Don't judge a thing until you know what's inside it . [Open]
Characters: Fang and Open!
Content: Fang, a new Pilot on the Convoy because Jim is handwaving the job request will be poking around the Convoy.
Setting: Anywhere on the Convoy, or in Licere, if you'd prefer.
Time: Probably not long after the water going cold business happens, but before the weird anonymous network post.
Warnings: Whatever you ( Read more... )
Content: Fang, a new Pilot on the Convoy because Jim is handwaving the job request will be poking around the Convoy.
Setting: Anywhere on the Convoy, or in Licere, if you'd prefer.
Time: Probably not long after the water going cold business happens, but before the weird anonymous network post.
Warnings: Whatever you ( Read more... )
Not that doing records required that much of his concentration in the first place, but he liked the peace and quiet.
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"Anybody home?" She asked as she did. When she saw the Records Keeper at the desk, she raised her eyebrows. "Ah, it looks like there is somebody holed up in here."
It was neat and orderly she noticed, but it looked like records were still stored on paper. Interesting. So the world hadn't come on that far.
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He looked a little intimidated, both by her brisk manner and simply by the fact that she was a stranger in a place where he wasn't expecting strangers. "Yes," he answered unnecessarily, after a slightly too long pause as he thought about who she might be. "...Hello." Not sure how to deal with the situation, he left the initiative to her.
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"I guess you haven't got my papers yet," she said, using it to cover the fact that she was basically poking around for her own amusement. At least it sounded important, that way.
It helped, of course, that she was beyond having papers. By all accounts, she was probably best considered legally dead.
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This stranger, with her fighter's movements, her distinctly non-uniform-like outfit, and the sense of independence and self-assurance permeating her body language, was clearly part of a different world from his, even more so than most of the crew was. But she didn't seem unfriendly, and nothing rang false about her implied introduction as a new crewmember. That was enough to swing Justin's reaction from vaguely intimidated to cautiously curious.
"No, I haven't. Would you mind telling me what I should expect, then?"
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She looked around the room, still amazed that paper was still the preferred storage method for information after three hundred years.
"Listen," she said, giving a short sigh before she started. "I'm not sure I've even got papers, so it might be worth starting up a new set, or whatever it is you do."
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He didn't seem surprised or bothered by her explanation. "That's fine. A lot of us don't." And some of the ones who did weren't particularly interested in showing them off. Justin's own Reseune ID certainly wasn't noted anywhere in his ship papers.
He reached into a drawer and pulled out a two-page set of blank crew papers, all done in his own neat handwriting. "Pull up a chair and get started, then. Almost everything here's optional. It's useful to have the information, but if the captain took you on board, he doesn't mind if you keep secrets."
The first page started, fairly predictably, with fields labeled Name, Birth Date, Joining Date, Position, Journal Frequency, Citizenship, Identification Documents And Numbers, Demihuman Registration Status (Optional) and Emergency Contacts (If Any). The rest of that page ( ... )
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Oerba Yun Fang was listed for name, but her birthdate was missing. The joining date was listed as today and her position was written as Pilot. Her journal frequency was filled in as one would expect, but her citizenship was also left blank on account of the town she was born in no longer existing. Unsurprisingly, she was able to forego the majority of the information such as Emergency Contacts, Special Requirements/Requests, Medical Issues. For some of the easier to fill-in information, she scribbled down one or two word answers. Everything bar the bare essentials, save 'Employment History' (which was entered as 'monster hunter') were left unwritten.
She signed at the bottom and slid the papers to Justin. Curiously, her writing looked distinctly unusual. It was barely Reialian as Justin would know it, though it was recognisable, if archaic looking.
"Will that do?" She asked, not willing to fill any more in regardless of his answer.
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"What if I said no?" he asked, sounding just a little amused. To be honest, he was more curious about how she'd phrase and explain her answer than about what it would be. If she hadn't filled in more to start with, he doubted she'd change her mind just because he said so. She didn't seem like the type, which left him wondering why she'd asked at all.
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Because she would, rather than putting in the relevant information. Even the birthdate part sounded ridiculous unless you happened to be a Jagermonster. It was the downside of having been kept in a magical stasis for three hundred years.
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"If I ask about your handwriting, is that going to get me lied to as well?" It wasn't really that he was interested in that particular answer, or in the information she was hiding - he just liked to get to know the people he was going to be sharing a ship with, and this subject would serve as well as any. He wasn't going to push if she refused to talk about it.
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Of course, that definitely was a lie. She was perfectly good at reading and writing, it's just that they very inconsiderately changed how it looked in the three centuries she was dead to the world. Most unfair, really.
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It wasn't anywhere near a likely explanation. It was well-developed handwriting, and she wrote like someone reasonably practiced - it just looked odd. But given his own history, and the blanks in his own papers, Justin really couldn't talk about others not wanting their origins known.
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With ships like the Convoy, everybody seemed to have a story. Hers was probably weirder than most, but she doubted very much that it would be the weirdest there. It made her feel a little better, at least. And hey, if it turned out that she was at the top of the list for the strangest history, she at least had something to be proud of, right?
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