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synflux2024-05-10 09:48 am
bruisehaver) wrote in synflux2024-05-10 09:48 am
( open ) may catch-all!
WHO: Lae'zel and you!
WHAT: Driving school, asking for hugs to get something to download, etc.
WHERE: Around base and the city!
WHEN: Early May
WARNINGS: None!
I. traffic school
WHAT: Driving school, asking for hugs to get something to download, etc.
WHERE: Around base and the city!
WHEN: Early May
WARNINGS: None!
I. traffic school
[ It might be easy to assume that due to Lae'zel's hardass, soldier like mentality, that she might think sitting down to study might be a waste of her time... but that can't be farther from the truth. For a few days at the beginning of May, the only thing she seems to be doing in communal areas is read — a closer look would tell you that she's studying traffic laws. Very seriously.II. your uber is here
Also of note is that she goes out of her way to print out materials, or find materials that are printed... because she hates using the implant. As a result, some of these traffic rules might be out of date, more akin to the 2020s than the 2300's. It's fine. She gathers up her flashcards and taps them in order on the table pointedly at you, bringing the index cards closer like they're about to peeked at. ]
Did you need something, or do you simply lack the common sense not to stare at others?
[ she's very busy learning that green means go right now!! ]
[ After getting sufficient lessons in traffic rules, Lae'zel can be found out in the city with her brand new motorbike at her side — glistening red and spotless. Has she given it a nice polish on her own? Why yes, yes she has.III. huggin time
Unluckily for you, you happen to be leaving the base just as she's about to go for another test drive. ]
You. [ Yes, you!! She tilts her chin at you, as if beckoning you along. ] You will aid me in testing controlling this vehicle with two people on it.
[ Yeah... she is no longer asking 🔫 There's a practical reason for this, because she thinks there'll be plenty of instances where she'll need to drive two people during missions. But you'll get something out of it: ]
In return, I'll take you where you need to go. You're leaving to go somewhere, yes?
[ Maybe you need a ride to work? To a restaurant? To a store? Lae'zel will get you there!! Maybe. ]
[ sometimes you download the style upgrade, and it won't finish unless you hug someone.... but also, sometimes you don't really know what a """hug""" is even supposed to be. The implant explains it to her (it's an embrace of some kind??), but not in great detail.
Maybe you and Lae'zel were about to hit up the training room together, or maybe you're simply at the cafeteria enjoying a meal together — but she seems very distracted, her eyes lit up from numerous attempts to try to block the pop up from her implant. Hissed through her sharp teeth: ]
Tsk'va!
[ She curses in her native tongue, brow twitching. Unprompted, without ever explaining what she's going through: ]
Give me a hug. Quickly, just get it over with.
[ WHATEVER THAT MEANS ]
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[ She'll roll with it. And open her arms, helpfully. ]
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...
[ Hm. She doesn't want to admit that she doesn't know what to do, but also, she doesn't want to ask for help. So, she's left frowning grumpily, clenching her fist once. Then, she just mirrors what March is doing, holding her arms slightly out — thinking that March is just trying to demonstrate to her what to do. ]
...What now?
[ She keeps the question as curt and clipped as possible to squash any potential embarrassment from leaking out, 150% serious. ]
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[ She was not expecting Lae'zel to not know how hugs work, but it's fine. March scoots in closer, then wraps her open arms around her.
... Carefully, in case she thinks this is some kind of threatening move. ]
And then you do the same to me!
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Ugh. [ She huffs, slowly wrapping her arms around March in turn — lower, and less tightly than March had done unto her. ] What a futile exercise...
[ Grumble grumble.... but, even saying that, she's still doing it, and not rushing to get out of it. ]
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But is it solving the problem?
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Yes. At least so far.
[ Slowly, and pretty gently despite the usual roughness of her behavior, she begins pulling back, lifting her hands off the small of March's back. For the briefest of moments, she hesitates, before asking her next question: ]
Is this — a gesture meant to be between lovers?
[ LILITH seems to like strong arming people into doing things like that, if the chocolate4 thing was anything to go by... so that's her first guess!! ]
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[ How to answer this... ]
It... can be, but it can also be between friends or family. It's typically just a way to comfort someone or if you're feeling lonely!
[ ... both things which Lae'zel doesn't really seem to vibe with, for starters. ]
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Hmm. I've seen humans embrace like this.
[ Though, there was never really time to learn more about it or ask any of her companions what was going on, or what the gesture was even named. ]
My kind are not fond of such outward displays. Perhaps not unheard of, but certainly not common. [ She makes a vague gesture with her hand. ] Though we also do not have "family" the way you understand it.
[ so maybe there's less of a reason for them to invent hugs.... ]
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[ She keeps learning more and more about Lae'zel's kind when she least expects it. That they aren't big on outward displays of affection isn't very surprising, given how Lae'zel herself is. But... ]
What's "family" the way you understand it, then?
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[ She explains this with ease, her voice growing lightly amused as she goes on. ]
The closest comparison I can think of is that we refer to those who hatched in the same clutch as us as our "cousins." But we do not have parents, nor siblings.
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[ Slowly, processing this. ]
Wait, but no parents? But the eggs have to be... well, um. Laid, right?
[ ISN'T THAT HOW EGGS WORK. ARE THEY TEST TUBE EGGS???? ]
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Githyanki who will lay eggs are hand selected by our Queen. Only through that selection can a gith become what you would consider "a mother." Our reproduction process is completely asexual.
[ And it's better that way, in her esteemed opinion. From the way she calmly and detachedly lays out the facts of her kind's birth and raising rituals, she has no objections about such a custom. ]
All eggs in one clutch come from the same "mother." Though we do not ever meet. I have never met the gith who laid the egg I hatched from, nor do I know anything about her. It was only when one of my companions reunited with their parents after a long time that I even thought about it.
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[ She didn't expect an education today, but it's fine. It's more interesting than half of the things Dan Heng diligently adds to the data bank. ]
I don't remember a thing about my own parents, so in a way, I guess we're in the same... situation! For different reasons.
[ yay, bonding. ]
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Perhaps. Though I must assume you want to know your parents' identities.
[ It's more of an idle curiosity to Lae'zel; she doubts she'll ever find out, and it's very low on her priority list at present. But she's curious how big a deal 'family' might be to March, even knowing nothing about it. ]
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[ Because wouldn't someone have been looking for her by now? ]