Video/Action. scars and hearts (not an emo song from 2002)

[throwsdown]

Who: Takeshi and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Goldstone
When: Feb. 13th for broadcast / Valentine's Day for Goldstone option.

[Video.]

I was just thinking about scars... I mean — umm! That sounds kind of weird, doesn't it. But I got a few, and I was thinking about how people who fight got a lot of them. How do you feel about yours...? The kinds you get when you fight. I have one here — [He pulls the fleet's custom jumpsuit to show a nasty scar on his shoulder.] from when I got shot! And this one — [He holds up one of his legs, floundering a little to keep it in the screen. His head isn't even in the shot anymore as he struggles to balance; the scar, unlike the rounder one before, is thin and longer.]

I got this one when I broke my leg fighting a godman! And this one...!

[He sits up, pointing to the little scar on his arm.]

This was when I was hitting cannibals with trees!

And this one —

[He holds up the other foot, where a littler scar sits on the top of his foot.]

... I kicked a table on accident once.

How about you guys?

[Action | Goldstone]

[February 14th... Morning.

Well. The ship sudddenly looks...



... Frightening. Child-cut hearts everywhere, balloons, confetti, more hearts, more confetti, all over the tables, the hallway, the doors of everyone in the crew; it is V-Day pandemonium. And judging from Takeshi's happy little hum as he sits at the table and cuts out more hearts, the person who had caused this chaos is hardly a mystery. Even Hoi Hoi the panda is sitting nearby, gnawing on a squeaky toy and wearing pink and red and white beads like he's two pawsteps away from Mardi Gras.

... Happy Valentine's Day. (˵ ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°˵)ﾉ⌒♡  (◕▿◕✿)]

Comments

[youdontneedapictureofme]

You know... I think you'd have liked Glenn. My husband. He - [She breaks off, trying to get through just talking about him. She normally kept herself locked up tight unless it was with Carl. Some things were just hard to talk about.] he thought the way you do about people. Memories are important because when you lose people, that's all you got. You honor them by keeping going.

[Whether they died or disappeared made no difference to what the sentiment implied, of course. His mother could very well be alive out there. Just imagining him happy, with a family and being able to keep going made her feel emotional. She hides it by placing a kiss on the top of his head and slipping far enough away that he might not notice her furiously wiping away a tear while looking for mixing bowls.]

Starting with cookies.

[She looks to him over her shoulder, smiling in his direction.]

[throwsdown]

[He nods, silent for a moment as she begins fidgeting with the bowls.

Carefully, Takeshi reaches over to grab the hem of her shirt.]

I think he'd be really happy, knowing you're doing things like making cookies.

... Because everybody likes cookies.

[He's sad for Glenn. But if he were Glenn — he surely almost has been many times — he'd want people to be happy. And eat cookies. A lot of cookies.]

[youdontneedapictureofme]

Yeah. We didn't have a lot of that fun stuff back home - like making cookies and stuff. It took us a long time to find a place where we could live like that again. Me and Carl and him - there were others with us too. We were like this big family just moving from one place to the next trying to stay ahead of the Walkers that would come after us - kinda like the monsters you and I talked about.

[It was honestly the first time she's opened up about home to anyone. Specifically by giving this much information. Mon El had been one thing and she still half worried he was worried she was going to make everyone sick. She didn't want to worry about that. The idea that she could infect the people she cared about wasn't something she wanted to think about.]

But now, I'm here and I get to make cookies with you. So there's somethin' good out of any situation, right?

[She begins grabbing ingredients while she talks, setting them beside the mixing bowl. A lot of the things they had were synthetic, of course, but they had some nice additions from scavenging planets here and there since her time in the fleet before and up til now. Somehow they might actually be able to pull off some chocolate chip cookies.]

[throwsdown]

[Heck yeah, we're rigging up some space cookies....!

He moves to stand next to her, standing a little on his tippy toes.]

Yeah! I think so, too. A lot of real bad stuff happened to me, and - it hurts, but if those bad things didn't happen, I woulda' never met people who really cared about me...! So... It's imporant to look at the good things.

[youdontneedapictureofme]

[Darn Takeshi and his ability to pull at her heartstrings, honestly. He keeps saying the right things. But cookies.

So - speaking of good things. First thing's first we have butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla.

[As she says each ingredient she adds them to the bowl. Once they're all together, she passes Takeshi the spoon to begin stirring his little heart out.]

[throwsdown]

[Cookies!!

He starts stirring the heck out of this mix, you can depend on him!]

Should we do anything special to them, Miss Maggie? I mean, it's Valentine's Day, so...!!

[youdontneedapictureofme]

I got some left over chocolate chips we can melt and dip 'em in?

[And there's probably cookie cutters somewhere? They obviously need to be heart shaped.]

[throwsdown]

[His eyes are getting so wide with every word. Yes.]

I love chocolate chips.

[These will be the best cookies in the galaxy.]