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Gaheris Rhade

Our people were meant to be living gods, warrior-poets who roamed the stars bringing civilization, not cowards and bullies who prey on the weak and kill each other for sport. I never imagined they'd prove themselves so inferior. I didn't betray our people – they betrayed themselves.

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Gaheris Rhade

20 April 2013 @ 01:46 am

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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.

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hunt4commonwealth: amused

hunt4commonwealth on April 20th, 2013 10:04 am (UTC)

How about brazen activities? [He won't add "intimate murders" even as a joke. On the ship there are people who might take the idea seriously.]

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Felix Gaeta: smile: friendship

itstopped on April 20th, 2013 10:10 am (UTC)
Threadjack of SOCIALLY AWKWARD

Or intimate m-- [He realizes the same implication halfway through his own joke and cuts off with a cough.] Never mind.

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Gaheris Rhade: rhade - smooth criminal

truth_is_cold on April 20th, 2013 08:17 pm (UTC)

[And he just takes the time to snort, because he sees the thought process that happened there.]

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Gaheris Rhade: norm - so much not caring

truth_is_cold on April 20th, 2013 08:19 pm (UTC)

Brazen activities should be fine if you don't mind feeling like a fool later. And only slightly compromised.

[Private]

How are you feeling today?

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hunt4commonwealth: friendly

hunt4commonwealth on April 21st, 2013 02:21 am (UTC)

You know I never mind feeling like a fool.

[Private]

A little squirmy, but still alive.

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Gaheris Rhade: rhade - bitch and complain

truth_is_cold on April 21st, 2013 05:12 am (UTC)
[Private]

Do you think the infirmary here will have suitable technology to get them out? Though they weren't able to for-

[His expression goes confused again, and he jostles his head. Harper wasn't infested. Tyr and Dylan were taken by the Magog. Harper helped reclaim the ship with Beka from the Engine Room.]

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hunt4commonwealth: nervous

hunt4commonwealth on April 21st, 2013 05:31 am (UTC)
[Private]

I don't think they've got anything much better here than we had on Andromeda. I'm stuck with my little unwanted passengers unless a doctor with some awesome equipment comes on board.

[Dylan notices that unfinished sentence. He doesn't have memories of the other timeline, so Rhade's statement is baffling.]

Are you feeling okay, Gaheris? You're acting a little weird.

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Gaheris Rhade: rhade - what is this shit?

truth_is_cold on April 21st, 2013 06:28 am (UTC)
[Private]

I think...

I think we may be the-

Nevermind. May I come see you? [Because there's another terrible memory in there, one of Dylan laying dead on a floor. And it just hit him like a ton of bricks.]

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hunt4commonwealth: amused

hunt4commonwealth on April 21st, 2013 06:42 am (UTC)
[Private]

Sure.

When you get here, you can tell me what you think we may be. Other than smart, devilishly handsome, and the last hope for civilization.

Edited (adding silly Dylan words) 2013-04-21 06:43 am (UTC)

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Gaheris Rhade: rhade - do you have a problem?

truth_is_cold on April 21st, 2013 07:11 am (UTC)
[Private]

We already know that much. [Ego battles are getting harder for Rhade, though, especially when everyone else seems more fond of his own kind than he is.]

I'll be right there.

[And he leaves, going to the room where he knows Dylan is, checking up on him for multiple reasons at this point.]

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hunt4commonwealth: pic#5700720

hunt4commonwealth on April 21st, 2013 07:25 am (UTC)
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Yeah, but it's always nice hearing it anyway.

[Dylan's waiting for Rhade. Dressed for off duty in loose pants and a T-shirt. His hand is absently resting on his abdomen like an expectant mother.]

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Gaheris Rhade: rhade - scrutiny

truth_is_cold on April 21st, 2013 07:58 am (UTC)
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[That jars him to walk in on. He knows it's because there are horrible larvae growing in there, that it's going to cost Dylan his life even if there is a death toll here (which is the greatest benefit for having accepted a deal). But there is Dylan in such a familiar position and he's trying so hard not to think of it the way that he's thinking of it.

He cooly comes in and goes to get Dylan a glass of water- reflex, almost.]

I can't recall who T'Pol is, yet I know she was here. There are pictures on my desk of unfamiliar people, but I still recall them somehow. [He brings the glass over to Dylan, doing his best to keep his eyebrows from climbing.]

