New kid on the block

[ezra_of_lothal]

WHO: Ezra and anyone, shipmates especially welcome
WHERE: Network and hangar
WHAT: Introductions and settling in
WHEN: Mid Feb/first few days after Ezra arrives
WARNINGS: Some discussion of violence and body horror

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A. Network [Video]

So, I'm new. My name's Ezra Bridger. I'm from Lothal, if you know where that is.

Mr. Vanth recommended I go by the hangar, so I'll be doing that in a little while, if you want to say hello face to face. It looks like I'm assigned to the Vanquish. Whatever that means, in a practical sense.

I guess my first question is - what needs doing around here? I have some experience scavenging and setting up base in only sort of habitable spots, but this situation doesn't quite fit anything I've done before.

How are we doing on, oh, food?

B. Hangar

He can see why people might congregate here. It's a relatively enclosed, defendable space, and the ships have systems that are probably easier to maintain than the entire infrastructure of a mostly abandoned city. And it's familiar to him, too, sharing ships about this size with a handful of people.

On the other hand, before he joined the crew of the Ghost, he'd had an entire communications tower to himself. It had taken him a while to get used to sharing a cabin with Zeb, and adjusting to all the demands of being part of a crew.

He hasn't made up his mind, which living situation he's leaning towards, here and now. He plans to pitch in, regardless, that's nothing wrong with having some space to himself again.

Once he actually lets himself onto the Vanquish, he's very open about looking around, and a little more cautious about touching than he'd been years ago, the first time he really was on a ship. Years of Hera being particular about her ship have made their mark.

Anyone he come across, he tries to shoot them a friendly smile.

Comments

[doubled_speed]

Literal babies for hands, like, grafted on there. Wrists ended abruptly in baby tummies. It was horrible.

[ezra_of_lothal]

[He can't even fake not being grossed out.]

Who did this to people? And why?

[doubled_speed]

[Yeah, that's what he thought.]

Master Pandemonium, because he thought we were parts of his soul, and he did apologize.

[ezra_of_lothal]

I don't understand. I mean, I'd like to, but I don't.

Why would he think that, and why would it make him...do that?

[doubled_speed]

Because we were made from fractured bits of the soul of another demon. So he got confused.

He wanted to be whole.

[ezra_of_lothal]

[Well, Ezra can actually see how that might be confusing. Sort of.]

Who's...we? You, and?

[doubled_speed]

My brother and I. It's quite a bit of an experience to have died for.

[What? He thinks it's interesting.]

[ezra_of_lothal]

So..when you mentioned reincarnation, you were talking about yourself?

[doubled_speed]

Yep. Me and my twin. We died and were reincarnated about ten years before we were born

[ezra_of_lothal]

[He has no idea how that works, but he's just going with it.]

So that other life, is that something you always remembered or did you find out about it somehow?

[doubled_speed]

I don't remember any of it. But I've been told about it, at times.

[ezra_of_lothal]

By people you trusted already?

[doubled_speed]

Yes. Useless to listen to strangers.

[ezra_of_lothal]

I dunno about useless, always. If I never listened to strangers, I never would have gotten to be part of my second family.

But yeah, it would probably take a lot of trust to believe something that important about myself.

[doubled_speed]

Well, that's fair.

[Same for him too, but he still thought of them as family and people he trusted, you know.]

There were people who had seen that time. And my soul-mom recognized us.

Crud I missed this notif

[ezra_of_lothal]

She as your mother...the first life? Did you recognize her back?

Re: Crud I missed this notif

[doubled_speed]

I didn’t believe it. And I was, like, six or something. So no. But she knew us. Could feel it in her magic.