shiny canon update!

[got_it_memorized]

Who: Axel and anybody
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: On the Tourist, in quarters if you want
When: Thursday, 19March, afternoon

[Broadcast]
[He looks... really unsettled, like he just watched something awful happen and doesn't even know how to process it. In fact that's pretty much exactly what happened: he awoke with a start from a dream he's sure wasn't a dream--he remembers it like it happened, like memories... but it's been hours, not the year-plus he experienced in that dream. He's still trying to wrap his head around everything, and that's when it hits him: he died. And Roxas is gone. Not just gone from the fleet, he already knew that part, and it suddenly hurts a thousandfold more than it did before, because Roxas had been here and now he's not, and now Axel knows he's gone for good. Suddenly he feels like he wasted an opportunity, and he has no excuse other than ignorance.

[He rubs his arms--it's strangely cold in here, it seems--and regards the feed on his communicator. He just needs to get his mind off this.]

So, Fleet, I'm curious: is there ice cream wherever you come from? What's your favorite flavor? Gimme your best ice cream story, I'm bored.

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[everydayhero]

once i made my brother's ice cream explode in his face. i was ten. he ate the last cookie our aunt made the week before, so i got back at him.

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[got_it_memorized]

[This is a call sign he doesn't recognize. Hello new friend who appreciates making things explode!]

Wow, exploding ice cream? Sounds like good times. How'd you do it? Eating the last cookie is totally an explodable offense.

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[everydayhero]

i put a small, mostly-harmless explosive between the scoops and set it off remotely. i was just learning how to do that kind of thing at the time, so now i'd probably go about it a little differently, but hey. he wasn't expecting it, so it all works out.

[got_it_memorized]

"Mostly" harmless. [He laughs softly and shakes his head.] So now you're an old pro at detonating dessert, huh?

[everydayhero]

and various other food items.

[got_it_memorized]

Sounds like a real life skill you've got there. Maybe we could trade secrets sometime. I'm a bit of a fire aficionado myself.

[everydayhero]

that so? how do you go about yours?

[got_it_memorized]

With a snap of my fingers, usually.

[Yes, he's completely serious. You people and your weird no-magic worlds...]

[everydayhero]

another magic user? it sounds like every world but mine gets those. totally unfair, if you ask me!!

[got_it_memorized]

No magic where you come from? Bummer! I'd teach ya if I could, but I dunno if you have to be born someplace with magic to be able to use it or something.

[everydayhero]

well i'm learning some things from some other worlds so far. if i can, i'd probably have to take you up on training a little further down the road.

[got_it_memorized]

You don't say? Well, I guess you never know 'til you try. What's your name, anyhow?

[everydayhero]

hiro hamada, engineer extraordinaire of the ss bishop.

[got_it_memorized]

Nice to meet you, Hiro Hamada, I'm Axel, captain lackadaisical of the SS Tourist.

... I'm sorta kidding. I mean I really am the captain, I'm just not entirely sure it's the job I'm cut out for. Besides, nobody on this ship listens to me, anyway.

[everydayhero]

huh. that must be a little rough. are your demands impossible or is your crew a bunch of tightwads?

[got_it_memorized]

Mm, maybe a bit of both, but not really. I don't think I've ever been unreasonable. I mean there's not a whole lot of stuff for me to delegate anyway, we're not in battle or anything. Mostly I think I've just got a ship full of antisocial people. We all kind of keep to ourselves.

[everydayhero]

if that bugs you you could always come hang out on the bishop sometime. there's always something happening over here.

[got_it_memorized]

[Does it bug him? He... hadn't really thought about it that way. Mostly he just took the crew's reclusive nature with a grain of salt, but does it bother him? It's a little lonely, that's for sure, and now that Roxas is gone...]

I'll keep that in mind, thanks. It gets pretty quiet over here sometimes, so I wouldn't mind visiting a livelier ship, to be honest.

[everydayhero]

well we're gonna have music in the walls as soon as i can get that working. plus we have better showers. and we also have a library.

so, uh. lots to do?

[got_it_memorized]

Music in the walls? Sounds fancy. Library sounds nice, too. Maybe I should get off my butt and add some fancy stuff to my own ship. Maybe then I'll get taken seriously.

At least I'd have something to do.

[He doesn't have a face to go with this Hiro guy's name yet, but he feels a little indebted to him. Suddenly he kind of wants to... you know, do something. He was pretty bummed out when he started this broadcast, but maybe things aren't so bad as he was thinking.]

Hey, thanks. I mean that. I've got a comm augment, so if you guys need any scanner upgrades or anything like that, gimme a holler. Sounds like you've got it covered pretty well already, but I might as well offer.

[everydayhero]

you'll be my go-to guy if i need help and our comm guy's MIA, then. some things don't come as easily as they should, thanks to the augment.