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[obstinance]

so i don't know if anyone else has noticed, but it looks like there's a definite trend of people going back into stasis without any warning

a few people i knew from back home woke up and just ended up... disappearing out of nowhere and returning back to their pods on the station

has anyone else had something like that happen to them?
maybe it's just me and i'm cursed with bad luck or something
an explanation for WHY it happens would be nice, too
not that i think it's going to make anyone worry less
i haven't had the chance to talk to darma about it, but maybe someone else has

[ not that clary is entirely certain she would trust darma's reasoning at this point, but... well, it's worth a shot. ]

uh, on a lighter note
i realize we already have a makeshift fight club in the works, but i'm looking for regular sparring partners
preferably someone who can't actually throw me through a wall and doesn't want to repeatedly punch me in the face, but i'm not picky
i figure it can't hurt to add a few new things to my skill set

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[obstinance]

you don't have to apologize. it's not your fault.

[ it's appreciated, nevertheless, especially when clary's impression of jyn is that she isn't necessarily the gentle, emotional type. ]

there's no way i can shoot as well as you can, but i might be able to counter it.

[ might be. deflection runes may allow for that, but taking up that tasks sounds foolishly reckless. with that in mind: ]

hand-to-hand is fine. definitely less dangerous, too.

[insurgent]

i'll teach you if you want

[ to shoot. ]

or just hand-to-hand, yeah. i practice with theon on tuesdays. other days are mostly free.

[ her working hours lack regularity. ]

[obstinance]

we can do both. work up to it, if you want.
i don't want to shoot someone's face off.
guns in my world were a little less... laser-like.

[ and she'd never learned how to handle those, either. space guns are a more intimidating variety. ]

got it. no tuesdays.
most of my patrols are at night, if that helps.
you can stop by anytime before or after that.
not just for sparring or lessons, either. my door is definitely always open.

[ especially when her house is hers and hers alone. it's a lonely situation, but she's not eager to admit that outright. ]

[insurgent]

blasters have a stun setting.

[ lyra had always set it to stun. saw had assured her that to do so was to die.

jyn doesn't think either of them was right. and she knows clary prefers not to kill after the carriage business. ]

i have an irregular schedule, too.
i'll be sure to stop by.
i would offer the same but my housemates can be rowdy.
so only come if you like noise.

[ is this a little touching? absolutely. will she say that outright? probably not. ]

[obstinance]

like a tranquilizer dart?
only minus the drowsiness, i'm guessing.
sounds like that could come in handy.

[ it's the only comparison she can make to her world's equivalent — and even then the institute's range of weapons had more medieval leanings. the stun of a blaster should be more appropriate for missions that require stealth and involve innocent parties, as opposed to the slice of a sword or the bullet from a gun.

monsters are one thing, as is self-defense, but she'll avoid killing as much as she can when other options are available. ]

i don't mind noise if they're not going to harass me.
i might visit sometime, but i'll let you know before i ever drop in.
and if you need to get away from their screaming, i don't have any roommates, so it's pretty quiet over here.

[ understatement of the century. ]

[insurgent]

yeah, like that.
but with high voltage.

[ so it still has the potential to do considerable damage if aimed carefully :') ]

i see. have you lived alone before?

[ clary is full of life and conversation in a way that makes her think the answer is no. ]

[obstinance]

oh. more like a taser, then.
a super fancy sci-fi taser.

[ at this point, she's 100% convinced jyn sometimes thinks clary is speaking gibberish, but that isn't hindering her from spouting more. ]

not really? i literally stayed at the same place i worked.
let's just say it was never this quiet.

[ possibly ideal for someone like clary, but no less a nuisance with every interrupted night of sleep for the sake of a new mission or assignment. ]

[insurgent]

[ clary's 100% accurate that jyn understands only half of what she says and makes educated guesses at the remaining content :') ]

someone else said i was a sci-fi.
what does that mean?

are you home now?

[ because she'll come by, if so. she has something to say off the record. ]

[obstinance]

'sci-fi' means 'science fiction'.
back in my world if we had a movie or tv show that was set in space or really futuristic we called it sci-fi.

basically what i'm saying is a gun that fires lasers and works like a taser when you want it to is way more advanced than i'm used to seeing.

[ that may or may not be a nonsensical explanation, but a+ for effort. ]

yeah. i'll leave the door unlocked if you want to stop by.

[ that feels like the safe conclusion to make from that inquiry. in her relative isolation, clary isn't going to argue against the prospect of company, regardless. ]

[insurgent]

[ jyn's already on her way, swinging her satchel of on-the-go emergency supplies over her shoulder and offering a brusque goodbye to her housemates. it's not that this is urgent, exactly, but jyn is decisive by nature.

this is her decision. ]

i see.

