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.]

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[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]

[aigue]

That will surely get her attention
You should keep doing it

text

[mortalcoil]

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

stopp it

voice

[theboogieman]

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

Stop.

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]

[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.

[onlyanapple]

Well. That's suitably obnoxious.

video

[motheater]

[She cocks her head to the side, confused for a moment.]

Her name...? Mama.

[She already said, see? Come on, now.]

[text for the moment]

[motheater]

M A M A

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

text

[motheater]

mamamamamamama

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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'.]

[text]

[motheater]

MAMADFFDSF
MAMA4555555555555555555

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

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?]

[motheater]

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

[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.

[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.

Re: [text]

[aigue]

[Indeed.]

Are you just smacking your hand against your communicator now?

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".]

voice

[interstices]

Shut up.

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

text

[mortalcoil]

stop doing that

can you read

video

[noprophecies]

[she also tilts her head, but she smiles a bit, patient]

What do other people call her, then? They do not call her mama, yes?

[onlyanapple]

...How about you switch to video?