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Valdis ([personal profile] redlightgreenlight) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway2023-09-04 08:16 am

Lights Go Out and I Can’t Be Saved

Who: Valdis and Open with Some Closed
What: Valdis does stuff around the Serena Eterna, feel free to join her
When: September
Where: All over
Warnings: In each starter



Confusion never stops | Crichton | CW: None

Valdis hasn’t seen much of Crichton since she tried to remove Harvey last, but with her and Cassandra’s suspicions, she knows she needs to talk to him. He appears to be in his room on this particular evening, so she gently knocks on his door.

“Crichton?” She calls softly, trying to find the balance between worry and rage.

It’s not his fault that Harvey took over and started targeting people, but if he’s losing time again, she felt that he should have told her. Or at least somebody.

“Are you there?”

Closing walls and ticking clocks | Siffleur | CW: none

The one person she’s been avoiding is also the one person who she needs to see and it was only a matter of time before the two predators ended up in the same room by accident or on purpose. There’s a tightness in her chest when she sees Siffleur at one of the tables in Sand Dollar, anxiety perhaps. She’s been refusing soul energy again for fear of killing someone. She’d managed for awhile last time, but she knows she’s weakening herself by not having any backup.

But she still tries to ignore him, making some coffee and heading to a table with lots of room for escape should it be necessary.

Gonna come back and take you home | Open | CW: none

Valdis is struggling, but trying to keep her schedule as normal as possible. Meditation in the morning sunlight, sword practice in the afternoons. Reading a book from Cassandra in the spare quiet moments. Sometimes she practices what she’s reading, but mostly it seems frustrating for her and she’ll shut the book firmly before grabbing something else.

She’s doing her best to not withdraw from her friends, but she is less outgoing than people are used to, spending hours in the library or drawing people she knows on the ship.

Event Starters | Open | CW: The flowers are dangerous

Red Rose:
A rose by any other name is still as sweet and the red roses growing on vines in the library smell sweet. So sweet that anyone who smells them falls in love with the next person they lay eyes on. Valdis is wearing a makeshift mask and trying very hard to avoid getting too close to the flowers as she searches the shelves for a specific book.

Angels Trumpets:
Valdis sits in Sand Dollar reading, and another of her sits across the table, the one clearly trying to ignore the bookless one as she smirks and says in hushed tones:

“It wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t gotten so weak. Trust is so human.”

Purple Hyacinth:
If her past self following her around hadn’t been bad enough, the purple hyacinths growing outside her door decided to make her day even worse. Faces of the people she’s killed, the ones in the village, keep coming to mind. People she knew. People who didn’t deserve it. People who had once been friends.

She’s back at the bar and drinking as much as she possibly can, making sure it’s not the non-alcoholic stuff. She needs the real stuff and anyone who sees her can clearly see that she has probably had too much, even if they know it doesn’t affect her.

I could not stop that you now know | Wildcard | CW: As Necessary

PM to discuss or just go for it!

moonlesstides: (Rare Smile)

[personal profile] moonlesstides 2023-09-17 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
~Not yet, I do not think, but the gentleman magician has exciting news for me. You will see when it is done - I anticipate great things!~

That upwelling of affection is rather warmer; Grace thinks incredibly highly of Maxwell, and trusts in his skill and his word absolutely. ~Though...~ Pensiveness, cutting through the power of the rose. ~Imperious one...what are your thoughts on the hunter Siffleur?~

[personal profile] professionalriot 2023-09-17 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Me." He grins. "I'm kidding. Kind of." Ash grabs her drink and takes a sip.

"Come sit with me. I wanna curl up in a big chair and zone out and not talk." Then he slips his backpack off and digs around in the side pocket in until he finds the origami rose he had folded. It's not perfect, looks like a art project from a six year old. "I swear it's a rose. C'mon. Come curl up with me."

[personal profile] professionalriot 2023-09-17 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not good at it at all. I have zero game with you." He says with a gentle laugh. Ash hasn't been able to tempt her into more then dinner. Not that he's complaining, they have had some serious and deep conversations that for Ash were more intimate then sex. She doesn't fall for the lines, he has to just be himself with her.

"This isn't a move, Valdis. I'm not trying to...I don't know." He sighs and runs his fingers through his flop of hair. "What is it the time for?"

Ashley went around the bar to pour himself a drink.

Edited (it was too much. sorry. :( ) 2023-09-18 12:02 (UTC)
saltwaterlungs: (Coral Sea)

[personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2023-09-17 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
Whatever volatility in Darcy's emotions started this, Darcy feels almost... bored, now. Yell at a teenager long enough and it stops being threatening.

"Nobody gave a shit that I died either. So."

What do you want them to do about it.

"Are you done?"
astrogator: (pic#15928583)

[personal profile] astrogator 2023-09-17 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
I wonder if it'd be possible to erase a name on one of those lists. It's logical, but it seems almost too simple a solution.

[After a moment's thought-] Separating the two of them is way outside my field, but if it ever turns out there's something I can do to help, tell me?
be_seeing_you: (is that a challenge)

[personal profile] be_seeing_you 2023-09-17 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Someone? You don't know who." He's stating that second as a fact more than a question.

"Doesn't seem like you, Valdis, to lose control that way. I never would have thought you to be one who panics in such a situation."
moonlesstides: (Satisfied)

[personal profile] moonlesstides 2023-09-18 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
~Radiant Helena introduced me to him, as a fellow hunter of the living, and advised that I seek his wisdom. His help has been invaluable, but with the issue at hand resolved I have perhaps been wondering if we might be friends. It is good to hear him spoken of thus.~

[personal profile] professionalriot 2023-09-18 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Doesn't mean it helps win you over. Just means you know me in ways most other people don't."

Not that he minds. He likes that a lot actually. Ash lifts his glass in salute.

"Why are we trying to get drunk and not succeeding?"

He takes a seat next to her, watching her fingers toy with the flowers. "Sweetheart, I care about the past. I just...for me? It's a dark place to hang out for too long." He never wanted her to think she couldn't talk to him about her past and he feels bad that he set that tone. Ash sighs softly as he reaches out to brush his fingers along the back of hers. "I will always care about anything making you this upset. What do you need? Is there anything I can do?"

[personal profile] professionalriot 2023-09-18 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"I want what you want to give. Can't ask someone to like you or fall for you. That has to be given." He swirls his glass before taking a drink. "I sure hope that's not why you're drinking, Valdis...you know what I love about talking to you? Feeling like I could tell you the worst thing about me and being heard not judged. I hope you feel like you have the same thing with me."
ss_buttcrack: (Harvey)

[personal profile] ss_buttcrack 2023-09-19 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Dislike? No, no, no, no. I hate you. Almost as much as a scarran."

"That's saying something," Crichton interjects. "But you didn't answer the lady's question."

"Perhaps the lady isn't asking the correct questions?"
ss_buttcrack: (Harvey)

[personal profile] ss_buttcrack 2023-09-19 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
"What if I did?"
ss_buttcrack: skeptical look (are u mad)

[personal profile] ss_buttcrack 2023-09-19 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Dammit Harvey!! Crichton feels sick. So, it really was his fault. Harvey really has been no more under control than ever. Maybe he should move back to the brig...

"Don't bother, Valdis. I'm not going to use the same trick twice."

"How the hell did you do it, Harvey? How didn't I see?" Crichton demands.

"You said it yourself, John. You didn't notice such a small gap in your memory. A mere few seconds. More than that and you would have noticed."

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