raianet | username: ens

[The young man is looking... understandably nervous as he faces the camera. He makes an effort to smooth his hair down and then flashes a winning (?!) smile. Is that a piece of broccoli in his teeth? Crap! He scrubs the cuff of his shirt against it and then coughs to cover the embarrassment, before diving into his totally-not-rehearsed-like-sixty-times speech.]

So.

Uh.

Hello. Hi. I-is this thing on? Joking, I'm kidding, I know it's on. Annnnd that's the punchline ruined, great, I'm amazing at this.

D-disastrous introductions aside, I'm Ashley. You may remember me from such greatest hits as 'that guy who tripped into the Chrysalis and brought us all here somehow' and, uh, 'that nervous dude who handed me a towel in the shower once' and you would be right, uh, that is, correct on both counts. I'm really sorry, by the way. For the... you know, the... thing. The first thing. Not the towels. Towels are great. I love towels.

Captain Childe asked me like a month ago to do some work with, uh, getting everyone in and settled and doing what we can to make you guys comfortable as much as we can actually help with. We know that you guys don't want to be here any more than we do. Ethyraia! Not exactly a fun time at Grandma's, right? Right.

Anyway, if you have any questions, or... you know, anything, or you just want to chat, come say hi. Introduce yourself? I know I'm kind of setting myself up to be the basecamp whipping boy over here but please don't yell at me I don't do well with that kind of attention.

Or you could just... I don't know, tell me something about yourself? We're still figuring each other out, right? Iiiiiiiiiii am a Scorpio, and I'm afraid of cats. N-not big cats. Lions are fine? I mean... like, normal housecats. So there you go, that's the fun fact of the week.

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[He flattens his hair out nervously from where the heat and humidity has licked it into waves just starting to curl. If he could disappear altogether he would.]

Um... I... I think most o-of ours would be depressing.

[The ones that all immediately spring to mind: acid, death, tomb, starvation, sickness.]

I g-guess I like when t-the, um, when the religious leaders from each notable sect we h-have here put on feasts and, um, they share with everyone else and i-it's very nice and open and n-nonjudgmental? W-we're good at coming together when people need it. I-in a crisis or, um, just in normal times too.

[ She leans in as if telling him a secret. over video. on an open channel. ] Most of mine were depressing too.

[ She leans back. ]

Those are good thoughts about this place. In my experience, it's a rare thing for people of different religions to be nonjudgmental. And you've all been dealing with so much... I have to add in that I appreciate that you didn't just turn us out into the rain.

There, um, there was some discussion of it at first. N-not from Captain Childe.

[Is it throwing Rémi to the wolves to admit that? Maybe. It's fine, Ashley doesn't like him much anyway.]

E-even knowing it would eat into our resources, we recognized you were p-people that didn't ask to be here any more than we did. We like to think someone else would have done the same for us.

[Even though the Thessyx didn't. They knew they were here for years, apparently, but never tried to help until their 'Hatchlings' arrived. He's trying not to be bitter about it.]

[ Saints.

Her expression softens minutely, but she is only frank - sincere, really. It's a luxury she can have here, even while pursuing an agenda, and she wallows in it. ]

Well, I can understand the security and resources standpoint as well as the... sense of responsibility, I suppose, that I'd be feeling if something this completely insane had happened at home. I hope that we've proved to be contributors, for the most part. [ She's certainly healed her fair share of NPCs at the Aid Station, worked her shifts at the theatre, and she knows many people who've done the same. ] This is the sort of situation where working together is best so we can all survive, and then hopefully focus on getting people home.

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...where did Grisha go from my list and how did it disappear?

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