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Cisco Ramon ([personal profile] franciscoramon) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2017-06-20 09:37 am

[open] don't know where i am, don't know where i've been

who: cisco + anyone!
what: catch-all; tdm prompts
when: the rest of june
where: anywhere; if you want a separate starter, please hit me up!
warnings: will add as necessary

i. monster plants

Cisco isn't a member of the Perimeter Guard for a reason. He's just not a front-lines kind of guy. He'd get in the way, put himself and the people around him in unnecessary danger. But when Killer Vines From Hell™ start coming over the wall and mayhem breaks out, he has to help somehow. Back home he'd do that from the safety of S.T.A.R. Labs, over the coms, with Barry facing down the real danger. Here, he has to improvise.

He gets close enough to the fighting to pull aside one of the Guard members who is resting and to ask what weapons have been working. And when one of the answers he's given is fire, Cisco knows what he has to do. He rushes back to his workshop, and to a few stores, comes running back as close as he dares to the fighting, and starts to whip up as many fast-and-dirty flamethrowers as he possibly can. The more he can make, the more he can give to people to help defend themselves and defend the Quarantine.

ii. attraction

After the whole Little Shop of Horrors mess at the wall, Cisco heads home for a very needed shower. He doesn't know, yet, that some of those very same experimental chemicals that had brought the plants over the wall had seeped into the ground, into the water supply.

And because he is such a naturally friendly, extroverted person, Cisco doesn't realize that anything is off for quite some time. All he knows, after he gets dressed and heads out for a celebratory meal, is that he's feeling acutely lonely, that he just needs to see a familiar face, or strike up a conversation with a stranger if he has to. He sends out over-affectionate texts of appreciation and jokes and fondness to his friends, but that isn't nearly enough.

iii. repellant

They do their best to clean up the area of the spill as quickly as possible, and Cisco does his bit. But a few days after the worst of it, as he's walking past, he can still smell it lingering in the air. And this time, unlike when it had gotten into his system via the water, it has quite the opposite effect. Without quite realizing it, the stuff puts Cisco on edge.

How could they have been so careless with such a dangerous project? Did they not realize what would happen? What if those plants had killed people? There are children living here, and civilians, and people who never hurt anyone in their lives. Was it criminal negligence, or did the scientists involved just not care about collateral damage? (The way Dr. Wells had not cared, when he set off the particle accelerator explosion, just to further his own ends).

The idiocy and injustice of it keep churning away in Cisco's mind, putting him in an uncharacteristically foul mood. Better not bump into him, while he's like this, or you're likely to get a piece of his mind.
followhim: (* one time i met harry potter)

[personal profile] followhim 2017-06-26 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[poe isn't even under chemical influence (is he??? or maybe he is ... ); he's just totally cool with everything. cisco is just A REALLY FRIENDLY DUDE and he's in the market for new friends pretty much 24/7 so THIS IS GREAT AND AWESOME.

he slides into the booth and gets comfortable before replying:]


I'm from a small moon named Yavin 4. What about you?
followhim: thehollowedartists @ tumblr (* upside down with a perfect view)

[personal profile] followhim 2017-06-29 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[he laughs.] I think I know what you mean. I hadn't heard of Earth before until I came here, but space travel was nothing out of the ordinary where I'm from. There wasn't much on my home planet besides my family's ranch and lots of jungle terrain, but I've been to huge city planets. I've seen planets like this before. Not just like this, but ... close enough that the differences can be a little jarring, do you know what I mean?
followhim: (* so basically i'm amazing)

[personal profile] followhim 2017-07-02 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[he gets distracted from the first part by the second, and is quick to clarify] Oh! No. I was a pilot. I joined the military as soon as I was old enough.
followhim: thehollowedartists @ tumblr (* i was the king of this hologram)

[personal profile] followhim 2017-07-04 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[he smiles bc cisco's enthusiasm is very endearing, ok.] No, no, I'm a space pilot. Fighter vessels, mostly.