Prisoners

[srwu_mods]

"Not too long ago I said Unity Group is not a prison, but..." Commander Antov looks over his reports. Since when did UG accumulate so many prisoners to take care of?

A chance for you to converse with some of them (well except Sielje, she gets her own thread).

[1]
Ilinka Venczel doesn't do much - she mostly sits around in her cell without any displays of emotion, as if used to it. Despite not being a prisoner but merely someone under house arrest, Desta is similarly not too communicative, brooding by himself (presence of guards non-withstanding).

Apollonius, on the other hand...


"Aaah! I'm sick of this shit!"

He throws a book he was reading on the floor.

"I never expected being held hostage to be so fucking boring! Is that your plan? To bore me to death?"

"At least let me pilot once in a while! I see BrightSaber and it's collecting dust! Are you guys really so stupid to let a good unit and its pilot go to waste?"

[2]
"It is over..."
Aaron Anso Antema, the sole remaining Lady's Good Men member, is pacing around his cell.
"My uncle is dead and his cult has fallen. Our dreams, shattered. All because of that one man..."

"Loni Gavin. You have bested me." He admits bitterly.

[3]
Serak - Peola's mother for those of you who are not Ashe - unlike the other prisoners who are either emotionlessly sitting around, brooding, throwing tantrums or moping while pacing is...


"DI'SARTHI! KRA SATH KURS'HUK! ER'KITHARI MAR YARSARATH!!!!"

Screaming out things that Peola has continuously refused to translate while trying to pummel her way out of the reinforced cell she was placed in. Not only that but every time her fist rams into the walls she recieves an electric shock. The lack of damage to the walls and the faint scent of burning hair has yet to deter the scarred woman from her futile escape attempt. Eventually she would slam her head into the wall only to end up getting launched to the floor by the next jolt. The tirade of alien curses has yet to cease as she gets to her feet and tries again like a clawless cat trying to scratch a curtain.

Comments

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[tiger_ken]

Considering it'd be stupider to let its pilot out, given he clearly shows no awareness of his actual circumstances...

Should I get you a dictionary maybe?

[srwu_mods]

"Are you making fun of me? Twist the knife in the wound even further?!"

[tiger_ken]

Better than drawing it out so you bleed to death.

[He sighs a little.]

But, I've long realised that arguing with you is pointless. I wanted to ask Ilinka something.

[Naturally, of course, he couldn't resist passing up the earlier opportunity.]

[srwu_mods]

"Arguing with me is pointless? Same to you! All you do is look down on me over and over."

"You know where to find Ilinka so why don't you go to her! Or did she escape? Tell me she escaped. That'd make my day."

[tiger_ken]

You look down on everybody that isn't in your little clique, or family. Name one person - one! - outside of them that you have some actual respect for, and I might be convinced you're not a narcissistic fanatic who has been pampered beyond reason.

[Ken had been meaning to move on, but now? He's taken Loni's remark as a challenge.]

[srwu_mods]

"You want me to respect you, after all you've done to me?! And I even asked to start from scratch a long time ago and still... no."

Loni shakes his head.

"Tough luck. And to think we were rivals."

[tiger_ken]

I'm not asking you to respect me. I'm asking who you respect. At all. The way you're dodging the question as well...

There actually isn't anyone, is there?

[srwu_mods]

"Everyone's the same. Doesn't matter if it's you, or someone else. All of you treat me the same."

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[actuallyselfish]

Dido walks up to Ilinka's cell. She hesitates, then knocks on the cell plexiglass.

"Hey." She says.

[srwu_mods]

Ilinka's gaze focuses on the source of the noise. She seems surprised.

"Yes?"

[actuallyselfish]

"...uh, do you like books?" Dido blurts out. She glances around the cell room Ilinka's in (coincidentally avoiding eye contact. "I mean, there's not much to do in here, and books are the traditional way prisoners keep themselves sane."

[srwu_mods]

"They are alright." A short answer.

[actuallyselfish]

"Then I'll bring you a few classics the next time I'm around." Dido says. "Some fiction and non-Fiction."

Dido folds her arms, trying to figure out what she really wants to ask Ilinka.

"What do you really want?" She says. "What do you want right here and now? In a grand philosophical sense, I mean?"

[srwu_mods]

"What do I want from life, right now?"

Ilinka looks down, thoughtfully.

"I... want to be more useful."

"I feel useless. And if I get sentenced, I will be even more useless. Possibly forever."

[actuallyselfish]

Dido nods. "I can dig that." She says. "Hell, everyone in the Unity Group can get behind that sentiment."

She sighs and sits down. "But you blew up a city, Ilinka. How can we trust you not to do that again?"

[srwu_mods]

"It wasn't a whole city."

"And you are right. You cannot."

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[reactorhead_russians]

Alexis and Sasha are walking through the Unity Group's base, taking a tour of its various locations. They stumble across its impromptu prison block...and its own captive evil martial artist.

They stare at Serak and her raving antics for a while, impassive and unblinking at the feral fury she's expressing.

Then Sasha sticks her tongue out at Peola's mom and blows a raspberry.

[srwu_npc]

Said raging evil alien martial artist all but jerks her head in the direction of the Kaidanovskys with a guttural snarl before throwing herself at the bars. Surprise! Those are electrified too! The resulting crack sends her backwards... not that stops her from trying again. This time holding on despite the discharge and trying vainly to claw at Sasha.

"TL'KHAR! YIG TARTH MAL KARSAHK!"

All that Serak needs to be is foaming at the mouth to resemble a rabid animal. She already has the expression and the bloodshot eyes.

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[brought_it_back]

Venczel. I still have questions, for you.

[Eva calmly takes a seat. It's been a while since the last time she came to visit.]

...Your creator's motives...do you ever wonder about them? About why they felt they had to do such things...

[srwu_mods]

"No. I took my life for how it was, without questioning it."

Ilinka pauses.

"Do you think I should have?"

[brought_it_back]

I don't know. But I find myself doing it, now.

...Before, I said that there was nothing wrong with being a tool-and I still think so-but when that tool is neglected, and its very existence a crime...

...I don't have any answers. What I should do, who I should devote myself to...and it's not like there are a lot of people like us. So...I'm asking you. If you have any guidance or advice...

[srwu_mods]

"A tool doesn't question its purpose. It does what it's told to."

"When Loni rescued me... I was no longer a tool. I do everything for him now, but I don't do it because he is my owner. I do it because I choose to."

[brought_it_back]

But...how did you choose? How did you know it was right to leave everything behind and follow him?

[srwu_mods]

"Because he gave me a choice. Before, nobody told me I had the right to say no. I just did what they ordered, and it was expected."

"Loni said that if I do not want to do something, I don't have to."

[brought_it_back]

...And that was all?

How did you know he wouldn't betray you later? How did you know that he wouldn't change his mind and force you to follow him?

...Can you really trust someone that quickly?