OTA Video | UN: FormerPilot | & Private Video @Seifer and @Rinoa

[skyward_eyes]

[The video starts on a young man that looks a bit tired, but if you know Nida you know that's probably status quo. At least he knows how to easily position his arm to get himself framed well now that the video's started. And, if you were one of those already lucky or maybe unlucky enough to know him, his nervousness is evident in how he runs his right hand through his hair, his main nervous tick.]

Hey, Nida here. Uh, so I've been trying to figure out how to approach this for a week or so now, since the 'party' thing that happened. And while I've been through this device and a lot of different filtering options, I can't seem to find one that will, sight unseen, just filter to young adults.

So to start, if you're over, let's go with around twenty-two, years of age, you can probably disregard this message. Sorry, this thing is entirely about being younger here and so not really looking for as much feedback from adults that adult-ier than that.

[He has the decency to cringe at that word choice. 'Adult-ier'. Yeah, he half expects grief from those 'adultier' people for even making this, but hey, he's had a number of people give him hard looks because they were judging what it was to be a young adult with his experience so, to quote his boss, 'Whatever'.]

So, for any of those younger folk who haven't just shut me off by this point because my entire thing has been lame so far, I've got a proposition. I mean, at the New Year's Eve thing I noticed there are a lot more of us that I'd really, I don't know, anticipated? Which isn't an issue of course. And I imagine that for people from backgrounds where socializing and school and frequent releases of new movies [a small pause because really the guy looks half puzzled at that idea] was really a thing, it can be lonely here. Especially without people your age to talk to.

Especially with how sometimes the adults here get very awkward over our life experiences because I know I've heard that expressed sometimes.

Anyway, what I've been thinking is that we're here, and maybe we should figure out what to do with that fact? I'm not saying we make a young people club. Just, you know, network. Not electronic network, more the whole 'make connections with other people' network. Maybe meet up sometimes, or at least know who other people our age are, know there are maybe couches to crash on when you need to get away from situations, or someone to listen when you've got to talk, or just to share backgrounds without the inherent 'those life experiences are too big for someone your age' worried looks the older people get.

So, well, to sum up. Because basically I seem to be rambling and I normally only manage that when I'm having discussions of things like magic.

We're young. They're not as young. Sometimes that makes tension. So let's make friends who are young? If that appeals just, chat up here for right now? We can maybe talk about having a meet up later this month if people want that. Like that knitting group or whatever but for hanging out.

[He knows Rin wouldn't mind using the house for that. Seifer he'll... maybe bribe to be cool with it? Worst comes to worst schoolhouse. Or see if Billy and Tommy could host?

Look at this guy, looking more awkward at the end than he ever did at the start. Clearly a strange mixture of the nervous high school, or college really, nerd and a really built jock. And he looks like this whole process was like pulling teeth. But he does manage something like a smile because he figures that's the best way to end this.]

I'm shutting up now. Okay.

[There's a very quiet, under the breath curse that can't easily be made out, but clearly Seifer or Rinoa would know it's him cursing Hyne.]


Private Video to Seifer and Rinoa

[Clearly starts back up only seconds after the last one ended, and he looks even more awkward if that is possible. Of course it is because the video is still pointed in the direction of his head. But said head is currently face down, hidden by the fact of being pressed against their kitchen table. And his voice is only somewhat muffled as he speaks.]

I mean, all of this isn't a stupid idea, right? You can't tell me you two don't get the judgmental looks whenever we bring up anything about life back home. I guess it might not be as always bad on you, Rinoa, cause you had something vaguely resembling a non-mercenary life, I suppose. But I've heard Billy [the first time he's actually used the name of the guy he talks about sometimes at meals with them to fill quiet gaps] mention how someone called 'Captain America' would give him grief for heroing and stuff, and I know Kamala was reaching out to try and talk to people when her birthday was coming up about what it's like to be older.

It's clear there needs to be some way for young adults and late teens people to have the sort of... possible social interactions, right? Even Garden got that, and I know how we were raised was weird. Just feels so much like I'm casting doom on myself because I'm on the older end of the range I made up, and I spend a lot of time trying to get some of the 'adultier' [he groans because what a stupid word he used, fuck Seifer's not going to let that go] to not make me feel actively like I have to prove myself. Literally had to fight a guy. I'll explain that over dinner but...

Shiva's Tits, how do you delete stupid off the Internet guys?

