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Peter, the Pan ([personal profile] theclevernessofme) wrote in [community profile] lastvoyageslogs2024-03-09 06:20 pm
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What He Is

Who: Peter
When: After his week in Zero
Where: Zero, then sporadically around the ship, and cabin 516
What: Peter loses something
Warning: tbd

When Lahabrea explained what was going to happen, and why, Peter argued. How was this any different than what he'd done to those adults, how was this any different from maiming him? He shouted and screamed and tried to kick the warden in the shins, to claw at his face and get his hands around his neck.

And it happened anyway.

He stays three days in his cell in Zero after his week is up and the door unlocks, because he does not want to be seen like this. He might be easy to overlook, translucent and wispy like something about to blow away.

He's a shade of sand and tree roots, boy-shaped and long-fingered, leaving small bare footprints of damp dust as he paces the cell. The clearest thing about him is that he has two faces; one the sweet and innocent face of a child, with vague soft features but a shining smile and a tiny orb of light hanging above its forehead: the other a sharp-angled creature with so many long, long teeth. Both faces share a single pair of grass-green eyes.

When he can't stand the cell any longer, he still keeps himself to out of the way places, venting his anger and frustration where he can. His teeth and claws are useless – he can slash all he wants at the cushions of a common room sofa, but they don't tear for him. The best he manages is flipping over the basket of cutlery in the dining hall, or knocking over potted plants in the greenhouse.

And when he's worn out of that, he goes to the one place on the ship he's avoided since he arrived – his own cabin, the cracked tree-trunk on Deck Five that leads to the empty hollow he once found for his boys. It's strewn with cushions of branches and hides – enough space for all of them to sleep.

For only him.

routemistress: (devil)

[personal profile] routemistress 2024-03-10 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Iris patrols anyway, and she doesn't act as if she's specifically looking for Peter - although she's certainly a little more thorough in the days after the cell opens.

When she finally catches his scent, her mouth twitches in curiosity. It's recognisably the same scent, but it's different: more brackish, less organic, the peppery tingle of magic more pronounced. She is less surprised than she might have been, when she comes across him in a common room - though she wouldn't in any case have let herself show it.

"Oh, there you are. That doesn't look very entertaining."
routemistress: (ya rly)

[personal profile] routemistress 2024-03-10 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
She grins broadly and holds her hand up theatrically. Good as new, fucker.

"You remind me of someone I knew. It's got me interested."
Edited (space) 2024-03-10 13:31 (UTC)
routemistress: (smiiiiile)

[personal profile] routemistress 2024-03-10 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
She can't keep all the fondness out of her face or her voice.

"My second inmate, my Vic. Not really that much alike, I s'pose - Vic were a seven foot unkillable cat man. But you've got some of the same attitudes."
routemistress: (giggle)

[personal profile] routemistress 2024-03-10 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
She laughs out loud.

"That's just what Vic would've said and all. And you're both right, of course, and also really, fundamentally missing the point."
routemistress: (LOL)

[personal profile] routemistress 2024-03-11 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Magic!"

It's kind of true, she thinks, and she's disinclined to tell Peter any more.

"I like that angler fish thing you've got going on. Very on the nose."
routemistress: (ooooh?)

[personal profile] routemistress 2024-03-24 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
Iris looks at him too. He smells of beach adventures and blood, and his present shape is vastly more interesting to her than a larval human. She finds herself wondering what Lilith would have made of him, at the same time as she lights up with an opportunity to tell someone about new things.

"They're hungry fish with big, sharp teeth, and they live very far down in the dark deeps. They 'ave a little dangly thing on their 'eads, and it makes other fish think it's something worth 'aving, so they come closer to check it out."

She mimes the movement of a curious fish with her hands.

"And when they're close enough, snap! Crunch! The angler fish eats 'em!"
verynormalturnipseller: (pouting)

[personal profile] verynormalturnipseller 2024-03-10 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Wen Ning hears a plant fall and assumes it's a goat or a chicken causing problems. The reality is... startling, but he's just been putting in an effort to learn what sort of people there are on the barge, and really, when you're scared of everything, what's a monster? Not like he's in any position to judge.

But from one monster to another, potted plants belong upright and unshattered. Wen Ning is not very good at laying down the law, but... But really!

Too new and shy of the network to connect any of this to discussions of murders and missing hands, he walks up and lets himself loom. He's tall and spooky when he's not hunched over trying not to exist. The effect is a bit damaged when he speaks in the voice of a shy, mumbly teenager. "What did the plant do to you?"
verynormalturnipseller: (intense)

[personal profile] verynormalturnipseller 2024-03-10 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Look, does he want to encounter those teeth more directly? Not really, but it won't do anything to him that hasn't been done before. No, he has more trouble just trying to be firm. The response is so unreasonably childish he can't help responding almost as if he's trying to reign in his little cousin. "Most things are easy to break. Would you'd rather there just be big rocks and chunks of iron?"
verynormalturnipseller: (intense)

[personal profile] verynormalturnipseller 2024-03-23 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Standing still, cocooned in his layered robes, Wen Ning more or less looks like a young human man. When he moves, the illusion can crack, even when he's only using that supernatural speed to catch a flowerpot and put it back where it belongs. He can do this all day, brat.
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[personal profile] helluvamess 2024-03-11 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
Blitzø comes across the figure in the common room making an apparently desperate attempt to destroy some of the decorations. Which, fair, they look kinda shit anyway and who hasn't had a shred the cushions kind of day?

