A Wild Mingle Appears

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Who: Crew of the S.S. Tourist + Visitors
Broadcast: N/A
Action: On the S.S. Tourist
When: Now, Drifting Week, through the month

[ Welcome, everyone, to the S.S. Tourist! Please enjoy your stay aboard out little ship - there's dinosaur meat courtesy of Allen and Sokka, at least four slugs (be careful, they're really Fenris' even if he won't say it), Winn's officially out of his comma, the coffee machine is behaving more or less (Kirk has poetry for you to sweet talk it if you need it). All aboard! ]

Comments

[winn]

How do I figure? She runs a media empire, she remembers obscene amounts of information and complicated foreign names, and yet when James and I tell her "Kara's out because of this and that" she still makes sure not to say it right. If that weren't on purpose she'd get it right every once in a while, especially seconds after hearing it.

[takingkarabusiness]

I think she does that with you, too, though.

[winn]

Kara, she barely has any interaction with me, replace me with a plant that's good at code and she wouldn't know the difference.

[takingkarabusiness]

This might be a time discrepancy thing.

[winn]

How so? [ tilting his head and frowning curiously ]

[takingkarabusiness]

I think I just remember more times we've all had to work together.

But I could just have the wrong read on the situation.

[winn]

I mean, we work together sometimes, but I don't know she'd even notice if another IT person took my place, so long as they're competent.

[takingkarabusiness]

You remember the email leaks, right?

[winn]

Yeah, we were a pretty badass team up.

[ he smiles, but then shakes his head. ]

But I'm not who she credits for that.

[takingkarabusiness]

Well, yeah, but you were involved.

[winn]

Yeah but she doesn't know how much, or that not any IT guy at CatCo could or would do that for her. As far as she's concerned I was probably just doing you a favor. It's fine I don't...care, I don't want the spotlight. The more face of IT I become, the meaner she gets.

[takingkarabusiness]

[ huff. SHE WAS JUST TRYING TO BE NICE, WINN ]

If you say so.

[winn]

[ he knows, but he's trying not to get his hopes up here, ok. readjusting to home is going to be hard enough after basically working for himself all this time. ]

I've got team Supergirl for my daily dose of appreciation, I'm good.

[takingkarabusiness]

Yeah, I just think more people should appreciate you.

[winn]

That would be nice.

[ he smiles ]

I'm pretty well appreciated here though, you should hear some of the things Margaery tells me.

[takingkarabusiness]

Oh, I do.

I think she has a crush.

[winn]

...shit, you think?

[ they've talked about it and he believed her, but margaery knows to bend the truth to survive, and avoiding rejection is a pretty damn good reason to bend the truth - he should know. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

I don't think it's serious. I just wonder if she's ever met a guy like you before.

[winn]

She says she hasn't, but that's not really surprising considering where she's from.

[ gender roles seem pretty strict where she's from, he's pretty sure a guy like him wouldn't have made it to puberty. it's a horrifying thought. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

I know... is it wrong I want to corrupt them with feminism?

[winn]

How's that corruption?

[ kara you're asking the guy who embroidered feminist sayings for margaery's walls, he's not exactly unbiased. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

Mostly in the intentionally ironic way.

[winn]

I know it's her home, and she misses her family, but I really hate the thought of her going back there.

[takingkarabusiness]

No, I'm with you on that. I don't like what I've heard of it at all.

[winn]

She's so smart and so driven, can you imagine what she could achieve in a modern society?

[ it's heartbreaking. she has so much potential, and he knows she's trying her hardest to make things better for her people, but he also knows that from everything he's heard about her kingdom, she'll enjoy limited success even if everything goes exactly according to her plans. and it's an admirable cause and without people like her nothing would ever change, but it just sucks. ]