"It's rude to just call you 'hey you' though, so is there a place holder until we can figure out what you like?" He thinks about the videos Jordi and Hayden made, that Hayden hadn't picked one yet...
Well, he could help Ger find something.
"She's my best friend! I tell her all my problems." He reaches over and rubs at Peggy's chin, her eyes closing with a soft, pleased cooing. "And she's a great lab assistant."
"John has been calling me 'friend'." He shrugged. "That might work. At least for now."
He'd find his place in time. Maybe.
Though there was an intrusive thought of what would happen if he tried to bite off Peggy's head, he didn't follow it through.
"Right." No eating the pigeon. Still weird though. "So...what kind of scientist are you, exactly?" He was expecting mad scientist, considering well. The iced tea and Peggy.
"Well, as a place holder. We can find something that fits. Do you have any letters your particularly fond of? I like C's, very versatile." That is not a normal thing to say to people, Chris.
He seems content with petting Peggy before he smiles at the question, "I'm not sure, exactly, but Aether has been described to me as chaos and madness, so I'm leaning towards mad... though chaos scientist does sound cooler."
"I'm not calling myself Chris, Christopher. Just putting it out there."
He huffed a little but...he tilted his head in thinking of it. "Maybe Aether isn't that different from just magic, if it lets to see the unseen. Maybe you're an Aether specialist?"
"You don't look like a chris like I do, its okay. I'm more creative than that." At least there is that.
"There is a distinction between magic and science though, even if both can have the same base... but as far as specialist, I don't know, just that I am made of Aether. Other people have it in their veins, I can see it when it wants me to, like-" he pauses a moment, frowning.
"I want to tell you what I see in you, but I dont want you to get mad." A beat, "can I?"
"Let's not make it too dumb though." Because he doesn't want to be a Chris Chris, or a Crispy rice bowl, or Crisis Core or something.
"No, you can't tell me what you see when you look at me when your eyes go all blue like that." His voice went flat. "You might as well have me asking to do something...I dunno. Something real upsetting."
He wasn't sure if mentioning kissing would work, since Chris came back.
"Why would it be dumb? I named Peggy and thats a good name!" Dont ask him what he's called soke of his inventions, Ger. Some of them are penalty box bad.
He does shrink back a little at being told no, biting his lip. This is a clear boundary that he's setting, and he wants to anyways, but... "what if you think about it and tell me when you change your mind instead?"
Put a pin in it, so he can still hold on without the full blow of a rejection.
"Well I'll give you options. A name clicks or it doesn't." Which he understands in his own weird way, far better than not wanting to accept the truth when its finally given to you.
"I'm asking you to keep your options open! That's not pushing..." well, he doesnt think it is.
"I said keep an open mind, there's a difference." He can argue semantics all day.
Petting Peggy's chin he pouts, just a little. "I still haven't told you anyways, so why does it matter? I'm being hopeful, I thought that was a good thing? It doesnt change your mind." He just wishes it would, thats all.
He took in a deep breath, and exhaled, slowly. He could feel his temper prickling.
"You're not telling me, but you want to, badly." He started rubbing his temple. "You're pushing for an answer you want. That's pushy. Just...let it be, Christopher. Okay?"
He sighed in relief. Here Ger thought that he would have to just walk away and just put the whole situation in the dumpster. At least he knew when to drop it.
Dramatically.
"Um?" He stares between Chris and the pigeon. Well, Chris did say he could talk to Peggy, but now he was wondering if there was some smack talk.
"I drink to sleep." He grumbled, "And while I could kiss and sleep with you, I don't think you'd like it very much."
He squinted, before shrugging a little. "Puzzles. I like robots. I like- making things." He looked down at his nails. They looked kind of raw. "Video games. Might get back into baking and cooking, thanks to John."
Chris makes a face, though if he's being honest he probably would like it a little bit. Well, the kissing part. He doesn't think he's quite so interested in doing much else.
