video/action

[candothat]

Who: Pavel Chekov and anyone!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Tourist and/or Iskaulit
When: From the Great Shuffle through July


[video]

It was kind of our hosts to give us gifts after keeping us on the Marsiva and making us share far, far too much with each other, but...

[The Russian pulls his lovely gift basket into view. In addition to the candies and fudge and pickled herring (he is grateful for all of these things, thank you space hosts), there are a few additional items that he is less amused by.]

Did anyone else find their choice in gifts, er... slightly insulting?

Although it was thoughtful of them, I admit, to provide a shirt [it says "I <3 bad boys," for the Russian speakers out there] for my girlfriend to wear once I grow her.

[Sarcasm. That was definitely sarcasm.]


[action]

[If Pavel isn't poking around his quarters on the Tourist, then he's going for a run on the Iskaulit. In either case, he is making no real effort to be sociable. It's not that he doesn't want to talk to people, it's just that there are a lot of things that he doesn't want to talk about. Everyone knows that the only sure way to avoid certain topics of conversation is to avoid talking entirely.

Any attempts on his part to keep quiet will fail miserably if he's approached. Being a person who likes other people is so hard sometimes.]


[ooc: If you, like me, wanted to do ALL of the Calibration things but grossly overestimated your ability to do so, you're welcome to browse Chekov's memories and handwave your character seeing any of the unmarked ones.]

Comments

[candothat]

That makes the imperfect world a little better.

[outstandingbalance]

It does. Seems unfair to the good people though.

[candothat]

If things were always fair to good people, they would have few opportunities to practice being good.

[outstandingbalance]

Seems like an awful philosophical way to look at it.

[candothat]

Since I am an awful philosopher, that seems appropriate.

[outstandingbalance]

Now, I wouldn't say that. We're a philosophical people, Russians.

[candothat]

But are we any good at it? Debatable. None of my philosophies, at least, have proved worthwhile.

[outstandingbalance]

[Natasha huffs a chuckle, shaking her head.]

We might be a philosophical people, but I've never had much of a philosophy myself

[candothat]

None at all? You have never had opinions on morality or existence or humanity that guided your actions?

[outstandingbalance]

That might be a little extreme. But... let's say that wasn't encouraged, how I was trained.

Now it seems a little like a luxury.

[candothat]

[He takes a moment to fully comprehend this, then nods.]

It is a luxury that you could have now. Here, at least.

[outstandingbalance]

I guess it could be. But it's a lot easier to say that than to do it.

[candothat]

You have nothing but time to practice.

[outstandingbalance]

Now that's putting a positive spin on things. You're not wrong, though.

[candothat]

I am an endlessly positive person, of course. One who is occasionally right.

[outstandingbalance]

I can respect that. Someone has to be, right?

[candothat]

Yes, someone needs to bear the burden of being correct. For the sake of this fleet, I will do that.

[outstandingbalance]

[That gets a little bit of a chuckle out of her.]

I appreciate your sacrifice. Can't claim I'm right, so it might as well be you.

[candothat]

As long as it's a Russian who is right.