mingle post? mingle post. MINGLE POST!!

[carreau]

Who: you
Broadcast: if you want
Action: also if you want
When: right. goddamn. now.

[ It's a mingle post. IN SPACE.

Just comment and tag around. ]

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[carreau]

[ Well, if she wants to borrow it, she only needs to ask. ]

Yup! I didn't even think a person could sleep that long!

...and still be alive, anyway, ahaha~

[rebella]

( lend Ella your cape, Henry, nothing to regret there, right? her tone goes a little flat, not so impressed with the "still alive" joke, since... )

It's not called sleeping if you're dead.

( when you're dead, you're dead. just that simple. )

I don't know how that's possible, but if you say it is... who are you, anyway?

[carreau]

[ Anything for his crew, man. ]

I know that~ But even the dead don't always stay dead...

[ Might have edged closer to seriousness but does not quite make it. So close, yet so far. ]

I'm the captain of this ship! My name's Henry, it's nice to meet you~

[rebella]

That's a singular and disturbing thought.

( she doesn't have the undead on her world, Henry just ends up sounding like he's being contrary for the sake of it, even with his general tone being as it is. she gives up on the machines for the moment, and on lamenting how nothing here is actually fresh, to... pause, then sweep a curtsey with an imagined skirt. she could bow, but she has a feeling she'll just topple over if she tries, and she does know how to properly curtsey, even in pants. )

A pleasure to meet you, Captain Henry. I'm Ella. ( Just Ella here. ) I believe I'm meant to act as a pilot? I seem to know how, which is new, but a little exciting at the same time.

( going to firmly ignore the not dead dead people and offer him a smile of "yeah let's focus on being awake and looking forward and not sleeping for weeks on end" )

[carreau]

Mm, it's not too bad...

[ Then again, he thinks war is fun. ]

Oh, that's great, we were hoping for one... I'm good at all sorts of communications things-- oh, and curses, I'm good at those too.

[rebella]

Curses?

( cue Ella going still. look, curses are close to hitting home. Henry doesn't look like a fairy... though she does glance down at his feet. hers show the long ago trace of fairy blood that makes them tiny, but does this man have tiny fairy feet? )

What do you mean by that? If it's just bad language, I think we've all had a variety of curses we've learned over the years. Knowing when to use them is key.

( smile. it's a joke. really. hahahaha please say you curse with language a lot, Henry, that's much easier to swallow? )

[carreau]

[ Well, the in-battle sprites for the characters in this game seem to have no feet, but...pretty sure he has em normally. That's a tough one. ]

No, like magic! I'm also good at making friends with crows.

[ Just switching topics, kind of, like he totally did not just say he curses people. ]

[rebella]

Magic. I... see.

( she's just as happy leaving that topic for the moment, though he doesn't look... fairy like, and not in the way that Mandy doesn't look fairy like. conundrum. )

Why crows?

[carreau]

[ Just your average former-cultist dark mage, miss. ]

I don't know! But I'm good at getting along with most animals~ Crows seem to like me best.

[rebella]

( there are average ones of those??? nonetheless, Ella finds the present topic a lot more comfortable than the old one. she smiles, relaxing a degree, thinking about fond (and painful) memories of the royal gardens and zoo. )

Animals are supposed to be a good judge of character. I haven't spent time with many crows... there were a collection of parrots and other exotic birds from the world over that I used to love visiting in the gardens belonging to the royal family.

[carreau]

[ Eh.......maybe......... ]

Wow~ That must have been nice. Are you royalty, then?

[rebella]

( she laughs, though there's a pang in her heart that says i could have been, followed as quickly with the harsh gratification of the fact she isn't. and i could have cursed everyone to a terrible fate, but i wouldn't, and it's far better this way. )

No, I'm not royalty. The zoo was open to all visitors to the kingdom of Frell free of charge.

[carreau]

Your king was kind, huh? Sounds like an easy life~

[rebella]

The kingdom's been at peace.

( She says, though there's no comment on the easiness of life there. )

The threats from the ogres have been handled for the most part, and negotiations with neighboring kingdoms have held. There's nothing Frell has that anyone wants to take by force right now.

[carreau]

[ He takes it as a comment on that-- but that's because his country is at war, and when they aren't, they're trying to start more. ]

There's always something to take...ahaha, I wouldn't want to be a king!

[rebella]

For the leading, or for the exhaustion attached to it?

( or for being terrible sometimes that's kind of what it seems like some kingdoms and kings can be, thankfully you are not a king, Henry, no king issues to be had here )

You don't think some things might be better offered in trade or in alliances than fought for at swordpoint?

[carreau]

The king never gets to do anything fun~ They have their armies fight before they do, so I'm glad to just be a normal soldier.

[ Yeah, she probably had the wrong idea about him. ]

[rebella]

( Henry... )

As in you enjoy being part of the... army that fights before the king?

( Perhaps he's just... very loyal to his kingdom? )

[carreau]

Mm! War is fun.

[ Totally earnest, almost childish. ]

[rebella]

( She stares at him. )

You're joking, right?

( Sure he sounded earnest, but people can sound all sorts of almost serious when kidding around. )

[carreau]

Not at all!

[rebella]

... What is it you did before you were here, again?

( CAPTAIN YOU ARE... FREAKING HER OUT )

[carreau]

I was in the Plegian army~

[ He's totally chill......not that it....would help..... ]

[rebella]

Yes, that's where you were, but... what role did you serve in the Plegian army?

( Foot soldier? No, look at Henry, there's no way. Which is rude to think, but she's still thinking it when she thinks back to the knights she's met. They're all more... physically imposing? )

[carreau]

[ Yeah, he's definitely not a fighter-type.

Great defense stat, though. ]

Hmm...I'm a dark mage...