Post-Mission EMBARASSMENT

[2hell_weride]

[[So, there's that Technica guy, only, rather publically, without his helmet on. If anyone knows the length of MarKus's hair or... that telltale bandanna, they can recognize him from behind talking to two adults.

One of them is hugging him, the other is kind of nagging/scolding him.

Eavesdropping proves they're talking about how MarKus's little

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[an_alpha_wolf]

[Resnick waits until MarKus is relatively free before greeting him. Perhaps his parents have left or perhaps not. He wouldn't understand the signifigance even if he knew who they were.]

You fought well out there.

[2hell_weride]

Thanks yo. And... sorry about all the 'newbie' shit. I'm not tryin to say you're new to fighting just... new to us, yanno?

And I probably wouldn't've talked so much shit if it weren't for that guy. Fuckin Rathan...

[an_alpha_wolf]

At the time it infuriated me but now...[He shrugs his shoulders.] Can I ask...who were those people who acted entitled to ask everything about you?

[2hell_weride]

You mean my parents?

[an_alpha_wolf]

[It takes him a moment to understand the signifigance.]

...I see. Is it normal for parents to inquire into who your partners are and whether you are getting paid?

[He's learned a bit about this freeborn "teasing" thing it seems.]

[2hell_weride]

Well... I kinda took off suddenly and stole my robot from that company we were fighting against. It was ours to begin with so... it's not like I was really stealing.

Anyway, they haven't seen me in a while so, yeah, it's normal for them to ask how I've been doing.

[an_alpha_wolf]

Stravags who impersonate noncoms are fair game for that, I suppose. But...

[What he's describing sounds so very annoying. He tries to imagine his geneparents fussing over him the way MarKus's natural ones do.]

Does it not irritate you?

[2hell_weride]

No, not really. It's... more embarrassing since they're going to treat me like a little kid in front of all my friends.

Didn't your parents do that? [[Oh wait... did a nerve just get struck here?]]

[an_alpha_wolf]

[If there was, it wasn't on Resnick's part. He shrugs.] Trueborn warriors do not have parents as you understand them. So I am curious about it. Why do you not simply tell them to treat you like an adult?

[2hell_weride]

I dunno... some parents just do that. No matter how old you actually are, you're still their child... and they just never get over that. I could be fifty and they'd still treat me like a kid. I mean, it's a sign of love and all that but that doesn't make it any less embarrassing when it comes to social situations.