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[Excuse the owlish-eyed girl with the weird pasted-on smile. She has things to talk about!]

Attention...!

I will not use names, because I don't want to embarrass them, b-but...! I needed to tell a very particular pilot something very important! And that is this: if you do d-decide to propose to Miss L — to, ummmm... to your girlfriend, you should not give her a ring made out of spaceship parts. Because that's kind of strange to wear. I believe that sort of advice should be applied to everyone, though...!

Unless the person you love really, really, really enjoys spaceships.

I suppose we should all wear what makes us happy!

I do admit, I've always wanted jewelry... I-I mean, I know they're very expensive most of the time, but I've never gotten to wear any before. Maybe I should make some! Oh, but I don't think I would be very good at it... Is there a particular way to make nice jewelry, even for someone like me? Necklaces and rings and....

....

I don't think I can wear earrings. That seems like it would hurt.

Ah!! I apologize, I guess I've been thinking so much about different topics! Like — games, and stories, and stuff to wear, and so many new things that I've never gotten to enjoy myself before. I think I even have.... friends! Do I? Is there a level that I need to reach with people before I can be friends with them? P-perhaps there's a way to officiate friendships...

Maybe with rings, like marriage! Friendship rings!!

Comments

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[firstrebel]

[ Hera thinks maybe she knows who Koala is talking about, but that's not her business. Still - ]

I think anytime people exchange jewelry - for any reason - it should be meaningful for them. Maybe spaceships are meaningful for some people.

But friendships are pretty subjective. I think it's safe to say you have a few.

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[scrubscrub]

[What are you talking about she was SUPER!!! DISCREET!!!]

Subjective.... that sounds very intimidating.

Does that mean some may not see me as a friend, even if I see them as one?

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[catamite]

[Nel is just... cracking up... at this whole damn broadcast.

he's so charmed, gosh.]

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[scrubscrub]

[..........!!!]

N-nel, what's so funny? Do I have something on my face?

[Her hands fly to her face, because there is clearly nothing she was trying to be funny about, so...!]

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Miss L and a pilot, huh?

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[imahologram]

Koala!

[Leia's sitting in bed despite the decidedly not-bed hour of the day, a little more stiffly than is her usual wont. Don't get stabbed, it's not a good time. And admittedly, she's smothering an embarrassed laugh.]

I thought you were going to talk to him on the Huntress!

[video; private]

[scrubscrub]

W-well... I... I kept getting stage fright!

Is that the correct term for it? So I was going to write it on paper, but then I realized I wasn't very good at writing. So I tried to memorize the right way to say it!

... But I don't think I did very well.

video; five minutes later i'm still dying

[bryces_pup]

[This has got to be the absolute cutest thing that Riona has ever come across in her time here. Or perhaps ever. She's laughing so hard at first that she has to hold off replying until she can compose herself.

When she finally does come on, she's still wearing a huge grin.]

Very sage advice. Though, I must ask - was this engagement supposed to be a surprise?

[Because usually they are and Koala might have just... blown it. Or so Riona suspects.]

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[scrubscrub]

[............................................]

I don't... think it was a surprise.

Unless — [GASP]

What if Miss L proposes first, and used me to throw off the trail?!

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[diplomacme]

[ INTERNAL SCREAMING EXCUSE YOU HAN SOLO DOES NO ONE TALK TO THE PARENTS FIRST ANYMORE. ]

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[diplomacme]

[ Anyway.

Somehow, she manages not to sound judgmental about this pilot's choice of engagement rings. But she is. She really is. ]

If this pilot is smart, he'll find a simple, elegant ring that is most certainly not made of ship parts.

[ But, more importantly. ]

Friends do sometimes exchange jewelry, as mementos. One of my most prized possessions is a necklace someone gave me a long time ago.

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[save_the_souls]

[Okay this all makes him laugh. Koala is too adorable. ]

Earrings aren't so bad once you have a piercing...though maybe you should wait until you're older for those.

[Since you're a wee looking thing Koala]

And there's not a specific level you have to reach to be someone's friend, it's different for everyone. [But since she's so interested in jewelry too] Though there is a custom for close friends to wear friendship bracelets...

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[scrubscrub]

Oh, but I'm eleven! I should hurry while I can, shouldn't I? Because life is very short!

[DETERMINED.]

Friendship bracelets? Is there a special way to make them?

[ video ]

[beardstrokes]

[ Let's avoid the Han and Leia debacle for now until he's inevitably dragged into it. ]

Earrings shouldn't hurt. It's quick and afterwards a little numb, but probably not that awful.

As for levels of friendship, I find that is something you tend to realize in your heart rather than your head.

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[scrubscrub]

Oh, that's good! I suppose I'm very good with pain anyway...

[But, you know. She doesn't like it.]

Then it's a feeling, and not a thought?

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[wolvenmemory]

You sure it isn't the thought behind the ring that counts?

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[scrubscrub]

I suppose so... but it would be silly to give someone something they wouldn't like...

Like... Like giving someone strawberries when they're allergic!

[voice]

[thebarkside]

[ jade does not know this girl At All, but some things are too hard to pass up. ]

Hi! My name is Jade. What ship are you on?

[voice]

[scrubscrub]

I'm on the SS Huntress, miss! It's a very good ship.

[very fucKIN CLEAN!!]

[voice]

[falconing]

She's on the ship with the blenders, the three pilots, and the weird ninja kid.

[ DO YOU WANT HER ]

[action]

[killedwithlove]

[I hope you wanted company, Koala.

Cole turns up virtually silently, still wearing the exact same clothes he was when he and Anders came to heal up her burn.

He appears in front of her, and holds out a hand with a ring on his palm.]

For you. I hope it fits.

[action]

[scrubscrub]

[She stares in awe at the small ring — well, at first she was going to ask Cole if there was someone he was here to see, perhaps make him some tea and direct him proper, but...! She looks down at the object in his palm with a surprised look.]

For... me? I... I couldn't possibly! Are you sure this isn't better suited to someone more important?

[But it's. So pretty. She likes it.]

[Voice]

[falconing]

[ what the fuck is this oh my GOD

so ahsoka contacted him immediately after this, and han has been busy idk taking care of his STUPID GIRLFRIEND WHO GOT STABBED and DOING IMPORTANT THINGS and this is the thanks he gets

THIS ]

What.

[ that's it

that's all you get ]

[voice]

[imahologram]

We were joking, Han. It just got a little out of hand.