OPEN.

[ex_brainstorm70]

WHO: Bodhi & various people!
WHERE: All around the place!
WHEN: Some pre- and post- event stuff.
WHAT: Open prompts: Bodhi and food, Bodhi admiring ships. Closed starters: Pre-mission jitters, post-mission reuniting.
WARNINGS: Threads with Jyn/Cassian/K2SO will almost definitely contain spoilers for Rogue One, otherwise I will ask you to opt into spoilers if the thread heads that way.

open prompt: the hangar (pre-event)
Bodhi adjusts his goggles as he peers up at the ship. The fact that the hangar bay he's standing in is vast enough to encompass so many is a wonder in and of itself, but right now his interest is in this ship in particular. It's nothing like the fighters he learned to pilot in the Academy, or the cargo ships he has been flying for half a dozen years or so.

"Sorry," he says reflexively, when he notices someone looking back. "Is she yours? She's beautiful."


open prompt: the market (during event)
It's a couple of days before he ships planetside for the research he volunteered for, and Bodhi is feeling Cassian's absence the most in the lack of his cooking right now (and the sleepy morning warmth, and his ability to coax something like a smile out of Jyn, and his easy encouragement to talk, and and and --)

The market is still a wonder to him. Bodhi had grown up poor, and Jedha didn't have much more to feed its inhabitant than spirituality and sand. As a cargo pilot he'd had more money to buy imported food, but long-haul flights out to distant moons meant he rarely ate fresh, and the Imperial cafeterias were... well, the less said about them the better. So having both the income and availability to have fresh fruit. Well. He reared up a little at his first tomato.

Right now he's bought something already made, though, a luxury of greenery and nuts, and he sits alone and eats it reverently, watching the people passing with bright, intelligent eyes, chin in his hand and elbow on the table, the top of his jumpsuit rolled down to his waist.

Comments

[bayarm]

( shiro isn't entirely sure how he feels about this mission yet. he's on board with research, with finding out more about this planet and the people indigenous to it. he isn't entirely happy with the way everything's been communicated, with what little he's heard about alpha and beta mission. it seems too invasive, too close to what the galra did, exploiting technologically less advanced planets, taking and taking without ever giving. maybe there's a good explanation for it, but he hasn't heard it yet.

long story short, he's a little lost in thought and when bodhi addresses him, there's a brief pause before shiro answers. at least he doesn't sound distracted when he does, though. )

I have some. Depends on what you would call much.

( he has a lot of experience fighting, after a year in galra captivity, but he doesn't remember most of it. still, some of his reflexes are far better honed now than they were before. ) Do you?

[ex_brainstorm70]

No.

[ He seems a little gloomy about it, honestly, which — why even volunteer for the mission? But it seems like the right thing to do, to help out the people who gave him this new life. ]

I failed my blaster module twice. I'm all right in a ship, but once I'm on the ground...

[ He shakes his head. ]

Most of my experience comes from being shot at.

[bayarm]

I'm guessing your blaster module was some kind of weapons training?

( shiro was trained to use various kinds of firearms at the garrison, and fortunately that has translated to alien weaponry, but fighting with his galra arm, most of his current skill at hand-to-hand combat, that's come from situations in which he's had to sink or swim. kill or be killed; there hadn't been a third option as far as he can remember, as far as he can tell. )

Do you get shot at a lot? ( he adds a moment later, brows drawing together. )

[ex_brainstorm70]

Er, yes. Academy module.

[ A pause, and he adds with careful hesitance, ]

Imperial Academy.

[ Back home that might have been met with fear or impressed awe, or in the rebel base undoubtedly mistrust, a knowing sneer. Here nobody seems to know about the galactic Empire at all, and when the lack of reaction proves Shiro also has no idea, Bodhi relaxes, subtly relieved, and continues on with the conversation as though nothing happened. ]

I was just a pilot, but there's a war back home,

[ He decides to explain. ]

So. Quite... quite a bit, yes.

[bayarm]

( shiro doesn't know the imperial academy. he doesn't know the empire — but the galra have an empire, and that's his immediate association with the term. so there is no recognition in his expression, but his browsdraw together. ) Imperial?

( a moment later, bodhi mentions the war and piloting, and while shiro's frown doesn't quite disappear, he does look away for a moment, expression softening. there's nothing easy about war, no matter which side you're on. )

I'm sorry to hear that.

( about the being shot at, too. )