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riverviewlogs2017-05-01 07:22 pm
- !mod post: holiday,
- !mod post: monthly mingle,
- marvel (616): billy kaplan,
- marvel (616): bucky barnes,
- marvel (616): loki laufeyson,
- marvel (616): steve rogers,
- marvel (mcu): bucky barnes,
- marvel (mcu): loki,
- marvel (mcu): sam wilson,
- marvel (mcu): steve rogers,
- marvel (mcu): thor,
- original: shigeru miyata,
- star trek (aos): james kirk,
- star wars: poe dameron,
- the adventure zone: taako taaco,
- ✖ buffy the vampire slayer: spike,
- ✖ captive prince: damen,
- ✖ captive prince: laurent,
- ✖ chb chronicles: nico di angelo,
- ✖ dc comics (preboot): dick grayson,
- ✖ dc comics (rebirth): jonathan kent,
- ✖ dceu: clark kent,
- ✖ dctv (flash): caitlin snow,
- ✖ dctv (flash): cisco ramon,
- ✖ dctv (flash): eddie thawne,
- ✖ dctv (supergirl): kara zor-el,
- ✖ district 9: wikus van der merwe,
- ✖ ensemble stars!: eichi tenshouin,
- ✖ ergo proxy: re-l mayer,
- ✖ father brown (2013): sid carter,
- ✖ ffxv: gladiolus amicitia,
- ✖ ffxv: ignis scientia,
- ✖ ffxv: iris amicitia,
- ✖ ffxv: noctis lucis caelum,
- ✖ ffxv: prompto argentum,
- ✖ game of thrones: jon snow,
- ✖ homestuck: jade harley,
- ✖ john wick: john wick,
- ✖ kingdom hearts: terra,
- ✖ mage: the ascension: morgan knight,
- ✖ marvel (616): angela,
- ✖ marvel (616): tony stark,
- ✖ marvel (mcu): margaret 'peggy' carter,
- ✖ marvel (ultimates): tony stark,
- ✖ naruto: sasuke uchiha,
- ✖ nier (automata): 2b,
- ✖ off: zacharie,
- ✖ original: cain,
- ✖ original: jamie dodger,
- ✖ original: letha regis,
- ✖ original: llŷr,
- ✖ overwatch: angela ziegler,
- ✖ overwatch: genji shimada,
- ✖ overwatch: hanzo shimada,
- ✖ overwatch: jesse mccree,
- ✖ overwatch: reaper,
- ✖ overwatch: widowmaker,
- ✖ pokemon (xy/xyz): augustine sycamore,
- ✖ prison break: michael scofield,
- ✖ star wars: armitage hux,
- ✖ star wars: kylo ren,
- ✖ star wars: rey,
- ✖ the adventure zone: tom collins,
- ✖ the man from uncle: illya kuryakin,
- ✖ the raven cycle: adam parrish,
- ✖ the raven cycle: ronan lynch,
- ✖ the walking dead: daryl dixon,
- ✖ the white princess: elizabeth of york,
- ✖ tokyo ghoul: ken kaneki,
- ✖ undertale: sans,
- ✖ vampire: the masquerade: fatima merali,
- ✖ vikings: ivar ragnarsson,
- ✖ voltron: allura,
- ✖ yuri on ice: yuri plisetsky,
- ✖ yuri on ice: yuuri katsuki
introductory mingle: MEMORIA
what: Introductory Log and Memoria Commemoration
when: May 1st - May 8th
where: Anywhere around the city.
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines
In the days leading up to May 1st, residents new and old will notice preparations beginning, a flurry of activity getting the city ready for the upcoming celebration: Memoria. A more solemn celebration than Sampremi or the Flower Festival, Memoria is a week-long time of remembrance for those lost in the Great War and the epidemic that decimated Riverview Quarantine's population 10 years ago. Memoria traditions include lighting lanterns for the dead, telling stories about lost loved ones or lost homes, eating meals with loved ones, and a special gathering to send floating lanterns down the river in honor of those lost.
While the main city-wide event associated with Memoria is the floating of lanterns down the river on the evening of May 8th, the holiday is generally seen as a time of reflection on and appreciation of things that have been lost - people, homes, cultures, and planets. It is also a celebration of the things that remain. Many locally-owned shops will host displays of culturally-significant food, and will hand out informational flyers sharing the unique customs of their own homeworlds. There is a heavy emphasis on sharing time with family, friends, and lovers, and anyone who is able to will cook meals or treats for loved ones, or at least purchase them something good to eat.
i. hanging lanterns
Throughout the entire week of Memoria, residents will be hanging lanterns around the city. Lanterns are generally placed in greater number in places of passage - streets, bridges, and all alongside the train lines are particularly well-decorated, as are any trees alongside paths, and most homes and businesses have a profusion of lanterns around their doors and windows. This tradition is twofold; some people believe that the lanterns are hung in these places in order to guide the spirits of the dead back to those who still love them, other people believe that the lanterns are to give light for living loved ones to find their doors in times of darkness...many people believe both.
