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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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"I miss it," Sollux says dreamily. "Touching you. I miss touch a lot, when I think about how things were. Is that weird? It probably is."

She stands there until he wraps her arms around her.

Slowly, carefully, she hugs him back. "This is how you hug your friiiiiiiends, r-right?"

"Not at all," he replies cheerily. "At least you actually use the room for stuff. So how are the timelines looking? Do you need me to toss some random numbers, calculate a few probabilities for you?"

He doesn't get to talk to Terezi much - she's much too busy with her work, and when she's not then he is. Their visits are nice, though.

Kanaya doesn't see any harm in following the order, even though Hypatia is indignant in her head. It isn't the real A.I., but a mimicry, but it still loathes the fact that Kanaya is doing what he says. One of her arms locks up and her legs bend at the knee, forcing her into a kneeling position. She huffs and tried to get back up, but it's so much effort and she doesn't have the patience or resources to do it. She's upset with Hypatia and her lack of movement. Spite is what drives her to follow the Leader's motion and make a rather large half-diamond with her massive claws.

"What is the purpose of this?"

He finds her hand and runs his fingers over her knuckles thoughtfully. God, she's just skin and bones. This isn't how Buffy's supposed to be-- fragile and lost. It's wrong.

"Of course. We've got movies to watch and shit to eat."

"No. It's not weird at all." Eridan corrects him gently, closing his eyes for moment to think back.

"I also think back, back before everythin' went to literal hell. Everythin' was much simpler, everythin' was just so good for us, even when we had someone try t'take over, or the teleporters malfunctioned to all hell."

He balls his fists slightly, tilting his head down. "I don't know how you fuckin' put up with me back then. I never even fucking realized how good you were t'me for the longest time." After a moment, he pulls his head back up, shaking his head. "... Sorry, I'm probably just distractin' you with this."

"This is how you hug your friends," he affirms. She's so tiny, compared to him now, and he's not even all that big. She's just skin and bones and metal, and just... tiny.

It's kind of hard to believe it's really the girl who befriended him when he arrived, a version of the girl who sacrificed her dream self to save a boy she hardly knew.

He can't decide if he wants to say anything right now, he's a little afraid he'll set her off, say the wrong thing. He'll just hold her, for right now.

He's seen this behavior before, when trying to talk down Hypatia's other conditioned victims. So without waiting for the conditioning to start impacting her psychologically, he touches his fingers to her claws, forming a diamond.

"It's us." Pause. "It was us."

"Oh. A shape."

Kanaya traces it with her eyes, staring until it's burned into her mind. It's a shape. A diamond. It's supposed to mean something.

"How did we make this shape? It doesn't seem physically possible."

"I'll remind you he just tried to eat you," Sollux replies flatly. "I'm taking you back. Try not to do anything else too stupid."

"Why?" He tenses, shivers faintly at the barely-there touch.

"What is the meaning of this?"

He narrows his eyes, unsure of the whole situation. But it's...

Not bad.

He doesn't put a stop to it. Just questions it.

"We did have it pretty good. And I mean, I...hated you, a lot. Still do. It's frustrating, you know," Sollux cuts into his own train of thought. "I can't do much to you like this, besides be annoying or throw you into walls. And there's even less you can do to me without compromising the whole defense system. It sucks."

Pause.

"Are you going to give me a kiss, when you see me? I don't remember much of what kissing was like. Or any of it, really. Everything gets overrun with datadatadata. My organic memory isn't as perfect as the mechanical stuff."

...

"It's a metaphor."

He clicks his teeth together each time the horn--that's what it is, right?--sounds. They bounce off of something in his subconscious, and it's annoying because he can't figure out what it is.

He snarls a warning when the prey sounds the horn another time, then he darts forward and grabs up the food before drawing back into the darkness. He eats noisily, watching the creature and his horns from out of sight.

"SKYFIRE: FILTHY. REQUIRES PROPER CLEANSING."

An excuse as any, but... it's also partially the truth. Skyfire probably hasn't seen a bath in a good while. It's true for most individuals here.

