estoria | [OPEN] a shade of an angel born

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[OPEN] a shade of an angel born

Who:

badcoverband & you!
When: OOC: 8/23
Where: Outside Niteo, OR inside the CERES game center, OR the Entertainment District shrine, OR your own choice!
What: Kara's return after death and a canon update has her confused more than ever. But she's keeping busy...
Rating/Warning: None for now.

[Kara has to be honest with herself. Sitting through the presentation a second time upon her return from ~~canon update~~ brief disappearance of three days, she's had enough of the disorientation she experiences now. Her mind's filled with colors and galaxies and star patterns, and she'd returned to find herself under deep suspicion...and now she's back here again? And now there's a strange glow about her, almost undetectable but undeniably there.

Well, at least she won't find herself under threat of airlock...well, hopefully. Even if she did, wouldn't she just come back? Something...some kind of weird emptiness inside her is different, like she can't reach a part of herself that would make her feel normal again. (Whatever the hell "normal" is.)

There are only a few ways of handling this situation.]

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scene i.

[Kara takes a trip to the CERES marketplace, armed with her pay card and a picture in her head she needs to get out before she loses it. Some picture that makes her feel closer to her goal, to the destination she'd been trying to reach before she was plucked out again and reshuffled into the mix. It's Earth, actual Earth, the one she's stood on before -- she's sure of it, and she's got to get that star system from her mind to reality.

So she buys twelve cans of paint, sixteen different brushes, a small table, and jars for paint water, and heads to the Entertainment District. She picks one of the blank walls of her very own workplace, Niteo, and begins. Her manager might say something, but since when has that ever stopped Kara Thrace?]

Hey. Isn't that vandalizing?

[She's into her painting but not enough to ignore the voice behind her. She rolls her eyes. Here we go, some kind of BS she doesn't have the energy to deal with. Can't they see she's busy?]
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scene ii.

[Kara's tired of obsessively thinking about it so she takes a break from painting, covered in various colors, and decides a game of pool and a beer is exactly what she needs. So she heads not to Niteo, but for the CERES game center.

Three beers and the same amount of pool matches later, she has more than the recommended amount of alcohol (but, strangely, she can hold it better than before). When she perceives someone as starting Some Shit™ a.k.a. someone talking about her game, she turns around and decks them right in the face*. (*Or! you can choose for her to break the pool stick over your head! Choose your own adventure~)]
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scene iii.

[She finds herself wandering on one of her breaks at Niteo she intentionally takes an extra twenty minutes for, when she discovers the little shrine. She enters, feeling oddly out of place, but pulls out the two figures she has, little ones of Aphrodite and Artemis and kneels. She stares and wonders if they're the ones who guided her. Candles flicker over her and she sighs, feeling lost more than ever.

It figures that when she finally knows where Earth is, almost everything in the universe is working against the Fleet and her.]

Lords of Kobol...I don't even know if I should pray to them anymore...
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scene iv.

Wild card - choose your own adventure!

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Vandalism? Geez, heckling an artist like that is pretty rude!

[Raven has a knack for knowing when to show up at the most convenient of times... Or maybe he was just lurking around all along. Either way, he's slouched against a wall nearby, and he'll offer Kara a lazy wink when he gets her attention.

Of course, the real goal for now is to intimidate the stranger into buzzing off, since Raven's a pretty shady-looking guy openly wearing a knife at his belt and all.]

[The heckler in question grins once she finally turns around, having procured a spray can himself, already shaking it up.]

Sup? Didn't know you doodled too.

[~~....Raven...you lurker...~~

Kara's plan was to just fling paint from her brush at whatever dumbass (as covered in paint as she is herself), and/or was ready to knock someone out as quickly and efficiently as possible so she could get back to this ASAP --

--but there's that voice. One of the first she'd heard the first time, and now this time. She's honestly glad to see him. At least someone's not acting weird or being an ass.

Don't think she doesn't notice that knife when she turns. No wonder they're friends.]

You the hero here to save the damsel in distress?

[She quips, returning his wink with a grin. Nothing's normal for her -- especially not now, not anymore -- but she can't get caught up in that now.]

Get lost, bozo. [She gestures to the heckler, who looks between the two of them for a moment, eyes settling on Raven's knife before he does indeed buzz off, muttering and cursing but who cares.]

So. Didja miss me, old man?

Edited 2016-08-24 03:21 (UTC)

[Kara's ready to fight but laughs upon sight of Kaneda, the serial hitter-oner. Well, besides Raven. Maybe they knew each other...it would explain a lot. She dunks ~~on him~~ her brush in the water.]

Godsdammit, I knew I forgot something. Spray paint. I paint from time to time, yeah. Got a reason to this time, though.

