Tourist, May I?

[takingkarabusiness]

Who: Tourists and visitors!
Broadcast: Nooooooooope
Action: On the Tourist
When: May

[ Ship Catch all for May! Mingle! Talk to your neighbors! Walk in on your friends! Wait, don't do that. ]

Comments

[winn]

I don't know. I just...I hate that this stupid archaic way of thinking is bringing her down. She has so much potential, you know?

[ he feels responsible for her, while she's here. almost like a little sister. she's worried about people from home trying to trip her up, worried about being dutiful to a cruel man because of a promise she was forced to make...and he feels helpless, because there's nothing he can do about it.

he knows the values of equality are far from perfectly rooted back home either, but this is a whole new level of painful ignorance. ]

I just want her to see that. [ little sister is not ending up like him. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

[ omg winn you can't save everyone. but she knows you'll try. she'll try, too ]

I think that's a lot to put on one piece of embroidery.

[winn]

Gotta start somewhere, right?

[ he's been learning it from kara. hey, so, can he just bring the whole fleet over to national city? everyone's worlds suck. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

Right.

So... A quote or something, right? Right now I'm only thinking of Beyoncé songs.

[winn]

Lyrics make some great points sometimes, and she is 16 -

[ even if it's a really old 16 ]

Watchu got?

[ worst case scenario he could go for shakespeare and hope he doesn't come off patronizing. he could give it to kara to give to her, then it sounds fine, right? ]

[takingkarabusiness]

Oh, I don't know... I feel like so much of it takes more context than a sampler. "I woke up like this, flawless"? If her world is that backwards, I bet she doesn't know that much about feminism. Maybe something more neutral, like "she believed she could, so she did?"

I'm trying to think about all the things I wanted to buy on Etsy.

[winn]

I'll just write these down as we go through --

[ typing them out on his communicator, in case they want to revisit any ]

[takingkarabusiness]

I don't know how good I am at this, really.

[winn]

Oh come on, inspiring people is like -- your Kara superpower. I should know.

[takingkarabusiness]

I am pretty good at it. [ she concedes ]

Okay, maybe "This Princess Saves Herself" or "She Believed She Could So She Did"?

[winn]

[ don't argue with winn about your awesomeness, you will always lose. ]

Well she's from a land of actual titles and is about to be queen, so maybe not 'princess' -

[takingkarabusiness]

This Queen Saves Herself?

[winn]

I'm putting it down as a possibility -

[ typing! ]

[takingkarabusiness]

This is really sweet of you, Winn.

[winn]

Well, you know, if I can't eat sugar I may as well be sugar.

[ he shrugs, not really sure what to do with the compliment other than joke about it. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

Well, I'm sure she'll appreciate it. I want to get to know her better, too.

[winn]

I think you should, you guys'll be great for each other -- even if not for me.

[ shaking his head, he's shooting himself in the leg here, bringing all you gossiping ladies of his life together -- but that's what a hero does, right! ]

She needs someone like you to look up to, and to look out for her. Her situation with people from home is...complicated. One's already made a creepy threat against her. [ yes, he was always going to bring this up. because kara is so much better equipped to protect her, even half powered. but it was nice, for a couple minutes, to just have a simple fun easy exchange. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

You should run a Big Brothers, Big Sisters program here. I feel like we could all help each other out.

[winn]

I think that counts as a project - besides, it sounds more up your alley anyway.

[takingkarabusiness]

Sure, only invoking my rule when it's to use it against me.

[winn]

That's what rules are for!

[takingkarabusiness]

I think the dictionary would argue with your assessment, Winn.

[winn]

They update too slowly.

[takingkarabusiness]

Wikipedia, then.

[winn]

That's an easy fix.

[ he'll just edit it. ]