Dark Future Meme

[notyourchauffeur]

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!

<B>Name:</B> (Derp or Derpina.) <B>Current location:</B> (Where are they? Sacrosanct? Asphodel?) <B>Current Physical Appearance:</B> (What do they look like now? ) <B>Summary:</B> (Tell us the story. How did they get to this point? What happened to them? What are they like?

Comments

[lithp]

"Please tell me you didn't leave my new comm design off your ear because it's 'more techno robowitchery,'" Sollux's voice says tinnily on said comm unit. "Because I swear if you did I'm telling the whole Resistance you hatepail yourself thinking about Hypatia. On loudspeaker. You can at least try to have a little faith in me and my designs. Report."

[selfkismesis]

"Report, report. Look, I'm reporting. Fuck, Sollux. Are you seriously pretending to be a goddamn lusus?" By bitching, he's just buying himself time. He knows Sollux'll take it as a personal offense that Karkat refuses to wear his technological bullshit devices, despite the fact that Karkat has told him multiple times, with as many fuckwords as possible, that he can't fucking stand to have something metal with a signal so close to his pan.

[lithp]

"No, I'm saying that this is the only way we can goddamn well talk and there's a heat signature coming towards your sector. Or do you think my warning system is out to get you too?" Sollux sounds exasperated, but in a way that suggests he's trying hard to remember what exasperated sounds like. "North by northwest from your current location. Get a move on."

[selfkismesis]

He sighs. Sollux is right-- proving his point by providing information too. Karkat needs the warning system if he wants to survive. He pulls the ear piece out of his pocket (he had been carrying it-- that counts for something, right?), hooks it up, and sighs again. But with more umph.

"Alright, happy? It's in, I can hear you whispering your sweet information in my noise receptors, and my ass is moving. Maybe you can hear that too."

[lithp]

"I can see it," Sollux corrects him. "You know how I love to watch your fine ass running along. Be a little more careful this time, okay? I worry about you, and when it's out past my sensors I can't help much."

He pauses, then sighs, as if remembering that's something you do at a moment like this. "Signature's big. Might be another worm. It's really annoying trying to come up with anti-worm measures, damn."

[selfkismesis]

"Alright, I've got it. It's just a fucking worm. You don't need to worry. I'm a big grub now, surprise! I can take care of it on my own." Despite his words, he's replacing his sickles for Sollux's Anti-Worm Bullshit Blow Things Up device (Karkat's name for it, obviously).

"I'll come visit you when I'm done out here. How's that sound?"

[lithp]

"It might be something else, too, so don't get cocky," Sollux says sharply. "You know better than that."

Another pause. His tone is softer when he says, "That would be nice." Karkat is one of the only people that bothers to visit his body these days, and even if it doesn't really matter it feels like a nice gesture, at least.

[selfkismesis]

Karkat gives his mechanical leg a quick thump before starting off. It's basic mechanics, but hardy. It's taken just as many beatings as he has, and despite needing constant repair work, it's survived.

"If I get closer, will you be able to tell me if it's more than just a worm? Or am I going to have to figure this shit out on my own."

[lithp]

"Well, gee, KK, I'd have liked to equip you with better sensors, but when I floated the idea your reaction was-" and suddenly Sollux's voice becomes a perfect replica of Karkat's own, enacting playback, "-'fuck no, are you shitting me, I'm not putting your robot minions on so they can betray me to the enemy!'"

Bitter? Maybe a little.

"So no, KK, until it gets closer to my sensors you're shit outta luck. Good job."

[selfkismesis]

"Damn straight that was my reaction." Karkat nods smugly at the accurate imitation, "If it wasn't, then you'd better get worried. That'd mean the Shebitch had gotten a hold of my sponge meats!"

Alright, north by northwest.

"Just tell me when I'm getting close, then? Not too complex for you, huh?"

[lithp]

"You are such a technology bigot. 500 meters and closing."

[selfkismesis]

At about 200 meters, he can feel the ground rumbling beneath him. At 100, he knows this worm is fucking huge.

"Alright, Sollux, I can't deal with this shit and talk to you at the same time, as much as I enjoy hearing your bitching directly delivered straight to my pan. Any last bits of info?"

[lithp]

"Don't die." Sollux's voice is lower in timbre this time, and even a bit scared. "I always think when you leave that you're not coming back. You're my best friend and I'll never forgive you for it."

[selfkismesis]

"I'll never forgive me for dying, so it's not going to happen. Talk to you in a bit." And he pockets the device.

About thirty minutes and a ridiculous amount of stabs/explosions later, Karkat's calling back into Sollux, slightly out of breath.

"Done."

[lithp]

"Asshole. That took you too long, don't make me worry like that. You said you'd visit," Sollux reminds him petulantly.

[selfkismesis]

"On my way, calm your ass." There's something wrong with his metallic leg-- it's clinking and sticking and walking is a bitch.

"It's going to take me a bit to get there. Make sure I don't run into anything else. I'm-- ... I'm not equipped to deal with another bigass worm."

[lithp]

"You need repairs. I can hear that leg," Sollux replies flatly. "Don't worry. Nothing else is showing up on the scanners. Just get back in the shield and back to me and we'll fix you up."