geomagnetically: made for me; please don't take (commission ❱ 385)
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OPEN | ❝we could just run them red lights❞

WHO: Lorna Dane + anyone
WHERE: Various
WHAT: Lorna is back from a canon update ✨
WHEN: Because I am eight million years late getting this up, prompts vary between December 8th and nowish.
WARNINGS: Spoilers in post for X-Factor (2020) up to issue #4.


01 Β» (ship | Bloodsport) Β» DECEMBER 8th to 13th Β» When she gets back after her interruption (though thankfully this time was less of a lengthy absence), she doesn't spend a lot of time on her assigned ship, but she is there — sometimes.

Her sleep is more off than usual after her return; either she finds she can't sleep, or she's asleep for a couple of hours (if that) before she jolts awake after a nightmare. When the latter happens, she doesn't want to disturb her shipmates who are actually getting some sleep in (or she feels too bad about waking one of them up), so she slinks off to another area of the ship to be. Usually that means she'll sit under the stream of hot water in the shower for the ten minutes it's hot, then let the cold water run over her until she can't stand it any more, or she goes to the dining area and pokes at some of the protein stuff that still looks questionable.

If someone in the ship doesn't see her awake in the kitchen, well. Her time in the kitchen also becomes the occasional extra sleeping area for her, when she's stared at protein long enough while thinking about everything and nothing, her head becomes heavy again and she rests it on the table. This doesn't last long, though, because it often only becomes a matter of time before some unpleasant image comes up in her brain, and she jolts awake again — or, she wakes up when she hears the microwave(ish) device beeping at her because her powers are interacting with it as her mind is bothered in sleep. That, or she causes a little shaking that wakes her up.

After that, she usually just walks outside of the ship and goes elsewhere. Sometimes she sits by it. Mostly she needs peace.

02 Β» (ruins | any of them) Β» DECEMBER 14th to 17th Β»
And as the days pass, she takes her sleep-deprived-angry-sad ass to some of the ruins around to go take her energy out on them. Leaping around them like they're some obstacle course, or making some of the rocks shake until they break. Uh, duck?

And when that gets old, she takes a seat on some block of ruin, and tries to meditate. "tries" being he key word, because it often ends up like her attempts at sleep. When her mind tries to enter any state of relaxation, it too often goes back to Krakoa and what she feels is a very personal failure on her part, and that is a little bit too recent, too fresh, for her to get reprieve from just yet. It reminded her of how much she hates herself, deep down, and oneself is an impossible thing to run from. Like sleep, it sends her into panic attacks. Oh yeah, she's definitely her father's child.

03 Β» (et cetera | wildcard) Β» DECEMBER 18th to PRESENT-ISH Β»
[drop me a starter with her somewhere else, or hit me up on PM or plurk to hash a specific thing out.]
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[personal profile] in_extremis 2020-12-23 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
The ship was not where Tony spent most of his time, having not even seen them for a very long period after his arrival, it never occurred to him that he was welcome to stay there. What the ship did have, that other places very much did not, was hot water, and a place to do laundry, which was a luxury he was willing to cheat and steal for. It was no dry cleaning service, but it was leagues better than taking a washboard to a river, or whatever demeaning options were available to people in the stone age.

There was, much to his surprise, already someone in the shower when he arrived, making him stare curiously at the steam billowing out of the room for a beat, not used to running into anyone here. He supposed he could wait his turn, if he had to, now that the tank was clearly depleted, and slunk away to bundle the soot-stained clothes into the washer. This thing could definitely work faster, couldn't it...?

By the time he was back up out of the cargo hold, a new bruise on his elbow and wiping grease from his good hand, there was a spray of slightly damp, green hair across the kitchen table, making him pause again, wondering if he could escape or had been heard. They were obviously going to have to work out their shower schedule, though. He slid into the seat next to her, frowning when she didn't seem to have a reaction to that, and carefully gathered her hair from the table to push back over her ear to find her sleeping face.
Edited 2020-12-23 07:06 (UTC)
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[personal profile] in_extremis 2020-12-28 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
The sleepy mumbling made Tony snicker and slow to draw his hand away, hoping to soothe Lorna back under, but her shifting had him tucking his arm slightly guiltily out of trouble against his chest, hugged under his sling. He probably could have left her alone and snuck out easily, and now he needed an excuse for waking her. He was going to have to work on that.

"Not much," he assured her. "We took a vote, and elected Wanda queen of the city, mostly because she's already got a lineage going so we don't have to worry about that again for a while, so she owns all of the ships now and we're supposed to be painting them red. Sleeping like that is terrible for your neck, you know. Trust me, I had to get a new one, that's not easy."
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[personal profile] in_extremis 2021-01-01 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
"More painful than fun," Tony insisted, waving whatever that sordid tale was away. As long as this Lorna was actually from Earth, she was one of Tony's few opportunities to trust that he didn't have to explain people coming back to life, an island for dinosaurs, or what vampires actually were to. Simple pleasures. "So you should take care of the one you've got," he said, and since he was such a beacon of advice at the moment, "and don't sleep on wet hair. What you have going on there, that's a thing of beauty, it would be a real shame if it started thinning when you could easily avoid it. This place is stressful enough."
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[personal profile] in_extremis 2021-01-13 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
While Tony had no sagely wisdom for handling the stress, he could assure Lorna with a lopsided grin, "You could pull that off, no problem." What stuff she had to trade almost had him interrupting again, curious about what valuables he might come away with of equal value to conditioner, like lip balm, or a whole spa, that would be nice.

He was under the impression that he had been without pampering for far longer than Lorna, though, so Tony surprised himself with the question, "Didn't you just get here?" With a glance around the ship as though that could provide some answers for him, he continued, "Have you been here this whole time?"