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[multiglyphs]

Who: weiss schnee and ~you~
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: ss three twins
When: december 2nd

[ hello drift fleet who here is up for a rousing game of GET TO KNOW YOUR FELLOW CAPTIVES i mean who doesn't love a good ice breaker amirite.

luckily (un...luckily...???) for you all, weiss has done her Research and has chosen the best possible ice breaker the multiverses can find! ]

With the crews back in their vessels and all systems supposedly in order, I thought now would be the perfect time to engage in a good old fashioned ice breaker.
We all come from different worlds, after all, with various experiences under our belt, yet we are all together put in this position, for better or for worse.
So why not try and get to know each other better?
Of course, with distance now an inhibiting factor, it makes things a little more difficult...
But worry not! For I've found a game that will work just as fine through text, with some slight modifications.
The rules are simple enough — anyone is free to make an honest declaration at any time. If any of the statements apply to you, you simply respond with a brief explanation of how.

I can even start!
Ready?

[ and, yes, weiss has just started an online drinking game, look she's not making these rules up, pls play that portion at your own discretion ahem ]

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( ooc; feel free to go wild and create your own toplevels, threadjack, the whole nine yards...! )

Comments

[experiencepoints]

A massive one, yes.
Kind of like an order of peacekeepers who find life sacred fighting in a political war.

[resnipstance]

[Ugh, don't get her started, because even Ahsoka has her misgivings about that, these days.]

So what are we supposed to do, then? Just sit back and let the Sith take over the galaxy? Eradicating and enslaving life as we know it? The general population isn't cut out to fight back against the Sith!

Besides, the Separatists aren't even using real soldiers! Their entire army is comprised of droids. All we do on the front lines all day is take down hunks of scrap metal with programming chips.

[experiencepoints]

Leave it to the actual military.
Fight acknowledging the hypocrisy of what you're doing.
Get mad when bad things happen.
Get attached to the people you're fighting with.
Actually show some signs that there's more to you than the robots you're fighting.
Are those 'droids' not intelligent?

[resnipstance]

Of course I mad when bad things happen! Do you think I don't ever get mad? I'm mad right now! I just can't let myself *act* on that anger.

And of course I get attached to the people that I'm fighting with. The Order is

was my family! I don't think they're right about everything, all the time. Of course I don't. If I did, I wouldn't have left. And as much as they're my family, and I love them, if I had let my attachment to them cloud my judgement, I never would have been able to leave, either! But it was the right decision.

And droids are only as intelligent as a computer. They can only "think" so far as their programming parameters allow them to. They can't form independent thought or react to situations they have no data for.

[experiencepoints]

You left?
Before you were kidnapped here, you mean?

[resnipstance]

... Not long before. But yes.

It's a long story.

[experiencepoints]

I won't ask that story, then.
But if you're not part of that order anymore, then there's nothing stopping you from going after Lux, is there?

[resnipstance]

... There is, but... that's another long story.

I'm full of them, I guess.

[experiencepoints]

I get that.
Sorry, I got a bit more abrasive than I meant to there.
Having to repress emotions and attachments is kind of a sore spot for me.
Long story.
I hope it works out for you, at least.

[resnipstance]

It's fine, I get it.

The Jedi way of life... it isn't for everybody. It's kind of extreme. It's a lifestyle, you have to choose it. I get that. I wouldn't expect it of anyone else.

I might not be a Jedi anymore, but the teachings of the Code are still sacred to me. I don't think I'd feel comfortable acting any other way.

[experiencepoints]

I don't get it, but it's your choice.

[resnipstance]

... Thank you.

Sorry, this conversation got unexpectedly serious from talking about crushes on dumb boys.

[experiencepoints]

That's happening a lot around here, I notice...
I don't think I'm terribly good at this game.

[resnipstance]

Well... I told you about one of my crushes! Now you tell me about one of yours!

[experiencepoints]

Not actually how the game works, but...
Sure, why not.
Before I start, you know about how there are other interdimensional prisons besides this one, right?

[resnipstance]

........................

First I've heard of it.

[experiencepoints]

What, seriously?
Most people seem like they're from other ones.
I was kidnapped here straight from the last interdimensional shithole I'd been taken to.

[resnipstance]

That's crazy!

I can't believe there are whole swathes of inter-dimensional travel and nobody in the history of millions of years in my galaxy has ever spoken about it! How can it be that just no one knows?

[experiencepoints]

Well, that's not part of the story.
Most of what you need to know is the last place I was at, we were all sorted onto teams.
We had no say on which team we ended up on.
We just woke up there, already on a team, and had to deal with it.
And these teams had to compete in games for... very high stakes.
It was a pretty stressful place.
My team was called Takshaka.
Everyone on Takshaka took the name of a color and a bird.
I've never quite understood the reasons behind it, but that's how the team worked.
In my case, Gray Nightingale.
Are you with me so far?

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka nods, before realising that they're communicating via text.]

Got it.

[experiencepoints]

[On the other hand, Nightingale is really, really glad this is text so Ahsoka can't see how the faces she's making at this.]

One of them was...
Well.
She was my teammate.
"Blue Raven".
When I first woke up there, she'd been there for a bit before me.
And... Well, when we first met, we hated each other.
I thought she was naive, an idiot, all sorts of things like that.
She thought I was a cynic, without morals, things like that.
And I was a pretty shitty person back then.
The longer I spent with her, though, the more I started to admire her.
She was really cool. She had this... charisma, I guess? She was so devoted to her ideals that no matter the danger, she would never stop trying to do the right thing.
She was fun, too. She had this sense of humor to her. She liked doing whatever she found was fun, and she managed to drag the rest of us along with it.
And when she did something stupid, she could laugh about it with everyone else.
Hell, her real name was actually 'Bluebird'.
She did absolutely ridiculous shit, too.
Her hobby at home was apparently fighting dinosaurs bare-handed. And she won.
The more we fought and the more time we spent together, the closer we got.
Eventually, I realized I'd totally fallen for her.

[resnipstance]

Awwww...

That's so sweet.

[experiencepoints]

It's really nothing special.
It didn't work out, anyway.

[resnipstance]

... I'm sorry to hear it.

But it sounds like it was special to you. So. That's what matters, right?

[experiencepoints]

It was.
And her boyfriend from home was there, on a different team.
I can't get in the way of that.