Bishop Mingle

[incousinswithyou]

Who: Crew + visitors
Broadcast: Nope
Action: Ship mingle on the SS Bishop yay
When: After returning to the ships

[it's great that the rooms got bigger! Still, one could argue that there's a fine line between "art" and "warehouse."]

Comments

[ishere]

You never know.

[ he gestures vaguely upward. ]

We're supposed to be on television, right? Maybe the audience is musically inclined.

[incousinswithyou]

Supposedly. They certainly treat us like we are.

[and she takes a sip of her tea] Do you think playing their game will have any benefits?

[ishere]

Money.

[ the way he says it comes with a little guilt, as if he knows he shouldn't really care about that sort of thing. ]

If you care about having it, at least.

[incousinswithyou]

You raise a good point.

[if it makes surviving this place a little easier - one can't focus on escape all the time.]

You don't like compromising with the enemy.

[ishere]

What? Oh, uh -

[ tadashi's expression softens slightly, going a little distant. ]

Atroma isn't my enemy. I'm actually pretty thankful to be here.

[incousinswithyou]

[she blinks]

That is not an opinion I've heard yet.

[ishere]

What - gratitude?

[incousinswithyou]

Yes. Most of the people I've talked to seem to be concerned for their home and their duties.

[ishere]

Oh, um -

[ he suddenly feels impossibly awkward. ]

I don't really have that problem, I guess.

[incousinswithyou]

[she doesn't even know that dead people can be brought here, oops.

Well, you're still getting a polite smile as she considers you over the edge of her mug.]

Some people might find that liberating, I suppose.

[wow, is home that terrible?]

[ishere]

Well...

[ he's waffling for a moment, because he isn't sure how much he should divulge. he doesn't want to ruin the mood, but he's still not quite sure she understands. ]

I'm just happy to have a little more time with my brother. And - alive, period, I guess. Being dead gives you a different view on life, I guess.

[incousinswithyou]

[well, she just learned two new things.]

Atroma has the power to bring back the dead?

[that is up there with some Sailor Moon shit right there]

[ishere]

I don't really know about that. It hadn't -- it was just about to happen, for me. [ so he guesses he's not technically dead yet. ] But my little brother remembers it all happening.

[incousinswithyou]

[so this Atroma can either bring people back from the dead or it can pluck people from different times. Or both. After all, if it can take people from different planes of existence...]

I can see why you bear this place no ill will. [understatement]

It must have been hard on your brother.

[it seems like it would be more awkward to ask if you had an existential crisis or something like that]

[ishere]

[ yep - it'd definitely be awkward, considering he did have one. many of them, actually. even now, he's trying to remain neutral instead of seeming a little sad, or even just wistful. ]

It was. I'm... really glad that we're here together.