franciscoramon | riverview ∆ ic inbox ∆ @ciscodelamancha

you shouldn't need much.
i've got emergency med supplies, gun, radio, water, rations (including candy), rope, knife, wrench and a little mini-shovel.
you already know to wear clothes you can move in and good shoes, i'm sure.
that's pretty much it. we don't wanna take too much 'cause we'll be hauling back plenty.

both fantastic, highly recommended
chocolate chip cookies are better if you can get them fresh baked though
i could make some for the trip if you want, they're super easy...

okay. you just gotta know that stuff is cheap and tasty but it hasn't got a lot of nutrients. gotta eat something green now and then or you'll get scurvy.

No, I shouldn't, but the most important thing is water. I'll pack light, don't worry.

If I had my speeder, or some vehicle, we wouldn't have to worry about what we brought back. But we'll make due, I'll figure something out.

What? No, you don't have to. Going out to scavenge and the gummy bears are more than enough.

I know, but it has more calories than what I was eating before...and at least it tastes better. It has some flavor to it.

what is a speeder, exactly? can you describe it to me? we haven't got those where i'm from.

we'll make do anyway.

don't take this the wrong way or anything but it sounds like the cuisine on... how do you spell it anyway? jaku? jacoo?
anyway if you're that excited about ramen it sounds pretty damn bad

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It's a vehicle that hovers and goes very fast. It's what I used when I would go scavenging to help bring back parts.

Jakku, and no, it's the truth. It wasn't the best, but it was food. There wasn't much to go on and when you have to work for your food, you don't complain. You take what you are given and learn to deal with.

that sounds great actually
the terrain can be tough for vehicles with wheels but something like that would be perfect
maybe we can build one?

jakku, got it.
that sounds really hard and awful.

[ He wasn't going to, before, but he's definitely gonna bring some fancy sandwiches and carrots or whatever, now. And the candy. ]

for what it's worth you can complain to me
like if anything about the job is sucking, tell me and we can come up with a way to make it better

Maybe? Depending upon the parts we find. What'll be the hardest thing would be the engine...and getting it to hover too.

It was...there. You got used to it after a while.

She was just going to bring nuts and some fruit and water! No need to bring fancy things!!]

What would I complain about? You're already ten times better than Unkar Plutt.

yeah sure it might not work, but wouldn't it be fun to try!

[ He's never built a hoverbike or anything like that before and right now it sounds like a good time. ]

unkar plutt, that's an asshole name if i ever heard one.
and i don't know! there could be things!

what're you doing up at this hour, anyway?
it's pretty late.

[ As if he weren't also still up. ]

Ifwe can get it to work, could try to build a speeder next.

[ She has to suppress a laugh. And opts to send a smiley face. ]

He was an asshole, but he was also my only employer. He ran everything.

What things? Working hard or being outside? It's nothing.

I couldn't sleep.

Did I wake up?

yeah that sounds like a recipe for exploitation right there
here nobody runs EVERYTHING

i just meant if anything ever comes up, just tell me!
i've never been a boss before but i super DON'T wanna be an asshole about it

insomnia? i get that. it sucks.
that happen to you a lot or is it an adjusting to a new place thing?
i barely slept at all my first couple weeks here.

naw you didn't wake me up, my boyfriend's working late tonight i'm just kinda waiting for him to get home

No body runs business here like Plutt did, something I'm grateful for.

You're doing fine? I mean, you're concerned about my well being is something Plutt didn't do and you're not basing my income on the value of the parts we pull in.

You gave me food without hesitation or strings attached--that's definitely something an asshole wouldn't do.

A little of both? I haven't slept much since coming here and the bed...it's too soft.

I don't feel guilty then, I was worried I'd woken you up.

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okay good.
cuz i'm thinking the less i got in common with this guy the better.

yeah i'm not fond of strings attached
going in either direction
not my style

maybe you could ask around, see if they've got any beds in communal housing that are a bit firmer? they've gotta have some variety there, considering how many different species they're housing and all...

you don't gotta worry about that, you can text whenever and if i'm asleep i'll have it on silent so it's all g

Don't think you'd have anything in common.

Same, but it's rare on Jakku for someone to believe that too.

No, there's nothing with the bed itself. I'm used to sleeping on the floor, so it's nothing new. I mean, my old home had a bed with a mattress and it took me some time to get used to it.

Thanks, Cisco. You're pretty amazing, you know?

[ He's not exactly surprised by the sleeping on the floor thing, considering everything else she's told him about Jakku, but it still hurts to read it. Her life just keeps getting shittier with every new detail. ]

sounds like there's a whole lotta new shit to get accustomed to, here.
should just take some time. and if time doesn't help, fuck it, sleep on the floor and if anyone gives you shit about it, tell them it's none of their business.
probably better for your back anyway.

[ He smiles reading the bit about being amazing, thinking privately that it's a clear-cut case of Rey just having depressingly low standards, but he doesn't know how to say that without it sounding like an insult, so he says instead.]

no worries
you're pretty amazing, too.

if it's not weird, what with me being kinda your boss and everything, we should go to a movie sometime
see if you like them
we might not have had interplanetary travel back in my world but we sure as shit were good at movies

[ Really, she had very low standards because she had very little to go on. There was much of anything on Jakku, including kindness. It was such a rarity there and though she should have turned bitter about her situation, she hadn't. Nor was Cisco, seemingly anyway, pitying her. ]

A lot of things to get used to and figure out. I still need to check out the library.

I will, don't worry. :) I don't think there's anyone else here but me. Probably wrong and I just don't see them. Maybe they're super busy or something.

[ Its ...a bit weird that he wants to go to a 'movie' with her. He wants to spend time outside of work and that was fine. It's not like he wanted to be friends...right? Could that work? Having a friend for a boss or a boss for a friend? ]

What's a movie?

