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Who: Kitty Pryde and everyone who tags!
Broadcast: Yep!
Action: Planet fun! Or Windrose maybe. I'm flexible.
When: Now or nowish. Definitely now-adjacent.

[Broadcast]
I have an important request. I need someone who can make cheese. Do cheese makers have an old timey name like cobblers and haberdashers or are those only for clothes? Anyway, calling all of those.

Cheese doesn't seem to be a thing here from what I can tell, but we're just one ingredient away from some really great pizza. I have no idea what cheese requires other than cows or goats or something. I grew up so close to Wisconsin, but I feel like I learned so little.

I would also accept alternative cheese. I know there were vegan kinds made out of hopes and dreams or something I assume. I can pay you or share the finished pizza or do something in trade if I had skills. I could beat someone up for you maybe. [She's not going to do that. Probably.] We'll work it out.

[Action]
[She's on the planet doing all of these things and more but this post won't get to CAPTCHA! You might find her on the Windrose veeeery rarely!]

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[He does actually do a lot better at that than she would have guessed. Oops. Sorry, Winn! But she's glad for it. It seemed like Winn needed a win.]

Mmm, that one. [She points to a simple, green dinosaur that reminds her a bit of dragons. The booth runner pulls it down and hands it to her. She thanks him and then gives Winn a kiss on the cheek.] My hero.

[ years and years of gaming practice. people told him it'll amount to nothing, that he should be spending his time doing something of value, something productive.

well take that, people. he can stay awake and function longer than any human should, and he just won his girlfriend an adorable plush. if that's not valuable and productive - he doesn't know what is!

he's smiling like an idiot at that kiss. ]

Told you I'm good at the games.

[Gamer training. You're too cute.] I should have believed. Noooow, what am I going to name this little guy?

Yes you should've.

[ hey, it's still training! trying not to think about how the fact that he got shooting tips from his crazy homicidal dad is actually kinda creepy now because it was never nor will it ever be with a real gun, and he is so done thinking about his dad today. ]

Hmm...how about Chicago?

[And that is one of the more touching names he could have offered without going too far into a place of tears. Instead, she just feels...really lucky to be with him.]

Chicago's a good name.

[ you know what makes him feel incredibly lucky? how often he manages to stumble on the right thing to say to kitty. knowing that he's someone who makes her happy not just with his skills but with his heart makes him feel so much better about who he is as a person. ]

Chicago it is.

[ he kisses her forehead and gives the plush a quick pet. ]

So what's next?

[She doesn't love him for his good looks or even his brains. Though they ae both EXCELLENT perks. She loves him for his heart.]

Mmm, snack?

[ it's incredibly refreshing, you know, most girls only ever want him for his body. ]

That should never be a question. [ because the answer is always yes! ] Let's see what they got!

[She laughs warmly and kisses his cheek before gently putting Chicago in her bag with the photo of her parents.] I'm hoping for something on a stick. Seems only right.

It can't call itself a carnival if food isn't served on a stick. That's breaking like, inter-galactic carnival law, or something.

Surprise meat on a stick it is! Or sugar. Hopefully not sugared meat.

[ tilting his head ]

If that's what they got, I'll scrape the sugar you take the meat?

Wow, let's not get to the worst-case scenario yet. Oh! Hey, that looks kind of like a funnel cake over there. [Nodding toward a nearby stand.]

Oh, don't tease me, stand --

[ okay, so he's not as starved as he was when they first landed here, but this whole junk food withdrawal thing is really hard on him. life in the fleet requires comfort food, ok, tons and tons of comfort food. as does the amount of work he's been doing. he should've had double tons and tons of comfort food. he may regret this deeply on his next lesson with jim but right now, he's just so happy to see some fried food. ]

Come on, let's try it - [ there's so much smiling happening here -- right up the moment where he runs up to the stand, asks for two, digs in his pocket and...finds out he's short.

dammit. between the inn, and the other dates, souvenirs, presents, and materials he's picked up for future projects/helping other people out with their projects/presents...he's spending acorns faster than he's making them. ]

...well, this isn't at all embarrassing -

I was wondering when you'd let me spend some money on you. [She hands the person acorns. She has plenty between her two jobs and him trying to buy everything even after giving some to Margaery for the children.]

