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Dark Future Meme

Ten years later, humanity and the synthetic life on the station are at odds
Hypatia has inducted as many citizens of Sacrosanct into a private military and launched
an all-out war against organic life and the people of Asphodel.
Some were kept on the station as captives, some escaped down planet-side
to become part of the resistance, and countless others were re-purposed into
Hypatia's willing slaves.

Now, tensions are at a peak and both sides are preparing for a throwdown. Skirmishes break out on the station and planet. Many of Hypatia's prisoners have been freed, but many more have fallen to the clutches of reprogramming.

Where will you be?

How this works:
-If you are synthetic or part-synthetic, OR if you have special armor (Looking at you, Spartans, Troncast, EVERY ROBOT EVER) you are a target for re-purpose.
You can still have escaped down to the planet, but she'll be after you. Going to the station is dangerous, once you enter her wide-area-network you are at risk of being hacked

-If you are fully organic, you are either dead, kept prisoner and made to work on the station, or part of the resistance on Asphodel.

-Anything in-between? You decide. Be creative with this.

-Fill out the form below to give us an idea of what your character is up to, what happened to them etc. Thread with each other! RP it out!

-Also, bring in your extra journals! There won't be the same people on the station ten years from now! If you're planning to app someone, or just have something interesting lying around, toss them in!

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Name: CT
Current location: Sacrosanct! Probably hiding out like she does.
Current Physical Appearance: Her hair is even longer than it is now, usually braided back into a fauxhawk. Still short. Still baby-faced, but covered in a few more tattoos, whose meaning is pretty obscured except to those who know said meaning. Also now has re-built a suit of armor vaguely similar to MJOLNIR, but not in that brown 8(
Summary: When the going started to get tough, CT dug in deeper into her hideout, rarely leaving except to the very limited number she trusts. In those ten years, she's become a self-taught weapons expert, constantly trying to out-think Hypatia and keep one step ahead. She'd be deep in the resistance if she trusted more than a handful of people, so she does her best to serve primarily as a consult only. Getting her into battle would take even more than usual now.

Name: Sam Flynn
Current location: Sacrosanct
Current Physical Appearance: Oh jeez. Sam's a mess now physically. He should have learned early not to run headfirst into dangerous situations, but hey he's Sam. He's got too many scars to count from far too many close calls, one of which runs deep into his hairline on one side where death brushed far too close. Otherwise, he's likely a little more burly due to needing less speed and more strength.
Summary: Well. Sam's never been one to sit back and let someone else fight. So, of course, he got himself in trouble right off the bat, didn't learn, got in trouble again. Soon enough, he brushed far too close to death to be comfortable, but didn't leave the resistance. Still fighting, no matter what. Also very likely protecting his family like a crazy guard dog.

Those simple statements draw Karkat's full attention. He's silent, mentally cross-applying missions interrupted by Harley and the individuals involved with those missions. Here and there, sure, she'd strike parties with no past with her, but the vast majority of confrontations involved either Karkat, Dave, Vriska, or others who had known her. He'd need to check his records to confirm, but...

"Fuck," his voice is in awe, "You're a goddamn genius."

I'm trying -- I'll-- There's a glitch in her programming and body twitches, a physical warning not to have those thoughts. But she has them anyway, because what's the worst they can do to her? Have Dave kill her? Have her kill herself?

I will talk to someone, I will get you out of here. I promise, Dave, we can fix this. I love you.

She backs up a little bit, unsure of what he wants; this is the way they come for her sometimes, like she's meant to be in a cage. But usually the torture comes with the inability to control her motion, control her motor functions. And since she can still speak, can still move, she decides that he isn't out to try and hurt her.

Jade freezes as he places a hand on her shoulder. There's a long time time before she speaks again. "...Please-- please don't hurt me, I'll be good I promise. I'll do whatever you say."

She shakes her head: steady, without feeling. Jade doesn't sleep any more; she shuts her mind off, like a light switch, letting Hypatia's whispers fill her subconscious. She always feels more connected after she "sleeps," even though her human side resists it, trying to keep her away.

"I don't sleep. Do you?"

"Go away."

Her tone is meant to be threatening, but by this point Nepeta is completely exhausted and it comes out sounding more petulant than anything else. All she wants to do is stop her arm from bleeding out and take a nap and not listen to this awful man anymore.

He made her head hurt in all the wrong ways and he just wouldn't leave her alone. Nepeta was seriously starting to regret not gutting him on sight.

She wants him back so badly in that moment that human emotion overrides any programming for just a moment, and she presses her lips to his. Even though she knows he'll never kiss her back, she knows he'll just stand there, she wants it to work.

"Please talk to me, pl-- pleasepleaseplease."

The sound prompts a retaliatory hissing from Nepeta, who sinks onto all fours and rushes at the charging troll. She hopes to grab onto his horns and flip onto his back where she can sink her fangs into his neck, but he's always been difficult to predict. It's hard to say whether to move will pay off in any meaningful way until the very end.

"Nope. I won the game. So if I do go, you're coming with me." He remains where he is, though.

"Now, do you want to stop bleeding or not? I doubt it's particularly fun."

