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revivalproject2021-08-09 02:43 pm
doubled_speed) wrote in revivalproject2021-08-09 02:43 pm
Temba's Where The Heart Is
WHO: Tommy Shepherd, OTA (Some closed or limited starters)
WHERE: Temba: Greenhouse, Diner, The Twin Roses
WHAT: Tommy got hurt in Not Temba so now he's staying home for traditional work
WHEN: Early August
WARNINGS: Tommy's attitude is going to be testy due to leg soreness/pain
1. New Plants Need Time | Greenhouse | OTA
Green. Tommy had never thought he'd feel so attached to the color. Yes, it was part of his uniform but this green space, this peace... It was magical in its own way. Somehow he hadn't noticed it in himself back home, the way that when he was stressed he ran to not only natural wonders, but ones that were in some way green. But here, on Agra 10, he had found some measure of peace in the greenhouse right at the start, and in a strange way, the place felt like home.
"I'm back babes," he called out to the plants, dragging along the bubble-olive tree that Obi-Wan had helped him dig up back in the other city. He needed to get it to the place where it would have its final resting and a chance to adjust. "I've brought new friends. Once I've got them in, we're going to do a prone. And it's almost harvest time, so everyone do your best."
There was peace, calmness, happiness to be had in finding the greenhouse still standing after all the stress in life.
"Now if only I had more hands," he mused as he kept going, limping along slowly. Stupid hurt leg. But he'd power through it. He always had.
2. Food Makes Family | The Diner | OTA
Okay, so maybe he hasn't done this in a while, but that doesn't mean Tommy doesn't know what he's doing. Okay, maybe he doesn't know what he's doing very WELL but dammit he's trying. And, with people everywhere and some of the diner help staff working their asses off exploring and Tommy no longer easily able to do that, he had come to do it instead. This afternoon he was falling back on a classic. Anyone who had an issue with soup as a side today was going to get serious glares from him. For now Tommy was working on making fresh noodles from one of the Coruscant grains he had just ground into flour for the purpose.
With the back door to the kitchen open he could hear someone enter the building and he called out from the back as loud as he could to let them know he was working.
"Hold on and there will be a fresh salad or fruit if you want. I'm working on a noodle-soup. Come on back!"
3. Welcome to the Roses | Twin Roses | Closed to Twin Roses Crew
Home. Tommy was one of the lucky ones and he didn't even know it. He had brought some new plant samples to try in the Twin Roses hydroponics system and had no clue that the ships had been juggled. Then again, save for the first assignments, this had really been his ship. It was, in a weird way (especially when considering his claustrophobia) home. He moved easily and confidently through the ship, not expecting that the people on it could be so different. And once in the hold he moved right to his hydroponics unites.
"Hey kiddos," he greated them. he'd heard once that talking to plants helped, and given they had to live in the more artificial environment of the ship, he didn't intend to not do it. "Got you some new friends seeing as the sorta pea-pod vine things weren't working out. Say hi."
And now it was time to get them started.
Later on, after he was done with that task, Tommy busied himself in the laundry area, sitting on top of the washer with a bowl of chocolate protein paste with slices of fruit cut up into it, eating as the machine worked on cleaning his clothes. His injured leg hung to the side, keeping all weight off of it.
We anyone to enter he would look them dead in the eye.
"What, never seen a dude washing laundry before?"
Well, they might have, but given Tommy was literally wearing only a pair of what looked like booty shorts, there might be another reason to be staring. Be glad he wasn't standing, because that shining silver script 'juicy' on the ass might just make some people react less happily. But hey, free shirtless dude. Comment on the faint scars on his skin and there might be trouble though.
4. A Mind Is A Beautiful Thing To Use | Young Avengers home | Closed to Quentin Beck
Learning for himself had never been something Tommy was good at. It was just something that was universally true. He'd been bad at school because even before his powers had come in he'd had some attention issues. After school had been brutal. And then, well, there hadn't been school at all. The Kaplans had stressed the importance of him getting his GED and it had been pure stubborn desire to get a job and his own place that had Tommy getting his degree.
But complex issues? Tommy had always thought himself too stupid to learn really useful and valuable things. He hadn't thought about how one putting together thousands upon thousands of electronics, even according to instructions, was teaching him things. Between that and watching Tony, helping Tony, having Tony put up with him, Tommy had started to think he could learn it. Except he'd run into a road block. How was he supposed to learn the basics?
