[ Cisco laughs, but also makes a mental note to maybe get Taako to explain to Magnus that, for people from certain Earth cultures that he might run into here on this moon, the word bear can have a variety of meanings. If Taako even knows that. He might end up having to explain to Taako, first. He really hopes that he doesn't. Maybe he will just say nothing and hope for the best.
The question surprises a small laugh from him, but it is an easy one to answer. Cisco hums as he thinks where to begin, tucking his hair back behind his ears and considering the beer sitting in front of him. He decides he might as well start from the beginning. ]
Well, I mean, I was always super curious. I wanted to understand stuff, and I liked taking things apart and seeing how they worked, and then putting them back together again. And at some point that became seeing if I could change a part here or there and make stuff work better, or fix things that had gotten broken. So I did a lot of that, as a kid. I had a lotta free time and not a whole lotta supervision, so I just tinkered around, fixing alarm clocks, trying to build stuff outta junk. Plus school was always pretty easy, for me. Especially the math and science stuff. Numbers just kinda made sense, and science is just... a way of understanding how weird and crazy and awesome the world is.
[ Cisco starts off relatively neutral, but as he speaks he gradually is smiling more and more, face growing animated and voice passionate. It's clear in every inflection, and the way his eyes shine as he talks and the way he starts gesturing with his hands, that he just loves everything about the stuff he's talking about. ]
People were always way harder for me. I didn't really have a lot of friends. Or like... any friends. Especially after I skipped a couple grades and was, like, four or five years younger than everybody around me. And my family... [ But whatever it is Cisco had been about to say about his family, he clearly changes his mind, trailing off and just giving a shrug, instead. That's a whole other conversation. ] ...but anyway, doing really well in school and getting a good scholarship was pretty much the best way I could think of to leave home, so that's what I did. I busted my ass all through college and boom! Science and shit.
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The question surprises a small laugh from him, but it is an easy one to answer. Cisco hums as he thinks where to begin, tucking his hair back behind his ears and considering the beer sitting in front of him. He decides he might as well start from the beginning. ]
Well, I mean, I was always super curious. I wanted to understand stuff, and I liked taking things apart and seeing how they worked, and then putting them back together again. And at some point that became seeing if I could change a part here or there and make stuff work better, or fix things that had gotten broken. So I did a lot of that, as a kid. I had a lotta free time and not a whole lotta supervision, so I just tinkered around, fixing alarm clocks, trying to build stuff outta junk. Plus school was always pretty easy, for me. Especially the math and science stuff. Numbers just kinda made sense, and science is just... a way of understanding how weird and crazy and awesome the world is.
[ Cisco starts off relatively neutral, but as he speaks he gradually is smiling more and more, face growing animated and voice passionate. It's clear in every inflection, and the way his eyes shine as he talks and the way he starts gesturing with his hands, that he just loves everything about the stuff he's talking about. ]
People were always way harder for me. I didn't really have a lot of friends. Or like... any friends. Especially after I skipped a couple grades and was, like, four or five years younger than everybody around me. And my family... [ But whatever it is Cisco had been about to say about his family, he clearly changes his mind, trailing off and just giving a shrug, instead. That's a whole other conversation. ] ...but anyway, doing really well in school and getting a good scholarship was pretty much the best way I could think of to leave home, so that's what I did. I busted my ass all through college and boom! Science and shit.