{ open post | days :039 - :041 }

[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]

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."