No matter what your character might believe, you can be sure they will find themselves offered a lantern for free from various businesses or friendly citizens passing by, and invited to hang it before the sun sets, or they may be handed a bundle of lanterns and asked to help share them with others.
ii. sharing life
Throughout the city, characters will find groups of people gathering to share hot drinks and talk about their loved ones lost, their homes and planets, or their experiences during the Great War and the epidemic. Anyone who has lost someone, who has fought to survive, who is feeling cut off and homesick, is welcome to sit and share their story. If your character chooses to sit and to share their story, they will find that people will gather to listen, will generally be respectful of the telling, and may share their own similar experiences in return. This is an excellent time to air grief in an environment where most people understand and respect grief, and a good time to deepen the connections to others around you, to understand them better.
There is also a very large focus on cooking or purchasing meals or treats for loved ones during Memoria, with many people taking meals with everyone they care about during the week of the holiday. Some go the extra mile and will hand out baked goods (usually chocolate or cinnamon), packets of candy, or other little treats to acquaintances, especially if they would like to form a closer bond with them. This is a great time for characters to reach out to someone they would like to get to know better with a surprise treat!
iii. floating of the lanterns
On the evening of May 8th, just before sundown, many of the city's residents will head toward the banks of the river, where they will light lanterns in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and colors, in honor of their dead loved ones. The types of lanterns vary wildly, based on personality (either of the person floating it or the person they are honoring), culture, and many other factors. Some lanterns are very simple, others are incredibly complex, but the one common feature they all have is that people write on the shades of them - they write about their feelings for their loved ones, their wishes for their relationships and friendships, a memory from childhood or home, or even just lines of poetry or lyrics from songs that express something they miss, or something that hurts them.
Once those emotions are written on the lanterns, the lanterns are set free, floating down the river in the darkening evening, in a cathartic gesture shared by most residents of the city. Waves of lantern floating will start around 7 pm and continue until the sun rises on the morning of May 9th.
iv. roommates or wildcard
Feel free to use this prompt to set up headers for a communal floor, or threads open to roommates for the purpose of getting to know each other. Or if you have an idea for a prompt that isn't in this list, set during Memoria, feel free to write it up!
Credit: image i: glowconcepts, image ii: by trenchmaker, image iv: cherryorange; image iii: found uncredited on Pinterest - please let the mod know if you find credit!
drinking
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it's odd, not needed to mourn him. she spent the better part of a year doing exactly that. and here she is, taking a seat next to the very man who alerted her to the situation in the 21st century. ]
Hello, Sam.
[ her smile is tight but not dishonest. ]
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[A nod, and he sips his own drink. Only his first of the night, but he's not averse to having more, should the situation call for it. (On a night like this, when he can already feel the restlessness coming on, it might call for more - enough to help him sleep soundly till dawn.)]
You here to chase away the ghosts or raise a glass to them?
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[ her voice is low and honest. she doesn't usually do this, this sort of a conversation. something is different tonight. her limbs are heavier. she's tired, maybe but not in any physical manner.
in all honesty, she misses mr. jarvis, she misses angie and hell, she misses howard. her tendency to try and remain distant from the people in her life seems to catch up on her again. your line of work requires support, jarvis said once and peggy hated to admit he was right. she still does. ]
And yourself?
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[Because Sam's found that usually, the only people capable of understanding the experience are fellow veterans - the ones who have been through it, who know what it's like. For all the dissimilarities of their situations, there are shared experiences that transcend time.
And that's what this festival makes him think of, being in Afghanistan. The men he'd worked with, those he'd tried to save, those he'd lost. And Riley. Always Riley.]
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[ careful, measured ]
During ve-day, I attended a few celebrations, met some old friends. People were speaking of the last great war and times of peace. Lessons learned, so to speak.
[ her smile is small, mirthless. ]
I do not need to ask to know it's not quite like this in the future. It's not even like this in 1946.
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[The drink Sam takes is somewhat larger this time.]
Only thing we ever learn is to change how we kill each other. Though, if it makes you feel better, the future isn't a nuclear wasteland. We at least learned to avoid that. So far, anyway.
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[ or at least, she refuses to believe that is what the world has become. not because of some romantic view of the future, mostly just because, ]
Men like you, Steve. You all seem entirely too stubborn to let it come to that. It's not all lost.
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[There's a shrug, somewhere between wry and apologetic.]
I'm not saying it's all bad, just that we didn't learn our lessons from the battles you guys fought.
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[ she places down her cup and shakes her head. there is much that plagues her in this place but nothing like her own share in the phenomenon he is describing. ]
I fear you cannot only blame yourself. How were you to learn when we made those mistakes all over again only years after?
[ she catches his gaze, holds it. ]
I heard about SHIELD.
[ her project and all it has become. ]
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[He conveniently leaves out the bit about the jetpack for now. That's still search and rescue, right?]
