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Miguel (miguel_ohara) wrote in spinningcompass,
@ 2019-10-19 23:48:00

Entry tags:

!open, miguel o'hara, ~tony stark 2

Who: Miguel and Open
What: Not writing a speech
Where: Food court
When: Afternoon, October 19
Status: Open

Getting married was all well and good, and it helped that the guest list was easy (it was "everyone") and that Sarah had already sorted out the vast majority of the things that needed sorting out. She was amazingly organized like that, and he helped where he could.

But the one thing that she couldn't get sorted was his speech for after the ceremony. That was all on him, and for someone who was used to doing presentations and teaching and all kinds of public speaking, he was struggling with this one speech. It didn't need to be fancy. No holoslides required, no data to prepare beforehand, nothing like that. Just Miguel standing up and talking for maybe five minutes, thanking people and then talking about Sarah. Easy, right?

Wrong.

He didn't want to just wing it, because that way led to impromptu science lectures. He didn't want to write out a script, either. He was good at public speaking, he didn't need cue cards or anything like that, he always knew his stuff before-hand. He just wanted it to sound... natural. So why the shock did everything he was coming up with sound stilted and off? Stupid shocking speech.

He'd had enough of their lab. He didn't want to work on it in her (their?) apartment, and he'd only drink if he went to Bad Things, so he had gone to the food court instead and drank coffee instead of whatever bottle caught his eye. And still no speech. A lot of deleted notes on Lyla's note-taking programme, yes, but no speech.

Lyla herself sat on a small stool on the table in front of Miguel, a foot-tall hologram of Marilyn Monroe wearing reading glasses. Her legs were crossed at the knee, and she had what looked like pens tucked into her high ponytail as she waited for Miguel to continue coming up with ideas. The area around her stool had about twenty crumpled-up pages scattered everywhere.

Stupid shocking speech.

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buildsneatstuff
2019-10-20 03:54 pm UTC (link)

Tony had come to the food court for a reason. It wasn't to get something to eat, although that did make for a convenient excuse. He was hungry as well but he didn't notice the hunger pains as much as the gnawing in his brain. After the chat he had with some alternate Bucky, he was feeling a bit tense. It was understandable. Granted, it was hard to see past that fog his anger created, made it hard for him to see sense and reason.

Seeing the hologram and the stranger in the food court had been a welcome excuse for him to avoid visiting this other Bucky. Drawn to the interesting looking technology, Tony walked over to where Miguel was sat.
"Is this seat taken?" he asked, pulling the chair back. He wasn't really asking, it was more of a way of getting the guys attention. He sat down and leaned back casually in the chair. "I'm Tony Stark. Still feels weird introducing myself..." he paused and looked at the hologram. "And who is this?" he asked with a smirk.

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miguel_ohara
2019-10-20 06:01 pm UTC (link)

Miguel looked up at the voice, and blinked in surprise when he saw Tony, unaware that the man had returned. Tony's next words, though, meant that he had no memory of being on the station before. Shock. He sat up straight as soon as he realized that, and gestured for Lyla to clear up. In an instant, Lyla was on her feet with no stool, no glasses and no crumpled-up pages all over the table. "Miguel O'Hara," he replied, before letting Lyla introduce herself.

"Hello, Mr Stark. I am Lyla, Miguel's Holoagent. Lyla stands for LYrate Life-form Approximation," she said, then tilted her head and studied him. Miguel knew that look, like she was about to ask him something like 'why do you look so shocking bad?' so he sat forward as soon as he noticed it and spoke over anything she might have started to say.

"I must have missed your arrival. How long have you been here, and how are you settling in, Tony?"

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buildsneatstuff
2019-10-21 01:00 pm UTC (link)

Tony raised his eyebrow at the hologram as Miguel tried his best to talk over it, before turning his attention to the fleshier of the two. He actually respected her honesty a bit more, especially if he heard her correctly.

"I'm settling in fine. Granted I would prefer not to be here, but given that there's now another me in my timeline, I suppose I'll just have to make do here" he said with a sigh and a flick oh his eyebrows. He tapped the table before leaning back. "I take it you already know who I am then" he said. It was more of a statement and less of a question. Tony had the impression that most people on the station knew who he was. No different to back home, but in this case they knew another version of him. Tony wasn't sure how much of a life this other version of him had made for himself on the station, but Tony knew that it didn't matter. That was that version, not him.

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miguel_ohara
2019-10-21 02:48 pm UTC (link)

"I know who you are, yes. Both from working with you here, and from history books," Miguel said, "I'm from Nueva York, in the year 2099."

His watch buzzed at that point, and Miguel glanced down at his wrist. Lyla was sending him messages. Huh. "Excuze me," he said, and quickly read her message. It said "Mr Stark appears to be recovering from malnutrition and severe dehydration. I would advise getting him something from one of the food shops." Miguel raised an eyebrow at that, before dismissing the message. Lyla was fixing her skirt as she waited to see what she might be asked to do.

"Sorry about that," he said, before continuing to introduce himself. "I work for a company called Alchemax, or I did before I wound up here. I'm the head of the Genetics R&D department. Now that I'm here, I'm building a genetic database of everything on the station - there are a lot of lifeforms here that aren't people like us, and most of them are plants. I do some teaching as well, for the kids and any adults that want to learn biology." Then he lifted his mug of coffee and drained it.

"I've also just run out of coffee. Can I get you anything while I'm getting a refill?" Lyla's smile brightened as he spoke.

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buildsneatstuff
2019-10-21 04:26 pm UTC (link)

"The future, huh?" he replied, sounding a little disinterested. He wasn't. He was very much interested. Tony listened to Miguel. Boy, could he talk but what he had to say was interesting at least. So the guy was smart? That was something Tony could respect. And Tony was very much intrigued by the AI. He wanted to compare notes, especially if Miguel was truly from the year 2099. He wanted to know about what advancements had been made, and how the world had turned out but Miguel might have been from another timeline. It was a headache.

"Sure, why not?" he replied with a shrug. He knew he needed to be eating and drinking a bit more but it wasn't exactly at the forefront of his mind. He had been neglecting his health, spiralling into a very dark place, even since before he had arrived on the station.

"Coffee. And... just something. Anything" he said with a shrug.

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miguel_ohara
2019-10-22 11:54 am UTC (link)

"Coffee and anything," Miguel repeated with a nod, and headed towards Lacey's diner.

Lyla stayed where she was, though. "Mr Stark, you should carry round a bottle of water with you at all times," she advised, walking towards him on the table and hopped up to sit on the rim of Miguel's forgotten coffee mug. "Your readings are quite worrying."

Then she stretched her arms high above her head before crossing her legs at the ankle. "Please tell me your refreshment preferences so that I may update my records. Which non-alcoholic drink is your drink of choice, and do you prefer croissants or crullers?"

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buildsneatstuff
2019-10-24 10:35 pm UTC (link)

"That's very good advice. I'll keep that in mind" he replied, being half genuine, the rest sarcastic. He was curious about the AI though. He wondered about the tech, wondered about the programming skills. He had of course created similar but this was another level. And he was fascinated.

"Non alcoholic?" he replied with raised eyebrows. "There's an option? Coffee" he said. "Let's just stick with coffee... and both. Croissants and crullers, depends on the day and the mood. Do you have a preference?" he asked out of curiosity. He wanted to see how much of her mimicked humans. If she had favourite foods and things she didn't partake in to make her seem even more life like.

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