driftfleet | #002 [Video]

Who: Hiro Hamada and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide video
Action: SS Bishop!
When: 3/8, in the afternoon

[What's that sound? The sound of an alarm going off. What's that video feed? Well, right now the camera is set on a bobblehead that is rattling like crazy. Its base has been elongated, and from under said base flashes (slowly) a red light. Then it turns blue after two buzzer sounds from the alarm. Then yellow. Then orange. Then green. Then purple. Back to red. It continues to cycle as Hiro turns the camera to face him, and he's bobbing his head with the beat of the buzzer while standing at a control panel of different metal than the ship that has been welded onto the wall by the door to the main deck. Every time he presses a button on said panel, the light changes color. Then he hits a small green button above a large red button on the side, and the whole thing stops.

[Yes, the entire Bishop was just subjected to that without warning.]

Pretty cool, huh?

[Hiro looks like a cat who just caught his very first bird.]

It's all hooked up to our control panels, but I can't program it to do everything I need it to until we have a pilot and a communications officer. Right now, we have fire, gas, and the latter half of the collision alarms. I still need to program one for docking and to hook up another to the radar so we can know when we're headed dangerously close to something that could damage the ship. Right now, we've only got one that tells us we've been hit.

[SHRUG.]

But since, for some reason, everything under the control panel looks like gibberish to me... [he takes a moment to look into the camera like he's on the office] ... we get to wait until we have someone more "competent" [airquotes!] than I am.

[VOICE EDITED IN LATER]

P.S., if there are any communications officers who wanna hop ship over to the Bishop for keeps, let me know. It'll work out best if you're one of two on your current ship.

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... Huh. I might try that, there have to be some ships who have two.

Yeah. And there's always ones who don't like their crews either.

[A beat]

You can't have Cole though.

Noted. If he's all you have, anyway, I wouldn't exactly turn to him right away. I do want to try not to leave anyone hanging.

Good to know. Flora would kill me if I made us lose our Comm guy.

[That's totally it. Not that he cares about Cole or anything gosh]

Wouldn't wanna get you in trouble.

[Oh he sees that attempt at an ass-covering.]

'Course. She's a real hardass.

So what's your name, kid?

Hiro Hamada. You?

[Hiro...? Man, wonders if his parents knew this guy would be a main protagonist one day]

Kaneis Major.

[if they knew that they would have been able to call dying when he was three]

... Really?

[eyebrow raise]

After the star?

[Hey man, maybe they accepted their fate. For the Disney.]

Huh?

What star?

Well, constellation. Canis Major, on earth, is a constellation with the brightest star in the sky in it. It's the easiest one to find.

...Hm. Can't say I know it. I never really got to see much of Earth's night sky.

But I'd say it's a coincidence.

Pretty cool one, if you ask me.

[He smiles.]

People from all kinds of cultures used stars for navigation, and since the brightest star in the sky is in Canis Major, that made it pretty much the cornerstone for an entire era of civilization. On Earth, your name's a big deal.

Really?

[There's a pause, since honestly? That was a pretty sweet thing to say. To know that his name, even if it's not his original name, has such a meaning...it's nice to hear. Almost even uplifting, in it's own way.]

[Still, he's really not one to openly express such sentiments- so he makes a joke instead]

...Man, you're gonna be a dangerous one when you're old enough to date, if you can say stuff like that just about people's names.

Edited 2015-03-12 03:57 (UTC)

[oh no look how red he gets]

... really? You think so?

[kind of hushed, very flattered, oh god do you really think his awkward little self could be suave with the ladies in a year or two]

[Aw, now that's just adorable]

Sure.

Well, I mean, if puberty treats you well anyway. That's a gamble.

[But hey man he's a total math nerd who was a shrimp and look how he turned out!]

[well i mean... tadashi's not ugly, he almost grew into those ears, so..... maybe i'm gonna be pretty well off....]

... I'm gonna have to go through that awkward braces phase.

Yep.

It's a rite of passage, I'm afraid. Along with the acne, voice cracking and hormones going out of whack.

[HHHHHHHHHHHHHH]

You know, I've already got the voice thing, I think I'm ready to double in size and call it a day.

[He snorts] Didn't we all.

But nope. You gotta suffer like the rest of us did.

I wonder if science can fix this.

Careful. The last time I heard of someone meddling around with that kind of stuff ended up being stuck at fourteen.

Forever.

... Point taken. My family doesn't have a history of doing this whole process wrong, at least.

Good.

Then you shouldn't have anything to worry about.

[might be tonguing at the gap in his teeth now thanks kaneis]

Hope not. Thanks for the warning.

... How'd you meet a guy who stopped aging at 14, though?

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