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[coralroot]

[There's a teenage girl with tanned skin and shock white hair on the network, pressing her face into the camera. Then she backs up a little, and two things are immediately noticeable about her:

1) Peeking out from her sleeves are the hints of some extensive tattoos, the kind that probably take up the entire arm.

2) She's wearing armor - a breastplate, gauntlets, and greaves - that looks like it was harvested off the carapace of some kind of oversized monster beetle? As opposed to being made of leather or metal or some other sensible material. ]

Hey, this thing's on! Okay, first of all, WHY IS IT SO COLD HERE? I'M FREEZING MY TITS OFF, YOU MONSTERS!

[It is, in fact, fairly crisp and cool but not exactly freezing.]

Second: Okay, uh, so I've actually never had any kind of living space to myself before? It's kinda scary. And I know you've probably known me for all of two minutes but I have useful skills! I can cook. I can tell you if that spot on your genitals is just a rash or if you've got some nasty shit. I can stab things? I used to have a voice in my head telling me - I mean, I can catch bugs and put them outside!

I kinda want to get food right now, so I'll be in... Caihong? If you guys wanna meet in person.

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[peacewithouttyranny]

Freezing. Really. Is it that cold out there?

[Because it doesn't feel like freezing to him. Granted, he's an alien robot and she's a human, so what can he say. But humans being out of the cold for too long is bad for them, right? Maybe he should lend a hand or something... Or a place? He could bring food at least.]

Where are you at Caihong, specifically?

[Though his appearance may be intimidating, he can be nice and helpful. Or at least trying to be nowadays.]

[coralroot]

Uuuuh, hold on.

[ She shifts the camera a little, and Soundwave gets the outside view of a street corner and a noodle shop next to one of those arcades that have the crane games and - well next to her is a bag full of random plushies, so she seems to have at least done fairly well for herself?. ]

[peacewithouttyranny]

[Seems like it. Since she seems new, he's low-key concern for her Chroma though, considering she played that arcade game.]

It may take a while for me to arrive there. Go ahead and grab yourself food in the meantime.

[coralroot]

[It's okay, she high fived some random strangers! So she's probably not gonna die, but she might be slightly shaky despite the food.

Whenever he finds her, she sits at a table with a bowl of noodles and some fried dumplings.]

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[flurry_of_beaus]

Nope. Nope, nope, nope. You can't start off a sentence about voices in your head without following through.

No judgment here.

[ Yet. ]

[coralroot]

I mean, it's gone now, so like... I dunno.

[ Yeah, that's evasive as shit, girl. ]

What'd you think it was?

[flurry_of_beaus]

Well, I don't know. Could be anything. Could be psychosis, could be a friendly god, could be an ancient power trying to use you as a catalyst to rise from the murky depths and conquer the world.

1/2

[coralroot]

Like fuck I know what it was. It was droppin' in and out sometimes, but I kinda... uh.

[ HOW DOES SHE EXPLAIN THIS WITHOUT SOUNDING LIKE AN IDIOT ]

2/2

[coralroot]

Alright don't panic but I kiiiiiiiiiiiiinda let them use my body sometimes. As like...like, they were controlling it? So it was a sorta meat puppet situation.

[ NAKARI HOW DOES ANYONE NOT PANIC WHEN YOU SAY THAT ]

A lot of the stuff I did was me kinda just blacking out at the time.

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[sleepinglotus]

It's nearly winter.

[Weather changes, dear. Also put on a sweater if you're that upset.]

Unfortunately my home is quite full at the moment, otherwise I would offer space.

[Except maybe not because she mentioned something about voices??? He's concerned, but it's not showing much on his expression.]

[coralroot]

...yeah, okay, see, you're telling me about something I've literally never had to experience in my life.

[ Ren. Ren. She's from a tropical region, the only weather changes she's immediately familiar with are "wet" and "not wet." ]

[sleepinglotus]

[Well lucky you!]

... it's cold. Winters are cold. It's only going to get more so when it begins to snow.

[coralroot]

[ Look, she knows what snow is, which is why her expression turns sour. ]

I feel like I'm being personally attacked here.

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[hunksmash]

... Whatcha gonna eat?

[coralroot]

[ Hunk is sent a picture of a bowl of noodles and a plate of some fried dumplings/potstickers/gyoza/whatever you wanna call those puppies. ]

[hunksmash]

Ooh, good choice. That looks amazing!

If they've got soup dumplings, too, you should give 'em a shot. Or those big, steamed buns!

[coralroot]

Never had soup dumplings before, gonna give 'em a go next time I come around here.

[ She is a tiny person and while she's also a teenager who lives an active lifestyle, the tiny counts. ]

Probably gonna get some steam buns for the road, though.

[im_gonna_heal_u]

Cold? Cold season's just started.

[ She tilts her head, looking at this new person. ]

You've got uh... some armor straight out of an modern RPG. Is that cosplay or does that actually work?

[coralroot]

...what?

[ WHAT THE FUCK IS AN RPG?

WHAT THE FUCK IS A COSPLAY ]

[im_gonna_heal_u]

[ That blank, completely confused stare told her (almost) everything she needed to know. ]

Wow I guess it's real. Nevermind what I said.

You said something about cooking? I like cooking too.

[ She blithely hoped that Nakari's cooking methods didn't involve chucking random food into a pot and somehow producing a good end result. ]

[coralroot]

Yeah? I mean like...I can cook for people, if they need a roommate who does that.

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[dashhole]

[Hi! Scout's going to bother you.

He snorts. "It's cold," that's cute. She's cute, too. She sounds ADORABLE.]

It ain't that cold. Don't even need a jacket yet.

[Look, he's from Boston, okay. Snowpocalypses happen. He settles back and his head kinda thunks against the wall a bit.]

But I feel you on the living situation. It's too quiet at night. I'm out most of the time.

[coralroot]

Some kind of weird construct dude just offered me to share their apartment with them. It's warm in this noodle place, but like...

Wait.

Wait, what?!

[ Sorry, she's from what is effectively the same as the Philippines or Indonesia or a similar place in terms of climate. ]

[dashhole]

"Wait what" about what? Like, what's a jacket or about the cold--what part didn't you get?

See, me? I'm kinda hoping it snows for Christmas. But not too much, just like "Dreaming of a white Christmas," not, "Stuck in freakin' Siberia with no coat."

[Honestly, after that, he probably won't ever feel like cold is actually cold ever again.]

And for the record, that freakin' sucked.

[coralroot]

I'm not even gonna ask what a Christmas is, bro. But we've got snow like, on mountaintops? Where I'm from.

And that's pretty much it.