with just a piece of it. The memory of how he felt when he learned she returned his affections was pure magic. The one time that being able to feel what others feel is more of a blessing than a curse. Who else has the power to feel love so incredibly deeply from both sides, especially when one side is your own?
We laugh and we cry and we break | Reading Around The Ship | Open
The Library is the best refuge she has these days and she’s reading romance novels this month. The spicy kind that she’s actually hiding behind a larger book. When she’s not reading romance, she’s rereading the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, or Pride and Prejudice, or some other less spicy book. Occasionally she’s reading out by the pool, lounging in an almost sheer wrap in the sun, she is wearing a bikini underneath so not too much can be seen. You may also find her reading in the lounge or in Sanddollars.
And we make our mistakes | Just Around the Ship | Open
From trying different foods at the various restaurants around the Serena Eterna, to Sundries and the sports deck, Valdis is all over the ship. She meditates every morning on the top deck, practices sword maneuvers or works out in the gym later in the day. In one instance she is lugging a beautiful red ball grown across the ship, grumbling about how Friday needs to stop giving her dresses she’s never going to wear. In another she’s watching Aladdin on the TV at Sanddollars (she borrowed it from Klaus), and sketching cartoon versions of the passengers she’s met on the ship. When they aren’t cartoon versions, they are detailed sketches of flowers, places and people she doesn’t really want to talk about, but ask the right questions and she might be willing to tell people a bit more.
And if there's a reason I'm still alive | Palamedes | CW: Rolled a 5, so there is blood
Sleep doesn’t come easily these days, especially since opening the box with the three feathers from Friday. It’s restless, filled with images and twisted memories. Dreams. But she’s mostly able to cope without causing any issues for her roommate. Until the dreams burn into reality with a searing, stabbing pain in her side. The massive amounts of death energy seeping into the room are suddenly banished by a flash of light and soul energy. The pain increases, followed by something wet streaming down her stomach and back. Blood.
She tears off the sheets and races into the shower fully clothed, almost breaking the handle as she turns on the cold water to fight the burning pain. The pink water swirls down down around her feet. Palamedes is likely awake, that light is still so bright it might as well be daylight inside their room.
“Crap.” At least the bleeding has already stopped.
I'm willing to wait for it | Wildcard
Choose your own adventure! Valdis can often be found in the library, on the sports deck, or wandering around the ship, so anywhere you wish to encounter her works.
End Gore, start pretty memory
A tall manor stands across the way, but the world around them is filled with light and life. Birds sit in the trees, singing and twittering amongst themselves. Butterflies flutter through the air with bees and other life. Flowers of every kind and color fill her nose with their perfume. It's peaceful and more beautiful than any garden she has ever seen.
"I think this is Eden," she whispers, touching one of the white roses growing nearby.
There is a young girl, perhaps six, not far ahead of them, sitting on the ground by a fountain, holding something in her hands.
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She says nothing. She can barely wrench her head aside to look at Valdis.
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"What do you have there?"
A gentle voice reaches her and she looks up to see a man she doesn't know. His calm smile and presence make her happy for some reason. He kneels down in front of her.
"It's dead," she tells him, showing him the little bird.
Sadness crosses his face and he gently stroke the bird with a worn finger. "You can change that you know," he replies.
"Abaddon!" An irate voice, her dad sounds from down the way, "You shouldn't be here."
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Thoughtlessly, without realizing she's doing it or turning her head away, she reaches for her friend's hand.
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****
"Lord Raphael," Abaddon bows his head in acknowledgement, "I wanted to see her, she is my kin."
She looks over at her father, his fury simmers below the surface, laced with concern and perhaps even a bit of fear.
"She is also mine and I have guardianship. It will not transfer to you until she is of age." Raphael replies firmly.
"It is better if I start teaching her now," Abaddon says in return, his eyes still filled with sadness.
"Meira, go find Michael, your brother will help you bury the bird. I must discuss this matter in private."
She looks back at Abaddon and he smiles and gestures for her to go. So she does, following the path towards the two figures observing. She approaches curiously, not recognizing either of them.
"Who are you?" She asks.
***
Perspective shifts again and Valdis is looking at the young girl holding the bird again. She glances at Erin, not sure if this is how things are supposed to work, but she kneels down to be closer at Meira's level.
"I.." She's not really sure, "I suppose I'm you."
The girls smiles as if finally recognizing her. She holds out the dead bird, waiting until Valdis takes it. "It's your choice!" She says happily.
The bird is cold in her hands and the same confusion from moments before fills her mind. Suddenly the bird stirs and in a flurry of wings it launches itself out of her hands and into the sky.
A sudden tug in her chest and the memory is flowing backwards, followed by a low menacing hissing. It feels like the wind is knocked out of her as they are thrust from the dream and back into the waking world.
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"How many fingers am I holding up? Where are you?"
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"Three?" She replies, confused by Erin's strange concern. She expected questions, but not that one. "And in your Hollow."
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Deep breaths. Erin's heart starts slowing now that the concern of immediate danger has passed.
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"We did," she replies quietly, "But there is no lasting damage. It just wanted us out. Are you alright?"
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"Abaddon is the embodiment of Death in my world. He is nearly as old as the Creator, in fact, he was likely the first being created. If...I am his kin, then I am also an angel of death." This is obviously the most important part.
"Raphael is the general in the story I told you, and Michael is the young general. Which...means I killed my father, and then my brother killed me. Quite the family drama."
If she didn't have family issues before, she certainly does now. There's a hint of anxiety in her voice, and a little more of sorrow. She had been loved once by a real family, and she had destroyed it.
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She's not sure what she's saying, exactly. Erin offers Valdis her hand. "If you need this again, you just ask. If you need to talk about it...just ask. You know I of all people can't judge."
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That room with the girl and her broken wings comes to mind, she's not sure if that girl was her, or if it was symbolic of something else. But it didn't really matter.
She takes Erin's hand and squeezes it. "I'm not sure the Void will be as kind to another intrusion as it was this time. It might not be safe to do this again."
She'll just have to hope that this was what she was supposed to learn, and that the dreams will cease again.
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A soft touch; Erin lays her other hand over Valdis's knuckles. "...Are you gonna be okay?"
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And more capable.
"If you have the time and energy for a vessel, then I wouldn't mind one."
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"Thank you," she replies, "I do need to go, but perhaps I will get some real rest tonight."
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It's only slightly a lie. He likely wouldn't really care what she does. But she would like to sneak back in and avoid the questions he will likely have about the other impact of this particular choice of hers.
"Thank you, though."
Wrap?
Yes :)