We didn't choose the pirate life

[touchofcashmere]

Who: Stede Bonnet, Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, Lucius Spriggs, Skulduggery, John Watson, Darcy LeJeune, Diana York, Ava, Yuri Lowell, Clarke Griffin, Beetlejuice, Jinx, Jim Jimenez and Hiram
What: Pirate Crew Meet & Greet
When: 5/27
Where: Bellona Theater
Warnings None yet




Everyone at some point will get an invite to the theater, either pressed into their hand or shoved under their door. The stage is set with black curtains hanging in the background and on each seat there will be a little gift basket with a black ribbon, a name, a candy bar and a black pen with a little spiral notebook.

In each notebook, Stede has written a little note of encouragement. He will wait for them all to find their seats before he begins.

Comments

[skaikru]

( is it a fact, or — )

...Okay. Then why haven't you done it yet?

( what's keeping you from godhood, you pathetic smokey bitch. )

[sictransitgloriamundi]

I'm still trying to figure out the "how" of it. It wouldn't be worthwhile if it was easy to figure it out.

[skaikru]

So you can't. Actually do whatever you want to do.

( just. yanno. to make that clear and say it out loud. )

No matter how long you've been at it.

So where do we factor into your quest for ascension? I don't know of any gods who got their disciples by kidnapping them and making them fight to the death.

[sictransitgloriamundi]

[mildly petulantly] For now. It will happen when it happens. Time is one resource I have a limitless supply of.

You think rather highly of yourself, don't you. You're fuel for my research. Nothing more.

[skaikru]

( a soft, yet utterly disbelieving scoff. a hmph, not at all discouraged by his dismissal. )

I never sat down and talked to a can of gasoline to tell it how it was going to burn. And I never threw a party after instigating a mass murder.

You remember to get that cool knife, the rule was honesty right?

[sictransitgloriamundi]

[flat stare]

Can cans of gasoline talk back in your world.

[saltwaterlungs]

[ Darcy pulls the knife out to waggle it in place. His goal of apotheosis was of course a fool's errand, and for some reason it... relaxes her a little, that his efforts would ultimately be futile. She ignores his jab, asking- ]

What is it exactly you're learning from us, ehn?

[sictransitgloriamundi]

[rolls eyes] I'm just using you; there's nothing to be learned from you.

[skaikru]

Not even if one of us knows how to become a god already?

( clarke very carefully sculpts her face to be impassive for the span of a few seconds, then leans back in her chair and clicks her tongue. she's looking at darcy again, and giving an unenthused shrug of her shoulders. )

Does any of that ring true to you?

[saltwaterlungs]

[ Either Clarke knows something she doesn't, or is bluffing, and either way her job right now is to back her up regardless of anything. So Darcy tucks her next question away and shrugs back, no visible surprise or even interest on her face. She'll let Clarke take the lead, and try and pitch in when she has a better idea of the angle she's working. ]

[sictransitgloriamundi]

[furrows brow for a second... then, snorts.]

If you're implying what I think you are... Trust me when I say that involving yourself in the Teyvat gods is... not the healthiest life choice one can make. That has never been a viable contender.

Besides, I don't want to be a god in just one reality. Anyone can do that. That's boring.

[skaikru]

( well.





...shit. but doing her utmost to keep the calmest, impassive and highly unimpressed expression on her face. if there's a prickle of sweat gathering amongst the baby hairs at the back of her neck, it's neither here nor there. )

How many realities do you want to rule?

[sictransitgloriamundi]

... All of them?

[like no duh]

[skaikru]

Okay, and then what though?

Crush every living creature beneath your thumb? Create a utopia? Lock yourself behind another impenetrable door and just watch? Do you have some sort of noble, righteous cause, or do you just want power to say you have it?

[sictransitgloriamundi]

Isn't it enough to want knowledge for knowledge's sake?

[skaikru]

No, it isn't. There are ways to learn without stepping on peoples throats and upheaving entire worlds.

And if you can't figure out a way to acquire knowledge without hurting people, you don't deserve it.

[sictransitgloriamundi]

That's your opinion. An uneducated, ignorant one, of course, but an opinion.

[skaikru]

You'll still find I'm in the majority.

So. If you ever manage to become a god, and take over all the realities and learn everything there is to know... Then what? You think that's going to leave you happy and content? Or just more lonely and bored than you were when you started.

[sictransitgloriamundi]

[shrugs] Then I continue on to find out what is even greater than that.

[skaikru]

...huh.

( and for a good few moments, clarke lapses into silence. some of the firm lined animosity even washes from her face, replaced by contemplation and silent thought. she doesn't look at darcy off to the side, just sits back in her auditorium seat and stares at the profile of the captain's manufactured face until — )

...I feel sorry for you.

[sictransitgloriamundi]

... Why?

[it doesn't even sound dismissive it sounds like an actual moment of confusion.]

[skaikru]

Whatever you're actually looking for — not knowledge, not entertainment — ...I don't think you're ever going to find it.

Even if you think you do, it's never going to be enough. And that's a tragedy beyond one even you can create.

[sictransitgloriamundi]

[a pause.

shrugs.]

[saltwaterlungs]

All this shit about us being tools and fuel, and you're not even in control of where you're going. Are you?

[ For all she'd been listening and watching, it needed to be said. She'd seen enough ghosts clambering for something without knowing what they'll do once they get it to recognize it, stories repeated over and over until the end is inescapable. ]

You've been doing it too long. There's nothing else left. You don't even enjoy this anymore. Do you?

[sictransitgloriamundi]

I'm having lots of fun. Aren't you?