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Ema Skye ([personal profile] karintous) wrote2020-08-26 09:41 pm
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i'll put something here eventually
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text; at some nebulous point in may

[personal profile] lockedon 2021-05-02 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
When's your birthday?
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[personal profile] lockedon 2021-05-03 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Isn't that the type of thing friends are supposed to know about each other?
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[personal profile] lockedon 2021-05-03 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
It already passed. A few months ago, judging by the seasons here.

You didn't want to celebrate yours?


[ Isn't that a Thing for most people... ]
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[personal profile] lockedon 2021-05-03 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you sure you trust the drinks here?
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[personal profile] lockedon 2021-05-04 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
That was awhile ago.

[ Times change, people change, maybe the drinks menu at the bar has changed too. ]

Or are you planning on using me as a guinea pig?
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[personal profile] lockedon 2021-05-04 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't say I wouldn't go.
Pick a day. I'll cover the costs.


[ Happy birthday, his gift will be all you can drink booze. ]
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i guess we're doing this now

[personal profile] lockedon 2021-05-05 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not going to hold your hair back if you start vomiting.

[ But he will at least drag her sorry ass back home and give her a glass of water.

The day of the BBB (Belated Birthday Bash) arrives without incident and they amble their way to the bar he'd drunk dialed her from. A deeply embarrassing night full of deeply embarrassing behavior as far as he's concerned, and silently he resolves to cut himself off after the first drink. It shouldn't be hard; he's not prone to fits of alcoholism.

Ema, on the other hand... ]


Are you really planning on drinking yourself under the table?

[ How many drinks would that even take....one and a half? She's tiny. ]
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[personal profile] lockedon 2021-05-05 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That earns her a hefty scowl, because how is he supposed to forget about his drunken antics if she keeps bringing it up? ]

I can't [ how did she put it ] cart you home if I'm drunk.

[ Both of them will inevitably end up plastered on the sidewalk if he tries that and then where will they be? Hungover and still on the sidewalk by the time the sun rises behind the cloud cover the next day. So, no, he will not be getting wasted tonight. Someone needs to be the designated driver (walker?) between the two of them—or at least, that's his excuse for the night.

He takes the seat next to her and orders a glass of sake. He's here to celebrate their slow descent into old age, not to lose consciousness as fast as possible, which means no drinks that look radioactive in nature. ]
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[personal profile] lockedon 2021-05-06 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ He views their surroundings - and their drinks - with a touch less suspicion, though the sip of drink he takes is measured and small, a careful tread into unknown waters. If he ends up feeling frisky after a few minutes pass, then they'll know to end the party early and he can go lock himself up in the nearest bathroom while she trots on back home.

For now, he's content to enjoy the laidback atmosphere of the bar and Ema's company, even if one or the other (or both) will surely end up raucous before the night is over. ]


No. I don't usually celebrate my birthday.

[ It's just another day of the week, as far as he's concerned. ]

We celebrated the Captain's birthday though, back on the Grandcypher.

[ And that, quite frankly, had been enough noise and merriment to last him until the next round of celebrations. ]
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[personal profile] lockedon 2021-05-06 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ Arr, matey.... If he has his emo fringe instead of an eyepatch covering one eye, does that still qualify him as a pirate?

'Vittles and rum' is such a specific grouping of words that he looks over at her with brows pulled together. What kind of image does she have of skyfaring crews....? But he'll indulge her all the same, digging back in his memory banks for the last birthday party they held. ]


Lots of food, lots of drink. Decorations of all kinds depending on who's in charge. Performances depending on how drunk certain members of the crew get.

[ And many of them do often get drunk, imbibing a little extra in honor of a Captain that still can't indulge because GBF refuses to acknowledge the passage of time when it comes to character ages. He takes an internal check of his body - still the usual temperature, no strange urges rising out of nowhere - before taking another drink. ]

It's always an elaborate affair but none of us mind.

[ Because everyone in the crew is a goddamn simp. ]
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[personal profile] lockedon 2021-05-06 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hah. Him, performing in front of any kind of audience. Funny joke. It's so funny that his voice is as dry as the desert when he answers. ]

No. I don't perform.

[ What would he do anyway, line up a bunch of shot glasses on the ship's railing and shatter them all into pieces in one smooth sweep of his gun, never missing a single shot? Maybe some on the ship would consider the feat amazing but all he'd consider it to be is a waste of bullets.

He's distracted momentarily by a spot of lingering foam on Ema's cheek and, wordlessly, he passes over a napkin. Just because they live on a deserted island doesn't mean they have to act like backwards neanderthals, for crying out loud. ]


You must have had celebrations with your sister.

[ She'd always spoken about Lana with such warmth that it's hard to imagine the relationship between the two as anything but deeply loving. ]
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[personal profile] lockedon 2021-05-07 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ i hate that he could probably do exactly what you described and that is why we had to move on

It's a testament to how much Ema has cemented her love of science as part of her identity that even Eustace's feeble imagination has no problems imagining a child version of her, safely tucked in bed, with a bottle of luminol snug in her arms. Most kids sleep with teddy bears, Ema Skye apparently sleeps with science tools. It's cute, in a weird kind of way, and it's not like he has any room to judge considering what he's slept with as a child.

It's cuter still to see her face flush with good cheer and he's content to watch her quietly for a handful of seconds before continuing on. Since they're on the subject of birthday gifts, it only makes sense to keep heading down that path. ]


Did you want anything [ read: more science paraphernalia ] for your birthday this year?

[ Her sister is not here on the island with them (probably for the best) so someone will have to step in and take her gift-giving place. Also, maybe he just wants to see her smile more. ]
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[personal profile] lockedon 2021-05-07 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ Is him repeating 'peace and quiet' over and over again not enough of an indicator for her of what he wants??

He looks down at her finger at his chest and then over to his drink, still mostly full. All the things he truly wants are the things he can never have, and anything material he could feasibly get on the island seems so inconsequential in the face of everything they have to deal with here.

Carefully, he lowers her hand, and then reaches up to (once again) mess up her hair. Because seeing her with a bird's nest for hair never fails to be funny. ]


Spending time with you is enough.

[ The fact that she still drags him out even though he's about as pleasant company as a sea urchin. The fact that she'd willingly gone out of her way multiple times to help him out, even when she'd had nothing to gain. It all condenses into a small globe of memories tucked away deep in his chest, a better gift than anything material he could ever get.

He realizes he's gone silent, staring not quite at her but through, and takes a (larger) gulp of his drink. ]


But you can buy me dinner next time, if you want.

[ Free food, truly the way to any man's good graces. ]

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