Meet N' Greet

[cityship]

Part of the crew might be gone, but life on the ship goes on. In fact, new people have woken up and, eventually, they've been spat out into the mess hall.

Maybe it's better to introduce them to some of the worst aspects of ship life first, right?

Anyway, the word is out that there's new people, and someone should probably go say hello. Before the n00bs mistake the glop for crew.


[ooc: read before tagging, plz]

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[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

"You do? You must be fully fused!" Yuri's eyes got even wider in astonishment. While that certainly didn't sound pleasant, Kumi was fused with her Borg and she was sweet and smart and strong and tall and..."Oh! I'm sorry, i'm Ota...Yuri Otani." She said, standing to give a small bow after correcting her instinctive Japanese name order.

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

"You could say that. Khaji doesn't really do many things halfway."

It really is kinda gross sometimes, but he's used to it by now.

"I'm Jaime Reyes," he says, pronouncing it 'hy-meh,' giving her a little noddy bow back. It's a good way to say hello and she looks kinda too touchy for a handshake from a stranger.

"So like I asked, is your little head-guy an alien like mine is?"

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but he helps us...Uh...Well, we catch the aliens that land on the school grounds together." When she wasn't panicking and killing them by accident. "My Earth has a huge Alien problem so every school has to have its own Alien Party...and I got elected to it 'cause none of my classmates wanted to." There was a slight whine to her voice. Clearly this wasn't something she enjoyed doing, nor did the official story hold up under much scrutiny, but Yuri hadn't been told anything else. Only the teachers knew the whole truth...

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

"Are these aliens dangerous?" he asks, looking slightly concerned.

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

"Some of them are..." She remembers the Yellow Knife...The ordeal in its stomach..."But they're all icky and gross and I wish I didn't have to touch them or even be near them at all."

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

"Don't you have a choice? No one should have to fight alien monsters if they don't want to--that's our whole complaint about being stuck here and why we're all trying to find a way to go home."

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

Yuri's eyes welled up again, salty tears pooling at the edges. "We have to fight more monsters?!"

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

Oh man, not what he was aiming for! Still, he doesn't panic. Milagro does dumb things like cry over her barbie losing a head sometimes. He's got this.

"You don't," Jaime insists. "I won't lie, there's been scary stuff here, and fighting, but all the grown ups have their own ways of fighting it. As long as we can fight it, as long as we have any say in it, you won't have to, I promise. Everyone would protect you. We're good guys; that's what we do."

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

"B-b-but then i'd j-just be a b-burden to everyone again! Just l-like I was to Kumi and Kasumi..." Yuri's composure melted away again and she buried her face in her hands while Borg pleaded for her to calm down.

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

"Hey, you're like, what, ten? Eleven? Little kids aren't a burden--they're little kids. No one expects you to do anything more than just be you. What would make the grownups even happier than you helping us fight is you being safe and not scared."

Jaime pulls out a hanky from his pocket, and...well, he's not gonna tell Yuri what it's made of, because that'll probably freak her out more, but it still is basically just a hanky.

"We'd actually be, uh--sad, I guess if you had to fight, especially if we could take care of it okay. In fact, we try to make it so the least amount of people have to fight as possible--we try to end things real fast and fight the smart way so there's not a lot of fighting since most people don't really like to fight."

He's totally bullshitting, but y'know, little kids. Sometimes they buy stuff. It's worth a shot.

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

Luckily Yuri was too sad and weirded out to notice the "hanky"'s origin. Instead she wiped her eyes and nose on it before gingerly setting it down next to her "soup". For all her protestations, she'd never questioned the idea that children should have to be the ones fighting scary, nasty things. The idea of grownups who actually protected her rather than subjecting her to terrifying ordeals was almost...well, alien.

"R-really?" She looked up at him with those wide silver dollar eyes, totally ready to believe it.

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

"Really really," Jaime promises. "I promise that the people here won't make you fight anything scary. And even if you wind up having to, they'll try their best to protect you. And they won't mind doing it either. No one here expects you to fight, because it's okay to not want to fight, even when you're a grownup, too."

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

Hook, line and sinker. "You're nice, Jaime-san...not at all like the adults on my world. They make us fight the aliens that fall to earth, then the alien clans that are already here are fighting each other and the people who wanna kill aliens are fighting everyone else..."

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

A small grin. "I'm not really an adult yet. I'm still just in high school. Sometimes in my world, high schoolers have to help fight the bad guys with the adults--but the difference is, the adults worry even about us. They're afraid for us sometimes, because they're afraid something bad will happen to us. So for us, even if we have the power to help, we're not made to, because we all have a choice--it's just a lot of us choose to."

He tilts his head.

"But then people my age have a few years on you. We've had time to just be kids. When I was your age, the most I worried about was homework and keeping my two best friends from fighting."

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

"Your world sounds like a nice place..." Yuri sighed. "What's...what's the rest of this place like? Do we just have to wait around while the captain decides wether to send us places?"

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

"The captain isn't the one who decides. It's Stacy--the ship itself can think, as far as we can tell."

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

"Oh. Like in a science fiction movie?" Said the girl with the alien on her head. "I meant more like...is there anything fun?"

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

"Actually, there's a some fun stuff. The Media Library has books and movies and music and stuff like that. Then there's the Sensorium, which has tangible holograms, so whatever you imagine up there shows up. It's like playing pretend and having it all become real."