lazyinlove: (can't)
make a new plan, Stan. ([personal profile] lazyinlove) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-11-25 02:29 pm

C'est la mort. (Open)

Date & Time:Tonight, around 7.
Location:The viewing windows.
Characters:Anyone who knew Peace or who might stop to pay respects at a memorial even if they didn't know her.
Summary:A memorial gathering for an Exsile who ceased to exist with the most recent world change.
Warnings:Tears, cursing, bitterness? Not sure yet. People can label threads as they come up. Everyone is free to make their own and jump around. Prose and action are both fine.


It's a waste of emergency torches, but there are a few set up around anyway, lit that soft unearthly blue of emergency lighting. The flowers are paper, clumsily folded from discharge sheets, some from the prison, some from the clinic. There are no photos. All of the ones she was in before are empty spaces, or pictures of Stanley or others who'd been holding her at the time. The music is strings, playing softly from a haphazardly tossed tablet. There are no chairs. Instead, every pillow from 144 is on the ground as seating.

Stanley isn't sitting on one, though. He's standing at the window, staring down at the planet so far below. Today, he's combed his hair. It's still in his eyes because it's too long, but he's made the effort to tame it at any rate.

He's not sure how to start things off, but if someone shows up he'll greet them. That's what you do, right? So that's what he does.

"Thanks for coming."
reassures: (cut ☙ she's so still; she's dead)

[personal profile] reassures 2013-12-10 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah. So a lie, even a small one, was "wrong" in Kate's eyes.

Nill's known a lot of liars - and it was very rare that they actually lied to do someone harm, although people like that existed as well. Lying was a necessity, frequently well-intended, even if it ended horribly. It was never wrong, just... painful.]


Is a lie always doing wrong?
gevurah: (payback is healthy)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-12-10 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
It is, even if there are good intentions behind it.

[ She's not a bastion of perfection herself; she's had to toss the little white lies here and there to ensure her identity was protected, but more importantly, that ones who could get hurt were safe as well. ]
reassures: (dim ☙ to ivory)

[personal profile] reassures 2013-12-10 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
[It sounds like something Kate has experience with. Especially that little tidbit - "ensure her identity was protected". She mostly chalks it up to someone else using the ease of the system here to change their name, like Kaneis. If that's the case, then Nill can respect it. Even if it does seem... slightly hypocritical.]

I never knew that.
gevurah: (what is consistent characterization)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-12-10 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
It can be complicated.

[ Like what happened with her father. ]
reassures: (fade ☙ beg for you to let me in)

[personal profile] reassures 2013-12-11 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Unsure of what else to say, Nill nods. It seemed like most things involving the truth were complicated.]

I'm going to go check on Stanley.

[Which is, you know, a not very subtle way of finishing up the conversation. She offers Kate a very, very slight smile, before walking over to wherever Stan is atm.]
gevurah: (mismatched floor designs)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-12-11 09:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ She nods and lets her walk off, waving in farewell before turning her own attention back to whatever else has been laid out for the memorial. ]