driftfleet | #003 [Video]

Who: Hiro Hamada
Broadcast: Fleetwide Video
Action: Waystation/Bishop
When: Sometime after the attacks.

[The video opens on Hiro, who's looking over his shoulder at what... looks like it might have once been the Bishop. It really barely survived that battle. He looks a little exasperated, but not visibly injured--at least not what can be seen of him here.]

So, it looks like we've got our work cut out for us. [he glances back to the camera.] For everybody who doesn't know, my name is Hiro Hamada. I'm the engineer on the SS Bishop. I know there aren't enough engineers to go around for the repairs we all need, so I'm going to offer my services. I know my way around things like this. If you need help on your ship, let me know. If you can't do the repairs, but you can work to get parts, I'll take that in payment.

[he looks like he's about to sign off, but he pauses.]

Oh, right. If you're not an engineer in augment, but you can help, make sure you're pulling your weight. The faster we can get done repairing, the faster we can go back to our lives.

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...Believe me, for your sake? That's probably for the best.

[Belth is up there among the "stupid patients" ranks of people he's treated]

Does he have a track record with this?

I dunno about a track record so much, but one time he did come into the clinic I worked at with a broken arm he got jumping off a cliff. Said he was practicing some kind of spell.

[a beat]

Obviously, the spell didn't work.

Edited 2015-04-08 01:00 (UTC)

... Obviously.

[he's kind of laughing though]

I'll keep an eye on him more regularly, then.

That'd be for the best.

...By the way, did the library get hit?

No, Steffa used her magic to keep it steady. Everything's in tact.

[And now he looks visibly relieved. THE BOOKS ARE SAFE YESSS.]

Oh thank the goddess. That's a relief.

Good to know what matters to you most!

[he's laughing, though]

Haha- what? I've been watching the network! It's like the other healers are jonesing to heal you all up. Why get in their way?

I guess you've got a point, but still. No "hey, Hiro, you didn't lose any limbs in the battle, right?"

Eh. I have faith that you'd be screaming "Oh shit my arm, my arm" over the feed instead of going around offering services if you did lose one.

You never know. I'm a superhero, it's my job to assist the public.

A super-what?

[Da fuq is that]

A superhero? Come on, they don't have them where you come from? They're beings with mystical powers, radioactive damage, or intellectual prowess that take on protector roles in a city. They're vigilante justice!

Sorry. We have magic and stuff, sure, but any "vigilante justice" in my world tends to be about massacring innocents over old grudges rather than protecting anyone.

Also any radioactivity I've heard about just gives you cancer, not powers. [Just...so you know]

Edited 2015-04-13 12:59 (UTC)

... That's not justice, that's just wrong.

... And, yeah, that... tends to be the ultimate side effect, but--I'm the intellectual one anyway.

Yes. Glad to see you can see that.

[This tone is passive. Apathetic. Then again. It's usually passive and apathetic.]

Well that's good. Don't stand too close to the radioactive ones.

Never met one of those, don't worry. My team and I use our inventions to do battle. We all have something we're specialized in, and we work together to save people. That's all we do.

...Huh.

[Yes thank you Kaneis. That was super enlightening]

... I feel like you're not sharing with the class.

Don't need to. I already graduated.

Alright, Sassmaster 9000, so what's with the totally unenthused response?

Oh. Should I have gone "Huh!" instead?

Would have been more encouraging. You know, at my age, encouragement is important.

Nuh uh. I have a sister your age whose the "intellectual and powered" type. I know the last thing you guys need is more encouragement to do dangerous stuff. [Since really you'll do it anyway]

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