Gaheris Rhade (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
truth_is_cold) wrote2013-04-20 01:46 am
truth_is_cold) wrote2013-04-20 01:46 am
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[Public | Audio]
I'm completely certain that this will be ignored, but with a flood on I would recommend that people refrain from extremely intimate activities or brazen murders until it's over with. We've all seen the worst case scenarios more than once.
...I am noticing that certain things don't seem to... line-up, properly, at the moment. Has anyone else noticed this?
[Private to Ben | Audio]
I should speak with you.
OOC: Rhade is affected. His Barge memories are spotty; he may remember someone as their original self or their alternate self. He vaguely remembers being an inmate even though with his history he has no reason to ever have been. He managed to warn Dylan of the Nietzschean insurrection and both ended up weathering the Long Night together. Now he's actually closer to an inmate than he ever has been in this timeline, because he's never properly dealt with his rationalizing the Battle of Witchhead (where he had to participate in the destruction of thousands of his own people) and starting to act a little bizarrely towards Magog-infested Dylan. Canon point is early Season 2 AU.
I'm completely certain that this will be ignored, but with a flood on I would recommend that people refrain from extremely intimate activities or brazen murders until it's over with. We've all seen the worst case scenarios more than once.
...I am noticing that certain things don't seem to... line-up, properly, at the moment. Has anyone else noticed this?
[Private to Ben | Audio]
I should speak with you.
OOC: Rhade is affected. His Barge memories are spotty; he may remember someone as their original self or their alternate self. He vaguely remembers being an inmate even though with his history he has no reason to ever have been. He managed to warn Dylan of the Nietzschean insurrection and both ended up weathering the Long Night together. Now he's actually closer to an inmate than he ever has been in this timeline, because he's never properly dealt with his rationalizing the Battle of Witchhead (where he had to participate in the destruction of thousands of his own people) and starting to act a little bizarrely towards Magog-infested Dylan. Canon point is early Season 2 AU.
[ Private : Audio ]
[It's the one area he's been programmed to be anything less than immediately obedient; and he must reject that name at all times, which he does now, unhesitatingly. He doesn't dare show it, doesn't dare anything, but it causes him discomfort to think of it. Like he's done something wrong.]
Where would you like me to begin, sir?
[ Private : Audio ]
My name is Gaheris. [But he gives up before he can tell him not to call him, "sir". Something else says that's useless.]
I need to find your file and review it.
[ Private : Audio ]
I will wait here until you are prepared to speak with me, Gaheris. [It still sounds like sir.]
[ Private : Audio ]
[He's flipping through pages, trying to see a Ben that escaped, that followed the blue lady, that knew Zack.]
[ Private : Audio ]
[The file is the same size as it once was, only instead of detailing a life outside of Manticore it's excruciating detail of a life that's barely a life at all. There's a note about his escaped unit but that subject X5-493 turned back at the last minute, was recaptured and successfully reindoctrinated. He's been relentlessly trained and fine tuned for twenty-one years and has restricted clearance for field duty due to the 490 series' penchant for disobedience and this X5's habit in particular of wild fantasy. There's a note about successful closure over the matter of a deity-like figure, and a note to be vigilant for any mention of a Blue Lady.
X5-493 is proficient in several forms of hand to hand combat, cleared for use of all weapons both missile and edged, and tactical strategy; he was instrumental in the recapture of X5-599 and the eventual elimination of X5-452, among others.]
[ Private : Audio ]
He quickly turns off the feed for a moment.] This isn't my Ben. [Isn't it? He remembers an assignment to investigate many creative works, to contemplate them. But there are no mentions of panicked murders, the Nomlies, of Kozak. Of Ladd.
Why does Ladd bother him so much.
He turns the feed back on.] If... anyone tries to provoke you, don't harm them. Retreat. [There's concern he can't hide.]
[ Private : Audio ]
His reply is calm and unfazed when Rhade comes back. The concern doesn't confuse or interest him - it's not important to him. If it should be, Rhade will explain it.]
Yessir. I remember.