Dave Strider (
shenunigans) wrote in
starlogs2017-02-11 10:50 pm
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[open] i'm wishing on the death star
WHO: Dave Strider and OPEN
WHERE: All around Eluvio
WHEN: Various. Present time, mostly.
WHAT: Dave finding his bearings, muddling around and being a nuisance.
WARNINGS: naughty cussing
one: skating.
[Working at a Skateboard store as a clerk has almost little to no perks. People are annoying, nobody knows who Tony Hawk is and he sure as hell didn't sign up for this shit. The one perk Dave has found, is that taking merch from the store is not only allowed, it's encouraged. Why not be a mobile advertisement? What could go wrong?
Of course, Dave doesn't waste time with the snap back caps or the knee pads for toddlers, he just wants the board.
Admittedly, it's been a fucking eon since he legitimately rode one. But it's like riding a bike. Where the break is your foot and your bike is a wooden board that reaches Incredible Speeds. He's rusty enough that he feels self-conscious dicking around in the open. He's found a reasonably secluded part of the ship for practicing and he's picking it all up again pretty fast.
He starts getting cocky, working on tricks. Kick flips, heel flips, grinding, etc. Every so often, he nails it. Every so often, he fucks up spectacularly. God knows at which point someone could possibly happen upon him.]
two: cafeteria.
[The cafeteria is a source of great conflict for Dave. On the one hand, it is a bountiful harvest of delicious food. He's been deprived of decent, palatable food for so long he might as well be at a Lord's banquet every time he steps in there.
On the other hand, a niggling, awkward feeling gets his goat whenever he sees the herds of people in there. It's been so long since he's been around more than five people at a time, it's like he's developed some sort of meteor-deprived agoraphobia. He tries to slink in when there's less people around, but that tends to be difficult.
Dave doesn't realise he's chewing his lip as he looks upon the cafeteria. He has a tray with a large glass of apple juice, three cheeseburgers and an apple pie and a look of determination behind his shades. He scans for an empty table and realises, regretfully, that there isn't one. He'll have to take his chances with sitting at the end of a less occupied table.
He'll slink forward, set his tray on the opposite and furthest side of a table and take a seat. Nope. Not awkward at all.
Fuck man, say something.]
Sup?
three: space view.
[Being in space isn't the strangest part about this ordeal for Dave. He was in space before, assing around on a meteor propelling to some glorious location. The ship is a change, but the thing that bugs him out is the small, near impossible chance that the meteor might actually be in this universe. It's not like he wants to go back. Hell no. He just kind of wishes he could bring some of the contents of that meteor onto the ship.
Now, he's not about to go tug on the captain's sleeve and beg him to keep his eye out for a shitty chunk of rock. Hell, he's not even sure he'll keep the remotest of hopes up. For whatever reason (mostly boredom) he decides to be like the stupid-ass kid who leaves cookies out for santa and starts taping up calling cards.

That ought to do it.]
WHERE: All around Eluvio
WHEN: Various. Present time, mostly.
WHAT: Dave finding his bearings, muddling around and being a nuisance.
WARNINGS: naughty cussing
one: skating.
[Working at a Skateboard store as a clerk has almost little to no perks. People are annoying, nobody knows who Tony Hawk is and he sure as hell didn't sign up for this shit. The one perk Dave has found, is that taking merch from the store is not only allowed, it's encouraged. Why not be a mobile advertisement? What could go wrong?
Of course, Dave doesn't waste time with the snap back caps or the knee pads for toddlers, he just wants the board.
Admittedly, it's been a fucking eon since he legitimately rode one. But it's like riding a bike. Where the break is your foot and your bike is a wooden board that reaches Incredible Speeds. He's rusty enough that he feels self-conscious dicking around in the open. He's found a reasonably secluded part of the ship for practicing and he's picking it all up again pretty fast.
He starts getting cocky, working on tricks. Kick flips, heel flips, grinding, etc. Every so often, he nails it. Every so often, he fucks up spectacularly. God knows at which point someone could possibly happen upon him.]
two: cafeteria.
[The cafeteria is a source of great conflict for Dave. On the one hand, it is a bountiful harvest of delicious food. He's been deprived of decent, palatable food for so long he might as well be at a Lord's banquet every time he steps in there.
On the other hand, a niggling, awkward feeling gets his goat whenever he sees the herds of people in there. It's been so long since he's been around more than five people at a time, it's like he's developed some sort of meteor-deprived agoraphobia. He tries to slink in when there's less people around, but that tends to be difficult.
Dave doesn't realise he's chewing his lip as he looks upon the cafeteria. He has a tray with a large glass of apple juice, three cheeseburgers and an apple pie and a look of determination behind his shades. He scans for an empty table and realises, regretfully, that there isn't one. He'll have to take his chances with sitting at the end of a less occupied table.
He'll slink forward, set his tray on the opposite and furthest side of a table and take a seat. Nope. Not awkward at all.
Fuck man, say something.]
Sup?
three: space view.
[Being in space isn't the strangest part about this ordeal for Dave. He was in space before, assing around on a meteor propelling to some glorious location. The ship is a change, but the thing that bugs him out is the small, near impossible chance that the meteor might actually be in this universe. It's not like he wants to go back. Hell no. He just kind of wishes he could bring some of the contents of that meteor onto the ship.
Now, he's not about to go tug on the captain's sleeve and beg him to keep his eye out for a shitty chunk of rock. Hell, he's not even sure he'll keep the remotest of hopes up. For whatever reason (mostly boredom) he decides to be like the stupid-ass kid who leaves cookies out for santa and starts taping up calling cards.

That ought to do it.]

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McNuggets? [Yuuri perks up with recognition.] That means you’re from some version of Earth, right? We had a lot of those fast food chains back home, too.
[…unless McDonald’s has managed to spread other planets, too, in the future—considering how common they are on his Earth, Yuuri honestly would not be surprised.]
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[Give him a minute to contemplate that.] Where are you from, anyway? One of the one hundred and twenty countries with McNuggets readily available?
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Ah, I'm from Japan. I lived in America for a few years, though.
god damn it i meant 2009 whoops
Yeah, we had space travel. I wasn't part of NASA or anything though- it's hard to explain. Anyway. Japan is pretty cool, I love anime. [God, why does he say things.]
What were you doing in America?
sorry for the delay!
I lot of people do, I think. [He sounds amused, not at all like he minds that anime's been brought up. It's very popular, after all.] Anyway, I was in America for training and university. My coach lived in the States at the time, so it was easier to just go to him.
Not a problem!
[But this is a really heavy conversation to have over food.] What were you training for? The Olympics? [That's the only sport related thing he knows. Other than the Super Bowl, anyway. He doesn't think he needs to ask if it was for that.]
<3
[He smiles now, shaking his head.] No, not the Olympics. I'm not really at that level yet. [He could've been, maybe. Without the anxiety to contend with, or if he hadn't decided to retire after this season.] Figure skating is part of the Winter Olympics, though.