keeps_a_cool_head: (my insurance carrier is having a fit rn)
Scorpius ([personal profile] keeps_a_cool_head) wrote2014-07-14 12:49 pm

Log 0018 - [Video]

[Someone is in an angry sort of mood, given post-flood shenanigans. Scorpius is keeping himself relatively calm by usual standards, but he's tense and bristling when he makes his post]

I should like the permission of a warden to work in the lab today.

[All day. Because hell if he's going to deal with emotions.]



[Private to Horatio]

I believe I owe you an apology. The responsibility of my flooded self lies with me.

[Private to Stephanie]

Thank you for keeping the situation under manageable control.
ichoosefight: (🌱 let's just talk)

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[personal profile] ichoosefight 2014-07-17 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's just not translating properly. He's right, their lives are too different, and she's not good at generalizing her own experiences in words. Abstractly she knows there's a universal truth there, if only she can put it in a way he'll understand. ]

Of course it isn't. It's different for everyone, but there still have to be things that you want. Stupid little things that aren't right or wrong but are still worth living for. Things that make you happy, even if it's just the feeling of going to bed after a really long day.
ichoosefight: (I did good right?)

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[personal profile] ichoosefight 2014-07-18 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Well there you go. Save the universe, then find yourself the perfect intern.

[ Yes that is what she got from that description. ]
ichoosefight: (look how much we have in common!)

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[personal profile] ichoosefight 2014-07-18 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think "trustworthiness" is really something you can interview for.

[ Joking, she's joking now. ]
ichoosefight: (so detective what brings you here?)

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[personal profile] ichoosefight 2014-07-18 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ This is so ironically hilarious to her that she actually snorts, loud enough that she feels the need to cover her face because wow that was embarrassing. ]

Are you kidding me? I live my whole life navigating lies. I spent most of my young adulthood fighting tooth and nail for the trust of people who wouldn't tell me their real names. I lived with a crook and a druggie, I know how often people lie to me. I'll give you a hint: it's basically all the time.
ichoosefight: (that's it. done. throwing it away.)

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[personal profile] ichoosefight 2014-07-18 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
It's an infinite universe. Everything has to exist somewhere.

And anyway life is too depressing when you assume the worst. I can't afford to think like that.

[ Which is not to say that she doesn't think like that - only that she knows that she mustn't. ]
ichoosefight: (say that again?)

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[personal profile] ichoosefight 2014-07-18 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Fuck no. [ She's partly surprised by the question, partly just that adamant. ] I like my memories where they are, thanks.
ichoosefight: (omnomnom?)

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[personal profile] ichoosefight 2014-07-18 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
If there's anything I've forgotten there's a 60-40 chance that I really don't want to remember it.
ichoosefight: (screwed that one up)

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[personal profile] ichoosefight 2014-07-18 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, there are bound to be a few things. Of course there would. [ But her past is a minefield, and she needs some assurance she won't get blown up. ]
ichoosefight: (sometimes donuts aren't enough)

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[personal profile] ichoosefight 2014-07-18 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's probably something. Even just the simple act of wheedling her makes her a little more pliable. He just seems to want it so bad. ]

No. I kinda just assume it's most of the time.

[ So no, she doesn't believe you when you say you've never lied to her. She is not nearly so trusting as she likes to appear. ]
ichoosefight: (upside-down time)

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[personal profile] ichoosefight 2014-07-18 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not as much about truth as it is about motive. The best lies are based in truth, you know? Any kid old enough to form complete sentences knows that.
ichoosefight: (fond)

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[personal profile] ichoosefight 2014-07-18 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Surprise! Your energetic young warden is secretly a mature adult. ]

More or less. I think not manipulating people all the time probably has something to do with it too.
ichoosefight: (let the snow bury your faux pas)

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[personal profile] ichoosefight 2014-07-18 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure why you're so convinced my world is all sunshine and rainbows. I'm from Gotham. The only reason we're not a nuclear wasteland is because Nightwing happened to move to Bludhaven.
ichoosefight: (no fists this time)

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[personal profile] ichoosefight 2014-07-18 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm 18, of course I've manipulated people. But listen, I've been manipulated my whole life.

[ Her words are adamant, but her tone is matter of fact. This is what life in her world is like. ]

I was a hostage to my dad, a warm body to my boyfriend, an alibi to my teachers, a faulty tool to my childhood hero, a distraction to the love of my life, a toy to Black Mask. I've been traded, abandoned, strung along, lied to, trapped, tortured. I was told all my life that I was worthless, that justice and freedom and normalcy was for everyone else, that if I didn't color inside the lines I'd be beaten, abused, or killed. And you know what? Fuck that. And fuck everyone that treats other people like that, too.

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