vinculis: (⚡ talk.)

[personal profile] vinculis 2014-12-28 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
FROM: FROM: kallig.telumi@cdc.org

Governments serve themselves. To believe otherwise would be deluding yourself.
rocknrollrefugee: (the narrow way)

[personal profile] rocknrollrefugee 2014-12-28 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
There's 72 hours in a day, I'm not short on time.

[In a fit of "fuck it," she drinks the flaming alcohol. She tilts her head back, twisting her lips. She wonders...

Her lips pucker up. A thin jet of white flames burst between her lips, which already twist into a grin.]


Still got it.

[Now that that's over, she glances at him.]

Make me a soldier, Garrus. A real soldier. I can't do it alone. Weapons... swords, guns, knives, all that. It's the tools. I'm not a soldier, I'm a brat from the Hamptons with a fucked up family that gets bored with money and needs more greed to fuel itself. My brother was the soldier, he is the soldier, but he's in custody. He can't exactly pawn off a few tips to the kid sister that's destroying planets, now can he?
117: (pic#7490214)

[personal profile] 117 2014-12-29 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
[he isn't going to talk about how he's a child soldier to a complete stranger.]

FROM: 117@cdc.org
Trust me.
rocknrollrefugee: (you rang?)

[personal profile] rocknrollrefugee 2014-12-29 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
No, I'm not sure, but it doesn't really matter. All I'm sure of is that I gotta get there faster.

[She clicks her tongue as she takes his hand.]

Man, Erik, Clint, you... you're all just a bunch of threats huh?

[Hands on her hips, she sighs heavily.]

If you guys are gonna run me into the ground, you better know I don't die so easily. I'm stubborn as shit.
rocknrollrefugee: (what shall we do now)

[personal profile] rocknrollrefugee 2014-12-29 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Her shoulders are slumped, a clear marker of her exhaustion, but still, she soldiers on, following as best as she can.]

I don't know, four? I can top four after a blackout. And my other threats... [She rolls her eyes, thinking, twisting her lips.] Erik's got me working on my control and improving my fire. Clint's teaching me how to use the bow. Oh! Athos has got me using the rapier. Jack shows me how to use the rifle better when he can. So you know. Basic stuff.
averagemedium: (Default)

[personal profile] averagemedium 2014-12-29 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah. Now it makes sense, now he can see what Garrus means, and there's a thoughtful little hum low in his throat.]

It'd be okay if it were all of us, then.

[It really is hard to say no to, especially with the reassurance that it's not that he isn't wanted. The potential of having anything with both of the people he's attracted to is-- well, there are ways it could get awkward, but it could be good too.]

If he's willing, then- let me know, yeah?
rocknrollrefugee: (yeah?)

[personal profile] rocknrollrefugee 2014-12-29 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[That is totally her making a finger gun and going pew!]

Garrus Vakarian, killer elite.

[Her expression grows somber.]

I know I've got a lot to do. But I know what I'm getting myself into. I know I probably should've gotten in with Aeryn and whatever fitness club they're doing but I think this will be better for me. [She scrubs a hand down her face.] Besides, I don't think anyone there can do the same like what Erik can do for me, or like Clint or like you.
rocknrollrefugee: (another brick in the wall)

[personal profile] rocknrollrefugee 2014-12-29 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
I know. My brother was a killer, too. I don't like to think about it too much.

[A pause, thoughtful.]

Does it ever get easier? The killing?
vinculis: (⚡ uncertainty.)

[personal profile] vinculis 2014-12-29 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
FROM: kallig.telumi@cdc.org

Changing to a soft system like that would require the Sith giving up their power. And we never would.
vinculis: (⚡ admonish.)

[personal profile] vinculis 2014-12-29 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
FROM: kallig.telumi@cdc.org

Military might getting you to the point of destroying planets sounds exactly like something the Empire would do.

FROM: kallig.telumi@cdc.org

You'll have to forgive my callousness, Vakarian. In my experience, people in charge don't change.
rocknrollrefugee: (somewhat worried)

[personal profile] rocknrollrefugee 2014-12-29 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
You don't need reapers to turn someone into a killing machine.

[In a literal sense, there's Bucky, the metal-armed assassin with the vaguest idea of a memory. Then there are the warriors, those who by necessity became machines. It doesn't take an alien to erase everything. It takes repetition and desperation to strip someone clean of themselves.]

I'd tell you I don't know if I can do this, but you'd tell me I'd have to do it, just like Erik told me. I've never killed anyone. I just don't want to be so shocked I can't do anything after that.
averagemedium: (Default)

[personal profile] averagemedium 2014-12-29 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
I'll be waiting, then.

[He offers Garrus a small smile, one he hopes comes off as encouraging as it's meant to, as he reaches up to brush his fingertips along the side of the turian's face.]

But for now, if you don't mind me weighing you down a little longer...

[Then he's comfortable, and he'd very much like to stay there. Maybe doze a little, that'd be nice.]