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Fenris ([personal profile] wolfuncaged) wrote in [community profile] exsilium2013-11-22 12:16 am

02. Voice

[Fenris so rarely uses the tablet, even less so to publicly speak to everyone. It's pointless, as far as he's concerned. Sharing words on a machine when they could be shared face to face. This time, though, is different. He feels this is important enough to share. Not one for chatting purposelessly, he gets right to the point]

Today, I awoke with a message on this contraption. It appears to be one of the memoirs that have been brought up of late. I suppose it might be important to some of you, so listen.

[And he'll play the file, the tablet giving out the automated text-reader of the file (because Maker knows, Fenris can neither read nor write it onto the tablet himself, the electronic voice crackling out the message. Perhaps it detracts from the emotion of the message, or perhaps hearing the words from a voice, albeit a robotic one does the exact opposite. However people may feel about it, the message plays on:]

The "E" in my name is for "Elaine", so my name is Joyce Elaine--which means "Joyful Light". Well, let me tell you, I don't feel like a happy ray of sunshine at the moment. I feel angry. And scared.

But mostly scared.

I don't want to die. I don't care what anyone says. No one can be prepared for death--not even those who have lived a long time. There's got to be some final struggle involved; some sense of staying on this blasted world for one moment longer...

And this is my struggle. This is me. My final thoughts and my final fight against the reaper. As long as this survives--I'll always be. Just do me a favor and don't erase this, okay?

Thanks.


[Fenris considers leaving it there, his job done. But he feels maybe it would be wrong to the memory of this Elaine to do so. As much as he disliked the Initiative as a whole, he understood the words she spoke. There was some common ground, here]

Her words are wise ones. Perhaps it would do some of you good to learn from them.
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[personal profile] maipokerface 2013-11-23 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly. A lot of the other ones are way too accepting. And that first one? Trying too hard for sympathy.

[Even though she felt for the first woman, honest she did. But she knows politics and trying to garner sympathy when she sees it too.]

I'd rather hear honesty than that.
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[personal profile] maipokerface 2013-11-23 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
People talk about sympathy the same way they talk about everything else. It's all just words and loses meaning in the end so no wonder they forget it.
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[personal profile] maipokerface 2013-11-24 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
I'll agree with that.
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[personal profile] maipokerface 2013-11-25 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
People like me are rare anywhere.

[Not that she's saying she's the most logical thing ever. Insanity and melodrama is more a problem than logic. ... Well, maybe not but whatever.]
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[personal profile] maipokerface 2013-11-26 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
You're not just kidding. [A beat.] I'm Mai.
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[personal profile] maipokerface 2013-11-27 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Good to meet you too. It's not usually this crazy here, right?
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[personal profile] maipokerface 2013-11-28 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
I know it makes me want to snap anyhow. They're got me rooming with a guy old enough to be my father.
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[personal profile] maipokerface 2013-11-29 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
I can't stand roughing it like that.