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

[justamobster]

She's still here.

There are times Ladon hopes he'll return to find that she's gone, but times he dreads it as well. Hypatia hasn't been kind to Jade. If the AI isn't doing horrible things to the girl personally, she's sending her on missions that she knows full well will make Jade loathe her very existence. Still, a little part of him hopes that he'll come back to find that she's escaped somehow.

No such luck. He's not sure how to even comfort her anymore. How can he, considering what's happened over the past decade? After the monster he's turned into and the broken young woman she's grown into?

Still, he lingers.

"Hey, kiddo."

[astrometry]

At least she doesn't mind what he's become -- herself is a little different, but it's a different story and she can't tell it to anyone without fumbling and breaking her words into pieces. So she sits on the edge of what's called her bed (though really, it's more like a cot, a place for her to shut off her mind and let the manipulation take over) and stares at him.

Carefully, she lets her lips form a hesitant smile. Nothing like her old smiles, carefree and effortless. This one takes work; Jade has to think about it to hold it in place.

"Hi, Ladon. How are you?" The speech is slow, deliberate. She tries to keep herself in one piece for him, because she knows that he expects it.

[justamobster]

Jade keeping it together is a measurement of how much time he has left. The moment she breaks down completely and can't even sum up herself any longer, that's when he has to make an important decision-- take her away from here, find somewhere safe, and pray to God he can break Hypatia's grip on her before either of them die. He just hopes that everything he's been doing over the past few years amounts to something, that he won't ultimately fail her.

He heads over to sit next to her. "Same as ever. Manage t'get any sleep?"

Probably not. It's hard to get any rest with an alien AI in your head.

[astrometry]

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?"