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axmods. ([personal profile] ataraxites) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2015-01-08 12:01 am

thirty-ninth jump;

CHARACTERS: Any and all.
LOCATION: Gravity Couches and beyond.
WARNINGS: Maybe some swearing, or even some violence, and more than likely some implied (and possibly explicit) nakedness.
SUMMARY: Another month, another jump, another round of new faces.
NOTES: A feeling of deep dread greets you as you stumble out of the gravcouch, strong enough to hold you still for a long moment, searching your surroundings for the source of your wariness. Nothing becomes apparent, only your fellow passengers waking up. Eventually you gather the resolve to pick yourself up and start moving, the feeling fading slowly as you progress through routine.

New arrivals will find messages spraypainted across their lockers telling them not to follow their tattoo numbers, and instead to find a room on Floors 001-010.


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YOU͘ ̨WAKE̢ ̧UP ́IN DA̛RKN̢E̕SS̶


There's a breathing tube jammed down your trachea, and you're suspended in a tube of clear blue fluid. Upon registering your level of consciousness, the gravity couch drains the fluid surrounding you and retracts the breathing apparatus; the doors in front of you open, and you're deposited on the floor of a stark, sterile medical bay.

YÓU̴ ̧ĄRE NOT҉ ̷ALǪNE҉


There are others who have come before you, others who are awakening beside you. Some may be familiar to you, perhaps even friends. Others have much less amiable plans. Some are merely alien and inexplicable, but there are always those who might mean you harm.

After you catch your breath and your vision returns, you notice a number on the inside of your forearm. Maybe it's a familiar number. Maybe it means something. Maybe it's just a number. But the number—completely unique to you—is a tattoo, and it does not come off.

If you enter the room adjacent to the medbay, you will find a small locker with your number on it, surrounded by rows upon rows of identical lockers. Inside, you will find a few of your personal items, a communications device, and a ship's uniform in your exact size. The comms device is fully powered and connects directly to the ship's network; it's your only means of communication beyond physical conversation. Upon turning the device on, a neutral, automated voice will say, "Please take the blue lift to the passenger quarters." Any other attempts at communicating with the rest of the network are met only with static.

TH̀IS͜ ̶I͠S͡ ͘Y̵O͝UR ̕W͝E̛L̨C͡O͝M͏E P̛AR̴TY͜
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[personal profile] jondrette 2015-01-09 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Eponine can't help but beam. "It is true! Oh, he loves me so much, I have never felt it before. And-" she blushes. "-oh I should not say in polite company. It isn't proper, though I am hardly a proper woman." This was something both she and Combeferre were aware of. She'd been plain in telling him she'd been with men before him, and it had not bothered him at all. Another reason to adore him.

"I am happy to see you've returned. We will be friends, now. The two of us. I should always like to have more." Oh no. Marty. No. You're stuck with her.
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[personal profile] foolproofed 2015-01-12 10:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Hey, hey, anything you wanna say, shoot for it; I'm not the most proper dude, either." He just looks completely pleased with the whole situation, though. He's tired and he's aching from loss - but he'd rather not focus on that right now, not when she looks so thrilled. "And of course we're friends! Only the best of friends share their music with each other, y'know. Next thing you know, we'll be making cookies or reading dumb books."

And that alone lifts his spirits a bit.

Sometimes, man, it's good to be alive.

Again.
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[personal profile] jondrette 2015-01-12 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, alive on a spaceship that's probably trying to kill them. But, she would agree with the sentiment. Death is never fun, and she embraces the second chance at life fully. Ergo, boyfriend and floating chips.

"Dude?" She raises an eyebrow, unsure what the word meant. "Then, if we are friends, we will do all that you have said, and I shall tell you! But you must not get cross or upset. You say you are not proper, but I do not know what that is for your time. Only that I am improper for mine. But I will tell you, that dearest Michel has done reading." OH NO IT'S SO HORRIBLE READING IS- wait. No. That's not it.

