hi ian!! i'm rian and i'm shamelessly copying this intro blurb about my two characters, because i'm lazy. ANYWAY, IN BRIEF: jim wu/this journal is a gunner on the whiskey sour, an upbeat kid from the wrong side of town who is way too into fighting for his Honor and also because he is basically a less cool marty mcfly. then i have beth bristol/imperatora (sorry for this shameless username) who is at the other end of the spectrum: the kamikaze pilot, severe, dry, unyielding, cutthroat, but mostly just a weird robot who doesn't know how to interact with people.
for plot! VALENTINE: jim!!!!! GUESS WHO IS CONSTANTLY GETTING PATCHED UP DUE TO VARIOUS LEVELS OF IDIOCY AND FIST-FIGHTING. this guy. i think he really likes valentine, though, and views him as a big brother figure?? even though they're almost the same age, shhh. bristol admires his levelheadedness, especially because she thinks the WS is crewed by mostly idiots, but probably doesn't have too much to do with him—he's too young for her to really seek out socially outside her ship.
JAI: IS SO CUTE HELP. jim will be friendly with him, but i'm not sure they'd hang out too much—but we can always throw them together and see! bristol would absolutely have known his mother. she might even have known jai? i imagine she's visited former kamikaze crew over the years, particularly ones who had been there a while, so she would have met jai and probably checked in on him from time to time! she thinks he is an upstanding young boy who will probably not die by stupidity. high praise, i know, pls contain urself
TAVO: i don't have anyone on the TS (YET), but! i think bristol likes him! they've both been around a while and she is similarly no-bullshit. but she's also a less entertaining captain holt from b99 at times so that might...be irritating...