Today, I...

[askerian]

-slept five hours and went on staying up for 20. yay asuka smart.

-dodged a bullet! er, I mean the dentist appointment was rescheduled. (and I even used my alarm clock, you bitches, i could have slept) Next meeting, tuesday, 4 pm. I shan't forget.

-wrote a little of that Cercle AU I'm writing for joisbishmyoga's birthday. (happy birthday again, lovely!) I don't know how I'll finish it, but hey, i wrote three pages of cracky AU to my own Ofic, which is kinda awesome and very weird. But at least I wrote SOMETHING.

Reiyel was such a total dickwad as a kid. Okay now he's still a total dickwad. But he was cuter about it back then. XD ...I don't have a clue how i'll end the fic BUT I'LL SEE.


"You know... If you wanted a good time, you didn't have to kidnap me."

Askerian twitched, and grimaced at the fire he was poking. It figured that this would be the first thing out of that mouth. He looked over his shoulder, wiping the dismay from his face. He didn't know where to start. "Hey. How do you feel?"

A couple of feet behind him, the boy was sitting up in a nest of blankets, watching him with calm, disturbingly clear blue eyes. His upper body was bare, and he looked so pale and scrawny that Askerian was tempted to reach out and bundle him up properly. But touching him right now... Not a good idea.

"Like I'm going to be sick. You could have just asked me to come. What did you give me?"

"I didn't give you anything." Askerian sighed, resisting the urge to massage the bridge of his nose. He had guessed that the child would prove hard to handle, but already he exceeded his expectations. "I didn't kidnap you; you were at the wrong end of a dark spell."

"Huh. Really. What spell, then?"

Askerian sighed again; but it was hard to get annoyed at the child for his blatant disbelief. He mustered up a little smile somehow, softening his words. "Do I look like a sorcerer to you?"

"How should I know -- hey, you have funny ears."

Askerian flicked them, and smiled a little more sincerely. As blasé as the kid tried to sound, he was still at the very beginning of adolescence, and perhaps not even quite that far yet. "I'm a unicorn." He flipped his tail, lifting the tangle of blond curls from the ground.

The boy tilted his head slightly and leaned forward on his hands, peering at Askerian's tail. He looked up, staring unabashedly at the stallion's face through stringy, chin-length black bangs. "Your eyes are slit the wrong way."

Any man who got this far into his personal space would have prompted Askerian to kick them in the face, but it wasn't hard to be patient with a kid. "That's an equine thing."

"Okay." The boy smiled, still strangely calm and unconcerned, and rested a tiny hand on the man's shoulder, dragging the blankets around his legs closer until he could lean against Askerian's back. "And now you're gonna tell me that metamorphs don't have black magic, and so it wasn't you who threw the spell on me, and really, you saved me."

Askerian stared at the child, and resisted the urge to swear, even though he was ready to bet the boy would have heard it all before and then some.

"I'm really grateful."

Askerian ducked hurriedly and crab-walked a couple of feet away, glaring at the kid when he smirked faintly. "Yeah right, you don't believe a word of what I'm saying."

The boy's smirk blossomed into a full grin. "Well, no."

Askerian sighed and massaged his temples, closing his eyes briefly. "Listen... I don't want to sleep with you. I'm straight--"

"Lots of straight men don't consider children --"

Askerian kept talking over the kid; he knew that listening would only scar him mentally for the next ten years. "I just don't like men, and I don't like children, and I definitely don't like little boys." And he hadn't saved Reiyel, Reiyel had saved himself, except that the bitch had gotten in a last hit before running off. "I'm going to bring you to someone I know who'll fix the damage and then you'll be free to go."

"Uh huh. So you're a deliveryman for a bordello?"

Askerian stared at the smiling child, and suddenly felt very sad. What sort of life had he led, to be so damaged so young? There was no trace of innocence left there; no trust in anyone's better nature, no care for the cost of survival.

"No. I'm not. I'm a newscarrier." Well, technically he was a freelance reporter now, but he doubted the boy would know the human term, and there wasn't much difference in the end result, anyway.

The kid leaned back on his hands, mock-innocently displaying his body. "Oh. So you spy for some kinda Lord and they told you to bring me back since you were passing by anyway."

