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Who: John Laurens
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Iskaulit, specifically Space Bar
When: Right the heck now.

[John can be found, as usual, in the place where alcohol is served. He's all about that. Today he's also all about something else -- specifically, drawing. He picked up a notebook planetside, and he's idly doodling things from home. Some pages are torn out and sitting beside him -- a Southern plantation house, a picture of a young dark-haired man in a Continental army uniform, flowers, turtles, all sorts of things. He looks a little wistful as he picks up the nearby drink and takes a sip.]

Yo. So maybe it's cause I'm feelin' a little homesick, an' I figured some of y'all might be too. If anyone's around, come an' tell me about your homes! Or do it here, too, I ain't all that picky. What you miss, who you miss, all that. I feel like I should get t' know more people.

[There's a beat.] Oh yeah, an' since I didn't really introduce myself when I first got here--name's John Laurens, lately of South Carolina. Pleased to meet all of ya.

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Oh! You wanted to become your own nation! [Bro that is such huge amazing history, and guess what this kid loves] That's amazing, what happened? Why did you want to be independent?

[WELL. Good thing he's talking to a bonafide American hero then, isn't it.] Well, the country most of us came from was all the way across the sea, an' we wanted representation in their government. An' they were unfairly taxing us for tea and other things like that, an' it all wound up becoming this fight for our own nation an' independence. I was actually in Europe when the whole thing began, but I heard about it.

Wow...that sounds like it escalated quickly. [From politics to taxes to WAR. Sounds a little extreme to him.]

Well, it wasn't all in like a few months, it was a gradual kind of thing. I was just in school for most of the build-up so I wasn't really payin' attention.