#004 [Accidental Video]

[everydayhero]

Who: Hiro Hamada
Broadcast: Fleetwide Video
Action: Bishop
When: 5/17



[it appears that the atroma is tired of one of its star ratings-grabbers not doing a damn thing. for the entire duration of april, hiro was fixing ships and running jobs for parts. for the month of may, he's been using those parts. he's currently working with black paint of some sort, with music playing from seemingly nowhere (looks like the sound system he kept talking about got completed).

[if you haven't sought him out, and you're not regularly training him, hiro's been completely radio silent while he's been working. in fact, he hasn't even answered text messages in a couple days.

[when he finishes coating the surface he's working on in the paint, he lowers the mask he's wearing and sighs, wiping (and smearing paint on) his forehead. he looks like a mess.

[but hey, at least he's alive!]

Comments

[realhumanbeing]

Pretty good! I've even started conjuring fire.

[But he adds hastily:]

Where've you been? You look exhausted.

[everydayhero]

Really? Sheesh, better than I've done.

[fire just isn't happening with this one]

I've been here, on the Bishop. After all the repairs to the fleet last month, I had to catch up on my own projects. Got the sound system done, the hyper-compost bin is pretty much operational, and the docking bay door lock just needs to be installed.

[realhumanbeing]

Woah.

[Hiro has done a lot more than Steven-- though, admittedly, they're in different sections. Still, he feels as though he's lagging behind a bit-- after all, he ought to be contributing just as much!]

You know how to do all that on your own?

[everydayhero]

Yeah. I was an engineer way before I came here. Robotics in particular. It's kinda my life.

[realhumanbeing]

That's really awesome! You must be a genius at this rate, if you can do all that stuff.

[And then--]

Could you make a robot?

[everydayhero]

I've been referred to as a genius on occasion.

[he looks so proud, steven, you are going down a dangerous road here]

I've made robots.

[realhumanbeing]

Like what? Did they talk? Did they shoot fire? Were they your friend? Did they have emotions? Could they learn to love?

[everydayhero]

[alright that has him cracking up]

Slow down, big guy. I haven't made anything with emotions yet, but... My brother got something close.

[realhumanbeing]

[TOTALLY UNDETERRED.]

Like what? How?

[everydayhero]

Well, his name's Baymax. He's a nursing robot; he can scan you and figure out if you're sick or hurt, and treat you to an extent. My brother didn't mean for it to happen, but he kind of started learning. If I'm being honest, it's hard to believe that a robot can actually love, but... I think Baymax might. I miss him.

[realhumanbeing]

Maybe he'll come soon. I miss Lion from home . . . but at least we have each other, right?

[everydayhero]

... Yeah. Friends make it better.

[goddammit steven you're so cute]

You wanna see some of the stuff on the Bishop I made?

[realhumanbeing]

Yeah! Hang on, I'll come over right now-- if that's cool?

[everydayhero]

That's fine with me. I'll be waiting.

[and when steven gets here, he's going to get to witness the silent blue alarm that goes of when someone docks with their ship! the light comes out from underneath an ostrich bobblehead that appears to have been welded to an apparatus on the ceiling.]

[realhumanbeing]

[Oooh. Steven stares up at the bobblehead in appreciation, though after a moment he's more focused on Hiro. He still has that paint glob across his forehead, and Steven grins.]

Did you get that from the gambling planet?

[everydayhero]

[hiro waves in greeting and points up]

The bobblehead? That was our ship's first captain's. I was told I couldn't get rid of them, so I made them part of the ship.

[realhumanbeing]

That was a good decision.

[Very nice. Steven nods up at it in respect.]

Show me what else you did!

[everydayhero]

[hiro motions him over to the control deck, heading through the doors and taking a hard right over to the wall where two medium-sized control panels are.]

These are the controls for the alarms and the sound system I installed. The alarms go through six different colors for six different alerts.

The blue one only goes off in the hall, docking bay, and cargo hold. It means someone's docking with the ship.

[he's starting to cycle through the alarms on silent mode now, making quick work of his invention's controls.]

Green for gas leak, yellow for fire. Those two are the "evacuate immediately" alarms. The orange one goes off if something large enough to damage the ship is coming toward us. Red means we've taken damage.

[then he points to the big red button the control panel he's on]

This one is the manual alarm. If there's any kind of emergency we need to alert the rest of the ship about, we hit this, and the purple lights start flashing. It's also hooked up the communications array to send out a distress beacon. When the fleet got attacked, that beacon was probably the only thing that let the First Breath know we needed their cover.

[thank god]

Aaand the second panel here is the sound system. We can play music in any room on the ship.