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poly_chromatic2013-10-23 03:51 pm
candothat) wrote in poly_chromatic2013-10-23 03:51 pm
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ACTION;
[Chekov may have woken up with a cluster of sullen, chatty balloons that look like they belong at a misery-themed party shadowing him, but he's not about to let a nonlethal thing like that prevent him from going about his day as usual. They follow him during his morning jog (he takes care to avoid the pockets of strangeness that have been popping up, as there is only so much weirdness that he likes in his life at any given moment) and to the City Solutions Laboratory. They trail him to the labs that have been taken over by Starfleet (he doesn't linger there) and to the hospital where he visits friends who were injured in the recent attacks, glowering, as ominous and dark as any potentially hostile region of space.
Their constant looming and unimpressed--disappointed, even--glares are a minor annoyance. It's the sounds they make that chip away at Chekov's usual patience and good humor. There's some incoherent grumbling and groaning, but some phrases are perfectly, humiliatingly, horribly clear.
Ty ubil ikh.
Failure.
Too young.
Bespoleznyy.
Too slow.
Pomnyu tvoyu mat'.
Slishkom medlenno.
Their deaths were your fault.
Ty brosil svoyu sem'yu.
You'll never succeed.
You killed her.
Slishkom molod.
Useless.
Vam ne udalos'.
You abandoned your family.
Vam nikogda ne udastsya.
Remember your mother.
Vy ubili yeye.
He tries not to listen to them (and of course they're bilingual, this is the City--why wouldn't he be told off in two languages?). Those who encounter him may find ignoring the grim balloons difficult. They're loud.]
VIDEO;
[Judging by the view--the back of Chekov's head--this is not an intentional recording. He's sitting at Lucy's baby grand, tense, posture hinting at anger. The talking balloons are still hovering over him like a raincloud, chatting away. There are fewer than there were earlier, but the remaining faces seem eager to make up for this by being exceptionally strident.]
Vy ubili yeye.
Failure.
Ty brosil svoyu sem'yu.
Slishkom medlenno.
You killed her.
Their deaths were your fault.
Bespoleznyy.
Useless.
[They've been at it all day and Chekov doesn't want to hear it anymore. In an effort to drown them out, he launches into what must be the angriest and most aggressive interpretation of Rachmaninov's Prelude in C sharp minor of all time. He's not great--out of practice rather than untrained--and it only takes about a minute and a half before the balloons, which have only grown louder to combat the piano, reduce the boy to discordant keysmashing.
He gives up after a particularly enthusiastic plunk of the keys and mumbles something at the balloons. The network device doesn't pick his words up, but it's safe to assume that he didn't say anything pleasant to the specters.]
Failure.
Slishkom molod.
Ty brosil svoyu sem'yu.
You'll never succeed.
[Maybe an angry rendition of something by Balakirev will be more effective. Watchers won't get to find out; the video ends abruptly.]
[ooc: Russian brought to you by Google.]
[Chekov may have woken up with a cluster of sullen, chatty balloons that look like they belong at a misery-themed party shadowing him, but he's not about to let a nonlethal thing like that prevent him from going about his day as usual. They follow him during his morning jog (he takes care to avoid the pockets of strangeness that have been popping up, as there is only so much weirdness that he likes in his life at any given moment) and to the City Solutions Laboratory. They trail him to the labs that have been taken over by Starfleet (he doesn't linger there) and to the hospital where he visits friends who were injured in the recent attacks, glowering, as ominous and dark as any potentially hostile region of space.
Their constant looming and unimpressed--disappointed, even--glares are a minor annoyance. It's the sounds they make that chip away at Chekov's usual patience and good humor. There's some incoherent grumbling and groaning, but some phrases are perfectly, humiliatingly, horribly clear.
Ty ubil ikh.
Failure.
Too young.
Bespoleznyy.
Too slow.
Pomnyu tvoyu mat'.
Slishkom medlenno.
Their deaths were your fault.
Ty brosil svoyu sem'yu.
You'll never succeed.
You killed her.
Slishkom molod.
Useless.
Vam ne udalos'.
You abandoned your family.
Vam nikogda ne udastsya.
Remember your mother.
Vy ubili yeye.
He tries not to listen to them (and of course they're bilingual, this is the City--why wouldn't he be told off in two languages?). Those who encounter him may find ignoring the grim balloons difficult. They're loud.]
VIDEO;
[Judging by the view--the back of Chekov's head--this is not an intentional recording. He's sitting at Lucy's baby grand, tense, posture hinting at anger. The talking balloons are still hovering over him like a raincloud, chatting away. There are fewer than there were earlier, but the remaining faces seem eager to make up for this by being exceptionally strident.]
Vy ubili yeye.
Failure.
Ty brosil svoyu sem'yu.
Slishkom medlenno.
You killed her.
Their deaths were your fault.
Bespoleznyy.
Useless.
[They've been at it all day and Chekov doesn't want to hear it anymore. In an effort to drown them out, he launches into what must be the angriest and most aggressive interpretation of Rachmaninov's Prelude in C sharp minor of all time. He's not great--out of practice rather than untrained--and it only takes about a minute and a half before the balloons, which have only grown louder to combat the piano, reduce the boy to discordant keysmashing.
He gives up after a particularly enthusiastic plunk of the keys and mumbles something at the balloons. The network device doesn't pick his words up, but it's safe to assume that he didn't say anything pleasant to the specters.]
Failure.
Slishkom molod.
Ty brosil svoyu sem'yu.
You'll never succeed.
