Traverse Town, Day 60
So, I'm now officially Cid's apprentice, which really means Cid's little gearmonkey. I essentially do what he tells me to, which is generally done by yelling loudly at me from across the room.
Luckily, I impressed him with my nigh encyclopedic knowledge of rare tea, so he doesn't think I'm entirely useless. And while he won't admit it, I can tell that he thinks I make a damn good cup of tea (there IS an art to it, folks.)
He also seems to think that I've got potential. As I said, before I got to college I -was- going to be an engineer, or at least a mathematician, so while it's going slow this isn't as hard as it could be. Some of it IS a bit complex though, since physics doesn't seem to work quite the same here as it does elsewhere (Magic sort of murders the laws of thermodynamics. Which is OK, they kinda deserved it.)
Mostly, I'm just handing him stuff while he yammers at me about what this or that does, or I'm helping him weld, or whatever. It's kinda fun, actually, and a nice change from the oh-so-serious YenSid.
Leon and Aerith are around a lot too, which is... interesting. They're both pretty cool people, in real life. And it's funny... I'm kinda getting over the whole OMG ITS LEON AND AERITH AND CID thing. It's just like at home... my dad used to rent musical instruments to all sorts of celebrities, but the thing is when you get to know them you realize: they're just people too.
So anyway, the SUPER SPECIAL AWESOME PROJECT.
I was talking to Cid yesterday, and mentioned the idea of some sort of mecha battle armor. He gave me this funny look and told me I was totally nuts, but then I began to explain: there ARE Transform Gummis, right? and he said that yes, but they're REALLY rare and hard to install properly, and that furthermore you have to program the things right otherwise you just get a mess of gears and destabilize the extradimensional space inside the cockpit (which can be messy) (and yes, this all makes sense to me XD )
What I put to him was, what if you could transform the ship into a walking battle armor, usable on the ground by the person inside? They'd be GREAT weapons against the Heartless. He seemed skeptical at first, but I wheedled, and he's willing to at least consider the possibility, I think. He said that once I know more about gummi parts, I can draw up a rudimentary plan and we'll go over it together.
I don't know if it'll work out, and we won't be able to make very many of them (this isn't something EVERYONE will have) AND it'll require training, but it'd be great to have at least one stationed at each of the more heavily populated worlds.
Besides... it's like, a gundam or a battletech or a (insert mecha anime cliche here!) that turns into space ships! DUDE!
There's also ANOTHER idea I have but I'm not presenting it to him until we've got this one down.
... Also... this is weird... but I... don't want to go back to Earth, actually.
I'm kinda afraid. I mean... going back to Earth means going back to a mundane, ordinary life. I'm not the best at things, but out here I know stuff, I can BE somebody. On Earth it was just all too... complicated and weird. I mean, I don't want the planet to be GONE but I WANT to have the freedom to choose, you know? I want to stay here.
*sigh* but from what we've learned from the games... we'll have to go back.
Luckily, I impressed him with my nigh encyclopedic knowledge of rare tea, so he doesn't think I'm entirely useless. And while he won't admit it, I can tell that he thinks I make a damn good cup of tea (there IS an art to it, folks.)
He also seems to think that I've got potential. As I said, before I got to college I -was- going to be an engineer, or at least a mathematician, so while it's going slow this isn't as hard as it could be. Some of it IS a bit complex though, since physics doesn't seem to work quite the same here as it does elsewhere (Magic sort of murders the laws of thermodynamics. Which is OK, they kinda deserved it.)
Mostly, I'm just handing him stuff while he yammers at me about what this or that does, or I'm helping him weld, or whatever. It's kinda fun, actually, and a nice change from the oh-so-serious YenSid.
Leon and Aerith are around a lot too, which is... interesting. They're both pretty cool people, in real life. And it's funny... I'm kinda getting over the whole OMG ITS LEON AND AERITH AND CID thing. It's just like at home... my dad used to rent musical instruments to all sorts of celebrities, but the thing is when you get to know them you realize: they're just people too.
So anyway, the SUPER SPECIAL AWESOME PROJECT.
I was talking to Cid yesterday, and mentioned the idea of some sort of mecha battle armor. He gave me this funny look and told me I was totally nuts, but then I began to explain: there ARE Transform Gummis, right? and he said that yes, but they're REALLY rare and hard to install properly, and that furthermore you have to program the things right otherwise you just get a mess of gears and destabilize the extradimensional space inside the cockpit (which can be messy) (and yes, this all makes sense to me XD )
What I put to him was, what if you could transform the ship into a walking battle armor, usable on the ground by the person inside? They'd be GREAT weapons against the Heartless. He seemed skeptical at first, but I wheedled, and he's willing to at least consider the possibility, I think. He said that once I know more about gummi parts, I can draw up a rudimentary plan and we'll go over it together.
I don't know if it'll work out, and we won't be able to make very many of them (this isn't something EVERYONE will have) AND it'll require training, but it'd be great to have at least one stationed at each of the more heavily populated worlds.
Besides... it's like, a gundam or a battletech or a (insert mecha anime cliche here!) that turns into space ships! DUDE!
There's also ANOTHER idea I have but I'm not presenting it to him until we've got this one down.
... Also... this is weird... but I... don't want to go back to Earth, actually.
I'm kinda afraid. I mean... going back to Earth means going back to a mundane, ordinary life. I'm not the best at things, but out here I know stuff, I can BE somebody. On Earth it was just all too... complicated and weird. I mean, I don't want the planet to be GONE but I WANT to have the freedom to choose, you know? I want to stay here.
*sigh* but from what we've learned from the games... we'll have to go back.