silberfuchs: (embarrassed concentration)
Albert Heinrich ([personal profile] silberfuchs) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2014-06-28 01:04 am

To the leader, the pariah, the victor, the messiah

Who| District 3 Tributes, Mentors, and anyone else who has cause to be there
What| Mingling in the wake of Cecil's news broadcast
Where| District 3 Suites common area
When| After Cecil's post, all evening
Warnings/Notes| This is a mingle log and will lend itself to threadhopping, which I hope is ok. Mention of depression. Discussion of mass murder and genocide is probably gonna turn up in here. Other warnings/notes as needed.


He's only been awake for a day.

A solid day of doing nothing but sleep and wallowing in a different illness altogether than had infected the Capitol. A solid day of that ugly beast Depression that, in the wake of murdering so many directly in the arena - two he didn't know, Enjolras, Hilda, Gott, he'd killed her... - sits heavy on his chest and doesn't allow him to do much of anything besides visit the lavatory. Frankly, he'd only turned on the news by accident; he'd been attempting to make the windows that overlooked the Capitol below tint darker and cast his entire room in shadow. It was on just in time to catch Cecil's smooth voice over pirated airwaves, a hard edge to his usually flightly and inane cadence.

District 3 was gone.

And dour as he is, suspicious thoughts weave into his mind. He doesn't believe for a moment that this is because of any plague, as bad as tuberculosis is. It couldn't have spread that fast, not with them quarantining themselves like that if Cecil is to be believed (and it's too serious not to believe.) No. This is another message. Because of Ian, because of his own post, because of Eponine's very public tantrum and Starkiller's blackout in the arena, both of which he's heard mention of by now as the tv switches from program to program in the ticking of minutes and his checks on his phone of old network logs. Jessica was made to behave this way before, why wouldn't they think it would work again?

All those people...

He feels sick, but he can't imagine he's the only one, not after this news.

Gathering his wits, Albert mechanically goes through a shower and dresses himself before stepping into the common area, wary of the Capitol microphones and cameras that may be recording them but needing to discuss, needing to find out where everyone else is both literally and emotionally, and needing to help as best he can. A help which starts with copious amounts of tea, not that he imagines it will be terribly calming in this situation, but any port in a storm.

---

When the other tributes come out to the common area, there is a large tray with a steaming pot of tea and mugs enough for everyone that lives in the D3 suites, including those Albert hasn't met personally. The German has placed himself in a chair and looks gaunt and sleepless despite having slept for quite some time, but his eyes are alert and he responds readily to anyone who comes to talk to him, though he's also ready to approach others if it looks like they're going to do something particularly inadvisable.

Of course, it's hard to tell with his stoic face that he may be thinking of the inadvisable himself.
splendid_roman: (Drinking tea)

[personal profile] splendid_roman 2014-07-02 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Probably." Certainly drugging yourself with alcohol had its perks, but also a rather large downside. "It doesn't give you a hangover at least." He had another sip of his tea.
pythianjudgment: ([n] quoi?)

[personal profile] pythianjudgment 2014-07-03 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Neither does sopor. It just does weird things to your head." Like make you lethargically pleasant. Or eat holes in your sanity over time. Who knows.

"Where are you from?" she asks, changing the topic away from both the tragedy and it's coping methods. "You smell human. Are you from some other variation of Earth?"
splendid_roman: (Thinking)

[personal profile] splendid_roman 2014-07-04 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
He nodded, happy to talk about something else and take his mind off what had happened. "We had democracy, in my country at least, but we didn't have this level of technology. We could have done eventually, though," he said confidently.
pythianjudgment: ([d] bluh bluh whatever)

[personal profile] pythianjudgment 2014-07-06 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Please," Terezi responds. She would be rolling her eyes right now if she wasn't blind already. "This level of technology is nothing to shoot for. They can't even go into outer space. That is a cosmic disgrace as far as technology goes."

And she doubts they're going to be making any more break throughs any time soon. Not after murdering their tech workers.
splendid_roman: (Thinking)

[personal profile] splendid_roman 2014-07-07 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
"Perhaps." He wasn't so sure space travel was the be all and end all of technological advancement. "This sort of government tends to lead to technology to achieve the government's goals, rather than what's good for everyone. If they don't want to go into space, or even let anyone leave the country, they're not going to allow rockets and planes to be developed."
pythianjudgment: ([o] shoutpole surprises)

[personal profile] pythianjudgment 2014-07-13 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Are you saying that the point of technological progression is not to advance the species as a whole, but rather to advance the political agenda of the reigning power?" She gasps audibly, pressing a hand to her chest in mock disbelief.

"My world view might have shattered there. I think you owe me a new one."
splendid_roman: (Smiling)

[personal profile] splendid_roman 2014-07-14 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
He chuckled. "Where I'm from a lot of technological progress came from war. There's nothing like wanting better ways of killing people to spur on invention."