Video || gross computer goo, why, turtle

[stagethreeclinger]

[ Roy's on a public console right now seeing as his is a little... predisposed. Which he's about to tell you about, settle in for a story, kiddies. ]

Okay, so, has anyone tried to take apart the consoles? Here's a handy warning to the wise: DON'T.

[ This is Roy's wide-eyed, semi-serious face (more serious than usual, at least). ]

There are some parts that might make sense from a mechanical standpoint, yeah, maybe, but mostly? It is filled with this nasty, creepy, goo and it floods out all over you and I might have screamed like a little girl.

[ Biting at his thumbnail here and he tilts his head to the side, looking a little freaked out because omfg what has just happened in his home, why is life on the turtle so weird. ]

Aaaaand now it's regrowing. This is some crazy sci fi shit and not in the hot aliens in latex kind of way. Like messed up Star Trek bordering on Alien kind of crap. If I start getting some kind of weird parasite or sickness or end up in a cocoon or wake up with an alien baby, tell Kori I super-like her. And build me a memorial.

But first get me a doctor.

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[effective]

[a pause] If you knew him, you wouldn't suggest that.

[stagethreeclinger]

Sooo, if I texted him and asked if he'd like a hug and he says yes, does that mean you'd do it?

[effective]

No.

If you think he needs to be hugged so bad, you can do it.

[stagethreeclinger]

If I hug him, will you hug him? You do owe me for the arrows, jussayin.

[effective]

I told you I'd share my game. [A pause] Don't try to hug him. [He might stab you and she doesn't want to be responsible for that]

[stagethreeclinger]

I don't need game. I shop. [ Eyebrow quirk ] Why not? Personal space bubble kind of guy?

[effective]

We're in the middle of rations, and you're turning down free food. [Her tone makes it clear that she thinks Roy is an idiot] No, the opposite. Most of the time. The rest of the time, he carries a trident. [stabbity]

[stagethreeclinger]

I never claimed to have my priorities straight. [ okay yeah that makes more sense, but w/e he's trying to get hugs to happen here 8T ] Trident? For real? Too hardcore of a Little Mermaid fan?

[effective]

...What? [The fuck is a mermaid, can she eat it] He traps people in nets and uses it to stab them. [Duh] And he fishes.

[stagethreeclinger]

[ no that is bad and would make disney cry ] That is... wow, what even? Why is he even stabbing people?

[effective]

[GOOD.

Also there's a pause, before Katniss smiles. Except it's more of a baring of teeth.] Because he's a Victor. One of twenty four children who were put in an arena and forced to fight to the death for the entertainment of the Capitol.

[stagethreeclinger]

[FEI MY FOOT AHHHH I AM TYPING THROUGH THE PAIN I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT

also, gurl you are getting such an eyebrow raise for that. calm down, tiger. ] What, like Gladiator? Where do you people even come from?

[effective]

[WHAT DOES YOUR FOOT HAVE TO DO WITH TYPING.

She shrugs] Panem. The president controlled the populace through fear. The Games were part of that.

[stagethreeclinger]

[ IT WAS ASLEEP AND THEN IT WAS WAKING UP AND IT WAS PINS AND NEEDLES AND THE WORST FEELING. ITS BETTER NOW THO

Not going to make an airline joke, not going to make an airline joke. ] Sick... I'd like to tell you it didn't last long for the Romans, but...

How young is 'children'?

[effective]

[LMAO WELL I'M GLAD IT'S OKAY NOW.

She doesn't understand his comment about Romans, so she ignores it. Because Katniss is boss] Twelve to eighteen. A boy and a girl from each district.

[stagethreeclinger]

[ ME TOO.

Rude. And there's some serious concern face going on here. ] Twelve? And twelve year olds have to kill eighteen year olds.

How many districts?

[effective]

[She's watching his face with some curiosity.] Twelve year olds had to try to kill eighteen year olds. Maybe one or two won in the past, but mostly not. [Her jaw is tightening, remembering. Rue, and how she reminded Katniss of her sister, who is dead.]

Twelve. Thirteen, but one went underground and left the rest of us to fend for ourselves. [She looks away from the camera] It's done, now.

[stagethreeclinger]

[ S t a r i n g ] I'm not really sure there's enough words in the English language to express how completely fucked that is.

[ Actually said seriously because what the flying purple fuck ] Would having 13 instead of 12 make your chances better? [ He's not sure he can really blame people for that. Mothers and father want to protect their children. Not everyone is a soldier, they're not supposed to be. ]

[effective]

[Katniss just eyes him for a long moment] The Capitol won, and then they forced the Games on us as a show of their power. People didn't rebel for a long time, because they were scared of what more the Capitol would do to them. It's changed now, though.

[She rolls a shoulder] Every District was responsible for something. Luxuries, coal, food. District Thirteen was the nuclear weapons District, so having them on board sooner might have been helpful, yeah. [She knows why they couldn't but that doesn't mean she can't be bitter]

[stagethreeclinger]

[ There's an ill kind of look on Roy's face as he hears it ] Changed how?

[ Blinking. It's not really his place to argue about it, he sure as hell wasn't there, but the comment comes to mind and thus out his mouth anyway. ] Or, it would meant the second someone decided to rebel they'd still have the means to level them and pave over to put someone else who'd behave there. [ Said in a quiet, somber tone. That's how you do absolute control. ]

[effective]

[She's looking down at the burn scars] Rebellion. Revolution. We overthrew the President and made - I think they call it a democracy. I didn't pay much attention once my part was done.

[She shakes her head, sharply] No, Thirteen had control of the weapons. The Capitol had their own. They worked out a deal between them that mutual annihilation wouldn't be great when there are barely enough people alive now to support the human race. Thirteen went underground, and the Capitol bombed them and used it as a warning to keep the other Districts in line. Don't rebel, or you'll end up like Thirteen. [Her jaw tightens] My District didn't have the advantage of an underground bunker.

[stagethreeclinger]

So, you have nuclear weapons, but you didn't have democracy? [ What even is your dimension. ] The vast majority of the globe in my world runs on democracy and has for centuries.

[ .........oh. ] And they thought having twelve districts essentially enslaved was the answer to that? Not that throwing nukes everywhere is a great idea, but it's never just one option or the other.

[effective]

[She shrugs] Maybe we're what your world becomes. It's an old form of government in Panem, one that hasn't been seen in centuries. At least, that's what I was told.

It was seventy five years ago, I don't know what they were thinking. A lot of people would say their plan worked, but Thirteen didn't have to live under the Capitol with us. [Almost absently] They had their own problems, though. Things are supposed to be different now, but we'll see. [Wait] Or someone else not trapped on a giant turtle will.

[stagethreeclinger]

Maybe. [ A frown. ] There's a lot of different worlds here, though, and a lot of different timelines. Could be, but equal chance it isn't.

All things considered, giant turtle sounds like the better option, but what do I know?

[effective]

[She shrugs. She honestly doesn't care that much]

It's the same. This place is the Games all over again, down to the ruler who doesn't care what happens to her people so long as she can stay in control. At elast we stopped it, back home.