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Ulla ([personal profile] neverwaitslong) wrote in [community profile] lastvoyageslogs2022-04-24 12:43 am
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"The hard stone of rage that all lonely girls possess"

WHO: Ulla & Taylor, then assorted others, then Trevor & Warren
WHAT: Post-breach temper tantrum
WHERE: On deck
WHEN: After the Elsewhere University breach
WARNINGS: some violence and property destruction, will update as needed!

When Ulla comes back to herself, her first thoughts are two realizations.

The first is that, for all his flaws, Aleksander was a good brother, and if she'd taken him up on his offer, her life could have been better, not merely different. She never let herself truly consider it before, but now the weight of what ifs and wondering settles over her shoulders, a heavy mantle to bear.

The second, and by far the worse, is that she loved Signy as more than a friend or a duet partner. She was in love with her best friend, and everyone else she's met left her cold not because she's too different or entirely uninterested but because they weren't Signy.

She feels like she can't breathe. Like she wants to scream, safely underwater where no one will hear it. Like she wants to tear this ship apart around her and damn the consequences.

She takes her knife and her mirror and darts up the stairs, headed toward the Enclosure so she can reclaim her tail and gills without tasting her own blood in the water of her cabin for days.
skitter: (Upset)

[personal profile] skitter 2022-04-24 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
They'd been together just- those other two people had been together just seconds ago, and for a moment Taylor sits with that feeling of being suddenly, differently alone. She scrubs her hands through her hair, missing the chime of bells, and tries to chase Tea away like she did Taylor Iris-Daughter and Taylor Jacobi. Tea Hebert isn't any more real than they were. Nothing Tea felt or wanted or... or felt... was real.

It's not a conscious thought, to send her insects to see if they can get through Ulla's door. They're there in time to feel her rush through it, and that makes her decision - Taylor takes off running to catch up.
skitter: (Tired)

[personal profile] skitter 2022-04-25 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
It's all still fresh enough that Ulla's glare stings, bites into a soft spot Taylor is sure is Tea's. Not hers.

"... Are you okay?" she asks, uncertain.
skitter: (Say that again)

[personal profile] skitter 2022-04-25 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not," says Taylor, an offering of sorts. Her mouth is set in a line but her eyes are fixed on Ulla's, searching. Open. "I- We-" We were so happy, she wants to say, but it's so bewildering and feels so cruel.

"He made Iris my mom, and Jacobi my brother, and now this- I don't know what he wants from it."

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[personal profile] atowncalledtreffy 2022-04-26 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Trevor would be hard-pressed to describe how he can tell that a storm is coming. If asked, he might have attributed to ancestral understanding of which way the wind blows, but in actually it's probably something as simple as atmospheric conditions and being honed to recognize a drop in a barometer when you spend most of your night sleeping outdoors and need to keep dry.

He's a floor away when the pressure drops. Confused, he moves to go see what's happening up on deck - he's seen the sun and the moon and the stars but never rain or lightning.

He hears singing - smells blood, which worries him further - and pushes open the door to the deck to spy the lone woman singing up a storm.

"Shit." Trevor swears under his breath, remembering a dark conversation about transformation magic they had once. He gets out his short sword and whip, calling out.

"Oy. Ulla. What's wrong?"
questionsonly: (t-shirt: angry)

[personal profile] questionsonly 2022-04-26 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Warren had been heading up get some work done on the Enclosure program for his anniversary when he feels the change in the air in the stairway. It has him taking the steps two at a time, then three, tossing the fireworks bag onto the deck as the wind and rain and storm starts acting on him. But he barely feels it because there’s a scent in his nose, even through all of that-

Which is when he sees the eye of the storm, the source.

And he sees Trevor.

He starts running again, shouting at the top of his lungs, roaring:

“Ulla, Ulla, what’s wrong? What happened? Ulla!”
atowncalledtreffy: (grr)

[personal profile] atowncalledtreffy 2022-04-26 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Trevor holds up the arm with the sword in it to shield his face, grimacing. The storm's getting worse but he starts for her anyway, keeping one eye alert for debris. He can see part of the railing coming apart from the wind forces and braces himself as he moves for the center. The deck is slick with rainwater, splinters from wrecked furniture, blood.

