01 ★ First Promise | Video

[senatorinspace]

[Have a very official looking broadcast, Revanites.  Nathan's managed to find tailors who will make him something resembling the kinds of suit he's comfortable in, so he's dressed to the nines.  Some of you, who follow the news closely, might have heard about his hard won battle to be elected as a representative of your interests over the past

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[regeneracy]

[In order to avoid a long stream of textless comments, Claire's reactions are nicely contained on a video feed.

Hearing Nathan's voice makes her excited at first, and then she realizes something. He's been elected to Senate. That means he's been here a while. He has to have been. She doesn't hear another word he says, she just targets in on the reality of this situation and tunnel visions in on her plentiful emotions.

So her face goes to one of shock.

It stays like this for a few seconds before melting into one of anger. HOW DOES SHE MANAGE TO GET STUCK WITH THE WORST FATHER IN THE WORLD??

But as quickly as the anger comes, it fades away to extreme butthurt. Not just normal Claire butthurt, but the kind that causes rivers to flow from her eyes.

She opens her mouth to speak, but no words come out, and she swallows.]

Dad?

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[senatorinspace]

[Nathan actually looks... shocked as hell, his politician fais melting into one of surprise. And then sudden guilt at her features, but he imagines this means she... probably just got here recently. Obviously. She would have come to him if she'd been here sooner, after hearing about him on the Holonet or something.]

Claire?

How long have you been here?

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[regeneracy]

[Oh look, now that burthurt face is back to rageface. She's a teenager consumed with relationship issues, of COURSE she doesn't watch the news. She just can't even wrap her mind around the fact he's been here long enough to be elected to senate, and he hasn't noticed her posts to the network once. All the times she's been hurt and abandoned, all the times she's been afraid...
]

Five months.

[this is just the most unforgivable sin in Claire's book. How dare he not notice her after abandoning her for her entire life?]

How long have you been here, pretending I don't exist?

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[senatorinspace]

[Five... that's impossible. Someone would have said something. Peter would have said something. He'd have found out someway, somehow.

Right?

Yeah, just like he found out she existed for the first 16 years of her life, huh?

Fuck.]

I wasn't... Claire, I had no idea you were here. [Avoiding answering her question...] If I had, I'd have been right there.

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[suchdestruction]

[ Well, isn't this just ... He stays silent, listening at first but then watching directly. They're trying to make those displaced here register? Fascinating. As is all of this, so far. Of course, so far all he knows is there's a friendly, helpful blonde girl - and Peter Petrelli's brother. Isn't it just?

He switches the screen off, hoping he wasn't seen. He'd rather keep a low profile, especially if the elder Petrelli brother is here. ]

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[senatorinspace]

[HE SAW NOTHING. After all, you have to turn on the video screen to transmit. YOU'RE SAFE, ADAM.

for now.]

[music_and_leeks]

Oh, I'm so glad you can help!

[senatorinspace]

It's time we all had a say in the plans they're making for us, don't you think?

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[tronja307020]

[Still nibbling away at his sweet-food-bar thing, and staring at the screen very intently. He has no idea how User politics works. The only "government" he's used to is what can somewhat be described as a peaceful, semi-anarchist system. Everyone doing what they were created for and getting everything they needed, living peacefully and happily with one another.

Until some Program would get too big for their code and take it over and turn it all to shit. Conscriptions into the Games or the digital version of the military against your will. Being brainwashed and imprisoned for being out past curfew, for not having an Identity Disk, complete genocide. Hell, until just a couple of..."weeks?" ago, he'd been one of those brainwashed and forced to work for the big-bad

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[senatorinspace]

[Still talking away, speech speech speech]

I believe we all have the responsibility to not just stand idly by in this time of crisis, but if we want to serve this Republic, we need to be accepted by it first... You might be asking yourself 'Why? What have they done for me lately?'

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[illjustdieagain]

There's political bullshit in space, too? I thought it was all about shagging green women and fighting giant centipedes with lightsabers. I want a refund.

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[senatorinspace]

This is far from some kind of game. We deserve the same rights here as we do at home.

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[illjustdieagain]

I want the right to shag green women and fight giant centipedes with lightsabers. Where are all the lightsabers, anyway? I thought everyone was supposed to have one. This is rubbish.

[senatorinspace]

They don't just hand those things out. They're dangerous weapons, and the only ones sanctioned by the government to carry them are Jedi.