dear_mun | @boomtown

Put on the kafe and write, then, if you can't find someone to write with you. It's easy, innit? Me and Kieron, our own universe, no waiting save for your brain to catch up to the action. Easy. Or, if that don't strike your fancy in the pants, go fill up that drabble-tag thing you went and made art for an hour or so ago, or go out and proactive. If you'd rather not bother with me, there's a man with a blue box and a sonic screwdriver or even that woman with all those guns what keeps stomping around about 'metal motherfuckers'. I'll stay over here, thank-you muchly. I think she's a bit mental and I'd like her to stop lighting up them cigarettes in my face. Also? You tell her to put down the grenades afore she blows us all up.

The point is, there's options. Oi, you wait, now. Hold up. You're not serious about Kieron and I being in one of those snoggy drabble things are you? He's my wingmate and maybe we've slept in the same bed, but still. I'm not gonna go off and jump his bones. Just because I've seen him naked more than once doesn't mean a thing. You Earthers are a strange lot what with your nudity taboos and the like. I've seen plenty of naked folk from my days in pre-flight training.

Anyway, despite the casual cultural nudity thing, we Antedans are quite civilized, we are.

~~Most of the time. Also you could wake me up early since you're Void-blasted bored..~~

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[...with a towel around her waist] Personally, I'd say you Antedans are civilized because of being more open about your bodies. More civilized than most single-sexers, anyway.

[She bows from the waist.] My name's Néo, pleased to meet you. I've been kicking my heibon-kun* for not noticing you when you first posted.

* From the Japanese word for "ordinary".

Pleasure to meet you as well. I'm Ril. [She offers a grin, and bows back since that seems to be a custom.]

Honestly, it's a custom that grew out of all us folk being jammed in cities. My entire planet, it's one massive city. No real open plains left to it at all. No large animals, either. Didn't matter who was where or what since space was a luxury. I shared a room with my brother for ages yet, and even then when I was off to pre-Flight classes, we had alcoves. I'd say five to an alcove. Not much use for modesty in a place like that. Not so much civilized as it is necessity. After awhile, you don't give much care to who sees what. Been this way for a good few thousand odd years.

Kyaa! [Néo shudders.] I'm not sure I can even imagine that kind of crowding, Ril-san. I think the closest thing to it I've seen would be the Tôkyô subway. (Heibon-kun's reminded of a book called A World Out of Time, but I'm pretty sure I haven't read that.)

We don't have much use for modesty in Hataka either, but that's because everyone from the village is a hermaphrodite, so we don't have anything to hide from each other. At least not where body parts are concerned. ^_^

[Ril is a little uncertain about how hermaphrodites fit into the equation at all when it comes to not needing modesty, but, as she has been taught she nods and smiles her best diplomat smile. Different cultures, different-- Well, different everythings, yeah?]

Most folk who observe modesty, or so I've seen, do tend toward the need for privacy. Antedans just don't have the space for that. Even Prowler Pilots live together, though we get a decent amount of space. You head to Out City and you're luck you're not stepping on davit birds and toes alike. Mad crush, that. You get good at moving through crowds, though.

[Néo senses the diplomacy in that smile and decides some explaining is in order.] I understand the need for privacy; that's why bedrooms and bathrooms have doors, at least here on Earth. And maybe "modesty" was the wrong word to use; it's "body shame" that we really don't get. When everybody's got all the same parts, it's even harder for body shame to take hold than it is for single-sexers. ^___^

(Of course, it probably helps that Hataka is a pretty small village where most people know each other anyway, and that most visitors from out-of-town are also herms.)

Prowler Pilots? Is a Prowler some kind of spaceship? Is being a Prowler Pilot as exciting as it sounds?

A Prowler is a small sentient class of fighter spacecraft used by our galactic peace keeping forces. My ship, Eth, she was grown specifically for me and uses some of my own DNA to further harmonize our interface. Out of my class of four hundred, only myself and my alternate completed training. [She clears her thoat.] A pilot undergoes intense and, I suppose, brutal training in mathematics, physics, interstellar navigation, hyperspace theory, and space-time theory, as well as in diplomacy, inter-species communication, and various forms of first contact protocol. I hold advanced degrees in astrophysics, xenobiology, Prowler biomechanics, and interstellar navigation theory, myself. I'm also fairly fascinated by genetics, though it wasn't my major focus of study.

[She laughs and shakes her head.]

Now that Eth and I are paired off, we think it's pretty exciting. Kieron, my wingmate and I, are supposed to be shipped off on our first tour of our sector. Rule is that two pilots handle a sector of space and they'll rotate every few solar years with their corresponding sector until they've had a chance to cover the entire breadth of civilized space. We get to interact with aliens of all sorts, solving problems, and fighting crime. High risk, brilliant reward.

Edited 2013-08-30 19:25 (UTC)

...a living spaceship? Or at least partly alive? Wow. That's just... I'm not sure what to say. [Largely because shi just stopped hirself saying it was just "like something out of an SF anime".] What happens to the ones who don't make the grade? Do they put all that training to use as civilians?

And now you and Kieron-san are going to be, well, space police? If that's not exciting, it's only because "exciting" isn't a strong enough word!

[Néo gets an impish grin.] Although it occurs to me... just because there's no sexual tension between you now, doesn't necessarily mean that it couldn't ever happen. It happened with me and my best friend Pippi, and we hadn't even spent years out in space with no regular company except each other. ^_^

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Have what appears to be a Japanese girl in a bikini...

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