Friday Meme Light: Cause It's A Bittersweet Victory (Ten Years Later Thread)

[thewunderkind]

The clock continues to turn on the ship.

The last years have been of turbulence, surprises and great fights, but eventually, five years ago, the Ohm were defeated and slowly, peace was restored to the entire multiverse. The crisis was averted! Congratulations!

...However rebuilding universes takes time. Energy. Power. It still might be years off before you'll get to go home, and Stacy is truly saddened about that. Call it catch 22 if you will, but at least the life on the ship is a lot more peaceful now. The farms have grown, and now there's enough in-house grown food to feed everyone who doesn't feel like eating slop or eating slop in the sensoriums every day. That's a small comfort, right? Oh sure, there's still the surprise or two on it, but now there's slowly more places to stop, and Stacy has been a lot more lenient about people getting their shots...

As they sometimes say, life will find a way to flourish, anywhere it can. My, there's a lot more bellies around the ship than before...

And maybe. One day. Far off future. You'll get to go home. But that's not now.

Ten years is a lot of time for people to grow, personalities to change and emotions to emerge. How have your characters turned out of it?

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[sonicscreamer.livejournal.com]

It's a very hard life, but truthfully Victoria is ecstatic. She always wanted a large family, being the only child before her mother died, and seeing with envy her friends with much larger ones. She just didn't expect for it to come so fast! Three children at a time is quite a lot, yet now that they've been growing rather well considering the environment (which has taken Victoria a lot of time to adjust to) she's...starting to think maybe having another wee one might be a good idea.

Victoria, unlike Jamie doesn't miss the adventure at all. And now that the ship has real food, she enjoys cooking...as long as the kids help out a bit.

Her children love her. Somehow she manages to get even Mairi calmed down during her cries for warrior attention, and the neighboring children come over when she tells stories. Considering how her situation had been ten years ago, now she couldn't be happier, truthfully.

[bonnypiperlad]

Speaking of cooking, here's Jamie now. Hope you like haggis. While he's still not the most gifted engineer the ship has, ten years has been a long time to learn, and he's managed to get enough training that he was able to build them a tiny, but functional cook-stove that's been designed to work with a minimum of resources.

He makes his way into the kitchen quietly, sneaking up behind Victoria where she's working and slipping his arms around her waist before giving her a kiss on her cheek. "Mm. Something smells good. What are ye making?"