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Canon Point Swap Meme

HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU HAD APPED YOUR CHARACTER IN FROM A DIFFERENT CANON POINT

WELL HAVE YOU

How would it affect their relationships with others on the ship? How would their first meetings have changed? Would they still be friends or enemies or dating the same people they are now?

NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO FIND OUT OMG SO EXCITING

1) Post your character, with a short explanation of their canon point and how it changed them.
2) Other people tag you!
3) ????
4) MEME

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_{[This Karis is from many years earlier - in fact, she still thinks she was in the Scourge. Although the new-found freedom is welcome, her memories and thoughts of her living days are still muddled and her reaction to humans are hostile and skittish. She answers to "Needles" or "Needleteeth". She doesn't have the same vindictive sense of bitterness or despair, but she is casually cruel and doesn't seem to understand human empathy.]}

"You're... Needleteeth, was it?" Zouichi wasn't particularly familiar with this particular member of the crew, but he did at least try to make an effort to say hello to people. He still wasn't terribly good at it. "I don't think we've ever spoken before."

It was still strange to not hear the Master's voices whispering in her mind or his lieutenants. Or even the fainter, quieter voices of her sept-mates. Roteye. Glow-worm. The Bone-Captain. She felt so very alone, even if she was free. Free. Free to do what? She jerked her head around in a quick, animalistic movement and simply stared at Zouichi for a long moment before she figured out how to get her vocal chords working again. Her sharpened teeth clicked together and after a moment she finally spoke.

"Yes. Needleteeth. Can call me Needles, if you want."

She stared at him suspiciously - this was a Breather. A living one. The living hated her, feared her. They tried to burn her. They were her enemies.

Weren't they? But here, there was no Master, no War. Just her, all alone, without the comforting embrace of her sept-mates' minds and the ease of their conversation.

"What do you want?"

"Nothing in particular." Zouichi paused. Wait, this was a bad way to start a conversation. "I noticed you don't speak often to the others. So I thought I would introduce myself. We are, after all, working toward the same goal."

Karis eyed him suspiciously and then settled down into an odd, animalistic crouch, bony claws splayed out in front of her as she peered up at him. "Maybe we are. Doesn't mean I trust any of you."

"So I've heard. But not everyone here is out to get you."

"You're all Breathers. You all hate me. Why wouldn't you be out to get me?"

This was the longest she'd actually talked to anyone since she came aboard. Most of the time she lurked in the city, watching.

Well, he guessed he was alive. "I don't even know you; why would I hate you?"

Persecution complex, much?

"Because. You're a breather," Karis rolled her eyes. Come on, this was obvious.

"Breathers hate deaders like me."

He shook his head. "As long as you don't harm any of the crew, I have no quarrel with you. If that's why I scarcely see you around, well. It has to be inconvenient trying to avoid everyone on this ship who's still alive."

Karis hissed through her teeth and crept a few steps back, looking more like some sort of animal than a human being (or zombie). "No! They'll bring light and fire and burn me down to my bones!"

That's what the Master had said. That's what the Sept had told her. That was what happened to any of the Master's servants who fell into the clutches of the living.

"Very well, I won't try and set you on fire. I guess I can't really speak for everyone else."

Although he was fairly sure the overwhelming majority of the others wouldn't, either. He had dispatched an awful lot of zombies in his time, but none of them had talked... and Needleteeth hadn't attacked anyone so far. At least, not that he knew of.

"How do I know you're tellin' the truth?" She squinted and then circled back and forth for a moment, head swinging from side to side as she tried to keep track of all the entrances and exits.

She hated being alone like this. There was no one to watch her back. To tell her what she had to do. But she was... free. Wasn't she?

"I suppose you don't. However, I am speaking with you. And I haven't tried to harm you yet." How do you win the trust of a zombie? Now that was a question he'd never considered before.

"If it helps, I wouldn't have much to gain from trying, either. Though I am curious about these other 'deaders'."

"Well, I'm not telling you anything!" Karis shot back. After a moment she dropped her gaze and muttered, "Couldn't anyway."

He didn't seem particularly offended by the outburst. "Your memory was compromised? Or you just don't know?"

Karis glanced from side to side, as if frightened of being overheard. Her voice dropped to just above a whisper. "He'd find out. And when He comes back, He'll punish me for saying anything."

"Ah -- I'm sorry," he said, in a lowered voice. "I didn't know." Actually, he still didn't know who Karis was talking about, but he assumed it was a superior. A rather sinister one, by the sound of it.

"I thought you were... well, free to do as you wished."

"He'll come back. He always does," Karis muttered, turning in place to peer up at a nearby building. She glanced over her shoulder at Zouichi and one of her eyes twitched. "If we win, I'm just going to go back. I'm just going to be His tool again. So I can't say anything. I'm loyal! So when I go back, He'll know."

But that sounded a lot more like fear than anything else.

"He gets into your head, whispers in your ears, makes you do His bidding. And you can't stop Him, can't stop doing what He wants. Just keep fighting, keep killing..." She drew her claws through her hair as she spoke, drawing furrows across her scalp.

Zouichi looked dismayed, attempting to stop her from clawing herself any further. "Stop that, you're going to hurt yourself!" Well, if she hadn't already.

Mental note: Avoid mention of Needleteeth's master in light conversation.

Karis let out a shriek and yanked her hands away from Zouichi. A moment later it turned into a hiss of anger and rage as she clawed her way back into a corner, staring at him intently.

"No, no, no! I don't feel pain! I'm one part, one little cog in the Scourge and my fate doesn't matter. As long as I can fight and kill and eat I'm useful. It doesn't matter otherwise. And I'm going to keep being useful!"

Sigh. He really was bad at talking to people. But he didn't follow her into the corner, instead taking a few steps back.

"I don't know what happened to you before. And I can't tell you what to do with the rest of the time you have left. But your master isn't here. If you wished, you could disembark on the next planet and most likely never have to worry about them again. You're no longer the cog you used to be."

Kari shuddered and covered her head with her hands. "It can't be that easy... It's not-"

She paused and then continued, "...and if I'm not His anymore, what am I?"

She sounded very small and alone, "I don't know who I am if I'm not Needles."

...why did this ship not have a counselor? Seriously, why?

"I can't answer that for you," he said, still keeping some distance between the two of them. "But you've got time now to think it over for yourself."

What had happened to her, anyway?

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