Surviving Deep Space - Thursday, Period Two - 8/20

[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

As they walked into the class, Rimmer actually looked rather... rather emotional.

"This is, as you should all know, my very last class with you. I am sure that you will all miss me, that you will lament those moments when you doubted me, or drew on me with a permanent marker, or laughed behind my back and thought I couldn't see because yes, I did see that and you know who you are."

He breathed in after that.

"But today, we face the worst enemy you will ever possibly come up against, the most repugnant, the most terrible:"

He leaped over to one side of the room and revealed video monitors, each one with a face that should look familiar: it was his students. Well, it was a version of his students. Each of them in the monitor had some sort of terrible new feature, most of them were either overweight or their clothing was hideous, and at least one was sporting a rather pointless toupee.

"Yourselves! In the future!"

[ocd coming up!]

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[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

IN THE FUTURE!

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Anemone

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[hes-aphantom.livejournal.com]

Danny Fenton

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[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri Veila

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[glacial_queen]

Karla

Listen / STARE at what he's done to 'you'

[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

...yeah, someone's projecting.

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[hes-aphantom.livejournal.com]

...well, at least Rimmer didn't know what Danny did, and hadn't put his evil future possibility up there.

He didn't want to know what people would think of that.

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[weetuskenraider]

She didn't look all that different, actually, just a couple of inches taller and with a more toned build, as the much more form-fitting jumpsuit her mirror self wore showed awfully clearly. (Sure, taunt her about the height, thanks.) And not that much visibly older because apparently people live forever in the GFFA or something.

You'd think that would be reassuring.


"If this is supposed to be funny," Tahiri muttered to herself, "it's really, really not."

Having Issues was kind of really inconvenient sometimes.

[OOC: Now with the first half of the tag that got cut off because SOMEONE FAILS AT COPYPASTA.]

Re: Listen / STARE at what he's done to 'you'

[momslilassassin]

Ben gave her a wide-eyed stare. "Really not."

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[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri shot one more suspicious look at the mirror and turned to him. "Good thing this is the final, huh?"

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[glacial_queen]

Karla was a little...shocked. There was her future self, strapped down to some kind of contraption. It was a chair, with wheels. She...had no legs. Why wouldn't she have any legs? Even if something horrible had happened, between her, Gabrielle, and Jaenelle, there's no way they couldn't have Healed that damage.

But deep within her her spidey-senses were tingling, she knew she was seeing something true.

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[momslilassassin]

Ben tilted his head as he looked at the tall yes, tall. Fix that, Aaron Allston red headed man before him with the kind of ancient eyes that reminded him of his father.

The toupee and the beer gut were clearly fabrications. No Jedi in his galaxy sat still long enough to get fat.

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[endsthegame]

Ender's older self had a toupee.

Ender's younger self couldn't help but exhibit a slight, if rueful, amusement at the picture. Like last week, he didn't say much about it; it wasn't as if Rimmer was some kind of oracle with knowledge of their futures, which made it, once again, whimsy.

If very bitter whimsy.

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[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

...he didn't plan this far. Um, deal with the horror?

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[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Anemone looked at the monitor, nose wrinkling in confusion before sticking up her hand.

"Soooo... what does this have to do with space? I don't get it."

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[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

...Rimmer blinked.

"You don't get it?"

How could they not get it?!?!?!eleventy!

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[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

"No, I don't get it," Anemone repeated patiently. "Is fear of aging a typical human concern? And wouldn't the relativistic nature of space travel reduce the effects of time on a human body?"

Her eldest sister had been fourteen-years-old for forty years, then spent the next ten as a giant mutant lotus-flower before being removed from this plane of existence. The ability to get old seemed kinda cool to Anemone.

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[hes-aphantom.livejournal.com]

Danny's hand went up as soon as she finished speaking. "I'm with her," he said.

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[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

He rubbed at his forehead, wishing he didn't feel the H there.

"It's you! In the future! After you've turned into worthless smegs whose only ambition is to feed your own hungers and desires with no consideration for the space/time continuum. I assure you, this is terribly dangerous."

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[endsthegame]

"Interesting."

Let it never be said Ender didn't have a talent for carefully worded non-answers. Not that his actual future was going to be any better.

Rimmer

[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

If you want to say goodbye. This is his second-to-last post.

OOC

[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

Thank you all for signing up, I hope you had a good time, and thank you for putting up with Rimmer's antics.

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[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

*cough*

Or [this (http://www.ladyofthecake.com/rdmp3/gunmen.mp3)]

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[glacial_queen]

Do you mind if I show Karla without legs? It actually is her future self.

*sadface*

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[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

Sure! Crazy futuristic wheelchair Karla works. Rimmer kinda went overboard.