Audio, un: Yousoro★

[ayes]

 So... I think we've all been trying to get to know each other, right? That seems like a great idea! Since we're all stuck in this same boat together and all. [Translation: Can we please talk about something, anything other than killing people? She's still not sure if you're all just joking or if serious.

She's not sure which would be creepier.]

So, what sort of things does everyone like to do for fun? I know we kinda had that on the magic nametags we were given, but we've all got hobbies, right? Maybe we can still do them here! 

I like to cook, I was on the high dive and swim team back home, I was part of a singing group with my friends, I love clothes and costumes and designing fashion, and one day I want to be a ship captain like my dad! 

What kind of things were you all into where you came from? Anything fun you want to get up to?

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audio | un: buffy

[slay]

Cheerleading, for me. But, um, I didn't last very long. Other stuff got in the way. But clothes, clothes are good. I would kill for a mall trip right about now.

[ayes]

Yeah, I know how that goes. I had to quit the diving team to join my friend for the singing group... gotta wish you had more than 24 hours in a day, right? [Because school idols are totally equivalent to vampire slayers.]

I saw some really cute clothes at the market! It's not a mall but it's the next best thing, right?

I need to figure out how to earn some money here.

[slay]

Uh, the bulletin boards, they had some postings. I don't know about singing and swimming, but a high school diploma has to be worth something around here. Maybe we could hit the pavement together and go look at our options.

[ayes]

Oh, did they? I'll have to check it out! [She pauses.] Uh, I... don't have my high school diploma yet. I'm still in second year.

[slay]

At the risk of being the bad influence, I don't think they're going to be asking for paperwork. All things considered. So ... they don't really have to know that.

[ayes]

Huh. That's a good point. I mean, when you think about it, we really could tell them anything about what we used to do, right? [A pause.] Though... I think if we made something up entirely, they'd find out pretty quick, right? So maybe we'll stop at the diploma thing.

[slay]

I wouldn't get too ambitious in the direction of, say, architecture or brain surgery, but yeah. Probably. You know better than anybody here what you have the skills for.

audio ( un: tohsaka )

[jewelling]

Why must you all rely on this hunk of junk for a conversation? Wouldn't it make more sense to speak to each other face-to-face?

audio

[ayes]

I mean, isn't it faster this way? Instead of having to have a hundred conversations one on one, you can talk to everyone at once! It's just like your smartphone!

audio

[jewelling]

Pfft! I can't see how it's faster. Perhaps if this was just an old fashion telephone, I can see it being somewhat useful. But this gadget is overly complicated and--

[ and... ]

Just like my what? A smartphone? I never owned such a thing...

audio

[ayes]

You didn't have a smartphone back home? Geez... your telephones must be really old fashioned.

Were they still the kind with the circle you had to dial with?

audio

[jewelling]

[ 2004 here... ]

Smart phones? You mean phones that actually work?

[ Because dumb phones = broken phones? Right? Right? ]

No. My phone had a number pad. I'm not that old...

audio

[ayes]

No, they're like... computers in your pocket? Sorta? They've got a big touch screen and they run all sorts of neat apps.

You really don't know them?

audio | un: zevran

[agradecido]

[You, you don't wanna know. And considering he doesn't have many hobbies that don't in some way pertain to his creepy, creepy job, he'd rather talk about yours.]

What kind of ship does your father sail?

[ayes]

A big ferry! It's not quite as big as a cruise ship, but it's still pretty darn impressive! He goes all along the coastline and to some of the outlying islands. When I was a kid, I always loved going up to the tops of the cliffs and waiting 'til I could see the top of the ship on the horizon!

[agradecido]

[He chuckles.] I'm not sure what a cruise ship is, but it's very large, I take it? Does he move cargo or passengers?

[ayes]

Oh yeah, they're huge! They're the biggest passenger boats on the ocean! Cruise ships are like giant floating hotels and they've got dining halls and movie theaters and big pools and all sorts of stuff to do! [She sounds genuinely enthusiastic about this.] But my dad's ferry is more for people. I mean, sometimes he'll get delivery trucks or moving trucks or something but that's pretty rare! Most of the cargo he gets is just peoples' stuff they're bringing with them.

[agradecido]

[THAT IS OKAY he has another acquaintance who loves ships just as much. You lost him at "movie theater" tho.]

That sounds more like a seabound castle. Pools...like a gazing pool?

[ayes]

[She doesn't even skip a beat.] Yeah, something like that! Uhhh, no walls or cannons or... horses, or anything like that. [She has no idea what a castle usually has.] It's more like a swimming pool! See, they're usually deep in the ocean so you can't go in the water 'cause you'll get left behind and then you're in trouble, so they're for people to go swimming in! So it's kinda funny when you think about it, having a pool of water for swimming inside a boat, which is inside the ocean, haha!

Audio; un: Nocturne

[melodiouspacifist]

I like to play music and since I carry my sitar with me I can do that anywhere.

[He smiles.]

What do you do on a swim team? What kinds of songs do you like to sing? I don't sing very much, very often really...but I can, I think.

[He actually sounds a bit self-conscious about that.]

[ayes]

Ohhh, that's really neat! I've never met anyone who plays the sitar before! [You can practically hear the enthusiasm in her voice.] We sang... uh, I guess you'd just call it pop music, really! There were nine of us, and we all sang and dance and it was a big performance spectacle! Definitely a different type of competition from the swim team. That was more just races and stuff.

[melodiouspacifist]

[He laughs pleasantly.]

I get that a lot. It's not a very common instrument, but it's mine.

[He hums a little.]

I wonder if your popular songs are like ours. I'm not sure. Are yours sung by mermaids and fish?

Racing through the water might be fun, but so is floating on it and relaxing. [Also known as being lazy.]

not sure how canon familiar you are bc that was unintentionally very close...

[ayes]

Haha, it's sort of funny that you'd say that, because my friends and I almost called ourselves "Three Mermaids" when we were trying to think of a name... [And she does have that one song about all the fish. Come to think of it, they would fit in disturbingly well in Atlantica.] I like to do that too! I've always liked just being on the ocean... I want to have a big ship like my dad's, one day.

Completely canon blind! :D He just..you know...Disney.

[melodiouspacifist]

Wow, really? That's so cool!

[Because mermaids are cool, what?]

Are you actually mermaids? Where's your tail?

[He lets out a little contented sigh.] I never got to go to the ocean. I bet it would have been so fun.

no it's just that they're all water-themed and she even has a song about partying w/ the fish

[ayes]

No, we're not mermaids or anything! It's just that we all-- at least, everyone but Riko-- grew up by the ocean so we all kinda were thinking about water themes? I'm just a normal human being like you, though! [Oops.]