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[oiorpata]

CHARACTERS: andy + you
LOCATION: various places on board ximilia
DATE: post braccia mission!
CONTENT: andy's day to day et all
WARNINGS: none atm, will update as needed



01 🗡 SUNLIGHT ROOM

[ andy claimed a bed in the dorms, but it doesn't mean she always uses it. she prefers napping and sleeping in the sunlight room, because even if she knows it probably isn't real, it feels real enough to trick her for a little while. it's definitely her favorite and most frequented spot on board. she's got a supply of blankets and booze tucked near her tree, which is all she really needs. ]

[ sometimes she is sleeping, sometimes she's just laying there in the grass, staring up at the sky. her labrys is always nearby, whether she's with her blanket nest near one of the trees she's claimed for herself or hanging out with her feet in the stream. sometimes she just... wanders, wishing it was bigger. ]

[ she sits by the brook, munching on a big bowl of cereal while the water swims by her feet. there's a sealed bottle of what she hopes is close enough to vodka in the grass by her shoes, and her pants are rolled up to her knees. ] It's not that cold, in case you're wondering.

[ or maybe you just... find her in her blanket burrito, dead asleep. one of the nice things about being immortal is she doesn't have to worry about anyone killing her while she's resting. she has no wounds to heal from via braccia, she's just very tired. all the time. ]

02 🗡 KITCHEN GREMLIN

[ just because andy is rather old doesn't mean she's got any sort of finesse in the kitchen. she knows how to cook, of course, but she doesn't really... care to most of the time. especially when she's had a millennium of nicky's food and nicky's cooking and he enjoys taking over there. so when she eats on ximilia, she eats more like a goblin. ]

[ it's not like there's a sun cycle, and her body is struggling a little bit to get into a set schedule when she can't follow a nature based pattern. so she ends up in the kitchen scrounging for food at all hours of the day and night, running into all sorts of people. ]

[ catch her sitting on the countertop eating pasta - but it's just the plain noodles, freshly boiled, still in the pot which she is holding one handed with an oven mitt, the other hand making use of her fork. it looks close enough to spaghetti that she deemed it acceptable and she probably made a little too much for one person, but again: she is simply eating it out of the pot. it might not be shareable. ]

[ there's very little that isn't acceptable to her for food at this point. andromache the scythian will eat anything, and they don't have what she needs to make good baklava. ]

03 🗡 TRAINING ROOM

[ andy isn't in here training. she doesn't need any training. but she is here to watch and check out what other people are capable of, to see how and where they'll all be useful the next time around. she already knows there are quite a few skilled people aboard, but she's curious about the variety. she carries no weapons on her here, not worried about needing any. plenty of people have already offered their services to the whole group, and she hasn't quite decided if she intends to be among those numbers. ]

[ still, she knows some people have seen what she can do by now, whether via the fighting rings or via the heist itself. mostly she is munching on what she thinks are some kind of potato chips with a half empty bottle of presumably wine beside, idly observing the people who come in and out like some kind of weirdo. she has to get her entertainment somehow. ]

[ but she will clap if she is particularly impressed by something! cheers. ]

04 🗡 WILDCARD

[ wild card!! hit me up to plot for something more specific if you want, on disco @ romanitas#5368 or communism! pls hit me up for some event follow up and after math stuff!! c: ]

Comments

[scarcastically]

Wasn't all that bad.

[ probably suspicious he wasn't all that involved, but he had other things on his mind after shuri left. ]

What 'bout you?

[oiorpata]

[ honestly, she wasn't paying that much attention to who went in deep and who hung back. she remembers who she saw, but it's not like she kept constant tabs. ]

No permanent damage. [ andy nothing is ever permanent. ]

[scarcastically]

[ lightly. ]

'Cuz you've got some dope healing powers, right?

[oiorpata]

[ hmmm. she considers this. it's hardly a secret anymore, with the amount of people who'd seen her get hurt or straight up die. it's bound to happen again. if she can help set the narrative, she can try to control the flow of further andy facts. ]

You picked up on that, huh? [ hmmmm again. ] It's a useful trick up my sleeve.

