[text/video] un: @skull

[ryuji]

[A few days after gravity is restored to the station, Ryuji returns to the mess hall from Haru's garden to find a small robot flipped upside down, panicking through a series of morse beeps and boops, which- okay, that's kind of cool, and quickly figures out that the paneling and suction entrances of the little guy means it's probably meant for filtration and cleaning.

Looks pretty study, looks... waterproof, maybe? He lends a hand to get him right side up and it starts slowly moving forward. Ryuji takes out his communicator and immediately films this as it happens, because, why not?

He posts two videos on the network- the roomba moving down the hall and one, a few hours later in the fitness center as it crawls from the edge, and dives right in.]

Oh shit! Are you supposed to do that?

Whoa, whoa- I don't know how to fix you if you--- WHOA, COOL.




Hey, sup?

Just lettin you guys know the pool looks crystal clear now. All thanks to this little dude.

I figure I should give 'em a name but uh

Everything that comes to mind is kinda lame

Anyway, I think it's good? Anyone wanna give it the first try?

[Complete with file0033.png - a picture of crystal clear water.]

Comments

[aequoreal]

( ryuji does talk a lot. it reminds kaldur of wally. it's a comparison that brings grief with it, but kaldur is skilled at hiding that. )

It is all right.

( a beat. he shifts onto his back, drifting. ) My Earth, or the city I grew up in?

[ryuji]

[Ryuji wishes he could run as fast as Wally. Even at his best, when he was still a track star and before his leg broke, that still would be impossible. But measuring up to his cut of parlance? Probably possible. Sorry, Kaldur.]

Whatever you wanna talk about.

[They had time, right? Endless amounts of it. Time to learn about all the worlds everyone had come from, time to learn about all the futures they each saw themselves in. That much was definitely on their hands. Ryuji leans forward, fingers circling in the water as he contemplates jumping in after all.]