If I'd have known you were waiting I'd have blown my cash faster.

[ she gets a thank-you kiss. the seller gets a thank you 'thank you', and a grimace as he grabs winn's hand before letting it go with their purchase. he hands her one. ]

[She grimaces with him when she sees that grab. She's gotten kind of used to it happening to her. But she does feel bad seeing it happen to someone else.] Mm, you should have said something. I would have been happy to do it sooner. Happy to share.

[ he doesn't think he'll ever get used to it. he's pretty sure most of these locals just feel annoyance from him. he starts walking, to get a little distance from the stall, and shrugs. ]

I know. [ but asking for help, particularly financial help, is awkward and hard for him. he's been independent for most of his life, taking nothing from no one. it's embarrassing not to have that. and he'd be much better at budgeting his money - if he didn't have this ticking clock hanging over his head for these purchases. who knows when we'll get to a decent planet next? ]

Thank you.

[That's probably better than the phasing most people get from her.]

There's no need to thank me. Then I'd have to thank you for paying for the inn and it would just be this spiral of unnecessary thanks when we both just want to have nice things and share them. [She smiles at him.] We are going to stock up on so much here. And there is going to be pizza! Pinkie Pie has a plan.

[She phases them both and takes a step up so she can kiss his forehead easily.]

And let me help you sometimes. It's nice. Having someone who helps you and who you can help. This relationship thing we have going.

[ he can't really express how moved he is at this moment, and it's a good thing he doesn't have to because she can just sense it. help him. he's needed help so many times in his life and had none of it, and now here it is - so freely offered, all he has to do is reach out and grab it - but it's so hard because he's so used to being self sufficient, he's so used to not being able to ask for it that he doesn't really know how to ask for it. a part of him still wants to figure things out on his own, to impress her, but the rest of him just wants it to shut up already because it really is nice to have someone who helps him. he likes sharing with kitty, he likes it a whole lot. ]

It's really nice. You better mean it about the pizza - it'd be very cruel to toy with me about that. How close are you?

[She knows that would be a hard transition to make and she's just happy he wants to make it.]

Pretty close. Of course it turned into something like a mass pizza party so lots of gathering things up. Big affair. It could happen by the end of the week? [But it won't because someone will be in a hiatus coma by then.] I'll let you know when we're ready to block off time for all the pizza eating. We'll probably need some help the day of too.

[ he wants to make a lot of changes to himself. he may not be able to go through with all of them - but the desire is still there. ]

I can help - I'm good at helping!

[ so much excitement right now - like a little kid at christmas, a dog with a really cool new squeaky toy - and so much gratitude. he really did hit the girlfriend jackpot. ]

I feel like you're more excited for helping make pizza than helping to eat pizza. [Smiling at him and then tearing off a piece of the fried bread and eating it.] Mmmm!

[ it may be a tie, because kara will love the pizza too, and cisco, and all his regular-earth friends - ohh and he could introduce margaery to pizza! that's be amazing! but he's definitely excited for eating it and a part of him also wants to keep it all for themselves because holy shit real pizza. he could cry tears of joy just thinking about it. he misses national city - misses the freedom to go where he pleases, misses the tech, misses the solid ground always under his feet, and he misses takeout. he practically lived on the stuff. he's never gone this long without pizza, even the orphanage offered a gross rendition once a month. ]

If I help make it I can help eat it sooner.

[ nodding and taking a big bite of his own piece ] Okay have I mentioned that I love this planet yet? Cuz I love this planet - [ which is saying a lot considering how uncomfortable he is with the stranger-touching and the people in his head, and the nearly turning into a t-rex's appetizer... ]

I love it too. I think that has a lot to do with you. [She likes living wit him. They practically do on the ships but it isn't the same. There's a daily choice in whose place to be in, but here they have one together. The still spend time away from each other at respective jobs or different friends. Maybe they don't even see each other more but there's something more stable in it. Something that feels like it's building toward things even though it's not because eventually they'll be taken away from here.

It's strange because she isn't really ready to "live together." It's not a thing she'd have suggested if it was permanent. Yet, here they are.

But the food is good too. That's definitely part of it. Doesn't hurt that the last place they stopped was such a disaster either. Except for the dance. She loved the dance.]

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