tucky: (you've been no help at all‚ but thanks)
Tiffany Doggett ([personal profile] tucky) wrote2014-12-28 08:45 pm

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[After a few days, Tiffany checks herself out of the infirmary. They were willing to let her go-- except for her teeth, she's mostly healed up; even her bruises are gone-- and she was starting to feel stir crazy, so out she went.

Except now she doesn't know where to go. She knows there's her cabin, but she doesn't want to spend all her time there-- it looks like a Litchfield prison bunk, so it's not the most comfortable place around. She's new, so she doesn't know the best common areas to hang out in. There are a lot of doors, but most of them are unopenable to her. So she wanders.

Despite her bravado and argumentativeness, the things people have been telling her since she arrived-- that she's dead, that she was chosen to be here, that she's here to make amends-- are getting to her. She doesn't fully believe them, but she can't completely disbelieve them either. If they're right (and what if they are?), everything she thought she knew about God and faith and atonement has been turned on its head. There was that man-- that Catholic-- who'd tried to help her reconcile this with what she believed, but it hadn't worked all that well. She's relatively new to her faith, and without someone spoonfeeding it to her, she's shaky in it. She's used it as both a comfort and a crutch in the past, and now she isn't sure that she has it at all anymore. She doesn't know whether that makes her feel depressed or furious; she doesn't know whether she wants to punch someone or curl up and cry. She isn't ruling out doing both.

Predictably, she finds her way to the chapel. Finding a Bible in the cabinet, she sinks down onto a bench and flips through it aimlessly, barely taking in what she's seeing. She tries the trick of opening to a random passage a couple times, but it only ever seems to be just that-- random. Sadness is the overwhelming emotion here-- sadness, confusion, feeling alone and lost. When a teardrop or two lands on the pages, she doesn't bother to brush them away.

At some point, she also wanders into the dining hall, circling the room and poking around for something to do. It's not time for a meal, but the cafeteria was a popular place to hang out and relax in Litchfield, so she figures it might be the same here. Unfortunately, she's leaning towards anger right now, and she's spoiling for a fight. That's not a good thing, on a prison ship filled with inmates just like her.]


[OOC: Permissions post for this character!]
velocette: (4)

[personal profile] velocette 2014-12-29 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
[There are only two times of year he ever goes to the chapel: Christmas and Easter, and the days immediately before or after. There isn't a very big religious population on board, which means that mostly he comes here and has the place to himself.

He had perched himself in a corner, and doesn't notice Tiffany for a while. When he does, he fishes a packet of tissues from his jacket pocket (stolen and mostly forgotten from the last port), and a cigarette.
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Any answers yet?
velocette: (9)

[personal profile] velocette 2014-12-29 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
That's been my experience, too.

[He still asks everyone who comes in here. Who knows? Maybe the right crazy person will have something different to bring to the table.]

But I think of reading, meditation--it's all kind of the same thing. It's like a conversation with yourself, but you can trick your mind into being honest, or comforting...
mistconduct: ([unmasked] america! fuck yeah!)

[personal profile] mistconduct 2014-12-29 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Pew pew, motherfucker!

[So goes the call of Chris in the dining hall, who's carrying a Pomeranian puppy under his arm, whom he's stuffed into an unfortunate Superman uniform. He "flies" the dog past Tiffany's table, and wriggles the dog gently to mime "laser eyes".

He's not even a teenager anymore, but hell if he's grown up even a bit.]
warisart: (Curious)

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[personal profile] warisart 2014-12-29 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
[It's not only inmates just like Tiffany; in fact in Ben's experience, very few people are just like anyone else, even exact clone replicas. Which is why when he spots a new face, he pays attention. He's seen her in the infirmary but he's quiet and standoffish as a rule, so she may not have seen him.

She's out of the infirmary now, and he's finishing locking up the kitchens after the lunch shift has left. He watches her for a moment, unobtrusively, before approaching more directly. He's young, with bright brown eyes and plain, nondescript clothing: black military field jacket, black BDU pants and boots, and a grey t-shirt beneath that. There's an apron folded in his hand and what looks like a barcode tattoo on the back of his neck.

The military background is obvious in his posture, his carefully neutral expression, and the crisp, clear diction of his speech.
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Excuse me, ma'am. Do you require something to eat?
velocette: (the greeks got 'em)

[personal profile] velocette 2014-12-29 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
[He shrugs and blows smoke up toward the ceiling]

Reality is one of those things you can mask up or bend if you work at it. What was real a thousand years ago has changed.

Do you really want Him to be, though?
mistconduct: ([unmasked] eavesdropping)

[personal profile] mistconduct 2014-12-29 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[He drops into the seat opposite Tiffany, setting the dog gently on the table and nuzzling his stupid fluff face]

Why, jealous?

Morning, sunshine. Hey, slide some of that bacon over my way.
americasdirtiest: (stupid fucking questions)

[personal profile] americasdirtiest 2014-12-29 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Things have been... complicated lately for Mickey, but Barge Christmas had turned out to be easily the best holiday he's ever had, and that's put him in a pretty great fucking mood to close the year out on. The more things change for him, though, the more he finds himself missing the people that aren't there to share it with him: not just his family back home, but those who have come and gone up here. Which is deeply, seriously weird for someone who barely gave a shit about other people until a few months ago, but there it is. It's annoying, because he can't do anything about it, but it lingers at the back of his mind like an itch anyway.

Tiffany doesn't actually look anything like Needy Lesnicki, but maybe it's just that Mickey really wants to see Needy right now, because when he spots the short, skinny girl with the hoodie from behind, he could swear it's her for like half a second. It's enough for him to approach her, half-excited, half-pissed off.]


Hey! What the fuck--!

[Except pretty much as soon as he does, he realizes he's wrong. Like, super wrong. Whoops.]

Oh. Uh. Never mind.
velocette: (7)

[personal profile] velocette 2014-12-29 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Means you're not brainwashed.

[Something to take heart in, right?]

Most people are still in shock when they get here. You're not, though. [He looks at her curiously] What was home?
orderfromchaos: (glancing back)

[personal profile] orderfromchaos 2014-12-29 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Dillon is in and out of the chapel a lot, these days. Despite being a warden, he has a hell of a lot to atone for, and no real idea how to do it.

He goes and hovers near her, not quite close enough for his powers to work on her mood, calming and easing, making things fit right. Not everything is right, and he's learning how to let that be.]


I can go if you want.

[But he doesn't think she really wants to be alone.]
velocette: (obsession)

[personal profile] velocette 2014-12-29 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe not. Most people here, they would be very foolish to go back to what they left. Besides--you stick around here, you get a bigger payoff than you'd ever get at home.

Or so I'm told.
orderfromchaos: (peruse)

[personal profile] orderfromchaos 2014-12-29 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Okay.

[He sits, fishes a rosary out of his pocket, a Christmas gift, the first one he's had in a while. He fiddles with the rough olive-pit beads, doesn't quite have the courage to say the prayers.]

It's a shock, isn't it?

[Quiet, simple.]
americasdirtiest: (dammit colin)

[personal profile] americasdirtiest 2014-12-29 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, whoever this is, she's obviously a delight. He holds his hands up and raises his brows, looking instantly annoyed.]

I thought you were somebody else, Jesus Christ. Relax.

[And because they happen to be right by the food, he shakes his head and turns to start rifling through the sandwich choices.]

Get your fucking blood sugar up or something.
warisart: (Devious)

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[personal profile] warisart 2014-12-29 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Ben, though, doesn't seem to be fazed. He stands for it, and his voice doesn't waver.]

I think your current location would potentially speak more to any needs to be met than the time of day, ma'am.

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