driftfleet | [video] no sign of your flawed design

Who: Asuka Shikinami Langley and... you.
Broadcast: Video
Action: Red Fish, if you want it
When: 4/29 (today)

[And here's a sight typically reserved for sore eyes-- Asuka flopped on her half-made bed, hair in braids on either side of her head, wearing a t-shirt and a pair of baggy pants. The overall effect leaves her much less intimidating-looking than usual, but really, she's just about to go to bed.]

I've been thinking about augment glitches.

[Not the most profound statement, but she presses on.]

Everyone gets them. Sometimes it's sort of an epidemic of them, other times it's just a handful of people. I know people in the Fleet keep track of all the planets and stations we end up at, but I don't think anyone's kept up with glitches. [An eyeroll, and then--] Probably because everyone wants to forget they happened. But I think it might be good to have a record and see what comes up most often or if there's any sort of pattern.

If you want to talk about any augment malfunctions you've had, go ahead right here. Even if they're really screwed-up. It might help somebody else out.

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Stupid and annoying. [GRUMPY]

No... not really. I mean, Shiro's hair was a thing, but that was more because of the association it has with some stuff that happened back home, not because it changed his hair. If it was just because it was long, that would have been fine, but... yeah.

What did he do?

Well, he either tied it back with a hair tie or Lance helped him braid it to keep it out of his face until the glitch was over and he was able to cut it back to normal again.

Not much else you really can do, I guess, but just wait it out.

That's not what I meant. What exactly made his hair such a big deal?

Oh.

[Keith seemed to withdraw a little, a mixture of sadness, anger, and frustration.]

Well, his hair looked like that when we found him again after he'd gone missing and been captured by our enemy. They did a lot of stuff to him. They're the reason he has the white streak in his hair... and the scar on his nose... and that metal arm.

[This would mean more to her if she knew more than his name. But Asuka's scribbling.]

They try and see what's going to make someone fall apart. Then they pepper all that with dumb crap so you get lulled into thinking they're harmless.

Atroma? Yeah... dragging up past trauma is exactly the right way to push someone's buttons.

[Of all the weird things that had happened to them, the hair thing had left the deepest mark.]

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