Patch has no idea what's going on. She's spoken with a lot of people who've been shot, who have died on the operating table for seconds or minutes. Some of them talk of light, or a feeling of floating, of white noise and loved ones and familiar smells. No one has ever talked about a broken down bio-dome looking thing on a weird red planet. Still, what is she going to do? Just sit here, frozen in her inactivity? So she grabs a phone, suspends her disbelief, and goes exploring.
option A - BOT PARTY It's the explosions that send her running, gun drawn and held down by her thigh. The sight that greets her, all right, that's just fucking weird. So fucking weird. She's pretty sure that shooting a robot full of fireworks is a truly horrible idea, so she holsters her weapon.
Maybe she should just leave it alone? The thought isn't even fully formed in her mind before a small sparkling rocket flies past her, just inches from her ear. So much for that. "Hey. Hi. Hello." Most of these robots seem to be interacting with people. So maybe this one is meant to, too? She waves her arms, trying to get its attention. "Can you see what's around you? Do you know that you're shooting fireworks at people?" Can it even understand her, or is she just the crazy lady trying to talk to a VCR full of dynamite? "Where is your user manual?"
option B - LIFE SIGNS IN THE WASTELAND Patch is going to be just as dead if the dome shatters and she's lying in her bed as she will be if she's watching it happen. So she elects to watch. It's terrifying, and kind of beautiful. Mostly terrifying. Then again, she got shot in the heart yesterday, so everything is a little on its head.
The alarms start later, and the intensity of the meteorite shower hasn't changed. So that's odd. Did they only now just kick on? Or is it something else? Which is about when she sees the red. Oh. Right. Awesome.
She's sensible, and she doesn't particularly want to die again, and she's ready to wait it out inside the relative safety of the dome. Until she sees the beacons with life signs. Someone is out there. Someone who might need help. Which makes the choice for her, really, and she's suiting up and preparing to go investigate without a second thought.
option D - SHADOWS OF THE PAST It becomes pretty clear to Patch very early on that no matter what she does, she can't actually change the outcome of whatever happened to these people. The smoking crater in the wall that she now realizes used to be a young man who barely looked old enough to shave, that's a pretty sobering reality to accept. It doesn't necessarily mean that this situation can't do some good.
When another soldier runs up to her, this one almost solid, talking about quarantine, Patch plays along. "I'm new here. I don't know where quarantine is. Can you show me? Show me where we have to take the children to keep them safe. Show me where the attack is coming from." Show her anything you can, please, before you vanish or die in your own time. She's just trying to gather any information that she can, and anyone along the way who looks like they might be useful will get roped in, whether they're solid or not.
option ! - WILDCARD If you have something else in mind, go for it. Once she has housing assigned, she could have interactions with roommates or floor-mates.
NOTE: I don't personally like writing with brackets for anything involved, so while I won't switch to match styles if that's the way you write, I don't mind if our styles don't match.
Eudora Patch | The Umbrella Academy | ota
option A - BOT PARTY
It's the explosions that send her running, gun drawn and held down by her thigh. The sight that greets her, all right, that's just fucking weird. So fucking weird. She's pretty sure that shooting a robot full of fireworks is a truly horrible idea, so she holsters her weapon.
Maybe she should just leave it alone? The thought isn't even fully formed in her mind before a small sparkling rocket flies past her, just inches from her ear. So much for that. "Hey. Hi. Hello." Most of these robots seem to be interacting with people. So maybe this one is meant to, too? She waves her arms, trying to get its attention. "Can you see what's around you? Do you know that you're shooting fireworks at people?" Can it even understand her, or is she just the crazy lady trying to talk to a VCR full of dynamite? "Where is your user manual?"
option B - LIFE SIGNS IN THE WASTELAND
Patch is going to be just as dead if the dome shatters and she's lying in her bed as she will be if she's watching it happen. So she elects to watch. It's terrifying, and kind of beautiful. Mostly terrifying. Then again, she got shot in the heart yesterday, so everything is a little on its head.
The alarms start later, and the intensity of the meteorite shower hasn't changed. So that's odd. Did they only now just kick on? Or is it something else? Which is about when she sees the red. Oh. Right. Awesome.
She's sensible, and she doesn't particularly want to die again, and she's ready to wait it out inside the relative safety of the dome. Until she sees the beacons with life signs. Someone is out there. Someone who might need help. Which makes the choice for her, really, and she's suiting up and preparing to go investigate without a second thought.
option D - SHADOWS OF THE PAST
It becomes pretty clear to Patch very early on that no matter what she does, she can't actually change the outcome of whatever happened to these people. The smoking crater in the wall that she now realizes used to be a young man who barely looked old enough to shave, that's a pretty sobering reality to accept. It doesn't necessarily mean that this situation can't do some good.
When another soldier runs up to her, this one almost solid, talking about quarantine, Patch plays along. "I'm new here. I don't know where quarantine is. Can you show me? Show me where we have to take the children to keep them safe. Show me where the attack is coming from." Show her anything you can, please, before you vanish or die in your own time. She's just trying to gather any information that she can, and anyone along the way who looks like they might be useful will get roped in, whether they're solid or not.
option ! - WILDCARD
If you have something else in mind, go for it. Once she has housing assigned, she could have interactions with roommates or floor-mates.
NOTE: I don't personally like writing with brackets for anything involved, so while I won't switch to match styles if that's the way you write, I don't mind if our styles don't match.