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[procedures]

[ His is a familiar face, if a lot more groomed in terms of facial hair. Alva's wearing the medbay colors, the gold bar on his clothes visible against a borrowed coat, as well as a serious look on his face. He's got his arms crossed too, with the sleeves pulled a third of the way up. ]

Just to get it out of the way first, my name's Alva. I'm not Rogers or Gant. I'm not related to them. I don't have a surname, and I don't have superpowers. That's not the point of this video, though.

Currently I'm assigned to the Medbay as a physician. No specialty, I'm assuming. But before I came on board this ship, I was working as a lab tech at a medical facility where part of my duties included taking care of specific— ["Patients"? Val's not a patient; he was born in the labs. ] Wards, as individuals or as groups, depends on the need. I guess you could say I was also a nurse, of a sort.

My point is— one of my wards is here. His name is Valarie Milos. [ He raises picture of Val, printed out, to the camera. ] I believe some of you have met him.

So you're probably wondering, "why does a young man like him need a nurse for?" He isn't that old. He's only six. I've been looking after him since he was small, and as I've not been reassigned from that duty, I'm going to continue doing so on this ship. Please don't give him any alcohol, any sweets, anything spicy. He'll make himself sick. He is not, under any circumstances, supposed to lift anything heavier than ten kilos in weight. If you find him injured or hurt in any way, please contact me immediately.

And please don't give him any more cats.

—On a related note, if anyone has any specific allergies, please let us at the medbay know. At your convenience, but preferably sooner than later. We're trying to assess how much anti-allergens we have on hand relative to the ship's population, but some of the data seems a little out of date.

Thank you.

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[mangled]

This is

very

embarrassing.

[procedures]

Then I'm doing my job right.

[mangled]

If you mean that you're living in some strange alternate reality where "right" means "wrong"? Yes. Then you are doing it "right."

[ dad no ]

[deconstruct]

no

this is golden

[mangled]

I'm glad you think this is funny.

You're a jerk.

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[abide]

[ Nice introduction, but he has to point out something about this address that's sort of bothering him. ]

Shouldn't some of those things be his own decision?

[procedures]

Which ones do you mean, exactly?

[abide]

Any of 'em. [ Does he have to pick an exact one? ] Do you do this with everyone you take care of?

[prorenataa]

[ Did he honestly just see this happen?

Yes.

Yes he did.

For the time being, he's just going to set the bit about Val aside, though he did take note of the information, he always does. ]

Are you planning to update the MID files with any responses?

[ Wait, should he have said something about the allergens? Nah, surely Alva could following his line of reasoning; right? ]

[procedures]

I'll write it all down, too. [ There's an uptick to his tone, which probably says a lot about how he feels towards his work. ]

Even if an allergy screen was done during routine physical the first time, recent exposures to... well, anything could trigger a new allergy. We're in space. Science is taking a field trip with biology and that's always fun.

[ """Fun.""" ]

At the very least, we can double-check this way. Make sure the data's accurate.

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[commontype]

so like, what's he allowed to even do? seems like that'd be a shorter list. no drinkin, no sweets, no pets. is he on board with all that?

[procedures]

Well, he already has the cat.

Are you a friend of his?

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[pushed]

[Nick just glances at the picture. Yadda yadda, no alcohol, he's got one of those too. Something something, give him cats, got it.

He's mostly just waiting for his chance to ask Alva something.]

You moisturize it. Is that your secret?

[Look, it's been keeping him awake at night.]

[procedures]

[ NO GODDAMNED CATS, ONE IS ENOUGH. ]

I— What?

[ Nick are you ok???? ]

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[deconstruct]

Fucking christ, Alva. I'm so glad you never adopted me.

[ it would be awkward for many reasons, but mainly, he's so glad he didn't get a PSA done about him and his house rules.

also, this is him laughing at you, Val. this is him laughing so hard at your misfortune. ]

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[procedures]

You were too old, anyway.

[ He's kidding. Hapsburg would never have let him stewarded for anyone, because they were controlling assholes. ]

You're not off the hook, though, don't get complacent.

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[dislocked]

[ the resemblance is stunningly uncanny. ]

A nurse of a sort?

[procedures]

[ Right? He kind of hates it. ]

Of a sort. It's a complicated arrangement.

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[desperate_times]

And for the love of God, don't feed him after midnight.

[Sigh. He probably doesn't even get that joke.]

[procedures]

He's but a boy, not a gremlin.

[ He gets the reference, but only because he's a nerd. The movie's practically ancient. ]

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[morethan084]

Isn't this kind of breaking the oath medical people take? Hypo-something.

[procedures]

[ He could answer as a joke, or he could answer honestly. ]

The Hippocratic Oath isn't standard practice where I'm from. It's actually a little antiquated.

[ Somewhere in the middle, then. ]

[ventifact]

looks like a grown man to me
but you're telling us he's six?
i don't buy it
he can probably handle sweets

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[sketchycharacter]

wow you probably just embarrassed the shit out of him

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[takeitslow]

I think you meant sixteen. I've met six year olds, my little sister's not much older than that.There's no way he's six unless he's an alien. In which case, I'm disappointed he's not green.