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  ([personal profile] n_ll) wrote in [community profile] doku2016-01-10 05:56 pm

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We are the young, the chosen ones
Voices in unison, the ending has begun
 
A new kingdom come, a new will be done
Enter into this new Elysium
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[personal profile] crimsonxiphos 2016-01-12 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Athena nods. It’s not that she isn’t grateful. As alien as this place seems to her, she knows she’s being given an opportunity most people on Pandora would die for: the chance to escape the borderlands and find a new life on a core world. She’s just not entirely sure what that opportunity entails.] So schools train people to do all those things? What's it like there? [She imagines it like the training facilities at Atlas, though... better, somehow. At least, she hopes so.]
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[personal profile] crimsonxiphos 2016-01-13 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Athena seems reassured by Boxer’s enthusiasm. Even if he isn’t really Pandoran, he’s a lot closer than anyone else she’s seen on this planet -- if he could get through school on Eden-4, then it won’t be impossible for her either.]

We had a few lessons at Atlas. Like how to read and-- [She stops mid-sentence when she realizes they’re being watched. She leans over to Boxer.] Why is she looking at us now? [On Pandora, people would have the common sense not to pick fights with Vault hunters, but this woman seems determined to be a nuisance. How did she live to be so old?]
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[personal profile] crimsonxiphos 2016-01-13 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Athena takes one last suspicious look at the woman before turning her attention towards the changing scenery outside the window. Without the looming glass buildings, this environment is somewhat less intimidating than that of the city, but no less foreign to her. Fortunately for Boxer, by the time the bus has stopped and they’re disembarking, Athena's interest in what lies outside the bus has already overshadowed her misgivings about the woman and she passes her by without catching Boxer’s none-too-friendly introduction. When Boxer finishes terrorizing the woman and gets off the bus himself, he’ll find Athena with a handful of grass she just uprooted from someone’s yard and a perplexed expression on her face.]

People grew all this? [It had looked so uniform and flat from the bus that she had assumed it had to be something manmade. But no, it’s literally just a ridiculous number of plants cut to the same length and spread out in front of people’s houses. But what’s the point of growing plants if you’re just going to chop them into some weird… carpet… thing? Why is this place so weird, Boxer?]
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[personal profile] crimsonxiphos 2016-01-14 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[She gives him a skeptical look when he says the clump of grass “belongs to someone,” but puts it back nonetheless, returning it precisely to the spot she took it from. Boxer's the one who knows the rules to this place, after all, regardless of how little sense they make to Athena. After a moment, she takes his hand again.]

So people plant all of that… so the dirt doesn’t get messed up? [She sounds like she thinks Boxer might be pulling her leg, even moreso when he explains it as a “fashion thing.”] But they’re plants. It’s not like anyone’s wearing them. [And even if they were, it seems like an awful lot of effort just for appearance’s sake.] Why don’t people grow something they can eat? Or sell?
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[personal profile] crimsonxiphos 2016-01-14 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, on Pandora, “home defense” still meant a reliable shotgun moreso than a plot of grass. Speaking of which...]

What about bandits? [She looks at the houses as they pass, taking in the broad windows. All that glass looks nice, sure, but it seems like a structural weakness from Athena’s point of view. It’s why Atlas didn’t tend to have many windows in their facilities. Yet this place shows no sign of damage from past attacks, which means that it has to have some form of fortification.] Are there hidden turrets? Guards? [And please don’t tell her that grass just happens to defend against bandits too.]
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[personal profile] crimsonxiphos 2016-01-15 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
So, it’s like the brig. [Well, at least if you ignore the parts about community service and occasionally being let out. And if the brigs here hold every bandit on the planet, then they’re probably considerably bigger than those they had at Atlas. Athena thinks on this for a moment.]

No one’s going to try and put you there, are they? [After all, he is technically a bandit according to most corporate law on Pandora, being an unsponsored Vault Hunter and all.] You said the things you did on Pandora don’t count here.
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[personal profile] crimsonxiphos 2016-01-16 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[That earns Boxer another skeptical look from Athena.] You attacked Atlas, [she points out. Then again...] But they don’t like Vault Hunters, so they probably won’t send one after you.

[Don’t mind them, new neighbors. Just a Vault Hunter and a little girl in military uniform discussing the subtleties of paid bounties. Athena ticks through her mental list of other potential dangers.]

What about wild animals? Or corporations? Or... explosive plants? [Surely something has to be dangerous here.]
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[personal profile] crimsonxiphos 2016-01-16 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Athena stares openly at the boys. In general, she has little experience with children who aren’t other assassin recruits, but even if she did, these boys have little in common with the children she’d be likely to meet on Pandora. Unlike Boxer, she doesn’t wave to them, but it’s just as well; they seem more interested in him than her.

