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clarke "no chill" griffin ([personal profile] skaikru) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway2023-03-10 09:15 pm

i tried ( memshare event )

Who: clarke griffin & your poor unfortunate soul
What: memories, all alone in the moonlight
When: all of march
Where: wherever you least expect a rift in reality to open up. also space, mount weather, earth...
Warnings: general warnings for blood, violence, murder attempted or completed, genocide, maybe even gross body farming. specific prompts will have their individual warnings listed in the body of this post and any additional ones will be noted in subject headers.




CHILDHOOD ( open )
— enjoy the little things, like watching a kid commit the stupid crime of touching books. no warnings here.

SKYBOX ( karkat, number 6, & open )
— did you know clarke was in prison for a year for treason? conspiracy to commit treason? eh, best summed up as "to keep her quiet". well now you can find out! bonus points, she thinks she's hallucinating. cw: probably some dead dad/execution talk and mention of mild eugenics themes, this is dystopia space after all.

D(ropship) DAY ( rita & open )
— when 100 kids are pretty certain they're about to be prematurely executed, one or two's likely to fight back. abby griffin cameo! cw: see above warnings.

QUARANTINE ( darcy, palamedes, & open )
— witness clarke gone absolutely feral, and her first escape attempt from body harvesters she doesn't know are body harvesters yet mount weather. cw: some self harm, blood, violence, potential body horror depending on how the thread goes.

LEVERS ( open but requires plotting )
— join clarke in committing a genocide! cw: genocide!! (also mentions of torture and body farming) this can also partially serve as a cinematic experience for your character, but please respond with some sort of reaction just so i know who saw it.

AIRLOCK 5 ( semi-closed to natsuno, but hmu ooc if you're interested )
— no one likes being faced with their demons. but sometimes those demons set up creepy music boxes and lure you into watching your friends being murdered. cw: violence, attempted (or successful! threads of fate can be changed) murder

THE CITY OF LIGHT ( open )
— when you show an a.i. a picture of the greater metropolitan new york, but she cleans it up and also makes it a hivemind that you have to infiltrate. cw: violence, some creepy hivemind shit, will warn further for anything else.

AFTERMATH ( open )
— your all purpose aftermath wildcards! wanted a memory i mentioned in the plotting post but it didn't make the cut? still available upon request! request starters or throw up your own
hellonspectacles: (He was made lovely)

[personal profile] hellonspectacles 2023-04-07 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Clarke is almost vibrating with excitement as Palamedes picks up the alamanac. Despite the mundanity of its contents, the cover is colorful and highly illustrated, so it’s no wonder that it caught the girl’s eye. He lays it on the pedestal in front of the other books, using the surface as a makeshift table. Slowly he opens it, careful not to crack the spine.]

Let’s see here…do you want to know about popular gardening trends in 2034?
hellonspectacles: (He was made lovely)

[personal profile] hellonspectacles 2023-04-08 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
It is different. [Palamedes speaks gently and offers the boy a smile; his goal here isn’t to make Wells feel badly, after all.] Screens aren’t very good at depicting depth, and color is only as good as the resolution. Now, let’s see what we can find in here. Can you hold down the cover with your finger, Clarke? Ideally, we would use a book weight—just a heavy piece of string, really—but needs must. Now, let’s see what we can find…

[He begins to page through the book, not yet realizing that he has used Clarke’s name before she had actually introduced himself. Pausing on a page with a photograph of some truly adorable baby chickens, he pauses.] Ah, here we are. [He looks up at the boy and smiles.] Would you like to see as well?
hellonspectacles: (He was made lovely)

[personal profile] hellonspectacles 2023-04-11 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Though he remains outwardly calm, the proper grown-up, Palamedes’ eyes dance with his own sense of wonder. Sure, he had had access to an entire Empire’s worth of books back home, but pre-Resurrection literature was dreadfully rare. Books like this almanac, with its brightly-colored photos of vegetable gardens and farm animals, had not been among the Library’s holdings. And they weren’t the sort of thing the Captain had much interest in, either.]

...I didn’t know that. [That isn’t something Palamedes Sextus can say very often, but he has never had a reason to research protein values of long-extinct domesticated avian.]

That would be quite a bit of protein. You probably wouldn’t want to eat it all in one go. [A sly smile.] Shall we see what else is in here?
hellonspectacles: (He was made lovely)

[personal profile] hellonspectacles 2023-04-15 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Animal house. [Palamedes echoes the words under his breath, strangely charmed. It’s not like he has any more experience with barns than she does. Frankly, animal house seems like a perfectly reasonable name for them.

He carefully turns the pages, which mostly show weather forecasts and predictions regarding the most popular sort of apple for the coming year, until he pauses on the perfect picture.]
Well, would you look at that. Two for one.
hellonspectacles: (He surveyed his work and saw it was good)

[personal profile] hellonspectacles 2023-04-19 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Careful. [Palamedes admonishment is gentle but pointed; the books might be absurdly young by the standards of the Library, but they will need to last a myriad. There’s no need to keep them under glass on sacred pedestals at all times, but they also need to remain clean.

Off to the side, Wells remains wary, looking far too serious for a child of his age. Pal offers him a smile.]
Is there anything you would like to see?
hellonspectacles: (his eyes were a perfectly lambent grey)

[personal profile] hellonspectacles 2023-04-23 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Pal isn’t sure he is going to find any airplanes in a book called a Farmer’s Almanac, but he starts to carefully turn the pages to look for one. It gives him something to do while he thinks of an answer to the boy’s question. Clarke has mentioned a few of the stations in passing, but he hopes he isn’t about to get quizzed by a seven-year-old.]

Hydra Station. And what about the two of you?
hellonspectacles: (his eyes were a perfectly lambent grey)

[personal profile] hellonspectacles 2023-04-25 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, naturally. [The boy is still looking at Palamedes with a certain amount of wariness, but little Clarke remains open and eager. It’s enough to make Pal’s heart break, knowing that so much will harden her in the next ten years. Pal wishes there were some wisdom he could grant her, something he could say that would soften the blows to come. But he cannot. All he can do is show a little girl and her friend an old book, and be glad that it gives them joy.

With care, Palamedes closes the book. Eventually, someone will come in here, assuming Wells doesn’t grow suspicious enough to find an adult who actually belongs here. As much as he hates to leave them, he needs to extricate himself.]


That’s all the time I have, I’m afraid. Do you have the material you need for your drawings?
hellonspectacles: (He was made lovely)

[personal profile] hellonspectacles 2023-04-29 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
I’m afraid I have to agree with the young lady. A pencil is still a pencil, regardless of its size.

[Palamedes rocks from foot to foot, struck by the uncharacteristic desire to pull Clarke and her friend into a tight hug. But he isn’t used to such displays of affection in the best of circumstances, and he can’t imagine that such a gesture would go over well here and now. Instead, finally, he returns the book to its plinth and sets the glass covering back in place.]

Well, this has been an absolutely fascinating diversion. [A pause, looking at each of them in turn.] Be well, children.