Twin Roses Mingle

[passingthrough]

Who: Twin Roses crew, visitors, stowaways, who knows!?
Broadcast: Nada
Action: Twin Roses of course!
When: All of August and what remains of July

[Since we last saw this crew in action it has been joined (or rejoined) by Yuri, Mikuno, Vision, and Wanda! Will there be growing pains? Drama? Intrigue? Tune in and see!]

(OOC: The Yaugur System until August 5. Drifting and then MYSTERY!)

Comments

OTA! Crew, vistiors, etc. You probably knew what "all" meant.

[passingthrough]

[Lounge]
[Kitty has spent most of their time in the creepy mist sector on the ship with the exception of a few shopping excursions and one very notable deep dive into the mist to retrieve Vash. It seems the Atroma or spirit of the mist or whatever decided to reward her with something from home. They had to go back fairly deep to find it. She wasn't wearing it when she had to flee her home all those years ago, but now she has a simple chain with a Star of David on it resting in her palm as she relaxes thoughtfully on one of the armchairs. Should she add it to the overloaded necklace she already wears all the time with two lockets—one from Winn and one from the previous Wanda containing pictures of Kurt, Winn, and her parents—and more recently a silver band with three blue stones on it. She'd moved the engagement ring Winn never had a chance to give her from her finger to the chain a few weeks ago following a night not spent in her bedroom.

So, you walk in and find her in thoughtful contemplation, but don't worry, she'd rather have company.]

[Kitchen]
[She is putting away food she got on the planet. There's a lot of fish since that's a thing on the planet, but also as many fruits, vegetables, and desserts as she could manage. As most of the alien food they encounter seems to do, a lot of it echos foods of Earth, but not everything is so recognizable. There is some pink, hairy thing on the counter.]

[Wildcard]
[Find her anywhere on the ship or even on the Iskaulit. She can even be on one of the floating islands haggling over some food to take back to the ship. Use this to call her instead of her inbox if you want. THE POWER IS YOURS!]

[sassy_assassin]

[ Sara walks in to grab some coffee and sees the pink thing ]

What is that, a new pet?

[goldenglasses]

[At one point when Kitty comes into Vash's room to check on him she may find that he's not asleep. Sitting up and looking tired as hell with his hair a floppy mess around his face. Right before she entered he was looking down at his right arm. Making a fist and then releasing it again with his face lost in thought with a slight frown. Once he hears her enter he stops and his usual smile falls right back into place.

His voice is light and happy as if nothing happened recently.] Oh, hello. Hope I didn't worry you.

lounge

[candothat]

[Just the person he was looking for! One of them. A lot of his favorite Fleet people live on this ship, actually, so Kitty doesn't get to be the only person on the looking-for list.

He'd had a light question to kick off a conversation with, but he catches her expression and the items in her hands the moment he sets foot in the lounge and thinks better of going for it.]

Kitty, hello. [He doesn't come in any farther.] Is this a bad time?

Kitchen

[ikenai]

[Mikumo walks into the ship's galley, humming a song under her breath. It's not uncommon. She hums a lot when she's not singing. She needs to do it to keep sane.]

We keep meeting here, Captain. [She spots the pink thing on the counter and frowns.] We're putting pets on the counters now?

Wanda Maximoff | MCU

[seeingscarlet]

i. settling in
[Wanda has few personal belongings to unpack before she takes off to explore the ship. She still finds life in space uncomfortable, but the Twin Roses feels a little less sterile. Maybe it's the many windows (which she does pause beside to just stop and stare at the stars). Maybe it's all the greenery in the cargo bay. Or maybe it's just knowing that she definitely has friends here and other people like here.

She can be found all over the ship investigating and trying to get her bearings.]

ii. reunion [closed to Vision]
[When she had last left him, it hadn't been any big deal for him to carry her when the team jumped out of the Quinjet (safer that way, Vision could keep them afloat and she could shield them if needed). And she knows he knows what a hug is, and it's been two weeks without being in the same room as someone from home, so maybe she can be forgiven for rushing forward and wrapping her arms around him the moment she sees him.

Two weeks is a long time for a telepath to be surrounded by strangers. It's surprisingly draining.]

I missed you.

