introductory mingle: CARNIVALE

[riverviewmod]

who: everyone in Riverview!
what: overflow post for the Carnivale celebration
when: July 1st - July 9th
where: Anywhere around the city.
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines

This is not the Carnivale post. This is just a tribute.

Optional overflow post, since the Carnivale log has hit Captcha. If you don't mind Captcha, feel free to continue using the previous one, or put up a top-level on this one with links to your previous threads and continue here, free of being put to the robot test with every tag.

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[lionunchained]

[Nope, Shiro would not use subtle describe her even as little as he knew about her.

Shiro picked up another piece of food as well when she put her phone down to get one, this one was from the savory plate. There were a lot of good things that they had here. He was going to have to buy the next round since she was sharing with him while they sat here and talked.

His brow quirked as she said "sponsorship" and "pro". That was not exactly what he had been expecting. He would get to that]

You can't really do much especially since they are sentient. Like I said, Pidge managed to give her lion invisibility. So far that's it.

So what are these sponsorships? And pro what?

[bunnyhopped]

[ Hana couldn't even imagine what it would be like to pilot something that had its own thoughts and feelings, although if she had to imagine it, she and her bunny mech would probably get along perfectly. Hana took a lot of time to make sure she was completely in tune with how Hana liked to pilot, after all. Plus the sponsorships helped...

She reached up with her free hand and brushed her hair back, tucking it behind her ear. It was weird trying to explain it all to someone who didn't know— how could he, since he wasn't even from the same reality or whatever— because she was used to everyone just knowing. About D.Va, about why she and other pros were drafted into the military. ]

Sponsorships... like in sports. I was a pro-gamer, you know! #1 ranked, too. Before I became a pilot. A lot of my sponsorships carried over since I ended up being so good at it, they thought they could help out. [ and advertise themselves in the process. But that wasn't something she wanted to get into. ]

[lionunchained]

[It was an easy thing for Shiro to spot, given he knew the feeling well. When Hana tucked her hair behind her ear and spoke, he knew exactly what it was. She was uncomfortable with that topic. He hadn't realized it would be a problem but her body language told him that it was.

So he didn't press it. It was better to pick a new topic and take the focus off that]

Huh... Back home, before all of this happened, I was an expedition pilot with the Galaxy Garrison. Basically gathering information from our solar system. They definitely didn't have anything like your MEKA.

[Pulling the attention off of her and back onto himself so she didn't feel uncomfortable. They could go a completely different direction with the conversation now]

[bunnyhopped]

[ It wasn't so much an uncomfortable topic as it was that she just— wasn't sure how to go about it with someone from a different reality. She'd have to explain everything about the Omnic Crisis and MEKA's history and Overwatch and she just wasn't feeling up to it, sitting in an alleyway with someone she'd just met. But there was something that felt— welcoming? About Shiro, like she could confide in him despite the fact that they'd just met, so maybe she could try talking about it again another time.

In any case, she was a little relieved when he shifted the topic away. Another time, she was sure, she would totally want to brag and boast about her days as a pro and how she became a pilot from there. She did her part then to listen to him intently. ]

So you went on space expeditions, right? Was that a big deal where you're from? We haven't really made it past the moon, where I'm from, though I think Keith said something about Pluto...

[lionunchained]

[There were likely going to be a number of things for both of them that it was just difficult to have to explain. To much information to provide as background for the other person to understand. Given they weren't from the same worlds, that was bound to happen.

But of course in his effort to pull it off a difficult subject for her, it had brought it closer to his difficult topics. And this came out when she mentioned Keith bringing up Pluto. Yes, that was where everything had changed for him. He took a breath before continuing and nodded]

Yeah, it was. The Galaxy Garrison was not only a facility for pilots trained in space exploration and travel but they also trained cadets for the same careers. What they do with those skills is of course up to them.

Myself, Commander Holt, and his son Matt were assigned to a exploration mission of Pluto's moon Kerberos. It was supposed to be a simple mission but...

[He looked down at his hand hidden partially by the jacket]

That's where things stopped being simple.

[bunnyhopped]

[ She had taken to chewing thoughtfully on her food while she listened to him, but she got the distinct feeling as he drew in a breath before responding that it wasn't an easy topic for him, either. Yet there he was, talking about it. Hana was genuinely curious, of course. She knew that there was a colony on the moon where she was from but nothing as forward as sending people out to the edge of the solar system, and they definitely didn't have anything what the Galaxy Garrison sounded like. She had to wonder what else might be different about their worlds.

But she also wondered what he was saying had to do with his hand; her gaze followed his down his arm and eventually to his hand. It— didn't seem like it would be a fun story. She held her hand up at him, as though to signal him to stop there. ]

You don't have to tell me, you know. I was just curious. Plus we're eating really good food!

[ She gave a small smile. ] But if you do wanna tell me, maybe we can hang out again sometime.

[lionunchained]

[Shiro wasn't sure if he had been about to tell her but the raised hand stopped him before he did. She was right, completely right. He didn't have to tell her and this probably wasn't the best time to tell her considering how long had they known each other. Not very long. It wasn't something that he really wanted to burden someone with so soon.

He gave her a faint smile in response]

You're right. We don't have to talk about that now. Let's just enjoy the food.

[Perhaps later, they would both be able to share the problems that they had. For now, it was better that they not]