@marcos.diaz

[heliophilous]

[ marcos hadn't really expected to be back on this network so soon but he'd said he'd do something and while it was a little later than expected, he was going to follow through with that. ]

Not too long ago, I was here with questions about a different version of me being here before. Seems like there's a few people that's happened to now so our club's growing. I'm not here for that today.

During that conversation, I told someone that I'd ask a question to all the Displaced because she was curious and honestly, I am too.

Question is why do you stick around? Why haven't more of you 'fucked off into oblivion' to quote the last conversation I had about this? Is it because there's nowhere else better to go? Or something else?

[ it'd be interesting to see if there was genuine thought in some of the answers, if people didn't know there was anywhere else to go, or just didn't want to make the effort. ]

To be clear, I'm not advocating one way or another. Just posing the question.

[ OOC: this isn't an official mod requested communication and isn't part of some bigger plot. it's just curiosity born of a conversation marcos had with gaby here that he said he'd ask about so he's asking. feel free to talk to each other, of course, and i'll answer as i can. ]

Comments

@kara.lang

[crisised]

What would the point be in 'fucking off'? Sure, you could distance yourself from where we've all been dropped, but there's no guarantees. No resources or safety nets. If you build a life somewhere else, completely outside of the rest of the Displaced and then randomly disappear only to come back later...

Not to mention the fact that there's no way anyone who left would find an answer to how and why we ended up here

[heliophilous]

Would there have to be a point?

For some people, it might be as simple as not wanting to be here under the thumb of people they don't trust. They'll take their chances elsewhere.

You won't find me debating how hard that would be though especially here.

[crisised]

Which people? Because once you get out of the safehouse, you're not really under Morningstar's thumb. And even when you are, it's our safehouse now
The UNA is going to be around no matter where you are

[heliophilous]

Displaced, I guess. That's the name I've picked up. Because even if there's no official unification, it still seems like you're expected to work together and that's not always easy for some people.

[crisised]

Really? Huh. I guess I've never really felt that way

[ then again, she's just. naturally a bit of a team player? so maybe not the best person to ask. ]

I think we just end up working together because we're the only ones who can really get this whole situation

[heliophilous]

Yeah, I think it's more necessity than desire sometimes. You do what you have to do because you're here and I doubt most people think there's another choice. It's hard not to feel indebted somewhat to people that help you.

[crisised]

I can get that, I think
I don't know if I get that feeling being enough to make someone want to get away from the community entirely, but I can get the basic feeling

[heliophilous]

Some people have really strong feelings about owing someone else or asking for help. In a situation like this, I'd hope they'd get past that but you never know.

[crisised]

And when you factor in that people tend to react in strange ways during stressful situations...

[heliophilous]

There's potential for disaster.

I'm surprised it hasn't already happened, actually.

@clarke.griffin

[strove]

We always come back to our beds.

I wonder if we would come back to the same bed if we disappeared in the middle. I mean, would we be forced back to New Amsterdam?

@daisy.johnson

[evite]

it's possible to get yanked from one bed and wake up in another. if that's possible, i doubt hopping a train to new tokyo would have changed much.

[strove]

Good point. Somehow I had decided to consider the train incident an exception to the rule.

Though that begs the question: even if we don't disappear, will be be thrown back here? What if we flee for a reason? Is something drawing us together, something beyond our control?

[Blue glowy junk, for instance.]

[evite]

waking up on the train seemed more like kidnapping 2.0 than a disappearing act. some of us knew we were there, but i'm guessing for anyone who didn't, they would have remembered packing a bag.

when i blinked in september, i fell asleep in one bed and woke up in another. didn't seem to matter where i'd spent time or where i wanted to wake up, i woke up in "my" bed either way.
my guess is that would be true no matter how far you get from home base. however we're coming and going, the mechanism (or the people behind it) can figure out where we're supposed to be and drop us back there.

my working theory is legal residences, but i don't know if anyone's blinked back into the safehouse yet. so far, everyone i know of has had somewhere else to call home.

[ herself, thor, now kara and connor. there were duplicates, too — marcos and gaby — but they didn't remember their stays. that was the difference. ]

[strove]

I know people have come back into the safehouses, so that's not it. But maybe that has to do with Morningstar in some way. Being linked to them? Is that considered "legal," and why would a magical teleporting power care about legality? Unless you're strictly relying on reality here.

[Clarke moved away from that the moment she suggested that they might be drawn together by blue stuff.]

I mean, a lot of this has to do with how we feel? When we touch. When we exhibit our powers, or it was that way for me the first time.

[evite]

i never paid much attention to it when i first got here, but now i'm curious. what do new arrivals' ids look like? is there a line for "technically homeless"?

[ defeats the point of a safehouse if you're plastering the address on everyone's mental driver's license. ]

it's either glowcube magic or someone who's got a decent eye on us
there's still room for error, though.

[strove]

We're completely unregistered. Unless you mean after El hooks us up with IDs? It's like—I guess a piece of technology that hasn't been activated yet.

I think.

Honestly I'm not exactly the person to ask about that, but I know I don't have a prior location on my fake backstory that involves sleeping underneath an abandoned grocery store.

[evite]

obviously it's a blank slate before the morningstar hook-up, but what's the interim?

your average citizen has an address. before i moved, mine was the apartment i shared with fitz and bobbi. now, it's the one i share with jyn. it doesn't take much effort to look that up if someone wanted to.
but for the people still bouncing in the safehouse, what's on their id? some fake address, or a questionable nothing?

even if it's not a line item on a form, not having an address is probably a red flag to somebody.

[crisised]

I wasn't in my own bed this time because I didn't have a bed anymore. I woke up with my room mate
It's quite possible we'd wake up back here, but I don't think anyone has been taken from elsewhere yet

[strove]

And there's no real way to check. Not without pushing someone away and forcing them to communicate with us all by messages.

Which I wouldn't wish on anyone.

[See: loneliness.]

[crisised]

Given the variety in the types of people that seem to end up as Displaced, it wouldn't surprise me if someone volunteered to do it

[strove]

Yeah, maybe. But is it a good idea if they do?

[crisised]

I think there's too many variables to really answer that question
I don't think it's any more danger than staying here

[strove]

It's not the danger.

It's the loneliness.

[crisised]

I don't think that it would necessarily be any lonelier than being here
Especially if the person doesn't have anyone from home around