Tourist ROAD TRIP (mingle)

[takingkarabusiness]

Who: Touristas and visitors
Broadcast: as needed
Action: The Tourist!
When: The month of June

[ Get bit by the June Bug and mingle to your heart's content! ]

Comments

[takingkarabusiness]

I'm trying to help you out here, Jim.

[universal_charm]

_{[ He laughed. ]}

Nah, it's okay. It's a ridiculous story, it should be told truthfully. And it's a story that does Pike a lot of credit - shows the kind of man he is.

[takingkarabusiness]

So, he knew your father?

[universal_charm]

No, he read about him. Pike wrote a dissertation on the Kelvin - that is, my father's ship.

He was captain for about five minutes while he kept the ship on a collision course with Nero's ship so that everyone else could escape when the auto pilot malfunctioned.

[takingkarabusiness]

Oh...

I'm sorry to hear that. He probably saved a lot of people, but that doesn't always take the sting out of it.

[universal_charm]

_{[ He shrugged. ]}

To be honest, I don't have much feeling about it. I never knew him. He's just a name on paper, a shadow to live up to.

[takingkarabusiness]

You and my cousin might have some things to talk about.

[universal_charm]

Your cousin the super hero?

[takingkarabusiness]

Correct.

He was an infant when we left our planet, so he never really knew his parents, either. I think he still lives in their shadows, though.

[universal_charm]

It's difficult when your dad was a literal hero. All I've ever really known about him was from the books I read about the Kelvin, or Pike's dissertation, and most of that is focused around the phenomenon that caused the Kelvin's demise.. Mom and Sam didn't talk about him much.

[takingkarabusiness]

I suppose, yes. Our parents had high status on Krypton, but that's one of those conditional things that doesn't really... transfer...

Who's Sam?

[universal_charm]

_{[ There's a pause, a moment of tension that is barely the span of a heartbeat, but it's there. ]}

He's my brother. Older brother, that is.

[takingkarabusiness]

...Complicated?

[universal_charm]

He left me on my own with my uncle when I was twelve. I haven't seen him since.

_{[ Another shrug, because after all this time he was rather apathetic about that too. He didn't have it in him to actually be angry about it anymore - it was a waste of energy. Though if he ever actually saw him, that might change things. ]}

[takingkarabusiness]

Ah. Not what you would have preferred.

[universal_charm]

No, not really. My mom had already dumped us there, he was kind of the last bulwark between me and Uncle Frank.

But it is what it is. It stopped bothering me years ago.

[takingkarabusiness]

I appreciate you sharing it anyway.

[universal_charm]

_{[ He raised a brow. ]}

Uh - you're welcome?

_{[ He didn't necessarily try to keep it a secret, it just didn't often come up. Pike was a far more difficult thing to admit than the fact his mother and brother had abandoned him. Never mind that they're a key source of his abandonment issues. ]}

[takingkarabusiness]

Just, any of it. I like knowing about the people I live with.

[universal_charm]

Oh - well, you're welcome - again.

_{[ He had begun to tell her something at the bar on the Iskaulit, but he was glad she hadn't seemed to remember. That... that was the hardest thing to tell. Only one other person knew, and Kara was such a caring person - he didn't want her to worry about it, even though he was fully recovered now. ]}

[takingkarabusiness]

[ she certainly has not forgotten but she doesn't want to push her luck all at once ]

Is there anything you'd like to know about me?

[universal_charm]

_{[ He pursed his lips, tilting his head slightly as he considered. ]}

What was life like - on your original home planet?

_{[ He remembered she had said that she was old enough to recall her time on the planet, unlike her cousin. ]}

[takingkarabusiness]

Krypton?

Peaceful. We're a people who believe in arbitrating matters and negotiation, rather than violence or brute force, which is somewhat ironic given what I do on Earth. My mother was the grand adjudicator and my uncle was a top scientist. We lived a very placid life.

[universal_charm]

Well, to be fair, sometimes those methods don't work, no matter how much you might want them to. Force is sometimes necessary, it just shouldn't be the first option.

_{[ As a Star Fleet captain he knew this, and he did try to seek peace through words before his weapons. But reason wasn't always something to be found in those they met out in the stars. Nero had proven that, as had Khan and Marcus. ]}

What's a grand adjudicator?

[takingkarabusiness]

High judge? Like a Supreme Court Justice, only without the rest of the court.