[ She'll ask that and depending on what it is, she'll determine if it's weird to hang around Cisco for it. ]

they're a kind of entertainment.

have you heard of... plays or anything like that?
where there's a story and people act it out?

it's like that, only recorded on video, and with music and special effects to make it seem closer to reality.
and they show them in theaters, which are basically just big quiet rooms with lots of chairs, and a really big screen, where they play the video.

Yes, we have something like that. It's more of a holo-novel for text and a holo-vid for other things. I've worked with computer simulations though.

So...you're watching a story then? Never done tha before, but it sounds interesting.

holo-vid sounds like it's probably similar? maybe? i don't know, never seen one.
holograms are like super cutting edge tech in my time.
i know that's gotta sound hilariously old fashioned to you probably.

they're so much fun
like... as escapism, you know?
you get to watch and just imagine different worlds, imagine living different lives, etc.

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More than likely they're one in the same. Different technology.

They are? They're pretty standard.

It's not old fashion, but it's hard to picture? I don't know, there weren't holo-novels on Jakku, or a library. Coruscant, another planet, was the hub of a lot of information a long time ago, but I don't know about now.

A momentary distraction to forget about the world around you..that I understand.

they're not standard to me.

coruscant is such a dope name for a planet.
it's hard for me to picture a desert planet full of old spaceships so
feeling's mutual

yep, exactly
i watched movies all the time as a kid
dreaming of being somewhere... well, somewhere more like this
with mysteries and adventure and strange awesome people in it

Do you holograms for maps too? Or is it for communication?

Is it? I never gave it much thought. There are other planets like Hoth that's all ice and snow, complete opposite of Jakku.

I used to dream of flying...being elsewhere, and doing something different. [Being reunited with her family, playing with the little doll she made of a Rebellion fighter, or trying on an old Rebellion Pilot's helmet...just for fun. No need to mention any of that, it's a bit too personal for her.]

What was your world like? Fast pace? Changing constantly? Or did it stay the same?

they're not in widespread use
like you can't buy one or anything
i sort of invented one and used to recreate a really old crime scene we were trying to investigate
and once someone used a hologram to convince a bunch of people there were two people in a room where there was only one

all good things to dream about. 👍🏽

hmm, good question
hard to know how to describe it honestly. moderate paced?
not as interesting as this place. or as kind. a lot more violence and people screwing each other over, and prejudice and bullshit.
i guess changing constantly? especially recently.
about a year and a half ago there was an accident - this particle accelerator exploded in the middle of the city, and it ended up giving a bunch of people superpowers
like... the ability to run faster than the speed of sound, or control the weather, or teleport, stuff like that
so things got a little more interesting after that...

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Wow, that's...incredible. You'll find the more you use holograms, it's difficult to do much else. It's very interactive, especially if you're trying to make a chart, or need to look at a map. It's all at your fingertips.

What else have you invented?

So people worked, then went home and did it all over again? That's what I'm imagining. But people with powers? That sounds like it could be a good and bad thing. Good, if they're willing to use their powers for help, and bad if it's the opposite.

Is there anyone to train them on how to use their gifts?

oh this and that
i don't really keep a list
i guess if i'm just picking a random one - power dampeners. devices that cancel out a metahuman's powers within a certain range.

you're right on the working thing. with a little bit of fun in there, too.

and you pretty much nailed it re: good and bad. you get heroes like the flash (the one who can run way fast) saving people from burning buildings, preventing catastrophes, all that
but there's plenty of metas who just use their powers to steal, or hurt people
and then the flash has to stop them, too.

not really? people just sorta gotta figure it out on their own.

[ That last question does strike Cisco as an unusual thing to focus in on, but he doesn't comment on it, for now. ]

Metahumans...the people with powers.

But how could you not have a list? That's essential, I would think! To know which inventions you've created and make sure they're doing what they're supposed to do..or, I don't know, do other things?

Does this flash have anyone to help them--no, wait, they have you. You made those..things that stop the metahumans. [Getting sleepy, but her mind is still at it, connecting the dots here and there.] So you're a hero then?

Trial and error, then? Makes sense, especially if no one else is around to help and you're stuck there wondering what else you could do.

[And her mind goes back to Obi-Wan and she....she has no idea where to go with that. If she should ask him what she should do...but wouldn't that be like training her? no, he said he would guide her and that would be it--which is frustrating, but that's something for another day.]

[ Rey kind of has a point about the list - professionally it's something he should very much have, it's just that most of his inventions have not been planned in advance, but have been thrown together secretly, in a huge hurry, in life or death situations. ]

you got a point, i should come up with a list...

i wouldn't call myself a hero, no. i wasn't the one out there on the front lines, you know? i mean shit got dangerous occasionally sure but i was just on his team. i helped a hero.

yeah... pretty much. i mean, when the flash was learning to use his powers, my friends and i helped him out, but we weren't teachers exactly, just kind of there to provide support.

[ Well, Eobard had been exactly like a teacher, but also fuck him. ]

i get the impression it's scary for a lot of metas. all of sudden they have these powers, and even if they know they're from the particle accelerator, they don't know how to use them or sometimes... not use them, if they want. there were a couple of sad cases - a woman who turned everything she touched into a bomb, a guy who electrocuted people who got too close to him. it was pretty bad, for them, with no one to turn to. and other metas who didn't understand what was happening to them and just thought that were going crazy, because they didn't realize they had powers.

[ ...That very last example is, well, Cisco himself, but Rey doesn't need to know that. She's a nice girl but he's not about to go telling her he's a meta. He's getting a little more accepting of his powers, but he's not there, yet. ]

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