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Commander Shepard ([personal profile] femshep) wrote in [community profile] outer_divide2013-09-19 02:18 pm

012 ⌥ VIDEO. re-entry.

[ The camera switches on, turning left and right briefly--she's looking the device over, because if she remembers right, she left hers in the dome and fuck if she'd ever get that back--then it focuses on a face. She looks... like she's seen better days, let's say. Shepard may have left her injuries on the Crucible, but she sure as hell feels like she came out on the wrong end of this one. ]

This is Commander Shepard of the SSV Normandy SR-2. [ But it's flat, a forced formality.

This is the part where she asks if anyone reads her, asks for a status update, asks someone to put her the fuck back in that pod so at least she knows how it ends... No. None of that's going to happen. She settles for a slightly (just slightly) more emphatic:
] Somebody tell me how long I've been out.

[ Because somebody has to recognize her. ....Right?

Some of those who don't might at least recognize the distinct OA-fashioned collar around her neck. Y'know, from back when they were the things that go bump in the night.

Shepard doesn't wait around long after the camera's turned off, though. She's heading for the mouth of the ship to see if that'll give her a good reading...
]
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Video

[personal profile] theverymodel 2013-09-20 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Mordin gives her a curious look. He was vaguely aware of this because of Shepard and Alenko's courtship nonsense, but seeing visible evidence was another matter entirely.]

Shepard. Fascinating.
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Re: Video.

[personal profile] theverymodel 2013-09-20 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Unexpected development.

[This is the first he'd heard of more than one version of the same person showing up]
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[personal profile] theverymodel 2013-09-22 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Thought already here.

[He looks her over]

Hair is different.
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[personal profile] theverymodel 2013-09-23 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Commander Shepard already awake.

[He continues considering her]

Blonde.
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Re: ACTION for kaidan and anyone else who wants to get involved

[personal profile] standsentinel 2013-09-20 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[See what happens when Kaidan stops to take a lengthy lunch break for the sheer enjoyment of company as well as sandwiches? His communicator's off to one side, which means that he's late in hearing this Shepard's hail. Late enough, in fact, that she's already headed off to go see things for herself by the time he can answer her. It's only a few minutes' delay, but it's enough.]

Oh hell. I, ah, can probably manage to talk her down, she should remember me, but...

[The 'halp, backup plz' is naked in his expression as he shares it with the Jane Shepard he'd been having that lunch with, over his shoulder before double-timing it to the way out of the ship.

He arrives to a skidding stop to find a stand-off of sorts in progress. At least this time, there's no Udina involved. Right?]


Shepard! Stand down, c'mon, I know this looks a little suspicious, but I can explain.
Edited 2013-09-20 02:54 (UTC)
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[personal profile] outer_npcs 2013-09-20 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[The man taking point is late thirties, or thereabouts, exact age difficult to pin down in a way that speaks to good genes, and a lifetime of activity.

And possibly gene mods, but that's neither here nor there.

His gun isn't up, but his colleagues' are, a suggestion that whatever this confrontation is, it hasn't just begun.]


Drop the weapon, ma'am, and we'll sort this out.

[It's emphatic, with a slight undercurrent of irritation, and the latter sharpens as his gaze flicks briefly towards Kaidan, trusting to the men and women he works with to cover his back as he assesses this new development.]

She one of yours?

[Meaning from the ship - or, more likely, as that much is obvious, one of the people claiming to be from a reality where alliances were, in a word, shifted.

(In two more words, fucked up.)]
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[personal profile] standsentinel 2013-09-20 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah -- she's from the Ship, but it's... complicated. It's OK, I got this.

[It's Kaidan, but the tone he's taking as he addresses the Authorities, directly, is definitely off from what she's remember. No shouted defiance here, more a tense sort of trust that they will hear him.

Of course, the glimmers of blue light spooling at his fingertips are always a useful way to indicate you plan to be taken seriously. He turns to Shepard, but doesn't take his eyes off the scene as a whole.]


