broadcast 01

[tothefly]

Who: Natasha Romanoff and various guests
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Post-broadcast, abandoned waystation? Action prompt in comments
When: During bugfest 20XX

[On screen, there's a very calm redhead looking thoughtfully at the camera, one brow slightly cocked.]

It's occurred to me that the fleet has about ten times as many firearms as it does medical professionals. It's also been pretty apparent that a lot of our cast members don't know the basics of gun safety and use. If anyone wants to learn, I'll be at the following coordinates.

[The message ends with a bit of text, the location of one of the abandoned waystations in near orbit.]

Comments

[tothefly]

[A prince, huh? Atroma takes all sorts, she guesses.]

Does being a prince make you special, then?

[summerschild]

It means-

[He is starting to feel like just a dumb kid now, and sits up taller in his chair.]

I'm not a child. I've ruled a castle under siege, and I've seen my own men executed. I wish to learn how I might defend myself.

[tothefly]

[She's watching him closely to see what her words mean, and his own response doesn't make her regret it. The words don't make her flinch, either; she'd seen her share of awful things by the time she was his age. Being a child doesn't grant you an immunity to the world's bad things. His answer makes her cock her head just slightly, questioning.]

Even if it means hurting someone else?

[summerschild]

[He thinks about it for a moment, his face somber. He doesn't enjoy the thought of hurting people, and the Starks have been choosing peaceful speech over violence since the days of Aegon's Conquest. But he's seen that such ways aren't always safe or possible.]

Yes, if they are attempting to hurt me. I will not rely on the aid of others to keep myself safe, and put my friends or crew at risk.

[tothefly]

[It's an older look on his face than he had at first, one that she recognizes something of. She doesn't want to train children to fight. Isn't going to encourage it. But self-defense...self-defense is fair. Though she does have a question:]

Does the ship you're on not have any security personnel willing to show you how to handle a weapon?

[summerschild]

It does, but I haven't met him yet. He's new, like me.

[He's a little bit frightening, Bran doesn't want to say.]

[tothefly]

[She's less frightening? Fair. She's not very big, and people often mistake women as being less of a threat, at least where she's from. Maybe where he's from, too, if there are similar parallels to medieval culture on Earth.]

You could ask him. If you're both new. You'll probably be around the people and weapons on your own ship a lot more often than you will me.