Open mingle for the First Breath

[treasureling]

Who: Everyone on the First Breath! Including newbs, if any are assigned today
Broadcast: Maybe?!
Action: First Breath
When: 2/7-2/14? About the next week

[ Mingle post for the First Breath (& guests)! ]

Comments

[sensationate]

... my Alex. Alex Daniels. We arrived together. [ Which was a thing some people saw, and nothing he cares to further explain. If she doesn't know who Alex is, that's her definite loss. ]

Such as what? If it would take longer, it's not the most ideal.

[proteusmoon]

[ Cecil doesn't pay much attention to the network. She knows how it works, of course, thanks to the chips put into their brains, but she doesn't like using it. She's not from a world where such things are typical and it feels impersonal to her. The repetition of such insistent possessiveness though makes her very uncomfortable, and she's conflicted between that unsettling her and sympathy for him being separated from someone he's... apparently fixated on. ]

Then it's not worth talking about.

[ And then she remembers that she's not the captain of this vessel and suddenly she is so relieved that this isn't her matter to settle. She did agree to let Tim take the reigns, after all. ]

In any case, welcome to the First Breath. Tim will want to talk to you. You should speak to him if you have further issues as well.

[sensationate]

Tim who? [ It's not like Jordan isn't one to settle his own problems, but the idea of someone else going around claiming to be a problem-solver sounds like the perfect person to prank anyway. ] Why him?

[proteusmoon]

Tim Drake. He's the captain.

[ Yes, good. Let Tim be your problem-solver and/or unwitting victim.

Not that she isn't excruciatingly easy to prank herself, but... that can be a secret for a while longer. ]

[sensationate]

Oh, someone with authority over the ship, then?

[ Yeah, that just seems to outright amuse him. ]

[proteusmoon]

[ It gets better. ]

He's seventeen.

[sensationate]

[ Jordan laughs outright. ]

No. How does that even happen?

[proteusmoon]

[ Atroma, amirite? ]

I presume because it's entertaining.

[sensationate]

Does he have any actual power here or do we just get to sit and laugh at his expense?

[proteusmoon]

Well, he says he doesn't expect us to listen, but nor does he wish to relinquish his... title.

[sensationate]

[ How gray of him. ]

So the answer is that we laugh at him. Then so be it, right?

[proteusmoon]

I do believe he means well, but...

[ She shrugs, looking a little sheepish. She does respect Tim as a person, but not quite yet as a leader. Leadership is too important for her to do what she does in every other instance with people-- give respect until they give her reasons not to anymore. ]

[sensationate]

There's no way a seventeen year old can mean completely well.

[proteusmoon]

Have you had a lot of experience with seventeen-year-olds?

[sensationate]

I was a seventeen year old with a lot of other seventeen year olds. I remember what they're like.

[proteusmoon]

I don't think I was a typical seventeen-year-old.

I didn't personally know many others, at least.

[sensationate]

Typicality has nothing to do with it. Were you home schooled or just a recluse?

[proteusmoon]

Hmmmm... I'm not sure what you mean by "home-schooled".

[ What other kind of schooling is there? ]

I was trained from an early age for knighthood.

[sensationate]

Schooled at home. [ He squints. ] As opposed to public schooling.

Literal and actual knighthood?

[proteusmoon]

[ She kind of squints back. She's not understanding what the difference between these two concepts is. ]

Literal and actual knighthood.

[ She nods in affirmation. ]

I'm afraid I don't have some sort of identification to prove it.

[sensationate]

I'd believe it, considering how they take everything of ours when we arrive here. [ Yes, he still misses his stuff. How dare they. ] But it's not like having proof would grant you any authority here anyway, so I don't really care. What is it you do here?

[proteusmoon]

What does my knighthood have to do with authority anywhere?

[sensationate]

Knights are generally on orders from their queen or king and act like the officials in disputes, don't they? Some kind of royal power decreed to them.

[ no he doesn't actually know, shut up ]

[proteusmoon]

[ In his defense, he's not too far from the truth. Just... well, Cecil hasn't done the whole "follow the monarch's orders" in over a year now, in part because... er, she is the aforementioned queen now. But she's not telling most people that. ]

The queen mandates a small force of the country's citizens with the authority to settle inner disputes and intervene should matters get out of hand. The royal guard protects the queen and the orders of knights protect the country's interests outside the main city both within and outside the limits of the kingdom.

So, no, not really. Most knights are merely instruments utilized by those around them. A knight is a servant-- not a ruler.

[sensationate]

Yeah, but that's like trying to say the police don't have any power over the public. They do, even if they're ruled by the state who's ruled by the country. They definitely have authority.