mk.03 (text, action)

[paraclete]

Who: Kaworu Nagisa (a hippie from the moon), y...ou?!
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: The Vanquish, cargo bay
When: 4/2, early to mid morning

[Kaworu's of the belief that there is beauty to be found pretty much anywhere, but the moon is still pretty sad. It's too reminiscent of "home", and the gloom it causes is thick and uneasy. So... his solution is to focus on what loveliness is already known. Therefore: ]

Hey. What's the prettiest thing you've ever seen? :)


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[Now that Kaworu's spending more time aboard his home ship, he figures he ought to explore it. Sleeping is out of the question anyway — he doesn't sleep unless he's visiting the Heron — and although part of him really wants to eat breakfast, that just makes him not want to eat breakfast. He shouldn't use protein as an emotional crutch... (Yikes.) So, poking around the ship he's meant to care for just makes sense.

He's ended up in the cargo bay. He's been here before, of course, and he's seen everything... But it's different to actually take the time to consider what's going on in here. In particular, the piece of machinery in front of him makes him wonder so much that wants to examine it further. So, after a little more wondering at its design, he does what he's meant to do, as far as he can tell: he steps onto it.

It's the ship's treadmill. Kaworu's never seen one before encountering the one on the Vanquish, and he's peering at its console with great interest. It clicks on. He hasn't pressed any buttons, but it clicks on, and starts whirring. Kaworu gives the slightest of flinches, almost startled by the sound of the machine, and blinks — it turns back off.

...

It's on again. This time, Kaworu leaves it going long enough for its track to start moving. He doesn't expect that, and ends up stumbling a bit, finally reaching one of his hands out, to steady himself. Caught up in his surprise, Kaworu is suddenly hovering. He's only about three or four inches in the air, but there's now a glow about his head, something soft and white and circular... It's a halo. With big eyes, Kaworu looks down at his feet, deliberating, before slowly lowering himself back onto the treadmill's track. He's finally figured it out: he starts walking. He's walking! On the treadmill! So this is what it's meant for... The halo is gone, but now Kaworu looks extremely pleased, and even proud of himself.] This is wonderful, [he says aloud. At least he's acclimating himself.]

Comments

text; I apologize for his texting

[forcesensitive]

[Oh hey he knows this network ID now!]

hey kaworu hows it goin i think the prettiest thing ive seen is okay theres this moon called endor with forests so big people could live in the trees all their lives and never touch the ground also its where the rebellion defeated the emperor and blew up this big weapon called a death star it was pretty sweet

he is CUTE

[paraclete]

Hi Finn! [How's it... going... where... What's going... Kaworu finally settles on,] It's going. :)

Trees that big sound really amazing. I like trees very much, but I wonder what it would be like to witness something like that... But I see that even such a beautiful place was troubled by war.

[forcesensitive]

theres even bigger ones on kashyyyk thats where my friend chewbacca is from at least i think he is its the wookiee homeworld but there was a war there too general kenobi could probably tell you about that he was there at least i think that already happened for him time travel is funny like that anyway its still really pretty and the debris field makes a lot of shooting stars

[paraclete]

Funny as in strange? I think time travel is funny (strange), too.

I like shooting stars very much. I used to spend a lot of time looking at the sky, but somehow I didn't pay attention to the stars. The first time I did, it was amazing. Definitely one of the most beautiful things I've seen.

I suppose the stars must look very lively when viewed through the leaves of trees. Finn, did you like visiting other planets? This is my first time doing it (although I was once on a moon).

[forcesensitive]

yeah funny strange like i have to be really careful cause i dont know how much everyone knows and i dont want to tell them anything bad but theres some good things too

youd probably like the galaxy center it looks like a huge globe all full of stars and theres ones going out in all directions and theres spiral arms going out to the outer rim and if you get a holo overlay you can make all the inhabited systems light up and see everywhere people live at least everywhere we know about there are probably plenty of people in the unmapped sectors too

if you can see them at all i mean sometimes there are too many leaves and its just dark but its a different kind of dark than just being out in space cause youre always near the planet which looks kind of like a moon when youre on a moon but yeah most places are pretty cool except i didnt like jakku its a big desert and the only good thing there is my friend rey i hope she decides not to go back cause i dont want to follow her there its really dry and boring and theres no food

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I don't know.

[paraclete]

Because you've seen so many beautiful things that you're having trouble deciding?

[ :) ?!?!?!? ]

[interstices]

No.

[paraclete]

I see.

Your trip from Germany, was it by airplane?

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[ladybro]

Manhattan. At night.

[paraclete]

That's in America, right? What do you like about it?

[ladybro]

She glows at night. Man, looking down at from the penthouse of any skyscraper worth its steel? That's when I love it the most. She's all lit up.

[paraclete]

I haven't really had the opportunity to see a city's livelihood at night like that. It sounds like a meaningful experience. But I've seen Earth's lights from a higher perch, and its glowing clusters of community stunned me. I think I can understand loving that particular glow.

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[tobeajedi]

That's a tough one. Stellar clouds and nebulae are always worth looking at. On a smaller scale, the ice planet where I trained.

[paraclete]

The planet I came from used to have areas completely covered in ice, as well. I'd like to have seen something like that in person.

I've seen pictures of nebulae. Something I thought was wonderful was seeing how the images grew more detailed over time. What humans first saw as a hazy blur from far away was, a hundred years later, a vivid wisp of the colorful unknown, a great endeavor.

[tobeajedi]

Just areas? [oh, right, he's from Earth, isn't he.] I'd like to visit Earth. It sounds like it's got a lot of environments for one planet.

You've seen how the pictures change through history, huh? I don't think we have records that go as far back as that, to when people first began looking at the night sky. It's too bad that's about as long as most Humans live.

[paraclete]

Once it did. Some spaces were so diverse that a single territory could contain almost every biome present on the planet. Depending on where a person was, they might be able to leave a desert and end up in a forest just a few hours later.

Yeah. But a lifetime can accomplish a lot.

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[robitussin]

you answer first

[paraclete]

[Ah... Weirdly, he's shy. Or maybe not so weirdly, given she saw him in all his embarrassing lack of glory, that fateful night.]

There's this person, you see...

[robitussin]

oh yeah

that dude you told me about?

[paraclete]

Yeah. I'm probably easy to predict when it comes to this sort of topic.

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[pneumo]

One time, Bigby was too big for a door when he was running so he slide across the ground on his tummy and it was super-cute.

Does that count?♥

[paraclete]

I think it counts! Cute sights are important, too. :)

[pneumo]

I agree! It was the first time I'd seen a wolf do that too hehe

[paraclete]

So it's an important experience, right?