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Travis Touchdown ([personal profile] rank1) wrote in [community profile] returnjourneynet2022-03-12 11:59 am

#8

[The recording flickers on to the ground, and the toes of red and white skater shoes, flanked by the tattered hems of a pair of jeans. The camera sways, the recorder's attention elsewhere, and there's a peek at a pair of sleek stiletto high heels on a woman's feet. Off-screen, Travis sniggers –– he just can't help it. When he speaks, he's thoroughly self-satisfied:]

Play nice, okay?

[When the camera is finally pulled up, it drags along a pair of long, stockinged legs until it's fixed on a beautiful young woman with long blonde hair. Rouged cheeks, long lashes, the whole package –– she pouts for the camera like a pro. She's wearing a blouse with bishop sleeves and what would normally be a pussybow collar, but it's worn open to the ribs, low enough to reveal the gore of her bra. (It might be a little familiar.)

She is flesh and blood and bone. No foam to be found here.]


What do you think of the ship so far, Sylvia? Sweet digs, right?

[Sylvia tosses her hair over her shoulder, rolling her eyes. When she speaks, it’s with a French accent and an attitude.]

It is a prison. I’ve seen worse. One of you had better be a trained manicurist!

[Travis scoffs and wheels the camera around so he's in the shot, too. He reaches an arm out to her. She checks her nails and sighs before stepping under Travis’s arm, wrapping her own around him and resting her head against his chest. She pouts, turning big doe eyes up at him.]

At least I have you, darling. You’ll protect me, right?

[Travis's eyes widen briefly, but he doubles down to declare:]

Of course, baby. Best ten tickets I ever spent.

[Yes, this is the most obnoxious video the network will ever have. Fortunately, it is over: the feed cuts off there. Just be glad Travis isn't into PDA.




And no, Travis has not become a VFX specialist. Sylvia, a flesh and blood human being who is totally not someone else, can be found with Travis around the ship. Maybe you'll catch them eating lunch together with food taken from the mess hall, with Travis waving down anyone who shows even a glimmer of interest to introduce his wife. Maybe you've stepped into the observatory and found them on a weird little "date", arguing about the multiverse –– Travis seems to approach the subject from a purely sci-fantasy approach, while Sylvia's take is more grounded in reality. Or you've just stepped into the gym, and here's Sylvia bored as Travis lifts increasingly heavy things in an attempt to impress her. Or just around!! You do you!! In-person meetings may happen before the network post because William is gonna come down on Travis' ass ASAP after this post.]
goty: confus.  happy. (going for myself)

audio.

[personal profile] goty 2022-03-12 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ellie has read books about the internet. She's always wanted to try it, and once she's good to go on the Peregrine, she opened the network with excitement. What will she find, in a world where people can transmit anything, highlight their thoughts and broadcast them?]

[She finds whatever this is.]


...What the fuck?
shiftedshape: (Sylvia)

video | travistouchdowncrownlessking

[personal profile] shiftedshape 2022-03-12 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sylvia takes Travis' device and sneers into it.]

A lady shouldn't curse. It's fucking rude.
goty: joke. (i know the shame)

video foreverrrr (and her un is @ellieee i forgot).

[personal profile] goty 2022-03-12 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Fuck you. [Is the instinctual response. She frowns.] Aren't you, like, cold?
shiftedshape: (Sylvia)

[personal profile] shiftedshape 2022-03-12 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sylvia rolls her eyes, then flips her hair over her shoulder again.]

How could I be, when I'm this hot?
shiftedshape: (Sylvia)

[personal profile] shiftedshape 2022-03-12 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
This conversation is absolutely inane and he hasn't the slightest idea how it started, and yet Loki's irritated enough that he keeps slipping into his own accent. Not that anyone's around, of course, but, well. He had been sort of enjoying the escapism of getting waited on. That's just starting to fade the more Travis speaks.

"I still say it's safer to leave robots out of it. If people can make them into murder machines, they can make them into theft machines just as easily." She smirks, leaning back on her hands as she decides to prod him a little. "Not that you have any money to steal, here. Or shopping to do."
goty: happy. joke. (ain't found the right thing)

[personal profile] goty 2022-03-12 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ellie's sneer is only so pronounced because, undeniably, this girl is very hot.]

Whatever.
shiftedshape: (Sylvia)

[personal profile] shiftedshape 2022-03-12 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Loki hasn't met this woman yet and is. Aware this isn't a great impression to make on her, if he gets found out. But also...look at her face.]

