Video | Fresh meat

[spacebro]

Who: Mon-El
Broadcast: Video
Action: Marsiva if you're new too!
When: Now until he gets shuffled like the deck of cards he is! (What?)

Hi. So, this is not what I was expecting today. [He was expecting some additional rest and recovery after the last few days. Instead, he feels mysteriously good as new.] I'd just heard some great things about Netflix, and I was looking forward to chilling with it. [Someone may have missed giving him the full explanation and context of that phrase. Ooooor maybe they didn't.]

I am getting tired of being the one who always gets abducted. Winn and Alex could take turns too. Just saying.

[A soft sigh. He's staying in pretty good spirits despite everything, but he's wondering if this is doing him any good.] Is anyone even listening to this?

[And just in case someone is.] My name is Mon-El.

[Oh, wait.]

Mike!

I meant Mike. [Almost definitely no one noticed that. It was very smooth. He'll just turn this off now.]

Comments

[spacebro]

Yeah. [He's not that worried about the specifics honestly. It is what it is and he'll work with it.]

Where do you live? Which ship?

[takingkarabusiness]

Winn and I are on the Tourist.

You still have to wait and see, right?

[spacebro]

Jim Kirk said he was the captain there.

I'm still stuck on the big ship full of no one. [There might be someone, but not that he's noticed yet.] The Marsiva?

[takingkarabusiness]

That won't last forever. Being on the Marsiva, I mean. Jim will probably be the captain on the Marsiva forever. He's a good guy, though. He can kind of be strict about powers stuff.

[spacebro]

You mean like J'onn? [It was almost like he wasn't even allowed to go out drinking and accidentally snapping arms.]

[takingkarabusiness]

A little bit, yeah. He gets all freaked out when I talk about my heat vision.

[spacebro]

Did you try telling him it comes in handy reheating leftovers?

[takingkarabusiness]

He still doesn't want me to use it on the ship.

Of course, that means I still do it.

Don't tell him.

[spacebro]

Your secret's safe. [He smiles. There hasn't been an anti-Daxam comment in minutes!]

Why doesn't he want you doing it on the ship?

[takingkarabusiness]

He doesn't want a hull breach.

[spacebro]

I hope these ships are a little tougher than that. I mean, unless you were trying to breach the hull on purpose. [He believes she could do that.]

[takingkarabusiness]

Definitely not that. I don't really want to test whether I can survive a vacuum, let alone my friends.

[spacebro]

I don't think Winn would like it.

It's pretty lucky that you and Winn ended up on the same ship. [Fishing.]

[takingkarabusiness]

He transferred. He was sleeping in my office anyway.

[spacebro]

Oh, you can just transfer to any ship you want?

[takingkarabusiness]

You have to put in a request and there has to be an opening... but yeah.

[spacebro]

You just can't leave this ship until they assign you to one? [It's going to be a long week, okay? So far he's alone as far as he knows. Just him and his thoughts is not a situation he enjoys. Not that he hasn't been in a DEO cell or infirmary getting practice off and on.]

...You have an office? Are you a reporter here too?

[takingkarabusiness]

Um. I'm not a reporter. But I do have an office.

[spacebro]

[And since he assumes she just means she's not a reporter here...] What do you do?

[takingkarabusiness]

I think the technical term is "personnel" but it's kind of like a counselor? I listen when people want to talk about things.

[spacebro]

So, it's like just being a person who isn't a jerk?

[takingkarabusiness]

[ we were doing okay. so okay. and now... so disapproving ]

What are you trying to say?

[spacebro]

[He senses the danger and yet he can't tell where it came from. Because he teased the job?]

That...you would listen to anyone who had things to talk about because that's the kind of person you are. [Not a jerk.]

[takingkarabusiness]

Really? Because it kind of sounded like you were calling me a jerk.

[spacebro]

I wasn't. You're not. Most of the time. [He does it to himself and that's what really hurts.]