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Cassandra ([personal profile] deal) wrote in [community profile] thisavrou2016-04-25 10:54 pm

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[Cassandra glances over before focusing on her wind up music box, and begins slowly turning the handle. Music starts to play, a tune that may be familiar to people from Earth. She's not doing this to play music for everyone though, so she stops after a handful of seconds, looking thoughtful.]

It's funny. You hate home until you've been gone from it long enough, and then you get homesick and home is all you can think about. No matter how shitty it is, you forget about all of the bad things and only care about the people you left behind.

[The music box is picked up and clinched in her hand.]

Do you think it's possible to get a message back to someone? Has anyone tried communicating outside the ship yet? If things like this - [She drops the music box in her hand on the table she's sitting at.] can come through the Ingress to us, we have to be able to send things back through it.
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[personal profile] daintylegs 2016-04-26 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Home is familiar. You humans have a saying, right? "Home is where the heart is."

[Tailgate misses his home too, even if it was far from perfect.]

I bet you're from Earth, right? What's it like there?
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[personal profile] daintylegs 2016-04-26 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Why do you miss it if things are so bad?

[Or maybe he knows the answer to that.]

Do you have people there you care about? People like... uh, what's that word again? Hmm... Family. Yeah, I think that's it. Like friends but closer.
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[personal profile] daintylegs 2016-04-26 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
Sure! I have a bunch of friends I miss a lot. I don't really understand what a family is, but I bet it could be used to describe them. I'm kind of lucky that some of them ended up here though, so I don't feel as lonely.

[That doesn't stop the homesickness, but it sure does help.]

I lived on a ship called the Lost Light before we came here, and it was my first and only home. Weird things happened all the time, but what mattered most was that we were all in it together.

What is a family anyway? I've watched some human movies, but I don't really understand it yet.
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[personal profile] daintylegs 2016-04-26 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
A family sounds nice. My kind doesn't really have anything like that, but we do have friends, Amica Endura and Conjunx Endura. Oh, that last two are words for Best Friend and, uh... significant other? Romantically, that's what it means.

[Mentioning Conjunx Endura has flustered him a little, so he decides to move on.]

So what's your chosen family like? Do you do silly things together? Watch movies?
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[personal profile] daintylegs 2016-04-26 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
I freely and openly admit that that wasn't as cute as I was expecting.

[He's not disappointed, just surprised at himself.]

But, uh, to each their own?

I hope they're nice stories.
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[personal profile] daintylegs 2016-04-26 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Tailgate of two years ago probably would have plowed forward and not notice her discomfort, but Tailgate of Today sees and realizes that maybe he's taken it too far. Learning about boundaries has been quite the journey for this minibot.]

There's not a lot of cute where I come from either, I just happen to be a bit of an outlier. By that I mean that I'm a bit more optimistic than others, and not that I think I'm cute.

[That's a lie, Tailgate knows full well he's adorable. It's his special power.]

Oh! I think I've heard of that movie! I didn't go to watch it because someone told me it had something to do with a gross organic alien being planted inside humans and bursting from their chest. I'm glad I didn't see it because I bet it would have given me nightmares.
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[personal profile] daintylegs 2016-04-26 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Tailgate! Full name is Tailgate of Rivets Fields.

What's yours?
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[personal profile] daintylegs 2016-04-26 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Cassandra of Philadelphia. I think it has a nice ring to it.

[Of course all of this means they're friends now, because that's how Tailgate rolls.]

Have you ever seen any of the Muppets films? We watched a few of those during movie nights on the Lost Light and those were always my favourite.
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[personal profile] daintylegs 2016-04-27 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Personally I always liked Miss Piggy the best. You just know something funny and awesome is going to happen when she appears.

She's way too good for Kermit if you ask me.

[He could only dream to be as great as Miss Piggy. Though he did save the universe once, so maybe he comes pretty close.]

I'm surprised you haven't asked me what I am yet. Or called me a robot, humans tend to do one or the other when I first talk to them.
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[personal profile] daintylegs 2016-04-27 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, it must be tough being as wrong as you are.

[Tailgate says with an entirely straight face. This is easily accomplished by not having any face at all, but his tone is mock serious.]

And here I thought we were getting along.
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[personal profile] daintylegs 2016-04-27 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Tailgate huffs and summons every ounce of bravado his frame can hold.]

Oh please, I can take you on with both arms and a leg tied behind my back.
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[personal profile] daintylegs 2016-04-27 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[He manages to muffle a snort of laughter. It's only through pure self-control that he's not rolling around on the floor and laughing.]

I have to give you a fair shot or else someone might spread lies and slander about my honour.

And we can't have that.