[Mal looks beautiful and serene-she couldn't be more different from the half-mad hysteric she was when she arrived on the Barge.I have graduated. I ... well, as some of you know, I suppose that I technically graduated a fortnight ago, but I have been trying to decide what it is that I will do next. And I have now decided that I will be leaving ( Read more... )

[Backdated to just after this incident. Gloriously public voice post in which Mal sounds pained and kind of upset.]

Does anyone know how to remove porcupine quills?

Also, I advise everyone to stay away from the sixth-floor common room and the porcupine therein.

[Later, after the flood has ended: filtered to Mal's friends.Well, that was ... ( Read more... )

[Private to Costigan]
Come to my room tonight. I have something to tell you.

[Filter: the League Of Not Exactly Evil But Vaguely Unstable Inmates. You remember who you are, from the babysitting flood.]
A question for you: where do you think you will go, when you are finished here?

[Filter: ex-inmate wardensWhy did you decide to stay when you ( Read more... )

[Filtered to anyone Mal encountered during the flood. She's clearly been crying and is distraught beyond words. If you look carefully, you can see that she's clutching her totem in one hand.]

That was not me. I didn't-I'm not like that, I'm not. She was a monster. I don't understand-

[She breaks off and wipes her eyes with the back of her hand.I' ( Read more... )

[Projection!Mal has a more dangerous light in her eyes than the normal one does these days; she's a lot more like Mal was when she first arrived on the Barge, but sneakier, deadlier, and 100% obsessed with her husband. She's got something of a femme fatale vibe too, and is dressed accordingly in a slinky blue dress. Thankfully for everyone, she is ( Read more... )

[Filtered to Mal's friends and Angelica]
I'm back. Thank you for being kind to my father.

I'll be in the common room on the seventh floor if you need me.

[If anyone comes looking for her or just happens to wander in to the seventh floor common room (the one from which the television had vanished), they will find Mal in the corner of the room, ( Read more... )

[The man gives the camera a smile. His manner is confident and reassuring, despite the fact that he is quietly holding a lot of very strong emotion in check. Not that this is immediately obvious.Good morning. Call me Miles; everyone else does. Now, I learned twenty-odd years ago to never look at my daughter's diary, so although I know where this is ( Read more... )

[SOME AMOUNT OF TIME AFTER THIS (i.e. long enough for Arthur to go on his give-'em-all-the-kick rampage and for Perry to get worried) Mal turns on her communicator. It's at a really crazy angle, but she can't see straight enough to hold it steady; plus she's lying on the floor. There's blood on her face from a scratch left by Arthur's gun, but she ( Read more... )

[Boy oh boy does Mal ever look cheerful. Like she almost always does of late in your slightly altered memories of her. Yes, she went through a bit of a rough patch there a couple of months ago. Her intimates know that happened when she found out about what her husband did to her -- but bar some completely reasonable and understandable grieving, she ( Read more... )

[Background: This morning, after sleeping off a couple of days' worth of child-induced exhaustion, Mal turned up at her breakfast shift on time, but was moody and uncommunicative and eventually made her excuses to Iroh and the rest of the team and left about half an hour early. She's been moping in her room since, and about midday, she posts the ( Read more... )