Behind him he's aware of Warren's voice shouting but keeps his eyes on Ulla, calling out as he inches closer;

"You're going to tear the ship apart. Ulla, stop, or I'll stop it for you."
Edited 2022-04-26 21:06 (UTC)

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[personal profile] tinstar 2022-04-26 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The chickens in the greenhouse were Raylan's current and only project, and he was up there frequently, checking on the eggs that were just round about near pipping size. He never paid much attention to who was on deck when he passed through, not unless they were scrapping and today wasn't any different.

It was the air that set his senses off, the smell of rain stronger than he'd smelt here before, the pressure of the air and he was sure if he looked outside, he might see the green/grey sky of Kentucky kicking up a tornado. Surprisingly, he saw the forming clouds and stares at it for a long minute before he heads towards the greenhouse door.

It wasn't hard to pinpoint where this was all starting from, not with the singing that was finally reaching his ears. When Ulla came into sight, it took Raylan a long moment to really connect the woman to the magic.

"Ulla!" he calls out over the rising winds. "ULLA!"

She hadn't much seemed to care for him last time they met, but that didn't really matter - Something was wrong, and someone was going to get hurt.
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[personal profile] tinstar 2022-04-27 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
No, he hadn't really expected that to work, but it was worth the shot and frankly, he was a hundred percent sure that you don't sneak up on people that can do this. It felt like a quick way to get dead. He had his gun on his hip and that's where it would stay - he didn't even think of drawing it. People were gonna get hurt but that wasn't a reason to shoot the woman.

Firing into the deck was also out of the question; he'd have to shoot close to her and it was likely to piss her off more.

"ULLA, YOU GOTTA STOP." His accent gets wider, rounder when he yells, turning words like Fire into Fyyyre. The question was, how close could he get to her before her maelstrom turned into a hurricane force wind or worse?

He knew he was in over his head. It didn't matter.
therebedragons: (XXXVIII)

After Ulla Yeets Raylan

[personal profile] therebedragons 2022-04-28 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Flint had just been out to get some fresh air on deck when the overwhelming smell of ozone hits him as he's coming up to the upper decks. Shortly after that, it's the familiar commotion of wind rattling and thunder shaking the ship. He knows they're not on the waves, which is why the Barge isn't pitching everywhere, but could a storm just whip up out of nowhere in the middle of space???? He picks up his pace to get to the deck, only to be nearly battered back down the steps by the wind when he opens the door. It's only then that he realizes some of the noise is singing.

He's familiar with storms at least. He keeps his footing and pushes through the battering of the wind and rain. He squints through it, using his arm as a shield so he can navigate forward over the slick deck and see what the hell was happening. He'll keep to the wall as he draws closer, looking for anyone that might be caught in all of this. He's trying to see what's at the eye of it, what's possibly causing this. A Siren?

He's distracted when a form goes flying, pitched into the rail. As the body crumples he recognizes Raylan and something in him snaps to. He pushes off the wall to go sliding across the rain-slick surface to the other side, all the while ducking or avoiding anything else getting whipped around. He'll rush to his side and stoop down against the rail, scooping his arms under Raylan's to pick him up. Now that he's closer to everything he realizes the real danger of it and immediately starts dragging the Marshal out of harm's way.

"Ff-Raylan!" He calls to him, repeating his name a few times, hoping he'll come about sooner than later, trying to get any kind of response from him through the howling wind. With some struggle, he'll carry the man back until they're just outside of the storm and man-handle him up into one of the lounge chairs. He's trying to see what sort of injuries he's got.
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[personal profile] tinstar 2022-04-28 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Raylan had seen lighting and storms and lighting storms, all sorts of weather over his life. He hadn't however, dealt with a.. Ulla had given him a term once but in the chaos, she was largely defined with colors and an image of her sharp glare, and even if he hadn't forgotten, he had zero experience with magical storms that could summon very well aimed lightning.

The Marshal was flung back like a ragdoll by the exploding air pressure as the lightning struck the deck, slamming awkwardly on his left side front and crumpling unconscious. The great thing for Raylan, in the moment, was that the flash of pain he felt was followed immediately by darkness.

A ragdoll he stayed, blood already streaking out of a few cuts on his face, ugly bruising coming up along his cheekbones and under his shirt. It was hard to see broken ribs, but the way that Raylan struggled to inhale as he woke with a start, hazel eyes wide and wild made it's own suggestion. His hands gripped out, palms looking for the chair arms or whatever fell to hand, right hand flashing to his still secured gun - first things first - before his eyes landed on Flint's face.

