Video | welcome, hallo, buenos días, ohayō, etc, etc! | UN: Newt

[groupiedrifter]

[Newt comes shuffling into view on the screen, holding a cup of coffee in his hand with a bag of what seems to be Sour Patch Kids harrowingly hanging out from beneath the pinky finger of the very same hand. Disheveled but more than happy to provide his services after dragging himself out of bed, he taps his knuckle on the chalkboard beside him — one that used to be Hermann Gottlieb's, may he rest in peace (in a not dead way — may he rest in peace on a beach or something while wholly alive and thriving).]

Noticed an influx of new and kinda-new faces over the last few days or weeks or whatever.

So here's my handy dandy welcome board! Recently updated, to keep with the times.

Read it over and get a feel for how this place goes; I'm gonna finish off this coffee before I take any questions.

[As he takes the world's most obnoxious-sounding sip and burns his tongue, here's the board in question:]



[And then, after a bit of time, he turns the board over to the other side:]



[No worries, current crew, if you can't get one of those introduction papers in person!

Because he's attached them in file format, too.]



[And in case you wanted a text format copy:

Name:
Age:
Birthday:
Favorite color:
Favorite food:
Favorite subject:
Favorite toy:
Favorite animal:
Favorite candy:
Favorite activity:
Favorite place:
Favorite book:
Favorite TV show:
Favorite movie:
I am good at:
I want to learn:
Least favorite subject:
Place I want to go:
If I could make one wish, it would be:
If I could have one superpower, it would be:
This is what I want my teacher to know about me:

(Have at it — threadjacking is encouraged).]

Comments

[godslain]

（ 'modifications'. the world makes an unpleasant shiver pulse along her nerve endings. ）

I suppose that is acceptable.

Thank you for the information. You are called Romanoff?

[deaddrop]

[Yeah, Natasha sympathizes. Even if she doesn't realize it.]

I can be.

Natasha Romanoff.

perma- private🔒➡️

[peasant]

[ because one of them has to be wary of scrutiny, she takes the time to seal off this conversation from prying eyes. doubtlessly kirigan is watching, conspiring, hoping to spy some weakening crevice he can slither back into; she won't allow him the easy luxury of nestling in this particular wound. ]

not that it's any of your business but nothing's happening, as you well know

[ravkas]

[ it is his business. why wouldn't it be? they are friends, after all, the three of them, after all they've been through, although it certainly feels like he's been shut out of something remarkably important. what had fitz said that was so unbearably aggravating? that a king doesn't have friends? even if there was an ounce of truth in that statement (yes), there are still loopholes to everything in life. alina, after having seen the darkest parts of him, is his loophole.

should be, anyway. or he should stop assigning weight where it can't hold. ]

specificity is an astonishing skill. never to be used in politics, but quite helpful in casual conversation.
i don't well know. i thought the opposite of "nothing" was happening for you two.

[peasant]

there is no such thing as casual conversation for kings or saints.

[ first and foremost. court has wielded that lesson well — taught her the weight of a misplaced tongue, and the power of a well-placed word. never mind nikolai lantsov's penchant for dodging specificity as though it were tar and feathers lobbed in his direction.

(he's always been nimble-footed when the truth catches up to his shadow.)

still. there's something to be said for the precarious nature of a crown, dangling on the edges of so-called casual conversation. hers, more precisely; mal is gone. nikolai and ravka are all she has left. there's no need to endanger that next. ]

mal made his stance quite clear when he left.
have you suffered any smacks to the head lately, or has your memory always been this poor?

[zune]

that's what i've been told

[ well, it was in passing, and might have been a casual remark — but he is taking it literally and as such: ]

yeah of course

it'll probably be pulled in from knowhere

we brought it back after

[ravkas]

[ if yelena hasn't seen the two of them frequently copulating with the gauche, desperate passion they're so fond of, then this certainly confirms his already suspicious suspicions. nothing is as it seems on this ship. nothing is as he remembers. ]

people keep asking me that. you're welcome to gently caress my golden locks to ensure my head is intact and to your liking.
things are just... different. but it's no matter. i'm sorry to hear about mal, but i assure you that nothing has changed between you and i. i still consider you

[ an uncharacteristic fumble here. how to end the sentence? why did he even begin it? my friend is what he wants to say, the raw, honest truth, but he's never been good at that. ]

the prime candidate for queen.

