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Dr. Clement Varker ([personal profile] cameclosest) wrote in [community profile] lastvoyageslogs2025-08-05 06:58 pm
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I'm mad

Who: Dr. Clement Varker and unfortunate you!
What: Varker's having a minor(major?) break down and finds himself incapable of controlling this rolling rage that a certain Vash the Stampede has set off.
When: August 5th
Where: The Speakeasy and random empty rooms around the Barge.
Warnings: Strong possibilities of heavy language, mentions of suicide, alcoholism and a very angry man breaking shit. will mark individual CWs as they come



He'd hung up but there was something that seemed to break loose during his conversation with Vash. As if the handle on the faucet had come clean off, the anger is flowing so freely that it scares him little, throwing his communicator at the wall with a scream. It's so loud that it startles Lullabee awake, and that was it.

He can't be in here right now, not with her delicate ears, not after she'd just gotten over Audrey's screeching during the first few days of his toll. When he leaves he doesn't even attempt to shut the door softly, the slam of the heavy mahogany door echoing in the corridor.

And across from him is that room that he often uses for the bathroom instead of going to the inmate bathrooms, his steps heavy as he crosses into it. When he leaves an hour later the room is completely torn apart, nothing is in functional order, what can be broken is, and if he's bleeding because he'd cut himself in the process of shattering the sink, or the toilet or the mirror? He doesn't seem to care much, the blood flowing heavily from the cut and leaving a trail before the wound slowly closes.

By the time he's made it down to the Speakeasy the blood has dried on his arm, stained his shirt and pants with no trace of the wound left aside from the staining.

Making a beeline for the bar, he finds something irresponsible to consume straight, there is no care for taste as he tips the bottle back and parks himself in front of the Warden ledger.

Half an hour later that bottle is empty, but he's not quite done. He wants sloppy like the night he arrived, and reaching that point is difficult when his body is processing his drink as it continues to heal itself.
notthatkindoforion: Tendi standing in a dimly lit hall, brows knit with a small frown, clearly worried but trying to hold it together (Anxious)

Empty cabin

[personal profile] notthatkindoforion 2025-08-06 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
Tendi, with her pesky habit of checking in on him since his toll, is the one who catches him in an empty room, tearing it apart with prejudice. She doesn't stop him, just leans against the door jamb as she watches, waiting for him to notice her.

She's worried, not looking to catch a fist to her face.
notthatkindoforion: Tendi standing in a dimly lit hall, brows knit with a small frown, clearly worried but trying to hold it together (Anxious)

Re: Empty cabin

[personal profile] notthatkindoforion 2025-08-06 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Tendi does wince, but more because it's an awful waste of resources than because she expects it to hit her. She has a good eye for trajectories. Part of her wants to mention the Enclosure, but it feels like it's almost an insult to Clem's intelligence to bring it up like he probably hadn't thought about it.

"To check in on you? Your, um, physical recovery is going well, I see."

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embodimentofperfection: (who me)

speakeasy

[personal profile] embodimentofperfection 2025-08-06 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Mahito derives no benefit from alcohol or, well, calories in general, but he does lurk in the speakeasy. Mostly because he likes lurking. But it's practical, too. It's an interesting look at what other inmates are like without wardens around, and he can pick up a little about this socializing thing that Ashton suggested was important to getting out of here.

All thoughts of practicing being normal vanish when he gets a good look at that forehead situation. He's never tried that! Sure, he's put mouths where they didn't go, but he can't remember ever pulling off this particular reorganization. And his humans always die when he does something that extreme. Where'd the brain wind up? He wants to touch. He has exactly enough self awareness to guess that won't go over well.

"Is that an amount of blood you want to have on you?" His study of inmate snark has partially succeeded, in that that is something that someone trying to be a sarcastic piece of shit on the network would say, but he says it with his usual childish sincerity.
embodimentofperfection: (Default)

[personal profile] embodimentofperfection 2025-08-06 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Being covered in blood is extremely normal to him, actually. Which is why he knows: "It's uncomfortable." As long as he's getting a look at whatever's happening up there, he's happy with this conversation. Inmate allies aren't really a high priority. He aims to be just amiable enough to keep talking.

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untiltheend: (smile . excuse me while I housewife)

[personal profile] untiltheend 2025-08-07 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
Alcohol doesn't affect Sebastian in the slightest (well, unless perhaps he'd find a way to ingest truly ridiculous amounts very rapidly...). He still visits the Speakeasy from time to time, nursing a glass of quality red wine. It's a useful way to socialise.

