Anya Lehnsherr | Earth 97400 (
fridgetothefire) wrote2013-06-19 11:41 am
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017 ☣ Infirmary post + some housekeeping things
[Backdated to Tuesday]
[She's been in the infirmary since late Sunday night, but she spent most of Monday sleeping. She looks a little pale, propped against pillows, hooked up to an IV, but she seems comfortable enough.]
Hello, barge.
I am so bored. Worse, I can't read without getting a headache right now. So.
[She holds up an infirmary clipboard, the paperwork turned over so she could draw neat, careful charts on the back.]
Come in, sign up for a half-hour time slot and book. Books are sorted by genre and how many hours I estimate it will take to finish them. If you read to me, I'll bake you something nice later.
[OOC: feel free to ignore the regimented tyranny of storytime and talk to her about whatever, either on the network or via spam.]
[Private spam for Ben, before the attacks.]
[She knocks on his door, a cold, shaken look on her face.]
[She's been in the infirmary since late Sunday night, but she spent most of Monday sleeping. She looks a little pale, propped against pillows, hooked up to an IV, but she seems comfortable enough.]
Hello, barge.
I am so bored. Worse, I can't read without getting a headache right now. So.
[She holds up an infirmary clipboard, the paperwork turned over so she could draw neat, careful charts on the back.]
Come in, sign up for a half-hour time slot and book. Books are sorted by genre and how many hours I estimate it will take to finish them. If you read to me, I'll bake you something nice later.
[OOC: feel free to ignore the regimented tyranny of storytime and talk to her about whatever, either on the network or via spam.]
[Private spam for Ben, before the attacks.]
[She knocks on his door, a cold, shaken look on her face.]
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[Based on her experience with what a mutant is. From her perspective, it was not enough of a change to qualify for the type of example Anya was attempting to make.]
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[She shrugs. It only mattered in a social-identification sense to her, but Aya's the one mentioned biometric signatures.]
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[And to her, it was. Mutants were not part of the Guardian database. She knew nothing more than her experience with those who identified as such on the Barge.]
Do you believe the temporary mutation allowed you to function at a higher capacity than you do now?
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[Her tone is just the same as before, though there is a particular purpose to the question now.]
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Your response is...unexpectedly logical.
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I aim to be unpredictable.
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So you claim to prefer a certain form because it would be convenient and functional, is this correct?
Perhaps now you will understand why I have made a similar choice.
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Are you saying you think you're more functional now than you used to be?
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[And she doesn't just mean as an inmate on the Barge. She means at all.]
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Necessary in some circumstances is not the same as optimal in all circumstances.
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When I last allowed emotions to rule my thought processes, I was nearly permanently erased from all existence. A mistake I will certainly not make again.
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Assuming that the right solution in one circumstance - even a highly fraught circumstance - is the superior solution in all circumstances is simply a fundamental failure to understand how complex the world is.
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But if you insist upon using them, then I ask you this: how is one expected to maintain a clear enough mind to recall precisely this knowledge, if their emotions--their fear--is hindering the process? They cannot.
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Anyway, fear is part of an intuition and response system specifically for navigating situations that are too dangerous to ponder slowly. It can be paralyzing if you're bad at working with and through your own reactions, but that's totally how it's supposed to function.
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[...as opposed to the old Aya, who would have agreed that there was still so much more to learn. About everything.]
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