+1 tiny invisible child

[nerdeology]

Who: Mikleo, OTA
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Huntress, Iskaulit
When: Now-ish!



( video; )

[The communicator comes on with a shaking motion, revealing a captain-sized bedroom decorated with various nerdery; those who've been there will recognize it as Mikleo's. That fact is fully cemented when the camera zeros in on Sorey, asleep on the bed with the sheets half-kicked. The communicator is juggled around, then back again, zooming in and out as if being played with by someone who doesn't know what they're doing. It's quiet for a long moment until at last a voice speaks up- young, maybe six or seven, sounding incredulous and very confused.]

How long... did I sleep...

[Sorey stirs then, and the voice yelps quietly and rolls off the bed, communicator turning off in the process.]


( action; huntress )

[There's a little boy wandering cautiously through the halls, poking into rooms if the door is unlocked, gawking at just about everything he sees. He'll be initially shy around strangers, especially any non-seraph and extra especially around humans, but he's a curious sort, so expect to be grilled for information once you prove to be harmless.]


( action; iskaulit )

[At some point he'll make his way over to the other ship, courtesy of one of his shipmates, and that's when the exploring really begins. He'll get into everything he possibly can in this place- every open and available room, every nook and cranny, even the accessible vents, here and there. He's in the library (oh, the library), the garden, the interfaith center, his water room. He's clearly not afraid to poke around unknown places, either.

Just like on the Huntress, the presence of others will make him wary, and humans (or those who carry some malevolence) will get double-caution out of him, but curiosity won't kill this cat. That's the idea, anyway.

Sorey's probably nearby, being the hovery-protective sort that he is, but that's mostly so any malevolence doesn't cause a problem. Mikleo's no longer protected through the sub lord pact, after all.

He may also be accompanied by a baby pengyon, toddling along behind him. Just because.]


((ooc: so yeah mikleo's de-aged for a while, thanks to an augment glitch! he's invisible on camera and his permissions for seeing him in person are here! by now he should be visible to his whole crew. ))

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[nerdeology]

[Until now he's only met other seraphim, so Keith's appearance, and acknowledgement, is startling. He feels pretty human, or at least not-seraph, so when his name is called Mikleo gasps and scampers out of sight, hiding behind the nearest structure he can reach, which happens to be a chair. It's not a great hiding place, but it'll have to do.

His voice is hushed when he answers.]

You can see me...

[What does he do!? Gramps never told him what to do when he meets a human, he just said to stay away from them!]

[tempredmental]

[Oooookay. Whatever it was that made Mikleo into a kid also apparently erased his memories of the Fleet. Keith frowned a bit.]

Well, apparently I'm actually pretty good at that for a human. [That sounded good enough, right? He never thought he'd actually have to explain this... especially to someone who should really understand already, and definitely not back to the person who had initially explained it to him.]

I'm Keith. You okay?

[nerdeology]

[Mikleo stays right where he is, though he does keep staring. It's the first human he's ever met, besides Sorey. And he doesn't look like he's about to eat anybody, or turn into a monster... hmm...]

I-I'm... I'm okay. But I'm not... supposed to go near humans.

[tempredmental]

[Well, that was definitely something Mikleo doesn't stick to, judging by what Keith has learned so far. He considered that for a moment.]

Why not?

[nerdeology]

[Wow, he's never had to explain it before. Everyone he'd ever met before now just kind of... knows.]

Gramps says that humans have malevolence. It's bad and turns them into monsters if they grow too much of it. And those monsters eat us...

[tempredmental]

[That sounded familiar. He remembered Mikleo mentioning something about malevolence in the dream.]

Well, do you think I'm a monster? Can humans with malevolence see you?

[nerdeology]

Mm... you don't look like it... and you don't feel like it, either. But humans with a lot of malevolence can see us easier than humans without it.

[So either he's like Sorey, or he's hiding it... SO VERY SUSPICIOUS.]

[tempredmental]

Is there anything other than malevolence that would help a human to see you?

[He was trying here. Really, he was. He just couldn't really remember the main details. Heck, he was lucky if he could remember the actual name of quintessence, sometimes.]

[nerdeology]

Yeah, resonance. I guess you must have some of that if you can see me, and you're not a hellion.

[Hmm... Sorey probably wouldn't live with a hellion, either. And multiple seraphim live here. This guy's mostly okay.]

[tempredmental]

[That was it! He nodded.]

I guess I do, then.

