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?

Comments

[quick_strike]

Ten years? Ten years is nothing to an Eldar. You can say not much has changed about her. There's probably a few spots where scars remain unseen and her armor has been patched up a multitude of times but she still moves and reacts unimpeded.

The memory of what humans were doing to her Craftworld haven't been lost but she has moved past that, already having previous centuries dealing with humans in her past. She still rarely smiles at anyone who isn't the same race as her and her tongue is as sharp as ever.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Zouichi talked to Alendian often enough, sharp tongue notwithstanding. He mostly just let the excess anger roll off, anyway.

"Hello, Alendian. You know, you had me worried for a second during that last mission."

[quick_strike]

"And why, exactly?" Choose your words carefully, Zouichi. Or there just might be excess anger to roll off.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

"Because I'd miss you if you were gone."

[quick_strike]

"The fact is, I will not die." As in she had no other option. Too little Eldar existed as is.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

He raised an eyebrow at her. "Oh? Are Eldar immortal, too?"