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cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92010-02-21 01:59 pm

The Last Test [closed to: Adam M., Cale, Inara, Miku, Robin, Shadow, Sheik/Zelda, and Tony Stark]

There is a traitor in your midst, meatship. A crew member working for the Nightmare King, enacting his will subtly on the crew.

This person has access to all the Nightmare King knows about their crewmates, and there's plenty the horrible being can glean from their dreams.

Today, it's time to act, to try to cripple all they can, to bring the fears of their crewmates to the forefront to make them easier prey. Today they revel in their cruelty, their soul twisting and writhing in the grips of their cruel master.

[ooc: This is your cue! Each of you, tag in making a new subthread, and set up the setting of where your character is, like you'd do for an post to the comm in general. In the OOC post please lay out the fears and insecurities you plan to exploit in your character's final nightmare to help with the messin'--they'd be bringing those fears to the forefront with their comments, to make it easier for the Nightmare King to act on them]

[identity profile] daaayum.livejournal.com 2010-03-16 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
"What exactly are you looking for, Birdboy?" asks a voice from a roof as he's passing by.
mrsarcastic003: (Thinking Tim)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2010-03-16 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Tim glances up and gives her a quick grin. "Trouble."

[identity profile] daaayum.livejournal.com 2010-03-16 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Do I even need to tell you the part about how you don't have to look any further?"
mrsarcastic003: (Happy Tim)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2010-03-16 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
He laughs a little, shaking his head. "I guess not. What are you up to?"

[identity profile] daaayum.livejournal.com 2010-03-16 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Her expression goes sober, and she shrugs, her legs dangling over the edge of the roof, her feet kicking idly.

"Just thinkin'."
mrsarcastic003: (Thinking Tim)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2010-03-16 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh? About what?" He's frowning a little as he regards her. She doesn't look exactly happy, for all that her movements seem careless.

[identity profile] daaayum.livejournal.com 2010-03-17 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
"People." She goes on. "Big nightmare threat, it's the kinda thing I'd want Irene at my side, you know?"
mrsarcastic003: (Worried)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2010-03-17 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Who's Irene?" he asks curiously. "Someone with seriously massive mental shields? Hopefully the kind that can protect other people as well?" He gives her a wry smile.

[identity profile] daaayum.livejournal.com 2010-03-17 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Actually, she's kinda flaily, squeamish, and usually hides her face in my shoulder when we watch horror movies."

She goes on, "But she's my best friend. Somehow, when we're together, we can take on damn near anything."
mrsarcastic003: (Tim and Kon Hang out)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2010-03-17 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
He nods a little. "Yeah. Friends do make this kind of thing a lot easier to deal with."

[identity profile] daaayum.livejournal.com 2010-03-17 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
"The part that's scary is that...that you can lose them."
mrsarcastic003: (Angsty Tim)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2010-03-17 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
Tim doesn't--quite--flinch. "Yeah, I know."

[identity profile] daaayum.livejournal.com 2010-03-17 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
"I had a vision of Irene, before I came here. That's why I was traveling through the desert, trying to get to where I thought she was. Of an executioner's block. An ax falling."

She goes on. "I keep dreaming about that."
mrsarcastic003: (Angsty Tim)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2010-03-17 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
Tim grimaces, and gives her a sympathetic look. "I--can imagine. I've... been having a lot of dreams like that, too." He manages a slight smile. "Different details. Same result."

[identity profile] daaayum.livejournal.com 2010-03-17 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Is that what you're afraid of, Birdboy? Losing people?"
mrsarcastic003: (Tim's Shades)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2010-03-17 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
He smiles wryly. "Who isn't? I don't think any of us want to lose people we care about."

...Why, yes. That's exactly what he's afraid of.

[identity profile] daaayum.livejournal.com 2010-03-17 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
She looks out into the City, her eyes sad and scared.

"The scary part is--is that feeling, like you can't do a thing about it. Like nothing can stop the ax from falling down."
mrsarcastic003: (Miserable Tim)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2010-03-17 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
And... he knows that feeling very, very well. It's the one he gets every time he thinks about the future he's facing, and what he might (will probably) become.

"Yeah. I know."

[identity profile] daaayum.livejournal.com 2010-03-17 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Have you lost people? You just...have this look."

And she knows. She knows where you hurt, Tim. She knows where to dig in and cut you without you even seeing the knife.
mrsarcastic003: (Miserable Tim)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2010-03-17 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
"I--yes. My family. My parents, and--probably--my stepmother."

Not to mention Steph, which is complicated, and the friends who are--apparently--going to die soon, if they ever do get back to the right place and time.

[identity profile] daaayum.livejournal.com 2010-03-17 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
"Jesus, Tim."

She goes on, "I'm sorry I even brought it up. Look at me worrying my head off and she might be okay, somewhere. I shouldn't be complaining. It could always be worse."

After thinking for a moment, she presses a light kiss to his cheek.

"I'm gonna go to the Sensoriums and practice. See if I can get the maudlin beat out of me. I hate when I'm in a mood like this."

mrsarcastic003: (Angsty Tim)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2010-03-17 09:32 am (UTC)(link)
He nods a little giving her a faint smile. "I've been doing that a lot lately. Or this." He gestures to the city around them. "But I can go with you if you want. If you'd like company."

And he's not going to say that he doesn't really want to be alone right now, but...

He doesn't really want to be alone right now.

[identity profile] daaayum.livejournal.com 2010-03-17 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
If it'd been her, really her, she would have said yes. She would have practiced, they would have flirted, she would have made him laugh and forget moping over this.

If it'd been her, she wouldn't have given the knife a twist.

"I really need to be alone right now. Sorry," she says, as she gets up to go, leaving him with his thoughts.

"I'll see you around, okay?"
Edited 2010-03-17 09:36 (UTC)
mrsarcastic003: (Miserable Tim)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2010-03-17 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Sure. See you later." He watches her go, and--patrol was supposed to make him feel better.

Why does he feel worse?