One Mutant Space Pirate and his Merry Adventures

[hesnohero]

(One Week ago: Alex Arrived to confusion and weirdness., yesterday, he had more weirdness, and was still lost.(OOC Note: The link to the test drive is for the Lorna-Alex thread.)

Today, Alex is wandering, a PADD of stuff about this time in one hand, a giant sealed mug of coffee in the other, and humming softly to himself. He's faintly wet, fresh from the shower after working out in the gymnasium, and he mostly was just trying to see more of the ship. He wasn't necessarily trying to get into areas he was not supposed to be in, but he also wasn't necessarily trying to avoid those areas, either.

Alex wasn't so much looking for trouble as staring it in the eye and calling its mother bad names.

It was a bad habit he had.

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[element_wizard]

"I am from an idle and rich family. The closest I've ever come to a job was my uncle trying to teach me how to be a bard and killing world sucking parasites for an inter-dimensional company. But I did that second one because it entertained me."

Other versions of him have had real jobs, but he's not them right now.

[hesnohero]

"Well, if you have to have a job, killing bad things trying to destroy the world is a good one." He chuckled, but that sounded like his world, a lot.

"I've never really wanted to be rich, or idle. I started young and found myself basically just wanting to work hard and work fast."

[element_wizard]

"It wasn't really their fault... but it's hard to stop being a parasite."

Alec knows from experience. He actually sounds regretful when he said that.

"I didn't have much of a choice in the rich bit. Born into it. As for idle... I'd rather wander around than get a job. There's too much interesting stuff out there to see to be tied down to a job in one world."

[hesnohero]

Alex blinked. "Well, yes, I suppose it is." He shook his head.

"Getting a job is more than being tied down somewhere. Its about learning the merits of work, and also about finding your place. Sometimes it happens early, sometimes late, but it usually happens to most."

[element_wizard]

Context is overrated.

"My place in what? I spend so much time outside of myself I wouldn't know what place to place myself in." He threw his hands up a bit. "And what sort of merits are there to work in the first place?"

Teeeenager.

[hesnohero]

Alex facepalmed. "Your place in life. And in who you want to be." Wow.

"Work teaches you persistence, how to effort into dividends, how to make good time management choices." He peered at this guy more, then sighed. "You remind me of a kid I once knew."

[element_wizard]

"I already know my place in life. It's to be reality's butt monkey. I pissed off a really powerful being ages ago and they decided to make me their chew toy. Time management is overrated when you can manipulate time."

Poor Alex.

It's okay... possibly.

Alec then gave him a bit of a conspiratorial grin. "If you want to know a secret? I'm still considered a kid for my people. Late teens equivalent. I've got another ... two or three years until they consider me an adult."

[hesnohero]

Alex rolled his eyes, and then facepalmed, again.

"Really, you don't say? I never would have guessed." Nope,. no sarcasm there in his voice, thanks to control learned from years of military training.

"At least you're among similarly abused people, here."

[element_wizard]

"Some people don't. I mean, I don't look it. I look like I'm in my early twenties, not late teens."

Alec shook his head a bit before staring up at the ceiling as if looking for something ... or someone. "Yes, we're all chewed on. Most people don't realize it though."

[hesnohero]

"True." Alex nodded. "You definitely would fool most people, ah, until you start talking."

Alex chuckled. "Most people don't tend to notice things even if they are right in front of them."

[element_wizard]

"Until I start talking? What's wrong with how I talk?" That's a new one for him.

"Ah, but this one isn't right in front of their face. It's ... outside of everything. I mean people sometimes gripe how it feels like the universe has it out for them... they just don't know they're actually right."

[hesnohero]

"There's nothing wrong with it, really. You just..." Alex shrugged. "You talk like a human teenager." He grinned a little. "It's entirely possible that such is the way of things across all species."

He nodded, listening. "Well, sometimes, yes. "

[element_wizard]

He blinked.

"Would it be preferable if I were to gab in my orange flame way of speaking? Most people find it rather queer and diamond to parse," he asked, his accent dropping into something more Welsh sounding. There's a mad grin on his face as he said that.

"Do you count yourself as one of those who flicker the truth?"

[hesnohero]

"Nope. I don't think so. it's not he brogue, it's the way you speak." Alex chuckled.

"I sometimes see truth, but most of the time I am just as clueless as most."

[element_wizard]

"I've been told my accent sounds like a cross between Elvish - whatever they think Elvish sounds like - and Welsh," he said his accent going back to less Welsh like. "But yeah, I've found that affecting a human teenager's speaking patterns is easier for people to understand what I'm speaking."

Then somewhat wistful, "I wish I didn't know. Because then I'd be back home with my family and my boyfriend."

[hesnohero]

Alex nodded, listening. "That's pretty impressive."

He nodded, smiling sadly. "Maybe someday someone will figure out how to make Q send people home, and we'll all get to go back to the people we know and care about."

[element_wizard]

He shrugged. "I've had lots of practice."

"Ahh... well... there's only a few beings in this reality that can make Q send people back to where we came from, and they're not going to interfere. At least as far as I know," Alec said, gesturing outwards a bit. "Theoretically I could do it, but native powers trump outside powers."

[hesnohero]

Alex nodded. "Maybe not right now, but you never know.' He rubbed his face.

"There are always possibilities."

Alex glanced at the other guy then. "I should get going. I'm starting to get hungry and I promised my friend I'd have food with her."

[element_wizard]

"Sure. I'm going to get back to ... exploring," he grinned. "And I'm sure I'll see you around."

[hesnohero]

"I'm sure you will. See you." Alex grinned as he headed off toward his friend's quarters and shook his head. What an odd day, already.