[She grins.]

It's great to see ya, kid. How have you been hanging on without me?

Edited 2016-08-24 03:28 (UTC)

What reason? Paid to do it or just wanna blow off some steam?

[he doesn't hand her the can, though. Just draws closer to the scene she's painted out, curious.]

Oh just awful, how could I go on without you. Where were ya, anyhow?

No, gotta get it out of my head. I can't forget it, it's all I've got so far. [She realizes she's rambling like Gaius frakking Baltar or something so she sighs.] It's a long story. We'll leave it at blowing off steam.

[She folds her arms over her chest, a smirk quirking at the corner of her mouth.]

That's...kinda part of the story. Earth, I thought, apparently back from the dead according to everyone else. I knew I felt you missing me even through the universe.

Earth? It's always been there, no matter how many times you bomb it.

[it feels like he just started the story partway through the end.]

Did you feel me honking your titty through the universe too?

Edited 2016-08-24 04:27 (UTC)

Is that what it's like when you're from? I think there have gotta be a ton of the Earths the way people talk. One person says it's better than the gardens, you're talking about bombings or whatever... I don't get it.

[There's a lot neither will get until they actually, like, talk about things. Besides titty honking.]

Oh yeah, you know it. Really kept me going when I thought everything was hopeless.

The gardens? I guess there are a buncha Earths, sure. But its like, not there where you're from?

[he laughs]

Don't worry, I've always got your back there.

[~~Spies are nothing if not good at lurking.~~

Once the stranger leaves, Raven pushes off the wall and slouches over, privately a little relieved. He's not much for picking fights. To the question, he's all ignorance.]

Who, me? Did ya go somewhere? [Showing up to bump into her not long after she returned was a coincidence! Totally! He takes a closer look at what Kara had been painting, then back at Kara herself.]

But, uh... You're lookin' a lil more radiant than usual. Did somethin' happen?

[~~Don't you mean peeping Toms...~~ Kara purses her lips as he makes his way over, but still, she appears somewhat distracted. She rubs her nose, apparently unaware or just apathetic about the smear of blue she'd just spread over it. Her tone is just as put on as his.]

Yeah, got to bribe the leaders of this...whatever to let me go to the beach. Real relaxing, y'know.

[She looks down at herself after his comment, not seeing whatever the hell he's talking about. Is it some new come-on? She hasn't heard that one before if it is. The only thing that's different about her is...well, everything. But she can't place it, other than she's been to Earth now. But something tells her she can tell him most anything and, sure, he might make a smart-ass comment, but he doesn't seem like the type who would think she were crazy. Or, at least, he wouldn't probably report her or turn a gun/knife/bow on her for it.]

I uh, I don't know. A lot happened. I found something I've been looking for, something important to my people, but...

[She shakes her head and her voice is quiet when she next speaks, a rare thing.]

Before I got brought back, people were saying I died, that they were sure of it. And, I don't know if it's just the power of suggestion but I feel different. Like I'm me, but not the Kara I was before. [She forces a laugh.]

How frakkin' crazy does that sound? Me resurrecting? Seriously? Who buys into that?

Edited 2016-08-24 18:43 (UTC)

Y'know, the gardens here. Someone told me it's like that on Earth too. We don't have Earth, no, I mean... I come from the Colonies, which are twelve planets. Earth is a myth, or at least we thought it was.

[She punches him in the arm.]

Sure ya do. Mighty good grip you got there too, best action I've gotten in months.

Oh, I dunno, you'd be surprised.

[In ordinary circumstances he'd tease her about the paint on her nose, because that's actually kind of cute. Serious conversation time now, though, so that can wait. The flippant tone in his voice disappears, and he frowns at her, expression growing more serious by the moment.]

People die and get brought back in this place all the time. And I know of some poor saps who've died and been brought back to life back home, too... It ain't as crazy as it seems.

I mean, it wasn't from here. I was taken from here to die? I don't know how to describe it. [She looks up at him with a curious look, though her mouth twists into a wry smirk.]

Look at me, getting all serious. You said that happened where you're from too? That Terca place? Is there some kind of "are you dead" test then?

[Leave it to Kara to lighten the mood. She swipes a stripe of yellow paint across his cheek.]

But if your planets can have like, life and shit, what's the big deal about Earth? Mine ain't like that. I mean there's green, but it's gone to shit since the war.

[huffing, he punches her back]

Yeah? Well don't get too complacent yet, babe. I'll rock you.

[Rei doesn't exactly frequent the local shrines, as they're homes to violent, primordial gods who've hurt friends and family, but she does sometimes wander by, and today's one of those days.

