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

[astrometry]

Okay, so maybe she watches him more than a little. Not a lot of strong feelings stayed with her -- fear was gone, as was most forms of friendship, except the deeply rooted ones. But something that stayed was love: ridiculous, overpowering love that she felt for this boy who was part bird and mostly gone from her. Sometimes at night she cries for him, even though she pretends that it's nothing. Who wouldn't cry for a boy who had so much and gave it all up to save someone he loved?

Now she stands behind him, long pauses in her speech so that she can control the paranoia, the overwhelming command to obey, just for a little bit.

"Dave." Her voice is soft. Sometimes, she wonders if he can hear her, beneath all the programming, the fixing. And didn't she want him to be this way, once upon a time? Mindless, with only the capacity to serve? (But it was different, she thinks. A long time ago, she wanted him to serve her.) Jade hesitates, jerkily settling her arms over his shoulders in the only display of affection she can remember any more.

"Answer me."

[featheryasshole]

He doesn't look up from the panel he's repairing, doesn't even hear her voice. (he never knew much about machinery before, but that was easily fixed) There's no reaction at all, actually. He doesn't need to talk in order to complete the task at hand, so he stays silent.

[astrometry]

She never expects a reaction from him any more. Quietly, she speaks again. It's the only way she knows how to get him to speak to her -- to demand orders, to prove her height on the chain of command and force him to speak.

"Davesprite, state directive. Order #4596 from Sacrosanct Personel JH1201."

[featheryasshole]

He stands up to attention, turning to look at (or through) her.

"I'm_i'mi'mi'm h-here."

Under the glitching, his voice is quiet and expressionless, if not completely monotone. There's no thought behind it, just a simple acknowledgement of the order.

[astrometry]

"State current operation."

She's trying not to sound upset by his voice, his monotony. Because that's just who he is; she's not sure how she could help him, make him sound like himself again. And even if she tried to do something, she would probably get caught, and be forced to punish both him and herself.

"Just tell me you're alive. Please."

[featheryasshole]

"C-ccc^urrent operaaaation: _network no^de maint-t-tenance."

If he notices her barely hidden upset, he does not show it in any way.

"I am alive."

[astrometry]

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."