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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

[experiencepoints]

[this chuuni motherfucker]

Well... A while ago, the network got media added, from our homeworlds. I haven't had a chance to go through it all yet, but maybe there will be something good there? Books or poetry or maybe movies you'd like or something.

[eyeforaneye]

[ It's a hard life. ]

That's convenient. They must be trying to placate people in some small way. [ Just to get more dramatic interactions later. Good TV. ]

It's also accessed through this communicator?

[experiencepoints]

That's right.

Oh, but... Avoid the one listed under Ino's name. It is not good.

[eyeforaneye]

[ ... well that's immediately concerning. ]

How so? [ He has to wonder if it's now become some sort of common knowledge that he's from the same world as Ino or if this is just a really impressive coincidence. ]

[experiencepoints]

[She has no idea, no. Her impression of Ino is just that she's friendly enough that she's probably up in everyone's business, no matter how quickly.]

It defies description. I made it about fifteen pages in, and that alone makes me wish to get amnesia again.

[eyeforaneye]

...

That's vague. [ Now he definitely needs to check it out. ]

[experiencepoints]

Does "you really don't want to know" make it better?

[YOU WERE WARNED, SASUKE...]

1/?

[eyeforaneye]

It's about as informative as anything else. A moment, then.

[ So that he can fiddle with this damn machine and actually check for himself with some decent amount of work. ]

[eyeforaneye]

[ ... ]

[eyeforaneye]

[eyeforaneye]

[eyeforaneye]

...

fin

[eyeforaneye]

Oh. So it's this. I should've known.

[experiencepoints]

... So, I tried to warn you, and the first thing you did was go look?

You don't get to lecture me about attracting trouble anymore.

[eyeforaneye]

You could've been more specific and simply said it was badly written smut disguised as cheap romance. I would've known what it was then.

This is your fault.

[experiencepoints]

You reacted badly when the topic turned that direction before, I was trying to be considerate this time. Don't blame me for you not listening.

[eyeforaneye]

You'll find I'm well-equipped to blame whoever the fuck I want to. [ There's that foul mouth that even Naruto had criticized before (hypocritically). ]

Is there anything useful within these records, then?

[experiencepoints]

And you'll find I'll be much more cooperative in answering your questions if you pull that spiky head of yours out from your ass first.

[eyeforaneye]

Judging by this conversation, neither of us are gentle people. If you need me to tone myself down then perhaps you're continuing a talk with the wrong person.

[experiencepoints]

I hope, for your sake, there's a difference between 'accepting your own fuckups' and 'toning yourself down'.

You never told me your name, either.

[eyeforaneye]

There is. [ Nowadays, anyway. ]

My name is Uchiha Sasuke. [ ... he supposes he can share a little more. ] I'm from the same world that Ino is.

[experiencepoints]

Oh- That's-

[She's about to say that that's good, but then she remembers there was apparently a war of some kind...]

... Is that good or bad?

1/2

[eyeforaneye]

[ ... give him a minute to try to figure out how to answer that. ]

2/2

[eyeforaneye]

Are you asking me if I consider my own world to be a good place?

[experiencepoints]

No. Maybe?

Are you friends or enemies?