Travel

[sarafina]

The Traveling Meme


You're on your way from point A to point B, and you've chosen one of the many forms of communal conveyance to do so! Let's see what your trip looks like today.

1. Train: The Orient Express if you're feeling fancy, your standard intercity line if you're not, but no matter how humble the train there's always a little bit of romance to the rail.
   
2. Plane: It may be the type of travel we least look forward to. Go ahead and stuff your character in coach--unless they're one of the blessed few who can afford knee room in business class.
   
3. Ship: The heyday of the grand passenger liners, a tall ship (preferably with a star to steer her by), or the ferry.
   
4. Bus: Whether it's a school bus, a Greyhound, or your regular commuter ride... we know you're not wearing the seatbelt like you're supposed to.
   
5. Stagecoach: Some old-timey fun!
   
6. Airship: Listen, JRPGs had it right when they decided these should be a normal thing.
   
7. Spaceship: For that sci-fi feel! To boldly get Ubered where no one has Ubered before.
   

Scenarios

1. I brought a book for a REASON: You're just trying to make this journey in peace and quiet but for the person in the seat next to you....
   
2. Stalled: Well, now you're really not there yet, because your mode of transport has stopped working--thrown a wheel or can't get off the tarmac or lost the breeze. Better figure out something to do in the meantime.
   
3. Stand and deliver! Dammit, it's bandits, or robbers, or some other kind of ne'er do well--or maybe you're the one pulling the heist.
   
4. Running: Not literally, obviously, but you're trying to get away from something bad. Let's hope it's not catching up to you a few seats down....
   
5. Disaster! This isn't just inconvenient, it's catastrophic! Good thing you're here to save the day, right? ...Right?
   
6. Actually having a nice time: It's just pleasant to sit and look out windows while someone else does the steering, you know?
   

Comments

Bucky Barnes | MCU

[missionreport]

[ Prose preferred. I generally play Bucky as Winter Soldier but could be interested in tentatively voicetesting Bucky after!

No: bus, stagecoach, spaceship. ]

Dracule Mihawk | One Piece | ota

[kuraigana]

( Not traveling on his amazing boat for once. )

Arthur Harrow | Moon Knight (MCU) | ota

[scalesbalance]

Arthur Morgan | RDR2 | OTA

[aintdecent]

Roronoa Zoro | One Piece | ota

[pirate_hunter]

laszlo cravensworth / what we do in the shadows

[haemophile]

[ ota. can u be a fucking man and do a voyage of the demeter with me ]

Five Hargreeves | The Umbrella Academy | Ota

[oldmanfive]

Charon | Hades | OTA

[bloodorobols]

Edward Courtenay | Downton Abbey

[propatriamori]

[901att]

[Randel has never been on a ship.

No, that's probably not true. He's sure that if he thinks back hard enough, he'll remember having been on a ferry or a little boat during the war; some manner of transport designed to get soldiers from one battleground to the next. There had been a great many battlefields and Randel could not remember how he had gotten to each and every one. The battles themselves he could not -- should not -- forget, but the quiet moments in between had long disappeared.

What is certainly true is that Randel has never been on a ship like this. Being on an oceanliner is something he could only have ever dreamt of as a child, if he had ever known it was something to dream of. As a child of the 0-district, the ocean and ocean travel had been a very distant concept. He might as well have dreamt of travelling to the moon! And even as a child, he would never have been able to imagine a boat this large; large enough that it makes even him feel small and dwarfed; large enough that Randel is certain that even the lantern couldn't take it down.

He has no interest in testing out that theory though.

Furthermore, what is absolutely, 100% true is that Randel has never travelled on a ship just to simply travel. There is no battleground waiting for him at the end of this trip. If there was work to be done for Section Three, it would not fall on his shoulders. Randel is on a vacation. He had not gone AWOL. Everybody knows where he is and they are fine with him being here, doing nothing but breathing in great lungfuls of salty air.

Oh, and accompanying Edward, of course.

Because that's the real reason he is here. Edward had been called abroad and he had invited Randel along with him. Officially because he needed someone to be his eyes, valet and perhaps guard. Unofficially, well... if there was a second cabin on their booking, Randel certainly hadn't seen it.]

[propatriamori]

[The last time Edward was on a boat, it was whisking him away from a battlefield, ferrying him and other wounded soldiers, all filthy and bleeding and slowly choking on the gas in their lungs, to a first aid station. He remembers little of the trip beyond the shuddering of the boat as it cruised through the way, the little thumps along its hull as it hit obstacles in the water--what those obstacles were, Edward has no way of knowing, but there were many, and some of them cried out when the boat hit them--and the feeling of blood and tears sluicing down over the burns on his cheeks.]

[This isn't a journey like that. This is a ship, enormous and stately and moving slow, not darting through the water under artillery fire, not carrying a cargo that's like to be half dead by the time it arrives at its destination. It's not traveling to or from a battlefield; it's going to the New World, steaming west towards the Americas, and Edward turns his face towards the heat of the setting sun as they leave land behind.]

[He squeezes Randel's arm. No one has questioned Randel's presence at Edward's side; obviously he needs a man to help him, being in a new environment and all. The fact that the second cabin hasn't been used once is merely a coincidence, since Edward needs Randel with him at all times, lest he go careening off the edge of the ship.]

