dec and jan catch all [closed]

[shikomizue]

Who: Takasugi Shinsuke (shikomizue) & various
What: Catch-all for December / January
When: Throughout December / January
Where: Thesa, will edit as necessary
Warning(s): Alcohol use, Drug use, probably some PTSD/vivid war flashbacks, graphic violence

[Individual starters in the comments!]

Comments

[shikomizue]

[He hums in agreement, the deep sound almost lost in the whir of a ship's engine as it idles in place. Everything looses its luster, everything becomes either dull or dangerous, so there's nothing to do but to take reckless risks.

In pursuit of only a flash of beauty. A glimmer of freedom.]

There's nothing you're needed for. [Navigation is simple enough, once the necessity of emotional management is understood. But he won't prattle on about the practicality of a trip - that it's possible isn't what makes it alluring.]

Might as well be bored out there, if you're going to be bored.

[He shrugs.] The stars look quite different when you're among them.

[unprays]

I'm not bored, [ she responds, a little sharply, as though the implication is insulting — and yet, isn't it closer to the truth than she'd like to admit? as strange as the things they have here are, as different from home... everything is so much less complicated, here.

a good thing and a bad thing, at once, because when you're trained to expect tragedy, peace is more nerve-wracking than anything else.

after a pause, she nods. ] Fine. I suppose I could see what it's like, there.

thats called ptsd sansa

[shikomizue]

[It rings petulant to Takasugi, a tone not amusing in its childishness but in its proximity to his own memory - he might have responded in kind, years and years ago.

He's never cared for peace, now less than ever. But he's not surrendered to the idea that war has been taken from him along with his homeland.

The stars are vast, after all.]

Alright. [And that's all he says, turning to walk towards one of the ships with the assumption - confidence - that she'll follow.

When he arrives he climbs to the hull only to open the cockpit.] Go ahead. [He'll follow after - best to let first experiences go first.]