But he also wants some form of intimacy. Being close to Shockwave these days is harder. Not that Skyfire will be easy, but if he can make enough excuses, well.

That would work for him.

"A metaphor for what?" She pokes the tips of his fingers with the sharp ends of her claws, frowning at him. This situation, these feelings of mild disapproval, pity and affection, seem familiar.

"You are being obtuse," her other arm freezes up and she faceplants onto the floor. "I don't like it."

"Incorrect," he replies automatically. "Hypatia is in your head. As are several memory blocks, as far as I can tell."

Sollux considers her question carefully, but not before taking a moment to enjoy Kanaya looking so sassy and indignant like she used to. "It was kind of shitty sometimes. We all fought a lot, we were kids, not all of us got along. But...overall, it was good. More than good."

"Good. I start forgetting when you go away. What we talked about. My memory drives are malf--"

She stops herself and takes a deep breath, her hand tightening around Karkat's. No, no, she might still have a synthetic eye, parts of her mind might literally be circuitry, but she is a person. She is not a computer.

Not anymore.

"My memory doesn't work well yet," she corrects herself after a moment to rearrange her thoughts. "Things don't... stick. I think I forgot how to remember things like a person. Is that possible?"

He gives them another honk, just before he pulls the food into the shadows. As much as it frightened him, he doesn't reach out, he doesn't try to do anything.

He had no intention of standing up, nor did he have any intention of trying to move from the spot he was in. "Can you still honk like before?" He asks the great beast, clearing his throat a bit. He hadn't done it in a while, but he tried to mimic the sound of the horns. He honked a few times, which he couldn't come close to the sound that he had made sweeps prior, but it was... similar to the sound.

"... Okay, yes, he did. But you're not gettin' it. He did try t'kill me, but he was like... hesitant. Or somethin'." He really can't figure out what that was.

"I really can't say no from the inside of this shield, can I?" He muttered, rolling his eyes. "Plus, my hands are out of commission right now anyways, so I'd be askin' t'get eaten if I somehow made my way outta it."

He growls, but he also stinks to high heaven. He moves Soundwave off his lap and stands up, letting his suit fold back into itself, sliding off his body.

He steps out of it an sighs, his body still a map of circuitry and scars.

Visible ribs say he eats less than average for someone here- which is something because there's not much food to begin with.

"I've... actually taken t'writin' down some of the stuff I start t'remember. I don't want to forget anythin', and it just feels right t'do that, y'know? And-- if you'd like, I could try t'come by with it when I come by more." He begins to explain, leaning back just a tad. "... I never ever stopped hatin' you. Nothin' can compare t'where you sit in my heart. You an' Gam'."

His words could not be anymore true. He never forgot about him, he never wanted to leave him, he never wanted this to happen. He was separated from them, but never in his heart.

"I am. I'll let you remember how it was t'be kissed by me." He glances up as he says that, remembering something. "... I'm goin' t'be the shittiest kisser, though. I haven't had much t'kiss lately. It's... goin' t'be somethin'."

The body is different than he remembers. The insignias are still present, true, but the scars and circuitry -- Hypatia has changed so much.

He'll just have to get to know him again.

Gently, he nudges and guides Skyfire to crouch on the portion that is a brick floor. About as sanitary as he can get it to be.

For a moment, the Decepticon is gone, if only to heat up a bucket of water and fetch a sponge. Not long after, he approaches, rolling up his sleeves.

The sponge is dipped into the bucket and he leans in close, slowly scrubbing in small circles over Skyfire's back.

He allows himself to be moved around like a prop before kneeling obediently on the floor. The wet sponge against his back gives him a shock though, and he audibly gasps. He looks... decidedly alarmed.

Probably the most vivid expression he's shown in a long time.

"Hnnghh-"

Just as planned.

The sponge goes in slower circles; he leans in closer, resting his chin on Skyfire's shoulder so he can properly murmur into his ear.

"QUERY: IS THERE A PROBLEM? SKYFIRE: SOUNDS STRAINED."

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