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Taura ([personal profile] smashandgrab) wrote in [community profile] lastvoyages2021-08-02 09:07 pm
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Seventeenth Drop Mission

I know I'm not the only one on board the Barge who was treated as less than for a lot of my life. Subhuman. I was a research subject or a monster for sixteen years, not a person.

I think that the community here is better at acknowledging personhood than the worlds a lot of us came from.

But sometimes events here strip away who we are. I was fortunate enough to avoid that for the most part until the last port. It made me into the monster a lot of people have seen when they looked at me.

It's valid to feel hurt or angry or betrayed or lost when our sense of self is violated. If anyone feels like that, now or in the future, I guess I just want you to know that you aren't alone, and I'm willing to listen. Or even to help you get out your aggressions.

And I will always see you as a person.

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Hi, I'm Taura Pines. I'm your warden this month. I'd like to meet up for a conversation.
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[personal profile] major_rawne 2021-08-03 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Could we spar? In the gym. Nothing fancy.
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Great. Thanks.

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[personal profile] whydoyoushine 2021-08-03 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, now I'll just have to pencil you in with my busy schedule.

[There's a laugh.]

I'm doing a whole lot of nothing these days.
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Hm...if we did it in the art room, I could play with the glitter, that's still pretty fun.

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[personal profile] the_executioner 2021-08-03 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
Is it anything you can't say over the phone?
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[personal profile] the_executioner 2021-08-05 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Look, I get that you probably think you're here to do a good thing, but I'm just trying to survive this nightmare place. If you want to help me with that, I could really use my knives.

[After that last port, it's a miracle she's not asking for more. But she doubts anyone would give her whole hunter kit.]

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[personal profile] brutallyefficient 2021-08-03 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
If you don't mind my asking, what helped you define yourself as a 'person'?
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[personal profile] brutallyefficient 2021-08-05 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
In other words, having the capacity of humans but having a different physical structure.

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Private - Video

[personal profile] dark_lady_sariss 2021-08-04 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
[The message was something she usually ignored; a warden, speaking to people - immaterial to her. But there are currents here...currents she recognizes. Her rage here, her anger, is at what she considers their mutual imprisonment - though she would use more inflammatory language.]

[There is a pause even after the video comes on. She is no friend to wardens, generally - but then again, she thinks most of the inmates are useless psychopaths.]


I, too, became...something else in the forest. The list of degradation visited upon us by the Admiral grows by the month. A lost sense of self is a terrible price to pay. But even still, I would not have called you monster.

[Another pause, before she decides to share a bit.]

In another time, another place...I was one of seven. Six species amongst us. None of us strangers to being looked down upon, for various reasons.

[A gloved hand taps on the table in front of her, as if deciding something. Listening, for a moment, to the voice of the Force.]

As such, if you can trust an inmate...I make the same offer.
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[personal profile] dark_lady_sariss 2021-08-06 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
A wise policy.

[She nodded.]

But ah, I see. Your pain must be vast. Some of our number were engineered, too - but not treated as anything other than two of our Cadre.

[A slight pause.]

They must have caused you great pain.

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[personal profile] shiftedshape 2021-08-05 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
That is very kind of you, Taura. Thank you.

For what it's worth, I would gladly gut those who treated you as nothing more than an experiment.
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[personal profile] shiftedshape 2021-08-20 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I imagine you weren't the only one, and that others aren't necessarily as happy with where they ended up.
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[personal profile] phantommenace 2021-08-07 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Why do you say that the... 'community here is better at acknowledging personhood,' whatever you think that means?
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[personal profile] phantommenace 2021-08-09 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
And how do you know they are not merely... waiting?

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