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Duke Crocker ([personal profile] betterthanaplan) wrote2019-11-18 05:38 pm

The Cape Rouge, Port of Fandom, Monday

Bolstered with caffeine thanks to the Perk, Duke had returned to his boat to see just how much damage his younger self had managed to wreak over the weekend. The place was a wreck, especially the galley, with weapons (that had been toys, which was reassuring and terrifying in equal measure) strewn about wherever wee!Duke had happened to drop them, and a sticky film of grape jelly coating pretty much everything. He'd thankfully been quick enough even as a ten year old to keep the small fire he'd started trying to use the waffle iron contained to a very small space, so that wouldn't take much more than replacing the outlet and maybe resanding part of a cabinet.

And, as predicted, there were five pizzas, two giant cookies, and a rather unholy amount of Pepsi leftover in his fridge. Also, most of a frittata, at least half a serving of beef stew, and several stale and/or smashed cookies. He fed those last items to the porgs, who were all terribly pleased to see him, and set about making the Rouge a proper home again.

He had the door to the deck propped open to air out the smell of small semi-feral boy and to be able to hear if Octavia -- or anyone else -- came around. And, well, if he ended up humming some Violent Femmes under his breath while he did, well. Not everything he remembered from being a kid was a bad memory.

[expecting one, but also open]
okteiviakom: ([spec] emotional intimacy)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2019-11-20 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe," Octavia replied softly, with a little sigh. Glancing over at him and then looking away again. "Lincoln never told me, except that the process was important."

And that he'd wanted to help her through it.

"I just know they were a big deal. Every warrior had tattoos."
okteiviakom: ([pos] oof)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2019-11-20 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Something wry crept back into Octavia's tone. "I think it's debatable whether Trikru actually had anyone who wasn't a warrior."
okteiviakom: ([neu] new dawn fades)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2019-11-20 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
It was kind of him to entertain the idea Octavia had been looking in the first place.

She shook her head. "Not many. And not for very long. I... spent some time around the Seconds from the other clans, especially the ones from Azgeda and Sangedakru, but that's it. We were deep in Trikru territory."

And deep in a war between them and Skaikru for most of her time on the ground, no less.
okteiviakom: ([neu] nonchalant reveal)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2019-11-20 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Did Octavia know she was slightly leaning into the rubbing?

Probably.

"Don't know," she said. "It means Ice Nation. But Trikru is sometimes just Trikru, and sometimes Trigedakru, and sometimes just Trigeda, which means 'forest'. Maybe Azgeda do the same thing amongst themselves."

She and Atohl hadn't exactly chit-chatted enough for that to come up.
okteiviakom: ([neu bel] kom bleikkru)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2019-11-20 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"From what I've heard about them, you probably wouldn't want to argue with them about anything else, either," Octavia noted, with the tiniest sigh. "Emo ste yuj en tofon."

She had a healthy respect of all the clans, to be honest.
okteiviakom: ([neu] at least it's quiet)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2019-11-20 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia shook her head. "Desert," she said. "And that's not even half the clans. There are twelve, not including Skaikru."
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[personal profile] okteiviakom 2019-11-20 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"No matter what number of people there are, they'll always split up into as many groups as they can?" Octavia suggested, shrugging her uninked shoulder. "In space or on the ground." Though technically the stations had come about because of factions on the ground, but, anyway.

She looked down her arm, to where his hand was. And noted, softly, "You've run out of tattoo."

It wasn't a complaint.
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[personal profile] okteiviakom 2019-11-20 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"No." Octavia shook her head, then inclined it a bit in time with half a mild eye roll, directed entirely at herself. "I was thinking of asking you to sit next to me, earlier, anyway."

Actually she'd thought about asking him if he wanted to, because there was nothing greater than distancing yourself from your own stupidly small wishes as much as possible.
okteiviakom: ([neu] i had a dream once)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2019-11-20 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"Originally, yes." The little sigh was both for the continued touching as well as for the entire business of the Ark. It was a multipurpose sigh. "By the time I ended up here, it was every survivor from the Ark."

Well, the ones they'd known about, anyway.
okteiviakom: ([neu] open)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2019-11-20 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Funnily enough, that was exactly what people thought when you fell out of the sky right into their territory.

"My great-grandfather's generation was the last to know Earth before us," Octavia noted softly. "Sunlight, the wind... It was all new for everyone."
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[personal profile] okteiviakom 2019-11-20 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"It doesn't feel much different from this," Octavia replied, picking up her drink again. "When you're used to it. The difference is just that you can never go up on the deck."

With her history of captivity, though... Yeah.

"It's not something I really want to go back to, either."
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[personal profile] okteiviakom 2019-11-20 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"You saw how I was about being outside this weekend." Granted, so very much of that was due to the obvious, depressing reasons. "I couldn't disappoint that kid by going back to living in space."

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