Her head tilts when she spots Kara, and she waits for the woman to notice her before offering a little wave.]

I...don't know if you should or shouldn't. Do you feel like they've abandoned you?

Thing about that is, they all got blown to hell. Radiation everywhere, nuclear bombs out the wazoo, it's a long story. So...we gotta find a new home, and Earth's the only direction we have.

Sounds like our worlds aren't much different.

[She snorts and decides to take a break. She pulls a little cigarello out of her pocket and sticks it in her mouth before she offers one to Kaneda. Who knows if he smokes, he's a Cool Kid™ so she'll extend the offer.]

Uh-huh, I bet you'll be the best ever ever.

And you thought it was a myth till now. That sounds just goddamn brilliant.

[he grins and takes it, instantly lighting it with a lighter he so happened to have. you never know.]

Like no one ever was.

Yeah, well no need to get all smug about it, okay? [She blows a puff of smoke right into his face.] And if you spray paint my shit, you're gonna die. Just so you know.

[Then she beams.]

Uh-huh. Maybe in a few years I'll take you up on that. Let you rock my world. [Cue a roll of the eyes]

Heyyyyy!

[He rubs his cheek to try to get the paint off, and... winds up smearing it across his cheek and hand instead. Oops.] Y'know, it's kinda hard to believe you died. Ya sure aren't actin' like it. [He wipes the paint from his hand onto his coat. Bleh.]

Anyway, it's called Terca Lumereis. Normally, when you're dead there, you're dead, but some nutjob figured it'd be a good idea ta try bringin' people back to life with some special technology. Did anythin' like that happen ta you?

[She just grins -- he seriously needs something to offset all that purple -- but it doesn't last long before she turns back around at his observation, and paints with large swaths of yellow. She swallows hard, body stiffening. Kara is the queen of either acting like nothing's the matter or like everything is. She chooses the former at the moment. Why weigh anyone down with her weird feelings? Her voice is clipped when she speaks.]

Maybe I'm not acting like it because I don't exactly remember it.

[She thinks she does, her friend's panicked voice in her ear over the comm, and swirls of angry clouds pulling her in...but it feels more like a dream than anything. Like she'd watched it on the television.]

Like I said, the next thing I knew was everyone pointing a gun on me saying I died. The only people that come back where I'm from aren't exactly human. And I don't feel like I'm one of them. I seriously sound crazy, don't I? You'd tell me.

Edited 2016-08-25 17:17 (UTC)

[Rei's presence and voice pull Kara out of her thoughts and she sets down the little figures while turning to the younger (older? much older?) woman.]

Not abandoned me so much, but changed. I dunno. Something's different, something that makes me think...maybe they were only here for a short time for a reason. To give my people something to follow. Does that make sense?

[As she turns her back on him, Raven hangs back. He almost feels like he should do something to comfort her -- put a hand on her shoulder, show some sign of support, something -- but how can he possibly help someone with that kind of pain when he's masked his own for a decade? He wouldn't know where to begin. The only thing that comes naturally to him in these situations is hiding things and keeping them at arms' length.

But... He likes Kara. And he's not callous enough to just leave things like this.

He frowns, and when he replies, it's in a voice devoid of emotion. One of the rare times Raven lets the mask slip.]

I don't think you sound crazy, Kara. Your situation might be different, but I know how it is.

[Kara hopes a little for some kinda sign that he isn't weirded out by it all. She knows what it's like to mask pain too, has done it all her life starting from such a young age. She notes the difference in his tone, and looks over her shoulder at him. What does that supposed to mean? She can only assume he's known someone who's gone through that process.

She forces out a small laugh, one that's more of a sigh than a laugh. Relieved, but still holding back.]

You're the first one to think that, then. [There's a pause while she thinks, but then she turns around again and narrows her eyes.] You knew someone it happened to.

[She steps closer, genuinely curious for her own sake, to prepare herself for what it might be like if this is even a possibility and her reality but not wanting to pry -- for once. She doesn't want to screw up this friendship like she has so many others. So instead of awkward questions, she shifts the topic...sort of. To less questioning methods.]

Well, I hope they came back with less questions than I did.

Edited 2016-08-25 18:49 (UTC)

[Raven can feel the ache in his chest worse than ever when this topic comes up, and it always makes him feel every bit as old as he so likes to complain he is. He frowns, shakes his head.]

The only questions that guy had were how they'd come back to life, and how to go back to being dead.

[He's being evasive, and he knows it, but he's still figuring out how much he wants to reveal, so he just eyes her instead as she moves closer, expression unreadable.]

You don't seem like that to me, though. Mostly you seem confused. You didn't expect to go, right?

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