@diverse-hearts-ocs Asked: All That Rage Is Bad For Your Complexion. - Mordred / Mikhail

꒰ྀི ✧ — @diverse-hearts-ocs asked: all that rage is bad for your complexion. - Mordred / Mikhail

↳ -: ˚ʚ ( Unprompted. ) ɞ˚ :-

‧₊˚ ⋅ ꒰১ ᯓ ☆ㅤ˗ˏˋㅤ❛ㅤIsn't that sort of a WEIRD THING to say to a child ?ㅤ❜

˚ʚ ☾ ɞ˚ㅤ˗ˏˋㅤㅤ𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓. Adults were strange and complicated creatures that quite frankly, he didn't trust ONE BIT. Something like one's complexion tooㅤ—ㅤwasn't that something only the PARISIAN NOBLEWOMEN cared about ?

˚ʚ ☾ ɞ˚ㅤ˗ˏˋㅤㅤ❛ㅤI think a more APPROPRIATE response would be to ask a child WHY they are upset, don't you think ? ㅤ❜

‧₊˚ ⋅ ꒰১ ᯓ ☆ㅤ˗ˏˋㅤ𝑯𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒆; it was rather surreal living with the belief and even the memories of being an ordinary bellboy with an ordinary seafarer Grandpa who just HAPPENED to have ties to the Astral Express as well as the memories of an EXTRAORDINARY Trailblazer who gave up everything for the planet he loved. At the same time, it was SAD. Even if those happy and sorrowful times still remained within him, it wasn't entirely the same of getting to SPEAK to Grandpa, Miss Razalina, and Mister Tiernan and go on adventures with them.

˚ʚ ☾ ɞ˚ㅤ˗ˏˋㅤㅤ❛ㅤYeahㅤ—ㅤit's weird knowing Grandpa was just a long - departed memory all this time. I didn't even remember Miss Razalina and Mister Tiernan until I remembered everything else. It would have been really nice if they could have COME ALONG with us.ㅤ❜

˚ʚ ☾ ɞ˚ㅤ˗ˏˋㅤㅤ❛ㅤBut thank you, Dan Heng ! I really appreciate those words ! I'll do my best as Misha, the newest member of the Astral Express ! I can't wait to explore the galaxy with you guys !ㅤ❜

˚ʚ ☾ ɞ˚ㅤ˗ˏˋㅤㅤThe child smiles bright as he speaks those wordsㅤ—ㅤthough there is a slight twinge of CONCERN when the other slows down. Rightㅤ—ㅤthis ship WAS self - cleaning. Miss Robin had granted ownership of the vessel to the Nameless thoughㅤ—ㅤand it felt wrong to leave the property of the Nameless in a condition less than perfect.

˚ʚ ☾ ɞ˚ㅤ˗ˏˋㅤㅤ❛ㅤAre you SURE ? If you're tired, I can take over ! I'm sure I can get it done in less than a system day ! We can tell stories at the SAME TIME too ! ㅤ❜

Admittedly, Dan Heng felt the inspiration to personally clean the Radiant Feldspar wane a little. His mopping slowed as he listened to Misha's story, especially of the past Trailblazers. He still remembered happening on that Light Cone of the three of them with Pom-Pom, unable to help but feel a resonance with their predecessors. He imagined what it would've been like in those days, when Penacony hadn't become the Planet of Festivities and was still an IPc prison colony. Tendrils of mist drifted across the foredeck, the evening chill of the high altitude nowhere near as biting as it would've been in the waking world.

"I wonder what it would've been like, getting to know them. What it would be like, to build a whole new world." A rare, dreamy look entered gunmetal greens at the notion. He wondered if it would be possible with the Vidyadhara's home world of Sihai, a planet that had been abandoned for thousands of years when it had become impossible to inhabit after the hubris of his ancestors. A water world like the one Mikhail had originally hailed from.

But, that had little to do with the fact that Dan Heng had found a friend in a similar Nameless who had familiar origins. "You might have begun in him, but you're not just an extension of him. You're your own person," Dan Heng told the boy, but he doubted he needed reminding too much. "I think you'll like where we'll go. You might need some time getting used to reality... but I've been there before. Each of us was the newest member, at one time."

"We've been to a lot of places. Places even Mikhail might have gone to. I think you'd like them." Dan Heng glanced across the deck and how much more they had to go, chuffing in embarrassment when he realized. "We don't even have to clean. Everything gets reset in system day, and a new one is coming soon. It might not be a bad time for stories, though."

‧₊˚ ⋅ ꒰১ ᯓ ☆ㅤ˗ˏˋㅤ❛ㅤOh, I get a LOT out of it ! I get to talk to the guests and hear all about their travels ! It's really fun !ㅤ❜

˚ʚ ☾ ɞ˚ㅤ˗ˏˋㅤㅤ𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉. He could tell that the other was probably HEAVILY judging the situation when it really wasn't THAT bad. He actually did GENUINELY like the job.

˚ʚ ☾ ɞ˚ㅤ˗ˏˋㅤㅤ❛ㅤBut you probably mean like ACTUAL, MATERIAL stuff, right ? Well, my co - worker and my friend, Gallagher gives me allowance sometimes ! He even winds up giving me EXTRA a lot of the time and refuses to take it back !ㅤ❜

Internally, Akira grimaces.

It just seems like a LOT for a kid to do on their own. A part of him wonders what sort of man the younger's grandfather must be like--or at the very least what the rest of the staff must be going through. It just seems like hell.

" O-oh? That's a lot for anyone to take on. You must be pretty good at it. Do you get anything out of it? "

Tell your god strike it’s lightning through my veins

i need faith

or a bullet through my brain

Indie hsr vidyadhara oc penned by silver follows from @niopham (rules are located there)

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