voidtreckernet | Never have I ever made a fool of myself [video, nebula 17]

What's up, party people?

[ And here's a cheerful wave from a man in orange, seated in his room with a mug of...something. ]

If we haven't met yet, my name's Jake. Jake Peralta, your clues guy. I'm down to poke things with sticks and solve mysteries! Sooner we figure out what the train's entire deal is, where we're going and all that, the better, right? But in the meantime, I thought it'd be fun to get to know my new squad!

Anyways, I was wondering if anyone would be down to play a little Earth game called Never Have I Ever. How it works is you say something totally cool, or weird, or boring that you haven't done. And anybody who has done it has to take a drink. Unfortunately, I'm as broke here as I was back home, so I can't supply the booze. And we should probably be setting a good example, right?

So just drink whatever you have! Be that water, juice, milk, coffee...or if you happen to have a proper adult beverage on you, go ahead and drink responsibly. You ready? Great, I'll start: never have I ever gone skydiving!

((ooc: it's a big mingle format! Go ahead and add new 'never have I ever' statements as new toplevels, and threadhop all you want.))

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Not even a little bit. Not even when they tried to force me to do things in school. Didn't work well.

[ Some people don't take direction very well at times. ]

Sounds like your schools are rather rigid, if they try to force children into activities they aren't interested in.

[ One of the reasons Curufin likes Senku -- because he doesn't take direction well. He's a free spirit. They have this in common. ]

They force students to study all kinds of nonsense I wasn't interested. I really did not like school, at all.

And there wasn't any option to study at home, with tutors or private teachers?

Can't do that in Japan. At least, you couldn't. Dad would've let me self-study, maybe, but he couldn't have afforde a teacher or tutor either even if he was allowed. Also can't skip grades.

I might be spoiled, but my dad didn't make that much money.

So, you were stuck with the rigid rules of that school. What a pity!

Why do you say your were spoiled?

I hated school and I'm not that sorry I don't have to go anymore.

Well, I mean, he got me everything I needed to focus on my studies which cost him a lot of money and a lot of people would consider that being spoiled since I had all kinds of scientific related equipment. In exchange though, we didn't have other things like a car so...

It sounds as though your father cared a great deal about your studies, about whether you got the knowledge and training you needed to enter the profession you were aiming for.

Yeah. He did. I'm not the easiest person to get along with, or understand so I think part of it was to help me, I guess.

[ He's old enough to be self-aware of this, at least. ]

He continued to help me even after the world ended and I owe him an immense debt that I can't repay.

Maybe you don't have to be the easiest person to get along with or to understand, for a parent to love you and support you.

And maybe that debt will be paid all the same, someday, somewhere. Even if all that happens is that you get to tell him how grateful you are, and how much you appreciate him.

No. Well my biological parents didn't, but Byakuya was the best.

[ The remark is off-hand and almost like an aside with how little it sounds like it matters to him. It doesn't. He doesn't consider them to be anything to him. ]

I'm not a believer in the afterlife. I think this is all we get, no matter how long mine has been.

I...

[ He thinks a moment, of more than one late night conversation with Gen about the topic. ]

I think he knew anyway.

Oh, I see. This Byakuya was a sort of stand-in parent to you?

I am a believer in the afterlife, seeing as how I experienced it after I died in my own world. But not all worlds are the same, and not all belief systems are the same. If you really believe this is all we get, then it's all the more important to try to repay debts when you can, if that is at all possible.

Your father knew your feelings even though you never told him in words?

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No. He was my dad. He adopted me, but that distinction doesn't mean it's less real.

[ He doesn't really know much about his biological parents, he never wanted to know. It was unimportant. ]

Probably. He was much better at reading my feelings than I was at having them so I mean...yeah, probably. Not my kind of conversation anyway. [ He misses him, it's still a gaping hole in his life, one that can't be fixed, but it hurts a little less as time passes. ]

Indeed. An adopted son is a real son.

Your father seems a very intuitive sort. That might have been a very good thing, if you weren't apt to express feelings or even to have them with ease. [ A missing parent can indeed leave a gaping hole in one's life, which fortunately does hurt less as time goes by. ]

Intuitive, yeah, and really embarrassing. Ugh. He wrote some of my childhood antics into his stories that got passed down for generations. He embarrassed me from beyond the grave.

[ He's just the best. ]

He was a writer? Uh-oh, and your childhood antics were fair game. Generations of embarrassment! Whoa.

What a pain right? He was a professor, before he was an astronaut, and the stories were set up mainly to educate. What plants to avoid, what creatures would kill you, that sort of thing.

He just happened to include anecdotes from my childhood to torture me when someday I would hear the stories.

Funny, how that man was a combination of intelligence, kindness and meanness.

Never have I ever made a fool of myself [video, nebula 17]

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