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cuttingremark ([personal profile] cuttingremark) wrote in [community profile] victory_road2022-07-07 11:27 am

Time travel is the worst actually!

Who: Loki and others!
Where: Hisui
When: July
Summary: An event catchall! Will be adding more prompts as the month goes.
Rating: PG-13 for language and like fighting and stuff?



Week 1

Arrival


Waking up suddenly in a strange new world was both disorienting and concerning. Doing it twice in as many weeks is just downright annoying.

Loki is sitting on a log on the outskirts of the camp, glaring daggers at the woman who apparently brought them all here. He is completely still save for his left hand picking at the palm of his right. Violence outside of pokemon battle seems to be completely foreign to this world, but the look in his eye says he would very much like to introduce it in his moment.

He speaks when approached, though his murderous focus stays on the 'scientist.'

"Has anyone found a way to contact our proper time? Outside of this woman's ravings, that is."

Patrol

The night is peaceful here as Loki makes his way through the underbrush with his new friend. Both him and his pokemon move quietly, barely disturbing a leaf or twig as they do.

This, of course, makes for prime shenanigans. If you happen to find yourself out this late, you may feel the faint scratch of something at your back...Turning will reveal Loki in his new clothes wearing a scary looking mask he probably made out of some fallen tree bark.

"Boo."
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[personal profile] restlessdreamer 2022-07-18 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh!" Astrid's eyes widen a little bit. "I didn't recognize you in this form... I didn't realize that this place could give your old self back to you. I'm sure it must be a relief."
Edited 2022-07-18 17:40 (UTC)
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[personal profile] restlessdreamer 2022-07-19 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
...Oh. Oh no. Astrid puts her hand over her mouth and shakes her head, eyes wide as saucers.

"Oh shit, it pulled you from before the... Nothing, nothing at all. Everything's fine, nothing to worry about."

How do you tell someone that their future involves being infected by a bio-engineered virus, going insane, and becoming a mostly-blank vessel for her and her fellow tenno to pilot?
Edited 2022-07-19 14:34 (UTC)
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[personal profile] restlessdreamer 2022-07-19 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Astrid leans her head back and groans.

"Nnngh, I shouldn't have said anything... but maybe this timeline can be different? Temporal axioms was never my strong suit, so I dunno if we can do that ourselves, or if our timeline is fixed but there are also others?" She's pretty clearly talking to herself, and shakes her head to come back to the present.

"I guess we start with when you are. Has the old-- well, you wouldn't know it as that, you'd just know it was a war. Has the war started?"
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[personal profile] restlessdreamer 2022-07-19 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"...The what now?" Astrid knits her eyebrows and frowns. "I mean the war against the Sentients. They came back from Tau and attacked, it was a whole thing?"
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[personal profile] restlessdreamer 2022-07-19 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Yeah, I think so too." Astrid runs her hand through her hair, then grips it when she gets to the temple. "There's people here from all kinds of places, it should have been obvious... god, I'm an idiot. I'm so sorry."

Her mood has flipped a full 180 in about three seconds, and she's not meeting his gaze anymore.
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[personal profile] restlessdreamer 2022-07-19 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe, but it's still a stupid idiot thing to do. None of the other warframes have the same name as before, why should Loki be any different?"

"Yeah... 'not a happy end' is putting it very mildly."
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[personal profile] restlessdreamer 2022-07-19 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure, why not? Astrid can get into the gritty details if Loki wants them. She fixes him with a hard, almost unblinking stare.

"The Orokin took their best warriors - and eventually just anybody they could find - and infected them with a special virus. This turned their bodies into an amalgam of flesh and steel and gave them superhuman abilities, but eventually each and every one lost themselves. They turned on their masters the way an animal would, not as people rising up in rebellion.

"They were going to scrap the project until they realized we could command them, inhabit them with our minds from afar. Each one was fitted with a bolt that we could... interface with, I suppose; I believe that this is what suppressed their minds. The Orokin turned them into dolls."
Edited 2022-07-19 16:52 (UTC)
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[personal profile] restlessdreamer 2022-07-19 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's one way to put it, I guess." Astrid runs her hand down her face, trying to center herself. Thinking of those times always makes her angry, but she had been practicing at not letting the feeling steer her completely.

"Still. Mine wins."
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[personal profile] restlessdreamer 2022-07-22 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Hey, you said you were curious about how it could be worse. It is worse. Ergo, I win."
Edited 2022-07-22 06:23 (UTC)