Meet-n-Greet

[cityship]

The rest of the crew assembled on the Observation Deck to meet the latest editions to their numbers. After the revelation that their worlds are gone, many of them are even more eager to see people they knew from home.

Several people are set up near the doors to provide the new people with omnicoms and comm rings. New crew-mates might see a tall man in green armor and snake girl among their number. There are also several authoritative-looking figures ready to introduce themselves.

There's a lot to tell the new people. It's going to be a lot to take in.

[ooc: Only new characters and Command Staff can start new threads for introductions, to limit the number of threads. Everyone else, just tag in and have your guys greet the newbies.]

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[fluffyapartheid.livejournal.com]

"Well, I've never met a 'troll' before, so I have no means of reference as to whether you are a good or bad one," she said. She didn't really have a frame of reference for any of the species here. Though, the creatures that were called 'humans' did have a passing resemblance to both the Hoefeken and Bak'shir races.

What was a Sansani? Again, that was a big question. "The Sansani are my people. Historically, we were tree-dwellers, but we have adapted to cities. Our planet, which we share with the Ruul and Hoefeken, is Viashahg." That was the simplest way she could think to describe her people, without getting into too much history.

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

Tavros nods, though he understands exactly one of those proper nouns. And not even that one very well.

"I don't... really know what Ruuls and those other things are, but it, um, sounds not too different from us. My friend Terezi lives in a, uh, tree, but I know trolls who live in... communal hivestems in cities, or, out in canyons, and in castles and shipwrecks underwater... everywhere and anywhere, I guess."

A pause. He looks a bit embarrassed by all this babbling. Why should this creature give two pungent whipping lumpsquirts about all this?

[fluffyapartheid.livejournal.com]

The Sansani blinked a few times, trying to process what she'd just heard. Perhaps it was her own thorny philosophy on race, perhaps it was just logic. But either way, it wasn't computing.

"Did I hear that correctly? You said your kind lives underwater, as well as all those other places? I do not understand. I was taught that living underwater required a different anatomy, such as gills. How can you consider such differences a part of the same species?"

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

"Well, I can't live underwater. I don't have any, you know, gills. It's a mutation -- highbloods who are really up there on the, uh, hemospectrum are hatched with, um, it's a complicated expanding and contracting vascular system. And gills. Basically they can live on land or sea, though most of them kind of... stay underwater."

[fluffyapartheid.livejournal.com]

"Hmn," she responded, "that is quite a mutation." She still wondered how that could even be considered the same species, but she wasn't going to press it. Especially since she only understood part of that.

Besides, she doubted this knowledge would be very important in the future. Other things needed to take priority right now. Like putting names to faces for dealing with the crew - she had no idea how long she would have to be here, it would be wise to know who was who.

"By the by, I am called Zhiai'kahn Ahl. May I inquire as to what your name is?"

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a mouthful. Troll names are always shorter than that. Still, he repeats her name and hopes he can remember it later.

He wanted to ask more questions about her and the other species she'd named, but it would have to wait.

"Zaiai'kahn... Ahl? Wow. Uh, I'm Tavros."

He pauses, looking a bit unsure. Is a handshake customary here?

er, this'll be taking place after her talk with Beastboy, kay? :B

[fluffyapartheid.livejournal.com]

If he had been talking to a human, a hand shake probably would be customary. As it was, though, the Sansani race didn't have a greeting gesture. The closest they had was grooming, and Zhiai'kahn was not comfortable enough with her surroundings or the troll to even consider such an intimate gesture.

She took note of his slight struggle with her name. "You may call me Ahl," she said. Though, she didn't suggest it because she didn't want her name mangled. Surnames were often the default in her culture. Which brought her to muse aloud about his own name. "It is interesting, you are the second person I have met who only goes by a single name. I did not realize there would be cultures that did not use family name."

sounds good to me!

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

Tavros would have been highly confused by the grooming thing and then had an even harder time not treating her as an animal. Let's all be thankful there's some sense of decorum floating around here.

"Ahl," he repeats, looking a bit relieved. He can remember Ahl, all right. "Oh, uhhh, I have two names. Er, a second name? Or whatever you just said. It's Nitram. Tavros Nitram."