Less mobile as he was after getting hurt in Not-Temba, his mind turned back to the thing he wanted to learn. So he did the only thing he could do. He borrowed some supplies from Tony's forgehe would apologize when Tony got back and sat down in his home, trying to puzzle out different resistors Tony had put together into the systems.
"This is so fucking stupidly complicated," he hissed in anger. How could he have been so fucking smart in that damn fake-city!?
WHERE: Temba: Greenhouse, Diner, The Twin Roses
WHAT: Tommy got hurt in Not Temba so now he's staying home for traditional work
WHEN: Early August
WARNINGS: Tommy's attitude is going to be testy due to leg soreness/pain
1. New Plants Need Time | Greenhouse | OTA
Green. Tommy had never thought he'd feel so attached to the color. Yes, it was part of his uniform but this green space, this peace... It was magical in its own way. Somehow he hadn't noticed it in himself back home, the way that when he was stressed he ran to not only natural wonders, but ones that were in some way green. But here, on Agra 10, he had found some measure of peace in the greenhouse right at the start, and in a strange way, the place felt like home.
"I'm back babes," he called out to the plants, dragging along the bubble-olive tree that Obi-Wan had helped him dig up back in the other city. He needed to get it to the place where it would have its final resting and a chance to adjust. "I've brought new friends. Once I've got them in, we're going to do a prone. And it's almost harvest time, so everyone do your best."
There was peace, calmness, happiness to be had in finding the greenhouse still standing after all the stress in life.
"Now if only I had more hands," he mused as he kept going, limping along slowly. Stupid hurt leg. But he'd power through it. He always had.
2. Food Makes Family | The Diner | OTA
Okay, so maybe he hasn't done this in a while, but that doesn't mean Tommy doesn't know what he's doing. Okay, maybe he doesn't know what he's doing very WELL but dammit he's trying. And, with people everywhere and some of the diner help staff working their asses off exploring and Tommy no longer easily able to do that, he had come to do it instead. This afternoon he was falling back on a classic. Anyone who had an issue with soup as a side today was going to get serious glares from him. For now Tommy was working on making fresh noodles from one of the Coruscant grains he had just ground into flour for the purpose.
With the back door to the kitchen open he could hear someone enter the building and he called out from the back as loud as he could to let them know he was working.
"Hold on and there will be a fresh salad or fruit if you want. I'm working on a noodle-soup. Come on back!"
3. Welcome to the Roses | Twin Roses | Closed to Twin Roses Crew
Home. Tommy was one of the lucky ones and he didn't even know it. He had brought some new plant samples to try in the Twin Roses hydroponics system and had no clue that the ships had been juggled. Then again, save for the first assignments, this had really been his ship. It was, in a weird way (especially when considering his claustrophobia) home. He moved easily and confidently through the ship, not expecting that the people on it could be so different. And once in the hold he moved right to his hydroponics unites.
"Hey kiddos," he greated them. he'd heard once that talking to plants helped, and given they had to live in the more artificial environment of the ship, he didn't intend to not do it. "Got you some new friends seeing as the sorta pea-pod vine things weren't working out. Say hi."
And now it was time to get them started.
Later on, after he was done with that task, Tommy busied himself in the laundry area, sitting on top of the washer with a bowl of chocolate protein paste with slices of fruit cut up into it, eating as the machine worked on cleaning his clothes. His injured leg hung to the side, keeping all weight off of it.
We anyone to enter he would look them dead in the eye.
"What, never seen a dude washing laundry before?"
Well, they might have, but given Tommy was literally wearing only a pair of what looked like booty shorts, there might be another reason to be staring. Be glad he wasn't standing, because that shining silver script 'juicy' on the ass might just make some people react less happily. But hey, free shirtless dude. Comment on the faint scars on his skin and there might be trouble though.
4. A Mind Is A Beautiful Thing To Use | Young Avengers home | Closed to Quentin Beck
Learning for himself had never been something Tommy was good at. It was just something that was universally true. He'd been bad at school because even before his powers had come in he'd had some attention issues. After school had been brutal. And then, well, there hadn't been school at all. The Kaplans had stressed the importance of him getting his GED and it had been pure stubborn desire to get a job and his own place that had Tommy getting his degree.
