celebrityskinned: (Basic - Examine)
Venus Dee Milo ([personal profile] celebrityskinned) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2014-10-07 06:18 pm

In Every Atom, Broken, Is a Name [OPEN]

WHO| Venus Dee Milo and open
WHAT| Venus shows people where the blind spots are.
WHERE| The corner of Castor and Juvenal.
WHEN| After Lonestar's post.
WARNINGS| Likely some mentions of torture and suicide.

Venus does the perfect approximation of just lounging at a bus stop, playing on her network device and checking her receipt for all the things she bought at the jewelry store. Capitol citizens passing by pay her no mind, except to sneer at the brand across her cheek. She knows she should be wearing it like a badge, but no amount of conviction seems able to stop her wincing every time that look of disgust crosses someone's face.

She feels strangely detached, as if she's spent all of her energy either in berating herself for her laundry list of recent mistakes or in acting like they haven't brought her down. She knows that there's chaos around her, and yet she feels like the shrapnel and debris in the air misses her, that the wind doesn't touch her. She knows that she should feel the hum in the earth as the water behind the dam reaches a breaking point, and yet there's nothing. Nothing but the sun beating on her face, her scarred, ugly face.

She's accomplished nothing here. Even Wyatt and Maximus' safety was incidental to anything she did. She has a fistful of locations where someone, anyone might go forth and make fire with a spark that she's to dim to light.

She sits there, browsing some tabloid on her device, and she waits.
a_minute_younger: (huh)

[personal profile] a_minute_younger 2014-11-13 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Gary honestly wasn't expecting that to work and looks understandably surprised that it has. "Uh--damn, I dunno." He makes an absent gesture, simultaneously ushering Venus onward and waving his indecision away. "I'll know when we get there. That's half the fun, isn't it?"
a_minute_younger: (neutral smile)

fade and handwave from here? (unless you want to play out their idle sightseeing)

[personal profile] a_minute_younger 2014-11-18 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"Probably," Gary shrugs with a lazy smile. "I don't usually stop to smell the roses unless I've got someone to tell how good they smell, you know? We can give it another go."