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

Not here

[singlelogbridge]

[Literally why are you like this.

Is this why Gwen told him to stay away from coffee? Is this what he would be like???]

Text. | UN: Stardust

[shadysided]

[Ziggy posts the following cropped image:



................ that's it there's nothing else to it]

text; un: toxicodendron

[greenpower]

Influx of new faces means an outflux of people who were here, so you know, fuck 'em.

[As though she's been here that long. Kind reader, she has not.]

[groupiedrifter]

[Newt does not torment Wei Wuxian by shoving an All About Me flyer from what is clearly meant for children's education into Wei Wuxian's face (yet)... But-! He did have something else he wanted to message him about, so it works out.]

早上好! 最近你怎么样？

[... A pause. A few paper flipping noises, and then in staggered Chinese:]

Uuuhhhh!

I have language books. I've been practicing.

... Okay, so I sound pretty terrible — but I got something going, right?

text;

[groupiedrifter]

[Didn't you have a girlfriend here for a hot minute.]

Hey, no fucking anybody.
(Unless it's a fun experience between two consenting adults.)

We all have to be buddies sooner or later if we're gonna continue any kind of decent success rate, right?

Text; un: 苣屋

[dispassioned]

Name: 苣屋 駿太郎
Age: 25
Birthday: December 27
Favorite color: White
Favorite food: At this point, anything not dehydrated
Favorite subject: Science and technology
Favorite toy: My taser
Favorite animal: Cats
Favorite candy: Botan rice candy
Favorite activity: Being incorrigible. And napping.
Favorite place: My bed
Favorite book: 吾輩は猫である by 夏目 漱石
Favorite TV show: Do you know how long it’s been since I watched a TV show?
Favorite movie: The gay cowboy matrix was pretty good.
I am good at: Anything I want to be good at.
I want to learn: Engineering
Least favorite subject: English
Place I want to go: It’s hard to beat space, actually
If I could make one wish, it would be: That money didn’t matter
If I could have one superpower, it would be: Super speed
This is what I want my teacher to know about me: Absolutely nothing

[Are all of these true? Probably not. Did he write some things in Japanese just to be difficult? Yes.]

[greenpower]

[She did. Now she doesn't.

Which surely has nothing to do with her mood.]

I can work with people without being their buddies. It's called being a professional.

text — un: star-lord ;

[zune]

hey i got a pretty important question before i fill in this survey thing

you got any more of those sour patch kids?

[ never mind that the coffee and spk surely can't go well together, right? ew, man.

AND YET ]

[singlelogbridge]

[Oh. Oh no. He tried? Wei Wuxian muffles a laugh by throwing a hand over his mouth before responding.]

You, ah. Let's have a lesson on tones. When are you free? [Because once he gets tones down it won't be so bad, but learning tones from a book sounds...difficult.]

text; UN: Wei Wuxian

[singlelogbridge]

Are you studying to be an engineer?

Also what's a cowboy? [Asking the important questions.]

text; un: y.mikotoba

[softshoes]

I finally finished that book while we were in the Ndeira complex! I enjoyed it very much. Soseki-san only just published it, so I never found the opportunity to read it until then.

I've met the man himself a handful of times. He's [be nice be nice be nice] an interesting character.

[dispassioned]

Not actively. I dabble.

Cowboys are Americans who live in Texas and wear funny hats.

[dispassioned]

[Huh.]

You’ve met Soseki Natsume?

Text: Daisy Johnson

[morethan084]

Name: Daisy Johnson
Age: 33
Birthday: July 2nd
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite food: Breakfast at a diner
Favorite subject: None
Favorite toy: Don’t have one
Favorite animal: Never really thought about it, dolphins seem pretty cool.
Favorite candy: Anything chocolate
Favorite activity: Hacking
Favorite place: Diner
Favorite book: Harry Potter
Favorite TV show: Reality TV, but I don’t watch TV anymore.
Favorite movie: Harry Potter
I am good at: Hacking
I want to learn: How to fly a plane (sorry, Joric)
Least favorite subject: Everything
Place I want to go: I’ve been to a lot of places already.
If I could make one wish, it would be: Let’s not go there
If I could have one superpower, it would be: Already have one.
This is what I want my teacher to know about me: …? Newt wtf?

[singlelogbridge]

Ahhh a type of American, I see. [Does he???]

What type of engineering? I pretended to be a mechanical engineer on one of our missions. It stoked my interest in the field, but I'll admit it's pretty far out of my league at the moment.

not here

[drawsblood]

[ How to fly a plane... Look, if it prevent another crash landing, then go for it. He'll be the first to encourage her to prevent her breaking ribs again.

Also, shit. Her birthday is tomorrow. He's got to figure out one of those gift things the people here do. ]

text —

[groupiedrifter]

holy shit

[He totally didn't mean to send that through the radiobrainwaves. But 'star-lord'? No way.

... Well! It'll have to come up eventually, but for now:]

Sorry, just some commentary on my killer headache.

But are you kidding? I asked for a crate of them not very long ago, I'm the sole beneficiary of all of the Sour Patch Kids aboard the station. You fill out the survey, I'll black-market-deal you some for free.

Text

[groupiedrifter]

[Oh no, here it comes:]

DAISY!!!! 😠💢

[morethan084]

What?

[deaddrop]

🎂?

[groupiedrifter]

Oof, that bad, huh.

[He's gonna turn a few shades pinker at that.]

Well — y'know! I'm always free! Outside of the robo-fish project and making way more prosthetic arms than I thought my career would dictate. If you've got time for that kind of thing; I swear I absorb things quick.

[morethan084]

Are you offering?

[groupiedrifter]

But what about professional buddies?

I could professionally share snacks and professionally talk about cool stuff until you unprofessionally kick me out of the lab.

Text;

[groupiedrifter]

Not gonna lie, I was going to list off everyone and put 3-5 words next to their name to describe them, and yours included 'taser dude'.

[dispassioned]

Mechanical and Electrical, mostly. I've learned how to make a few weapons.