tucky | ♻ 001 | video/spam

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♻ 001 | video/spam

[It's Christmas, Barge residents. And as it happens, one of your new arrivals is a Christmas angel.

Well, okay, she's just dressed up as one. Interestingly enough, it was Christmas on her world too, and she just got done performing in a Christmas pageant: she's wearing a white costume robe, and has a tinsel crown on her head. The front of her robe is bloody and dirty, and torn in a few places-- and given how beat-up and damaged her face looks, it's probably safe to assume that at least some of that blood is hers.

Currently she's wandering into to common area on level 6, a bit unsteady on her feet. She's also filming herself, because she found a fancy phone so why the hell not. Soon enough she stops walking and poses dramatically, arms held wide.]

Be not afraid-- for behold, I bring good tidings of... of, uh...

[And then she collapses. So yeah, that's a thing that's happening.]

[OOC: Permissions post for this character!]

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It's a bit messy.

[Yeah, sort of.]

They said I could get new teeth; maybe you could get new eyes.

Probably it could be done.

But I.

[It's complicated.]

I have been very much a monster. And it feels wrong, to me, to look human again.

Oh, I get it.

[She nods sagely.]

Self-punishment.

[Another, small laugh, rueful, mostly at himself. If she were actually trying to analyze him, if she were Kelsier or Iris trying to get help him, all worry and fuss and care, he'd quibble, he'd say things about honor and memory and honesty, but - she's not. She's just telling the truth as she sees it, without any concern for his mangled history at all.]

...yes, basically.

Edited 2015-01-02 20:09 (UTC)

So do you... want to be in here? Is that part of the punishment too?

I'm here because God told me I needed a vacation.

[A certain pursed, dour sarcasm, because Sazed you have terrible taste in vacations. Just because he really is God now doesn't mean Marsh has to listen to him. But it turned out to be a good idea in the end.]

I'm...very fond of some of the people I've met here. And I couldn't abandon my inmate. When he's free, though, I'll probably go home.

Is that what usually happens? They let you go when you help someone else go?

Wardens are allowed to leave, if we want to. What usually happens is, the Admiral assigns you. One warden to one inmate, and you're supposed to - watch out for them. Help them. Be there for them, but be responsible for them too, and deal with it if they cause trouble.

When they're free, the warden gets a deal. A - wish, I guess.

What kind of wish?

[She sounds extra-interested now. She has a lot of wishes.]

I don't know. One big impossible thing, usually. To save someone they love, or fix a mistake they made.

I don't really have one. All the people I would have wanting something for came here and got their own.

... Can I switch and do that instead?

[Honey no.]

You can if you graduate. A lot of inmates do.

[Well....]

Did you?

Not me. I was a warden to start with. Sorry.

So what's your deal?

I wanted my brother back, at first. But he was here. And now he's - he's got his own reward.

I don't know.

Hard to pick if you can have anything, I guess.

So how do you graduate?

Yes. I'm trying to just - concentrate on my inmate now.

There's no simple list. People have different things to learn.

How do you get your list? You can't change if they don't tell you how.

When you're assigned, your warden gets a file, but that's - it's about what you've done and what you've been through, not where you need to go. I don't think there's just one future the admiral would accept from anyone.

Most people who graduate - they make friends. They learn to care about other people, or to let go of hatreds that were filling them up. Or they just need to heal some destructive habits. Some will always be dangerous, but they learn reasons to hold themselves back, reasons it's worth it.

Its your warden's job to help you figure it out, but. The figuring out seems like a big part of it.

[She listens quietly as he talks, taking this in. When he's done, she nods slightly.]

I get it.

No cheats, right? You don't want us to get all the answers and fake it.

Yes. No cheats for wardens trying to get paid, either.

[She raises her eyebrows.]

Bet they could find a way if they wanted, though.

To cheat?