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]

Why is it that nothing about your Earth makes any amount of sense?

[zune]

[ she ain't wrong

😬 ]

ah

yeah

wish i could answer that but

[ he's got nothin' ]

[godslain]

（ maybe this is why she will never go there.

well. that and pesky death.

but still. ）

I would like to try one.

[zune]

[ it's okay

it's

mostly overrated anyway ]

i'll add it to my request list

apparently we can make those

[godslain]

And the AI will accommodate us?

Can you also ask for my sword?

[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

[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. ]

🔒(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