ximilialog | Julog

CHARACTERS: Yzak and you!
LOCATION: Various.
DATE: After return to the station.
CONTENT: All of that post-mission hubbub. Some closed starters in the comments.
WARNINGS: Will note.

#0: Just For Flavor | (not a prompt)

[ The team stayed on E-23b for a little longer than anticipated after finding the orb. What was Yzak up to during that time? He'd stayed near the towers in the chaos after one of them fell, and that topped with the fact that he had an unpleasant run-in with a couple of his colleagues back at the parliament who were looking for some revenge and to smear his name, the way things shook out afterward came together in a way where Yzak couldn't even be assed enough to argue about it. He'd been seen near the towers and accused by those colleagues of helping the Fables - which wasn't a lie in the end. So he decided to fuck off and drop the political "act," focusing his efforts on aiding his actual teammates with the work they wished to do.

His newfound time led him to split it between two main tasks within the sphere of sticking close to his team. Task one was if word got out or identity revealed regarding a certain comatose Mu and the guard tower's destruction, he wanted to make sure he was close just in case anybody else got any ideas of revenge into their head. Best visualized as your classic bodyguard/charge tragic love story at a bedside because one of them is dying trope. It's very sad. Task two was lending his power to Sabriel's by way of his Charter magic to work on the planet's toxic water situation. Best visualized as a classic sibling team up with cool, synergic motions to get the work done, and all of the banter from the occasional teasing to more somber conversations. It's very cute. ]

#1: The Boo Blue Blew Up Blues | (infirmary ; ota)

[ By now none should be surprised to see Yzak in the infirmary while Blue is there. Which is Often. If you're visiting the infirmary for whatever reason, just take the trope visualization described above as the sight you're greeted with, peppered with an option of your choosing between: he's reading something, he's fallen into a tiny doze in his chair, or he's resting a chin in his hand, looking so deep in thought about something that he doesn't even recognize you passing by.

If you're in the infirmary yourself for any injuries, Yzak isn't so rude to ignore you! He'll be up and about frequently, poking his head in ~~nosily~~ curiously to your character to see if they're awake, how they're looking, what they're up to. ]

Hey. How are you doing?

#2: Learning Lad in the Lab | (labs ; ota)

[ Yzak doesn't spend much time in the labs, so his presence there might come as a surprise to anybody who happens to find him there now. That's the extent of the surprise, though; he's not messing with the chemicals, and not even actually tinkering with the techy pieces or building anything.

He does have a bunch of pieces of ~machinery~ scattered out before him, though, a paper pad at his side and a book open at his other, sat atop a few other closed ones. He's skimming the book, eying the pieces on the table in front of him before picking one or two of them up, and then inspecting them closely, how they seem to fit together, what they are, what they do, familiarizing himself with their different shapes and sizes, how strong and how flexible they are. He does that, takes some notes (maybe makes the occasional small doodle to accompany some of the notes), and then repeats the process, now with different pieces of machinery.

He's pretty engrossed! But feel free to engage. ]

#3: Gundam Guy Galaxy Gazing | (simulations ; ota)

[ The view constructed in the simulations are far more bright and beautiful than the one from the station's windows even if it gets the same job done; Reflection. Anybody wandering into the simulations will find themself on the bridge of a battleship, techy and futuristic; metal paneling and computerized screens, sterile and clean and bright. But empty. Empty save for Yzak himself who's leaning against the back of one of the chairs closest to the windows and looking out at the view. The space around Earth and PLANT is a breathtaking sight to see - endless pinpricks of lights dotting space in varying size and brightness, streaks of color of distant clusters and galaxies that feel like staring at a beautiful watercolor painting.

The Earth itself is so close and blue and bright, serving as a backdrop to a group of hourglass-shaped space colonies - well over a hundred. If one were to stare out at the serene view for long enough to notice, there's a small area among the colonies them where a few of them don't look quite as good. Yzak's still in the white uniform he's always seen in as he quietly soaks in the familiarity of the ship and the view. Maybe if you ask nicely he'll give you a tour of some kind; physical tour of the ship itself? Audio tour of the view? ]

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[ River takes up a chair a good few paces away from him, leaving them both with plenty of elbow room to work without getting in each other's way.

She shakes her head. ]

I just don't see new faces in here much.

[ Picking up a bit of metal that doesn't look all that special, she smiles like it has a world of potential. ]

I'm going to make a screwdriver.

Well, I most likely won't be doing much more than this.

[ He's not really building anything, as much as just inspecting the pieces and getting a better feel for how they connect, how they work in tandem, how strong or weak the metals are, referencing books all along the way as if confirming or disputing something.

Yzak lifts an eyebrow at her. ]

A ... screwdriver?

Yes!

[ She sounds oddly pleased to be making something common logic suggests she could just...pick up. ]

It's sonic.

[ Which should make it so much clearer. Or maybe not.

She glances curiously in his direction. ]

And you're...what are you doing, exactly?

That clears very little up. [ He states, unfamiliar still with you whomst doctors and your screwdoohickeys. ] A sonic screwdriver? [ He does know what both words mean, and gets an image in his mind based on that. It's still ... an odd image.

But by now he's been here for well over a year. So he's grown used to odd. ] Unless it's quite literal a name for what it is and what it does. Then I've got a clear enough picture.

[ Blue eyes glance down to the small pieces of machinery in his hand. And as Yzak speaks he tips his chin up, proud. ] I'm studying. My hometown's specialty is aerospace engineering, which my mother academically excelled in. If I plan to get anywhere in my political future, I have to properly represent where I come from!

I'm not planning on becoming an actual engineer, but that doesn't exempt me from needing to know the ins and outs of all aspects of this subject. I won't be able to make the right decisions if I don't know how these work.

[ Ah, well, she tried. Sort of. It's a screwdriver. It's sonic. It...does things. Though, oddly enough, it stopped functioning as a screwdriver some time ago. Something she might consider. ]

Well, that's helpful then. It's something of a multipurpose tool. I'm sure either of the Doctors would be happy to show it off for you.

[ She loves them, truly, but...boys and their toys. Sometimes she thinks he loves that thing more than he does her. ]

Planning for your future, then? Once you've fulfilled your obligation here?

Either of the Doctors. So you mean the two of them with the actual name. [ Since beyond them, there are a couple of other Orbers who have the title of doctor, it does narrow it down a little. So both of them have this same multipurpose tool. He files that away for later if he runs into either of them and has the time to ask if they'd humor him. ]

I've been planning and preparing for my future far before taking this mission under my wing. But yes, once I'm finished here, I plan to not only pick up where I left off, but be ahead of the game.

The very ones. [ Even having used the title of 'Doctor' once herself before becoming a professor, River rarely considers the potential for confusion. His chosen name is no less strange to her than any other. ]

I guess that's one way to spend the time. Do you just mean to put more time into your studies, or is the technology here more advanced than your home world?

I'm putting more time into it. The technology is similar enough to what I'm used to in my world. One of the few similarities, anyway. Orbs and magic and the like are things I've had to grow used to since coming here.

[ But he's had well over a year to, by now. ]

The orbs, I believe, are new to all of us.

[ She still questions magic, though she's also had a year now to accept it as fact. ]

So it appears.

Which is strange isn't it. Many of us have so many similarities between the universes we come from, but none quite as specific as this.

[ She shrugs lightly. ]

There are also things unique to each universe. Perhaps the orbs belong to this one.

Julog

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