srwuga_npc2: (NPC - Colomba Arlotti)
srwuga_npc2 ([personal profile] srwuga_npc2) wrote in [community profile] srwug_alpha_rp2013-08-01 01:21 pm

Pain Management

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[Locked to Felicita.]

White Chalice is close to the Orsini Industries lab. There's a call just for you, on the live video feed - and guess what, it's your mother!

[2]

White Chalice received a huge data packet, sent over a secure line.

Its contents: engineering data related to construction of PEX-001 Deva. No more blackboxes and information classified by the VIPs, now you have access to it all. Of interest is the description of the Putri System:

On itself, it does not cause the terrible side effects that Felicita suffers from each time she is piloting. No, this is because of the mixture of drugs and other chemicals she takes during combat. However, Putri System overloads the pilot's senses and may quickly cause long-term insanity and dementia. The drugs, unpleasant as they may be, are administered to prevent that.

As of the moment, they have run really low. And the only way to restock them goes up in flames...


Moments later, all communication with the Orsini Industries science facility is lost. It turns out there has been an explosion. Its causes - unknown, since the facility was not supposed to be operative at that moment.

There are few confirmed casualties. Colomba Arlotti, Felicita Arlotti's mother, is among them.

[3]

Confront Felicita about this? Needless to say, the girl is very distressed at the moment. Crying her heart out... the pretense of staying strong in the face of all hardships she had to endure, all gone.
runners_low: (Happy blush)

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[personal profile] runners_low 2013-08-01 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
Mother...?

Mother! Is it really you? It has been so long...
runners_low: (Thinking of beautiful things)

[personal profile] runners_low 2013-08-01 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
Then... does that mean?
runners_low: (I don't like what I'm seeing)

[personal profile] runners_low 2013-08-01 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
Wh... what!

[This is the loudest and most shocked Felicita has ever been.]

B... but, Mother. How...
runners_low: (Rather be left alone)

[personal profile] runners_low 2013-08-01 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
No...

No, no no no...
...

Mother, what are you doing?
runners_low: (Determined)

[personal profile] runners_low 2013-08-01 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
!!

No, Mother! Please, wait! Don't... please!
runners_low: (Shameful display)

[personal profile] runners_low 2013-08-01 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
Mother? Mother?!

[Felicita's eyes immediately well up with tears.]

N... no! Why... Mother! Why... did this...

[And she just breaks into a loud, pathetic-sounding wail.]
alwaysmyturn: (You're gonna make me cry too)

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[personal profile] alwaysmyturn 2013-08-01 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[There are things Neptune is just bad at, and then there are things she's hopeless at too. This situation is the latter. It doesn't help that the mission she was on didn't go all that well either.]

Um...

[She's already got tears of her own welling up, but still tries to keep herself composed. That of course means she can't bring herself to say much. She does approach though...]
azure_savior: (What?)

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[personal profile] azure_savior 2013-08-01 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Josh is looking over all the information... and you know what? He's not even halfway through it when his fist hits a wall.]

What the hell?!?

And someone was intending to mass produce that deathtrap?!?
runners_low: (I don't like what I'm seeing)

[personal profile] runners_low 2013-08-01 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Sniff...

[Felicita realizes someone is there.]

Go away.
gurrenbrigbonded: (Sad)

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[personal profile] gurrenbrigbonded 2013-08-01 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Matthew has no idea what having a mother figure–much less one who killed herself in front of you–is like.

As a result, every comforting word and statement he comes up with sounds hollow in his head.

So he decides to come in, sit next to Felicita's bed, and simply be there, waiting for her to talk when she's ready.
alwaysmyturn: (You're gonna make me cry too)

[personal profile] alwaysmyturn 2013-08-01 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Even if you tell me that...there's no way I can just leave you like this.

[So she does exactly the opposite, and sits next to you.]

That's just -not- how it works.
paladin_robot: (Shocked)

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[personal profile] paladin_robot 2013-08-01 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[...Richard stares blankly at Felicita a few seconds, standing at the door. This was not a good week, it seemed...]

Hey...

[And despite any protests she might have, Richard is gonna make his way inside and... lightly, gently, hug the poor girl.]

I'm sorry... I'm so sorry.
runners_low: (Rather be left alone)

[personal profile] runners_low 2013-08-01 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Suddenly, Felicita gets angry.]

You're a goddess, right? Do something! You have power, right... Why can't you... why always... me...

[But the fire is extinguished quickly by a new wave of tears.]
runners_low: (Shameful display)

[personal profile] runners_low 2013-08-01 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Why did it... why always me...

[Her words are interrupted by sobbing.]
runners_low: (Rather be left alone)

[personal profile] runners_low 2013-08-01 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
It's... it's...

[Felicita feels so weak and vulnerable to the touch. This time more so than even before.]

Just... why...
paladin_robot: (Shocked)

[personal profile] paladin_robot 2013-08-01 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know. I'm sorry, I just don't know.

[Richard had seen the blueprints... So that gives him some idea, but its suspicions more than anything else.]

Just... let it all out, okay?
alwaysmyturn: (You're gonna make me cry too)

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[personal profile] alwaysmyturn 2013-08-01 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Although she's hurt by all this powerlessness, Neptune isn't angry at all.]

...You know, having power doesn't mean all your problems just go away. I mean, I've got plenty too, and there are things even -I- can't stop.

You're right though...
purple_energy: (Worried)

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[personal profile] purple_energy 2013-08-01 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[One quick transform later...]

There is something I should do.

[The goddess suddenly wraps her arms around Felicita in a warm embrace - certainly much warmer than if she did it in her regular form. It's her way of letting her know that she's here for her, at least.]

I'm sorry...let out as much as you need to.
runners_low: (Shameful display)

[personal profile] runners_low 2013-08-01 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
A... aaah! Why... always me?

I hate the world! I hate... it...
runners_low: (Shameful display)

[personal profile] runners_low 2013-08-01 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It's all over now... Mother...

Why is the world so cruel?!

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