buildingitsir: (oh shit; dirty)
York Stark ([personal profile] buildingitsir) wrote in [community profile] revivalproject2022-05-09 11:18 am

And look at me, I'm tattered

WHO: York & Open
WHERE: York's Calibration Room
WHAT: Calibrations event
WHEN: May
WARNINGS: CW/TW: York's room has the potential to bring up the following situations: gaslighting/manipulation, abuse, gun violence, death, and assault. The items are labeled with warnings.

Waiting Room Post
Mingle Post

Calibrations Room

The room is a workshop that has seen better days. Once a sterile, almost hospital like room, with a black, pleather covered chair for android repairs. Now, the room is ripped apart. Cables and wires have been ripped apart or unplugged from exposed panels, electricity sparking from live ends. The chair is broken in numerous pieces and thrown about the room, covered in oil, grease, and blue blood. There's broken parts, both mechanical and biocomponents, littered about. On the walls in that same blue blood is "I AM ALIVE" painted by hand in a large, bold, Helvetica font. The floor is wet. Shell casings glint in the light from above.


On the floor are items: a black NYC hoodie that smells earthy; a fireman's hatchet caked in blue and red blood [cw: gun violence, death]; a news tablet with a line about robotic parenting [cw: gaslighting, abuse]; and a pamphlet of Bryant Park’s 191st anniversary ripped midway [cw: assault, physical violence against human and android].

Around the items are some wires that haven't been destroyed, and all of them lead into the back of an older looking and taller York, who is curled up on the floor surrounded by the objects. There’s thirium covering his hands. The wires weave around the items, but don't touch them. He is shirtless, with his knees drawn up to his chin to hide himself. He wears black sweatpants as his only clothing.

The whole room feels isolated, full of fear, and strangely enough: it feels too small.

Upon seeing another enter his mind, York is immediately aggressive. "What are you doing in here?! Ģ̡͝E̸̵T̴̢͠ ̶̴̸O̴̧UT̴́͟!̸̨!̴͘" York gets to his feet - his LED is swirling red, throwing light against the open section of his chest next to it where his thirium pump beats. The android moves quick, as though to try getting to the intruder, but the wires seem to reel in, snap taut, and pull him back towards the wall he’s written on. It’s then apparent that York is too big for the room, with his hair almost brushing the ceiling. There's no hiding the fear in his expression as he struggles for freedom the cables aren’t giving. Realizing the vulnerable state, York relaxes and turns away from his intruder, with those tight wires loosening around him. It shows the wires going into the open panels of his back now, hooking somewhere deep within the machinery that moves and gives him life. York wraps his arms around his chest, ducking his head down. His open interior section pulses blue like a heartbeat.

"I̸͠ţ's̶̡ ņ̀̕o̸̶t̸̡ s͘͝u͡p̷p҉ós͏̕͘ed͘ ͟͞t̨̨o ̨͜h̵̸̛u̶͞͞r͜t́́," he whispers angrily, though the room is small enough that the other would be able to hear it anyways. "D̕͜͡ò̷n̨̡'ţ̕ ̡h͜u͢ŗ͜t̢͠͞ ̴͝me̢͟"

[I'll be using a different set of icons for the older version of York in replies, but that face doesn't apply outside of the calibration room. ~Xi]
kree_soldieress: Lauri-Ell from Captain Marvel (Oh What Was That?)

[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-05-09 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"I did not choose to come here," she repeats, hands up in what she hopes is a placating gesture.

"I am Lauri-Ell. Who are you?"
kree_soldieress: Lauri-Ell from Captain Marvel (Default)

[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-05-09 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah yes, that day. Lauri-Ell, still bent over in pain, shifts. The only thing she can do is work to sit down. It's the safest way to deal with the pain in her back.

"Yes it does. This worries me, seeing yours around here. Have you sought to cause yourself harm? Do you wish to speak of it?"

She's dealing with the small all on her own thanks.
kree_soldieress: Lauri-Ell from Captain Marvel (Default)

[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-05-09 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Do you need a hug?"

Because hugs, Lauri-Ell has found, have a great healing power. Clearly he is in need of one.
kree_soldieress: Lauri-Ell from Captain Marvel (Default)

[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-05-10 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
"I could come over there to hug you," she counters. This was something she could give him. If he but wanted it.

But she didn't know what was happening either.

"I do not wish to be doing this. It feels... invasive."
kree_soldieress: Lauri-Ell from Captain Marvel (Default)

[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-05-11 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, well then. She rises once more, and it's awkward to walk forward bent over as she is, but she makes her careful way over.

"Then I shall give you a hug. They felt good when my sister gave me them when I was scared."
kree_soldieress: Lauri-Ell from Captain Marvel (Default)

[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-05-11 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Once she was close enough she went down on her knees. THis was the best she could do.

"I was following my sister."

Not even the Emperor, or the Prince. Carol. She missed Carol so much. "She needed me."
kree_soldieress: Lauri-Ell from Captain Marvel (Default)

[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-05-11 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
No, this wasn't going to earn lashing out. She reaches and moves to pull the man into her arms.

"Do not fear. If this is not our bodies, then you cannot do me true harm. Only yourself, only your heart."

And she would not wish that for you.
kree_soldieress: Lauri-Ell from Captain Marvel (Default)

[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-05-12 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
"Whether your parts are of synthetic creation or not does not change you being a person," Lauri-Ell pointed out. She's embracing him as tightly as she can, letting him do whatever he must do for his peace.

"Your body is a good body. They are both good bodies, because they are both yours. Perhaps you like one more than the other, but is it not more important that you do with it as your will desires?"
kree_soldieress: Lauri-Ell from Captain Marvel (Default)

[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-05-12 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"If your actual form pleases you more, then that is understandable. Perhaps we can find a means by which to bring this about."

Would that be possible? Lauri-Ell would try hard to give it to him.
kree_soldieress: Lauri-Ell from Captain Marvel (Default)

[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-05-13 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. That was... horrible. Lauri-Ell shifted to try and get more comfortable as she reviewed the thing.

A bad choice because as she did so, her leg brushed against the discarded hoodie.
kree_soldieress: Lauri-Ell from Captain Marvel (Default)

[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-05-14 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
"What does that mean, deviated?"

That's what she holds onto, the question that made no sense to her. Clearly damage was done to him and he did not deserve this. But the rest of it is a mystery to her.
kree_soldieress: Lauri-Ell from Captain Marvel (Your Tactical Analysis Is Bad)

[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-05-15 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"You are like me," she observes when he explains deviancy. But she doesn't explain how. Not yet. The door has arrived, and it seems like she must go now.

"I shall depart now, as to give you your space back. But you should seek me. We must speak on how we deviate from what is expected of us. And how this does not make us less."

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