He's delighted to see Varker working on what seems to be a very long comment in the Warden Ledger; he'll look forward to reading it, whoever it's about. Hopefully it doesn't contain too much drunken rambling.

"It is quite convenient for getting things off one's chest, no?" he comments from a few stools over. Neither the extra mouth nor the blood seems to give him pause.
untiltheend: (smile . all you ever wanted)

[personal profile] untiltheend 2025-08-07 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Sebastian makes to get up to support the man if he were about to fall over, but he settles back when Varker does the sensible thing and sits back down.

"Quite. It is a shame this is all that can be done about it.

May I ask which one has acted the fool?"

His smile very much suggests he wants the gossip.

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Empty Cabin

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Mongo the Mongoliensis is trotting around the ship, sniffing about and poking into things he shouldn't. Mommy is busy with taking care of some cat king - who doesn't even have a crown! - so Mongo has decided to entertain himself.

The giant velociraptor sniffs around and shrieks when he smells blood. He's got a scent! Smells like prey!

He takes off, large talons thudding, off on the trail towards an unwitting Varker.
queen_anne_chonk: (!Mongo!)

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Mongo shrieks, loud and annoying again, designed to startle prey out of wherever it's hiding. He's at a run now, bolting for Varker's back. Better get in that lift fast!

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forensicks: by <user name=mukha> (Frantic)

Speakeasy

[personal profile] forensicks 2025-08-09 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Walter wanders into the speakeasy with a nicely sized 20 fl. oz. bottle of Tahitian treat in one hand and detailed notes in the other. He drops both of them when he sees Varker covered in blood. Thank goodness the plastic cap was sealed tight.

"Uh—hey—What happened?" He's already awkwardly taking his space stun gun out of his pocket, aiming it at nothing in particular but presumably planning to fire it at whatever's hurt Varker—he's looking around in every direction. "Did something happen in here?"
forensicks: by me (Tranquil)

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"...okay," Walter says after some seconds of hesitation, looking down at the area he's been permitted to stare at, depressed by how easy it is for him to accept that there's some kind of lizard ism going on. He re-pockets the gun and then straightens up.

"Sloppy work by whom?" he asks, trying not to make assumptions as after all Varker can be so cagey about his attachment. "I take it you didn't request enhancements from the Big Guy or anyone else here?"

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anashthetic: (face: lean)

Speakeasy (Varker gets no rest tonight, apparently)

[personal profile] anashthetic 2025-08-09 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
"You know, if you wanted to get thoroughly wasted, in the Lounge we can pour the drinks for you."

It's not said with any particular judgment, though they're taking a quick look over his disheveled, bloody appearance and his lack of apparent wounds and putting that away for later. Interesting. Unlikely to be someone else's blood, given the positioning.
anashthetic: (art: blood of the eldest)

Re: Speakeasy (Varker gets no rest tonight, apparently)

[personal profile] anashthetic 2025-08-09 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
He could always have eyebrows again. If he wanted. Ash isn't capable of doing any real body horror to anyone else! It'd be a simple and painless process.

That's more biased by the fact they absolutely want to get up close and personal with his skull than anything, but details, details. They know how tricky it can be to restructure any given part of the body into a fully-functional maw! It's a fun little parlor trick to do it with their entire torso. So it's only natural they'd want to know how he works.

"The wardens could always use a little fashionable shakeup." She rolls her eyes. "No need to bite my head off about it. I don't ask every obvious question in the book, just most of them."
pharadyne: (friendly)

[personal profile] pharadyne 2025-08-10 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Norton lets Varker have his privacy for a while, but after seeing the non-location indicators on his warden item continue on and on, and knowing that means Varker still hasn't left the speakeasy, Norton eventually decides it's time he got his probably very drunk inmate to bed.

He can't get into the speakeasy itself, but he can go into the inmate bathrooms and knock on the wall next to the entrance and call out shrilly.]


Time to come out, sweetheart! I know you're in there. I used to run the speakeasy, you know. And I'm not above bribing an inmate to go in there to fetch you.
pharadyne: (innocent face)

[personal profile] pharadyne 2025-08-10 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
Anyone would be lucky to marry a woman like me.

[He slips to Varker's side and slides his arm around Varker's torso to steady him.]

There you go, Clem, one foot in front of the other.

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