"No -- oh, whatever. Yes, yes, that's exactly it. Are you hungry?"

The child smiled, open and friendly. "Sure."

Askerian sighed again. He was glad that they were so far away from all civilization. The second the brat found an opening, he'd do his best to disappear and then Askerian would be fucked.

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-figured out a whole new civilization of malformed genetic throwbacks for my Space Mermaids Ofic with sarolynne's help! ♥ Well okay I have the bare bones. But ohman, this is going to be fun. MMMM culture clashes. ♥ ♥ ♥ Also I have a couple of ideas for the plot, now. I just need a few good scenes. And a crew of space pirates for Blue! I decided that I was too lazy to really ponder hard about their personalities, so I assigned them animals and decided I'd work from that. I think I don't really need more characters for the crew, but if there's a job you think should be represented, plz tell me?


-Blue -- Kem (Egyptian: Black) Sevag (Armenian: Black-eyed). (M, mechanic, fighter) ((wolf)) (name still subject to change, though I like the sounds -- Kem is perhaps a little short for a name...? I dunno)

-Lujayn (Arabic: silver) Aswad (Arabic: Black)(F, weapons specialist, fighter, astronaut) ((lynx))

-Dhaval (Sanskrit: White, pure) (M, pilot, astronaut) ((eagle))

-Alind (Albanian: Gold) (F, navigator, computer tech) smooth, elegant, distant. ((snake -- constrictor, not venomous))

-Khiaw (Thai : green) (M, captain, stratege, fighter) ((fighting rooster))

-Vartan (Armenian: Rose) (M, cook, fighter) ((bear))

-Oriana (Spanish: gold) (F, whore, spy) ((Persian))

-Kalden (Tibetan: Of the Golden Age) (M, hacker, conman) ((ferret))

So far what I know is that Blue and Kalden the hacker don't get along, that Blue and Lujayn the weapons specialist sometimes sleep together because they know it doesn't mean anything and he backs her up reasonably well when she kicks ass in a fight, and that Oriana the whore has a deep but totally platonic devotion to Khiaw the captain and she'd never ever sleep with him because he's too good for that, but she'd die for him just because he asked. She's not attracted to him at all.

The others are kind of a blank slate right now. But my brain is trying to go to sleep without me, so heh. x______x


Okay, bed time for me. I wanted to wait for a translation on the brand new Naruto chapter, but ehh. I don't think I want to wait that long. 'night everyone. ^^

Comments

[piecrumbs.livejournal.com]

eeeeeeeeee pretty pretty I likey~ ♥ You're getting somewhere yays! <333

[trypton88.livejournal.com]

-very excited- Ohhhh Cercle. Haven't seen much of that in ages! Its shiny.
And yay! the crew is assembled! Just in that little blurb you can see the relationships just a bit. It'll be exciting to see how they pan out in the future, and how you plan on getting them onto our watery planet with our other two friends.
+J+

[valles-uf.livejournal.com]

At first glance, I see only one person who (might) be qualified to take care of the ship's engines. Even modern ships, with something as relatively safe and reliable as diesels, keep one fully qualified engineer on hand at all times - figure that the priority of that goes up very fast the more volatile whatever engine you're using is.

This page (http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3k.html) at the Atomic Rocket Project (http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.html) has more detail on crew requirements than even I'd need, and the rest of the site goes into similar detail about, well, just about every other aspect of plausible spacecraft design.

Like, this site is the amature rocket scientist's bible, man.

Ja, -n

[bootoye.livejournal.com]

This post encouraged me to go and read your Space Mermaid fic...

I am hooked so far. Liadan is definitely alien and I hope to see more of her and Arun.

I like the name Kem and Blue and I don't think that Kem is too short for a name. If you want though you can give him a second name or lengthen it.

Pirates!

