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Who: Maedhros
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Not right off the bat, but that can change in the threads.
When: Early Evening.

(Trimming hair is easier said than done, but the tall Elf has done an...admirable...job? ~~Shhh don't tell him it's uneven in parts.~~ He sets down a pair of scissors and cocks his head, peering at himself in a mirror.)

I must have been...angled...incorrectly. (His left hand doesn't quite smack his face, but it does try to cover it as his ears go red.)

It was getting too long, you see. I became tangled in it every morn and the brushing of it was a painful business.

(Clearly annoyed, he grabs a brush, sets about smoothing it and puts it all in a ponytail. Some of the strands are rebellious, however, and fall out of the ribbon to frame his face. The tickling sensation annoys him more and he tries to tuck them, instead, behind his ears. His mangled ear doesn't make a proper perch for the copper strands and some of them fall right back where they started.)

Aica umbar!

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You have my condolences for all the lives you have suffered. One has been nearly overwhelming for me.

(He glances at the hand warily before settling.)

I know it well. (Her certainty is a sweet, unsought support. He wishes he shared it.) My brothers have their own ways of working through difficulties. Patience serves me well.

It's alright. Most hosts have intensive training to prepare for the joining and the memories that come with it.

[She keeps the touch light, easily shaken off.] Having the love and support of family helps. And should help to bridge those gaps.

I do not know how you train for heartbreak? Even after experiencing it, I cannot adapt. Each time, it feels brand new.

(He doesn't really mind it. Touch in general makes him jumpy, but that's thanks to torture.)

We have plenty of love, that is true, and I am prepared to support him in any way he allows me.

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I wouldn't know, honestly. I was never actually fit to be a host so I never went through all the preparation.

[She supposes it helps that her preferences are very different from her previous hosts. She can understand the love but she can't quite share in it.]

That's all anyone can really ask of family.

Is that a state you can earn or are there simply those that are fit for it and others who are not?

(Elves live one, long, continuous life. Once they are Reborn, the life is the same. He cannot comprehend what she has experienced.)

I have loved him since he was in our Ammë's womb.

When we're about twelve, we fill out paperwork to start preparing, after that there are classes, I suppose. Some Trill are placed under the supervision of a field docent, a joined trill who will evaluate whether someone is fit for joining. To weed out weaker personalities that the symbiont would overwhelm or people who would end up like Joran did.

I never did the paperwork. I didn't want to be joined.

There is the zhian'tara though. But I don't have enough friends here to participate, I doubt most would want to. And there are no Guardians here anyway.

[Elves are weird but she feels for them.]

Amme? That didn't quite translate but, mother, right?

(There are a lot of pieces of what she says that he doesn't understand. But he gets the gist of it.)

What is a...zhian'tara? (He can be a friend? If it's not something that will change him drastically or bar him from looking after his brother and cousin.)

Yes. Ammë is what I have always called her.

[It's okay, even most people familiar with Trills have trouble.]

It's... a rite of closure. We can meet our past hosts in that way, by having their personalities, memories, removed from us and into someone close to us. All voluntarily, of course, the friend can assume control again at any time.

That's sweet. Loving him so long. I know some kids are usually angry about having a sibling.

Would that be...of use...to you? (Is it even possible in their current circumstances? He does want to help and if he can volunteer, well, he will.)

No. I never felt that way. My brothers are part of me; we are seven pieces of a whole.

It probably would be. I don't know enough people well enough though, and I don't know who I'd ask to take care of... of Joran. Benjamin did it last time, my captain and a friend for three of my lives, handled him last time. [And she's not keep on making anyone handle a serial murderer.]

That really is sweet. I had one older brother and one younger.

He must be...handled? We would get along well, though not for the right reasons. (Madness he understands. Serial murder too, sadly.)

I take it you miss them? (She seems to...understand the bonds.) Are they like you?

Joran was a serial murderer. He killed two unjoined trill and one joined trill who was on the Symbiosis Commission, who thought he was unfit for joining. [She's not the type to kill, except in war, so it's hard living with that.]

Sometimes. Norvo is an artist, nothing like me except that we're both... softer, I guess. He's in prison though, he will be for awhile. Janel was more work focused. He was willing to work with the Orion Syndicate to keep the families mining consortium going, a criminal organization basically. Slavery, black market, blackmail, those sorts of things.

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