Comments | thestarmaps: a brief diversion

nonerfherders in thestarmaps

a brief diversion

Dec 23, 2011 00:22

Characters: Leia, Luke, and Artoo (open-ish if you want to do some racing)
Location: Swoop bike track
Planet: Coruscant
When: Backdated to a couple days after this.
What: Luke's unhappy about Zekk's disappearance. Leia decides to distract him with shiny things that go very very fast.
Rating: G

( And we'll have fun fun fun 'til your daddy takes your swoop bike awaaaaaaaaaaaaay )

star wars: r2-d2, star wars: leia organa, star wars: luke skywalker

Comments 5

sand_wormie December 23 2011, 04:19:55 UTC

There was a part of Luke that wasn't sure about this - his aunt and uncle would seriously not approve - but it wasn't the same kind of sketchy as just bribing people, right? And - secret identities. It was ridiculous. He knew it was ridiculous. But that was fun, itself. None of the local kids he knew had this kind of option ( ... )

kick_astromech December 23 2011, 08:01:13 UTC

It had been a small enough feat, and something that the little astromech had no qualms about handling. He was certainly in a much better mood now that he was with familiar company and not in the back of a dumpy speeder.

Artoo had been very eager to accompany Leia and Luke. It was almost like old times, well, sort of. While he wouldn't be doing any racing, he was pleased to see the two siblings enjoying themselves, even when temporally displaced. Trundling along behind them as they looked over the swoop bikes, making his own assessments of the vehicles, whistling now and then.

Hardly was he surprised that Luke would have an eye for picking out the best bikes of the lot, although he still thought calling them such was stretching it. At least they seemed sturdier than that speeder he'd hijacked.

((OOC: Derp, didn't know whether I should re on Luke's post or to original ;))

nonerfherders December 23 2011, 14:25:50 UTC

Leia definitely had a preference: manuverability over speed. Not that she didn't love speed. She did. But speed she could control was better than speed she couldn't control.

On the other hand, she felt obligated to protect Luke and make sure he got the more reliable machine. On the other other hand, she suspected Luke didn't need (certainly didn't want) her protection; that was just automatic "But he's thirteen!" instincts kicking in. Ironic and hypocritical both, given how she'd hated anyone using her youth as an excuse to not let her do something when she was that age, and she had no doubt Luke felt exactly the same way ( ... )

sand_wormie December 24 2011, 01:10:27 UTC

Luke flicked the coin up into the air so that it spun, and as it fell he lunged out so it landed in the palm of his open hand. "Chancellor." He smiled and slid the coin back into his pocket, then trotted around to climb into the cockpit of the speeder without stripes and started adjusting the seat forward, the controls closer. The cockpit was mostly enclosed but open at the back, which he supposed was safer than open canopy style.

There was something to the repulsor controls in this one that he hadn't seen before. Luke wrapped his hand around the steering yoke and squeezed. This fed a burst of power to the repulsorlifts in the front, bouncing the whole thing up by half a meter before it fell back to its previous altitude.

Luke yelped and laughed. He hadn't been seated properly and strapped in; that could've cracked his skull against the roof, but without thinking he'd braced just right and was fine. Sticking his head out the open back, he asked, "Artoo, can all of these do that?"

kick_astromech December 24 2011, 05:57:22 UTC

Rolling up to a stop between yet still behind the two, Artoo looked on as Luke flipped the coin to decide who would be taking which swoop. With that decision taken care of, he swiveled his dome in a glance towards Leia before he made his way closer to the vehicle that Luke had already clambered into ( ... )