[OPEN] Who put me in your way to find?

[hadnoright]

Who: Daisy Tonner (hadnoright) & you!
What: Catch-All for Daisy
When: August
Where: The forest, the hot springs, downtown, etc.
Warnings: Violence, animal death/hunting, intrusive thoughts, nudity, others added as needed



1. What right had you not to let me die? [the forest]

Those who travel out into the forest during the day may find themselves running into a short, relatively petite human-looking woman bodily slamming into a deer or boar that's almost as big as she is. The creature hits the ground with surprising force and when the woman rises, it's whilst wiping the blood from her mouth and rolling her shoulders.

Most of the time, she already knows someone's there before they say a word. So, the animal-like energy to her posture melts away like it was never there at all and she turns toward her audience and says something like, "Don't mind me. Working."

Unless, that is, you've managed to actually sneak up on her. It's not an easy thing to do, but when she's in the heat of a Hunt tunnel vision can take its hold and it's in those moments where a sudden noise might make the Hunter's gaze snap towards it like a beast startled. And it's in those moments where Daisy is most distinctly inhuman, the odd yellow eyes and the teeth and the animal way she holds herself.

And it's in those moments that it takes all of Daisy's restraint not to give into the sound of blood pounding in her ears, telling her to attack. With a growl, she shakes her head and takes a step back. "Jesus fucking christ. Don't sneak around!"

2. Ooh but did I even know what I was asking for? [hot springs]

She doesn't get aches and pains like most people in her profession would after a while, but that doesn't mean the hot springs aren't relaxing in their own right. So, occasionally Daisy makes the trip up to the springs, strips down and slips into the water with zero modesty nor shame about the nudity.

There are scars all over her body, many in places that should've killed her if she hadn't already been long on the way to inhumanity by the time she took the damage that caused them. The biggest, a starburst-like scar marring the back of her shoulder, is only visible if you're looking when she sits up.

3. If I had my way, I'd have missed you more [downtown]

There is a large blonde wolf lying in the yard of Daisy and Erin's house. The wolf may appear at first glance to be asleep, but in reality if you look closer she's a little too visibly tuned into her surroundings for that. Still, she is relaxing. Sunbathing, even.

Occasionally, a Mawhile appears from another part of the garden to try and bite her tail. She seems completely unfazed by this.

Wildcard

Hit me up to plot something or just throw something at me.

Comments

[not_the_last]

She shakes her head. "And is there any way at all to oppose them?"

[hadnoright]

Another snort. "No. Or— not really. You can screw up their rituals. Stop individual Avatars. But you can't— defy the Fears. Not once you're caught in their web. Not without consequences. That's why I was starving, before."

[not_the_last]

Another long pause.

Low, subdued: "I'm more glad than I knew, then, that you didn't have to go back."

[hadnoright]

Daisy considers possible responses for a moment, before all she ultimately says is, "Yeah?"

[not_the_last]

Her gaze flicks up to Daisy's face, as though trying to read there any more expression than there is to be had from her voice.

There isn't much more expression in her own, when she answers. "Possibly I presume too far, to say so. I don't know how the prospect of returning seems to you."

[hadnoright]

Daisy snorts. "Oh I don't want to go back. Never have. Didn't think you were 'presuming' anything."

[not_the_last]

"Well then," she says. "Yes."

It's hard to articulate I would feel responsible. Especially since if Daisy had been returned to her own world, there'd be no way Cassandra could possibly know.

[hadnoright]

Daisy considers for a moment, then, bluntly, "You're doing that thing where you're only saying maybe half of what you're thinking."

[not_the_last]

Cassandra looks startled, then wry. "My apologies. It's a habit of very long standing."

A pause.

"Is there a particular thing you'd like me to say more on?"

[hadnoright]

Daisy shrugs a shoulder. "What context you imagined going back being a concern in, for one."

[not_the_last]

"Only that ... I knew many people on the ship found even those circumstances to be preferable to returning to their own worlds. I was aware, vaguely, that you might have reason to be one of them."

A pause, as they walk a little further.

"I still don't remember exactly how things fell out at the end. But when I found myself back in my own world, I worried that that might have been others' fate as well."

Two more paces.

"I will admit, in the interests of forthrightness, that you weren't my greatest concern."

[hadnoright]

Daisy snorts. "Yeah, not a surprise. Did try to kill you."

Fair's fair, after that. Daisy worried less about people for far worse reasons.

"Surprised you went home. All that talk back there..." she really did think it was impossible, even if she had wanted to go back. Which as established, she didn't.

[not_the_last]

"I have no idea how it happened. Either we did something that shouldn't have been possible, or ..." She shrugs. "Or it was never impossible to begin with, and those who said it was were either lying or mistaken."

[hadnoright]

"Wouldn't be surprised. That skeleton always was full of shit." And Daisy never exactly made a secret of how much she still resented him and the big guy in charge right 'til the end. "And, well. Sounds like the idea here's people go home. If they want to. Rule's either changed. Or didn't exist."

[not_the_last]

"So it would seem."

A pause; then, almost reluctantly --

"I did wonder, sometimes, why the Captain never tried telling people that they could return home if they wished. If they only cooperated."

[hadnoright]

"'Cause he didn't want people to 'cooperate'. People fighting back made it fun for him. And he never wanted to let anyone go. So what use would us cooperative prisoners be?"

It's an undoubtedly biased perspective, Daisy has a worse view of the Captain than even most of team mutiny ever did, but that doesn't make her believe it any less.

[not_the_last]

"If what he wanted was suffering ... well." She shrugs. "It hardly matters now. We're here, and he's not."

[hadnoright]

"And thank god for that."

She doesn't really care if he survived or not, if he's out there living his life with his skeleton boyfriend that's fine so long as he's not here.