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[eyeforaneye]

Who: Uchiha Sasuke
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: Marsiva
When: This very moment.

(broadcast)

[ Sure there are bound to be the occasional less-than-thrilling broadcasts but this one may be a new low, with the camera focused in on a nondescript blob that turns out -- with some acquired distance -- to be a knee. The feed shakes then and there's the loud metallic tap tap of the device being knocked against the framework of one of the generic cots aboard the Marsiva. Tap. Tap. Tap. The only other sound is that of the painfully bland music in the background, without a word being spoken.

At least this inept user finally turns the communicator around to inspect it at another angle, granting any viewer a flash of dark and impractically spiked hair before the camera then focuses on equally shadowed eyes and a severe expression.

No, he's not going to panic. He probably already did that internally before he even tried to figure out the communicator less than successfully. Send aid. ]

(action)

[ Sasuke will be easy to encounter either sitting on that cot and fiddling with his communicator, exploring the bay thoroughly, or staring with incredible and difficult-to-read intensity out into the murky void of space. Godspeed. ]

Comments

[eyeforaneye]

I heard conflicting information about that. You're certain?

[experiencepoints]

... As certain as I can be without definitive proof.

I won't deny the chance that I'm wrong is there, and I'd like nothing more than to be wrong on that, but... Well, we don't get nice things here.

[eyeforaneye]

Would you call yourself a realist or a cynic?

[ Because he has zero doubt that it's the former, really. Maybe because he himself is a cynic. What do you know. ]

[experiencepoints]

I've never found a satisfactory difference between the two.

[eyeforaneye]

That's enough of an answer.

[experiencepoints]

No doubt.

What about you? You don't seem the optimistic type, yourself.

[eyeforaneye]

Expecting the worst might help someone live longer, but not so well as just accurately reading a situation. I'm a realist these days.

[experiencepoints]

I'm a dead amnesiac two worlds removed from home. As far as I can tell, expecting the worst generally is reading the situation accurately.

[eyeforaneye]

[ Well don't hold anything back. ]

Death doesn't really seem to have stopped you. [ and you remember it, so that's something. ]

[experiencepoints]

[The only thing more dead than she is is her social skills. Sorry, Sasuke.]

You get used to it after the first few times.

[eyeforaneye]

[ Look if you ever had any at one point then you're ahead of him at least. ]

How would you choose to describe the feeling?

[experiencepoints]

[Does it count if those social skills were gained by mimicking a cat-person?]

Which part?

[eyeforaneye]

[ It counts DOUBLE. ]

Dying.

[experiencepoints]

[Her breath catches, but her expression falls into a carefully-practiced poker face.]

... Not pleasant. Some ways were a lot more painful than others.

[eyeforaneye]

So you've made a habit out of it. [ Yeah this is the tact right here. ]

[experiencepoints]

Depending on how you want to count it... A couple dozen times at least back home, a couple more times at my last interdimensional shithole...

Well, it's been over half a year since I last got killed, so maybe the habit's broken.

[eyeforaneye]

With a number that high, you're either extremely good at attracting trouble or extremely bad at defending yourself.

Or perhaps a combination of both.

[experiencepoints]

I was an adventurer back home. Shit happens when you do that. I am a pretty damn good mage, thank you.

[eyeforaneye]

The word 'adventurer' doesn't make it less notable that you can't keep yourself alive.

[experiencepoints]

Or, since death was a minor inconvenience back then, we intentionally went out of our depth just to see if we could.

[eyeforaneye]

In that case your deaths were a foregone pseudo-intentional conclusion that shouldn't affect your inclination towards cynicism.

[experiencepoints]

Those deaths didn't.

[eyeforaneye]

How many deaths have you acquired, exactly? It's not doing much to damage my point.

[experiencepoints]

No idea, in total. Amnesiac, remember?

Twice, since death started mattering, though.

[eyeforaneye]

... Your amnesia must be pretty specific.