He isn't about to tell Germaryah he was a good kisser though, that is confidential data.
"I like making things to! I built a robot before, though i don't know if i could recreate robo-chris here... He might be 'dangerous' according to the 'rules'." He says this with a rather sour expression on his face. He likes the Admiral and the bage but the restrictions? Not so much.
Someone didn't know about kissing and getting touched. But considering how he lit up from a kiss? He needed to slowly go into kisses.
"Then maybe ease into it so you won't be stopped by the rules?" He offered. "I don't know what you can build but if you don't break the rules? You can keep it. Have you seen the robot horses?"
"I can't ease into anything. I just do it." He gets a spark and off he goes. Shrinking it, trying to make it different before it's finished is not at all how he does anything.
"I did... I'd love to take one apart, but I haven't figured out how to turn them off to do that first." At least he doesnt want to dismantle it while it's still activated?
"So you don't get to turn it on and off? It sounds like you're following a high." He observed. Maybe it wasn't fair but it sounded like what Ger went for with his highs.
"And maybe we can find the blueprints. I don't want them wrecked. They're too beautiful to try to take them apart without being careful."
"Sometimes I can't even stop when I'm sleeping. The processes need to keep going." And maybe he was following a high, but it felt more like a calling even if he was quite addicted to it now that he'd unscrewed the lid.
The madness certainly did take up a lot of space and string him and his attention along more often than not.
Chris frowns at the thought that he might ruin them by taking them apart, "I dont break things. If we can't find schematics I'll create them as I go. It's a robot. Things go together one way, and I will put them back together the same way I took them apart."
"Needs or want to?" He wanted to know. "Because people act what I'm into is a selfish want, not a need."
Because it did seem to be much of the same way with his addiction.
"The horse robot is the most beautiful, most perfect robot I've ever seen Chris." He turned, and leaned forward and down, staring Chris in the eyes. "It'd be like taking Peggy apart even if you could bring her back to life. Why not see if you could make one as good as the ones on deck, mmm?"
"Hard to say...it hurts, when I try and keep it in, or ignore it." It used to scare him, and sometimes it still does, but chaos will take him where it will. He can't do anything but live with it.
He blinks up at Ger as he leans, leaning back just a little bit, opening his mouth and then closing it. People usually don't get this close to him, he has a decent bubble of weird that keeps them out of his space, but... "m-maybe I could build one even better..."
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Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-22 04:44 am (UTC)"Is she like. Your muse then? But uh. Yeah, sure. Workshop it."
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-22 04:49 am (UTC)Well, he could help Ger find something.
"She's my best friend! I tell her all my problems." He reaches over and rubs at Peggy's chin, her eyes closing with a soft, pleased cooing. "And she's a great lab assistant."
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-22 05:02 am (UTC)He'd find his place in time. Maybe.
Though there was an intrusive thought of what would happen if he tried to bite off Peggy's head, he didn't follow it through.
"Right." No eating the pigeon. Still weird though. "So...what kind of scientist are you, exactly?" He was expecting mad scientist, considering well. The iced tea and Peggy.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-23 12:03 am (UTC)He seems content with petting Peggy before he smiles at the question, "I'm not sure, exactly, but Aether has been described to me as chaos and madness, so I'm leaning towards mad... though chaos scientist does sound cooler."
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Date: 2026-03-23 12:56 am (UTC)Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-23 12:56 am (UTC)He huffed a little but...he tilted his head in thinking of it. "Maybe Aether isn't that different from just magic, if it lets to see the unseen. Maybe you're an Aether specialist?"
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-23 01:02 am (UTC)"There is a distinction between magic and science though, even if both can have the same base... but as far as specialist, I don't know, just that I am made of Aether. Other people have it in their veins, I can see it when it wants me to, like-" he pauses a moment, frowning.
"I want to tell you what I see in you, but I dont want you to get mad." A beat, "can I?"
