attempt 002

[unconfines]

Who: Anders and you???
Broadcast: fleetwide video
Action: SS Golden, if that's your jam
When: no time like NOW

[Anders is very close to the camera when it switches on, nearly raising the illusion of being nose-to-nose with it.]

Evening! I've got an important question for everyone, if you'll do me the favor. Just a moment. [He goes on talking, peppy and conversational, but he isn't precisely looking at the camera as he does. He's rummaging through something slightly left and below, head tilted down and expression partially obscured by the way some of his hair slips out of its tie.] Got lucky with this place, didn't we? [beat] Well, sort of. Makes one wonder why we don't stop places like this all the time, instead of frozen-wasteland-here and merciless-jungle-madness-there.

[That's the thing with Anders having an audience: once he starts, good luck getting him to stop.]

Though what happens when we're all drifted out, I wonder? End of the line, so to speak, even if this one isn't so much a line as it is a drunken wobble through the void. I know, I know, vast emptiness of space and all that, but it's got to end somewhere. We've all places to be, yes? Even if those places are just, you know, not quite so cramped as here. And no one actually likes a story with no ending, even Atroma's got to know that.

[Something white and furry hits him repeatedly in the face while he talks; people who have spent more than ten minutes with him might recognize it as his cat's tail. He's remarkably good at ignoring it, though whether that's because of exposure or fortitude is hard to say. Maybe a little of both.]

Anyway. No reason to keep you in suspense! My important question: purple or blue?

[He sits up, having apparently now located what he was looking for, and waves bundles of fabric that may or may not be shirts of some kind at the camera. They're complete with the bright, glowing strips of color characteristic of the fashion sense of this place in, you guessed it: purple and blue.]

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Video

[wolfuncaged]

[Normally, Fenris avoids Anders' network posts on principle. He very almost says Anders can stay here and maybe their world won't be so royally fucked as a result. But something more important catches his eye. ]

...Those aren't purple or blue, those are white and gold.

[unconfines]

[He's already frowning when he sees who it is chiming in, confused and consternated— then he squints, first at the fabric in his hands and second at the camera, and then he sniffs an unfriendly sort of laugh.]

Maker, are you telling a joke? Is the station collapsing? Should we all be fleeing for our lives?

[wolfuncaged]

[...What. Ugh. Anders is being an idiot again. ]

...No. Those are clearly white and gold coloured materials.

[Anyone can see that. ANYONE. ]

[unconfines]

[There's a moment of distressed silence where he has no idea how to proceed. He doesn't really see Fenris as the type to commit to this sort of obvious joke, but the alternative seems just as ridiculous.]

That's preposterous. [A tiny scoff, though this one a little more uncertain.] You can't really think that. Have you tried using your eyes?

[He waves the fabric at the camera again, like that will help.]

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[theirinurpants]

[ Alistair, being a discerning young man (he isn't), definitely has an opinion on this! Based on a totally arbitrary preference: ]

Blue, of course.

[unconfines]

[Anders lights up, chin balanced cheekily on one hand.]

Well! That's a confident answer right out of the gate, isn't it? [He holds the purple up to his cheek.] Don't think it suits me?

[theirinurpants]

I just like blue, honestly.

[ It's the Grey Warden color! ]

[unconfines]

[Maker bless your cutie face, Alistair. The day Anders acquired enough alternate clothes to stop wearing his Grey Warden uniform he stashed it and never looked back.

Not that it isn't striking, but uniforms as a concept are so dull.]

Gut feeling, is it? I can work with that.

[child_of_bhaal]

Well if there's a chance to run out of space here, I imagine they could just travel into another universe. Or more simply, they could turn around.

Also I vote blue.

[unconfines]

[Anders lifts the blue up and squints at it.]

It is rather striking, isn't it? [He hums, holding it further away and closer to his face in increments.] Anyway, I was thinking more about running into boredom rather than running out of space, really. Seems to be a lot of it, as far as I can tell.

[child_of_bhaal]

It brings out your eyes.

You know you really shouldn't insinuate that you're bored out loud. What if they decided to "entertain" you?

