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[baedalites]

Who: EVERYONE.
What: Swap meet.
Where: The Apache and surrounding environs.
When: Sukkardi the 14th of Haneden
Notes:

• Swap Meet Spreadsheet: Pre-chosen swaps are green. Assigned are blue. There were a few characters that were selected more than once, so objects were assigned on a first-come first-serve basis. If you have any issues or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the mod team.
• For objects that might not be immediately apparent as belonging to their owners, there may be a picture or name attached, or players are welcome to have their characters ~just know~ it's for them. Drr drr drr, bb.
• Party post nights are a great time to come join the chatroom.
• The topic threads are just suggestions; if you've got somewhere else that your characters simply must be, make your own thread.

Warnings: None yet. Please put warnings up on individual threads.

The Apache is much the same as it always is: dimly lit, with the jukebox playing in the background, and the bartender serving whatever's on tap.

Comments

[satrinah]

Receiving a photograph makes the process of finding its intended owner a lot easier. Lyla isn't particularly hesitant in approaching Laura (they have a similar enough appearance that frankly she's kind of relieved someone normal is here...and then considers her own standards for "normal", ruefully), but she's not abrupt, either. She can sense when someone else is not a person you'd want to try to surprise, mostly because Lyla herself is the exact same way.

"Hey," she says, "I think I got yours."

She holds out the photo.

"Is that your sister?"

[23rd]

Laura's head turns. She remembers Lyla from the monster flood -- her primary impression being good fighter. Like me. Teen goth berserkers: not actually that common in Baedal.

Her gaze goes towards the photo and her expression -- shifts. She's always a little hard to read, but sorrow is pretty recognisable on anyone.

"That is my mother." And her aunt. The family resemblance is mostly coincidental -- Laura does have a bit of Kinney genetics in her, Sarah filled a couple small gaps with her own, but she was created mostly from Weapon X's. It just so happens that the Kinney family has colouring similar to hers -- fair skin, dark hair, green eyes.

This is not her photo; she's never seen it before. It must be Debbie's. Or maybe Sarah's belongings are all in a storage locker somewhere, where strangers picked through them, took whatever was valuable. She really doesn't know.

She takes the photo and stares at it for a long time.

[satrinah]

Mothers are a complicated subject for almost everybody, but especially when you yourself are young and have lost yours. Lyla's got two, and the human one wasn't a lot to brag about, but at least she tried. The other one, the newer one, well--

Lyla doesn't think about her on purpose. The liquor helps block out all thoughts of Lilith and her damnable agenda. Instead, she watches Laura, teeth catching her lower lip for a second and then releasing. She feels like she should say something else.

"She's pretty," she says, after letting that second stretch out a while.

[23rd]

"She was." The past tense is all that's really needed, there.

Well, not all, but she was until I stabbed her to death is not. Really something Laura shares without prompting.

After a moment of looking at it -- so strange to see her mother so young, although Sarah Kinney was young when she had her, but in the photo, she's Laura's age, maybe younger -- she finally pockets it. Or rather, puts it somewhere on her person, as there's not a lot of fabric currently covering her. "I don't understand their criteria for choosing items."

This photo, after all, is not hers. It's not something she needs. She knows what her mother looks like, already has a picture of her; she doesn't require another reminder. But maybe it's not about Sarah; maybe it's about Debbie, for once.