i_am_your_host: (age 10)
The Master of Ceremonies ([personal profile] i_am_your_host) wrote in [community profile] milliways_bar2017-08-07 05:40 pm

EP - tiny!Emcee

The door works in the strangest of ways.

So when a certain someone is holed up in his room, his younger self, his much, much younger self, enters the bar.

Small and pale and undernourished, the elfin ten-year-old boy (who could be mistaken for even younger than that) is dressed in secondhand school clothes from a distant era: knickerbockers and knee socks, a cardigan and cloth cap. He stares at his surroundings with large brown doe eyes.

Has he been here before? Perhaps in a dream? Why does it feel so familiar, when the door shouldn't have led here at all?

But this is a pub, and the little boy knows pubs. He goes up to the counter, peeking over it on tiptoes, to look for the barman. But there is none. How odd.

Even odder is the glass of milk and the plate of cookies that suddenly appear out of thin air.

This must be a dream.
childofrebellion: (intense listen)

[personal profile] childofrebellion 2017-08-07 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
That time reassures Cassian, because learning to be thoughtful and quiet is always safer.

The dimples make him blink as they are familiar, "Its good to meet you, Hansel. This is Milliways and the counter is named Bar, she's alive and you can ask her for what you want."

He doesn't think comparing her to a droid would help in this case.
Edited 2017-08-07 23:38 (UTC)
childofrebellion: (kind at the end)

[personal profile] childofrebellion 2017-08-08 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
"A lot of Milliways can feel like a story, a nicer one,"

One where there's more hope and happy endings are possible.
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[personal profile] childofrebellion 2017-08-08 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Cassian sips his caf and nods, its been a long time since he had nice dreams, "Yes, but its real."
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[personal profile] childofrebellion 2017-08-08 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Fairly well, I'm still learning about it. What would you like to know?"

Milliways keeps creating new complications but he can answer questions. He remembers being that age and wanting to ask but doing more listening.
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[personal profile] childofrebellion 2017-08-08 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Time can be strange here. No, I'm not. I'm a pilot, a captain fighting in a long war in a galaxy with no Earth,"

He taps his rank on his jacket, its the simplest explanation and the truth and he feels certain this is Emcee somehow. And it matters to be honest as he can with him as their worlds are too alike, seeing him young is reinforcing that.
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[personal profile] childofrebellion 2017-08-08 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
"No, a ship through the stars but it can fly in the air too. It looks like this,"

On his datapad he finds an image of a U-wing and projects it, making the wings move to show how it can adjust.
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[personal profile] childofrebellion 2017-08-08 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
"You can touch it, its called a holoprojection and made of light. It won't hurt you,"

Cassian moves the datapad over to Hansel and moves his hand through it, slightly disrupting the image but not breaking it.
childofrebellion: (side charm)

[personal profile] childofrebellion 2017-08-09 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
(OOC: Sorry for disappearing. Catching up on some much needed sleep.)

"Holoprojection and I do,"

He looks on the pad to try and find something interesting to a boy. Finally he finds an image of an X-wing.
childofrebellion: (strategic mind)

[personal profile] childofrebellion 2017-08-09 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"The engines are here," He points to the engines on the foils and the various weapons, "This is a starfighter, it also has weapons here."
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[personal profile] childofrebellion 2017-08-10 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Because there's a war going on and the galaxy's a dangerous place,"

Cassian adjusts the angle and shows how there are sort of propellers deep within the engines.
childofrebellion: (face to trust)

[personal profile] childofrebellion 2017-08-10 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, I am. I get close to the enemy to learn what I can and do what damage I can,"

Cassian rubs the back of his neck, he remembers fighting when he was as young as Hansel, throwing rocks, winning his way closer to Imps by looking small and sad.
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[personal profile] childofrebellion 2017-08-10 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
He looks down at his drink and then searches on his datapad finally finding a picture of a bantha,

"Yes, I think I do."

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