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

[pneumo]

[ He didn't know how else to answer other than he smells like Kitty!!! So of course when Winn pulls he looks both disappointed and apologetic, but follows the change in conversation immediately. ]

Um...on the ships?

[winn]

[ see smells like kitty would have been embarrassing but he'd also kind of like it. ]

Yeah, I got a feeling the people you know back home will just make me want to punch things, and with my luck I'd end up the thing hurt -

[pneumo]

Oh...no, you'd be fine. Everyone I knew back there is already gone. [ As in...dead. He's sort of outlived them all )8 ]

[winn]

[ BUT WHY IS EVERYONE ALWAYS DEAD. winn reaches a hand to squeeze his shoulder; even if they weren't kind to him ever, it can't be easy to lose every last familiar face around you. ]

I'm sorry, Sascha.

[pneumo]

[ He looks surprised to receive the contact especially considering how Winn had withdrawn only a moment prior...but his expression softens quickly. There's a grateful tinge to his guilty smile as he shrugs. ]

Vampires live a long time. [ It can't be helped ]

[winn]

[ he may be apprehensive, but it's not gonna keep him from trying to be a good friend to sascha. ]

That must be lonely. [ his own way to gently offer a friendly ear, if it's needed. ]

[pneumo]

Sometimes... [ aka, all the time. Even the vampires he's known are long-gone by this point, so there really is no one in the world who really knows him. ]

This is the first time I've ever spent so much time with other people. It's...nice.

[winn]

[ and it shows. he's got no restraint. ]

People can be pretty awesome when they want to be.

[ he nods with a small smile, trying to ignore that clench of guilt in his gut. they all want to go back, but for sascha, that means going back to a lonely world afraid of him. even if he took him back to national city with him - one day he'd die on him. there really isn't a perfect solution here. ]

[pneumo]

[ Poorly socialized, emotionally immature when it comes to intimacy or more complex feelings...Sascha in a nutshell.

And he doesn't even know Kitty's already dead. Coming to the fleet is literally the best thing that's ever happened to him since he'd adopted the identity of "Sascha." ]

I think people are amazing all the time. Even if they don't have powers. [ Mister Awesome patting his shoulder right now ]

[winn]

[ ok that makes him laugh. ]

Did Kitty put you up to this?

[pneumo]

...? Nope! [ he just genuinely likes you and the hooman race that much. ]

[winn]

[ you know what, he's not sure he believes you. shaking his head at sascha forever, basically. ]

Well, I think you're pretty amazing too. Can't speak to all vampires though cuz you're the only one I know.

[pneumo]

I'm...your first vampire??? Ever?? [ HE'S HONOURED... ]

[winn]

As far as I know, at least!

[pneumo]

Oh wow.... Wow! [ He needs to make a good impression!! ]

[winn]

I know - it's pretty exciting for me.

[pneumo]

Um...! Then! Anything you wanna know, just ask...! I mean, I never had a Mentor or anything to really help me but I know some stuff!

[winn]

Well, you're clearly not like the vampires I heard about in stories back home so I'm not really sure where to start -- wanna just...tell me stuff, and we'll take it from there? Cuz I basically wanna know everything, that's how I roll.

[pneumo]

Hehe....okay! [ Man, someone who's curious about him who doesn't want him dead; his heart's all aflutter. ]

Umm.... I guess the basic stuff is that when you're bit and our blood gets into you and you die, it makes you a vampire. But you usually get brain damage, so that's why you never remember who you were before!

[winn]

So you have to get bitten and die with a vampire's blood inside of you to turn? It takes all three, if one of these doesn't happen, you don't change?

[pneumo]

I thiiiink...so? I mean. You need a lot of their blood in you. I think if you have enough of it in you while you're alive it'll kill you too? And then do the same thing.

[winn]

What's 'a lot'?

[pneumo]

....I don't actually know. But usually we don't do it like that! It's easier to, um. Do it the first way.

[winn]

So let's see if I understand -- if you're just bitten. Nothing happens? Except -- a bite mark?

[pneumo]

Pretty much, yeah. Oh--but you'll probably bleed a lot, so be careful!