2.2 - Voice + Text
Jul. 1st, 2012 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
breakingmyheart[Voice. Toshiko's tone is more cordial than friendly now - noticeably cooler than her first post.]
Well. I understand I've - lost - six months since I was last here. I'm aware I've spent the last two weeks giving the impression that I'm a new arrival on the ship, however, the amnesia has resolved itself now. I've actually spent two years here, albeit non-consecutively.
I'd like to thank everyone who welcomed me and gave me advice and information, and I apologise for asking the same questions I'm sure you've all fielded a thousand times before.
[A long pause. There's a lot of people she'd like to ask about, but the words don't come and eventually she just switches filters. Work to be done.]
[Private to the Admiral]
Please restore Erik's abilities in their entirety.
Would it be possible for me to nominate another Warden to make a request on my behalf for his abilities to be nullified, if I'm killed or incapacitated?
[Private to Erik; text]
Hello, Erik. I'm sure you heard the Admiral's announcement.
I also expect you've noticed by now that you have your abilities back. I want to explain my position on this.
You're not here because you're a mutant. We both know that. Why you are here is something we're both going to need a long time to explore. But your mutation is not in and of itself a weapon or a corrupting influence, and that's not a viewpoint I'm prepared to endorse by holding your own DNA over your head.
I also understand the Barge is a dangerous environment and if you have to use your abilities to restrain someone in proportionate self-defence, then once I'm satisfied that was actually the case I won't have much else to say about it.
But I have to consider the safety of our crewmates as well. If you use your abilities to hurt or kill someone without unambiguously needing to - again, your mutation is not the issue. If you strangled someone I wouldn't ask the Admiral to take your hands off. But if the entire ship is placed at risk because of how you choose to use your mutation, if I have no other choice, then I will ask the Admiral to take your abilities. Temporarily, until we can agree that the cause of that specific incident has been resolved and won't be repeated. And I want to make clear that I'm stating this as an outside contingency and not planning for something I expect to happen.
Well. I understand I've - lost - six months since I was last here. I'm aware I've spent the last two weeks giving the impression that I'm a new arrival on the ship, however, the amnesia has resolved itself now. I've actually spent two years here, albeit non-consecutively.
I'd like to thank everyone who welcomed me and gave me advice and information, and I apologise for asking the same questions I'm sure you've all fielded a thousand times before.
[A long pause. There's a lot of people she'd like to ask about, but the words don't come and eventually she just switches filters. Work to be done.]
[Private to the Admiral]
Please restore Erik's abilities in their entirety.
Would it be possible for me to nominate another Warden to make a request on my behalf for his abilities to be nullified, if I'm killed or incapacitated?
[Private to Erik; text]
Hello, Erik. I'm sure you heard the Admiral's announcement.
I also expect you've noticed by now that you have your abilities back. I want to explain my position on this.
You're not here because you're a mutant. We both know that. Why you are here is something we're both going to need a long time to explore. But your mutation is not in and of itself a weapon or a corrupting influence, and that's not a viewpoint I'm prepared to endorse by holding your own DNA over your head.
I also understand the Barge is a dangerous environment and if you have to use your abilities to restrain someone in proportionate self-defence, then once I'm satisfied that was actually the case I won't have much else to say about it.
But I have to consider the safety of our crewmates as well. If you use your abilities to hurt or kill someone without unambiguously needing to - again, your mutation is not the issue. If you strangled someone I wouldn't ask the Admiral to take your hands off. But if the entire ship is placed at risk because of how you choose to use your mutation, if I have no other choice, then I will ask the Admiral to take your abilities. Temporarily, until we can agree that the cause of that specific incident has been resolved and won't be repeated. And I want to make clear that I'm stating this as an outside contingency and not planning for something I expect to happen.
[Private]
Date: 2012-07-01 06:36 pm (UTC)[CONVERSATION'S OVER NOW RIGHT.]
[Private]
Date: 2012-07-01 08:42 pm (UTC)Well, it's appreciated. Not everyone has been as understanding.
What did you do before you came here?
[Private]
Date: 2012-07-01 08:46 pm (UTC)I was an agent for an organisation responsible for the prevention of alien threats to Earth.
[Private]
Date: 2012-07-07 07:29 pm (UTC)[Private]
Date: 2012-07-07 07:38 pm (UTC)[You're just going to ask for clarification aren't you. :c]
There was - is - a rift in space-time that opens into the city of Cardiff. The specific responsibility of my branch was preventing the people of the city and the wider world being harmed by anything or anyone who came out of it.
[Private]
Date: 2012-07-07 07:42 pm (UTC)That sounds like an extremely interesting field of work. [And, you know. A lot like the Barge in the sense of lots of unexpected shit is getting thrown at you constantly.] I'd love to hear more about it, sometime.
[Private]
Date: 2012-07-07 07:44 pm (UTC)[Private]
Date: 2012-07-07 07:49 pm (UTC)Do you have any questions for me?
[Private]
Date: 2012-07-07 07:56 pm (UTC)Not at the moment, though I'll let you know if any come up.
[Private]
Date: 2012-07-07 08:00 pm (UTC)