[godslain]

（ somehow, that hurts worse than the fall.

did she not cling to little pieces, tiny fragments of all the ghosts she was left with? her mother's voice, her father's stories. they had so little, and loved so much. and she had kept those pieces safe all those years. never speaking of them, never giving voice to sentiment lest that be taken too. peter had been the same with his walkman. it embodied what he had lost.

she wonders if the sword became a symbol in the same way. some monument to her life. it is not as though she will have a grave. vormir is not — like that. it is not where one goes to weep. ）

You fixed it?

（ there are not many who would read gentleness into the tone of her text. but peter will. ）

[zune]

[ and peter does. ]

yeah

rocket did

or well, i think him and thor did

[ look, he doesn't like the guy, but rocket said thor could get it done and he did and now it sits in peter's room in knowhere collecting dust and may have made him burst into tears on more than one occasion.

he's not proud, okay. ]

[swordandshield]

Yeah, I knew what I was talking about when I said it. Good to know you figured that out.

🔒(gently ... retroactively privates this I FORGOT IT WASN'T...)

[godslain]

It was not from him, you know.

The sword.

I bought it for myself. I expected one day I would kill him with it.

（ godslayer. she had hoped to instill some prophecy into the metal with that name, but it had amounted to nothing in the end. ）

🔒 (oop def privating these too-personal deets tyvm)

[zune]

oh

[ swords had always been her thing; it was part of a running gag that he'd had with the others during their jobs. most of the time he just marveled at how awesome she was with it, using her sword with the kind of skill he literally isn't capable of.

(it's why he's a gun guy.)

but now he reads this message and thinks, why hadn't he thought to ask her about this before? he should have. but then, he should have done a lotta things. ]

i didn't know that

and you named it too?

🔒nothing to see here moving right along

[godslain]

Yes.

'Titankiller' would have made the gambit too obvious, I think.

（ turns out she has a sense of humour after all. ）

∞🔒

[zune]

[ peter right now: 😭 ]

yeah a little bit

well we'll get it back for you

[ he says like he has any idea if asking this AI for it will even work, but ... ]

[godslain]

I know.

I trust you.

I don't want to talk on these devices anymore, Peter. Let's speak later, in our room.

[zune]

[ #waterworks intensifies

the way he missed hearing those words, and seeing them ...

YEAH HE'S FINE

IT'S FINE

EVERYTHING'S FINE ]

yeah yep

sure

of course

[greenpower]

You know that raises the question of just HOW you figured that out.

[swordandshield]

You sure you want me to explain that one? Some things might be better left unknown. Ignorance is bliss as they say.

[zune]

[ did he go to the school of teenage groot??? oof.

but okay, at least we're kinda getting somewhere! (even if his self-confidence has taken a minor, temporary nose-dive.) ]

good to meet you major

so given your reaction, i take it we were buds?

[greenpower]

Do I seem like the blissful kind of person to you?

[swordandshield]

As of this conversation: not particularly.

[softshoes]

[hahahhahahah let's not talk about his 6-year trip to buy milk that one time hibiki]

Judo. She picked it up from a former colleague of mine who knew. [he says, smoothly, with no trace of the messy history he's continuing to step over.] Susato is a voracious learner-- always eager to try new things-- so I'm glad she was able to learn. Like you said: it does come in handy.

As for the year... seems I've guessed correctly. Most orbers are from the 21st century, at a minimum. On my Earth, we're merely on the edge of the 20th.

[softshoes]

I guessed you were a fan. [maybe people do stay out that late just to party, but Andy doesn't strike him as the type.]

But not that you had tried tap specifically. Most orbers seem to be further along than I, on the timeline, and I'd assumed you were as well. I would have thought it had fallen out of fashion.

[deferences]

I suppose it doesn't... There is a lot of free time that needs filling while we're here, after all.

[godslain]

Which do you prefer?