[from teevee, which, at this point, she assumes is a location. like "elsa from arendelle" kinda thing. she. nods. at the pose?]
Well, because, it's... it's quiet.
["...and I'm still mitigating the shock of three people dying in a row, and if I sit in one place very very still for hours on end, I'm certain people around me will become worried, so I'm doing it out here, instead".]
Uh-- What about it though? I mean, it's a lot of adventures. Like, too many. I'm retired now. Or, I was trying to retire, until I got dragged into this mess.
Just so you know, you totally invited me to ramble about my life, so you can't take it back later. No take backsies!
[He . . . just sits, instead.]
Anyway, can just stay here, it's-- quiet. I guess. Um, okay, story . . . story. Oh, how about the time a boy jumped off a spaceship to impress me, that's a pretty good one!
Geez-- Y'know, thinking about it the title kind of gives away the whole story? Well, whatever, telling it anyway.
Used to travel with this group of losers, um, seven of us - doing this interplanatary research thing, yearly cycles, it's a whole other much longer story - one of the guys is called Magnus, name matches the description, uh, used to spend a good 80 percent of his time trying to make me and Lup and the rest of the team super impressed in the way that almost all 20-something mostly straight dudes do, with like, physical feats of strength. Lifting stuff, punching stuff, eating really large amounts of things, that sort. Almost never works, but it's kind of cute they try, right?
Anyway, one cycle we're regenerating and he immediately sees that we're on this sea planet, floating above the biggest ocean you've ever seen, and decides hey, this is his opportunity. Yells at both of us that he's gonna do an incredible sick cannonball and then runs right off the edge of the damn thing . . . and right into the mouth of the biggest Space Shark I've ever clapped eyes on.
[name matches the description? what,,, is a magnus? but taako is already launching into this description of him that that puts a lot of explanatory work on the fact that magnus is, apparently, a straight dude. whatever that means?
but the story's already continuing, and he's gonna cannonball? that's fun! except--shark???
elsa's mouth forms into a perfect little 'o' of shock as taako laughs away.]
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Date: 2020-10-04 11:23 pm (UTC)[Elsa looks up from her journal—and blinks.]
Um. Taako?
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Date: 2020-10-05 01:29 am (UTC)[Posing? Posing. God.]
Uh, why are you out here? It's kinda terrible.
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Date: 2020-10-05 01:36 am (UTC)Well, because, it's... it's quiet.
["...and I'm still mitigating the shock of three people dying in a row, and if I sit in one place very very still for hours on end, I'm certain people around me will become worried, so I'm doing it out here, instead".]
...And easier to think.
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Date: 2020-10-05 02:01 am (UTC)[He says, ruining the quietude.]
I did this for years, you know, the whole sleeping outside, streets and stuff. Blech!
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Date: 2020-10-05 02:09 am (UTC)she pats the space next to her.]
Will you tell me about it? It sounds rather interesting to me. The opposite of blech. [hmm] Not sure what sound that would be. Blaow?
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Date: 2020-10-05 02:32 am (UTC)[Love that.]
Uh-- What about it though? I mean, it's a lot of adventures. Like, too many. I'm retired now. Or, I was trying to retire, until I got dragged into this mess.
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Date: 2020-10-05 02:34 am (UTC)[...]
We can go back, too, if you want. Since. You know. [she waves her hands at all of nature, which taako hates.] The outdoors.
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Date: 2020-10-05 03:43 am (UTC)[He . . . just sits, instead.]
Anyway, can just stay here, it's-- quiet. I guess. Um, okay, story . . . story. Oh, how about the time a boy jumped off a spaceship to impress me, that's a pretty good one!
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Date: 2020-10-05 03:48 am (UTC)That sounds like a great story. I have no idea what a spaceship is, so... let's hear it. Very excited.
IM SORRY I NEVER GOT THIS NOTIF IM CRYING
Date: 2020-10-07 01:48 am (UTC)Used to travel with this group of losers, um, seven of us - doing this interplanatary research thing, yearly cycles, it's a whole other much longer story - one of the guys is called Magnus, name matches the description, uh, used to spend a good 80 percent of his time trying to make me and Lup and the rest of the team super impressed in the way that almost all 20-something mostly straight dudes do, with like, physical feats of strength. Lifting stuff, punching stuff, eating really large amounts of things, that sort. Almost never works, but it's kind of cute they try, right?
Anyway, one cycle we're regenerating and he immediately sees that we're on this sea planet, floating above the biggest ocean you've ever seen, and decides hey, this is his opportunity. Yells at both of us that he's gonna do an incredible sick cannonball and then runs right off the edge of the damn thing . . . and right into the mouth of the biggest Space Shark I've ever clapped eyes on.
[LAUGHING AT HIS OWN TERRIBLE STORY.]
Funniest thing I've ever seen.
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Date: 2020-10-07 01:26 pm (UTC)but the story's already continuing, and he's gonna cannonball? that's fun! except--shark???
elsa's mouth forms into a perfect little 'o' of shock as taako laughs away.]
He died?
[ARE YOU LAUGHING AT HIS DEATH???]
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Date: 2020-10-07 11:44 pm (UTC)[Tapping his chin.]
Don't think I died that year, but I think I did the year after.
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Date: 2020-10-08 03:15 am (UTC)[the one-sidedly casual air around this conversation. could it be.]
How many times have you died?
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Date: 2020-10-08 03:28 am (UTC)[Thinking . . . thinking.]
20 or so? Give or take.
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Date: 2020-10-08 03:32 am (UTC)What do you do, as an adventuring traveller? Fight dragons--fight sharks for people?