video/optional action

[dontthinkaboutelephants]

Who: Arthur
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Red fish if you want
When: Today

[Arthur turns on the video, and it appears he's hanging out in his bunk on the Red fish. He holds up a small moleskine notebook, turning the page to the camera and letting it adjust. On the page is a very neat, realistic sketch of a woman's face, delicate with big eyes and long dark hair. He flips it to the next page, where he sketched a man's face, with bigger lips and scruff around his mouth. He takes the notebook away so the camera can focus on his own face.]

Those are just some sketches of people I know. I was thinking maybe I could try and draw things for people. I can even try for some portraits of people from your home, if you'll describe them to me.

[ooc: The drawings are of Ariadne and Eames from Inception. I really like the idea of Arthur sketching people in his notebook, and I imagine his style of art like sin_repent's version. ANYWAY, feel free to have facetwin confusion with the drawings if you'd like.]

Comments

[kill_switch]

Furiosa.

[She thinks for a moment. Usually, she hadn't been too curious about other worlds until late, and searched for an appropriate question.]

Was there much conflict?

[dontthinkaboutelephants]

[He nods.] It's kind of separated from every day in the US. That's my home, the United States.

Furiosa. I like it. Your name, I mean.

[kill_switch]

United States ... It, sounds familiar. [She can't really say much beyond that. Maybe she read out it? Or heard of it from Miss Giddy or the Vuvalini in her youth.]

Arthur is ... unusual.

[dontthinkaboutelephants]

Hm. It's possible our worlds are alternate versions of each other.

Is it? [He smiles.] It's decently common but old-fashioned in my world.

[kill_switch]

I haven't heard of it. [Nope. She grew up in a world where The Dag and Toast were acceptable names.]

[dontthinkaboutelephants]

Really. Huh.

[A pause.] You said green things don't grow. How do you find water? I'm guessing it has to be hard to find there.

[kill_switch]

They pull it from deep in the ground, but not everyone has equal access to it.

[dontthinkaboutelephants]

Interesting. A power struggle then.

[He shakes his head with a smile.] Forgive me for continually quizzing you. I was brought up to be curious.

[kill_switch]

It's a very different world, here. I think I can see where people might be curious.

[Although it doesn't exactly work in reverse; it's infrequent, the amount of times she'll ask someone about their own world. Usually then, it's more about getting to know the person rather than a curiosity for another plane of existence.]