Do we have a problem?
shiftedshape: (Sylvia)

[personal profile] shiftedshape 2022-03-12 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Sylvia coos but somehow manage to make it sound sarcastic, "You always take such good care of me."

He should probably be discouraging, uh, killing people for money, but then again that isn't inherently a bad thing, right? Loki can't judge without context. He thinks. This is a moral question to ask the other wardens when he's wearing something less revealing.

"In my experience, humanity is always more concerned with itself than anything else." He likely wouldn't have gotten so far with New York if anyone other than SHIELD had any awareness of life beyond Midgard. "They'd probably put a little team together. One for each country, or something. Then those teams would probably end up fighting each other more than the robots."
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a few hours before this post goes up? | Observatory

[personal profile] smugreport 2022-03-12 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Luckily for literally everyone on this ship Rhys has been too pre-occupied with other going-ons this past week and a half to pick another pointless fight with Travis. Unfortunately, his attention is back on him now as he passes the observatory, peers in, and sees that the freaky foam woman Travis has been sitting across from him during meals is uhhhh...she's moving? She's talking??? ]

What.

[ He doesn't make a B line for them when he walks into the Observatory proper, but he doesn't make his presence especially subtle either, sitting only a few seats a way and glancing back and forth between the two of them as he tries to puzzle out what's going on. And though there's no reason to think it'll start working now, after a second of that he boots up his echo eye to try and get a scan. ]
shiftedshape: (Sylvia)

[personal profile] shiftedshape 2022-03-12 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Loki's so involved in this particular debate that he's not bothering to moderate his language in the slightest, which is, well. Maybe a little strange coming out in Sylvia's voice.]

You're assuming it has to be one or the other. Perhaps one parallel universe, starting from the same source, has multiple timelines, and those timelines can intersect with other universes', leading to further timelines...It would better explain how many versions of Earth there seem to be if it's both.
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[personal profile] smugreport 2022-03-12 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The echo eye boots up, and as per usual it lacks the majority of information. REDACTED and ERRORS and ACCESS DENIED popping up all over the HUD. There is something unusual though, foam wife turned real lady keeps getting a strange static effect over her person, a glitch Rhys hadn't really encountered before. Not since...no his system was clean, this was unrelated to Jack.

He shakes his head hard, taps at his port the way you would a TV struggling to get signal, and tries again. ]
shiftedshape: (Sylvia)

[personal profile] shiftedshape 2022-03-12 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Why does there need to be a point? I've gotten caught up in that too. Seeking purpose. But it's really up to us to decide on a purpose, in the end.

[Sylvia combs a hand through her hair, though the gesture looks foreign on her, too harsh.]

I've met two versions of Barnes already. Identical in many ways but still noticeably different. Not to mention the double of him that was literally a different person. There's probably a double of you on another ship, somewhere.
sanctus_dei: (010)

action;

[personal profile] sanctus_dei 2022-03-13 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Just another day, right? Just another day whiling away time puttering around the Peregrine. Just another day of the same diet from the mess hall, which Theo is entering now, but stops dead as Travis and Sylvia are leaving with their own food.

He has no idea what to make of this.]


I-- What?

[That's the foam lady. Foam lady is now real lady. How is this happening.]

How many tickets did this cost?
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[personal profile] smugreport 2022-03-13 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ Whatever conversation is happening between them right now, Rhys isn't listening to it, too focused on whatever is happening with his scan function right now and just...the everything about this situation.

When he tries again he's met with the same results: fuzzy static, some texture popping, a weird lag. Shit, it better not be broken. ]
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[personal profile] smugreport 2022-03-13 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ Rhys jumps at the sudden turn, letting out an undignified and startled "augh!" before he shakes his head, blinking rapidly as he shoos the HUD back into rest mode. ]

I'm not- no one is creeping here. Except how...creepy- weird this situation is. Cause it is weird.
shiftedshape: (Sylvia)

[personal profile] shiftedshape 2022-03-13 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
How rude! Calling me a this.

[Sylvia glares, crossing her arms.]

I cost more tickets than you can afford, I'm sure.
shiftedshape: (Sylvia)

[personal profile] shiftedshape 2022-03-13 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh shit he hadn't noticed Rhys at all. Stupid, getting caught up in a debate that doesn't matter.

Sylvia turns, instantly offended and back to her "correct" accent.]


Oh, so a date between a wife and her husband is weird, is it? But hiding out to spy on the date is normal?
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