text | i think she's looking for her mom or something idk

[motheater]

Who: Lilly, your fave kid
Broadcast: fleetwide text; all replies will be video/voice. because she. can't actually read or write. shh.
Action: Windrose, where she is newly transferred, to hang out with her adoptive parent, Makie.
When: today!

[Lilly wants to see if her mother is out there. If Makie's here, surely her mom, right?

And because we can never do things by halves, she is a little unsettling weirdo about it.]

MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA

[SIMPLE BUT EFFECTIVE. MOM, DO YOU COPY?]

Comments

text for now??

[noprophecies]

[what in the world is this. Is this a real post? What the fuck]

if you are looking for your mother there are better ways to ask

video

[motheater]

[The wild-haired child peers deeply into the camera, looking over the words carefully. She can't read a single one, of course; her knowledge of the M and A key forming a coherent word took her quite a while since her arrival in Adstringendum.

Carefully:]

Mama?

video

[noprophecies]

[oh dear.

Tempest immediately flips the feed to video, rather than text]

I am sorry, but I am not your mother. Do you know her name? Perhaps I can help you find her.

[text for the moment]

[ranoutofluck]

not your mom, kid.

[Han you should probably switch over to video or something.]

[text for the moment]

[motheater]

M A M A

[This is going great, you're so good with kids, 2/2.]

[video]

[ranoutofluck]

[Okay, text didn't work, time to flip over to video. He fumbles with the communicator, then gives a small, slightly awkward wave.]

Sorry, kid. Not your mother. But I could keep an eye out for her.

[text]

[aigue]

That will surely get her attention
You should keep doing it

[text]

[motheater]

MAMADFFDSF
MAMA4555555555555555555

MAMAMAMAS9DFG

[what a solid, thought-provoking post this is.]

Re: [text]

[aigue]

[Indeed.]

Are you just smacking your hand against your communicator now?

text

[mortalcoil]

[video doesn't even occur to him at first, as he quickly punches in a reply]

stopp it

text

[motheater]

mamamamamamama

wdfhkfjh3245345fgdsgfsdgfgk;;;;

text

[mortalcoil]

stop doing that

can you read

voice

[theboogieman]

[hi wow guess who doesn't appreciate this at all. he skips right to using his scary deep gravel voice:]

Stop.

voice

[motheater]

[Surprisingly, she's only daunted for but a moment.

She hisses at him, animalistic and sharp.

... So, like. Basically a 'no, fuck you'.]

voice

[theboogieman]

[--hearing that taps into something he hasn't felt in a long time.

but he hisses back, just as sharp, the same kind of sound in a lower tone.

so kind of a "don't you fucking argue with me young lady".]

Action (if this is okay!)

[passingthrough]

[Kitty is also on the Windrose. She tends to split her time between it and her boyfriend's ship, so she missed any of Lilly's earlier visits.] She is aware they have a new crewmate though. So when she catches sight of someone down a hall she follows.]

Hello?

Action (yas!!)

[motheater]

[There is an ominous but small shadow blurring by as Kitty speaks.

Yes, she's a horror movie child, the creepiness is critical. Someone or something is slinking around on all fours, skittering a bit more like a creature than a human being — of course, she's gotten a bit better with time, but not enough to keep from scaring the willies out of random passerbys.

Will you investigate the spoopy figure, y/y?]

Action

[passingthrough]

[Naturally. Can't leave spoopy figures to investigate themselves.

Kitty has seen all manner of horrors in her life. Or she thought she had. Most of the scary things were pretty up front about wanting to kill her or commit mass genocide. This was just giving her creepy feelings. Not enough to holder back though. She moves through a wall instead of taking the hall in an effort to throw whoever it is off guard and hoping to cut ahead of them. Why should she be the only one? Kitty Pryde: professional ghost. Well, mutant with the ability to become intangible at will anyway.]

[action]

[therewerefifty]

[Makie doesn't bother replying on the network. Instead, she takes her tea and a plate of food through the ship until she finds where Lilly has holed up.]

Your mama isn't here, Lilly. [Hard to forget the description Sanji gave her, and unlikely such a creature would have come here in the first place, let alone gone unnoticed.] I'm sorry.

[action]

[motheater]

[Lilly frowns up at Makie from her — um. Well. It looks like she's preferring the underside of a bed as home for right now. She doesn't like sleeping in beds. Never ever liked it; under here, she's safer, much safer. Much more protected.

She peers out from under it, frowning a bit more deeply.]

Makie here.

[action]

[therewerefifty]

Yes, I am. And I've been here a while now, so I think I'll stay. [It's fine, it's fine. She'll just lower herself to sit by the bed, hands folded in her lap.]

But you're not trying to get my attention by saying that to everyone, are you?

[onlyanapple]

Well. That's suitably obnoxious.

[motheater]

035986FGOFULDSFKGJDFLKGJSLFNSDFLJHSLFGKHFDG

[Oh look, someone is pretty much a cat on a keyboard.]

voice

[interstices]

Shut up.

[Never mind that it's actually text. Asuka doesn't care.]

voice

[motheater]

I not talk.

[So casually.

You adults are so huffy over nothing.]