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legionmissions2017-04-27 07:08 pm
letsgolegion) wrote in legionmissions2017-04-27 07:08 pm
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD [modplot]
Who| Anyone who wants in
What| "To Have and to Hold" plot
Where| The planet Olum, Matihara Temple
When| Set vaguely the same time as "Gods Among Us" and "Other Mother"
Warnings/Notes| N/A
The planet Olum is a genuinely welcoming place. While the clothes they have to wear for the rituals are a bit...odd (provided they don't opt for coverups), they are comfortable, especially with such a balmy climate. Despite the Olumites allowing outsiders into their ceremonies, there's a distinct lack of tourist-ey elements; no gift shops, no merchants selling anything, just a spirit of genuine unity and celebration. The Olumite marriage guides seem to genuinely care about helping people with their relationships, and seem happy to share their cultural traditions with other species.
As far as missions go, it's definitely a nice vacation from the usual life or death struggles.
It means the Legionnaires have no distractions. They have to settle in and try to navigate this while faking sincerity as best as they can.
[ooc: All information about the setting can be found on the infopost.]
What| "To Have and to Hold" plot
Where| The planet Olum, Matihara Temple
When| Set vaguely the same time as "Gods Among Us" and "Other Mother"
Warnings/Notes| N/A
The planet Olum is a genuinely welcoming place. While the clothes they have to wear for the rituals are a bit...odd (provided they don't opt for coverups), they are comfortable, especially with such a balmy climate. Despite the Olumites allowing outsiders into their ceremonies, there's a distinct lack of tourist-ey elements; no gift shops, no merchants selling anything, just a spirit of genuine unity and celebration. The Olumite marriage guides seem to genuinely care about helping people with their relationships, and seem happy to share their cultural traditions with other species.
As far as missions go, it's definitely a nice vacation from the usual life or death struggles.
It means the Legionnaires have no distractions. They have to settle in and try to navigate this while faking sincerity as best as they can.
[ooc: All information about the setting can be found on the infopost.]
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Which isn't to say that Vance hadn't enjoyed the metal bikini as well. It's more that he's had a lot more time to think about it since then.
The last takes a moment for Vance to respond to because he hadn't been expecting that answer. "You've never seen Voyager?"
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"Which was dumb, because the female gaze is half the audience," he said, expanding Vance's commentary. If they were going to be fairly judging old movies, there was more than one perspective missing. "Minus anyone who'd be more interested in Leia, and, huh. Plus anyone who'd be more interested in a guy, if there was an option besides Luke's buttchin and Han's being a dick."
As movie heroes, he likes Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, but they're not really romcom material.
He's amused by Vance's surprise though, at his lack of Trekkie devotion. "I had high school, an afterschool job, a burgeoning superhero career, and a finite amount of time for TV. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was more my thing back then."
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Honestly, Vance does like both Han and Luke. But no, definitely not romcom material.
He still rolls his eyes, turning to walk backward so he can see Robbie a bit better. "Not that there's anything wrong with Buffy. Other than Xander and the 'kill your gays' trope. But we're sitting down and watching Voyager one of these days."
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His face said in no uncertain terms that either of these options would make him nauseous. The look fades when Vance turns. Robbie’s brain connects what he’s seeing to what he’d said and that little arm movement of Vance's.
Vance has a cleft chin. Oops. “Uh – yours doesn’t look that way. That’s just your face.”
He is terrible at compliments when they are meant sincerely, without any jokey banter to cover a potential bad reaction. “It’s cute. You, I mean.”
Robbie clears his throat and picked the normal conversation back up “I didn’t say Buffy was perfect. I wouldn’t go out with any of them either. It was just what I watched. I’ll watch your show too. It’s all good.”
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The rest of it is...unexpected. Though not in a bad way. Vance has had enough experience with Robbie to not take the first bit personally. After all, he did tend to just...say whatever came to mind and it doesn't always come out right. So he waits through the fluster and smiles, even if it's a little stunned. "Thanks, Robbie. You're...pretty cute yourself."
Not smooth. Not smooth at all. But there's definitely something pleasantly warm in his chest from Robbie's compliment.
He hums softly and nods, going back to the rest of the conversation "Well. It's not like there aren't plenty of things that people like that aren't plenty problematic. Even Voyager had its issues, but that's kinda true of all Star Trek."
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It helps to buy time when he's wondering how to address the... weirdness of the exchange. It's not that he didn't mean it or completely disbelieved that Vance meant it. The conversation itself was abnormal. Robbie's glad that his friend seems happy enough about it, and now... he'd very much like it to go away before he has a change to spoil the reassurance.
