[Mostly Open] So we'll press, and press 'til you can't take it anymore!

[groupiedrifter]

CHARACTERS: Precursors and you. And Eventually Newton. Hopefully!
LOCATION: A holding room in Ximilia Station.
DATE: Est. two days post-mission, after the kaiju is defeated and the orb is retrieved.
CONTENT: The precursors are revealed — and are finally removed from Newt's mind.
WARNINGS: Possession and the bodily autonomy issues that come with that. More will be added if necessary!

Closed and opened starters will be added as I go, which will be announced on plurk! But if you don't use plurk or would rather keep an eye out by email/tracking, feel free to use the tracking option and mark to receive notifs any new top level comments posted to this log! The log will involve an open starter to visit the precursors where they're cuffed/contained in the room, so stay tuned.

Also no rush once the open starters are posted!

Feel free to focus on the player plot log first and come back to this later.

CLOSED STARTER | THE DOCTOR
DARKLING'S TOP LEVEL | WHILE NEWT WAS SLEEPING...
OPEN STARTER | THE PRECURSORS, REVEALED
CLOSED FINAL CONCLUSION | THE PRECURSORS, REMOVED
OPEN PROMPTS | NEWTON GEISZLER'S RETURN

Comments

[morethan084]

[Licking her dry lips, she takes a moment to gather her thoughts. Her mind was a jumbled mess,]

I want you to promise me you won't isolate yourself. That if you start to feel yourself spiraling that you contact me. I don't care what time it is. We don't even have to talk. We can just sit there in silence.

I don't want you to be alone, Newt.

[groupiedrifter]

[He's not sure he can promise these things. It almost feels like more punishment dealt to the people around him who suffered, anyway; first he physically hurts them on top of betraying them, and then he dumps his own personal grief onto them? It doesn't seem fair. Doesn't seem fair to Daisy, either, and if he didn't know any better he'd say she's a glutton for punishment.

He moves to fold his arms over his chest, but it mostly just ends up a self-soothing embrace. There's a soft, strained sound that is meant to be a laugh. It doesn't much sound like one, though; sounds more like a wounded noise.]

Start to spiral? When do you stop spiraling?

... I don't know. I think I just... need time. I need time to think.

[It's not a refusal of what she asks for. That has to mean something, right?]

[morethan084]

[Daisy barely manages a smile at his joke. It's not really a joke though, especially when she's been dealing with that spiral more or less since then. Some days are just better than others, but she's never fully come out of it.]

I know. Just--

Remember what I said, okay? I'm here for you.

[groupiedrifter]

... Okay. Okay.

[A moment of surrender, as she'd hoped.]

Only if you actually go and rest, like you're supposed to.

Or else I'll call in the nurses. And nobody likes to deal with the nurses.

[morethan084]

[Daisy smiles tiredly at him,]

Fine, but only because I really don’t want to deal with the nurses.

[Even though her bed isn’t far away, it’s going to take her an embarrassingly long time to get back over there.]

You know where to reach me in the mean time, if you need to.