>8< web 001 - HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

[notbackingdown]

Who: Anya Corazon and yoooou
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Windrose
When: 5/10

[ While the Windrose folks will recognize her, Anya's been spending time going back through the archives to get an idea of what's been going on and what these people are like instead of actually talking to them just yet, so she is decidedly not a familiar face.

When she speaks, she has a definite Hispanic accent - a mix of Mexican and Puerto Rican, for anyone who would be able to tell. ]

Hey, my name's Anya, I'm on the Windrose. I, uh, haven't really said much on the network since I got here. Kind of got distracted catching up on what's been going on. Oops?

[ She smiles and shrugs sheepishly ]

Anyway, it's Mother's Day, right? Or close enough? So I feel like everybody should take a minute to think about your mamá back home. Unless you didn't have a great mom, then I guess think about someone else who was like a mom, yeah? Also do something for nice for any moms you know here, 'cause they're probably missing their kids a lot, being stuck here.

I want to say thank you and I love you to my mom Carol, because she has done so much for me and always believes in me and taught me how to protect myself from assholes with superpowers. [ grin ] Best mom, even if she's a total nerd.

[ And then, on the encrypted Comms officer channel or whatever it is ]

Hey, fellow Communications people, que pasa? We totally have our own secret chat room, basically, how cool is that? Who all is one of us, anyway?

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[notbackingdown]

I do! Like, she didn't give birth to me or anything, but she's basically been my mom since I was 15 and she's fantastic.

My mamá was amazing too, she died when I was little, but she was a great mom and I miss her a lot.

[justamobster]

Family you go makin' has a way of bein' just as important as the one you're born into. Sorry you lost one mother, yeah? But glad you found another.

[notbackingdown]

Now I just gotta find a father figure, and I'll be set!

[ It's said jokingly, but like one of those awkward jokes you make with friends that sometimes spill out when you don't mean for them to in front of other people.

...She misses Rikki. Rikki would've at least snorted and told her that was awful. ]

[justamobster]

[ Ladon does laugh at that, even if it's awkward. He finds rhyming jokes funny and made one involving rhyming "wookie" with "hooky" and "cookie" in another game. He has no room to judge, Anya. ]

Plenty of fellas here at least, dunno who of 'em're fatherly. So far don't think we've had any parentin' tests. Passed the one at my previous place, but hell if that means anythin'.

[ He was proud of that "World's Best Mom" mug, though. ]

[notbackingdown]

Heh, I'm honestly not in the market specifically. I mean, I'm an adult and all, I don't really need fussing over, I just happen to still have Carol and I'm plenty happy with that.

[ You SHOULD be proud. No, wait, you shouldn't because it was given to you by a FUCKING INSANE COMPUTER. ...not that Toby disagrees with the message of it, just the delivery. ]

[justamobster]

S'fair. We fellas're kinda pointless compared to havin' a great gal 'round. She here with you?

[ That name is familiar. ]

... Wait. Captain Marvel Carol?

[notbackingdown]

Aw, I wouldn't say you're pointless. Just kind of obsolete.

[ she's clearly laughing as she says it. SHE'S A LESBIAN OKAY SHE LITERALLY IS 100% ABOUT THE LADIES. ]

Carol Danvers, yeah! You met her?

[justamobster]

Potay-to potah-to. [ He's got a good sense of humor about his uselessness at least. ]

Talked to her when she showed up. Think we're gonna be racin' ships soon.

[notbackingdown]

Yeah, she's a speed demon. Can she fly there? Why do it any other way! Is she going down the block? Flying's more fun!

[ She teases because she loves, Carol, even to other people ]

You a pilot too?

[justamobster]

Sounds like I got my work cut out for me then.

Yeah. Dunno what Atroma's thinkin' puttin' me behind the wheel, but m'gettin' the hang of it.

[video]

[princess_sparklefists]

Oh my god, you little brat, are you ever going to let that go?

[ You're too far away to smack upside the head right now, but the look she is giving the camera suggests she would like to. ]

You wanna get dinner or something? Pretty sure the stations around here are all overpriced, but I don't need to afford clothes, so...

[poetontheinside]

[Have a slightly guilty look. Guess who didn't call his mom often enough! Oops.]

Uh, Happy Mother's Day, Anya.

[video]

[notbackingdown]

I heard about the tumor from Wendy.

[ aka no, no she is not. Mostly because she's happy you remember her so that she CAN be a little shit about it. ]

Ugh, do not even talk to me about clothes, my only options currently are "spandex" or "ugly grey baggy jumpsuit", and I hate you a little.

[notbackingdown]

[ she laughs ]

Well don't tell me, I'm sure as hell not a mom.

[poetontheinside]

Well, you got one, right? She's here, so you're celebratin'.

[notbackingdown]

Okay, fair point. I've just never heard of someone being wished a happy mother's day for having a mom, I guess.

[poetontheinside]

Well, I don't know your mom, tell her a happy mother's day for me.

[notbackingdown]

I will.

You should meet her sometime, though, she's pretty awesome. She's an Avenger back home and everything - that's the big important superhero team that's been around for like. Ever.

[poetontheinside]

[Guess who was a kid in the 60s and 70s: this guy.]

An Avenger. Like, 'Earth's mightiest super-heroes', Avenger.

[Oh my god]

[notbackingdown]

Uuuuuh, yeah? Captain America, Black Widow, Spider-Woman, Iron Man - who is really ridiculously into index cards, by the way. The whole nine yards.

[ beat ]

Wait, how do you know about the Avengers?

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[puro]

[He's noticed, and his smile fades, a touch. ] I'm sorry, I didn't realise. Is it hard to talk about?

[He finds such things hard to talk about. To face the reality of it all.]

I've never been, but I've never left my little village, until I cam here. [And..uh, DIED. ]

I'm from San Angel, it's pretty small, in the middle of nowhere.

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[pocketpal]

You're being very insensitive about it. I was going to ask questions about mothers.

Encrypted;

[onlyanapple]

Of course we are. We have a solemn duty to keep the gossip running free.

Likewise.

[video]

[princess_sparklefists]

It wasn't technically a tumor, and we're not arguing about that now.

[ She snorts softly. You poor child. ]

You want me to give you an allowance for clothes or something? It's the least I can do.

[encrypted]

[delincuente]

Oh hey, I totally didn't know we could do this.

[Alex has basically done no communicating as a communications officer, oops.]

Uhh... nada? Me llamo Alex?

[She hasn't spoken a word of Spanish in years, but there are a few phrases she at least absorbed growing up.]