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Tweak says, "Ten second rule!!!"

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

Entry tags:

: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.

[ACTION]
[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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	[video] kitty_has_claws 2014-10-25 02:26 am UTC (link)
	Oh yeah? Should I be worried about you? We do have a watchlist for violent offenders. [She doesn't feel very worried.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] candothat 2014-10-25 03:10 am UTC (link)
	Worried about me? I'm far more concerned about your capacity for evil. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] kitty_has_claws 2014-10-25 03:20 am UTC (link)
	Is it the outfit? Should I have worn something with halos on it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] candothat 2014-10-25 03:34 am UTC (link)
	Halos would not have changed my impression. [His teasing tone becomes terribly serious.] I'm sorry--I have never accused anyone of being evil within minutes of meeting them before. Did I offend you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] kitty_has_claws 2014-10-27 04:20 pm UTC (link)
	I used to get accused of worse, faster. At least you were mostly teasing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] candothat 2014-10-28 12:38 am UTC (link)
	What is worse than being accused of being evil? Assuming it was not meant as teasing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] kitty_has_claws 2014-10-29 02:12 am UTC (link)
	Being a mutant. Not that they were wrong. Just about the baggage attached. I guess it wasn't really much different than evil though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] candothat 2014-10-31 01:00 am UTC (link)
	In what way are you a mutant? How is that evil? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] kitty_has_claws 2014-10-31 12:55 pm UTC (link)
	In the way that some of humanity started developing mutations until we weren't really human anymore. It can mean a lot of things. For me? It means I can stick my hand through your chest without making a hole. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] candothat 2014-11-01 04:04 am UTC (link)
	Not human is not the same as evil; neither is possessing an unusual ability. Are you willing to give demonstrations? If you were to put your hand through me, would it hurt? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] kitty_has_claws 2014-11-01 08:41 pm UTC (link)
	Only if I went solid while I was in you. [Did this get dirty?] But then it would hurt both of us. [And it's been widely established that she's not the scorpion in the story, so she wouldn't do that unless she was all out of other options.] It was a mutant who started things. The genocide of the humans. General destruction. All that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] candothat 2014-11-03 02:28 am UTC (link)
	I see. [That--yes. Yes, it sounded dirty. At least enough to throw him off.] I'm not curious enough to risk that. That is similar to the way it was for augments when I am from, after the last war. I think we aren't small-minded enough to believe that augments are evil any longer. The situation at your home will change. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] kitty_has_claws 2014-11-03 05:11 am UTC (link)
	Augments? [He'd mentioned Starfleet so she had Data and Deanna in mind, but neither of them had ever mentioned augments to her.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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candothat
2014-11-05 03:30 am UTC (link)

Humans who underwent genetic manipulation to become physically and intellectually superior. [Is this kind of thing supposed to be classified? Probably only if he starts bringing up specifics.] The first augments were also more prone to aggression and violence--because the process was imperfect, I would assume--and so unnecessary DNA resequencing was made illegal. It is still illegal, mostly, but the idea that someone is evil because they have undergone genetic alteration is outdated.

Of course, I don't mean to imply that you are unusually violent.

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kitty_has_claws
2014-11-05 02:18 pm UTC (link)

I like to think I'm the right amount of violent for the situation. [And that story was interesting. She hadn't heard of them before.] There's a lot of unnecessary genetic manipulation back home now. Mutations were more or less natural [radiation and such aside] and definitely spontaneous. But there's been a lot of experimenting on people, trying to pull out latent mutations or push the ones we already have forward.

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	[video] candothat 2014-11-06 07:14 am UTC (link)
	Spontaneous mutations and human experimentation? I'm afraid of your home. [It's hard to tell if he's joking or not. Hint: he's not.] I hope that the right amount of violence for situations that involve me will be little or none. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] kitty_has_claws 2014-11-06 08:30 pm UTC (link)
	It's not the most welcoming place and I think you're probably safe from it and me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] candothat 2014-11-08 05:36 am UTC (link)
	This is good to know. Thank you, Fritty. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] kitty_has_claws 2014-11-12 04:52 am UTC (link)
	[That gets a little smile.] So do you know Data and Troi? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] candothat 2014-11-21 02:12 am UTC (link)
	Not yet, no, but I hope to meet them soon. Do you work with them? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] kitty_has_claws 2014-11-23 10:07 pm UTC (link)
	[A nod.] They're both on the force with me. We're from different worlds though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] candothat 2014-12-06 05:47 am UTC (link)
	Do you mean that figuratively? If you do, I will need to ask you to elaborate, please. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	[video] kitty_has_claws 2014-12-06 07:07 pm UTC (link)
	Literal different worlds. I mean beyond me being from Earth. [She's actually not sure which planet Data calls home, but she'd never heard of Betazed before.] Different realities and maybe different times too. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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