Doctor Maria Gordon | OC (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
inwhichwar) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
exsilium2012-09-30 04:12 pm
inwhichwar) wrote in exsilium2012-09-30 04:12 pm
002 | [video]
[The feed is staticky and has an annoying old-TV-on-the-fritz roll going on. Maria's sitting on a folded-up blanket with her back to the catacomb wall, bad leg stretched out in front of her. Not the best furniture in the world, but displaced persons can't be choosers.
She's also managed to scrounge up a tiny petroleum campstove and a very battered tin pot, in which she's currently making tea. The sky may be falling in a screwed-up, filthy future that none of them can escape, but THERE WILL BE TEA, DAMN IT. Her expression is meditative.]
In the world I come from there was once a war which wasn't a war. Two great powers running roughshod over little countries to prove how big they were to one another.
[There's a burst of audio static that drowns her out, although she keeps talking while she pulls the tea off the flame and cuts the gas.]
. . . never seemed to me that either one of them cared that much for what became of the little people they were using for their pawns.
I do not consider that the Initiative or the United Earth are any different in that regard. It is not so much that we are caught between good guys and bad guys. Only between two great powers who see us as means to their own respective ends.
[She gazes calmly down at her tea, her body language and her placid delivery very much at odds with how pissed she actually is. She takes it personally when people drop bombs on her, okay?]
Nevertheless. I cannot speak for anyone else. But I intend to find my own best way to show the more brutish of the two great powers just what a very bad decision they made when they decided to fuck with me.
She's also managed to scrounge up a tiny petroleum campstove and a very battered tin pot, in which she's currently making tea. The sky may be falling in a screwed-up, filthy future that none of them can escape, but THERE WILL BE TEA, DAMN IT. Her expression is meditative.]
In the world I come from there was once a war which wasn't a war. Two great powers running roughshod over little countries to prove how big they were to one another.
[There's a burst of audio static that drowns her out, although she keeps talking while she pulls the tea off the flame and cuts the gas.]
. . . never seemed to me that either one of them cared that much for what became of the little people they were using for their pawns.
I do not consider that the Initiative or the United Earth are any different in that regard. It is not so much that we are caught between good guys and bad guys. Only between two great powers who see us as means to their own respective ends.
[She gazes calmly down at her tea, her body language and her placid delivery very much at odds with how pissed she actually is. She takes it personally when people drop bombs on her, okay?]
Nevertheless. I cannot speak for anyone else. But I intend to find my own best way to show the more brutish of the two great powers just what a very bad decision they made when they decided to fuck with me.
voice
You gonna wait until the air clears out, or— [static]
[video]
Considering I like breathing and should prefer to continue to do it, that is my plan.
[video]
Around here, you never know.
You got ideas about getting off the island?
[Not that he expects her to share them, but he'd help, even if he doesn't say.]
[video]
[And tea. The tea is currently the only bright spot.]
I am not much for recon these days, but I know there are those who have been fairly far afield.
[video]
[video]
[video]
[He doesn't sigh, but there's a moment of resignation.] If you wanna know the truth, though, I'm used to it.
Re: [video]
So am I. It does not make it any more enjoyable an experience. But I take it, then, that at least you are not one of the unfortunate noncombatant types that have become caught up in all of this.
[video]
[That's not a denial. But if they're talking about the Cold War, he's a bit cagey about admitting to any of it. He's supposed to be cagey. They drilled that into him.]
[video]
That is so. And there are noncombatants and then noncombatants, after all. It's all a matter of perspective.
[video]
[video]
So. What is it you are called, young man, may I ask?
[video]
[video]
[video]
Right. Nice to meet you.