Twin Roses Mingle

[passingthrough]

Who: Twin Roses and those who visit!
Broadcast: Nah.
Action: Twin Roses
When: Now and also later. Maybe before if someone wants to get wild!

[It's been a long few months with a rough landing on a less-than-inviting planet. The ship is flying again, but we've lost Makie. Still, the fleet drifts onward.

Welcome to the Twin Roses, Merlan. We hope you survive the experience.]

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[passingthrough]

Or that two people won't be recently returned from the dead and one person off ship. Yeah, there were things that could have gone better. [Little smile. They got off pretty easily. Crashed, yeah, but not boarded.]

How are you doing from all of that?

My turn to think I had answered this thread, but nope. Sitting open in a tab still in preview

[goldenglasses]

Oh, is that all? That doesn't seem so bad. [Said in the most deadpan voice he can muster.]

And me? Yeah. I'm fine. No nasty side affects from the coma that I've noticed. I also managed to avoid unexpected trouble on the planet too so that was good. [He says unexpected because he caused a lot of trouble.]

hehe!

[passingthrough]

[She heard that sneaky disclaimer.] Only the unexpected trouble, huh? Looks like you're in one piece at least.

[goldenglasses]

Yeah. I'm a pretty resilient kind of guy. A bit like a bouncy ball! What about you? You come away from that planet, alright?

[passingthrough]

You are such a bouncy ball. [She may bring that back to haunt him.]

Me? Sure. I mean, on one hand, it had nothing on home. [Which is sad. A gang of cannibals raiding scared villages and eating people or sacrificing them should probably at least register. And it does in a way. Anytime killing is so extra unnecessary it bothers her. But she feels detached about anyone they run into who she still suspects to be actors or simulations controlled by the Atroma to get a certain response from the fleet. It's not that she wouldn't save lives in the moment, but none of it feels wholly real to her. Maybe the result of living so long in a shared virtual reality setting in Marina. And now that she knows that people in the fleet come back to life when they die it blunts her feelings about that too and adds more legitimacy to feeling like none of it is entirely real. And this is what bothers her more than any of what actually happened there.]

On the other, we came out pretty intact. Just worried about the people who had trouble with it. We didn't all start at the same point. [She isn't too worried about Vash. He's from a pretty rough place too. She knows it's more the internal struggles that can make it hard.]

[goldenglasses]

Your Earth got that bad, huh? [Rem had always talked so fondly of the world they had to leave behind. While it was dying and losing resources because of what humans did it never sounded like a bad place to be. With so many people on the SEEDs ship it was supposed to make some of that better.

Vash understands there are so many versions of Earth out there. Still, it was impossible to tell if one is the place Rem was from. Maybe it was Kitty's? Probably not, but it was still something he thought about now and then.] I've never been a big fan of cannibals. [They weren't unheard of, but Vash was glad they weren't near to being the majority either.]

Yeah, considering our handicaps going into that planet? We really got out lucky. Huh? I hope Yuri is doing okay.

[The last part is muttered under his breath. Their poor normal person on the ship.]

[passingthrough]

I wasn't there for it all, but my earth ends with "and then everyone died," so yeah, not great. And constant war before that. Closer to genocide really. [She shrugs as if she could shrug any of that off.] So, you know, upbeat stuff.

As far as crash landing with some of our best fighters gone, sleeping or weakened goes, yeah, we were lucky. We landed someone we could get supplies from non-cannibals. Didn't get attacked directly. Even Chuuya softened the landing and I was around for repairs.

[She heard that.] Me too. I don't think this stuff was normal in ice skating world. [She's aware his world was probably not all ice skating centric, but how would you know?]

[goldenglasses]

I dunno, maybe ice skating is the fastest way to escape from cannibals where he's from.

[Because joking about that was easier than talking about how messed up their homes are.]

[passingthrough]

[She doesn't mind talking about how messed up hers was. She used to do it to keep people at a distance to keep herself and them safe. Now it just makes it easier to deal with. Might still push other people away unfortunately now that it isn't the goal.]

Yeah, I'm sure that's it. Good thing he landed on our ship and not one full of normal people.

[goldenglasses]

Eh! [Vash shrugs with a smirk.] What is normal these days anyway? And I'm sure whatever normal is that it would be boring!

[passingthrough]

Good. It's decided. We may or may not be normal, but normal is boring so probably not and we like it that way. [Shaking her head in amusement.]

[goldenglasses]

Now you got it! But when I run into him I'll be sure to ask and see how he's doing.

[With a casual wave he heads back towards the back of the ship. (Unless of course it looks like Kitty has something to add)]

I'll see you later!

[passingthrough]

Sounds good. [She could have used more non-alone time, but she doesn't call back for him. Maybe if she wants to talk she should do less brooding standing by windows and do more walking around looking for people or getting on the network.]

Later, Vash.