voice testing, post titan's curse

[kerauno]

Hey, reality check! I actually have things to do.

Your waffling around doesn't help me, like, at all. And besides, you've got a lot on your plate. Just lemme go, okay?

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[wokethedragon]

My writer thinks it's best for me to come here and enable you into making a decision you might regret, but I'm inclined to agree with you. Your duties lie with the Hunters.

[kerauno]

Uh-huh. Don't put so much faith in the writer here, she wouldn't be able to handle me in the context of an actual game.

But you're absolutely right. I'm needed elsewhere.

[wokethedragon]

I would not speak so lowly of your writer. They have tendencies to put us in difficult situations when this happens. Though I believe my own mun has difficulty 'handling' me as well, regardless of the situation.

How are your Hunters faring?

[kerauno]

Oh, yeah, she can take it, trust me. I'll go kicking and screaming if she tries to put me in anything less suited to what I prefer.

My Hunters? All good as far as I know, since I've been so rudely pulled away from my duties.

/sneaks in

[backbiter]

They don't care about the agendas we have back at home. [OH HELLO Thalia.]

At the least everyone here will inform you that this is like a dream. Whatever happens here or in the 'games' doesn't effect us once we're allowed to go home.

... D:<

[kerauno]

[ Have the darkest of all glares, arms crossed and everything. ]

Thanks for the advice.

shock him! he deserves it!

[backbiter]

[It's not like he wasn't expecting it.]

Anytime. [He rubs the nap of his neck.] I've seen plenty of others protest and it all ends pretty much the same. The muns.. they have their own plans for us.

Sort of like the gods, excepts the mundanes are bigger pricks.

does he ever!!

[kerauno]

It's really cute how you think it's okay to just have a nice little conversation about muns while we're standing around here.

[ It isn't as if she's unarmed nowadays, though. Even without her Hunters, she can still stand on her own. ] I don't know where you stand right now but I'm the furthest from okay with you.

[backbiter]

It wouldn't be you to be even a little okay with me. [He doesn't expect a warm-huggy-reunion, that was never Thalia's style.]

I mean I only bring it up because it's not like there's anything else to do. They have the control and we're their puppets. [Oh.. hey.. he sounds like a broken record.]

[kerauno]

[ She nearly rolls her eyes at that, but knowing her life is still under someone else's control makes her squirm. The frown parks and locks on her face, as does the wrinkle between her brows. ]

So what are you supposed to do in this nexus-place? Do we all just complain about our lives here?

[ripstides]

Wrong answer because every single one of them has selective hearing. I've narrowed it down to explosions, floods and agreeing to go along with everything they say since the opposite never works.

[kerauno]

I think I'm entitled to my first twenty tantrums as far as the muns go, right? I mean, that's reasonable, in my opinion.

[ She grins almost fondly. ] What trouble have you been causing recently, Jackson?

[ripstides]

Or thirty. I wouldn't undersell it in your contract if you're going to put a number on it. [ he forgets ( sometimes ) how easily they can get along when steam or smoke isn't blowing out of one or both of their ears. quick, someone knock on wood! ]

Oh, you know, the usual. I was stuck on a space ship for awhile there. The Underworld before that, or some version of it. And an island of way worse origin's than Circe's, so we're not even going to go there. Don't ask me to elaborate. [ nope nope nope. ] Threaten to spear anyone alive yet?

[kerauno]

Gods, how long have I even been away from camp? Seems like it's only been a week or so.

[ But, hey, Thalia's willing to keep up with the niceness so long as Percy is - and so long as Percy manages not to make a mess of things. ] Judging from your recent shenanigans, I'd cap off my writer complaints at about a hundred and call it even.

[ripstides]

Honestly? No idea. Time here doesn't follow any rules I've been able to find. It might actually be a week for you. [ demigods here are of all shapes and sizes ( like home ) and they're all arrogant ( like home ) and every one of them hates being told what to do ( like home ). he's going to shrug and not think anything of it because thinking equals headaches. ] It's not always bad. I mean, you get to make new friends you never would have met otherwise and see the ones you never got to say goodbye to, or whatever.

[ and aside from going crazy in space, it's usually a calm environment. ]

[kerauno]

[ If it's just about the same old, same old (well, at least what had become familiar to Thalia since her tree days), then she can take it all in stride. She just won't be happy about it, but then again, she would be Thalia without that rebellious streak.

There's maybe a spark of hope in her expression. ] There's a possibility of seeing people I wouldn't see normally? Like, in our normal flow of time?

doubletapping this. no regrets 8D

[thebravest]

Maybe you're exactly where you're supposed to be. Think about it, Thalia. We're— [ right, he's not a half-blood. ] Demigods rarely get sent or wind up in a place they aren't needed. [ which isn't to say she's not worth more than her duty as a huntress, or as a daughter of Zeus because she's always be more than that. she'll always be the hero. a young rebel girl with a heart of gold that loved her friends enough to be brave against impossible odds. ]

ah, my cup runneth over!

[kerauno]

[ Her lips slowly curl into a smile and she relaxes the arms crossed over her chest, letting her head drop to her shoulder. He has a point. She just rather not submit to such a fate with such a silly person in charge. ]

I dunno, Grover, I think I must've gotten caught up in some mix up with the winds today.

i swear i will stop at two :c

[thebravest]

[ the gods make choices that don't always make sense but they are the gods and that has to be respected on some level. it's similar. try as he might not to, she makes him smile. ] Joke about it all you want but I think you were meant to find us.

[ this world is cold and dangerous but it can be warm, it can be beautiful. it can be peaceful and awe-inspiring and even normal. this is the land without prophecies. ] You can choose where or how you want to take that.

:3 if you have more, i'm all about the voice testing right now!

[kerauno]

Isn't that what I do? Pop up from the ground when you least expect me?

[ Hey, she can make a joke about it anyway. Taking the Hunter's vow has made her calmer and more confident and she can hold her head even higher than before. Which isn't to say that diving into the unknown has ceased to make her nervous. Grover's presence does put her at ease in this weird nothing-place. ]

So I still have a choice in the matter? That's good to know.

[oikodomae]

At least yours is still waffling. Mine's latched on and isn't going anywhere.

[kerauno]

They don't get it do they? Seems to be the general consensus around these parts.

[ A small grin. ] How've you been otherwise?

[oikodomae]

Not unless it's involves their overly active imaginations and wish fullfillment, no. They don't much of anything.

[ for a while there, it wasn't bad. but now annabeth's just kind of bitter. ]

Saying 'I've been better' would be a cop-out, wouldn't it?[ even she can help but smile when thalia grins at her, though. shrugging a little. ] Not much more to say. I'm alone on a horror ship. And besides that, alive.

You look good, though.

[kerauno]

Thanks. The silver crown doesn't really go with the whole look, but I honor my Goddess by wearing it. [ A small joke, but it's nice to see Annabeth and to slip in a laugh here and there. She chuckles quietly before her brow furrows out of concern. ]

What about this horror ship?

[oikodomae]

You wear it well.

[ gods she missed you. but then she sighs, runs her hand through her hair. ]

The ship's called Tranquility. Space ship, that says its taking us to a way for us to get home. Percy was there for a bit but... [ she presses her lips into a thin line, still not doing well from that. ] It's weird, too. The ship changes, makes it so you can get lost for weeks at a time. It changes to work with your worst nightmares, I've heard. Never get hungry, thirsty...pirates attacked a couple of weeks ago. But yeah, horror ship.