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Pavel Chekov (candothat) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2014-10-18 19:26:00

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:smith, data, deanna troi, euphemia li britannia, kitty pryde (aoa), korra, pavel chekov (au), sarah williams, spencer reid

Day 293 - Video / Action
[VIDEO]
[It's well into evening by the time Chekov, confident that he has a solid understanding of this new prison, makes use of the communication device that he was issued upon arrival. The nineteen year-old bears a striking resemblance to a current inmate. His posture is significantly better, he looks far healthier, and he has a ridiculous accent, but there may still be confusion.]

This is Lieutenant Pavel Andreievich Chekov of the starship Enterprise. I would ask anyone who is affiliated with Starfleet to respond to this message, please.

[Not the most subtle of hails, but he doesn't want to risk missing fellow officers by taking a stealthier approach. Why put effort into being subtle, anyway? Isolated prison universes are very different from, say, alien planets; Starfleet's rules regarding contact with new lifeforms hardly apply.

Business out of the way, the Russian abandons the careful diction and formal tone for something warmer and more personable.]

Is there anyone who is interested in speaking with me? I find foreign universes very lonely and boring when everyone is still a stranger.

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[Chekov spends the day investigating sectors one, two, and three, taking a special interest in the maintenance bots that are busy cleaning up after the storm. The food carts in sector one also capture his attention. As soon as he decides that it would be ridiculous for those in charge to poison those they wish to rehabilitate, he becomes intent on tasting everything that is both edible and unfamiliar. When imprisoned, it's always wise to take advantage of any hospitality offered.

He keeps the headset off as often as possible. It's an annoying contraption--not nearly as sleek and unobtrusive as devices at home with similar functions. Should anyone address him in a language that he doesn't understand, however, he's perfectly willing to put it back on, as is polite.]

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labyrinthrunner
2014-10-19 06:03 am UTC (link)

[Nathan not responding right away isn't all that weird. Nathan calling her miss and talking to her in a thick Russian accent is weird. The smile completely disappears an she draws back.]

That's not funny Nathan. I know you don't always want to talk to people, but you can tell me to go away instead of pretending to be something else. And... why would you talk like a Soviet?

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candothat
2014-10-19 06:28 am UTC (link)

[He frowns at her in genuine confusion. He hadn't expected her to disbelieve him! It's rather surprising to hear her say Soviet, as well; that isn't a word that gets thrown around much in the twenty-third century.]

My name is Pavel Chekov [he omits the patronymic since English-speakers tend to be afraid of long names] and I have no reason to not want to talk to you. We have never met.

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Most favorite tag write-up ever...

labyrinthrunner
2014-10-19 06:33 am UTC (link)

[Her face is one of complete surprise. There's a second of silence as her brain processes, and then the bombardment begins.]

Pavel Chekov. So you are a Soviet? I've never met a Soviet before. I mean, of course not. Our countries don't like each other. Are you a Communist? What makes that so much better than Capitalism? No... that's not the most important question. Why do you look exactly like Nathan?

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Oh, Sarah...

candothat
2014-10-19 07:25 am UTC (link)

[Chekov doesn't even know what to make of this. She's talking about events that happened nearly two centuries ago, and he is definitely not a historian.]

I am Russian, so you have still not met a Soviet. [He's perplexed, but not unamused.] Communism and Capitalism... because I am not very familiar with obsolete economic systems, I'm uncertain of how to answer. I can tell you that unrelated individuals with near-identical features are not so strange at points where multiple universes converge.

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	labyrinthrunner 2014-10-19 07:34 am UTC (link)
	But they're not obsolete! There's capitalism right now! And I thought most Soviets were Russians. The ones living in what used to be Russia at least. ... You use a lot of big words to make your point. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2014-10-19 09:16 pm UTC (link)
	When I am from, they are obsolete and Russia is Russia. You must be from much earlier... twentieth century? Twenty-first? [At least he has heard that last one more than once. It's not strange at all.] What words am I meant to use? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2014-10-19 09:21 pm UTC (link)
	1986. ... Everyone here seems to be from my future. But you sound like you're from really really far ahead. [She shakes her head at his question.] I don't know. But I'm really confused right now. You're not actually twins or anything? Different people who look exactly the same? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2014-10-21 03:53 am UTC (link)
	You are nearly two hundred years behind me. Is the Cold War what you were referencing when you mentioned hostilities between your country and mine? We may be distantly related, possibly. Everything becomes very strange when alternate realities and time travel must be accounted for. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2014-10-23 01:17 am UTC (link)
	Yes... the Cold War. It's not as bad as it was when my parents were little... but... [She eyes him, still not quite sure.] I've never met a So... a Russian before. I don't know much about alternate realities or dimensions or time travel either. I know about the Goblin land! But that's it. [That's it Sarah. Keep telling people about Goblinland.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

candothat
2014-10-23 02:28 am UTC (link)

