( OPEN ) hold me closer, tiny dancer

[fujita]

WHO: dorothy gale + various
WHERE: various places on bajikan
WHEN: the fleet's stay in orbit
WHAT: dorothy explores the planet and gets thoroughly sidetracked.
WARNINGS: alcohol, (descriptions of) violence, possibly sex



[ dorothy has been to another world or another universe, so maybe that counts as visiting another planet, but she's never been on another planet like this: going from a spaceship orbiting the planet (if involuntarily, from what dorothy understands) to the planet's surface, being welcomed by the locals. dorothy still wishes she could figure out a way home; she wishes no one was dying aboard the eluvio; she wishes some other things she's not quite willing to admit, but all things considered?

this is kind of cool.

dorothy visits every district; some she leaves sooner than others. in gula, she finds a bar that garnishes every drink with a little umbrella and after taking a picture on her comms device for spacestagram and emptying that drink, dorothy orders another one. and then another, and another after that. they all come with little umbrellas, and she's already wearing two of them behind her left ear. ] Can you help me? [ she asks, tone a little slurred already, waving a hand between the third umbrella and her left ear. she could just put it behind the right, but that thought doesn't cross her mind. ]


( ooc | if you'd like a specific starter, something in another district, or if you'd like to hash out the details of something, hit me up via pm or at abiosis )

Comments

[fujita]

Is it? What planet are you from?

[ earth is the only planet dorothy has ever really known. she knows the names of the other planets, of course, but—they never really seemed real in the same way this one does. in the same way a place that she knows someone is from surely will, even if she's never heard of it before. if there's people there—

but she gets distracted by a giant neon sign. "the burgeria". ] We're going there.

[taggingwomprats]

It's a little dustball called Tatooine. Trust me, you never want to visit it.

[ He occasionally thinks fondly of it, but mostly he just wants to forget about it. Hot, dry, sandy, and he lost his only family there. Not a place he'd like to revisit or remember. Instead, he focuses on the future and the present. He pauses as she points him toward a giant sign and their apparent destination. He steers them both toward the door. ]

This feels a little... gaudy.

[fujita]

Gaudy? I was going to call it hipstery, but yeah, fair.

[ dorothy laughs a little. it isn't actually funny, not really, but tipsiness make everything seem exponentially more hilarious. ]