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Who: Felix Gaeta
Broadcast: Video, Fleetwide
Action: Vanquish Cargobay
When: Now!

[When this video starts, Felix is standing over two boxes stacked on top of one another. The top one is open, and he's pulling....books? out of it.]

If anything was going to convince me that these sponsor drops are pointless, it would be this. Our fleet is attacked, and this is what someone thinks to send?

[He glances at a title, frowns, and then holds it up to the camera. Dating Advice from a Manwhore: A Guide to Overcoming Self-Doubt, Relationship Struggles, and Finding Your Authentic Self. After a second, he puts it down, and takes out another one: It's Just a F***ing Date: Some Sort of Book About Dating.]

I'm really not sure what to make of this particular interest in my dating life.

[Or lack thereof, but he doesn't need a man, thanks.]

Anyway. There's more where these came from and I sure as hell don't need them. If anyone's interested, let me know. You can contact me privately too. Just in case, you know, you feel the need for privacy.

[He pulls another book out of the box at the same time that he goes to end the video and...looks vaguely surprised and confused for a second. Just before the video cuts out, there's an image of a different kind of book on the screen.]

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I guess whoever sent it wanted you to be happy. Although if it did happen so soon after in attack I guess that IS a bit tasteless...

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These drops generally are. A little tasteless, I mean.

[Kaworu's drop of a box of sprinkles might not have been the worst.]

[continuousgroaning]

And you said they come from the sponsors? Does that mean the audience likes you?

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I'm not entirely sure why, but I guess it must.

[He doesn't do much of anything. (Except feel very strongly about one particular person NO NOT LIKE THAT.)]

[continuousgroaning]

Hunh. A lot of people don't seem to know why they're here, it seems like.

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[He's not going to float the "it's probably an experiment" thing past her, she's too young.]

Some people are definitely more obvious candidates for a reality show than others.

[continuousgroaning]

And I'd say I'm most definitely not. I go to school, I work in my parents' restaurant, I go to the amusement park down on the wharf. I'm not sure what it was about me that was appealing enough to kidnap me.

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They might have been interested in seeing how you adapt.

[Which is drifting close to "this is an experiment" but not exactly.]

[continuousgroaning]

... hmm. I hadn't thought about it that way, but I guess that makes some sense. Taking an ordinary person and putting them into a situation where they're out of their element is a pretty common thing in fiction.

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It's likely as interesting a narrative as someone with a more [he's about to say "interesting", but pauses and goes for another word.] unique background.

[Tina did basically call herself boring, but that doesn't mean that Felix is going to.]

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[Which is very kind of him. ♥]

And I guess having a wide variety of people makes for a more interesting show. More potential for there to be things they can edit in to make an interesting show, anyway.

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Variety is the spice of life?

[Okay a tiny bit of sarcasm. It's hard not to let a little slip through the cracks.]

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[Tina caught that and laughed.]

That must be the idea. And if everyone here was, like, some supervillain or something, they'd all end up killing each other. Balance in personality types and all.

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[....You know what, he's going repress the observation that someone would probably be interested in supervillains trying to kill each other.]

Something like that, yeah.

How long have you been here?

[She looks like a new face...though he sometimes doesn't pay all that much attention to messages going out on the network.]

[continuousgroaning]

Just a few weeks. Already desperately wishing I was back home, to be honest.

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That's...understandable.

[He's never not going to think it's doubly cruel to drag kids into this.]

[continuousgroaning]

Yeah. I've never been separated from my family for this long.