His answer gets an eyeroll.]
Those don’t count. I mean animals that can kill you. [She supposes dogs could potentially kill someone, but “rude” isn’t exactly the descriptor of a killer beast.]

Why did they call you “DJ?” Do you have another name here?
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[personal profile] crimsonxiphos 2016-01-16 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, that vague “protected species” stuff goes right over Athena’s head, mostly because she’s used to a creature’s rarity being directly proportional to how badly people want to kill it.]

“Mix?” Mix what?

[The idea that “Boxer” is possibly just one alias out of many is a strange one. There’s also the fact that Athena’s introduction to Boxer had had nothing to do with boxes or boxing, but then she supposes that “Atlas-base-destroyer,” while badass, is kind of a mouthful to say. And it's not like "Athena" is the name she herself was born with either.] Do you still remember the first name you had?
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[personal profile] crimsonxiphos 2016-01-17 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
[At first, Athena looks at the mansion with the same general inquisitiveness and uncertainty that she looks at everything else on the planet with. But then Boxer actually starts leading them towards it and she goes from merely curious to flat-out disbelieving. Surely this can’t be their home -- it makes Boxer’s opulent hideout on Pandora look like a tiny shack in comparison.

But as they walk closer and closer, it becomes clear that this is indeed their home now. Athena stares wide-eyed as they approach the threshold, for a few moments awed into silence. Eventually, she finds her voice.]


How many people live here?
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[personal profile] crimsonxiphos 2016-01-17 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
[The name “Red” gets Athena’s attention; Boxer had mentioned her earlier as the person who had ordered him to storm the Atlas facility where Athena was being held, but besides that, Athena knows little to nothing about her. All she knows is that it usually takes a lot of money or a lot of influence to be able to boss a Vault Hunter around. And judging from her current surroundings, Athena would guess that it's both.

As it turns out, Athena doesn’t have to wonder in vain for long. After they’re ushered into an impossibly large foyer, a gentle voice draws her gaze to the top of the stairs.

There’s no doubt that the woman in white is the mysterious Red. And it’s very easy to see how she received that name. But even moreso than her fiery red hair, it’s those unmistakeable blue tattoos that really catch Athena’s attention. She’s a siren. Boxer’s boss is a siren and he hadn’t even told her. She glances towards him in an almost accusing fashion, but it’s clear his attention is elsewhere at the moment.

And then he’s running towards the woman (running towards A SIREN like it’s a sane thing to do) and scooping her up and Athena is quickly rethinking her assessment of Red as his boss, or at least, as just his boss. She’s also scrunching up her nose a little bit because ew. Kissing.

Fortunately it doesn’t last very long. Unfortunately that means that the Siren’s attention is now on her. Athena stands stock-still as the woman kneels down in front of her, visibly tensing when she reaches towards her with a tattooed hand... and then relaxing slightly when said hand only strokes harmlessly through her hair rather than vaporizing her on the spot.

Of course, not being vaporized means she actually has to think of something to say.]


Hi. [Well… it’s a start.]
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[personal profile] crimsonxiphos 2016-01-17 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
I’m not scared.

[She takes the woman’s hand as if to prove it, though Red might catch her throw a nervous look in Boxer’s direction after she does so, as if she’s still waiting for him to supply an explanation on why his girlfriend is a being straight out of ancient legend.]

I’ve just… never met a Siren before.
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[personal profile] crimsonxiphos 2016-01-17 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her gaze tracks Boxer as he disappears up the stairs, before snapping sharply back towards the woman when she speaks.] Oh. Er… Sorry... ma’am.

[She follows Red through the mansions palatial halls, though her attention is not on her opulent surroundings but on the woman herself -- specifically on the tattoos that mark her as a siren. Athena’s heard stories that a siren’s tattoos change color when she uses her powers, and that if you pay attention, you can see the markings move as if they’re alive. She thinks she can see them moving, but it might just be a trick of the light.

Athena is initially alarmed when they come to a door flanked by two guards, but then she figures that they’re just as likely to be there to keep people out rather than to lock people in. At any rate, they allow them entrance without a word and then Athena is in a room that’s easily the size of a house back on Pandora. She looks around in amazement at how spotless it all is, as if it had all come into existence seconds before they entered the room. And it’s all hers? She’s never even had her own room before, much less one this luxurious. It’s almost hard to wrap her head around.

And then Red is ushering her towards the bathroom, talking about “getting dressed for dinner.” Athena’s head tilts to the side in puzzlement.]
But… I’m already dressed? [Dusty Atlas uniform and all.]

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