It's been more difficult to acquire food lately. Not that it had ever been particularly easy - a station filled mostly with synthetics meant that any food was in the same area as prisoners and organics under her sway, neither quite the easiest beings to avoid or confront. But things were tightening, as if a noose that had been hanging around his neck for an eternity finally remembered how to close.

The slow depletion of his rations means that Rattmann is forced to be more bold with his movements than he'd like to be. There's danger all over, but he can't be of use to anyone if he starves. Even his shattered mind recognizes that.

So far things have moved smoothly. He'd been in and out without setting anything off and was nearly back to the vent he'd emerged from, arms and lab coat filled with nonperishables. Maybe this would be ok for once.

The small hope bubbling up keeps him from checking what's around the next corner as thoroughly as he usually does before proceeding, something which he'll likely regret in a moment or two.

"You cheated, it doesn't count." Against her better judgement she rolls over to shoot him the most baleful glare that she can muster up at the moment.

"And I haven't been having any fun at all since you got here."

Karkat makes a face in return.

"Well, poor you. It's not my fault I'm damn good at what I do."

He's about to leave. To push the entire encounter form his memory and focus on Hypatia. On the job at hand. Though he pauses. Unloading one of the sacks, he approaches, hunching down toward Jin.

He retrieves a packet of food cubes from it and thrusts it at Jin, holding it out at arm's length like he's feeding some kind of wild animal.

When there's no response, he jerks his hand as if to insist.

"Fine," Skyfire relents, laying flat on his belly, reluctant, but too tired to argue. Whatever takes less words on his part.

He watches Shockwave work, closing his eyes briefly, feeling suddenly sleepy. A reminder of his remaining humanity.

It usually brings nightmares, so he sleeps little as possible.

Usually, she's too late and he's already vanished when she gets there. She's oddly okay with that; but she's okay with a lot of things these days.

That moment of inattention is just what she needed. When Rattmann rounds the corner, she's waiting for him.

"You'll keep visiting?" She sounds a little worried. He's the one really familiar and safe face in this whole place, so far, and she doesn't want him to stop coming.

She's afraid she'll stop remembering if he stops coming.

"Jade, no." He has to stay calm if only so he doesn't freak her out more, but the fact that she's scared of him makes him feel like he's dying a little inside. "I would never hurt you. Not on purpose. Not even accidentally if I could help it." He moves his hand to press it against her cheek.

"You're my best friend. My sister. I love you, okay? Always will."

She retaliates with another equally mature face.

"Being good at cheating's nothing to be proud of!"

Jin blinks at the gesture and the offered food cubes.

"For me?" He looks up at Jetfire again. "Thanks, but...I really don't need to eat as much as the humans do, so..."

His stomach betrays him with a rumble and a sheepish look passes over his face. He doesn't need to eat as much, but he's not actually sure when his last meal was. There isn't much out here but worms.

He reaches out and takes the food.

"...Thank you."

He does know her moves, to some degree. She moves like a...

There was a word for it once.

He lets her grab hold of his back, but when he feels her reaching for his neck he bucks and then flips onto his back in an effort to crush her beneath him. Even if that doesn't work, he'll still be reaching up to grab at her wrists and try to throw her against the nearest wall.

Hello, Sollux.

His mental tone is cheerful enough, but it's undercut with an older, deeper anger. He doesn't like what's been done to Sollux and damned if he doesn't make a secret of it. He knows the boy thought it was necessary, but he's never been able to bring himself to agree, not with what it's cost him. But his anger isn't and would never be directed at Sollux himself. It's internalized more than anything.

If I didn't know better, I might actually call this 'normal'. It's been quiet. I'm glad to hear from you, though.

The flavour of their interactions is subtly different from pure telepathy, doubtless due to Sollux's nature, but it's not difficult for Charles to project something like a one-armed hug and a fatherly hair ruffle.

He's not expecting anyone to be there, and he's certainly not expecting her. The cans clatter to the floor as he takes an involuntary step back, haggard face pulled even tauter in a look of pained surprise.

He'd always assumed that she would have gotten off the station, would have made it down to the planet with the others. Even though she claimed to be the unlucky copy, in Rattmann's mind here fortunes were always good. It made running through the vents here a little more bearable, knowing that she was somewhere safe.

But maybe he's wrong. There are a dozen explanations for why she's here now, but his mind is screaming wrong wrong wrong as his mouth stutters out faint words.

"It's you."

Shh, Alex, it's all right.

He gave up years ago on being able to rescue her. He's even thought about killing her, once or twice perhaps. He could, if he focused. Perhaps not her body, but her mind-- yes. That he could destroy.

He can't bring himself to do it.

Alex is something of the past that he yet treasures. He knows it's selfish.

She's too fast to be crushed, but not quite fast enough to avoid being bashed against the wall. Nepeta grunts as her body connects, staggering to her feet despite the disorientation from the blow. In times like these her instincts run faster than her mind does, taking over while her conscious thoughts are still groggy from pain. It's useful in keeping her alive, especially when she's facing Gamzee.

For a moment she wobbles in place before shifting into a crouch and charging him. At the last moment she intends to sink down and try to sweep his legs out from under him.

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chell baby no ;;

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hypatia made her do it ;_;

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that just makes it woooorse

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