005 ¤ [video]

[fe_male]

Oh, fantastic. This place again. Thrilling. So happy to see you all again. JARVIS, daddy's home.

Text; filter to Tali:
[ because. uhm. who are you you're in his room. ]

hope you haven't broken anything in the apartment yet. watch out for the blender btw

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[gofortheoptics]

[Tony, you'd better believe she's watching you like a hawk to make sure you don't break anything. It's not that she doesn't trust you'll be able to fix it, it just seems inconvenient.]

It's -- complicated. In the place I was in before this, I was given the ability to become human. It helps with blending in.

[fe_male]

[ Psh whatever okay if you don't think he can't put it back together you shouldn't have given it to him. Also he's having fun - new stuff, new tech, and practicing with his developing skill, all in the name of getting-to-know-you-better. This is great. ]

Understandable. The blending in, not the - [ handwave. the humany thing. ] That part is only barely understandable. Can't do it now?

[gofortheoptics]

The other powers have gone, so I would assume those are as well.

[Again, she hasn't had much time to fiddle with the gun. She shakes her head.]

More reliable than holograms, at any rate.

[fe_male]

[ He's still messing with it, because there's a thing here that he doesn't understand. There's the gun, and there's the thermal bullet thing, all the components involved with that, and then there's this other thing, and he's never seen something like that before. Must dig deeper. ]

What other powers? Does this gun do anything else besides be a shotgun?

[ Fiddle fiddle. He's not gleaning enough off of it to understand without actually engaging it a little and listening to whatever it tells him then. So, 'here, hey, what does this do' he goes. ]

[gofortheoptics]

[...well, Tony, you're about to figure out what that thing does, because Tali's about to answer that she hasn't had time to play with it as much as he's been doing when she feels an abrupt breeze on her legs.

It isn't that she's naked, just that she's wearing more of a skirt-and-blouse combination than she was a few seconds ago.]

...yes, apparently.

jasdfa omg she's sarah shahi when she's not suited ahhhhhhhhhhh

[fe_male]

[ What the hell. ]

Hi there! That's pretty nifty. No compromised immune system there?

YES, yes she is

[gofortheoptics]

[She clears her throat and tugs down the edge of the skirt absently.]

No, but all the susceptibility to any airborne toxins that the enviro-suit helpfully filters out.

[She has Fear Gas trauma, okay.]

*_____*

[fe_male]

[ why though you look so hot ]

Humans tend to be pretty good with those on a day to day basis. Mask's a good idea for the big stuff but wearing it all the time would be inconvenient. And then I wouldn't get to see your face, which would apparently definitely be a bad thing.

[gofortheoptics]

[That's the thing, though, she's still not used to being so exposed and ... uh, conventionally attractive. And also not used to the blush being visible. She clears her throat.]

Yes, well. This isn't how it looks under the mask, so that we're clear.

[fe_male]

I figured. [ But he's grinning a little, because hey, you're hot, and adorable, so. ] You know how this gun works?

[gofortheoptics]

Other than that last little trick, it works more or less like everything else I'm used to.

[Oh Tony, apparently even if she's been previously exposed to you (heh), she still can't help the blushing. Damn.]

More accurately, like things from back home.

[fe_male]

Where's that?

[ Still fiddling with it, working out how he just did what he did. Reversing it should just be like... Maybe just like this. But first. ]

You wanna change back? As cute as I find the constant blushing I'm thinking you're not all that happy about this on our first not-date, so.

[gofortheoptics]

Trust me, I consider our first not-date my job interview with you back in the City.

[She furrows her brows.]

The change back would be appreciated. As far as where I was before this -- consider it the future of what I assume is some version of Earth, out in the depths of space.

[Although her home planet was Rannoch now as it was once before for her people, it didn't seem fair to call it the place she was 'from' when she'd spent most of her time with the flotilla.]

[fe_male]

Yeah, well I don't remember that.

[ He looks back down at the gun, messes a bit more. Bling! Hopefully she's a human again. And then he'll get to reassembling it. ]

How's that? Better? You want your shotgun back?

[gofortheoptics]

[She adjusts the scarf around her mask before she nods.]

Much better. And no, I guess you wouldn't.

If you're done looking at it, naturally.

[fe_male]

Yeah, sure. Sneak a peek at it later when you're not paying attention. [ 8D ]

[gofortheoptics]

I wouldn't recommend it. I'd hate to have to take you to the hospital.

[After she shoots you, she means.]

[fe_male]

Wow. We've been in the same room for what, twenty minutes, and already you're putting me in the hospital.

[gofortheoptics]

No, I'm just warning you about what might happen if you try to sneak into my room at night and fondle my gun.

i totally approve of this edit.

[fe_male]

Is that just specific to my touching the gun?

Less murderous sounding.

[gofortheoptics]

How about we round it out to 'sneaking into my room' at all?

Especially if I'm asleep.

[Creepy, Tony.]

a bit, yes

[fe_male]

[ pause. ]

Okay sure. Has your room got a security system on the door that doesn't look like it came with the rest of the place?

[ noooooo he's just being playful he's all talk ]

[gofortheoptics]

Well if it didn't before, I'll certainly look into installing one now.

[Her head is tilted to the side and she looks pretty relaxed, so she's probably joking too.

Probably.]

I do have a combat drone too, though. For reference.

[fe_male]

[ he actually meant 'hey i could make your room more secure' but like he's ever going to say something like that

how can you tell she looks relaxed when she's covered in all that whateveritis and is already just sitting on a couch ]

What for?

[gofortheoptics]

[Well, she's not straightening up or anything. She doesn't look tense, and the suit is pretty tight so you'd totally be able to tell ... or something ...]

The combat drone? Well, as you may or may not guess, for combat.