[passingthrough]

Wanda! [Kitty says her friend's name warmly even if they're still building the friendship she remembers. She doesn't let herself get too caught up in that or she tries not to at least. There are too many enemies in the world not to embrace friends when you can. She does stop short of a physical embrace though. She doesn't want to overwhelm her. It's probably hard enough having so many more minds on this ship compared to the Tourist. She just joins her in front of the bank of windows she was looking out.] It's official, right? You transferred over? [Not that she wouldn't have been happy with just a visit too.]

[sassy_assassin]

[ Sara approaches Wanda while she's gazing out a window, standing beside her with a drink in her hand ]

It's kind of beautiful, if you don't think about it too hard.

[unbearablynaive]

[A little disoriented from the automatic transfer? Sure. But not so much that he doesn't instinctually hug Wanda back and tuck his chin over her head. He has definitely learned how to hug at some point, and for the first time in a while he feels fully at ease.]

I'm sorry it took me this long to meet up with you, Wanda.

[Not wanting to make things awkward, he releases his grip on her and instead looks down at her, smiling and perhaps still holding her hands.]

Welcome to the Twin Roses. Would you like the tour?

[goldenglasses]

[Vash makes it a point to meet his new crew. Even if he looks incredibly casual dressed in a large red sweat and jeans. Completing the look with black leather gloves and boots.

He smiles brightly when he catches Wanda looking out one of the windows.] They're beautiful, aren't they?

[therewerefifty]

[Makie runs into Wanda in the hallway as she leaves her room, shamisen tucked under one arm, and her brow furrows a little at the sight of an unfamiliar woman. Then she gives a small bow.]

Hello. You're... new? Or visiting?

[She's not so good with checking the roster.]

OTA

[sassy_assassin]

[ Sara's been spending time getting some different clothes planetside, hanging out in a bar, or working out in the gym on the Iskaulit. Despite her initial air of ease and congeniality, she's been keeping to herself more and more. It's clear that this is a shitty situation that she's stuck in, and that doesn't really inspire optimism.

For the time being, she can be found in the kitchen grabbing a cup of coffee and some protein gels, in the corridors heading back to her room, or in the lounge meditating... or trying to. ]

Lounge

[unbearablynaive]

[This is one of the areas that's new to him, and the Vision pokes his head in curiously.]

Er, excuse me. Are you one of the crew? I'm afraid I'm new here.

Kitchen

[goldenglasses]

[Vash shuffles out fully dressed in a red sweater, jeans, black gloves, and his boots but his hair is still a mess and lacking it's normal spiky nature. Hanging loose around his face as his nose leads him to the smell of coffee instead of a shower.]

Mmhm. That smells great. Don't suppose you have enough for a second cup do you?

lounge

[candothat]

[Pavel, currently visiting the Twin Roses because the majority of his friends happen to live here, stops at the entrance to the lounge when he spots Sara. He's quite torn between wanting to say hello and being unwilling to bother her, so he lurks awkwardly for a few moments while weighing the pros and cons of each option.

He'll definitely make a decision eventually if she doesn't take pity on him and make it for him.]

[therewerefifty]

[Oh...meditating. That's not something she sees much of lately. Makie pauses in the doorway to the lounge, instrument in hand, and wonders if she should back out and leave her be.

After a moment, she comes in anyway. She's just incredibly quiet about it. Carry on.]

OTA

[unbearablynaive]

[So many small changes, so much that's stayed the same. It's not his Windrose, but it's close enough that it's no stretch to start thinking of the Twin Roses as a new home. The Vision spends much of his first few days wandering around the ship, pausing to contemplate something here and there - a new set of windows in the hallway, a little bit of graffiti from a previous resident in the bathrooms, his old familiar nook in the Engineering section that he now gets to share with someone else. He spends a lot of it in the cargo bay with the plants, much like he always had before - floating up to the ones on higher shelves, checking them each individually for health and harvesting leaves or seeds or roots when appropriate.

And he spends time at the kelp tank, coaxing out the little glow fish that live there and transferring them one by one into portable little sphere-tanks with wicker hangars, leaving them for a few hours, and then transferring them back. On the planet they'd come from, the little fish were used as light sources, and he wanted to make sure they still felt comfortable with the old job. Power outages did occur, and not everyone could see in the dark. Plus, they're kind of adorable.

Most importantly, he'll use his time to seek out the other crew members and introduce himself. He largely sticks to wearing his Avengers outfit on the ship; no real need to camouflage his clothing out here. So hi, there's a tall maroon person with lots of interesting costumey bits and no hair wadering around your ship, occasionally floating and phasing through objects.]

