Amos Burton (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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reverienet2018-05-22 03:18 pm
tumang) wrote in reverienet2018-05-22 03:18 pm
o1. a m a (un: rocipilot)
[ The video opens to Amos munching on what looks like one of the protein bars the fabricator seem to produce by the dozen. He's looking straight at the camera - this is no mistake broadcast, he learned from the best how to do this - and half of him is in the frame. ]
People keep on asking me about this stuff once they realize I've lived in space a while, so I'm just going to share my wisdom with you all so I don't have to say it a million times again.
[ He stands, the angle of the video changing as he grabs the communicator he borrowed from Alex to broadcast this. As it moves, it pans over what looks like a very large shortgun type of weapon. It ends up points towards Amos's lower body, more specifically, his boots. ]
Okay, first off, keep your mag boots on. Sleep with them if you can. To engage them, lean back on your heels, and walk like you're wearing pumps. Heel first, then toe.
[ He demonstrates on camera. How does he know how to walk in pumps? Who knows?
He turns the communicator back up towards his face, after a few steps. ]
Second, if you feel nauseous when you're walking around the station, try to see if you're walking spinward or counter-spinward. As in, if you walking with the spin of the gravitation rings or not. Walking against it is going to make you feel worse.
Third, don't eat too much, but don't forget to eat, either. Sounds basic, but you'd be surprised.
[ He almost adds that coffee is not a form of food. ]
Fourth, make use of the fitness area on deck 4. We're not at full gravity here, and in space, you lose muscle mass very fast. If you don't want to turn into a noodle, weightlifting and cardio.
Fifth, stow your gear. There are all of these compartments in the crew quarters, don't leave shit hanging around. Anything can turn into a weapon if we suddenly lose gravity, or if it turns out that this barge can do maneuvers. You don't want a mug coming at your face at 4-g.
[ Seriously, stow your gear, people. It's not that hard. ]
Sixth, don't use the sealant guns without gloves. This shit will glue your hands together. Be smarter than that.
[ He resumes eating his protein bar. ]
That's the most important points I wanted to make. Now, if you've got specific questions, shoot.
People keep on asking me about this stuff once they realize I've lived in space a while, so I'm just going to share my wisdom with you all so I don't have to say it a million times again.
[ He stands, the angle of the video changing as he grabs the communicator he borrowed from Alex to broadcast this. As it moves, it pans over what looks like a very large shortgun type of weapon. It ends up points towards Amos's lower body, more specifically, his boots. ]
Okay, first off, keep your mag boots on. Sleep with them if you can. To engage them, lean back on your heels, and walk like you're wearing pumps. Heel first, then toe.
[ He demonstrates on camera. How does he know how to walk in pumps? Who knows?
He turns the communicator back up towards his face, after a few steps. ]
Second, if you feel nauseous when you're walking around the station, try to see if you're walking spinward or counter-spinward. As in, if you walking with the spin of the gravitation rings or not. Walking against it is going to make you feel worse.
Third, don't eat too much, but don't forget to eat, either. Sounds basic, but you'd be surprised.
[ He almost adds that coffee is not a form of food. ]
Fourth, make use of the fitness area on deck 4. We're not at full gravity here, and in space, you lose muscle mass very fast. If you don't want to turn into a noodle, weightlifting and cardio.
Fifth, stow your gear. There are all of these compartments in the crew quarters, don't leave shit hanging around. Anything can turn into a weapon if we suddenly lose gravity, or if it turns out that this barge can do maneuvers. You don't want a mug coming at your face at 4-g.
[ Seriously, stow your gear, people. It's not that hard. ]
Sixth, don't use the sealant guns without gloves. This shit will glue your hands together. Be smarter than that.
[ He resumes eating his protein bar. ]
That's the most important points I wanted to make. Now, if you've got specific questions, shoot.
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but sometimes it makes things harder.
like, when i drop something, sometimes i'll go for it with my wings AND my hands?
and then i just sort of fall over.
but most of the time it's pretty good, yeah.
[ listen, she's got no problem with the shotgun. well, maybe a little problem? but it's not anything new to hear. she grew up around these. ]
whoa.
that's crazy? something followed you here.
i guess that makes the whole "brought here intentionally" thing a lot more believable, huh.
anyway. not really?
i was mainly curious.
i'm not really the shooting type. or the gun type in general, haha
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feels a bit like someone - or something - is playing a game, doesn't it
i don't have any plans of shooting anyone in here, anyway. if that means anything
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i could back home :) but things are a little different here.
i'd bet i could though. i just need to find a place i can try
and it does mean a lot.
i know it's easy to lie about this kind of thing? but
i believe you. so i'm not worried.
