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5d ago

20.04.2025 ketchup
What is your MC's relationship to obtaining and preparing food?

Kira: Making food for others, that they can enjoy is great. For herself, it's the quickest possible.
The EQuil (food printer liquid) 'flavored' with some spices & necessary nutrients.
It's a 24. Century eating disorder. She had to promise her doctor to regularly eat something that isn't the equivalent of a Fitness Shake with the consistency of thin slime, otherwise she would probably stop being able to process solid food.

Arkham: takes great care about what she eats, mostly vegan because otherwise her sensitivity drives her nuts and to the brink of her bodies capabilities.

Ashlei: so much radiant energy and her reactor, but nothing beats yellow G type star light

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Apr 17

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Tell us about your MC’s bravest moment.

Kira: some call it indoctrinated some call it brave. Joining the Alliance Military forces with fourteen.
So young you are not pulled into service but educated into technology & mechanics of ships, strategy, tactics, knowledge of how weapons are build, what military doctrines are and schooled how to defuse the dangerous situations non violently. Still the Alliance Pre Education (closest translation short A.P.E.) program isn't without challenges and challengers, the skills are helpful everywhere in space, but joining the military that early even with its leave clause doesn't sits right with everyone.

Arkham: running away from home and deciding to take her life in her own hands.

Ashlei: can AIs be brave?
Should AIs be brave? Do we even want brave AIs?

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Apr 13

13.04.2926
Does your MC have a particular scent they love or hate due to their past?

hate
Kira: burning metal, blood, burning flesh, Space vakuum without much gravity. Hot iron especially because it's in all of the above.

Arkham: streets, big city, snow, the shower gel her mother used.

Ashlei: can't smell in the traditional sense (ha). She scans for Things. Things that endanger the mission or her crew. CO² overflow, less O², gasses, etc.

Love
Kira: signifikant others, her own scent when working out. She always finds new scents to like or dislike.

Arkham: not really, their are okay ones like food or her apartment, her shower gel but nothing she loves so far.

Ash: see above, enough O² some space anomalies but according to Kira most of them smell like rotten meat. Relaxed Crew members.

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Apr 13

12.04.2026 Ketchup
Your MC has 2 1/2 days of spare time, time to...

Kira on mission: Train more diverse. Paperwork. Being on call.
Kira not on mission: Splat on the couch, pretend the universe doesn't exist. Grab snacks, watch something, yell at the screen or cry depending on what she is watching.
2 1/2 days are not enough time in Spaces jobs to make plans.

Arkham o.m. crawl into any not highly frequented crawlspace and watch her NIN-Dramas.
Arkham n.o.m similar to Kira probably ordering something really unhealthy she will regret because of her health issues & watching more Dramas or maybe something pornographic & laugh about "the story" or a documentary. You can't watch the same stuff all the time it makes your brain smooth...

Ashlei: no spare time for the ships A.I. that said she can run instances of her self that can participate in spare time activity while her main system stays online & working.

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⬅️ " Not your fault Ash.-" She paused and grabbed the bridge of her nose with her right hand. "-Thank you for the Audio support. It felt somehow good to hear it shatter. Very comforting."

"Please imagine that I smile at you Kira. I would love to give you a supportive smile or a hug... I am sorry that my body is a scout vessel and not an android."

"Don't be sorry for who you are Ash or what you are."

From the outside Kira went from a frustrated outburst and destruction of a stylus to a short burst of anger in an attack on a somehow physical reacting holographic projecting, to a suppressed laughter, pinching her nose and now staring onto the table.

From the outside only 5 seconds have passed.

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MC POV: If you had been able to choose, would you rather have been an only child or part of a very large family?
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Kiras left hand cramped and the stylus, she used to write on the data projection on the table, simply broke. Her right hand flew through the air, through the screen project and left it disrupted for nano seconds.

Ash followed that Kiras angry response was meant to 'destroy' the screen. The Captains mind was isolated and she couldn't read her thoughts or memories of the moment. She calculated a response that could please Kira and maybe make things better.

A scratching sound played as Ash let the screen get torn into pieces. The stripes of the screen fell upon each other and made a broken glass sound before Ash simulated them to be thrown against a wall with some in her understanding fitting sounds.

Kira laughed suppressed. Ash realized that she fought back tears.
"I am sorry, Kira."

Kira sniffed: ➡️

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982 3/3
⬅️ go through this together, you are not alone, your anger, your love, we share it, we are in this together."

Ash scanned the room and 'saw' that Kira was kneeling in front of the speaker, starring into it. She knew what that ment as a gesture, but it was kinda senseless. A part of her was angry for that thought.

She separated a local instance, from the rest of the ships computer system and grudgingly opened a channel to Kira again. Pure warmth hit her.
Kira was sending thoughts of love and support. "Kira... Captain. I..."
The local instance reached it's secure limits as all the fuzzy weird and beautiful pictures of Kiras memories flooded the AIs system. "What are you doing?"

"Come, come with me."

Ash's memories showed her a hand reaching towards her. What ever she was in this moment. This didn't make any sense. You can not grab a program but... It didn't matter...
Ash felt lucky, happy even safe.

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⬅️ 2/3
I repeat, threat level 0, please return to normal operations. Knox out."

She walked over to the speaker from which the sound came before. She gently stroked it with her left hand. It was an idiotic gesture but she hoped that Ash would register it somehow.

"Hey Ash, are you okay?"

Seconds past before the AI answered.

"No... I feel."

"Like something or in general."

"In general. That shouldn't be possible. It's dangerous. I am not ment to feel.-" Kira gently patted the wall panel next to the speaker, how does one comfort a ship? "-I want to keep this memory & focus my entire computational power onto it. Everything else seems, blend."

"It's okay to feel, the memories I share with you had to had an influence eventually."

Anger rose in the AIs voice: "I am not ment to feel! This is dangerous! I am defect!"

"Shh, Ash let us deal with this together, create a separated instance for us & connect again. Let us ➡️

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