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 Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:00 pm
"Whoo!" Steven Bitre was feeling triumphant as he half skip-jumped out of HITS and started making his way home, not especially worried that it was more than a bit late, but he needed that lab assignment done and the schedule for reserving space to experiment had been a little crowded lately. But he was done! His notes were done, his homework was done and he was free to wander in the night, eventually making his way back to his apartment. Hopefully.
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 11:45 pm
There were times when the park didn't quite suit Remarque's tastes—when the alleyways he crept through weren't doing it. When he just needed a change in scenery. He'd been spending a lot of time in his typical haunts, so spicing things up seemed just like what he needed to keep things interesting. And awake.
It hadn't been his intention to wander towards the HITS campus, though somehow he'd ended up there. With midterms steadily approaching, he hadn't really thought he'd find anyone worth draining—but, then again, had he really wanted to? He knew a fair portion of students from his time with them either in the Surrounding or the semesters he'd spent enrolled there, afterwards.
Such a study-oriented school, he expected anyone he'd come across would be too tired to be of much interest to him—and then he heard a peculiar cheer that caused him to investigate.
"You've got a lot of energy for someone out so late," Remarque noted as he eyed this half skip-jumping fellow that had quickly come into view. He knew he always felt like he had so much more energy when he got out of his classes for the day, but really? It was late enough that even he had started yawning (though such could definitely be blamed on his late to bed-early to rise lifestyle). "What's your secret?" he asked, seeming conversational—even despite his very out of place ensemble. He figured it was close enough to Halloween (basically) that maybe he wouldn't get such weird looks when conversing with your typically, everyday civilians. Maybe.
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 5:44 pm
Steven was surprised when he suddenly noticed the flamboyantly colored senshi nearby, but was pleased to see another friendly person around nonetheless. Not that he had any evidence Remarque would be friendly beyond his own assumptions that everyone was friendly by default.
In fact, Flannery would probably remind him aliens had a tendency to whisk you off to outer space to be eaten by space whales.
"Oh, I'm just happy, I guess," He beamed and held up his notebook he had been carrying under his arm. "I've been trying to get this project done for almost two weeks! It's really exciting to finally have it done."
He scuttled closer to his new 'friend', inspecting the fuku. "You have a very fancy uniform! What are you doing out and about? Or are aliens required to be dressed up at all times?"
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:38 pm
…Well, that was far too conversational. Remarque had never met a civilian so chatty—so casual about running into senshi. "Well, congratulations on your project," he said somewhat dryly; he didn't particularly care.
Standing still as the stranger inspected him, he gave him a scrutinous look. "And what do you know about uniforms and aliens?" he inquired, words perfectly masking the demand as a question. This was not the first time he had been referred to as an alien, and he had half a mind to take time out of his busy schedule just to set this guy straight. The other senshi might be abominations, but he was born and raised here, and as long as he had a job to do, he belonged here.
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 4:16 pm
"Thanks!" If there was any insincerity to be sensed, Steven was not going to be the one sensing it, no matter how obvious it was.
"Well, not much," He admitted. He didn't know a terrible amount on aliens besides theories shared by friends, but he had gleaned a respectable amount for a civilian. Some people didn't even know they existed! "I mean, I know you have transforming cats as pets," He said, putting his fingers up on his head in an imitation of cat ears he'd seen on the feline girls in the Virgo outpost.
"And some of the girls wear like, school uniform pleated skirt get ups." Aquarius didn't, but Iris certainly did, and she didn't seem like the type to choose that sort of 'uniform' based on how readily she was going to pound them into the ground while swearing in urban patois.
"Yours is black, though," He added, frowning. Most of the senshi he'd encountered had a predominately white base color. "Does that mean you're special?"
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:19 pm
That the guy was attending HITS and knew so much, Remarque could only draw several assumptions about him. The first was that he was a senshi, and unless he was a really good actor (or just really stupid) he had no reason to be blabbing such information. Then there was the fact that he could just be one of the unfortunates who had been trapped up on the Surrounding. Remarque didn't recognize him, but there were a lot of people up there, and it would have been easy to miss a few faces here and there.
"Of course I'm special," he replied simply. "The ones with the white are the ones you have to watch out for. They're up to no good. Trying to destroy this world, just like they destroyed theirs. You really shouldn't associate with them, they're up to no good," he said; he didn't even have to force the words, they were just second nature to him. He didn't expect the civilian to understand, but hell, he'd warn him anyway. The White Moon weren't to be trusted, and if he had to start with nobody civilians to get the word out, fine. He'd talk to ever last one of them if that's what it took.
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:21 pm
"Hm," Stephen kind of glanced to the left and pouted a bit. Anyone confirming aliens were trying to destroy anything somewhat disappointed him, even if it was only one group.
He wasn't sure he bought it. He probably wouldn't have even if he had zero experience with other senshi, but even if Sailor Iris was mean, there were a few that were super nice! And Iris might've been mean mostly because his friends were stealing her burritos.
"Well that seems like a broad generalization for such a large group of people. What about your world? It's not destroyed, is it?" He sincerely hoped it wasn't, because the entire concept of dead worlds as a whole was a very depressing topic.
