whatthewrackspurt: (you have a tell)
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[In her room, Luna has stacked up all her furniture in the middle of the room in order to reach the ceiling. She lies on her back on a desk that's tilted precariously on a chair, a globe, three books, and a coat rack. Somehow it all manages to stay upright.

Paint drips into her hair as she paints her ceiling. Faces of people on the Barge are recognizable - people she's met and interacted with, Iris, Bush, Steve, Facilier, MewTwo, and others.

She's not a bad artist, really. It's a lot more fun than the art room, where they expect you not to paint on the walls]

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Date: 2014-11-26 03:13 pm (UTC)
exnihilo: (against the wall)
From: [personal profile] exnihilo
I don't know how they did it. But we don't call things magic in my world.

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Date: 2014-11-26 06:56 pm (UTC)
exnihilo: (to see)
From: [personal profile] exnihilo
Neurocircuit manipulation. Microuniverse-powered warp drives. Nanofractal recombinant technology. Chemical conditioning.

There's things I have tools for that other people would say was impossible. I once found someone who learned how to copy a soul. But it's all science, one way or another.

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Date: 2014-11-27 03:23 pm (UTC)
exnihilo: (identity)
From: [personal profile] exnihilo
What are they like? Your ways.

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Date: 2014-11-29 12:00 am (UTC)
exnihilo: (ennui)
From: [personal profile] exnihilo
It was my job to kill everyone who knew how to do it.

Copy souls, I mean.

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Date: 2014-11-29 11:58 pm (UTC)
exnihilo: (withhold)
From: [personal profile] exnihilo
There was a man. An artificial, Oscar.

Someone copied him. And I had to - get rid of one, to hide that it was possible.

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Date: 2014-11-30 10:20 pm (UTC)
exnihilo: (stuck)
From: [personal profile] exnihilo
It didn't matter.

[That was the horror of it. It didn't matter.]

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Date: 2014-12-02 04:14 am (UTC)
exnihilo: (withhold)
From: [personal profile] exnihilo
It mattered to him least of all.

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Date: 2014-12-02 02:50 pm (UTC)
exnihilo: (weep)
From: [personal profile] exnihilo
When you sleep, your consciousness is suspended.

You are, in a small way, briefly dead. And then you resume. Location doesn't matter. The body doesn't matter - the body is constantly remade. The mind that resumed when I put Oscar Vale's core back in his chassis was identical to both black boxes. Identical in every quirk and response.

He went to sleep. And then he woke up.

[She's crying, now. Poor fucking Oscar Vale.]

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Date: 2014-12-05 04:47 pm (UTC)
exnihilo: (weep)
From: [personal profile] exnihilo
Yes.

[Even though she lives - lived - for it, those moments of power and tenderness...it was different with Oscar Vale. And that part of it was awful.]

He remembered me. The one who survived remembered something I only said to the one who died.

I don't. I still don't know what that means.

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Date: 2014-12-06 07:33 pm (UTC)
exnihilo: (weep)
From: [personal profile] exnihilo
[She hangs up. She needs to think about that, or not think about it. Drink and work two kitchen shifts in a row and she wants to fight something but also she doesn't. Curls up for a while, after dinner, quiet and silent with Iris's dogs.]

i should have reported it when i realized the anomaly

but they would have made me kill him too

that him i mean

and he was so broken and alone and i didn't want to

so i told them he was harmless

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Date: 2014-12-06 10:50 pm (UTC)
exnihilo: (identity)
From: [personal profile] exnihilo
[Most people, in Mira's experience, aren't important at all. Certainly Oscar Vale went on to do nothing of historical significance. But something holds her back from pronouncing this.]

Why do you think so?

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Date: 2014-12-07 01:54 am (UTC)
exnihilo: (hurt)
From: [personal profile] exnihilo
It feels like that when they die, too.

[When she kills them.]

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Date: 2014-12-07 11:54 pm (UTC)
exnihilo: (withhold)
From: [personal profile] exnihilo
[A long pause before this reply, too.]

I don't know.

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