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[nicebluehat]

[The camera's propped up straight on a table and is pointed at an Asian kid with short black hair and a blue cabbie hat. The kid looks a little young to be on this ship of fools (fourteen? fifteen? sixteen?), but is sitting up politely and has a notepad out and a pen like this is going to be an Important Professional Conversation.]Good afternoon

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[19centconstable]

You're a consulting detective? At your age?

[nicebluehat]

[Naoto is so used to this question by now it's not even that awkward.] Yes, part of a long line.

I understand it seems a little improbable.

[19centconstable]

Congratulations, certainly, then. How many cases have you worked on?

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[nicebluehat]

I came here after completing my sixteenth. [She's clearly proud here, and a little happy. That last one had been the most intense year of her life, and she wouldn't even have suspected it had a deeper layer on her own.]

Are you just curious, or do you have a professional stake in this?

[can_has_vodka]

Hiiiiiiiiiii Kait! I mean Naoto! I like your hat!

I came here to be a Warden too.

[nicebluehat]

[This one, though? That's embarrassing. She didn't know anyone could be more energetic than Rise, who was like a hummingbird taking human form, but...] Really? I haven't had the pleasure of meeting you yet.

And thank you.

[can_has_vodka]

I'm Arkady! I just came in um...um...just now actually! I like this communicator. It's so much nicer than the wind up radios.

[nicebluehat]

[Well now you've got her interest.] An old model here? Or something you used back home?

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[timesbureaucrat]

[Paperwork! Forms! Narvin's all over this, and likes you already (well, as much as he likes anyone that he doesn't know and is therefore automatically suspicious of).]

Name: Narvin
Status on Barge: Warden
Origin: Capitol, Gallifrey
Previous Profession: government official
Last known date before arrival: non applicable
Current length of stay: eleven months, twenty-six days

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[nicebluehat]

[So cooperative!]

Thank you.

I don't think I've heard of Gallifrey before. [The only pop culture she knows is public domain :( But she's totally watched "Professor What".]

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[timesbureaucrat]

I don't imagine you would have. It's a planet far away from Earth.

And before you ask, yes, I'm not human.

[nicebluehat]

[*A*]

I'd been aware of the possibility of intelligent life outside our solar system, but I'm happy to see it confirmed.

You have a human appearance, correct? I hadn't seen anyone aboard who stood out in that particular way.

[fuckyoucynthia]

Consulting detective? You've got to be kidding me.

[nicebluehat]

[Disbelief is one thing, actual skepticism another.]

Why lie about my identity?

[fuckyoucynthia]

[And that would be a sharpy, sharp laugh. STOP SENDING CHILDREN, BARGE. HE DOES NOT CARE FOR IT. :C]

I can name a hundred reasons. A consulting detective could think of at least a few.

[nicebluehat]

It would be of no benefit to me to do so. Your reaction suggests you think it's an obvious lie, and why would I want to antagonize my fellow residents my first day here? I doubt half of them would be pleased to see someone else connected with the law.

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[hopeless_hacker]

[Welp, no way of knowing if this is just a clever means of swift information-gathering by an Inmate, but she's not releasing information that's not already public, so. Also, completely unphased by the age/career discrepancy because Tosh is a lifetime member of the Eh, I've Seen Weirder club.]

Name: Toshiko Sato
Status on Barge: Warden
Origin: Lately of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. Formerly of London; originally Osaka.
Previous profession: Xenolinguist and technical expert
Last known date before arrival: [SOMETIME HALFWAY THROUGH 2008]
Current length of stay: Approximately two years.

Welcome to the Barge, Miss Shirogane.

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[nicebluehat]

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Thank you, Sato-san. A pleasure.

...I'm curious, though. "Xenolinguist"? [She's not that good.]

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[hopeless_hacker]

[She hesitates a moment, then switches to Japanese. She...doesn't have a Kansai accent or speak the dialect for reasons known only to the Torchwood writers.]

Xenolinguistics involves the translation of alien languages. I worked for an agency which processed extraterrestrial flotsam and jetsam that appeared on Earth; documents and other data were often a part of that.

[nicebluehat]

[And she continues the switch to Japanese. She was raised by old men and TV rather than the outside world, so doesn't use Kyoto-ben or have much of an accent. Unsurprisingly, though, she is calling herself "boku".]

I see. It's common on your Earth, then?

[She met Izanami a couple days ago, and Persona gods are aliens, but she still classifies that as "spirit world" rather than "extraterrestrial".]