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 12:17 am
The question rather took Remarque by surprise, as the idea of 'his' world beyond this one was foreign to him. He was born on Earth, raised her. He knew no world but this one.
He didn't even know that there were other worlds out there, sans what he assumed. The Surrounding had opened his mind to the concept of life outside of simply earth, but that didn't exactly answer any more questions than it raised. "My world?" he prompted, sounding a mixture of impressed and suspicious. "And, pray tell, how would you know about other worlds beyond this one? Who have you spoken to that divulged in such information with you?" he asked, figuring that before he answered anything, he might just like to figure out what this civilian knew. Not that he was particularly trustworthy, but at the very least, he could bother Leto or Ares with questions on the matter.
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:04 am
Steven was confused. Didn't he just-- Well either way, it took some thought on his part. "You said the other kind of senshi destroyed their worlds. Sailor Virgo told me about hers. I--... do your kind of senshi not have worlds?"
Well that was perplexing. He had only learned tonight there were different kinds. The differences between where they came from and why were way beyond his scope of knowledge.
"I mean, if you're all aliens, you definitely didn't come from earth, right?"
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Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:59 am
Remarque eyed him suspiciously, and then just shook his head. He was feeling a bit paranoid of late, and being so on edge lead him to drawn unnatural conclusions. He had been so caught up in the fact that the White Moon Senshi had destroyed their own worlds that he had never—not once—stopped to consider his own.
No one ever mentioned the worlds of the Dark Mirror Court, and having the question rephrased to him had caught him off guard. He shook his head, trying to force himself to stay focused enough to gather any more information. He couldn’t exactly get Virgo to talk to him now, so anything Steven said was valuable. Provided it wasn't all just some great lie.
"Hypothetically. In a sense, I suppose. I was born here. Lived here my whole life. But I suppose you could say the otherworldly powers are close enough to alien. Shouldn't you be afraid of me?" he asked after a short few seconds. Weren't people supposed to fear the unknown?
"You were up there, in space. On the Surrounding, with all those civilians? Shouldn't you be terrified of anything that claims to come to space or something?"
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Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:29 pm
"Oh. And the other senshi didn't?" Steven wasn't trying to interrogate him but it was all terribly interesting, and he was sure Flannery would be mad if he didn't take note of interesting extraterrestrial activity.
He paused and blinked several times at the statement of his spacewalk in the Surrounding. "...Yes," He admitted and suddenly his hyper-happy demeanor was toned down by like 12 levels. "I don't know. Some tried to help. And the universe is so big, and there are so many worlds and if most or all of them had a senshi... I mean I've SEEN a ton of senshi... I guess it's just a depressing thought to think they're all bad. They can't all be that way, can they? At least not on purpose?"
The entire concept suddenly weighed down on him with terribly depressing thoughts.
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:35 am
Be it someone asking him, or him suddenly realizing he didn't know something, very few things bothered him more than not knowing. While Steven asked him another array of questions, he chewed the inside of his cheek and waited, playing out possible conclusions to this conversation.
"No. They can't all be bad on purpose," Remarque finally agreed. "And it isn't as though most of them do anything malicious, I assume. But they are misguided and without proper leadership, and that has lead to them making mistakes which have cost others their lives. I'm not saying they're downright evil and twisted in the core, I'm saying that they are good people that have been lead astray. People who can still be saved, if given proper care and guidance. I wouldn't worry, if I were you. But I wouldn't get too close to any of them, either. As I'm sure you learned on the Surrounding, bad things happen to people who get too close to the senshi."
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 6:47 pm
Steven looked genuinely unhappy at that conclusion, though it was oddly cutting when he put it in the perspective of the 'Surrounding' incident. "Well, I just..." His brow knit as he tried to process things.
Though he did, suddenly and vividly, remember Roxy dying and felt incredibly ill.
"Where you there?" He asked weakly. He didn't remember an black bodiced senshi but then again there was a lot going on. Especially with the whole dying and then not thing.
"I'm not even sure what happened with... um... with that."
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:51 pm
Remarque didn't really see much reason to lie to the male and nodded. "I was there. For longer than I care to admit. And I saw far too many people dying for the senshi's sake. For people who claim to want to save you, they sure didn't put a lot of effort into it. It was their fault you were even in harm's way, anyway, but I suppose everyone's got their side of the story. All I know is that all those civilians never would have been zapped up into space, into all that danger and death if it hadn't been for those senshi," he said with an indifferent shrug, hoping this guy would be more inclined to listen to his reasoning than any of the senshi's.
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:49 pm
"Oh," Steven seemed disappointed, but fully believed what he was hearing, even if he didn't want to. He had already heard all this, and had been operating under the belief that something, somewhere, had been misunderstood. But if so many people had a similar story, it had to have some truth to it.
Not that he still fully understood how they got up there in the first place.
"So then... um..." The silence grew uncomfortable.
"Why?" Why what was something he hadn't quite figured out but the entire thing was just kind of sad and awful, and he still had an endless list of questions about that various categories of senshi and why some were bad and others weren't.
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