Glancing upwards, he pulled some of his hair forward. The hologram has made it dark, nearly black. "I think it's the hair. I always liked brunettes, but I was hoping to get something a little more colorfully alien. Like, speaking of Star Trek, if I'd known what we were wearing, I would've gone for Orion slave boy."
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"What if it's a culturally acceptable thing? A golem must work, a golem must have a master, that sort of thing?" Robbie hums to himself at the thought, losing more ground in the tug-of-war between pop culture references and not looking nerdier than Vance. "I wonder what people would make of it then."
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There's a half grimace at the mention of golems, but that's more because he's Jewish than anything. "It's possible? We don't really know a lot about the Orions other than what's we see of those few characters. And the girl in the reboot, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't count."
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Because all of the Orion girls were hot, so the guys probably got a few hot genes too. It's only fair.
What's unfair is the terrible choice of asking Vance why he hates Terry Pratchett or implying that he himself is a bigger geek than Vance. That could be seen as badge of honor. 'I am a bigger nerd than Vance Astrovik.' Yeah, that could earn him cred with the Spidey set. "Not a Discworld fan?"
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He's never actually thought about Robbie as someone who was 'hot' before, but...
That's actually not something he should be thinking about at the moment, either.
He raises an eyebrow at the question. "What does Discworld have to do with Orions on Star Trek?"
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He'd be more insufferable in his response, but the look throws him. It's as if Vance is basing the appraisal on the hologram. All he can up with it is very dark humor (the body paint would hide the scars nicely), and Robbie would prefer to not open up a can of worms, thanks.
"Yeah, you've never read it. 's okay - I still think you're cool." Robbie is quite pleased to have one up on Vance. "It doesn't have anything to do with the Orions, I guess, but we were talking about slaves. There's sort of a slow slave-to-freedom arc for golems in the Discworld series."
Almost to himself, he adds, "Man, it's really start to bum me out, how hard it is to pull off a good reference here."
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The look actually doesn't have to do with the hologram. Vance is perfectly capable of using the image of Robbie in his own head, scars and all. (Even if he knows he doesn't know about all of Robbie's scars.)
Still, he snorts and half smiles at Robbie. "Okay. I may have to read them." It wasn't how golems were supposed to work in Judaism, but secular ideas of golems were far more prevalent now, anyway. He could put aside the things he knew for that. "Now, whether I can find them here or not is a different story."
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Robbie thinks about Vance reading the Pratchett novels. On one hand, it would be nice to have something that expansive available for winking references. But... "No, don't. If you don't read it, I can still call you Captain Carrot with no repurcussions."
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And, yes, she was hella hot. Sue him.
Vance raises an eyebrow, then chuckles. "All right, all right." Which isn't to say that he won't actually read the books. And now knows a character to keep a look out for. "I suppose we should actually start looking for this stuff we're out here to get."
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But she had been right. Robbie wonders if she'd known what his community service would be or if it mattered. It didn't. He shrugs at Vance's comment. Yes, she's one of the hot ones, but Robbie isn't concerned about what She-Hulk thinks about him saying she's hot.
"I... forget what we're looking for. Fossil Pokemon that may or may not be glowing, teamwork and shelter, also the secret to marital bliss?"
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Yes. He knew a little bit about Pokemon.
"Pretty sure the teamwork and shelter things are going to happen, though the marital bliss is optional."
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Besides, it could just be part of the challenging course. Robbie doubts that, however. This is supposed to be safe enough for an average sentient being.
He snorts a little at the tail end of Vance's assessment. "Ha, trick question. Marital bliss is a myth."
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Well. Rich's mother was fine. And his brother. Vance still had issues with Mr. Rider.
"On the other hand, at least we know what not to do."
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The face he's making could double as the face he'd make if he got a mouthful of asparagus when he was expecting chocolate and couldn't spit it out politely. Robbie has told himself since he was a kid that he wouldn't be like his parents and do marriage for the wrong reasons, yet here he is. Even if it's fake by consent, he still feels like he's messed up.
"Apparently, I don't," he mutters, because Robbie's mouth has no off switch. He really can't complain more than that, because the Baldwins were paradise compared to the Astroviks. Then, more loudly, he says, "Which way do we go?"
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He glances over to Robbie, then turns back to the comm and turns with it. "Looks like it's to our right. And forward, because of course it's forward."