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[leanandgreen]

Ssssoooooo... I gotta ask. What do you guys do for fun around here? I mean, aside from getting involved in the politics of creepy dating planets, or ordering delivery from Dead Bodies r' Us or whatever. Where's a guy gotta go to hang out with other cool people, and watch movies and play video games and stuff? Seriously, please tell me that there's some place to chill at on this ship other than the library?

Oh, uh. I'm Beast Boy, by the way. You've maybe seen me around the ship already. Y'know the handsome devil with the green skin and the pointy ears? That's me.

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[tigermillionaire]

Haha be careful, I'm also a handsome devil with green skin and pointy ears so people might get confused! Heehee.

Hi, I'm Steven.

[leanandgreen]

He'd almost feel threatened, if the voice on the other end didn't sound a lot younger than him. So instead it's just pretty amusing.

Steven, huh? Pretty plain sounding name for such an awesome sounding dude. What's your deal then?

[tigermillionaire]

Really? I think it's cool!

I'm a nymph! Kind of like a plant person? Or...exactly like a plant person. That's why I'm green, because I'm part watermelon or something? Anyway, my last name is 'Universe' and that is definitely the coolest name ever.

[leanandgreen]

...Okay yeah "Steven Universe" is definitely a way cooler name, I take it back.

That's hilarious though! So do you like, turn into plants? Or you just are a plant? Because if you do, I turn into animals, so we'd be like, a matched set basically.

[vengeance_driven]

I made a dart board.

[Height of entertainment right there.]

[leanandgreen]

Alriiiiight... I mean, cool! That's a start I guess. Iiiit's probably best for everyone else if I take a pass on the game that involves throwing sharp objects around, though.

[He pretty much got banned from playing back at Titans Tower, and it was one of the only times that he actually agreed with the verdict. Gar + pointy throwy things is not combo beneficial to anyone's well being.]

[vengeance_driven]

I'll remember to invite you and someone I don't like sometime so I can see them get a dart in the ass then.

[Because he opened that up for teasing.]

[leanandgreen]

No way man I'm serious! I totally took someone's eye out once. I mean, it was his robot eye, but still.

[Cyborg STILL won't let him live that down.]

[vengeance_driven]

Okay okay.




I will make it with someone I really don't like, then.

[He's still a jerk.]

Don't worry about it. Maybe if we're lucky we'll get a pool table or something. Arcade games.

[leanandgreen]

Alright, now you're speaking my language.

[Even though there's like a 90% chance that he'd fool around with the pool cues like they were light-sabers and therefore probably shouldn't be allowed to handle those either.]

You ever try the arcade version of Mega Monkeys 3?

[vengeance_driven]

I don't think my world has that game.

We got something called 'Go Go Space Monkey'.

[leanandgreen]

You're missing out dude, Mega Monkeys is the straight up bomb. What's this other game you're talking about like?

[What if they're actually the same game? That'd be MIND BLOWINNNNG]

[vengeance_driven]

It's a side scroller where you blow up spaceships. My friend Jacob has a machine for it.

[He has only done arcade games, sadly.]

[leanandgreen]

What do you blow up the spaceships with? Is it another spaceship? Is the player's spaceship piloted by a monkey!?

[DETAILS, NIKO]

[vengeance_driven]

Ah... Monkey flies ship and you fight other ships.

[leanandgreen]

[He beams. Monkeys flying spaceships. That is absolutely Beast Boy's precise aesthetic.]

Awesome.

[warandpeace]

I don't know either. To be honest, I've spent more time on Emiri than on the ship. I've been reading most of the time.

I wish we had access to movies. I wanted to show a friend some Kurosawa films. [And thankfully he does not catch himself say 'friend' there, because they're most assuredly not. As he will constantly remind himself.]

[leanandgreen]

[Reading. Gross.]

Right? Dude we should totally get everyone to pool together what they've got and set up some kind of crew lounge or something! Or maybe we can see what kind of weird alien flicks and games we can pick up at different planet stops.

...I wonder if the captains can use their broken teleporter thingy to zap us in a sweet flat screen HD TV.

[warandpeace]

[Even with futuristic tech access for its time, Miller has never seen a flatscreen television. He's from 1984.]

Yeah, I'd like that a lot. It's been a while since I just sat down and watched anything.

[Though he still does like to read. A lot.]

[leanandgreen]

Do you know if we get paid for these jobs they've assigned us? Maybe we can pool together and just buy an alien TV from an alien electronics store.