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-23 01:12 am (UTC)"No, you can't tell me what you see when you look at me when your eyes go all blue like that." His voice went flat. "You might as well have me asking to do something...I dunno. Something real upsetting."
He wasn't sure if mentioning kissing would work, since Chris came back.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-23 06:31 am (UTC)He does shrink back a little at being told no, biting his lip. This is a clear boundary that he's setting, and he wants to anyways, but... "what if you think about it and tell me when you change your mind instead?"
Put a pin in it, so he can still hold on without the full blow of a rejection.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-23 01:46 pm (UTC)He sighed, and glanced at Chris.
"Why are you pushing it? I don't want to know right now."
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-23 01:52 pm (UTC)"I'm asking you to keep your options open! That's not pushing..." well, he doesnt think it is.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-23 01:58 pm (UTC)But jeez. He wrinkled his nose, and turned his face away.
"You're pushing. You're already asking me to change my mind. That's pushy."
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-23 02:23 pm (UTC)Petting Peggy's chin he pouts, just a little. "I still haven't told you anyways, so why does it matter? I'm being hopeful, I thought that was a good thing? It doesnt change your mind." He just wishes it would, thats all.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-23 02:52 pm (UTC)"You're not telling me, but you want to, badly." He started rubbing his temple. "You're pushing for an answer you want. That's pushy. Just...let it be, Christopher. Okay?"
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-24 03:18 am (UTC)"Fine."
The pigeon coos and looks at Chris before turning her head around, perhaps a little too far to look at Germaryah.
Coo she says and Chris says back, "I know, right?"
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-24 03:54 am (UTC)Dramatically.
"Um?" He stares between Chris and the pigeon. Well, Chris did say he could talk to Peggy, but now he was wondering if there was some smack talk.
Typical fun teenager worries.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-24 04:00 am (UTC)But just then he believed she was praising him for his incredible self control. It's nothing to be concerned about, Germaryah.
"So what do you like to do besides drinking alcohol and kissing people?"
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-24 04:11 am (UTC)He squinted, before shrugging a little. "Puzzles. I like robots. I like- making things." He looked down at his nails. They looked kind of raw. "Video games. Might get back into baking and cooking, thanks to John."
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-26 01:45 pm (UTC)He isn't about to tell Germaryah he was a good kisser though, that is confidential data.
"I like making things to! I built a robot before, though i don't know if i could recreate robo-chris here... He might be 'dangerous' according to the 'rules'." He says this with a rather sour expression on his face. He likes the Admiral and the bage but the restrictions? Not so much.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-26 01:53 pm (UTC)"Then maybe ease into it so you won't be stopped by the rules?" He offered. "I don't know what you can build but if you don't break the rules? You can keep it. Have you seen the robot horses?"
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-26 02:28 pm (UTC)"I did... I'd love to take one apart, but I haven't figured out how to turn them off to do that first." At least he doesnt want to dismantle it while it's still activated?
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-26 03:52 pm (UTC)"And maybe we can find the blueprints. I don't want them wrecked. They're too beautiful to try to take them apart without being careful."
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-26 10:30 pm (UTC)The madness certainly did take up a lot of space and string him and his attention along more often than not.
Chris frowns at the thought that he might ruin them by taking them apart, "I dont break things. If we can't find schematics I'll create them as I go. It's a robot. Things go together one way, and I will put them back together the same way I took them apart."
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-26 11:14 pm (UTC)Because it did seem to be much of the same way with his addiction.
"The horse robot is the most beautiful, most perfect robot I've ever seen Chris." He turned, and leaned forward and down, staring Chris in the eyes. "It'd be like taking Peggy apart even if you could bring her back to life. Why not see if you could make one as good as the ones on deck, mmm?"
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-26 11:34 pm (UTC)He blinks up at Ger as he leans, leaning back just a little bit, opening his mouth and then closing it. People usually don't get this close to him, he has a decent bubble of weird that keeps them out of his space, but... "m-maybe I could build one even better..."
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