[scarcastically]

I'm just a nosy boy.

[ and knowing secrets keeps him safe. it's not personal. he's not interested in toppling the people here. but he has to look out for himself. no one else is going to. ]

And it's a neat trick.

[oiorpata]

Is that a U.S. Army thing or just a you thing?

[ goddamn americans, she is not a fan of their military ventures. ]

It's come in handy more often than not. What gave it away?

[scarcastically]

Hard to say. That's what the army does to you.

[ it deconstructs what you are. and for an orphan like erik, there were no other options. it's not like tony stark was going to swoop down and solve his problems. ]

People talk.

[oiorpata]

That's fair. Armies are rough, the American one especially. [ she knows plenty of what they've done, has been on the opposing side plenty. ]

People sure do love to talk. [ she doesn't sound annoyed by it. she knows these aforementioned people are probably among those who saw her die or get hurt only for it to not stick. ] And I do heal. Rumors aren't always unfounded.

[scarcastically]

[ he shrugs. ]

That's the whole idea. And they work on people with no options like me.

[ erik gives her a self-depreciating wink. ]

So how does it work? Healing n' stuff? I'm guessing it's not like a magic spell.

[oiorpata]

At least you're self aware about it. [ which is more than she can say for a lot of soldiers recruited in because it was the only option. it's a tried and true method. she's seen it over and over. ]

No, not magic. It just... exists. I've never had a reason why. One day I died and it didn't stick. Some people saw it happen on Braccia, so I'm not surprised it'll start getting around now. [ even if she hates to be Perceived. ]

[scarcastically]

[ huh. ]

Feels like something you don't understand has drawbacks.

[oiorpata]

Probably. [ is she going to acknowledge them? absolutely not. ]

I don't understand how it started or why, but I know I can heal from anything, so that's the baseline.

[scarcastically]

It don't feel like someone playing God with your insides?

[oiorpata]

Maybe if I thought there was a god.

[ which she definitely does not. ]

I don't really question after it anymore.

[scarcastically]

[ erik can't imagine not questioning it or understanding it, but he's on the other side here. black people die in droves so the idea of living with incredible healing is a gift they've never been lucky enough to have. ]

Guess there's no real reason to.

[oiorpata]

[ given everything she knows of erik, she's not surprised he doesn't get why she stopped asking. he's got a thirst for knowledge and understanding, and andy thinks she might have been that desperate for answers once upon a time. but she doesn't really remember once upon a time anymore. ]

It's not like I didn't try. You just get tired of asking why, after years and years without any answers or patterns or trails to follow.

[scarcastically]

[ years and years . . . ]

But you're not the only one, I'm guessing.

[oiorpata]

I'm the only one lucky enough to be here, but no. There are some others.

[ that's... it, that's all she's offering to that. ]

[scarcastically]

[ that's not surprising, but it's good enough for erik right now. ]

Nice to have company at least.

[oiorpata]

[ their numbers are very small anyway. ]

We're a team.

[ she doesn't know how to talk about her family to people. she's never had to, never been able to either. ]

[scarcastically]

[ teams usually have purpose. an interesting detail all the same. ]

Nothin' like having a "we".

[oiorpata]

It's better, yeah. [ all those centuries alone? no thank you. not again. she needs her breaks, but she always comes back to them. ]

Something you know or don't know?

[ his tone could go either way. ]

[scarcastically]

I haven't had that kind of luxury.

[ because that's what it is. you never know when the system will beat you down and take people from you. history is enough context there. ]

[oiorpata]

[ she hums. ]

Yeah, it is a luxury. One I know I'm lucky to have.

[ her centuries of isolation at the start prove that alone. ]

Sorry to hear it.

[scarcastically]

[ erik shrugs, nonchalant. everyone feels bad about it. no one wants to do anything about it. ]

'Least here I can catch a break.