driftfleet | [open] INVADIN' UR SHIPS AND GYMS

Who: Takeshi
Broadcast: N/A
Action: On your ships. Yea rly. (Except for the Blue Fish..... he'll just knock.) Also, the Iskaulit gym and garden!
When: Today!!

[Takeshi's kept to himself, mostly. Maybe it's a strange depression phase — he's usually very productive, really!! Before he was always doing a job, after their ship crashed on a planet, or before that, when he was morale officer on the Tranquility. But now... Now everything feels so weird. He has his own little room again, but his things... they're gone. He used to have the wooden cut-outs his dad made him. Reika and Mattie, the princess-warrior and dragon. Now they're gone... and so is his drawings. Things that reminded him of good things. Well! He's not gonna let it hold him back anymore!

Which is why he's randomly teleporting into everyone else's ships to look around them. In your kitchens, your cargo bays, your medical areas and main controls. Everywhere. What? Nobody ever said touring the fleet was off-limits! He's got his flexi-armor on under his large sweater and a small holster with a gun on his hip beneath the hem of it. Because that's normal. Just like it's normal to wander around people's places of living.

... Ahem, but the Blue Fish's door is shut, and he just knocks and waits in front of it expectantly. Not sure if you can see him out the door, seeing as how he's like... not even four foot tall yet. But he's there.

After he investigates thoroughly, he goes to the gym, because now that he doesn't have his power suit? He's gotta get fit and prepared as best he can. Granted, he's by no means going to take anyone in a fight, but he's still gonna practice. His dad, he practiced, like, all the time! So it stands to reason he's gotta work out, too! You can hear is little huffs and puffs all the while; a careful release of air as he punches.

He can be seen punching a bag on the lowest section (because, y'know, shorty), his brow fixed in a determined stare. While he's clearly not inflicting any damage with those strikes because he's not exactly grown enough to, anyone with any skill in hand-to-hand combat may notice that he's actually not throwing punches with reckless abandon like a child playing pretend. No, actually — it's a genuine technique, albeit not perfected yet. He had studied his adoptive father quite often and picked up a few moves of his own, to be sure.

Practice makes perfecter!]

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[He nods proudly.]

Yup! I even saw samurai use cool robots! They was future samurai. From far away, in the... future!

Interesting. I had been under the impression samurai were gone from the world by then. [Like... less than a hundred years from now. Or then. Or-- well, her time.] What do they use such robots for?

For big cool fights!

[WOOP SORRY GETTING A LITTLE EXCITED THERE.]

To protect the whole wide world!

... In cool movies, anyways...

Aren't movies like what we're doing now?

So there are only robot-using samurai on TV?

[I am such a downer]

... Yeah, I guess that's all there is...

I never met a real samurai before...

[Man, okay she feels bad. Here, kid, have a bone.]

There are plenty of worlds out there we don't know about, though. I'm sure robot-using samurai exist on at least one.

You could try asking the people here. They could tell you all kinds of things.

[He taps his chin, thoughtful.]

Maybe I'll ask everyone on the network! I'll ask if they have samurai that uses robots.

Somebody's gotta know...!

Or maybe they'll know the same...movies you do, at least. [It'll help him to meet more people, anyway.]

Are you the only one here from your world?

[She imagines so. He can't be lucky enough to have a guardian with him.]

[He rubs his chin, thoughtful.]

Whoa... I don't know...

I never asked!

[YOU'VE OPENED HIS EYES TO QUESTIONS THAT NEED ANSWERS, MY FRIEND.]

[Sadly she's pretty sure that if there were someone he'd have been claimed by now. But Makie smiles anyway.]

Is there anyone in particular you'd like to see again?

Mmm... I guess...

I'd really like to see my dad again. His name's Kaze! He adopted me in Japan. But I also really love my parents from space... Heather and Mr. Ned! They taked care of me, you know. It was really nice to be in a... a real family!

It's good that you found people to take care of you. It makes these places a little easier, doesn't it? [Though she doesn't miss the key words. Adopted. And parents from space. She won't ask what happened to his real parents. He might not know. They might be dead. He might have a fun story like hers. It's your business, kid.]

You've been in space before this?

[He nods firmly.]

Yeah, I've been on another ship! It was way super worse, though... 'cus of the monsters and, uh, other bad stuff. We had to get into pods sometimes, and it was bad, 'cus we had to have a tube down our neck! [He grips his neck, sticking his tongue out.] Blegh!

...that does sound awful. [Tubes down your neck WHAT THE HELL.] There were monsters?

[A nod, simple and calm, as if talking about the weather.]

There was monsters, yeah. They were pretty scary... I, um... I killed one, once.

But it was trying to hurt my mom; I had to do something!

Then you did the right thing. [It's okay, kid, you'll get no censure here.]

It would be nice if children didn't have to deal with such things, but the world is rarely kind. Protecting your mother is both honourable and brave.

I think so... I think so, too.

There's always so much bad stuff. But... it's not always so bad.

There's nice people here. And no monsters that wanna eat us...

The majority of the people on the fleet are good people, yes. But not all of them. [Be wary, small child.]

But...I think you're right about the monsters. I haven't seen any at all.

Yeah... It might go bad, but... We don't gotta worry about things being bad yet!

We gotta enjoy it just in case!

Enjoy it...just in case?

[...what but that is like the opposite of my world view]

Yeah! In case things go bad later. If we don't enjoy stuff now, then we'll miss it!

... And then things'll go bad and we'll wish we enjoyed when it was nice.

[...huh.]

That sounds like a... very healthy way to go through life. Do you prepare in case things go badly in the future?

Hmm... I guess so! I always make sure I got something to fight with.

Do you?

I am always prepared.

[Benefit of being a pessimist. She says it gently.] But it's nice to be able to enjoy life in between.

[She's learning, smol child.]

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