video; un: jace

[estrayer]

[ The video opens on a blond boy dressed in black. The collar of his t-shirt and shoulders of his leather jacket are visible. A dark mark somewhere between a bruise and a tattoo sweeps across the right side of his neck. His eyes are intense, but he's making an effort at a smile. A terse one. Jace Wayland has had better days.

Actually he's had better weeks. Let's not talk about that. Instead, there's something more pressing on his mind: ]

Do we have to keep the jobs we get here? I'm supposed to write greeting cards.

[ His deadpan tone should tell you everything you need to know about what he thinks of that. Greeting cards, as in poetry, right? Jace isn't exactly a greeting card kind of guy, but if he was, his eyes would roll right over the ones with fake cheese and rhyming couplets inside. This is so clearly not for him. ]

I'm taking other suggestions. Bonus points if they don't come with wearing that thing.

[ He turns his wrist to flash the camera over the suit lying on the bed beside him. It has purple stripes and matching boots, guys, come on.

Not to worry, though, the camera's back on Jace now. He's sure you all missed him. ]

That aside. I'm gonna be open about the fact that I'm not looking to be a permanent resident, so if anyone's looking into how we get out of this place, I'd like to hear from you. If you've been here a while, I want to hear about that, too.

By the way, I'm Jace. I'm new, but you probably guessed that. Thanks for your time.

Comments

[estrayer]

yeah i already tried that route the first time around. they weren't interested in anything but procedure, which obviously didn't involve telling me how the hell i'd get home

[ If they even know. There's always the possibility that they don't, but in Jace's opinion, someone does. Whoever they are, he'll find them. ]

do you know who's in charge?

[dominance]

I'm going to find out.

[ he doesn't, but outright saying so makes it seem like he's never going to fill in that gap with information he's determined to find. he'll find it; bellamy blake's not going to let a kidnapping deter him from razing this place and going to the person who's in command here. ]

I'll let you know when I do. Maybe you could write them a greeting card.

[ those cards greet people, right???? he's just taking this shit at face value. ]

[estrayer]

[ That's the first thing even vaguely related to this job that makes Jace smile. ]

yeah i bet they'd love to hear from me

[ Also, 'I'm going to find out' is a hell of a better answer than 'I don't know'. Jace likes this one. ]

anything i learn, i'll let you know too. if there was a way onto this ship, there's a way off.

you mind if i ask what you were doing before you got here? because i was being portalled somewhere else
i'm guessing they hijacked it somehow, even though that should be impossible

[dominance]

[ as melodramatic as bellamy enjoys being, he doesn't opt for "trying to save the world." it's the truth, but it's pretty dramatic. no one wants bellamy chasing jace out of his job of writing hallmark cards. ]

Saving my friends from being mind controlled by a piece of technology. Can't say I'm thrilled to be here where technology's somehow to blame for it.

Honestly have no idea what "being portalled" even means. I'm starting to think that's going to be the norm for me on this ship.

[estrayer]

it’s magic that takes you from point a to point b. but it’s specific, you can’t go anywhere unless you know where you’re going, or someone else who does has a hold of you

the guy who had a hold of me isn’t here, so how that got interrupted is beyond me

[ And it’s frustrating. It’s not that he wants to be where he was going, but now he has no way to affect anything that’s happening there. Valentine isn’t going to be happy he escaped, and Jace’s friends could very well pay for that. He needs to get back and fix this. Instead he’s here, and what’s worse is no one else seems to have come the same way. That doesn’t give him a road out of this. ]

was there anything about the tech your friends were using that could’ve done something like that? i’ve never heard of tech that can teleport people

at least not outside of the movies

[dominance]

Don't think so. Their subconscious was being teleported to some other place. I don't know what it was, or how it felt. I didn't take the chip.

[ but clarke did, and having her here would make it so much easier to piece together what jace is saying and what bellamy doesn't understand he's trying to say. he'd even go for raven being here, using her big words that go right over his head, just so he can feel like he's not as directionless as he truly is. ]

[ nonetheless, he tries to understand what jace is saying. it's so hard, yet so easy if he applies it to the stories mom told him of the greek gods. ]

We destroyed it, though. Everyone came back to normal. It was like they were possessed; they weren't themselves.

I doubt that's anything close to what you're talking about with your portal.