do the mingle shuffle!

[carreau]

Who: you! me! everyone! it's like a really big party!
Broadcast: if you want!
Action: see above!
When: right now!!!

[ So the weekly shuffle has happened. We got new captains, people who have mysteriously disappeared-- I mean, who have never existed, and new people aboard the ships. That's exciting! Wow! ]

[ New people, get acquainted with your ships? Press all the buttons? Introduce yourself like a polite individual? Old people, keep aging? Welcome them with open arms and confetti? Punch the person who just opened the door while you were in the shower??? ]

[ Who knows! It's a mingle post! Don't ask me!]

[ (But seriously, how bout those people who never existed, huh.) ]

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[payback]

[She's trying not to laugh at him... but she can't resist. She puts her face in her hands and giggles a little bit.]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Yes, yes... Laugh at my misery.

[it won't stop him from laying there.]

[payback]

How... can this possibly... have been the thing to take you out?

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Well, it's not a sickness or an injury, so my body doesn't really have... anything to heal...

[and half of this might be purely psychosomatic. let's be fair.]

You really aren't freaked out by this space thing?

[payback]

[She ruffles his hair again.]

I've been here before... the town we were staying in got bombed into nothing, so until we fixed that, we had to be in space. We were on the moon...

[And maybe it's easier to deal with when you're solidly in the realm of assuring yourself constantly that it isn't really happening.]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Oh yeah... [that whole moon thing...] But did it freak you out when it was new, or anything?

[payback]

[Aw well she pops her chin in her hands to think about it.]

I had just gotten back from a long mission I went on with my teacher... who's here, by the way, you could look him up... and we were home for a long time and then I came back... and I slept a lot and didn't think about it. That's what I did.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Oh.

[well, that's kind of depressing. maybe it's his turn to hoist his arm up and ruffle her bangs a little.]

Who's your teacher? I didn't know you had one.

[payback]

[She ducks her head but lets it happen. She didn't even really see it as depressing, lately. She's been sleeping a lot these days too. It's a good way to adjust to a new place as far as she's concerned: well-rested, if nothing else.]

His name's Gin... he's a real snaky guy... he's kind of mean, but actually he's okay.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Snaky... [reminds him of Tek, actually...]

What's he look like?

[payback]

He's got white hair, and he smiles all the time, and he never opens his eyes... [She points to her own eyes and squints them shut and stretches the biggest grin she possibly can across her face.]

Kind of like this.

[I don't even have an icon that comes close to that, so you will have to imagine.]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[that... is so completely absurd that Robin, even in his misery, starts cracking up.]

Yeah? Really? Just like that?

[payback]

[She drops the face and puffs her cheeks out after a second... then grinds her knuckles into his head. >8T]

Yes! And somehow he doesn't bump into things!

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Aaaugh... [giggly squirming...] Weird! I'll look for him.

[payback]

[She starts laughing too... because he's so pathetic...]

Don't listen to him if he's mean to you! Because... he's so mean!

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[he keeps laughing. it's funny!]

It sounds like you like him a lot.

[payback]

[She didn't mean for this wail to come out quite so dramatically but it's so dramatic]

Nnnooooo!

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[OH MY GOD RIN stop it you're gonna kill him.]

Hah! You do, don't you!

[payback]

No! Stop laughing! [shE GRINDS HER KNUCKLES into his scalp again] He's so mean to me! He decided he'd be my teacher and then he wouldn't let me quit!

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[ROLLS OVER in an attempt to get awaaaay...]

But you haven't said you don't like him.

[payback]

[He's allowed to escape... for now B(]

Fine, I don't like him.

[IT'S A LIEEEeeee but man she's tetchy about it]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Hah. I don't know if I believe you, but... I'll let it go for now.

[yeah he's just being a pain. :')]

[payback]

What? [omg you know what? She's gonna scoot after him and start pinching his cheeks vengefully.] What would you possibly do, huh?

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Ow, ow, hey! [he tries to... pry her fingers off. it hurts! ;3;]

[payback]

[She lets him pry her off... but laughs evilly.]

I'm gonna pinch holes in your ears.