She's grinning, that mischievous sparkle in her eyes, her lips curling back in a smile, "and we have determined that he enjoys tying me up. And I do, as well!" She practically bounces, eagerly waiting for his reaction to the fact that she's just confessed she's into bondage.
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[personal profile] foolproofed 2015-01-15 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
... O-oh.

Well, he turns a bit red at that. But only just a little. Congrats for making him all flustered, Epp, even if it's really not all that hard if someone tries hard enough — he may be perverted in the way people his age tend to be, but it doesn't mean he's very edgy, especially when he hasn't really been with anyone since... ever.

"Whoa. Who knew?" He huffs a laugh, though, even if a sudden worry springs up. "You guys are being safe about that and stuff, right? Don't get yourself hurt or anything!"
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[personal profile] jondrette 2015-01-15 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Eponine giggles, a noise never really heard back in France. "Oui! Oh, no, do not worry. He knows of my past with many men, and the violence I encountered there. He was kind and gentle. I was not hurt, I assure you." Except the time he hit her with a chair. But that was mostly the ship's fault.

"I am forward, but if there is anything like that that you enjoy, with whatever women you find yourself taken with, you must tell me. We are both curious." Not in a 'what do YOU SPECIFICALLY like' way, but a 'tell me about kinks' way.
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[personal profile] foolproofed 2015-01-17 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
God, can you make him blush any harder? And just when he thought he was gonna be distracted by how crappy your life had been - man, it makes him wanna curl up and mope over how crappy so many people's lives can be - then you go mentioning his love life! He puts his hands in his pockets, clearing his throat.

"Well - I've been... The lady I liked went for another guy. And - I've never actually... y'know. So." Eponine, he's a college virgin. I am sorry to deliver this news to you.
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[personal profile] jondrette 2015-01-18 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
Eponine gets it.

"You have not!" She gasps, though it should not be so strange to her. But most of the men she had spent time around were, like herself, hardly blushing virgins. And here, in space, she had found one. "Forgive me, m'sieur Marty! I assumed- forget that I have said anything, then. Though, I shall tell you: the man I loved, too, went for another woman."

But she'd stopped being a virgin long before then.
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[personal profile] foolproofed 2015-01-22 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god, you're killing him. He's dead. Again. He rubs the back of his head, looking down and shifting side to side on his feet. "Yeaaaah. I've kissed people before, but uh, nothing that big. Definitely not the big homerun or anything."

But, ahaaa —

"Your crush went for someone else? That's rough. Hard to compete for you, too?"
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[personal profile] jondrette 2015-01-22 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"I could never compete with her. The lark, she is beautiful. Dark hair and eyes, and she is fancy, Marty. A real lady, educated, in beautiful dresses. Her father is rich- I know for he took her from my family when we were young, and he had money tucked away in his yellow coat. No, I was never to have Marius. I had hoped, in death..." She tore her eyes away, looking down and to the side.

"But he lived. They are together, I have heard."
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[personal profile] foolproofed 2015-01-26 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
"That's always rough," he says, completely genuine in his sympathy. Love's a bitch. A cruel, horrible bitch sometimes, with scary canines and all. "But hey, you know, you're beautiful and dark-haired and you'd rock a beautiful dress."

He smiles.

"I'd pick you over money any time. And I bet your boyfriend shares the opinion."
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[personal profile] jondrette 2015-01-26 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Beautiful!" There's a moment, and then Eponine leans forward and hugs Marty, planting a chaste kiss upon his cheek. "Oh, you are too kind, Marty. I am glad you have returned to us. You were very much missed."
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[personal profile] foolproofed 2015-01-29 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
Well, hell, he can't help but fluster at that.

"That so? If Eponine says it, it must be true." He's surprised to think that he was genuinely missed. He jokes about it, sure, but... christ, he wasn't much good in the end, right?
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[personal profile] jondrette 2015-01-30 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
He was much good. Here, at least. It was strange how Eponine had found a sort of purpose here in space.

"Careful- many things I say are lies. But, I have not lied to you." WAS THAT A LIE? You'll never know.