12 September 2012 @ 09:13 pm
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[Private to the Admiral | Audio]

[Ugh, he doesn't want to do this.] Return Mariska's duplication ability at one half strength.

[Public | Audio]

[He's feeling a little terse.] I have returned Mariska's duplication ability at one-half strength, with the understanding she will only use it in self-defense. [Yes, he is very unsure about this.] If she doesn't use them in this way, she is aware there will be consequences. [Both in losing her abilities and people defending themselves.] This will allow her to produce four copies of herself that she remains in communal contact with. If she is attacked for no reason, I will defend her.

[And he's out. Because he has to go scrub his face like that would remove the memory of her breathing in it. He has a feeling he's going to have to go kidnap a legitimate genesmith from his universe and figure out a way to save that baby himself.]

[Private to Castiel, Buffy, Dracula, and Dean]

[And he comes back to add...]

I would like to speak to you if you would be willing. I admit to being hesitant to return any of her abilities. I am out of my realm of expertise, but I know that I need to give her the chance to behave responsibly with her abilities rather than jump to any conclusions.

However, if something does happen, I would like to be prepared. She's susceptible to head shots, and her bite is currently not infectious.
 
 
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Buffy Anne Summers: You have fruit punch mouth.[personal profile] slayage on September 13th, 2012 10:06 pm (UTC)
[Private]
[Attempt at lighthearted dark humor!] Well, she hasn't eaten anyone yet which is a bonus.

[Then, more seriously.] ... I don't know. Still kinda trying to adjust to the fact that Franklin's allowed to be a warden.

We don't have zombies like her where I'm from. I don't even know where to start. ... Have you had any moral-type conversations with her yet?

Edited 2012-09-13 10:07 pm (UTC)
Gaheris Rhade: rhade - bitchbitchbitch[personal profile] truth_is_cold on September 13th, 2012 10:27 pm (UTC)
[Private]
I really don't want her to take up that habit. [So many issues with people being eaten. You can smell the gross on her breath.] She very genuinely believes that by forcing people to become what she is, she's enlightening them. That they want it but they don't know they want it.

I told her that in my culture with as many species as we have, we still call forcing someone to propagate your own kind "rape" even if it doesn't involve human standards of sex, but as someone who originally came from a free love society she can't grasp the idea that one is as bad as the other.

[He rubs his hands down his face.]

It's "different because they return to life better".
Buffy Anne Summers: Ugh.[personal profile] slayage on September 13th, 2012 11:28 pm (UTC)
[Private]
[Allow Buffy a moment to be grossed out.] Euuugh.

That's just- Great. Agreeing with you on the rape-y vibe.

[She rubs her eyes briefly.]

Maybe look into other kinds of.. Er- [She does the air-quotes.] "Enlightenment." Y'know. The kinds people have.

O-Or. ...I've got nothing.
Gaheris Rhade: rhade - hold it together[personal profile] truth_is_cold on September 14th, 2012 12:02 am (UTC)
[Private]
[That sound she just made is how he feels.]

She used a number of hallucinatory drugs. I don't think she'll see any other way to enlightenment- I have to resolve myself to just convincing her she can't just change people against their will to something they don't want to be.
Buffy Anne Summers: Not broken; Just hurt.[personal profile] slayage on September 14th, 2012 01:44 am (UTC)
[Private]
[Nod.] Yeah got the flower child thing.

Maybe there'll be some kind of flood or something that turns her into something she really really doesn't wanna be. That could help.

[Pause. Blank face.] Oh god I just mentioned floods in a positive way.
Gaheris Rhade: rhade - so pissed off[personal profile] truth_is_cold on September 14th, 2012 02:12 am (UTC)
[Private]
Nothing living will work, as she's already been alive and sworn never to return to the state.

I think my only option is to stick with my ideals and make sure she doesn't harm anyone. But I don't suspect people will be leaping over one another to befriend her.