hadriel_logs | Event Log: A Hope for the Future

Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for the A Hope for the Future event
Where: All over the city!
When: April 15th-April 19th
Warnings: Stealth Rock

It's finally time to reap the rewards you've earned from all that hard work collecting and returning the Hope orbs! Be careful walking the streets during the small earthquakes, but feel free to admire the scenery as your beautiful city reassembles its way back into its former glory.

There are new houses where the destroyed buildings once were, and they're perfect for a single person or pair of lovebirds. In addition, you'll find that the electricity to these new houses, and all other homes and shops in the city is restored. The food is better, the monsters are gone- hey, this city might be livable again!

To cap it all off, we've got a feast waiting for you on the 19th! Come one, come all, and enjoy all of your favorite foods, drinks, and party games. It's been awhile since we've all gotten together to celebrate something good, so get your party on and toss all your troubles away!

► This log covers April 14th-April 19th.
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[ Come on, Carolina, it's safe. Everybody's fine, see? Drake doesn't give her a hard time, though, just smiles gently and waits for her to take a cookie before setting the plate back down. Feel special he shared, he's probably never getting these again. ]

Yeah, I did. Tastes like home.

[ He hesitates a little, smile faltering as he realizes she most likely doesn't know that. Maybe she does? It's not like he knows how much they've talked amongst themselves about people here. About him. ]

Did Tucker tell you....?

[ ...actually, this probably isn't the best time. ]

[A sniff is given, before she crunches into it, biting off a small piece of it. Not bad, but she can't say it has any warm or fuzzy feelings for her. Whatever cookies she ate growing up had been from boxes. Even as she is chewing, her face turns towards him, before swallowing quickly.]

Did Tucker tell me what?

[It's that tone that brokers no debate, and her full attention is bearing down on him completely now. Because it's pretty clear that whatever Tucker knows, he hasn't shared with her.]

[ Shit. He shouldn't have said that, now she's focused in on it like a laser. Carolina's proving to be... intense. At least if she's gonna flip out about this it's unlikely she'll do so in public? ]

I uh. Want to follow you guys home.

[Intense may as well be her middle name when it came down to it, and really, she has no qualms about where she is. Thankfully she's not exactly flipping out. Yet.

Judging by her expression, it takes her a moment to piece together what it is that he is saying. Why would he want to come to the place where they're all residing? It's not like it's anything special, just six rooms-

But that's not what he's talking about, is it?]

... why?

[That question leaves her mouth before she really has time to think about it. Those green eyes remain on him, brow furrowed, before pieces slowly start to clink in to place.]

Him?

[ Yeah, he means home, as in their world after Hadriel. His situation is a little complicated, but hopefully nothing that can't be worked out at whatever point they're able to leave. He's pretty much made the choice already, committed to it as much as is realistic right now. Unless something pretty dramatic happens... he's in. But of the Blues he's only talked to Tucker so far. ]

Yeah. In theory we could just stay here forever, but. The idea is that once they figure out how the Door works to get it open, it'd be an option.

[ Ephemera's decision to go back is pretty personal, something Drake was willing to explain to Tucker because the other man was the catalyst but probably isn't his place to tell Carolina. Still, he can explain a little more of his end. Since he's following, and now trying to form some kind of relationship with the others from that world. ]

I'm dead back home, so it's not a sacrifice. I'd only gain something, like I have here. Even if we can't change the timeline.

[It isn't really something that she has thought about, others using the Door to go to different places. Her going back makes sense, as that is where she is from. She assumes most people would just desire to return to where ever they came from, what they were familiar with, not some other strange universe.

In a way, Carolina isn't entirely certain why they don't stay here. Given his fate... It does make a little more sense. Although, she also knows that there are reasons that their universe is better.

She does pause, rolling his words over, wondering. It isn't her life, and it isn't any of her business, really, yet she does question.]

If you're dead... Are you certain you wouldn't be when you walk through the Door?

No, I'm not certain. It could be the only reason I exist at all is Hope's magic, and they can't send me anywhere. Maybe it's here or nothing. But the point is we don't really know either way and he wants to go back to help... and I want to be with him, so.

[ Drake shrugs a little. She's not shutting it down or shutting him out, that's something. However unrealistic an idea it may be. Carolina herself is alive, but he knows she's lost plenty of people important to her. Maybe she can understand needing to hold on to whatever chance there is he could keep what he has. ]

I know it sounds crazy, but thanks for not saying so.

[Go back to help, with what exactly though? It's not like he had accepted her offers to stop before. Carolina knows well enough what had driven him. She had been there, standing with her gun cocked, ready to push herself over that edge for her own vengeance.

Likely they have spoken about it, about what that means, and it had better mean something good. After all, Carolina and her team are there, and while she isn't going to go seeking out a fight, she will protect.]

You know then, some of what lays ahead.

[Wash, perhaps? Or Tucker... There would be little story out of Caboose, or at least not one that would make sense, and Epsilon? She can internally snort at that.

That small shrug of her shoulders, eyes pinning him for a moment, before turning away, leaving him in the peripheral. She does know loss. Knows it over and over and over.]

It's your life to do with as you please, so long as no one gets hurt.

I knew before he did, actually. Wash told me, when he showed up and they... it was messy. He's always been different with me, but was a lot more like the person you remember from home, back then. It took awhile to really get through.

[ There was even a point where Drake had thought about giving up. He hadn't, it had just been a close thing. He was glad he hadn't, that he'd been so stubborn, that things had changed. And he'd been scared when Carolina showed up that they'd go through it all over again, but... they hadn't. Everything they'd worked on had held. ]

He doesn't want to hurt you guys anymore. You've got no reason to believe me, it'll just take time to prove it, but he isn't who you knew. It'll probably always be complicated, but Sharkface was just a persona made from grief he couldn't process until now. If he goes back to that moment, he'll stop the fight. I know it.

Everybody's said you guys had no choice, and that you didn't want to do it, so. I've gotta believe it'll be okay.

[The simple fact of the matter is that Carolina has no reason to fight him, unless he had tried something. Going after any of the people that she cares about would mean that she would defend them, but a defensive position is all that she will have taken. She might still be a soldier, but she doesn't need to be on the offensive. Not that she would let her guard down and sing campfire songs with him, but it's not like she's got it out for him.]

It just takes the right person, or group of people.

[That much she knows first hand. Without Epsilon, Wash, the Blues, and even the Reds, she wouldn't be the person that she is right now. If anything, she likely would have ended up like him, fighting to the last breath, unwilling to listen to any form of reason.]

Event Log: A Hope for the Future

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