"Flint? Wha-"

Well, if he wasn't dead already, chances are he wasn't going to get killed now and he closed his eyes briefly, trying to slow his breath down to something shallower, features wincing on the inhale. "It's Ulla. Anyone else up here? Someone's gotta stop her, someon-" Mainly him, he thought as he gasped at a particularly sharp pain, though he felt acutely like a skewer. "Someone's gonna get hurt."
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[personal profile] therebedragons 2022-04-29 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Flint's hand is gingerly around Raylan's jaw, tilting his head as he slowly comes around. He immediately releases him the moment the other starts awake, but he doesn't quite get away from one of those hands twisting into his shirt while the other goes for his gun.

"Easy! Easy..." He murmurs as the other gets his bearings. Though that wince and the obvious labor of breathing don't go unnoticed. His eyes move down, head tilting as he'll just go ahead and paw at Raylan's torso carefully to see if there's blood soaking through anywhere or to make sure nothing's punched through his ribs either debris or bone.

"What's an Ulla?" He murmurs, then glances off at the Siren, "Someone's already been hurt. You. We both sure as hell aren't equipped to stop a force of nature. Let someone else handle it." He's fairly sure he saw others out there, but they've got this.

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[personal profile] littletonoidea 2022-04-27 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
Eiffel doesn't have any particularly fancy senses, and even on the best of days he's a bit oblivious - so what gets his attention is a big fat drop of water landing on his comms screen and making him startle back so quickly he almost flips it overboard. Why do things keep divebombing him when he's smoking this is cruel and unusual--

It takes a moment for him to realise, to smell the ozone in the air and look up at the growing storm clouds overhead - and then at the inmate singing in the center of it all, and something in Eiffel's stomach sinks dramatically.

Crap, that's real magic.

The wind picks up and his cigarette gets yanked out of his lips with a cry of surprise, but then he's yelling out to Ulla. "Hey, uh, Ulla? You good over there? Only you giving us Let It Go in Damp A Minor is kind of a problem?"
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[personal profile] littletonoidea 2022-04-27 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
The dismissal is expected but unappreciated, but before he can protest properly the lightning off yonder claps loud enough that he yelps and jerks away from the railing, and very nearly slips on the slick rain building on the deck.

"Ulla if you could put King Triton's staff away for five minutes I'd really appreciate it!"
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[personal profile] madaboutit 2022-04-27 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Sweeney isn't sure there's something actively wrong, but it certainly isn't right either. He's trying to get from the kitchen to...he can't remember where. Somewhere nice. Somewhere comforting. He can't hold the image of the greenhouse in his mind long enough to get him there, but he does have a vague direction to head.

He manages to get up to the deck; it seems the correct way to the place he's trying to get to. He's a hot mess with a half-drunk bottle of rum hanging against his thigh when he hears it.

That sweet singing. It pulls at Sheridan, the selkie buried in Sweeney's skin, something familiar but still distant. Her voice is a siren's call back to the sea. The wanting. The aching for the thing lost.

The smell of the storm is invigorating, and Sweeney smiles for a moment, his eyes shutting. Free and hungry and halfway home; that's what it feels like.

That is, until a heavy bit of debris slams into him, cast his direction by a swell of wind. It sends sends him sliding back, and he hits the wall hard. It knocks the breath from his lungs and leaves his bottle clattering away. Sweeney winces and looks down, trying to figure out where the blood is coming from, even as the storm continues. It's mostly superficial, but head wounds bleed well, so it's a little tricky for him to figure out in his current state.
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[personal profile] questionsonly 2022-04-27 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It's only after the storm has stopped and the winds have died that someone's coming by, their voice no doubt a little odd given the glow he took.

"-weeney? Sweeney. Can you hear me? You in there?"
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[personal profile] madaboutit 2022-04-27 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
He winces, the sound unexpected and the name generally displeasing. Sweeney cracks one eye open to a man he doesn't recognize. Or does he? He can't remember.

"I know you?" There's some level of affirmation, but not enough to make it not a question.
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[personal profile] questionsonly 2022-04-28 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
"You do," he says with a wry twist of his lip, a little tired, a little... run down. But he nods and offers a hand.

"Warren Kepler. I was your temp for a few weeks."

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