[OPEN] a shade of an angel born

[badcoverband]

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.

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[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!

Comments

[badcoverband]

So...you're saying you are a slut.

[She winks and sticks out her tongue]

And nah, too vulgar for your sensitive little ears.

[sayonaradumbass]

I'm a playboy. That's the proper word for it.

[Sticks his tongue between the v of two fingers]

C'moooon....lemme have it. Have at it.

[badcoverband]

[she cocks an eyebrow, Very Impressed]

I'm afraid I'd be arrested probably if I finished the sentence.

[sayonaradumbass]

Wouldn't you know there are no cops here.

[badcoverband]

You sure are observant. Still doesn't mean I'm gonna tell ya, kiddo. [he might be legal but he's still "kiddo" to her]

You're so determined to know such naughty things. Frakkin' teenage boys, man.

[sayonaradumbass]

[he rolls his eyes] You will sooner or later.

I ain't just some ordinary teenage boy, y'know.

[badcoverband]

Why do you wanna know so much, bad boy?

[She steps a little closer, narrowing her eyes and putting her free hand on her hip. Her smile takes on a smirk instead.]

Oh yeah? Then what are you? Besides the second biggest flirt I've met in this place.

[sayonaradumbass]

Why not? It won't do me any harm.

[he steps closer, too, and puts his hand on her hip too.]

The second? Why, I'm honored. Are you the first? I'm Kaneda of the Capsules, that's what.

[badcoverband]

[She sniffs, raises her head up.]

I'm being a mature adult, that's why not.

[She slowly looks down at his hand on her hip and, without moving her head from that position, looks back up at him before turning back. But she doesn't do anything about it because it's whatever. Harmless and ridiculous.]

Oh, I didn't even include myself in the running. [She waves a hand.]

......the Capsules. How the frak is that supposed to impress anyone? Is that your alt-rock band?

[sayonaradumbass]

[so he thrums his fingers along her hip then]

Oh yeah? Is that what one of those looks like?

[he snorts]

No, its my gang. We know where the best parties are, and kick major ass. We've got a damn big territory.

[badcoverband]

Yeah, it is, and I know you like what you see, you little perv.

[Her ears perk up though; she could see that about him, if she squints hard enough. But still, if he's talking territory he might be a little bit more walk than she previously thought.]

As in biker gang? Where are the best parties then? Where you 'kick major ass'? [She's trying hard not to laugh on that last one]

[sayonaradumbass]

I do like what I see. I really do.

[huffs, juts out his chin]

Don't say it like that-- the best parties are in the bombing zones, that's where. For starters.

[badcoverband]

[Have only a roll of the eyes at that, Kaneda. atleastyoutried.jpg.]

Bombing zones? How are those good for parties? Look, I'm all for living on the edge, but you're gonna have to explain that one for me. We'd just need a shitload of anti-radiation meds for that where I'm from.

[sayonaradumbass]

Yeah, man! It's badass. No one's there, the radiation is loooong gone. You worry too much! I thought you were daring.

[badcoverband]

[He gets a hard punch in the arm for that one.]

Frak off, I'm not worrying. But if you say so. When are you taking me for a ride on your bike then?

[sayonaradumbass]

[he laughs]

Sounds like it to me. And whenever you want. After your done with your doodle, even.

[badcoverband]

Thanks for the confidence, bud.

[She rolls her eyes and goes back to painting. Hmph. She was getting along just fine before this smartass came along.]

I'm not painting it for fun, so you can buzz off if it's so boring for you. Or do your own little doodles, I don't care.

[sayonaradumbass]

I never said it was boring! Just wonderin' when you're done so we can go on that ride.

[badcoverband]

Well, I gotta put my shit up and then we can go. How's that sound?

[Ya little lovable brat.]

[sayonaradumbass]

That sounds cool. I'll just wait here, then. Don't wanna bother the expert.

[he really does wait there, just plops down]

[badcoverband]

[She looks back at him a couple of times before she sighs and drops the brush into a paint bucket.]

Fine, fine. Let's go. Take me for a ride if you got the guts, bad boy.

[She'll leave the cleanup for later. That's the boring part anyway.]

[sayonaradumbass]

[he's triumphant; he even woops! Its very mature. He holds his arm out for her.]

C'mon. It's around the corner, bad girl. Come ride if you've got the stomach for it.

[badcoverband]

[Even Kara is unable to resist the eternally cute yet eternal shithead Kaneda so she loops her arm around his and lets him lead her.]

Please, like you'd have the stomach for flying? If I ever get a chance, you'll see.

[sayonaradumbass]

Flying? In your space ship? It only goes a few more G's than a bike, I can take it.

[he scoffs at her as they walk]

[badcoverband]

Mm-hmm, I'm sure you can. You're a tough badass after all.

[They round the corner and she whistles at the bike before her. Niiice...]