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Who: Billy Kaplan + OTA
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: The Blue Fish
When: Now!

( blue fish )

[...con... fetti? alright, that sure is a thing that just happened. Billy's used to teleporting, but it's never felt quite like this. so weird. everything about this is weird, weird, weird, and coming from him that's saying something.

Reaching around the back of his head, he pats awkwardly at where the augment rests, disturbed, and starts wandering through the halls of the ship. Might as well get acquainted, and maybe make sure he's not just super crazy right now. You never know, where he's from.]

( private; text to kate )

So are my powers busted or are you the only one here?

[Location spell went kinda haywire, whoops.]

( video; fleetwide )

Okay, so, ignoring that this is kind of awful and I hate that I apparently can't teleport myself home...

Any advice for first-timers? Can't say I've watched much reality TV back home. Um, barring that... what's some good places to visit off-ship if you've got like five cents to your name?

It's very, uh. Colourful here.

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[ -- there's some heavy stuff going down back home. the likes of which she's not prepared to share, not until she has a more conclusive answer to her inquiries. what her father's up to, what he might have done in the past, who killed her mother...

well. it doesn't matter. what matters is that in this moment she can deeply empathize with billy's attempt to find an equilibrium between the surplus of parental figures with which he finds himself. that sticky wicket makes sense to her. ]

I think you should. [ keep doing it. ] It's bound to be a little weird at first. But let's be honest, the whole situation is a little weird to begin with.

Can't deny that.

[Weird, awkward, messy... it's all of that in droves. She's not wrong there. But it's... kind of nice, too.]

...Yeah, I think I'll try it again. See if she reacts differently in a less world-ending situation. We didn't really have time to talk about it at the time.

It's 2016, [ or it was when she was last home, ] we can all have as many moms as we want. Or as many moms as want us.

[ which sounds flippant, sure, but it's well meant. basically -- the rules, the nuclear families, those old traditions? they exist to be broken. ]

That's... that's true. I'm probably gonna talk it over with Mom, though. Mom-Mom. I don't want her to accidentally hear it one day and get upset.

[though that's assuming that at any given point she won't be upset about the whole magic-child thing, because yeah. wild.]