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hunt4commonwealth: leaning over

hunt4commonwealth on April 21st, 2013 08:11 am (UTC)
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[Dylan takes the water and drinks. At least he's holding the glass with that hand now, instead of feeling little Magog bundles of opposite-of-joy moving inside him.]

Do you think the flood is giving you fake memories?

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Gaheris Rhade: rhade - tux broody

truth_is_cold on April 21st, 2013 08:27 am (UTC)
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I think we may be affected. But I don't know whether I should say anything or not. [He sits beside of Dylan, and to soothe the tension in his stomach rests his hand on his abdomen.

He has been trying so very hard not to think of what's happening under his fingers, or the heartbreaking image that Rev Bem carries with him. It says something about the horrors in there that he hates to consider.]

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hunt4commonwealth: pensive

hunt4commonwealth on April 21st, 2013 08:50 am (UTC)
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It's probably best to keep it quiet unless we know exactly how we're affected. So far, I feel perfectly normal.

[He glances ruefully down at his stomach.]

Normal as I ever do these days.

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Gaheris Rhade: rhade - heartbreak

truth_is_cold on April 21st, 2013 10:27 am (UTC)
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[He thinks about a time he was laying Dylan's body on his bed, looking down at him mournfully. But this didn't happen, it couldn't have, or these squirming things wouldn't be under his palm.

He pulls back his hand, tucks it closer to himself so he stops... well... thinking about it.]

I remember things going differently. Just a little. They didn't go well then, either.

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hunt4commonwealth: mmmm

hunt4commonwealth on April 22nd, 2013 05:01 am (UTC)
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Guess I've got bad luck in every branch of the timelines. That's a bummer.

[He probably should be more upset at Rhade's implication that he dies horribly in every version of events. But the infestation has made the idea of his own death very familiar.]

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Gaheris Rhade: rhade - contemporary bitching

truth_is_cold on April 22nd, 2013 05:49 am (UTC)
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I think we're the ones affected by the flood. [He says with no small amount of distaste.

And upon a moment of consideration, he rises again.] Don't worry. In my memories you came out fine. [After a while. Because he can feel that hand against his chest too, and an echo of searing pain running through him.]

I think you were better off without me.

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hunt4commonwealth: bro

hunt4commonwealth on April 22nd, 2013 06:12 am (UTC)
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[Dylan steps forward and puts his hand on Rhade's chest. He means it as a gesture of affection, but some echo of a memory may be driving him in ways he isn't aware of.]

I can't imagine that. We've been a team for so long, I can't imagine doing this without you. There's no one I trust more, no one I'd rather have at my side to save the universe.

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Gaheris Rhade: rhade - a little bothered

truth_is_cold on April 22nd, 2013 06:39 am (UTC)
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[He glances down at that hand, looking remotely unsettled, before he puts his own hand on Dylan's forearm.]

I think you'll have to do it without me. Ben doesn't seem as though he'll graduate. [But he knows that he should, and that's perplexing.]

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hunt4commonwealth

hunt4commonwealth on April 22nd, 2013 07:13 am (UTC)
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They messed up that poor boy bad. But I'm willing to wait as long as it takes. No man left behind.

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Gaheris Rhade: rhade - your move

truth_is_cold on April 23rd, 2013 09:44 am (UTC)
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And yours? [He has to ask. One of them has to assure that Dylan will get those Magog out... though he's never told Dylan the specifics of his deal.

He has a feeling he would disapprove.]

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hunt4commonwealth: pic#1559048

hunt4commonwealth on April 23rd, 2013 09:53 am (UTC)
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I think mine is coming along.

[He should be thrilled about the prospect of getting rid of the Magog larvae soon. But they've been in him for long enough now that the thought of having them gone almost feels weird. Maybe he's going crazy.]

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Gaheris Rhade: rhade - hallway

truth_is_cold on April 23rd, 2013 09:58 am (UTC)
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[And he has to stop and consider what it is he's going to say here. He starts to pace again, a bad habit of his. But it seems more likely that Dylan's deal will be fulfilled first.]

Would... you be opposed, perhaps... if the Hajira Magog were to raise them once they were removed? [The problem would be getting them into something they could still feed off of as they grew. Not to mention the peculiarity of painful horrors inside of him.]

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hunt4commonwealth

hunt4commonwealth on April 24th, 2013 06:09 am (UTC)
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[Dylan latches on to that idea.]

That's a good idea. I mean, if it's them or me, I'm not going to let myself be Magog food. But what happened isn't really their fault. If there's a way to get my body back without killing them, and a way to raise them to not be monsters, I'm all for trying it.

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