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[firacrux]

[Hey look who figured out the video function. He's doing forge stuff, hauling some water so he's outside right now. He'll be back in soon.]


Heh heh heh, adultier. The hell kinda word is that Nomura? [Cue the shit-eating grin.]

Nah, I get you. I've been gettin' the funniest damn looks any time I talk about back home. Be nice for a chance to hang out with people who aren't gonna look at us like we're disadvantaged or some shit. Rin's right, that attitude's the kicker.

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[skyward_eyes]

Shut up, Almasy.

Did I mention that the guy that made me my staff? I had to spar with the guy. To be good enough for him to accept that I could teach. He didn't say as much, but it was in his body language. And he tried to use a bo as a sword.

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[firacrux]

Did you at least kick his ass for bein' a Hyne-damned idiot? Even I know you don't swing a bo like a sword. [He shakes his head, clearly disgusted.] But yeah you're the problem. Guy who's trained his whole life, alright.

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[skyward_eyes]

Cracked him hard in the side. Otherwise he blocked a good bit. Never even touched me. And I didn't do any of the acrobatics you've seen me use. Went easy on him, but it was great, to have that rush with a weapon.

Apparently he uses a style that uses a shorter version in that sort of way. Which I just...

I wouldn't want a guy like that teaching people. They could get hurt.

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[firacrux]

Tch. [He's visibly shaking his head before the video swings around wildly, try not to get motion sick Nida he's dumping that water bucket. Once it's done he'll go back to looking down at his watch.]

Good way to get people killed, improperly trained on the weapon they're using. The hell wasn't he using the right kind then?

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[skyward_eyes]

Because he didn't have one the right length. I offered to cut down one of the ones I made. His style isn't bad but it isn't... it doesn't seem practical against anything but a person.

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[firacrux]

To be fair, I don't think too many of these people have ever had to fight anything that isn't a person.

[Back outside for another bucket of water. Hard at work.]

Sure get you eaten quick by a Grat. Much less a T-Rexaur. Imagine being the moron they had to cut out of a Grat?

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[skyward_eyes]

Yeah, I know. I have to give them credit for the fact that a lot of worlds sound easier than ours.

And then there's you. Settling down into the life of a smith well. I'm jealous.

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[firacrux]

Wouldn't it be nice if it wasn't monsters or war on your doorstep every afternoon?

[He huffs, then smirks down at the watch.]

What? I'd go crazy doin' nothin'. Ain't like I'm qualified for much. We're too specialized to our world.

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[skyward_eyes]

You work somewhere warm.

[It's not just that but he lets it go.]

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[firacrux]

Nothin' stopping you from coming down here.

[It is warm. He's pretty sure Tony wouldn't care.]

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[skyward_eyes]

[Except that's your space, Seifer. You need your own friends. Your own start.]

I'm busy being the center of the social bubble of teens.

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[firacrux]

[And he can't have Nida visit when he invites him because?]

Uh-huh. Sure you are. That's the reason.

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[alittlelonger]

It's not like it's new that the adults don't listen to us. [She sighs and rolls her eyes.]

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[firacrux]

When have they ever? Or admitted when we're right.

[He shrugs. And maybe there's a hell of a lot of bitterness there.]

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[alittlelonger]

Exactly. So I guess it's a universal thing. You have to be like 25 or older to be taken seriously.

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[firacrux]

And even then they're gonna make you fight for it. [He rolls his eyes.] Pain in the ass.

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[alittlelonger]

Sometimes I think it's because when they were teenagers they made stupid decisions so they assume ALL teenagers do.

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[firacrux]

Even if we do make stupid decisions doesn't mean we're incompetent all the time.

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[alittlelonger]

We've also gone through a lot, more than I bet some of them have.

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[firacrux]

Considerin' the shit we've been through? Yeah, safe bet. And still we get disregarded. The hell's that about?

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[alittlelonger]

I don't know. Maybe where they're from teenagers get to live normal lives.

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[firacrux]

Probably. Lotta the worlds I'm hearin' about sound a lot less dangerous than ours for the most part.

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[alittlelonger]

It makes sense in that light. They're used to safer environments so they can't understand how necessity makes a fighter out of anyone. But we're not children.

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[firacrux]

Can't remember a time I ever was.

[While he admits it in a tone that's idle, there might be a little bitterness there. And perhaps some regret. The others were able to talk to each other about these things. Seifer, ever the black sheep, is once again left out of the party. Not like there would ever be a chance now anyway.]