You were in the pods for around eight months, subjective time, but all this [A wave of one hand takes in both the unmasked authorities and the absence of a certain gigantic blue dome.] didn't happen just because of the time passed. Salvation pulled everyone from her back -- and forward -- to different points in Verdana's history, and I don't know if it was a malfunction, sabotage or a cry for help, but the long and short of it is that science fiction is proved right once again, and changing the past changes the future.

[And now he has to hope that a living dead woman who's seen the advance of xenocidal sentient machines and then been pulled to another corner of the multiverse has a little bit more room in her to believe in the impossible.]
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[personal profile] outer_npcs 2013-09-20 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Complicated.

[There's a wealth of no shit in the man's tone, but he gestures Kaidan to be about his business. It serves, apparently, as a signal to the others - two armoured figures pull off, leaving only three remaining. Aside from the spokesperson, they don't put their guns up. Shepard's still armed, still potentially unstable - still, in a word, a threat.

That's nothing personal, either.]
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[personal profile] standsentinel 2013-09-20 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, the Outer Authorities did, but, ah... different 'they'. [It's a small point of fact, but a rather critical one all things considered.

His expression crimps as he gets a better look at the collar she's still wearing, grimly mapping it against his eight months' memory and finding that it's one bit of damage that Salvation's pods apparently can't heal.]


I'm thinking we can do better in terms of removing that, now. Mordin Solus is here, and another guy who's got to be some kind of medical genius to make up for his personality. But in the interests of getting all the existential bullshit dealt with all at once... there's someone you should really meet.

[He remembers the Xaviers Three, so at least there's a little past experience to help straighten things out, but even aside from the world of difference between a Charles and a Jocelyn that two female Shepards just won't share, it's proving exceedingly different when it's personal. His hand drops low in the sort of silent signal that's all too familiar from the field, signalling for a friendly to advance into a cleared zone. He's trusting in that stashed pistol being a good sign.]
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[personal profile] galacticheroine 2013-09-20 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shepard was keeping her distance, letting Kaidan do his thing, because if she'd run up with him she honestly figures it would've just complicated matters even more.

All the same, she's got her gun in hand while she watches the scene unfold, until he signals for her to advance. She moves out into the open, walking up to join Kaidan, sliding her gun back into its holster at her side. She's not in armor--today is one of very few days off-- but she's distinguishable enough as Shepard herself, the same walk, and even the same hoodie, though she's wearing a pair of jeans acquired from one of the local shops, rather than her uniform underneath.

She regards the other Shepard with slightly narrowed eyes, more studying than critical. She's been aware of the 'other' Shepard since her arrival here, but never actually expected to meet her. After a moment she raises her eyebrows, tilting her head to the side]


Commander Shepard? Nice to finally meet you.
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[personal profile] standsentinel 2013-09-21 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, expecting instant recognition probably would've been a bit much, since even with the vast and epic shenanigans revolving around the cloned Shepard, these two don't look nearly enough alike for that to make the assumption automatic.

Kaidan's would-be relaxation at seeing the dark haired Shepard turn her back on the Authorities is disrupted by the sort of steeling usually seen in a man having to peel off dried medi-gel from a former leg wound: one way or another, you're going to be losing hair, so it's best to do it quickly.]


Commander Shepard? Meet... Commander Shepard. This isn't like that clone on the Citadel, I swear.
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[personal profile] galacticheroine 2013-09-22 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Something like that.

[She smiles a little wryly at the other Shepard's question, before Kaidan elaborates on the situation. It's probably better coming from him. She does give him a bit of a look for bringing up the clone, but doesn't say anything, turning her attention back to the brunette Shepard]

You were here before, right? So you should be familiar with how the ship could potentially have people from several different versions of the same universe.
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[personal profile] standsentinel 2013-09-23 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
You're both of you different from my universe's Shepard. She's earthborn, for one, and she's not a biotic for another. Infiltrator, actually.

[Because adding yet more proof of how varied their bit of the multiverse is is... supposed to help? Somehow? Kaidan scrubs his hand at the back of his neck.]