[He's really not letting the alien thing go.]

[warandpeace]

...If you're green, are you human?

[He has to check. He's seen humans changed into a lot of things, but the way he says "alien" makes him think Beast Boy is much the same way.]

[leanandgreen]

100%. Well... Except for when I'm fighting bad guys in my kick butt animal forms I guess, but yeah. Human, born and raised.

[warandpeace]

That is pretty handy.

How did that happen? You being able to change into animals? [Because he's seen a lot of extraordinary abilities, but that's definitely a new one.]

[leanandgreen]

It's a weird story. Honestly, you probably wouldn't believe me even if I told you.

[warandpeace]

I've heard some strange things. Try me.

[leanandgreen]

Okay well, uh, see... When I was real little, my parents used to travel the world. They were biologists, right? Studied all different kinds of animals! But their main focus was on these weird species of green monkeys...

[Stop him if you've heard this one before, Miller.]

[warandpeace]

[He's heard the one about the giant robot outfitted with the mind of an elite soldier housing a nuke, he's heard the one about the parasites that make people breathe through their skin and eat sunlight like plants, he's heard the one about the guy that shot bees out of his mouth and evil secret sects that steal children and raise them up into being dangerous weapons.]

[His mind is ready.]

Go on.

[leanandgreen]

I used to travel with them on their expeditions. Y'know, toddle around and do little kid things while they were conducting their field research and stuff. Well, one day one of those green monkeys totally bit me! I got super sick, like, probably would've kicked the bucket if my parents hadn't put their super genius brains together and made a cure for me.

Anyway, that cure had the side effect of turning me green, and it also gave me shapeshifting powers. That's why I look like this. Heh. Not the most exciting of origin stories, I know...

[warandpeace]

I've heard worse. You're fine.

Still. Sounds like you make the most of it now.

[leanandgreen]

I try to! Where I come from, there are a lot of people who I looked up to, who showed me how important it is to use your freaky powers and stuff for good. So that's what I do; I fight crime and kick butt!

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[accidentalqueen]

I could suggest a few things.

[ Queen Mom to be a buzzkill. ]

[leanandgreen]

Are they fun things?

[He is beig 100000% cheeky right back at her.]

[accidentalqueen]

I guarantee it will not be fun if they are not done soon.

[ She has enough self-possession to be perfectly willing to get snitty about teenage boy clothes all over the floor. And when you're queen, no one calls you out for your petty moments. ]

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[leanandgreen]

[Yikes.]

Okay okay geez, consider it on my agenda. Er... what's the problem again, exactly?

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[accidentalqueen]

The floor. The problem is the floor, and your attempts to obscure it.

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[breakin_ur_lore]

Green skin and pointy ears?

[He, Med'an and Steven should all start a club. OR A BAND. THE HANDSOME DEVILS. MED'AN WILL LEARN GUITAR]

Um...may I ask where you're from?

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[leanandgreen]

Me? I'm from Earth! Human. It's kind of a weird story, I didn't always look like this.

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[breakin_ur_lore]

Really? [Ok, he's not sure if it's cool to pry too much, but now he's really interested.]

Um, if you don't mind me asking...what happened?

- I'm Med'an, by the way. I'm...also green and pointy-eared.

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[leanandgreen]

...Wait seriously? Man, between you and that nymph kid there are officially way more green people here than I've ever met back home. It's kind of weird!

Anyway uh... I mean I guess it can't hurt to tell you? I'll keep a long story short, basically I got pretty sick when I was little, and the cure that was used on me had some weird genetic side effects. Like, turning my skin and hair green, and uh. Giving me the power to turn into different animals.

...That last part is actually pretty rad.

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[breakin_ur_lore]

Yeah - there's a nymph here? Really? [Med'an you have seen so much weirder things, why would that be exciting to you.

Other things that are exciting - or at least very interesting: Beast Boy's origin story! He has no clue what disease would need a cure that turns you green and makes you a shapeshifter, but it sounds cool anyway. And it might be odd - but hearing the other boy be so up front about it feels...sort of nice. He has his own weird backstory, and he never knows how much he should tell people, or if he should feel embarrassed about it or not. But if BB is going to be open, then Med'an can be too, right? CAN WE BE FRIENDS? CAN WE MAKE FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS]

That is pretty rad. [Also he has never said "rad" in his entire life. Tentatively - and briefly, because maybe Beast Boy doesn't really care, but - ] Um...I am half-human.