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THE N E S T ([personal profile] onemind) wrote in [community profile] station722017-05-07 07:56 am

[hatch log] everything happens so much

CHARACTERS: New Hosts & EVERYONE
WHERE: The Station
WHEN: DAY :039
SUMMARY: New faces and old losses - a hatch occurs and a number of older hosts go comatose. Coma'd hosts include all auto-piloted dropped characters to date.
WARNINGS: Will update as necessary. Need a warning added? PM this account please!








NEW HATCHES

YOU WAKE UP and suddenly you're a different person. No. That's not right. You're you and there's no suddenly about it. It's been a while, hasn't it? It feels like waking up from a very deep, extended sleep or like surfacing up from the darkness of the ocean and right there in your own head there's something both familiar and strange. You know intuitively that you've been unconscious for more than just a blink of the eye. While it’s impossible to tell exactly how long ago or how exactly you escaped the danger that had been breathing down your neck, you're certain it was more than a moment ago.

But here you are, a small miracle of the multiverse: lying in a small faintly hexagonal chamber, a gentle white light emanating from the surrounding walls. If you were injured during your escape, those injuries have been healed. If you were anxious or frightened or distraught, those feelings have been briefly calmed. There's something strangely peaceful about waking up here. That feeling persists even as you find the tube running from the base of your neck to the compartment's rear wall.

But once the tube's disconnected? Things get loud. A wave of emotion fills that peaceful void - fear, uncertainty, relief, a sense of purpose or loneliness or anxiety. Maybe some of these emotions are yours, but they can't all be. After the initial sensory overload, the mental buzz elongates: stretches out into a murmur like the sound of a party happening behind a closed door.

You can sit up - barely -, and shift out of the pod. There’s a ladder at your feet and a little cubby just before it with anything you brought with you as well as a set of crisp, loose-fitting white clothes; while your injuries are healed, whatever you’re wearing is in the exact state it was before. Maybe it's time for a change? Drop down the ladder to the floor of the Nesting Deck and you’ll find you’re not alone. The closer you are to these stranger, the louder the sound in your head becomes. --Actually they're not quite strangers either, are they? Something is wound about and between you and these people, whoever they are, are as familiar as this place you've never been is.

Welcome to Station 72. The air buzzes with activity. Somewhere deep in the Station, other minds call to yours. They are bright, brilliantly celebratory spots in your subconscious. They are sun-warm gentle, or they are fire and the taste of ash, or they are a vibrant frenetic whirl, or they are a tangled garden, or they are the feeling of flight through dense cirrus clouds. No two links are exactly the same, but you know for certain that you are connected to all of them in at least some small way.

Which is why it's easy to tell when something goes terribly wrong:



OLD HOSTS

THE ENDORPHIN RUSH of making it back to Station 72 (relatively) unharmed, having successfully acquired exactly what you'd set out to get your hands on can't be denied. Even if you're not necessarily the type to celebrate, there's no ignoring the thrumming celebratory sensation from those Hosts who are.

After a few hours of being back in the void, something else stirs in the air: the clear, prickling sensation of new hosts hatching on the Nesting Deck. They're a rush of mental information - as if someone's turned the volume on the radio all the way up -, a cacophony of sensation and emotional feedback for anyone unprepared to shield against it.

The swell of feeling might make it easy to miss what follows immediately after: the dull, gut-deep quiet as The Darkling, Chuuya Nakahara, and Nasu Rei go suddenly comatose.






((OOC Notes: This is the hatch log for all new hosts. Feel free to make your own logs and posts additional to this if you care do. You can find a more detailed overview of the hatching process HERE. You can find additional setting information about the Station HERE If you have any questions, please hit up either the FAQ or MOD CONTACT pages!))






hymnals: and these are the hands we're given (this is the world we live in)

[personal profile] hymnals 2017-05-29 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's just going to put this as simply as possible. ]

Because I want to.

[ It's no more or less complicated than that. ]
redheadcarrier: (Yell.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-05-29 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Asuka stares at him, as if she can't really believe that. There has to be some sort of catch. A trick. No one just cares. Not for her. What does he want? ]

What do you get out of it?
hymnals: eyes were closed (i was searching)

[personal profile] hymnals 2017-05-29 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Adra's rarely ever had a feeling that wasn't genuine. He's intense, he comes on strong, he starts at 100 and rarely drops down to 0--but he's sincere. Too much so, really. ]

Why do I need to get anything?

[ That's not what life is about. ]
redheadcarrier: (So tired.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-05-29 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone always wants something.

[ And he can probably get a sense of that through their link. Ikari was a coward and wanted her, but only her body or his idealized version of her. Misato wanted her to pilot and never really cared in the first place. Her father was benignly neglectful. NERV just wanted her as long as she "worked".

No one has ever offered her love without conditions or strings.
]
hymnals: mirroring your stare (i'm the face that you have to face)

[personal profile] hymnals 2017-05-29 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It doesn't surprise him. People are often selfish in their desires, even in their altruism, even in their compassion. It's something he questions himself on, sometimes. His feelings are always real, but does he have expectations? Is he truly loving, or is it another form of self-aggrandizement? He struggles for humility, to give without taking. But it's hard, even when your intentions are good. It's hard not to want to be loved back. ]

I'm not everyone.

[ His brother had been--was still, in many ways--an emotional black hole. He took and took, and even when he had everything, he wanted more. Adra has always gone the other way. He gives until he has nothing, and then he still finds extra. Neither way of life is particularly healthy. ]
redheadcarrier: (So very worried.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-05-29 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Asuka seems to curl in on herself, eyes flashing as she regards him with a mix of trepidation and contempt. Of course he's not everybody. But doesn't that just make him stupid, if the rest of the world will just toss him away? ]

You're trying to trick me.

[ The words sound hollow. She knows he's not. She can tell he's not. And that hurts and it scares her more than if he were trying to get something out of her. Unconditional love is frightening. ]
hymnals: hard for me to use my eyes (it gets so hard to listen)

[personal profile] hymnals 2017-05-29 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He raises an eyebrow. ]

Into what?

[ He's suffered plenty for his compassion. But better that than the alternative. And like anyone else, he can only be who he is. ]
redheadcarrier: (Oh.)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-05-29 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know yet.

[ Her grip on her knees tightens. Something in her voice quavers. ]

You all want something. Right? This is the part where you tell me I have to do something or realize I'm not what you want.
hymnals: and you will not owe (i will not take from you)

[personal profile] hymnals 2017-05-29 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Light preserve him.

He leans over and offers his hand, palm up. She doesn't have to take it if she doesn't want to, but if she does, she'll find that his palm is unusually warm. ]


All you have to do is live.
redheadcarrier: (Darkness)

[personal profile] redheadcarrier 2017-05-29 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She's hesitant still. Wounded. But after a moment of staring she reaches out to take the hand.

This is what she chose, after all. To live alone and to take the risk of being hurt when she reaches out.
]
hymnals: god i'm lucky so much luckier than i ever thought i'd be (that makes me lucky)

[personal profile] hymnals 2017-05-30 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ He squeezes her hand gently, and doesn't say anything else.

It's all right. She can push and pull as much as she likes. He's not going anywhere. ]