Arrival broadcast

[neversets]

Who: Apollo + Others
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: Now? Until shuffle?

Broadcast
[The camera shows a handsome, very built man sleeping in a bed. And it continues to show that for a very long time. Either is started broadcasting very early, or he's doing a very good job of pretending to be asleep when he's not.

When he does move, he sits up carefully, pushing his hair back from his face. He's wearing cargo pants and a plain white t-shirt that seems somehow too... mundane on him.

He gets up after a brief stretch and moves over to the communicator, picking it up and clicking it off without offering a word.]


On ship
[Apollo eventually emerges from his room, a bit somber and subdued. He wanders around in bare feet, moving quietly along the metal hallways. When he finds a window, he leans his hands against it, looking at the distant star at the heart of this system with undisguised longing.]

Comments

[neversets]

[ He gasps with mock indignation. ]

You would be so right, I run way too hot to make icecream much fun to eat.

[passingthrough]

I guess the name isn't just for show then? [He'd certainly mentioned powers like flying to the sun, but she didn't know much about the extent of them.] Solar powers?

[neversets]

No, he named me for the sun god for a reason. Solar powered, rather than solar powers. More sun, more heat, more boom.

[passingthrough]

He? You didn't come up with your own codename?

[neversets]

No. I was made. Some guy volunteered to become a black ops superhero and they made him into me and gave me the name Apollo. It's not just a code name. It's my name.

[passingthrough]

You... [It's unsettling. It sounds like the kind of genetic manipulation going on back home except the guy volunteered and the result isn't a homicidal maniac.]

You don't remember anything about who you were before?

[neversets]

Nope. Never have, And before you ask, no, I don't want to know. It genuinely doesn't interest me. I'm not that person and knowing who he was isn't important to me.

I'm Apollo. I can walk on the surface of the sun, I always make sure to pick my daughter after school like a normal parent and my best friends are a woman who replaced her blood with nanites and a woman who hatched from a giant egg in a temple in Tibet.

[passingthrough]

[She nods. What is she going to do with that? Argue that he should be filled with angst and regret and concern for a man he remembers nothing about? He sounds more together than her. More power to him.] I mean who doesn't know someone who hatched from a giant egg. [Kitty. Kitty doesn't know anyone like that.]

About your powers though... You need to charge from a star?

[neversets]

[ He laughs. He is completely aware how ridiculous his life is. ]

Yeah. Well, for most of the fancy stuff. As I say, I was custom built to be the most powerful post-human on Earth, which requires a lot of energy.

[passingthrough]

[She has plenty of her own out-of-context weird bits. Or even in context they can be pretty strange, so she appreciates the similarity if anything.]

Any particular kind of star? Does it need to be like Earth's? I'm only asking because with the space travel sometimes we stay places with artificial light or other kinds of stars. [Which she probably wouldn't have thought much about if not for Kara's troubles.]

[neversets]

Pretty sure any star will do. I've used other stars before, though I prefer Earth's sun.

... I don't know about a sun lamp. Never been an issue before.

private

[passingthrough]

[She's not going to drop a name, but since Kara is secretive she makes the feed private.] I know someone else in the fleet with sun-based powers. It's been a problem.

[neversets]

Oh wow. I've met other people, in other dimensions, with sun powers, but always a bit different.

Does he/she/they/ whatever sicken without sunlight, or just need it for super powers?

[passingthrough]

Just needs it for the super powers thankfully. Do you sicken without it? [Because that could be a worrisome thought.] Actually, a couple of us have been trying to come up with a device that might simulate it?

[neversets]

No. I feel a bit weak if I let myself flatline, but it doesn't happen often. I usually keep a better track of it since the one time it happened in an emergency.

... that would still be amazing.

[passingthrough]

Wouldn't it though? You know, unless we just all get the surprise cancer instead.

[neversets]

Well... that would suck. I don't want to give people cancer.

[passingthrough]

Neither do I. We are taking safety precautions. [She can just be sarcastic at times.]

[neversets]

I've never given anyone cancer before... I wonder if prolonged exposure to me by normal people would have that affect?

[ He's just musing it over now, he doesn't actually sound worried. ]

[passingthrough]

...I don't know, but if you figure that out soon, feel free to let me know. This can always be a network only kind of back and forth. [Little smile.]

[neversets]

I'm pretty sure I don't. Though I could give a sunburn if I tried, I guess...

[passingthrough]

There you go. Maybe you can set yourself up with a tanning business when we're near suns.

[neversets]

[ He laughs. ]

Yeah, or people could go the natural route and just sunbathe.

[passingthrough]

Well, sure, if you want to take the profit out of it. [As if she really cares about profit.]

[neversets]

Honestly, I think I'm more comfortable taking the profit out of it.