[goldenglasses]

[Vash may have been asleep when Vision first arrived, but once he was awake he wasted no time to go looking for his crew. Dressed in a red sweater, blue jeans, black leather gloves, and boots he doesn't exactly look like a co-captain.

Finds Vision tending to the kelp and smiles when he spots him.] Hello, there. You must be, Vision, right?

OTA

[goldenglasses]

[Vash has been spending the last couple days sleeping, but once he's feeling a bit better he's up and about the ship again. Only he's dressed a bit differently as his iconic red jacket is missing. Instead he's wearing a big, baggy red sweater, a pair of jeans, and his normal leather gloves and thick boots. So he's still completely covered from his neck down to his toes.

He also still wears his hair in it's normal spiky fashion and his smile is always on his face.

The first thing after getting out of bed he does is to give his large silver pistol a good cleaning. After that Vash will typically be around the lounge practicing his harmonica this month. Or find him in the pilot seat updating the map and planet guide book he's been keeping to document the fleet's travels. Or when he's really bored he'll be shuffling a deck of cards.]

Care to play a game?

[Or start your own prompt!]

[candothat]

[Following the sounds of harmonica-playing brings Pavel right to Vash, which doesn't really surprise him even though he did not know that Vash played the harmonica. While seeing Vash isn't his only reason for being on the Twin Roses--turns out that a huge chunk of his Fleet friends live here--he was hoping to. Kind of. He has a paperbag-wrapped gift to give him, anyway.]

Vash, hello. [Vash isn't offended by the way that 'v' turns into a 'w' when Pavel says his name, right? Right.] Am I interrupting?

[cajunspice]

[Remy raised a brow at the offer for cards. It was always a temptation for him, and no doubt he and Vash had had a few hands in the past, either between busy moments at the bar or on the ship.] Oh yeah? What's ya fancy? [Remy would even be kind enough to not cheat since it was all for fun after all.]

OTA

[therewerefifty]

[It's your resident shut-in, doing resident shut-in things. She's been quieter than usual in the wake of good friends leaving the Fleet, but she's not particularly sad; just kind of... thoughtful. People come, people go.

She leaves the ship regularly, though, both for her job at the Melting Pot and to garden. You can catch her coming or going or, on rare occasion, in the lounge, tuning her shamisen.

...or one fine day, sitting in a corner of the cargo bay and cleaning the last traces of blood from her three-section pike. You know, as you do. Sparring is an interesting business when you face off against an immortal.]

[passingthrough]

[Kitty is walking along the corridors of the ship with her inherited direwolf pup, Seeker. She normally takes him to the Iskaulit or surface when they're somewhere decent so he has more room since the Twin Roses is such an efficiently-designed ship. So this is less of a walk and more of a patrol. Just making sure everything still looks like a ship. She used to patrol a lot at home and in the prison. Some habits stick. As they near the lounge Seeker darts through the door to eagerly and expectantly look at Makie. Kitty follows a moment later.] Concert time?

I don't even go here but OTA

[candothat]

[Sorry Twin Roses crew, but Pavel Chekov is going to be spending a lot more time with you since a number of his friends live here and the Tourist has become a ghost town. Or whatever the spaceship equivalent of a ghost town is.

Although he'll primarily be in the hallway searching for company, he'll also spend some time checking out the bridge--the communications station in particular--and the lounge. Feel free to tell him to stop touching your console and books!]

Hallway

[cajunspice]

[Sure, he may not be a shipmate, but Chekov was good company and always welcomed aboard. Remy offered him a wave as he spotted him down the hall, changing his course to meet up with him.] Hey mon ami, how ya be?

Mikumo Guynemer | Macross Delta | OTA

[ikenai]

[Anyone on the ship will know Mikumo by her trademark long, purple hair. She's made her presence known enough to the Twin Roses's normal denizens that they shouldn't be surprised to see her walking around, singing and humming nearly constantly.

When she's not at the communications array on the bridge, she's in the lounge enjoying the view of space, or in the cargo bay with all of the plants.

And, well, if you pay close enough attention, you might notice that her ridiculous hair actually glows when she sings. Yep.]

cargo bay

[unbearablynaive]

[And here's one of the new members - maroon-skinned, a uniform all blues and golds with a yellow stone in his forehead, and it sure looks like he just phased through wall and floated down to the floor. When he notices the unfamiliar face, he lifts a hand in a wave and walks over.]

AH, hello there. I don't believe we've met?