Yeah. [His lips twist. He'd never had any attachment to the organization, but he knows how it had affected Steve. How Peggy must feel about her life's work being twisted by HYDRA.] I was there. Jumped out of the building while it collapsed around my damn ears, actually.
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[ what a thing to say about an organization that she had founded but from what peggy heard from barnes, the very foundation was tainted by HYDRA, a chain of mistakes leading to its downfall. she would bring it down herself, if she could, if she knew. ]
I only know the SSR but I imagined SHIELD was meant to be better. Good intentions, one and all.
[ and all lead to the same place, it would seem. ]
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We're only human, though. Even if we want to do good, it's possible to make mistakes. [He eyes her for a moment, toying with his glass.] Anyone tell you about Ultron yet?
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[ for the love of god, no part of her should feel badly for an ending of something that has yet to begin. it's a horrible paradox but it exists all the same, heavy in her bones. ]
Ultron? Never heard of it.
[ please, lord, don't let it be on her too. ]
Is that a name?
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[He sounds flippant, but he knows the truth. Knows that not everyone was able to get out in time, that those deaths are, at least in part, his fault. It's not a huge weight on his soul, but it's there nonetheless.]
It's an AI - artificial intelligence - Tony Stark built to ostensibly protect the world. At least in our universe, anyway; the other Tonys get a bit touchy if you bring it up to them, 'cause they had nothing to do with it. Anyway, the artificial intelligence grew a mind of its own and decided that the best way to protect Earth was to kill all the humans, and shit kinda snowballed from there.
[It's a long story, and one Sam wasn't present for most of.]
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[ huh. that's entirely new. she places her glass down. A Stark that builds new technologies only for theme to go and potentially destroy the world? she's seen this before. ]
What's his relation to Howard Stark?
[ there must be one, mirror-images. Peggy has a wild suspicion about the answer to this query but the idea of Howard having children is so very odd. ]
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[Sam's lips twist into a grimace as he takes a drink. It's not that he doesn't like the Tony from their world - although things are awkward between them right now - but that he doesn't want to deal with all the issues that would spring from that.]
I wouldn't mention him to Steve right now. Tony is - was - another one of the Avengers. Iron Man, has a robotic suit he wears. Goddamn flashy red and gold thing he's always upgrading.
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[ That's going to take a while to sink in. There were many people at the party. Peggy stuck to Barnes' side as well as Wanda's. She hadn't thought to ask - in her mind, she's already going back to that night, trying to guess which ones have been, well, Starks. ]
-- Fitting for Howard's son. They can't ever seem to do anything subtle.
[ but more importantly, ]
Was it that bad? whatever transpired between them?
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[And Sam won't deny there were other problems, too. The Accords, Steve being Steve, Tony's life being what it was. It had been a perfect storm.
He waves the bartender over, orders another round. They're going to need it.]
What do you know about Bucky?
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[ could be rather than are. ]
That's a start.
[ she forces herself to find a silver lining in something that she can't yet understand in what must be someone else's life. and still, to think steve is there, at a whole other century.
she takes another long sip. ]
We've spoken once or twice.
[ she made him the most terrible of promises ]
He hasn't said much.
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[Especially friendships. He hopes that's the one thing Zemo didn't count on.]
Bucky was captured and brainwashed by HYDRA - by the Soviets. They used him as an assassin for decades, wiped his brain again and put him back on ice whenever he finished a job. Kept records on everything he did. Except he escaped from them when we brought SHIELD - and HYDRA - down, tried to become his own man again. We spent two years looking for him, me and Steve. Didn't find him till Zemo flushed him out by framing the bombing of the Accords summit on him.
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[ a rival to her own insistent nature. however, the subject changes to barnes. he told her a bit, only the plain essentials, only enough to give her a mission to bomb a secure location in Eastern Europe. She understands now, that it all comes back to the Soviet branch of HYDRA, not that Peggy had known those agents were still active in any way. ]
He won't answer to that name, Barnes. I wasn't sure how much he remembered.
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[Timelines are difficult things. Surely Peggy can appreciate that.]
We all got caught in Bucharest. Zemo posed as Bucky's interrogator, knocked out the power to the building we were in so he could ask Bucky about an old missile silo in Siberia. Bucky thought it was 'cause he wanted the other Winter Soldiers there, so he and Steve came up with a plan to get out of the country and to Siberia to stop him. There was a fight at the airport in Leipzig - Tony's half of the Avengers against Steve's.
[No need to ask whose side Sam was on.]
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[ and she thought she'd seen it all in Belarus, little girls trained to be war machines. These things are the exact sort of things that make her just a bit paranoid, at times. ]
I don't understand. If there are brainwashed Soviet agents out there, why would Stark be against an operation to stop them?
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When they got there - Stark followed them - they found that the others had been shot while they were in stasis. What Zemo really wanted them to see was the footage from one of Bucky's missions.
[He pauses and takes a drink.]
From the night Stark's parents died.
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