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i don't lie
i'll shoot if someone makes it necessary
trying to prevent me and mine from getting home
or trying to kill me or mine
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actually that's a really good idea??
i'm kind of upset i didn't think about that.
maybe i'll try to reach the ceiling here. hopefully it still works
anyway...
i'm not really a fan of shooting there either?
but i get it, at least.
sometimes you have to do things you'd rather not. you know?
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let me know
[ He's curious to know if she can. ]
i don't do regret, v
[ Oh, yeah, get used to having a nickname, by the way! He does nicknames. It's a thing. Sorry. ]
i do what's necessary. it's survival
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because of the magnets and all.
also
v is cute! i like that. :)
and maybe that's for the best.
i wouldn't really understand what that's like? but sometimes i wish i could. haha
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maybe it's important to not make the same mistake twice. that's what the point of pain is in general, right?
it lets you know you made a mistake.
but i think if you're really thinking about it, and you know you made a mistake, then you don't need to beat yourself up for that.
not that i have any room to talk here. haha.
i basically agree with you is what i'm saying.
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[ He almost wants to say he doesn't really make mistakes, or feel pain. But it'd be a lie; maybe a few months ago he would have been able to say that. But not anymore. Not with what happened with Alex, and on the Somnambulist. He knows, now, what making mistakes feels like. ]
sometimes, we gotta do things that aren't necessarily right, for the greater good. that's what matters more. singular, individual mistakes barely matter.
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it's pretty hard to not think about it when you screw up, but...
i guess i'm not as worried about it anymore.
besides, usually my mistakes don't really help anyone. :)
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[ It's the truth. It's why he tends not to make his own decisions, preferring to follow the lead of someone who understand the weight of the world. Amos spent too long carving the parts of him that cared to be able to anymore.
Some of them might be growing back, like plants buds in his chest cavity. ]
do they help you?
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not that you're weird! more that it's weird for me to even think about that.
i sort of just assume everything i do is a mistake unless i have a really good reason to think otherwise?
and...
sometimes, yeah.
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i don't trust myself either
but i trust some other people to steer me in the right direction
[ It's okay, V, he is a bit weird. You wouldn't be the first one to think he is. ]
good
you can't live regretting everything, kid
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but... yeah, like you said.
there are people who watch my back.
mainly to make sure i don't do anything too stupid? haha.
right.
regrets are for humans.
i want to leave those behind. i don't want to do things that make feel wrong anymore.
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i am not human, then?
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i mean. you look human? but that doesn't really say anything.
do you feel human? do you like being human?
if the answer's yes then honestly i don't think it really matters.
you're human if you feel like it. you know?
i mean, i do the same thing, so it's not like you'd be the first??
but also i think a lot of humans have trouble backing out of things too.
you know?
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i don't really feel... many things
you say you're not human but i think you experience more human emotion than i do
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hmmmmm.
maybe it's not about being human at all?
i mean, dogs and cats can feel love. right?
i don't know that much about the science of it, but it's just chemicals and stuff in our brain.
so maybe being human is something else?
"having a soul." something like that.
but i don't really know how that works either, haha
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i almost got rid of the part of it that makes you feel for others
it seemed easier than dealing with feelings
[ His soul is probably irredeemably stained, at this point. Dripping black and blood. ]
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i don't know if i could do that.
basically all i'm good at it is feeling stupid things. haha
how would you have gotten rid of it?
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you just need a magnet on the side of your head where the part of your brain that controls empathy is
with electric activity in the brain, it fries it out
i'd rather not feel at all
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sorry
i guess i just don't really know what to say?
that sounds. like.
i don't know. i don't really get it.
i'm already really bad at... basically everything when i talk to people? so it seems like that'd just make me hurt a lot more people.
i'm sorry you feel that way :(
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i don't really get people anyway
and people tend to be scared of me, maybe it's best if i give them a reason to be
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about the not getting people part, at least.
i guess people are probably more scared of me now too?
i've definitely seen more frightened looks in the past month than like... ever, before.
which sort of hurts, but also is sort of nice?
haha. that probably sounds weird, huh.
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