[ well. not 20/20 vision but. ]

then my galaxy is like your sci-fi
and we have holos (holographic dramas) like your movies and tv?

[ jyn finds seemingly mundane topics fascinating. it's a whole thing. ]

[obstinance]

wait
are your holographic dramas really holographic?

[ that's incredibly science fiction, and the (less than) covert nerd inside of clary is ecstatic at that knowledge. ]

i guess that makes your holographic dramas normal instead of sci-fi.
i didn't know you were a space person, though.

[ "space person". jyn's use of the word galaxy clues her into that much, but for all that she knows jyn's world is unlike her own, it's a difficult concept to wrap her mind around. ]

[insurgent]

[ oh, jyn supposes she hadn't mentioned it. it wasn't something she thought of as abnormal, even somewhere as far behind technologically as olympia. ]

yes.
and if by space person, you mean i'm accustomed to intragalactic travel, yes to that, too.

[ yes they're really holographic; and yes, she's a space person. ]

you use a holoprojector to watch.
and you can send holographic messages that way.
better than video :)

[obstinance]

so you're technically an alien.

[ human, yes, but an alien all the same. she has a childlike wonderment about the entire ordeal, admittedly, but she's trying to keep that enthusiasm low-key. jyn already looks at clary like she has more than one head without adding 'exuberant fascination about spaceships and all things intergalatic' to the list. ]

sounds useful.
and kind of alarming? but mostly useful.

private.

[insurgent]

well we're all aliens here
i'm human
but i was born in the outer rim territories

what number is your place?

private.

[obstinance]

[ she notes the sudden switch to a private filter, but does nothing to bring it to attention. there's clearly a reason for protecting this exchange of information,
but she'll try to put that together herself afterward. ]

okay, point
but i've never heard of the outer rim so i'm betting you haven't heard of the milky way, either

it's #51
near the top

[ aka more than a bit of a walk. ]

[insurgent]

must be a galaxy farther away

[ ha ha. ]

i was born on an icy planet called vallt
if that's more familiar to you

[ she assumes it isn't. ]

but space is vast

[obstinance]

a less exciting galaxy

not unless that's a fancy name for neptune
or pluto, maybe, but people are still arguing over whether it even counts as a planet

[ and as far as she knows, neither count as inhabitable. jyn makes a good point, though; space is vast, though clary doubts their worlds were connected, even by the smallest thread. ]

i was from earth
not as cool as an ice planet, that's for sure

[ pun intended? probably. ]

[insurgent]

there's an earth system on some charts

[ but that's not the same as planet earth. thanks, star wars wiki. perhaps because jyn has travelled so far with hardly anything at all, she remains open to the idea that many refugees hail from the same world, separated by stretches of stars. it's more logical than the faff about alternate universes and the like, in her eyes. people are ants, compared to the great big world out there. ]

funny.
i didn't stay on vallt for long, so i wouldn't know
did you stay on earth?

[ people living life on one planet alone is still the weirdest thing. ]

[obstinance]

you travel a lot?

[ potentially a sensitive subject, clary knows, when the matter of home is involved. she's not a traveler, per se, but she knows what it's like to leave a home and search for what truly feels like one; maybe the same can be said of jyn, though clary's other thought is travel for the sake of travel.

given jyn's talents, fleeing from system to system doesn't seem like a stretch of the imagination. ]

thanks, i try.
but yeah
not all over earth or anything, just brooklyn
it's a small city compared to all of new york but it has the best pizza ever

[ and now she has to ask herself if jyn has ever even tasted pizza. how's that for weirdest thing. ]

[insurgent]

my galaxy was at war.
staying still had been proven unwise.

[ so, not quite travel in the sense of leisure and enjoyment. every stagnant moment cost her dearly. she thinks of reece limp in saw's arms. of the pontas' ship bursting into stardust behind her.

remaining in olympia now feels risky, but she has no choice. ]

pizza.
is that your local delicacy?

[obstinance]

[ the temptation is there, but clary resists her urge to type out sorry. somehow, she doesn't think it would be terribly appreciated. ]

my world too.
or... well, you could say that it was getting there.
a lot of us had targets on our backs because of it.

[ mainly clary herself, misjudged and mistrusted by shadowhunters and downworlders alike, all courtesy of having valentine as her father. she doesn't say as much, though she still thinks of it, thinks of leaving the only home she had known behind and her mother with it. imagining doing it again and again and again, as jyn's clarification hints, isn't a pleasant notion. ]

you could say that.
i'll get you a slice here and you can tell me how you feel
though i might have to disown you if you call it disgusting.