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[theycalledmeacurse]

CHARACTERS: Rogue & ??? OR Elena & ???
WHERE: The Morran Ship & Far Shore
WHEN: Day :039 - Day :042
SUMMARY: Boat things. Decision making.
WARNINGS: Will update as needed!

ROGUE will spend much of her time wandering the ship, particularly the sections of the Lower Deck that lend themselves to easy observation of the sea. She'll avoid the more crowded areas, preferring to make said observations in relative peace, but she won't turn away from company.

ELENA will be drinking. When she's not enjoying the alcohol provided by their hosts, she'll be alternating time in the open air space on the Main Deck and the hosts' cramped quarters on the Upper Deck.

Unconventional formatting, but come at me. Brackets are totes fine, btw, this is just a slapdash post.

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[redheadcarrier]

More people she didn't know anything about. Better than people she knows and cares about. Better than her. There's an ugly boil that rolls under the surface, but she knows better than to indulge them too much. Even if a part of her feels vindictively pleased about it.

"No one I know."

Maybe she wants to see what Rogue will say.

[theycalledmeacurse]

It's a sad way of looking at things, but it's not one that's unfamiliar. And it's not one that Rogue can automatically dismiss as invalid, because it's human nature to want to protect and keep close the people one cares about.

"In hindsight, maybe it would have been the better option. But just going into things, I like to hope that we wouldn't make such a decision lightly."

[redheadcarrier]

"Maybe. But... I don't know-" She remembers what Bakugo called her. A killer and a murderer and she bristles, mostly at herself and the imagined argument in her head. That's not fair. He doesn't - he's not here. Don't think about it.

"Now that we're here, we can't. But maybe we should've."

Now she's just arguing for the sake or arguing.

[theycalledmeacurse]

"Whether it's a single life or millions, they deserve some consideration before choosing to end them. The costs of such actions need to be weighed against the benefits, and sometimes you have to set aside your personal feelings."

It's not said as a lecture, but as light conversation. Funny how Rogue can talk about war and genocide so casually, but bringing up a potentially damaged past is too much for her. What exactly does that say about the life she's had to live so far?

[redheadcarrier]

There's a pang of guilt that works it's way past her prickly hedge of self defense. The woman is right. They deserve more than a single sentence. But weighed against the rest, does Asuka have a choice?

Which is a ridiculous queston. Of course she does. She's always had a choice. She just has to make it instead of letting herself be carried by events. Her weight shifts and she frowns under the veil. She doesn't like this much.

"I guess."

A pause. A beat.

"...what's your name, anyway?"

[theycalledmeacurse]

Convincing others to think a certain way has never been Rogue's style. Convincing people to think, period? That's what's most important in her mind. Think things through, make informed opinions, have all the facts and consider consequences.

No one said it was easy.

"Rogue. What's yours, sugar?"

[redheadcarrier]

"Asuka," she replies with a shrug. She's still tight and tense and a thousand other things. It's part of being a teenager. With her, it's also jsut a consequence of what she's been through and what she's done, even since arriving on the Station.

"Rogue's kind of a weird name."

[theycalledmeacurse]

That's probably the hundredth time she's gotten that particular comment, and it still makes her laugh. "Thanks, I was a teenager when I chose it," she explains easily. "I'd just left home and my whole world had changed in ways I wasn't expecting, so I was probably a bit dramatic."

[redheadcarrier]

"You chose your own name when you were a teenager? They just let you do that?" Asuka puts her chin in her hand. For someone who tries to be independent, most of her life has been spent under the watchful eye of an adult guardian. She hasn't really had much of an actual chance to spread her own wings.

[theycalledmeacurse]

Rogue gives an exaggerated shrug to be sure it's visible through the costume. "There wasn't really anyone to stop me, and it was kinda the thing to do with the people I ended up staying with. Pretty much everyone chose a new name."