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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!

be_seeing_you: (somber)

[personal profile] be_seeing_you 2023-09-26 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
He stares that copy down as he says, "I don't know that I can relate. What lies I told and secret lives I lived were shallow and quickly discarded as soon as they were not needed."

He returns his gaze to Valdis. "Perhaps I should go. There doesn't seem to be any point continuing. As much as I would like to understand you, it's clear you do not wish me to."
hadnoright: (113)

[personal profile] hadnoright 2023-09-26 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)

Daisy can't help but snort as she slides into a chair. "Predators and picking out people's soft bellies."

It's a dour acknowledgement of a simple reality. Picking out people's weaknesses is a skill she's always had. It's how she's survived as long as she has, how she became such a threat. Even in the eyes of other Hunters.

"All fun and games until they turn it back on you," Calvin jabs.

Daisy just sighs. "Don't even understand what's with these stupid things. Nothing like this ever happened in my time." Beat. "God, I sound like some old biddy going back in my day..."

moonlesstides: (Dissatisfied)

[personal profile] moonlesstides 2023-09-27 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
~No! I have wronged you. It must be corrected.~ It's not quite a glare on Grace's face, but a stubborn determination to stick to this framing. ~Let me help you, or - or - ~

Aaaand there reaches the end of her ideas.
moonlesstides: (Dissatisfied)

[personal profile] moonlesstides 2023-09-27 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
'Kind of'. Grace's face falls; her lip trembles as something wrenches in her heart. Yes, her current feelings are the flowers, but she's still just a girl, even if she doesn't believe it.

Grace flees, rather than be seen to cry.
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[personal profile] busball 2023-09-29 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Klaus waves it off. "But I'm fine now! So it's not even a thing. It's like...pretty much nothing, right?"
be_seeing_you: (somber)

[personal profile] be_seeing_you 2023-09-29 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"Enjoy your book."

He spares only a sideways glance at the clone before turning to go. What a pity.
ss_buttcrack: (depressed)

[personal profile] ss_buttcrack 2023-09-30 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
"I blame me." He huffs. "I really thought I was getting a better handle on things. Even moved back up out of the brig. I should have known."
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[personal profile] busball 2023-09-30 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
The awkwardness is strong in this moment. "I mean...sure...but like...I'm not even the most impressive! I mean, yeah, I've got great hair and a personality only childhood trauma could create, but there's a lot of that going around here."
ss_buttcrack: (deep in thought)

good to wrap this one up here

[personal profile] ss_buttcrack 2023-10-01 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
He's glad she's not bothering to lie to him about this. Nothing about any of this is okay. He doesn't see how that's going to change.

"I really wish I could believe that..."
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[personal profile] busball 2023-10-02 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Klaus looks offended. “Excuse you. My hair is amazing. You’re just jealous.”
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[personal profile] hadnoright 2023-10-02 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)

"Oooh, empathy. Maybe if you'd had some of that you'd not've turned out such a rabid bitch, Alice."

Daisy sneers at him and snaps, against any logical judgement: "How the fuck did you go over a decade not getting caught? You've got the subtlety of an elephant!"

"You don't have to be subtle to be clever about it. Not that you'd know what being clever's like. Couldn't even hide your murders from the partner you thought you were protecting."

Deep breath in, slow breath out. Daisy turns away from him again. "...his methods might've changed, but this still sure feels like good old fashioned torture to me. You're not enjoying it either."

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[personal profile] busball 2023-10-03 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
They beam brightly at that. "I knew it!" They don't really believe it, but they are choosing to ignore that.

"Ehhh. I'm cool. I've been through a lot. I've got this." A beat. "But I'm guessing there's no stopping you, so I guess...that's okay."
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[personal profile] hadnoright 2023-10-03 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)

"Not the worst thing any of us have been through. Unless we've got some even more sheltered twats aboard now. Doesn't make it not torture."

She glances over at Valdis's double briefly. "Rather be dealing with myself than this prick, though. Already know I'm full of shit."

"Lovely way to talk about someone you murdered, Alice."

"Oh, shut up," she snaps at him again. "You're not real, and even if you were. What do you think you're accomplishing? Everyone already knows I'm a murderer."

"Yeah, but it bothers you. Not knowing if I even recognised you when you pulled the trigger."

Daisy throws one of the useless little menus off the tables at his incorporeal head. He just laughs, as she turns away from him again.

"...is yourself really the best thing it had to pull from?"

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