[slamu.livejournal.com]

What about Alind and Kalden waging a continous computer skirmish against each other (can get somewhat passionate at times), cap'n got fed up once and told them that if the HAD to do it, get off the main computer.
Vartan is the good natured one (for a pirate), swears recreationally, has a thing where HE is the only one allowed in the galley, and doubles as their basic medic? (not much beyond first aid, but better than these louts)
Dhaval is scared of the dark (I know, a bit odd for a spacer), doesn't like people bringing it up.
Blue is ex. military, didn't like all the rules, regulations, dicipline, bosses, etc., deserted.
Just my two cents

[askerian]

fufufu. ♥

[askerian]

._____. umm. Meep? I'm having a hard time forcing myself to write that stupid discussion, though. Alizea bugs meeeeeee XP

*^____^* thankee~

[askerian]

*_________* oooh thanks for the link. so shiny. *devours*

The captain, the pilot and the cook all know a bit about engineering, it's just Blue's speciality.

And thanks to the site I realized I had no doctor. So I figured out two-three of them know first aid and some field medic stuff, but they have no real doctor or even a nurse. A good one would ask for more money that they earn and a cheap one would either be a drunk, a druggie or a psycho, none of which would be good for crew morale or survival on the long term. Mostly, since they're more into discreet heists and salvage than attacks and risky stuff, they just get by with first aid and hope they won't need one urgently, and if that happens, they put the injured guy in cryo and rush home. Of course that's risky, but they're not exactly rolling in money either, so there's not a lot of choice.

[askerian]

*^____________^* bwee! ♥

Problem with that series is that I made a bet with myself to only name people after colors. Liadan means "Grey Lady", for example. Kem means either "black" or "black-eyed", I forget which. Arun is "reddish-brown". So it's not easy to lenghten names like that. T_T I asked for help, but it's hard to choose what fits. ^^;

Re: Pirates!

[askerian]

Heh. Thanks for the suggestions ^^

I think Alind would be rather disdainful with Kalden, but then she's disdainful with almost everyone but Captain-guy, Pilot-guy and Cook-guy. Hmm. She might have come from a real navigator school, so she had to have some money. Most of the rest have low-class backgrounds.

Vartan I think has some field medic training, though no certification. He's mostly taciturn, but not antisocial, just a silent presence.

Dhaval can't be scared of the dark, he's the pilot and an astronaut -- he routinely gets suited up to crawl all over the outside of the ship. D: He's got to be pretty calm and steady in a crisis, too, else he'd crash the ship. I see him as rather calm and friendly.

Blue's just a slum brat, but yes on the rules and regulations thing. XD

"I'm a leaf on the wind, damnit!"

[slamu.livejournal.com]

Why would someone who already had money want to be a pirate? It couldn't be for the lifestyle (could it?) Is it one of those Mysterious And Somewhat Unpayable Debts of DOOM (TM)? That can really wreck your finances. I was kinda picturing her as the freindly type (python hugs anyone?)
What's one way to escape the slums? Military service. They feed you, clothe you, teach you skills, and all you need to do is let them own you for a few years.
He cooks, he cleans, he patches people up, he doesn't monopolize conversations; is he still single?
Scared of spiders? (and then he discovers octupi, and spiders get bumped down to the #2 slot) I just see him as scared of something, donno why. (Jump up on the chair scared, not wake up in cold sweat scared)

Soar, little leaf, soa--*gurgle*

[askerian]

I never said she had lotsa money, just that she wasn't poor at the time she went to school. There's plenty that could have happened since then. Maybe her parents got in debt to pay for her training and then they went bankrupt, or she was kicked out of the school and disowned. And no, not friendly at all. Dude, snakes = COLD.

Nuh huh, no dice. Soldiers = bastard pigs much like the cops. Slums people joining the army = traitors. Blue likes the people of the slums just fine, he just wants more money because it sure makes life a little easier but it's not like he spits on his roots either. He's proud to be from the slums.

everyone on the ship is technically single. They're not at any port to keep up a real monogamous relationship, and intra-crew relationships are frowned upon. Just sex is alright, as long as it can stay that, but that's it. They have better things to do than shack up with people anyway.

Nope, sorry.

That'll stain

[slamu.livejournal.com]

Orochimaru seems friendly enough. I mean, he tells jokes, visited a bit with one his old teachers, even invites people to his ... er... place of residence. (he's just misunderstood, really)
Oh, and pirates are the salt of the earth.
Better things like...plunder and pillage? Ransack a village? (With nary a worry or care?)