[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

[sayonaradumbass]

[fixed it up from the parts of his old one himself, with these own two hands. He beams at her, arm spread wide.]

Here she is! Now do you need a helmet or are you gonna risk your brain turnin' into soup?

[badcoverband]

I risk my entire body turning into soup on the daily, so I think I can handle a little bike ride. Plus, I can just come back, right? [She laughs a little bitterly...or maybe just in confusion.]

She looks pretty decent, kid. How long did it take you to build her? I can tell it's custom work.

[sayonaradumbass]

Here? Or from where you're from? Space. You've got your land...your planet legs now, you might be fucked.

[he hasn't even thought about the possibility of coming back fucked either. He starts her up for their viewing, and hearing, pleasure. Settles the helmet on his own head.]

Time and a half, that's for sure. It was a bit of a pain in the ass gettin' parts but look at her.

was that a Little Mermaid reference

[badcoverband]

Nah, where I'm from. Getting shot at in space, kind of a given you might become cockpit splatter at anytime.

[She goes ahead, helps herself, and sits down on it, grinning at him.]

Yeah, she's alright. We'll see when we start going, huh?

not consciously no! something something BODY LANGUAGE though

[sayonaradumbass]

By aliens, right? Or bombs, whatever. That's so fuckin' cool.

[there are sparkles in his eyes here

but he grins right back, climbs on up and pats the space behind him.]

That's right. Only one way to show you. Feel free to hold on tight to me.

scream!!! someone yesterday was like "YOUR TATTOO, are you ariel?" & i thought i wish......

[badcoverband]

Glad you think it's cool, 'cos it wiped out all but like 48,000 people.

[She's not Actually Offended though because it would take more than that. She does roll her eyes when she does sit up against him, hands on his waist for now.]

If you're sure you can handle a real woman.

awww

[sayonaradumbass]

Clearly not stubborn enough bastards since you're still here.

[he won't stop beaming, and the touch only more so brings him delight. He revs this sumbitch up and, with a little whoop, he takes off as soon as he kicks the kickstand up.]

[badcoverband]

It's been a wild ride, but I dunno, they're not as bad as it sounds...

[Speaking of wild rides, well he isn't exactly doing tricks but he's pretty good, yeah. This is pretty fun. Her arms slide around him - but not like that, Kaneda you little shit - and she takes in the cool scenery around her. Yeah, she'd walked around but not much. Usually she's working.]

Pretty smooth, kid! [She has to yell in his ear.]

[sayonaradumbass]

[he's still whooping-- a pretty woman wrapped around him, the wind in his hair, all of it. This is what makes it worth being in this hellhole-- having the wind at his back.]

You ain't seen nothing yet!

[he accelerates only to pop a sweet wheelie]

[badcoverband]

[She squeals and hugs him tighter - only out of safety, yep, that's what it was, and not because she's genuinely enjoying himself with this mini daredevil.]

Don't get too cocky, now. You'll hafta do a whole lot more than that to impress me.

[sayonaradumbass]

[he'd cackle evilly if he could get over the wind, get over her warmth and how good she smells even over all this wind and just-- this is nice.]

Don't expect any flips through burning hoops-- you have to earn that first.

[badcoverband]

Great. Can't wait.