driftfleet | let's just ramp up that confusion

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let's just ramp up that confusion

Who: Ezri Dax
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action:N/A unless you're on he Marsiva
When: Now

[It's starts with a young woman rolling off the bed, short hair messy and a starfleet uniform, if you'll recognize the style uniform she wears, a bit wrinkled. And, if anyone has met one, her Trill spots are very noticeable right now. She's fairly groggy yet as she wakes up and pulls herself to her feet.]

Hello? [Where... is she?] Julian? Ben? ... Kira? [Anyone?

Give her a few moments, she eventually realizes she's broadcasting.]

Hello, I'm Curz- Emon- uh... [Ughh, she rubs at her eyes and ruffles at her hair, trying to fully wake herself up.] I'm Dax. Ezri Dax, Lieutenant Junior Grade, I'm the counselor on Deep Space Nine in orbit of Bajor.

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I'll hold you to it.

[Or try to. She knows mok'bara but she's much smaller than her predecessors.]

No, not fun at all. It's actually cause some problems for us in the past, diplomatically.

[Not really going to come to that.]

Well, it's hard to stand up for yourself when you can't even represent yourself accurately.

Exactly, actually. It makes diplomacy difficult, and travel. Nothing makes things harder than avoiding transporter sensors seeing two different lifeforms and brainwaves.

Also makes your family look at you very strangely for a but afterward.

Your family? They wouldn't know?

They know about joining, they knew I never wanted it. Nobody can help looking at you differently when your joined though, you can... ignore the memories and personalities of the previous hosts, some of it sticks to you and changes you. And name mix ups happen, clearly. I called myself 'Curzon' to my mother.

I guess that really underlines the identity crisis of it all. [Not even registering your own name sometimes.]

It reminds me of someone I knew back home who could absorb personalities. It was not always easy for her.

I can't imagine that's easy at all. She definitely has my sympathies.

I'll pass that along if we cross paths again.

So what is a Deep Space Nine?

It's a space station in orbit of the planet Bajor. It was originally built by Cardassians but the Federation runs it now.

Wait, Federation? As in the Enterprise?

Yeah! The Enterprise is Starfleet's flagship. And one of many by that name.

Do you know Data or Pavel? That would be, uh, Picard or Kirk's versions.

I know of them! Data is from my time but my previous host never got to meet him. And with the war, I doubt I'll have a chance for awhile once I get back. Pavel was around Torias and Audrid's time but they didn't get to meet him either. Audrid did meet Christopher Pike though!

Haven't heard of him. Met a few others through my various abductions though. [She was closest to Data and Pavel.] Deanna Troi, Beverly Crusher, and Dr. McCoy not to be confused with Hank too. [She'd vaguely known of Q and Geordi too, but the names don't come to mind.]

He was captain of the Enterprise before Kirk was. He just disappeared a few years after he and Audrid met though. [All names she knows though!] Except for Leonard, they're all from my time!

Some of them are here, but they're probably contacting you soon if they haven't already. [She figures they'll have more connection to the words she used.] How well do you remember all these other people you were? Like it was just yesterday or more like it was a vivid dream?

Some have.

[That's... a very good question. And a little hard to answer but she tries.] It's kind of both. I could be talking about one thing and suddenly some of my memories overlap and I'll be... someone else entirely for a moment. I was telling my mother once about someone I had been seeing on the Destiny and the next moment, I'm mentioning how he reminded me of my son, Gran. Except that was Audrid's son.

[Sounds hard. Sounds a little like dementia in some ways.] Does it even out with time or is that just joined life for you?

It'll take maybe a few years but eventually, I'll have it under control. It happens even in people who applied to be joined, and they're prepared.

Exciting few years and to think you get to do at least some of that here. [Gesturing broadly.]

I don't know if exciting is the right word but it'll be something!

Probably not, but I think I come off as a little depressing to others. I'm trying to work on that. Like offering cupcakes when I say the world is ending. That kind of thing.

Maybe just offering cupcakes? [She's laughing though.] Rather than making some people here like Pavlov's dog, with cupcakes and doom.

How about just eating cupcakes alone?

Not as bad. Cupcakes are still delicious.

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