voice;

[monolike]

Who: Sorey
Broadcast: Huntress only!
Action: Iskaulit & Huntress
When: 9/16

Huntress crew, this is your first mate, Sorey. ...due to certain circumstances, we are currently without a Captain. I'm acting as Captain now to fill the role, but if there are any interested parties, please contact me at your soonest convenience.

In the meantime, if there's anything that requires tending to, please don't hesitate to let me know. Any supplies we're short on, any concerns you may have about the status of the ship...I know we're at full capacity now, so if we start taking on extra passengers again we'll have to double up. And I'm also the ship's engineer, so please bring any technical problems you have to me.

...thank you...to everyone who has been looking after the ship for the past couple weeks.



[Sorey can be found both in engineering on the Huntress and at the Interfaith center on the Iskaulit. If your character can sense spiritual power and has run into him before, they may notice him lacking his usual protective/cleansing domain.]

Comments

[willynilly]

[There is a pause as that sinks in, then Ochako snorts, blowing a whuff of sugar across the table. The snort very quickly devolves into a round of giggles.]

N-n-neh-- that was pretty good...!!

[monolike]

[Sorey cracks a smile, still grinding the rice grains down.] Thanks. I have a good pun teacher.

[willynilly]

Sounds like she knows her stuff.

[A few beats. She's no pun expert, but jokes are fun, and a good way to cheer people up for sure!]

....You must run into some baa-aa'd puns sometimes, though!

[monolike]

Definitely. You wouldn't believe some of the ones I've herd.

[willynilly]

[She giggles again.]

Um, um-- you have to be careful they don't goat out of hand.

[monolike]

...okay, I'm out. You beat me, solidly. [Even on his good days where his brain's working to full capacity, he's usually only got one or two jokes at the ready. Definitely not now.

He lifts up the makeshift pestle to show Uraraka the paste.] How's that look? I guess there's no wrong way to grind something into paste, though.

[willynilly]

Yaaay, victory~!

[Ochako beams and bullies her way into his personal space, poking her finger into the rice. She looks satisfied as she examines the goop on her finger.]

Uh-huh, that'll work! Now we just-

[She slides two other bowls over, where she'd mixed some of the flavour powder with water- one orange, one strawberry. She gestures to each in turn.]

Split the rice into each of these bowls, and we'll mix them together. After that, we can add the filling, and then we'll leave them to bake! That's all there is to making lazy mochi. If you wanna get complicated, we can decorate them, too.

[monolike]

[Uraraka shoving into his space is actually kind of nice. It reminds him a little of Rose, minus the teasing.] Mix them into- [He points. Baking is not even close to his strong suit.] But I thought that was for the filling. It goes in with the rice also?

[willynilly]

Nope! Filling's over there.

[She gestures to the two bowls she'd stacked off to the side- if Sorey looks inside, he'll find a thicker mixture, a paste rather than the liquid. And then, since she's a go-getter, she splits the rice up herself, shoving one bowl in Sorey's direction and starting to mix the other.]

Mochi looks better when it has some colour to it, especially when you're working with this fake goop. And it helps with knowing which flavour they are, too!

[monolike]

Ohhhh, [that makes a lot of sense. Instead of just trying to keep them separated by memorizing which are which.] Neat, I didn't even think of that. [Sorey watches her mix up her batch before he does his. Baking is so complicated...] You seem pretty familiar with this, do you bake a lot?

[willynilly]

Just simple stuff, mostly... whatever's cheap and easy. My house is pretty far from where I go to school now, so I had to get my own place or I'd never make the commute on time every day. If I didn't cook for myself, I'd never eat!

[Sometimes she still doesn't! It's so frugal!!]

[monolike]

[ochako n o] So you live all by yourself back home? What about your parents?

[willynilly]

[ochako yes!!!]

Um... my parents still live at the house I grew up in. It's more than three hours away from my school, though, so I can't just go home every day. I live in a 'lil apartment made for students closer to the campus.

[Her voice is quieter now, distractedly stirring away at her own bowl. It's hard to stay energetic when you're reminded of how homesick you are.]

[monolike]

...it's okay to be sad, if you are. [Sorey glances up from his own mixing to offer her a small smile.] Don't think you have to keep anything up for my sake.

[willynilly]

[Oh dear. Ohhhhhh dear. She feels caught in the act, and here she'd been trying hard to cheer him up. This isn't what she came here for at all.]

No, no... it's okay. I just- I used to make mochi with my dad a lot.

[She fidgets in her seat, spoon poking listlessly at the rice mixture.]

I guess I'm a little sad, but I'm happy, too. I always feel like that when I think of home. Isn't that normal?

[monolike]

Completely normal. [Sorey scrapes the sides of the bowl to get it all mixed up and mashes it a little bit, just to watch it squish.] Did you live in the same place your whole life until you moved for school?

[willynilly]

Not really... mom and dad work construction, and jobs are hard to come by more often than not. You kinda have to go where the work is, so we moved around a lot. It was always the three of us together, though, 'til I started at UA.

[Her brows furrow, lost in thought for a moment, then she offers up a somewhat sheepish smile.]

On the upside, I did get pretty good at making new friends, so-!!

[monolike]

Did you get to move to a lot of different places? Like from a big city to the country and things like that? [Picking up everything and changing where you live at a moment's notice...Sorey might've left Elysia for the Shepherd's journey practically on a whim, but he's always considered Elysia his home. His house and his stuff and his family is all still there, after all.]

[willynilly]

We didn't go too far, really, just one zone to the next. But they worked such long hours that they had to keep the commute time down, otherwise we'd never see each other.

[It was such a mixed blessing, those days between jobs- she had the most fun having her family around all the time, but there was always that lingering worry of where the next job would be, how they'd pay for everything. It's part of why she'd wanted to work with them in the first place.]

We did spend a few years waaaaay out in the country, though, when I was little.

[monolike]

[Sorey drags over the bowls of filling so they can get started on that, nudging her lightly.] Did you like it better in the city or the country?

[willynilly]

[Ochako offers up a grateful smile, scooping out a handful of her rice-mix and demonstrating out to wrap it around the filling while she answers.]

I feel like I should say the country... Daddy grew up there, and I was actually born outside of town, myself. But... I kind of love the bustle of a big city! There's always stuff to do, and there's so many people you could meet... I really like it.

[monolike]

That's true! [This is kind of fun. Messy, but fun.] The first time I went into a city I was totally floored. I'd never seen so many people in one place, and it was so huge. I was sure there'd be no way to see everything, even if I spent my whole life there.

[willynilly]

Yeah, exactly! Even if you live there for years, there's still new stuff to discover. Right before I left for school I found this super-cute tea shop that made the best bubble tea dirt cheap. Turns out I'd gone to school right around the corner and never noticed it before then!

[monolike]

Sort of like if you're not looking for it, you'll miss it? [He follows her lead and lines up his own (somewhat messier) mochi on the baking sheet beside hers.]

[willynilly]

[She doesn't look the least bit bothered by the messiness. Her mochi were far from perfect when she first started learning. They're moving along at a good pace and they look halfway tasty, that's what matters.]

Uh-huh. And I think it's easier to meet people in cities, too. The country can be hard to get around and people often live far apart, but in a big town there are people everywhere you look!