[Mikleo had mentioned that as being a reason Keith could hear him so soon after being on the ship. He'd go with that.]

There are a lot of seraphim here. Have you met them?

[Keith wasn't great with kids, but the fact that this version of Mikleo seemed to be calming down was encouraging him to continue.]

[nerdeology]

Yeah, I met them. I don't really know them, though. They didn't live in my village back home.

[the fact that there's strangers everywhere is a little nerve-wracking, but there's nothing to be done of it at this point.]

[tempredmental]

Do you know anyone else on the ship?

[Keith was curious if there was anything familiar for the kid. It had to be scary at such a young age to be caught like this.]

[nerdeology]

Oh- yeah, I know Sorey! He's big now though, it's weird. I think I slept for a long, long time for him to get so big without me.

[tempredmental]

Oh, I know him.

[Sorey had been one of the ones in the calibration room to be really fascinated with Red.]

He's a good guy.

[Okay, that was a good start.]

You want to sit?

[nerdeology]

[WELL. if he thinks Sorey is good then he has some sense, at least. Mikleo considers him carefully for a long moment before shrugging and wandering closer, carefully climbing up an empty chair to sit at the table proper.]

Sure... what're you writing?

[tempredmental]

[Whew... okay. Past that hurdle for the moment. At the question, Keith finished what he was writing and then put down the pencil.]

I don't know if you can read my language, but this is what I've been working on...

[He turned the notebook around and slid it across the table to Mikleo. There weren't just words, but some drawings, too... of panels he'd seen on the Marsiva during the tail end of the calibrations stuff... things about the Iskaulit and some of the others ships that Keith had visited so far... things he'd seen in the computers during the party heist... However much of it was understandable to a small child with no memory of being in the Fleet before was up for debate, but Keith was trying to show Mikleo that he didn't mind sharing with him. It wasn't about getting him to understand, but getting him to feel comfortable.

After all, who knew how long Mikleo was going to be stuck this way.]

It's all stuff that I've been learning about the Drift Fleet we're in and about the various ships and things here. If there's anything you want to ask, I'll answer as best I can.

I have more in my room, and there's stuff on one of the other ships that other people are gathering together, too.

[nerdeology]

Whoa...

[Mikleo leans over the table to peer more closely at the notes, scrutinizing what he can make sense off. It's true that most of it is lost on him - he's only just woken up and given the barebone details of this place - but it still looks cool. Drawings and diagrams are totally his groove.]

You're researching all this?

[tempredmental]

Yeah. I'm hoping it'll help me find a way back home.

[It might. It might not. Either way, he had to try. He was hoping what he found and what Pidge found could be combined to get an answer... or maybe just Pidge would find an answer before he did. That happened pretty often.]

[nerdeology]

Where's your home?

[Because it sure as heck ain't Elysia and he doesn't know much about human culture at this point.]

[tempredmental]

I'm from a place called Earth. Though, my home lately is on a spaceship, kind of like this, but a lot bigger. My teammates and I travel around the universe in it.

[It was true. He really had come to think of the Castle of Lions as home. Sure, part of him still missed Earth, but his life there had been in some serious limbo. He had a place on Team Voltron, a group of people that were important to him... it was more home than that small house in the desert he'd left behind.]

[nerdeology]

The universe...?

[That concept is still so beyond him, at this age in particular, being so new to space travel (and space itself, for that matter). His "world" consists of just a tiny village.]

Isn't it scary, to live in space? It's not connected to anything...

[tempredmental]

Well, even planets aren't really connected to anything. A spaceship, in a lot of ways, is kind of like a tiny planet. It's just made instead of being natural.

We're okay in a spaceship.

[Most of the time, but he didn't want to scare the kid.]

[nerdeology]

It's the unnatural part that scares me.

[Mikleo crosses his arms and leans on the table, chin on his arms.]

Humans don't get it.

[He's kinda mopey, and it isn't going to improve his attitude any. Sorry, Keith!]

[tempredmental]

Maybe not some... but I'm sure there are others who might prefer being planetside, too. Or, for that matter, not come into space at all.

[Keith didn't mind it so much. It had been a goal of his to get out into space someday anyway, and, well, he'd managed it back home, even under strange circumstances. He was used to it now.]

But, you seem to be doing okay.

[Oops...]

[nerdeology]

["okay", he says... geez.]

I guess, but it doesn't feel great. How'd you like to live in a tomb?