voice | it's a simple question

[crocodilesmiles]

( When she speaks, Collette aims to sound warm. She's tired, keyed up, and confused as well as trying to understand what's gone on since the mutiny began, and what's continuing in the aftermath. She brings a question she'd talked to Ros about, in her own way; something she wants to know very simply because she doesn't, and it's all the more important now.

Out of respect for that same woman, she keep's Ros's name out of this. )

When it comes down to do or die, who do you trust here to make decisions to pull people through, and not leave people stranded high and dry, or freeze up and fall into inaction? People who keep their temper in heated circumstances. Ones who maybe aren't going to forget the bigger picture, even if that doesn't make it easy on the smaller scale.

I've got a few names myself! Blue, Kate Kane, Nathan Summers, Caesar Silverberg, Lenalee Lee, Xerxes Break, Gilbert Nightray, Jaime Reyes, Ashraf, Kang, Peter Quill, Donny, Armin Arlert, Chrono and Rosette, even Dick Grayson and Ahiru and Vanadi, of all people, would stand by you figuring things out.

Those are some of mine. What're yours?

I'm going to keep talking, though, so you might want to tune out if you don't want to hear me ramble about a few maybe important, maybe not things!

Hey, Blue? All those questions about AIs... I think you were asking for a reason. Is it up for discussion? Because I think it should be past a planning stage.

Jai-- ( She coughs. ) Hi! Blue Beetle? Hahaha, I'm sorry, that's two blues in a row, but um, with all that stuff on Project Chimera, have you like, found anything talking about when they started learning how to grow people up so fast? Someone had to have a breakthrough on that, unless science really works that way! I'm not sure, it's all super advanced for when I'm from.

And um... okay, I'm not sure about this one either. Tony? Tony Stark? What do you know about uh... renewable energy stuff?

Comments

[crocodilesmiles]

You didn't used to be able to do that? Why?

[crocodilesmiles]

More like Ros doesn't!

Also I'm a little freaked by the physical resemblance between these two

[legal_eagle]

Yeah, unless you're the jerk who gets motion-sick in the air.

[crocodilesmiles]

What kind?

( There are too many, and criminal has been many of her own activities in the past. Sometimes in the present as well. )

[crocodilesmiles]

It's a start. It's a whole lot better than saying nothing, you know? Then you really don't have anything at all, if you give up your voice on top of everything else.

[jailbreaks]

The kind that kidnaps, murders, and steals.

[He's actually not lying about this at all. Just... he has his reasons for what he does.]

[crocodilesmiles]

Haha, yeah you're right about that! So... what does it have you thinking?

[crocodilesmiles]

Say... vacation at a hang gliding place?

[crocodilesmiles]

Good to know!

( Following that Private; )

I think he needed to hear something like that, you know? It's hard when you're even younger than I am, and how do you get your head on right without people who believe in you?

[crocodilesmiles]

I wonder if cake bars ever existed...

( Said with a laugh. )

Bakeries are good for cakes, and if we had the supplies, we might even be able to make a few from this and that. I'm not sure, my cakes have all turned out like disasters!

it's all good i'm slow at tags right now HI

[crocodilesmiles]

( It's been a lot of answering people this post, so he unfortunately gets a bit of a quip: )

Existed!

( YOU ARE SOMEONE GAMORA BELIEVES IN it's a hard time being a teenager who listens to a broad spectrum of very different individuals. )

[crocodilesmiles]

For what?

( She doesn't pretend there isn't a pause there.

She also can't say she hasn't done the same. 8( )

[jailbreaks]

[Stop questioning him, Collette!]

I steal because I'm poor. I murder because guys so bad who commit genocide get nothing more than a slap on the wrist when they've been found out.

[And he kidnaps innocent princesses from their castles (who did was to escape, admittedly) so they could see the world for themselves and create their own judgement.]

All of these things are illegal, but I don't care. No one else is going to punish them, so I'll take the job.

[crocodilesmiles]

( She's pretty sure those are called vigilantes in other places. )

That sounds like a complicated kind of criminal... depending on if you know what those bad guys have done, or if you believe in what they did or not. That's horrifying. How -- how'd they get away with a slap on the wrist?

[jailbreaks]

[Thaaat's... what they're called where he's from too, but go talk to Flynn about it. Captain uptight wasn't happy when he found out.]

The law is in the hands of those who hold the chips. That's how it works where I'm from -- those people had the chips therefore they could cash in and get away Scott Free.

[gillitine]

Well, I hadn't been outside for a while before I came here...and I guess I'm still not really outside, but before I just had the people in the castle to talk to--I mean, not that I don't like them, but--I haven't met anyone new lately, is what I guess I'm trying to say...?

[inafadingcrown]

I do seem to recall you telling me something of sort last year.

[aceordisgraced]

Do you take action?

[vocalizer]

[ He's laughing at her wording. She can't tell, since this is over text, but there's a good pause before his message where he's definitely laughing.

There's some irony in that comment that only two other people on this base would really get. ]

That's probably true.

[debtor]

Cake bars...

[He's not sure if cake bars would be convenient, or ruin cake...]

Ah, I'm not much of a baker, myself. Link is, though! If we had the ingredients, he could help.

Lenalee as well, perhaps...

[cesar]

Why not start the discussion and be rid of the hoping?

[anklets]

[Any association between mistletoe and memories is a new one, for the younger Lee sibling, the eternally, fiercely-sheltered. We don't even need to mention other part.]

We have mistletoe. I've never taken much stock in it, though.

[biwinning]

I already am, technically. My species doesn't do "twin" the thame way you do.

[doubleoohbaby]

I'm sure Ros finds me entirely trustworthy.

[khajidont]

So what do you figure the best case scenario out of that whole thing would've been?