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[monolike]

Blue!

[Right, this is the guy Sorey's seen captaining about.] Definitely blue. It'll look really nice with your hair.

[unconfines]

[It's always a good crew who will help him out with his fashion choices.]

Do you think so? Hmmm. [He holds it up to his face and looks not quite at the camera— at the screen of the device, where he can vaguely see his reflection.] It is my best quality, or so they tell me. No reason not to play it up, yes?

[monolike]

I'd also suggest colorful earrings, but I'm biased. Blue also has a lot of associations with royalty and nobleness historically speaking, so you'd definitely be dressing up with it.

Of course, the cut and style of the cloth is very important too. Does it have an open or closed collar?

[bryces_pup]

Because Atroma loves to see us suffer.

[Totally not bitter or anything about recent events. NOPE.]

...also, blue. The purple doesn't flatter you as much.

[unconfines]

[He doesn't argue the point because, well, he can't, mostly. The misery of his last week or so has been racking up credits in his (useless, for the moment) bank account, so at least someone out there likes to see the drama.]

That's four for blue so far, you know. At this rate I'm liable to start taking it personally.

[bryces_pup]

Well, the purple isn't terrible but it doesn't bring out your features like the blue does. It's a good, strong color on you. Seeing it in person would be ideal but I'll make do with this. To be fair, purple isn't always easy to pull off, especially the lighter in tone it is.

[...]

Yes, I know entirely too much about clothes. I plead that it's not my fault.

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[princessia]

[ Because she dislikes video, she's keeping to audio on her end. This man also seems familiar for some reason, but she's dismissing it as someone on the fleet she probably walked by before.

She doesn't want to talk about "drifting out", so let's talk about glowing fashion. ]

...Why not pick both?

[ Too bad there's no pink as an option. ]

[unconfines]

[Her voice is familiar to him, too, though without being able to see her face he doesn't quite make the full connection. But she sounds young, and his expression might soften a bit around the edges accordingly.

Regardless: this is probably his favorite answer of the lot, young or otherwise.]

That is always an option, isn't it? Variety is the spice of life, or soup, or something like that. That's, of course, assuming they're both my color.

[princessia]

Well, they're both pretty colors.

[ Perhaps she would have leaned more towards purple if she had to pick one, because it's the color of her doll. She's not really thinking much about which colors are going to match with him. Just that blue and purple are pretty. ]

You could wear blue on one day and purple on another.

video.

[brainiest]

I worried enough about Voids back in the world I was in before. I'd like to think we don't have to worry too much about this one, at least for now. If that changes then we'll just have to fight it out.

[ And at least she has her determination, and it can't be as bad as the Void in the Drabwurld threatening to kill all the worlds that ever existed. ]

As for the colour... Purple.

[unconfines]

Is that the sort of thing you fight? Genuine question. I always got the impression that the Void was less a thing you struggle against and more, you know. A vast, empty pit of nothingness where the Maker sends the really naughty of us.

[He examines the purple one as he talks, bright colors casting odd shadows on his face.]

You're the first for purple! I always did like it, personally.

[brainiest]

I've fought it before, sort of? It was coming to destroy the entire world, like a kind of approaching darkness, so we had to find a way to stop it before it ate us all. We did it, of course.

[ She can't help tilting her head, watching him for a moment - the Maker. That is very familiar. ]

Purple is regal, all about the imagination, about - strength, too, I suppose. I would wear it myself, but [ she motions down at her rather red and gold get up ] I'm somewhat spoken for.

video.

[intelligently]

I think something will happen before we run out of space.

( Like everything just stopping. All the worlds ending. Including space )

What are you pairing them with?

[unconfines]

Space wasn't exactly what I was concerned we'd run out of. Audience interest, more like.

[Idly, as he rummages through the off-camera pile of clothes by his feet.]

Anyway. As much as I would like to say I found the matching trousers to go along with them, I've gotten rather attached to these already. [He waves a pair of dark wash jeans at the camera.] Earth's done well with trousers, I have to give them that.