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[mikangirl]

Who: Nami
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: Nnnow-ish

[This is not happening.  Nope.  There were happy endings, and sunshine, and portals home, and she damn well walked through one.  Not only does this quiet, sterile place bear no resemblance to, y'know, a brigantine sloop or a crazy ocean, but she's turned up here alone.

She was pretty sure the animus were on the level with the whole going home thing.  The fact the Adstringendum communicator is giving her nothing but static when she tries to use it is, uh.  Not comforting, to say the least.  She explores the accessible area in due haste, looking for anyone she recognises.  Or anyone at all.  And then she sits cross-legged in the middle of the one hallway and tries to get the communicator working by prying at it with fingernails, hitting random buttons, and eventually just hitting the wall with it a few times before tossing it away from her with a huff.

Not happy doesn't really cover it.

She finds the broadcast system, staring down at the controls suspiciously.  She shouldn't know how to use this.  But, well.  In the absence of being able to do anything else-- ]

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This turning up in mysterious new places thing was old the first time it happened.  Where the hell is this, and what hoops do I have to jump through to get home?  [Sweet, sweet sarcasm.  But at least she's holding onto her temper.]  And where's my staff? 

And-- and who fixed my shirt?

[Serious question, that one.]

Comments

[unfulfilledpotential]

Yeah, that would kinda suck.

As awesome as reality TV is, I actually wanna go back to school. [beat] Not a sentence I thought I'd ever say, but desperate times, I guess.

[mikangirl]

Not a fan of school before this, huh? [She doesn't have much familiarity with generalised schooling, but she at least knows it exists. Never thought someone would not like it. But then, Nami's kind of a nerd in that department.]

What would you rather have been doing instead?

[unfulfilledpotential]

Not really.

[It pains him to admit it too, considering his less than stellar academic record. He earned those C's - but he didn't try in school, and he regrets that so, so much now that he's made it into a good university.]

I mean, I want to go to school. Even if I weren't stuck on reality TV, I'd still want to go. It was more... growing up, I wasn't exactly the best student. Kinda terrible, actually. I'd get into trouble all the time, so I figure... college's gonna be a fresh start, and I should make it something good.

[mikangirl]

What's the difference between school and college?

[Hi I come from a backwater island in a pirating nation.]

[unfulfilledpotential]

[He's so not the best person for this, but he's gonna try.]

Everyone's required to go to school. It's like, learning the basics of reading and writing and math and science. Whereas college isn't.

That's more specialized learning, for the stuff you're actually interested in. Like photography or law or teaching, so you can go be those things.

[mikangirl]

Huh. [Guess that means Weatheria technically counts as a college, then.]

There's a lot of islands where we come from. Schooling like that is often just a luxury for people with too much time on their hands. It's good you get to go.

[unfulfilledpotential]

Trust me, it's a luxury back home too. [One he didn't think he could have, if he were honest.] But... it wasn't as hard to get as I thought.

Wish I'd known that a long time ago.

[mikangirl]

Better late than never, right?

...you don't have an age limit or anything, do you?

[unfulfilledpotential]

I'd hope not. College doesn't seem like the kind of thing you'd kick people out of for being too old.

Too dumb, maybe, but not old.

[mikangirl]

Well, I think you're probably okay on that front. So don't stress about it too much.