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Who: Apollo
Broadcast: Fleet wide
Action: SS Bishop
When: Now-ish?

Broadcast

[Apollo looks... a little flustered? Slightly bewildered? Like he might have accidentally exploded cooking supplies?]

I'm trying this cooking thing. I'm pretty sure it's not dangerous to eat, but does anyone want to come and be a guinea pig? These gel things are making roasts a lot fucking harder than they should be...

Action

[On the Bishop, Apollo has taken over the kitchen for now. He manages to look surprisingly domestic, bumming around in ship standard provided clothing and hair pulled up into a ponytail that bobs along to whatever music he's imagining as he 'cooks'.

Cooking occasionally involves eye lasers. Which doesn't work on the gels half as well as he hoped it would.]

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A little, mm. But he's with - Erik, and I'm fine on my ship, so it's worked out. Besides, I lived with him for eleven years - we probably could use the break from each other.

That's his other half?

[He paid attention. And remembered.]

That'd be him.

... that was less enthusiastic than I expected.

Er. Should I be more enthusiastic?

I don't know. Do you like him?

Erik? Of course, we're friends.

Good, good.

I dunno, you seemed a bit, withdrawn for a moment. I'm probably reading into things.

Maybe a bit. [with a wry expression] I'm not a very enthusiastic person.

You remind me a bit of Jeroen. He's a bit subdued. Master of the blunt, uninformative statement.

[he laughs a little] I'm bad at being blunt. But I'm pretty good at rambling, uninformative statements. [a mock sigh] No one wants to hear how something works.

I do.

[Apollo is interested in a lot of things and he's a very attentive listener.]

Well - I meant in general. Sometimes people like to listen. [and he gestures to Apollo]

I'm find with chatting, but I'm quite capable of listening. Most people are fairly interesting if you're open to finding them interesting.

You don't have to tell me that - I like to listen, too. Honestly, sometimes I prefer it.

It can be good. Learn a lot. About people.

Mm, that's true. Especially in places like this - learn about them and their worlds.

Exactly.

I've learned about Kitty and Kurt's world, which sounds like a shit hole, frankly, and met someone with surprisingly similar powers to me. A world with multiple parallels in contact, but a girl who only seems to exist in the one she comes from.

Ah - I've learned a lot about Kitty's world, too. [boy has he] Ours are . . . similar in a way, but I'm from years before any of that happened. Another timeline is - probably easier to say than another world entirely. [but he does perk up a little] Someone with similar powers?

Oh yeah, I follow. Different times of parallel existences.

[Welcome to superhero life, where this is a normal conversation. Aren't we glad to be here?]

Well... yeah. I probably shouldn't go giving away her secrets, but yes, there's a female personage with flight and eye lasers.

Pretty much. It's . . . not a headache anymore, I'm just a little exasperated about it all now.

[he's starting to figure out that this is something of a norm with superheroes and just. Why. Why this]

Oh. Are you speaking about Kara?

Oh, you know her!

[Subtlety, they name is not Apollo. Not in the slightest.]

Yeah, Kara and I have surprisingly similar abilities and stuff.

That's - a good thing, isn't it? Do you get your abilities from the sun as well?

Sort of. I'm solar powered and a solar battery. I charge in sunlight and I can hold that charge a long time. More I use my powers, more I burn down.

Being flash frozen is really painful though.

Huh. Do you need to be a certain distance from the sun too? Like Kara?

. . . er. I'd think anyone would find being flash frozen incredibly painful.