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?

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[gamzgrewup]

They compete sometimes. He almost respects her, the way a lion might respect another lion's territory. He avoids her territory most of the time. But sometimes he tests her. Pushes the limits.

He crawls deliberately through her tunnels, searching for her. Maybe he'll kill her today.

[shipper]

Nepeta no longer really recognize Gamzee (although sometimes seeing him brings painful flashes of bright happy rooms and sweets that make her yowl), but she likes when he challenges her. People usually don't survive more than a round of her games, and definitely don't play the same sorts of games she does. It's fun to find someone who bucks both trends.

Sometimes, when she's feeling very daring, she skulks into his section of tunnels and makes a game of how far she can go before he detects her. Her favorite thing to do it steal on of his precious heads, although this very rarely happens.

She was lucky the day before. Soon enough Gamzee will find a severed head bouncing down near where he's moving, a ghostly giggle echoing through the tunnels from up above.

[gamzgrewup]

He snarls. One of his prized heads; how dare she. He hates her. He loves her. He loves these games.

He flashsteps up to the ceiling, clinging to a stalactite and searches for her, silent again. He sees a flash of her moving and follows.

[shipper]

He's fast, nearly always faster than her, but that doesn't stop Nepeta from letting out another delighted laugh and tearing off down the tunnel. Half the fun is in seeing if she can shake him, after all. The other half - well. This was one of the few circumstances where she didn't mind being caught.

That was when the real fun began, after all.

[gamzgrewup]

He gives chase, flashstepping forward when it seems like he's falling behind, sometimes dropping to all fours when the terrain becomes too difficult or the tunnels incline. He's closing in, can see her ahead of him, and the chase has the blood thundering in his ears. She spill such a lovely green when he catches her sometimes, and he wants that more than anything right now.

At the exact moment he leaps forward and tackles her from behind, claws digging into her back.

[shipper]

Nepeta hears the leap, twists around just enough that she can unsheathe her claws and slash at him as they fall. She can feel a dull ache where he's hit her, but the damage is negligible in the grand scheme of things. A few points in the beginning were acceptable in order to secure a grand win.

[gamzgrewup]

He snarls as the claws dig into his shoulder, but the challenge makes things so much more fun. The best prey spills some purple.

He scrabbles at her with his own claws, trying to pin her to the ground and open her throat.

[shipper]

She'll have none of that, no sir. Gamzee's claws slash open cuts that go unnoticed for the present as she gets her feet up and attempts to use their momentum to throw him over her. There'll be no dying today if she can help it.

[gamzgrewup]

She gets her feet under him and he barrels right over her, spinning in the air and landing again on all fours. He draws himself back up to his full height and snarls a challenge at her. Then he charges again, head lowered in an attempt to gore her with his horns.

[shipper]

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.

[gamzgrewup]

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.

[shipper]

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.

[gamzgrewup]

That move is unexpected. Maybe she's learning, or maybe she just hasn't shown him everything that she can do yet.

He goes down hard on his back with a grunt. He's immediately rolling back up onto all fours, but for the time being he's off-balance and vulnerable.

[shipper]

The minute she sees the vulnerability Nepeta is right up in his business, slashing at whatever weak spot she can reach. It doesn't matter what she hits - Nepeta knows all of the places to aim for that will cause pain.

[gamzgrewup]

Her claws open slashes across his chest and pierce his shoulder, but all it does is make him angrier. With a roar of pain and rage, he grabs at whatever part of her he can snag and then throws himself to the side, aiming to smash her against the nearest hard surface again.

[shipper]

She's grabbed at a bad angle and hurled at what's becoming an all too familiar wall. Unable to break his grip on her Nepeta instead attempts to position herself so that she hits the surface with her feet, enabling her to use it as a jumping off point to shoot back at him. Hopefully it works.

[gamzgrewup]

He snarls when he sees what she's intending, but he can't stop her from kicking off the wall.

He can however, stop her from tackling him again, by smacking her clean out of the air.

[shipper]

She scrabbles for a moment at him in an attempt to keep from being batted out of the sky, but can't quite manage it. Nepeta hits the ground awkwardly, hissing as she lands on something already banged up from her previous encounter with the wall. It takes her a moment to recover from the pain, unfortunately leaving her open to attack.

[gamzgrewup]

He uses the opportunity to kick her as hard as he can, in an effort to send her sailing down the tunnel. It's about now that he's starting to wear out, however, and it's starting to look like retreat might be a good idea. He waits to see if she's going to come charging back to fight more, or if he can make an escape now.

[shipper]

The kick lands, sending her skittering across the floor at an impressive rate. Nepeta's pretty banged up by this point, but her natural instincts prevent her from running away just yet. This is her territory, after all, and she needed to defend it. She staggers to her feet to prepare to jump back into the fray, although her movements are much slower now and make an escape by her foe very possible.

[gamzgrewup]

He gives her a parting laugh, then turns and takes off back down the tunnels, heading toward his own territory. The laughter practically dares her to follow.

[shipper]

Every fiber of her being wants to go after him and rip him apart a few dozen times over, but Nepeta isn't stupid. She knows that trailing after him while injured is just asking for death, and so she merely roars after him as a warning.

Next time she wiggles her way into his territory she was going to take all of those stupid skulls. That would show him.