The mutants and the group that Stark's part of seem to be another case of similar-but-different, from what I've seen. The weird thing is that, for us, it seems like the Shepards are the only thing that changes. I mean, you both seem to know me, and Dr. Solus. Liara, Tali, Ash... everyone who's cycled through has been pretty much the same. So, ah, I guess Commander Shepard continues to be unique.

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[personal profile] galacticheroine 2013-09-24 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Shepard frowns slightly as Kaidan points that out. She honestly hadn't thought of it like that, before. But then, she also hadn't realized how different she'd look from the other Shepard. Beyond the hair, at least, which had been pointed out to her several times, now.]

So we're both Shepard, not imitations or substitutions. Or, as the case may be, imposters. [Because there was enough of that in their own universes, already.]
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[personal profile] standsentinel 2013-09-25 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Tali, I never really saw. It was... brief, and the timelines were messed up. Shepard-- Jane Sheperd[The amendment is hurried, as he tries to differentiate between the pair of first human spectres.] --would probably know more than me. Ash was here for a few months, though.

[He falls silent to mull over that, before running ashoal of the fact that there's really not much you can say when someone's gone back to the pods.

Kaidan changes the subject instead.]


So, ah, nobody really uses the Old City much any more, except the Outer Authorities who use it as staging space for patrolling the quarantine line. The Flop's still around, but it's in Poseidon, which you'd remember as rubble and is not a pretty decent little port town.
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[personal profile] galacticheroine 2013-09-25 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Shepard nods her head a little at Kaidan's affirmations about Tali and Ashley]

Tali woke up while time was messed up, myself and several others were in the future of this place, and she joined us. She was gone shortly after time fixed itself again. Ash... not long after that.

[She doesn't rest easy with either of those losses, though Ashley's stings a little more. Getting a second chance with someone you lost in the line of duty was a gift, and losing them a second time wasn't easy.

At Kaidan's subject change she nods a little.]


As you saw the Authorities are a very different creature from what they were. They're more interested in working with us, rather than against us. There's also a local sheriff, and I work with her, so do several other people from the ship. Bandits are still a problem.
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[Video]

[personal profile] erranthero 2013-09-20 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
[The voice is similar, so's the name. Kerra can't help but ask...]

Wait, there's more than one of you now?
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Video] s'ok

[personal profile] erranthero 2013-09-22 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kerra snorts, but her expression is pretty friendly.]

Kriff, I thought this place was weird enough with all you Earthlings, but now other versions.

Anyway. Guess you've come back from a pod, from before when I showed? I'm Kerra. Kerra Holt, Jedi Knight and...I guess here I'm a commercial pilot.

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[video forever]

[personal profile] erranthero 2013-09-23 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Peacekeepers and guardians where I come from. We use a power called the Force to do things similar to biotics but a lot more potent if what I've seen from Kaidan is the case.

[Kerra's smile is friendly, easygoing, and best described as roguish.]

Should I just call you Shepard 2.0 or...?
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[personal profile] erranthero 2013-09-23 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
Got a first name?

[She chuckles, easily shrugging off the sarcasm.]

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[personal profile] erranthero 2013-09-24 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
I dunno. I just called her Shepard. She's kinda stuffy for me.

[Another shrug]

Whatever works for you.
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haha

[personal profile] erranthero 2013-09-24 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Kerra grins at that.]

Red. I like it, it's snappy. Goes good on you.

[Honestly, she doesn't talk to the other Shepard much. Blondes aren't her type, and she's just too much a soldier for a scoundrel like Kerra]
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[personal profile] erranthero 2013-09-24 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's the straight laced bit that gets her. It's not like Kerra isn't a soldier herself. Just...unconventional.]

Anywho. I guess you're up to speed on the Authorities thing, then? And the time travel stuff?
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[personal profile] erranthero 2013-09-24 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. If you need help with something, let me know.

[Kerra shrugs, knowing that feeling pretty well. And then closes out the feed.]