The guy? Kid? He looks vaguely childlike at least... but he's clearly a demon or something along those lines. Not the first time he's seen two faces on a creature so once it notices him he just gives a shrug.

"Look I'd offer to fuck that shit up for you, but it usually doesn't make you feel any better by making someone else do it."
helluvamess: (48)

[personal profile] helluvamess 2024-03-21 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
Blitzø grins, showing off a mouthful of sharp teeth, and hooks the pillow towards him with his claws. Then he just tears into it, shreds of fabric flying and fluff going everywhere. It's nothing like actually killing something, but hey, he can get behind a little wanton destruction sometimes and what's the worst that could happen? He cleans it up after because it's his job?

...actually the worst is probably the fluff in his teeth now. Once he's done, he's still picking at bits of it.

"That about do it for you?"
abrightboy: (faint smile)

Common Room

[personal profile] abrightboy 2024-03-12 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Malcolm comes across the scene when he pops into the common room to practice pool like Neal showed him, but this.... this is much more interesting.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of your own actions."
abrightboy: (smile between friends)

Re: Common Room

[personal profile] abrightboy 2024-03-21 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
He definitely is complicit; more so than most.

He smiles.

“Or what?” he asks sweetly.
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[personal profile] rou_gui 2024-03-14 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
She uses a pendulum to find his cabin, just like she would looking for a lost toy. She is not surprised that it leads her to the cracked tree trunk. It's a bit small for an adult woman to rustle her way into, so before she even tries it, she calls out,

"Ho there. My name is Cassia. I come from the forest and the mountains, and I won't do you any harm."
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[personal profile] greenzone 2024-03-20 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
She goes down to zero when she finds out he's still there, even after the week that will have gotten the door to unlock on its own. For a few seconds she doesn't say anything, not approaching the front of the cell either, nervous that the door is unlocked, wondering if he's going to attack her if he has the chance. She should have brought Arthur with her, or John, or Sheehan, or--

No, she's fine, she can do this on her own. She does her very best to keep her voice even and steady.

"Is this what you really are?"
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[personal profile] greenzone 2024-04-04 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Her temper flares a little too hot to be held back. "Horrible. Like, on a scale of 'lukewarm hot chocolate' to 'getting tricked into helping by a little asshole so he could try and cut your hand off,' how horrible? Or maybe the high-horribleness should be 'getting eaten by a tiger because you're so bad at cutting hands off.'"
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[personal profile] greenzone 2024-04-04 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Willa crosses her arms, a little chill rolling through her at the change of face. "You're not even a little bit sorry, are you. Why not?"
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[personal profile] greenzone 2024-04-04 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
"No it's not." She sighs, the sound a mix of anger and resignation. "Sorry is what people are when they hurt someone else and they realize whatever they did was wrong. Sorry means you've learned how to be kind to someone, or at least how to not be an asshole next time."
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[personal profile] greenzone 2024-04-04 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
"I cried like a person, you--"

She cuts herself off, crosses her arms tighter.

"...Do you think what's happening to you right now is fair? Does it make you upset?"
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[personal profile] greenzone 2024-04-04 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Willa snorts unsympathetically.

"You got a bunch of attention, hurting people, and you're not even locked in the cell any more. And now you're whining like a girl who doesn't feel pretty enough. Why should I feel sad for you?"
Edited 2024-04-04 05:34 (UTC)
greenzone: (inkonic jae willa (6))

[personal profile] greenzone 2024-04-05 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
She takes a step closer, albeit a small one. "You didn't answer my question. Why should I feel sad for you?"
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[personal profile] abyssalflames 2024-03-22 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
Once Peter has worn out his anger at the explanation of what he intended to ask the Admiral to do, Lahabrea leaves Peter be, for the most part. True, he does still keep tabs on him, though it's as much through his Warden item as anything (Peter is, after all, not going to be going anywhere), but he sees no reason to worsen Peter's mood simply by making his appearance known.

It's only once Peter's week in Zero concludes and he yet shows no sign of leaving that Lahabrea makes an appearance, and if he is the slightest bit bothered by how the Admiral has chosen to enact his request, he makes no mention of it. Instead he merely offers a polite nod in Peter's direction before speaking.

"You are free to go."
abyssalflames: (the hawk-eyed watcher)

[personal profile] abyssalflames 2024-04-03 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
There is not so much as the slightest flinch from Lahabrea at the sight of those bared teeth. He has, after all, not in the least bit forgotten that Peter is not possessed of significantly more strength than the child he has until recently appeared.

"It is no less a prison to many."

Not all, but Lahabrea is under no illusions that it is as good as a prison to those who are unable to leave or otherwise object to the nature of the Barge.

"Yet I would not expect to find any comfort on this level, as opposed to others."