We Lost Our Doctor and All We Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

[namisan]

Who: Bloodsport crew and visitors!
Broadcast: Nope
Action: Bloodsport
When: It's a mingle!

[New crew!  Old crew!   Something something dark side of the force.  (Sue me, your captain's tired.)]

Comments

[imfine1111one]

(Why does it feel like the air suddenly got a lot heavier. . .!)

Er--!

W-well I don't mean any offense, but you did say it yourself! How could that be possible?

[foxpas]

Mixed-blood is the name of my people. Despite our name, we are as human as any other.

[... so she says, but she's got fox ears, tail, slit pupils, etc]

My father has traits of a fox, and my mother and sister those of a cat. But we are humans, and do not lay with beasts.

[imfine1111one]

--!

Ah! I thought you meant literally. What else am I supposed to assume?! [He huffs a bit, but reigns himself back in. He's accepted elves, he might as well roll with cat/fox ears, why not.]

Humans in my world don't have animal traits, they're entirely separate. It's a bit of a shock.

[foxpas]

Perhaps, rather than making assumptions, you should instead listen and not blurt out whatever comes into your head.

[So, do exactly the opposite of what you do in the courtroom?]

Many would find such a claim a dueling offense.

[imfine1111one]

[Never!1]

Didn't you assume my hair spikes were actual horns?

Anyway, I have no intention on dueling anyone. I need to just accept a lot of relatively strange sights are bound to happen while I'm here.

[foxpas]

I assumed your hair was horns. I did not assume things of your parentage.

[jerk.]

Accept them as normalcy and you will do much better. None wish to be thought of as strange.

[imfine1111one]

Haa. Fair enough. In any case, I apologize. [He's not gonna debate about parental insults; what does he know about that.]

Everything is relative. I'm sure enough people are going to find a lawyer in space odd enough.

[foxpas]

Thank you.

[:(]

A... 'lawyer'?

[imfine1111one]

. . .a defense attorney. In short, someone who argues for an accused person's innocence while trying to find the truth.

While I don't wish to be out of the job, I highly doubt there's much use for that here.

[foxpas]

I see. You are... not incorrect. There is little trouble in legality to be had here. Perhaps were we still at the prior planet of factions, but...

[imfine1111one]

Factions? I don't even want to know the implications of that.

I think I'll just lay low unless I'm needed. There's not much I can do without getting in the way. [Unless he's stuck on toilet duty, and he will be avoiding that as much as possible.]

[foxpas]

It is as it sounds.

What is your augment?

[imfine1111one]

. . .

[He points to the badge on his vest.]

Lawyer.

[foxpas]

... Lawyer is an augment?

[imfine1111one]

Apparently.

It's more so a subset of a--"Personnel Support," I think.

[foxpas]

That... is fortunate, I suppose? I am unsure what else 'personnel support' may be, but... You already know what you need do.

[imfine1111one]

In a way, yeah. At least I don't have to worry about flying anything.

What about you?

[foxpas]

'Security'. I too was given an augment similar to my prior profession.

[imfine1111one]

Well, that certainly prompts some curiosity. What was your former profession, and is security usually needed here?

[foxpas]

I am a knight.

[... well, she's certainly dressed medieval-style enough for it, but on the other, she's like 17.]

But there is little cause for it here. Thus far, all I have done is stand guard over one whose augment drove him temporarily insane.

[imfine1111one]

. . .

[You know what, he is not gonna question it. Knights, sure, why not!! And his co-worker is a fully fledged lawyer with a degree in psychology at only 18, he can't judge.]

Er. The latter part of that statement is rather worrying for being said so casually.

[foxpas]

It has only happened once in the months I have been here. It is naught at all compared to the last such nexus of worlds I was taken to.

[imfine1111one]

Once is still more than not at all, and any other--er, worlds, are irrelevant to the one we're in now. So define insane, what happened?

[foxpas]

... He became a different manner of being. He is normally harmless, fear not. He is no threat anymore.

Now that he is sane again, I do not wish to tell more without his permission.