What does it look like?

[Edward saw the ocean before, long ago, but he wants to know what it looks like through Randel's eyes.]

[901att]

I never knew there was this much water in the world.

[It's said with a very quite, but earnest awe. Randel's eyes rove across the horizon, along the endless swells of water to the point where the blue of the water and the blue of the sky meet, separated only by how dark the water is compared to the bright blue of the sky.]

I wonder how long it would take for a person to sink to the bottom.

[propatriamori]

The Pacific Ocean is even larger. I'm told sailors can tell the difference between the two, but I've never heard how.

[Edward makes a slight face at Randel's musings. It's morbid as hell, but then, Randel has never known a life outside poverty and the military. Edward forgets that sometimes, until Randel reminds him, always inadvertently and usually gruesomely.]

[Still, Edward knows he didn't mean any harm by it, and so answers the question to the best of his ability.]

It depends on what part we're over. In some places, it's miles deep.

[He shrugs, and uses the gesture to cuddle a bit closer to Randel's side.]

I read once that there are places in the Caribbean where the water is so clear you can see all the way to the bottom, and it's as warm as bath water. Not at all like the water we're used to.

[901att]

[Edward doesn't need to worry. Randel has no intentions of taking a plunge. Not that he is exactly the epitome of excellent mental health, but suicide had never felt like the path for him; that was too easy an out for a monster like him.]

Perhaps it is the fish.

[An absent musing in response to Edward's mention of sailors knowing the difference between two oceans. That makes most sense to Randel at least. Water is water, but animals are always different. And while Randel can maybe count the number of fish he can identify on his fingers, surely sailors know many more types. Perhaps enough to be able to tell one body of water from the other.]

The Caribbean... Is that where we are going?

[Geography of the world is not something Randel is particularly good at. It's not exactly a high priority for kids to learn in the 0-districts, not when most will never make it past its borders. And the army... well, they hadn't exactly bought Randel to teach him things.]

[propatriamori]

That would make sense.

[Likely a bunch of other things as well, but the fish make the most sense. Edward knows about lake and river fish, but ocean fish are beyond him. He'd always wanted to try deep sea fishing at some point, but... well, that is another thing the war took away from him.]

No, not this time.

[He gently nudges Randel with his elbow.]

Would you like to go there someday? We could swim in water as warm as a bath and get burned by the sun.

[Edward would like that, he thinks. The Caribbean sounds like a place that could melt away the horrors of the war.]

We're going to New Amsterdam. That's one of the largest cities in the new world. I'm going to speak before the League of Nations, and then we'll tour a school for the blind outside the city. After that, we have a week to ourselves before we have to go back.

Is there anywhere or anything in particular you'd like to do, during that time?

[901att]

No, I'll simply follow you.

[To be honest, the concept of wanting things at all, not because he needs them --like food and water-- but simply for the sheer pleasure of it is something Randel struggles with in general. It's still not something he is sure he deserves. The fact that he is here with Edward is already a big thing. To want even more beyond that... frankly impossible for Randel.

Also, he has no idea what exists in this new world they are going to. He has never even visited old Amsterdam. Who even knows what there is in the new version of it.

Except maybe...]

Do you think there are cats?

[propatriamori]

[Someday, Edward will convince Randel to have an opinion about something. Randel will decide he wants something, for no other reason than to have it for himself, and Edward will move heaven and earth on that day to make sure Randel gets it. Until then, he'll keep gently making offers and then deciding things on his own when Randel deflects.]

[Although...]

I'm sure there are cats in the city.

[Edward smiles, turning his head in the direction of Randel's voice.]

We can find some. And if there's one you particularly like, we can bring it home with us.

firion | FFII

[crimsonsword]

Logan | Fable 3 | OTA

[ridofthethrone]

[Happy to work with whatever.]

Kuroo Tetsurou ( Haikyuu!! )

[felinecaptain]

Haymitch Abernathy | Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)

[reapthesunrise]

[Also available in an older version.]

Kim Dan | Jinx

[drdan]

[ information & trigger warnings ]

Avlynn Pendragon | Merlin and the Book of Beasts

[bloodofthependragon]

[The daughter of King Arthur and Guinevere, who seeks/sought to restore Camelot and reclaim the round table. Absolutely here for AUs and crosscanon and also just fitting canons together. Voicetesting.]

Imogen "Ginny" Fleming | Winter Soldier: Cold Front

[fiercelight]

[Cold Front is Marvel rather than MCU, but I'm going to AU her into the MCU anyway. (And AU her alive.) With a little futzing and handwaving it'll work. You can AU anything if you try hard enough. XD To get her to the modern MCU era it's probably a case of ending up in cryo. Instead of dead. IDK. Here for all the shenanigans. Voicetesting.]

Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster | MCU

[mimikrija]

[SHE WAS DONE DIRTY and I'm here to fix that. Extremely on the voicetesting side, please be gentle. Especially here for AUs and fix-its.]

larsa ferrinas solidor | ffxii

[larsas]

dennis whitaker | the pitt

[newbraska]

daryl dixon | the walking dead

[dadyl]

Zoey Westen | Original Character

[pythianwoman]

[Bare bones about her: sarcastic seer with a knack for finding trouble, or having trouble find her. More in-depth information about her is here. Can easily AU her into just about anywhere.]