What dreams may come [Open, bendytimed to before GTFO plot]

[toariversodeep.livejournal.com]

In her sealed, silent, sensory-deprived meditation room, Roxie is sleeping. It's a special sleep: for all dreams are connected, she knows, and by spinning her mind out along the web of thought, she might step into others...

[Roxie is dream-hopping, getting a look at the subconsciousnesses of the other people on the ship. So, how it works - if you're interested, go ahead and post with a dream your character is having, and Roxie will slip into it, subtle at first but more obvious as she tries to satisfy her curiosity. Just her being around will make the dreamer more lucid and more likely to remember the whole thing when they wake up.

Also, feel free to ask any OOC questions in a thread here, or poke me on AIM at 'anagramarye'.]

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[toariversodeep.livejournal.com]

Roxie tilts the baseball cap back, but she keeps the sunglasses on. She doesn't feel quite comfortable without something to frame her eyes, even in the dreamlands.

"I do my job. It's my duty. If that makes me a bad or good person as somebody else sees it, I don't really care."

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry, by the way," he says, after a moment of silence.

[toariversodeep.livejournal.com]

"Sorry for what?"

[supertshirt.livejournal.com]

"Treating you like a little kid. I know how annoying that can be, when you've seen a lot of crazy stuff, and fought a lot, and don't feel like a kid inside, after all you've done."

He drops his chin on his knees.

"All you kids remind me of...me, I guess. Yuri's the only one of you that's careful. The rest of you aren't afraid of anything."

He tears out some grass and starts playing with it in his hands.

"I just...I don't want to see any of you have to learn stuff the hard way. Like I did."

It's then that he admits something he'd never admit in the waking world (because he's invulnerable. He's Superboy. And invulnerable people don't feel pain, inside or out. They have to be stone. Strong).

"It hurts."

And he doesn't want to see any of them get hurt.

[toariversodeep.livejournal.com]

"I can't be afraid of anything."

Roxie lets out what borders on a soft sigh, and leans back a little. "I'm part of a promise, to do my duty to my god. If I don't give it everything I have, then I'm breaking that promise, and I don't want to do that."

She almost, not quite, smiles. "What I do hurts, every day. But it's what I have to do if I want to live up to myself."

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

"Being used to it doesn't mean I want you to, though."

He doesn't like kids getting hurt.

He doesn't like anyone getting hurt.

[toariversodeep.livejournal.com]

"But I want to." Her face shifts subtly. "No. I don't want to, but I have to. And I don't want to give up what I do."

[supertshirt.livejournal.com]

"I'm not talking about stopping you from doing what you have to," Kon said softly. "No one could've stopped me from being a superhero. Even when it got bad. I'm just talking about wanting. Haven't you ever wanted something good for someone even if you couldn't make it possible? Haven't you ever wanted to at least try anyway? That's what I'm talking about. I kinda wanna keep you munchkins safe. Even if you don't need it--and I know you especially don't need it. Just because I wanna try. Just because...I want the 'I have to' part to fall on me if there's ever any times it can fall on me instead."

[toariversodeep.livejournal.com]

"...Yeah," Roxie says, and there's something unfamiliar in her face. Almost--gratitude, hints of it around the edges even while her casual stoicism keeps it from showing more obviously.

But then her face flattens out again. "But it's not something you can really help with. The things I fight aren't safe for other people to even be around. They're... communicable."