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Omar Little ([personal profile] omar) wrote2015-06-29 09:44 pm

13: Spam: Man got to live what he know.

[Open spam]

[Omar is a roamer. As long as he's not forced to stay in his cabin -- in his cell, comfortable as it may be -- he spends very little time there. He's just as likely to sleep in an empty cabin, or even once or twice in the Enclosure. He keeps bizarre hours, and he keeps them largely to himself.

None of this is new. This is how he's been since he got here the first time. Since his last death toll, though, he's become even more erratic in his efforts to stay unpredictable, and the recent spate of unwarranted brutality has him feeling especially restless. He can be chanced upon at all kinds of odd times and places: at the library early in the morning, in the showers and the laundry room around noon, eating in the dining hall in the late afternoon. In the evening, smoking up on the deck with so many of his fellow passengers, because it's not actually that he's antisocial -- just very, very careful.

Careful enough that he takes data, and so some of the newer passengers may or may not be surprised to glimpse him out of the corner of their eyes every now and again. Maybe even writing something down.]


[Spam for Cold and Dark]

[But there's a predictability even in unpredictability, and he does from time to time spend the night in his cabin, if only to keep up the illusion that he does so much more often. It might take a more careful observer a while to figure out when he's likely to return, but the time comes around eventually.

It's late in the evening, but he's been up for the last 36 hours, and he's tired -- and therefore both baffled and a little annoyed to hear a knock on the door right when he's about to lay his head down.]


Man, who is it?

[Edit: Voice to Ricki, post-Tiffany spam]

You know what? I remember a time this place didn't feel like a cross between a day care and a circus.

[Edit: Spam for Luna, post-pairings announcement]

[Omar's been playing the warden shuffle for a while now. At best, it's been ineffective -- the closest thing he's gotten to a decent temporary warden, in Horatio, got ripped away from him halfway through the month. At worst, it's been disastrous. So he's not inclined to pay much mind to the announcement, not anymore. He goes about his day. Let Luna Lovegood come to him, if she likes.]
chillestrogue: (I love what I do)

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[personal profile] chillestrogue 2015-06-30 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
[around the corner, Cold had instructed Dark to wait until he lured Omar out of the room. He hadn't had a ton of interaction with the man, and while he spent most of his time observing what he could over the communicators, the man was still an enigma. So this first recon mission was a bit of a gamble on his part.]

Just someone looking for a match. Got a light?

[if only Mick were here]
tucky: (in the old days of about ten minutes ago)

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[personal profile] tucky 2015-06-30 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Tiffany - sitting on the deck floor - watches him for a minute or two before piping up.]

You got any more of those?
chillestrogue: (cold hearted)

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[personal profile] chillestrogue 2015-06-30 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
The name's Cold.

[And Omar's not the only one wishing he still had his gun]

Do you have a light or not? You're the fifth door I've knocked on tonight, it's starting to get a little ironic around here.
chillestrogue: (any of you got bail money to lend)

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[personal profile] chillestrogue 2015-06-30 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Ironic in the Alanis Morrisette sense that I've got a handful of cigarettes and can't do a thing with them except roll them around in my hand.
tucky: (pay attention to the word of God)

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[personal profile] tucky 2015-06-30 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks.

[She slides one out and lights up.]

Oh yeah, and I'm Tiffany.

[She's assuming that he forgot her name.]
kissthatgoodbye: (Grin)

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[personal profile] kissthatgoodbye 2015-06-30 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Alec is another passenger that can fall into the paranoid category; he's also one that has a lot of experience not showing said paranoia. His door is a dead giveaway for anyone that's paying any amount of attention, and there's nothing he can do about that, like he can't do anything about so much else. The first few nights he manages to keep himself inside it anyway despite that he doesn't sleep.

After that he slips back out and prowls the ship and sometimes he returns and sometimes he doesn't. He learns very quickly, though, that he's not alone in that either.

The first time he almost catches sight of Omar, that's one thing; the second time he is dead certain it is not a coincidence despite the fact a day has passed in between. He doesn't react either time, but he doesn't forget either.

The third time, seated comfortably in the laundry room, slumped down low enough in one of four pockets of machines that means he can't be seen before anyone else enters the room, a magazine propped up on his stomach and someone else's laundry cycling away beside him, he looks him right in the eye and smiles.
]
chillestrogue: (grr motherfucker)

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[personal profile] chillestrogue 2015-06-30 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
That's the point. A song called Ironic has nothing ironic in it.

Look, just give me a yes or a no, and I'll be on my way.
tucky: (this is the strangest debate format)

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[personal profile] tucky 2015-06-30 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

Okay.

[She shrugs, and settles back against the Barge wall.]

It don't freak you out, being out here?
tucky: (it's called Venezuelalization)

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[personal profile] tucky 2015-06-30 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
You used to space at home or something?
tucky: (no names were changed)

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[personal profile] tucky 2015-06-30 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Does anything on the Barge freak you out? You always seem real calm to me.

[Even in Karazhan.]
kissthatgoodbye: (Smirk)

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[personal profile] kissthatgoodbye 2015-06-30 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Hey.

[This is another thing that Manticore taught him, with all its eyes and ears and cameras and every single hand and heart turned against him: the act is so seamless that it may as well be the truth. He always, always assumes someone is watching, and so while his behavior might begin to show itself as somewhat erratic, it is also without exception harmless. He's exploring, familiarizing himself with his surroundings, and he takes nothing, moves nothing, destroys nothing.

He turns a page of his magazine without looking at it, head tilted curiously to follow the path of the room's new occupant. The smile holds.
]

You're in luck: you beat the rush.

[Yeah there is no one else in here.]
Edited (hey hey hey hey hey ) 2015-06-30 03:05 (UTC)
tucky: (I want to decide who lives and who dies)

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[personal profile] tucky 2015-06-30 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
How do you do that?
tucky: (you've been no help at all‚ but thanks)

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[personal profile] tucky 2015-06-30 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
[She takes a drag of her cigarette, thinking.]

... Disappointing people. Getting hurt and seeing people I care about get hurt. Getting an inmate and doing wrong by them.

Lots of things.

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