[Maybe an angry rendition of something by Balakirev will be more effective. Watchers won't get to find out; the video ends abruptly.]
[ooc: Russian brought to you by Google.]
voice | private;
[Ginny's too smart for this hey-let's-talk-about-you game. He can't help but smile a little, as serious as the conversation is.]
Good. I don't know all of your achievements, but I feel you should be proud. [He pauses, but decides that, in all fairness, he ought to offer an answer of his own.] I'm also proud. Not of everything, but of many things.
voice | private;
[CHEERING UP IS GO.]
voice | private;
And Pavel is usually hesitant to list out the things he's proud of because he has been accused on many occasions of being too proud, but he could use the ego boost.]
Don't think that I am bragging, but I was the youngest human cadet in Starfleet Academy history and am the youngest ranking officer ever. [A record that will be beaten later on, but let's not poke holes in his ego.] Also, at sixteen, I was the youngest cadet to win the academy's annual marathon. I'm very proud of that. And I have saved the captain's life twice and Sulu's once.
[No, wait, he's sure there's more. Let him think for a moment. Saving the Enterprise as a whole on a few occasions doesn't really count, since those are ultimately group efforts...]
That is it, mostly. I would say that I am proud to be intelligent, but that is not an accomplishment so much as fortunate genetics. Oh--I'm proud that many people I admire consider me a friend, also. That reflects well on me.
And you?
voice | private;
Why would I think that's bragging? I asked you myself. You've done well, don't ever forget that. And we're lucky to have a friend like you, the honour's all ours.
[She doesn't know this is the way to counteract the curse, but this is the way to be a good friend, plain and simple.]
I'm glad that I'm one of the best fliers in my family, almost as good as Charlie, definitely one of the best at school. [But she's never been humble about that.] And I'm bloody good at my spellwork, I wouldn't have survived all that I have if I wasn't. I'm not half-bad at class, either, but what Weasleys lack in money, we make up for in everything else and people can't say a thing against us about it.
I'm the most proud of my family.
voice | private;
[He's so pleased that Ginny likes being his friend, which is probably lame since he didn't doubt that they were friends. It's the dumb balloons (which are very, very quiet right now).]
All of these are reasonable things to be proud of. I know that you're the best at flying and spells that I know. [Not that he knows a ton of witches, okay, but he has known a few, so.] Ah... don't tell Hikaru that I think someone other than him is the best at flying. He may take that as an insult to his piloting skills.
voice | private;
[Ginny doesn't take shit from anybody, even friends. Especially friends.]
Thanks, Pavel, that's really—hang on, who's Hikaru?
voice | private;
[This is as it should be.]
Hik--oh! I forget that he never goes by his given name. Sulu--Hikaru Sulu.
voice | private;
[She laughs.]
I'm flattered if you think I'm a better flier, but I reckon you can't compare piloting a ship to riding a broomstick. They're two completely different things, even if it's the same thing that makes us want to be in the air.
voice | private;
Oh, yes, of course they're different, but you are the best flier in this universe because there are flying brooms but no spaceships.
voice | private;
You're very sweet. I don't think I'd be very good at piloting a ship, all those mechanical things.
voice | private;
Piloting a starship is not so hard as, say, piloting a shuttlecraft. Starships, the navigator inputs a course that will allow the ship to avoid things like planets and then it mostly steers itself. It's much more difficult when there are enemies to evade--starships, I mean, compared to shuttlecrafts. Starships are not very maneuverable.
voice | private;
[And she was fond of the description. Ginny thinks flying is so much more intuitive than just buttons and gear shifts and all those other things people say.]
I'd like to try a shuttlecraft someday. Maybe for the challenge. We're in this world where other worlds can just come in and out, it'd be a shame not to take advantage of all the things we can learn... even if we can't take it all home with us. You've taught me loads.
voice | private;
I'm sure that Hikaru would make the Enterprise dance better than Captain Janeway's pilot would.
[Not that that was what Ginny was getting at. Flying really is more than pushing buttons and inputting information; a helmsman has to know the ship, get a feel for her, know how she'll react to every touch. Intuition plays a larger role than any instructive course on piloting would imply.]
We may make a shuttlecraft! There are schematics, anyway... [And, incredulously:] I have?
voice | private;
[And she's never seen the mysterious Paris fly anything. She knows Sulu, that's enough for her.]
What? Don't sound so surprised, of course you have. Things about your home, your family, your culture—and not everyone's really taken the time to explain the more advanced stuff to me. I know it's a chore when someone doesn't understand what you're talking about, especially people like me who don't even have computers back home so the basics have to be... Well, you know what I mean. You're patient, it's nice.
voice | private;
[Preferably the Enterprise, as she is the greatest starship ever.]
That isn't a chore! You listen to me, and I like that. You have never once said "Pavel, please, I do not need to know this," or "Chekov, you answered my question several explanations ago, go away," or "Thank you, that is enough Russian history for one day," and that is unusual.
voice | private;
[Like she wants everyone to see Hogwarts.]
I think it's important to listen to what people have got to say, even if everyone else doesn't think so. One of my best friends back home always talked about the most... [How do you put it.] Incredible things. But Luna's brilliant, one of the cleverest girls I know, and there's always a reason for what she talks about. It makes her happy, it's something she's interested in or her father... Always something.
voice | private;
voice | private;
[Firmly,]
They wouldn't dare, anymore.
voice | private;
If we had gone to the Academy together, you would have done the same for me, I think.
voice | private;
voice | private;
[Dumb question. Of course she can.]
Does it hurt?
voice | private;