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

[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...

[crocodilesmiles]

Sounds like you've already got the people who can make it happen!

[debtor]

If they want to!

[...]

Do you celebrate Christmas, Collette?

[crocodilesmiles]

Me? Oh, yeah, sort of! Why, do you, Allen?

[debtor]

I do. Well, sometimes... I didn't do anything last year.

But I think it'd be nice if we were all able to do something for it this year. Even if it's just cake.

[crocodilesmiles]

I think that'd be great! I mean, I'd like that a lot. That's your birthday, too, isn't it?

[debtor]

Oh! Mm, it is... [ sort of. ] Had I told you?

[He doesn't recall, but how else would she know...?]

[crocodilesmiles]

Nope! Or did you? I think it was Lenalee, or...

( She squints, trying to remember! )

[debtor]

Ah. She might have.

But I'm not asking for a party for myself or anything like that. I don't really do very much for it..

[crocodilesmiles]

Aren't you worth celebrating too? I mean, I guess if you're really Christian, it's kind of difficult? ... Are you? I'm not sure how, um, important God is to you guys, or, you know, Jesus and all.

[debtor]

[HA HA ha...]

No, it's not a conflict of interests. Christmas is more to do with spending time with friends than anything, ah, religious, personally. [ or, it would be, if he'd ever had friends any... previous Christmases.

that's what he wants to be about. ] I just don't want to make it about me.

[crocodilesmiles]

Haha, you sound like some other people I know! It's nicer to celebrate being around friends, isn't it? So... yeah. Il'd like that too! We can celebrate you, and each other! How's that sound?

( then like a dick she's not there for Christmas but SHE DOESN'T KNOW THAT YET )

[debtor]

[GODDAMMIT COLLETTE]

Celebrating each other sounds very nice. Thank you, Collette.