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[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

[coordination]

I don't like the idea very much, either. [ His own way of agreeing. ]

Though it seems that for the former team, it was less of a choice or a chance thing upon their revival.

To be perfectly honest, I'm not quite the fan of that.

If it came down to someone else making a choice like that, I absolutely wouldn't want something so important taken from me.

[coordination]

Who said I had heart eyes for mobile suits?! They're useful for sure, but beyond a couple of very minute personalized details, I'm nowhere near your level of obsession!

[coordination]

That's because when you try to wing it, you need to know what you're winging.

Following some simple cooking directions, however, shouldn't be very hard.

[coordination]

That's not always the case.

I had someone from home here, once. It was someone who's completely obnoxious! Who wouldn't have been anywhere near my first choice of people I'd want to see here!

[dyaddyissues]

Would you prefer less honest answers?

[ "lighten up", what does that mean, Kylo doesn't know. ]

[hindsights]

How's it done then?

[groza]

The understated approach is meant for you.
Decorating a Grisha general in ostentatious Lanstov heirlooms is a surefire way to anger any family ghosts though.

[ Haha j/k unless... ]

[deferences]

Would you like for me to show you?

[facultative]

The worst thing that could happen is I don't like how it tastes. That's not very exciting.

[facultative]

I see him whenever I'm back on my planet so it's been fine so far. You'd have to ask me later, but I'm guessing I will if you miss yours too.

[Anakin doesn't actually realise this is Cal, mentioning BD-1 doesn't even necessarily place him in their galaxy since that line of droids came out years later for him.]

[locumstudentesquire]

You were thrown onto a battlefield?

[He needs to re-read that mission file, apparently.]

[locumstudentesquire]

[EXCUSE????]

That... Um. You might be thinking a little too tough, in this case.

[Although he can't exactly say that stabbing someone is entirely outside Kazuma's abilities.]

[softshoes]

[:')...]

If you continue to dance, I'm sure your comrade would have liked to hear that you kept going. Especially if they taught you.

[locumstudentesquire]

If we're lucky, you won't have to.

[But don't count on it, maybe.]

voice;

[doooooog]

Heh, guess that's my mistake then.

[ He ends the feed, chuckling to himself like the smug older brother dog he is. ]

[coordination]

That's right.

It was already something inevitable. Nothing caused by our presence there. If anything, our being there helped ensure things didn't really get ugly when they came to a head.

[ascetical]

Could I stop you even if I said 'no'?

[jedied]

With my lightsaber? Not really formally. It's a long story; some of the things I know how to do -- I don't really know how I know to do them.

[ 'I kind of stole them from a darksider's mind' isn't really a point she's willing to admit to herself or anyone else out loud. ]

How much piloting experience do you have?

[groza]

Have you been here long?

[zune]

that's a place on earth, right?

'cause here's the thing: i was kinda abducted from there when i was 8

haven't been back since

[groza]

Only when it's earned.
I'm not a total barbarian, Alina.
It's not my fault when people cross that threshold.

[ And that threshold just happens... to be much lower than everyone else. ]

[zune]

well there's no reason we can't be friends now, right?

like, i mean if you want

[coordination]

[ A majority of the things he cared about most here are gone now. Ripped from him despite how much he wanted to or actually tried to hang on to them. And the yearning he had - has to get them back so badly, somehow ... was something like this what he wanted?

Maybe this is just another stinging slap to the face to mock him, show him yet again that he shouldn't have wished for something like that at all for himself, because look what happens. He doesn't want a redo, he doesn't want to start from the very beginning. He wants what he had so he simultaneously wants to reject this but there's that part of him that knows none of this is Peter's fault, knows how much a rejection would hurt for something like that. Knows how much rejection tears at someone in general.

It's true. There is no reason they can't be friends now. Except for Yzak himself and the fear that begins to bubble back up inside of him that he can tentatively reach for this and only have it end the same way, all over again. And yet like a moth (and such a stupid moth, he thinks) drawn to a flame and the warmth and light that it offers he wants to move toward it, despite the burns he already carries. ]

I guess there is that.

I'm not going to tell you to fuck off or anything, if that's what you're afraid of.

[ It's not a no by a long shot, but not exactly a warm, enthusiastic yes. Which is probably the best thing possible at the moment. ]

[zune]

[ Thankfully Peter's made of tougher stuff and being told to 'fuck off' would be pretty fair and valid if someone you were seemingly close to suddenly stopped remembering who you were.

Hoo boy.

Actually, that's ... hitting a little too close to home given what had happened with Gamora back home. Except he's not coming back a total dick. So there's that. ]

nope not afraid

just

you know

extending the olive branch

[facultative]

I wouldn't.

[Anakin has never been more aware that this is a public channel and he hasn't yet had the chance to check how good the security settings on this is.

Why do you assume the worst of me?]