Maybe you will meet others when you return home. In my universe, there have been no global conflicts for over a century; the same may happen in yours.

[Although Chekov is firmly rooted in science and not prone to believing in things like goblins, he has seen many things that are well outside of science's scope. He even lived with a wizard in a magical house. As such, he isn't as skeptical as he would like to be.]

Goblin land? Then such things exist in your world?

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labyrinthrunner
2014-10-23 04:15 am UTC (link)

That means getting home first. And I can't seem to find a way home. Besides, I have to get to the Labyrinth first. That's where the Goblins are. And it's not in my world. I'm not sure how I got there. Well... OK.

I accidentally wished the Goblin King would take my brother away. But I didn't know goblins existed! I thought they were fiction, like everything else I read. So when the Goblin King really did take him away, I had to get him back. And I have to go through the Labyrinth in 13 hours or less to get my baby brother.

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	candothat 2014-10-25 03:26 am UTC (link)
	[He takes a moment to process this flood of bizarre information.] It is inadvisable to wish that siblings would be abducted, even when those wishes are made to a supposedly fictional entity. I'm certain you will find him once you leave here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2014-10-25 04:31 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I know that now! But don't you ever say things without meaning them? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2014-10-26 05:34 pm UTC (link)
	Never. [He doesn't mean that.] Have you considered the possibility that these goblins are extraterrestrials? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2014-10-27 12:22 am UTC (link)
	[Sarah looks at him like he's crazy.] You mean like aliens? No. They're magic. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2014-10-28 12:56 am UTC (link)
	[He is the one who's crazy?] You say that as if magic is more reasonable than aliens. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2014-10-29 11:49 pm UTC (link)
	That's because it is. Aliens don't exist. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

candothat
2014-10-31 01:55 am UTC (link)

When I am from, hundreds of races have made contact with Earth.

Even if the population of your universe is very different from mine, the odds that there is an intelligent civilization capable of interstellar contact within your galaxy are high. The most conservative values that can be assigned to variables in the Drake Equation nearly guarantee that any galaxy that approximates the size of the Milky Way is home to more than one race, and there are billions and billions of galaxies! Do you understand how unlikely it is that there are no aliens?

I do not disbelieve that something unexplainable by science and therefore attributable to magic exists, however. I only mean to say that aliens are not unlikely.

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	labyrinthrunner 2014-11-02 03:57 am UTC (link)
	[Sarah stares openmouthed for a moment. Congratulations Chekov, you've struck her dumb. When she finally does speak again...] I think I can tell my stepmom that there's someone who babbles more than I do... What's the Drake Equation? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2014-11-03 02:46 am UTC (link)
	I was not babbling. I was informing. [He doesn't seem that offended, however.] The Drake Equation is a simple calculation used to determine the number of intelligent, communicative civilizations that are in the galaxy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2014-11-03 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	Okay. ... You were informing with a lot more words than most people use to inform people anything. [She frowns.] We haven't learned about that in school. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2014-11-05 03:54 am UTC (link)
	In my experience, most people do not inform thoroughly enough. I assumed as much when you denied the existence of aliens. The equation may not exist when and where you are from, either, so you might not learn it at all. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2014-11-07 01:30 am UTC (link)
	... Oh. I... [Really Chekov. She's speechless. She's actually eyeing him with that dear in a headlights look that he wouldn't know about because there likely aren't deer in space.] I should go. I have class in a few minutes... and Uh... it was nice to meet you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2014-11-08 05:58 am UTC (link)
	[Was it something he said?] Ah--yes, of course. It was a pleasure to talk to you, miss. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	labyrinthrunner 2014-11-09 08:31 pm UTC (link)
	[Sarah gives him an unsure smile before walked away with a confused look on her face.] (Reply to this) (Parent)

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