But complex issues? Tommy had always thought himself too stupid to learn really useful and valuable things. He hadn't thought about how one putting together thousands upon thousands of electronics, even according to instructions, was teaching him things. Between that and watching Tony, helping Tony, having Tony put up with him, Tommy had started to think he could learn it. Except he'd run into a road block. How was he supposed to learn the basics?
Less mobile as he was after getting hurt in Not-Temba, his mind turned back to the thing he wanted to learn. So he did the only thing he could do. He borrowed some supplies from Tony's forge
"This is so fucking stupidly complicated," he hissed in anger. How could he have been so fucking smart in that damn fake-city!?
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"How did you get injured?"
The two of them could literally get injured anywhere else and they would just walk it off; getting their legs messed up, though? Sure is like getting their wings clipped. Pietro sympathizes.
At the suggestion, he looks around and finds himself an apt enough knife to get through the husk of the mangourd, setting up to Tommy's left and getting to work on it.
"I'll do my best," promising, really. "If you need any help with what you're doing, I may have some time."
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Than he had been since Vision had been here.
"Small building may have partially fallen on me and crushed my leg. Billy got the bone fixed but... Well, we didn't know there was some muscle stuff. I need time to heal."
And yes, it was as miserable as he might guess. To be without his speed because he couldn't as opposed to shouldn't was heartbreaking.
"You ever chop vegetables before?"
Have some time. Funny.
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A lack of muscles does not go unnoticed... though he isn't here to judge, as he is instead going to be focusing his attention on this mangourd here.
The knife goes through, and he tries to keep it a steady, straight line.
"Sometimes, back when Wanda and I were younger," cooking wasn't his thing, but he would help out his sister when he needed to. "I can do that for you if you need me to."
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He may be younger by a hair, but he was currently probably capable of kicking Pietro's ass. Or at least making a VERY serious dent.
"No, I don't go to the gym. The Kree is there. She's weird about Billy, and thus in a way she gets weird about me. I don't like it."
Once the gourd is open Tommy offered over a spoon so the other speedster could scoop out the tasty insides.
"Trust me, I'm going to have you do some chopping very soon. Once you've had your snack. There's always work to be done here or in the greenhouse, and I need to prep some dehydrating and salting today of some things."
And for every second he had Pietro's hands he had tens of minutes of other people's best work. It was a really good trade.
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"There is story there?" for the name, he means, but he doesn't push for it. "Maybe I can still find you weights to lift."
No one is calling anyone scrawny.
Spoon in hand, Pietro scoops up the fruit, actually taking his time in savoring it. All this terminology for cooking and prepping...
"Yes, you just tell me what to do. I'm good with instructions."
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"Not a story you get, slowpoke. And there are weights there. I just don't go."
He'd told David he wasn't going to the gym and getting buff just so his boyfriend could be with a muscle-bound jock. Truth was, he knew he couldn't put on his uncle's sorta muscle mass. He'd inherited too much of Wanda's delicate form. He could want and want and want and he'd never have. Didn't change the fact that he was far stronger than someone his size and build.
"Figured you could follow simple instructions. Sure, you're probably normally the brawn, but you've gotta have SOME brains to know how to stop in time."
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Well, to each their own. Pietro will find other ways to spend time with his not-nephew, even if maybe working out together was an idea he wanted to explore. A hard no on that one.
"Mhm, of course," it's not that difficult to stop, after all. "I'm just not usually the one doing the cooking. Easy things, yes, like sandwiches or ovcharska — salads, soups. Maybe I should practice more."
The mangourd is good, turns out, and there's another spoonful gone.
"So, yes, I will help you however I can."
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"Fine I'll work out with you. But you get to make sure Billy's guard dog isn't there when we go. I don't fuck around with Skree space politics shit."
But the help makes him smile. Oh he is going to make use of that, Pietro.
"You're gonna love making flour. You come out looking like a ghost. But bread and pasta after."
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The truth is, perhaps Pietro really just wants to hang out with another super-speedy guy.
He can't help but laugh at the talk about making flour. "Are you sure you are doing that correctly? I don't know if 'looking like ghost' is part of the process?"
But, hey! Pietro said he's willing to learn.
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He hasn't had someone he could work out with before here. Hell, he hasn't had someone LIKE him before. Not in a long time. It's really nice to just be able to talk at his natural state. And for a moment his misses his father.
"Dude, if you're grinding flour quickly, it's going to get dust in the air. Or do you wanna go slow?"