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[webdesigned]

hey, so, full disclosure: this is super weird for me. i've never done this before. like, classically when i tell people bad stuff happens so i sorta don't tell anyone, but uh, here goes:

so i've got... superpowers. it feels like?? that's not that big a deal around here. some people are like 9 ft tall and can do magic (???) and have full robotic wings so it's just nbd but also for me it kinda is a big deal so it's a little scary to be upfront about this but i super duper did just liveblog my spider wall-crawling to the entire team during the last mission pandora's box is way open so yeah i have superpowers

( and apparently he's no better at trying to send brain messages, RIP friendos, his brain is just Like This )

but anyway, uh... since there are a lot of us, maybe if you wanna, we can... share??? nothing more than you are comfortable with, obviously, and trust me if you wanna hang back and stay quiet i get it. back home, i can't share this stuff. it gets people hurt. i was just thinking here, maybe... and since there's a ton of you like me or not even like me but different too, i don't know. maybe it'd be good for us to know who can do what? what we're all capable of? things we should look out for?

i guess i should go first. i, uh... can crawl on walls. everybody saw that (SIDEBAR that is my bad for that shaky camera work if i gave you motion sickness i am so so so sorry). i'm pretty strong too. and maybe be careful trying to touch me or throw things at me bc my senses make me react if it seems like a threat and i'm not super good at turning it off. i'm trying though. i have webslingers too, for flyin around?? so that's cool

uh... that's it? ama? i'll try and answer... or you can tell me anything, if you wanna talk shop. if you wanna keep things dl, private works. trust that i get it, this feels so viscerally uncomfortable, like those went to school in ur underwear dreams, only i really did it, holy snickerdoodle, i really hope this does not blow up in my face

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[hannyas]

Ooh, you think the holodeck would work?

[ a long pause. ]

What's a holodeck?

[ sorry peter... ]

[webdesigned]

It's, uh, ( wow. how to explain it to someone who has never heard of it. someone who wields antique japanese weaponry and is from a similar world to the guy who didn't know what bullet trains are. ) It's like a dream. Only you're awake. And a computer generates what you see, instead of your brain. And you can manipulate it, kinda, instead of just... watching it?

This might be a situation where it's easier to show you than just tell you.

[hannyas]

... I don't get that at all.

[ said with all the bluntness in the world, stated as a fact. sorry peter, all of that literally flew over yamato's head just now. ]

But if you can show me, maybe then I will! Where does this holo-thing happen?

[webdesigned]

It's here on the ship. I can show you whenever. Maybe now, if you want?

( what else has he got to do, besides waiting for Quill to make dinner and bumming around the lab? answer: not much. so, he can be Yamato's tech informant. happily! )

[hannyas]

Sure! Where do I come to meet you?

[ this sounds like fun, and more importantly, informative, and yamato does love to learn new things. ]

[webdesigned]

How about... cafeteria? And we walk over together.

( much easier than trying to give directions in a same-y space station. )

[hannyas]

That sounds like a good idea! See you soon!

[ the upside of doing part of the conversation in video is that they know who to look for. and so as soon as peter appears in the cafeteria, yamato jumps up from where they were sitting (on a table rather than a chair) and waves. ]

Peter!! You came, great!

[webdesigned]

( look, it's fine. Peter sits on the tables, too. at least until PQ tells him to park it on a bench, and usually then he'll obligingly shift over. he fits on the bench a lot better than Yamato would, so, it's probably reasonable to expect him not to sit on the table.

he still will if there's not a Guardian of the Galaxy calling the shots at the dinner table, though.

Peter ambles up, offering a smile and an awkward wave, because what should he be doing with his hands? he has no idea. ) Hi Yamato. Wow. You are... Tall. Like I knew that? From the video. But still. ( extremely tol. noted. Peter isn't particularly short, and even he has to take note of the difference. )

[hannyas]

[ yamato's reaction to that? is to burst out laughing, actually, because the comment is slightly hilarious in... context only available to them, which — ]

Compared to so many here, yes! It's weird, because back home most people I'm around are either as tall as me or taller. Not on all islands, I hear, but in Wano! And Father's most important subordinates are, too, for the most part. It's weird, actually, that everyone's so short around here!

[ maybe it's because of the station is so small, too? ]