(video) an orb speaks

[incessantness]

(honestly, there isn't anything too big here. just a girl, young with hazel eyes - tapping, poking, and yelling into the poor charm.

... accidentally activating video.)

... I don't understand this. They said this is useful, but it's just pretty. I can make pretty things too. HELLO????

(grumble, grumble... confusion?)

(an ooc note! fushi has many forms, as explained and shown in this post here. feel free to opt-out if you'd like!)

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[starguy]

[ It's cool to see—alien stuff has always been the coolest, so he's excited even to just feel that Fushi's hand is totally normal. ]

Dude, you can feel other people's pain? That has to suck.

[ Peter accepts the gun, twirling it in his hand just for fun. It really weighs the same as the real thing, so you know he's going to keep and treasure this thing.

He snorts hearing Fushi curse now, though. It's good to hear him let loose. It psychs him up, Peter is happy to support him. ]

Well, if you find out anything else, you can let me know. By the sound of that guy, he might've left some stuff out just to fuck with you.

[ Wow, he even said "fuck." ]

[incessantness]

Yeah, that's it.

(imagine when fushi learns he can resurrect amongst other crazy shit. truly a trip, but right now, he sits happily unaware.

there's a scrunch of his nose, a loud exhale, and he drops to the bed again. at least peter seems happy!!)

I don't think it's impossible, but anyway. All the food you see is from my world, just how I remember it. It's edible and not weird, ok? Have at it.

[starguy]

[ Bro... Peter will be the first to tell him not to use that power without being super careful, he knows all about how the dead should stay dead. ]

Woah, seriously? That's awesome. Tastes just as good as the real thing! At least, I'm guessing it did? Not sure what kind of pear it was supposed to be.

[ Chalk up Peter as the kind of person who thinks space-cloned food is delicious and, at most, only weird enough to spare a second glance. ]

I guess to make your copy-gun work I'd have to shoot you with it. And no offense, dude, but I'm not about to do that just for science. So I'm good with this thing as-is.

[incessantness]

... I don't know either. It's just things that gave me some sort of feeling, so they're there... Some I didn't speak when I ate, so...

(their names are bloorp and blerp. they are just what they are...

but at the thought of being shot, all fushi can relate it to is being shot with an arrow, and he grimaces.)

I wouldn't die, but I'm good on that, too. I think I should go a little slower on these... Alien things? A lot of this is very much to me. Later, you can show me the arrow.

(ARROW.)

[starguy]

[ Peter takes a moment to think about that. Whatever Fushi eats or interacts with, he can recreate and understand. That has to be pretty cool, but also pretty damn confusing. ]

Hey, take your time. You don't have to understand it, either way. I sure don't.

[ He grins. He's proud of this? ]

It took me years to figure out the other modes. So you don't gotta act tough—I seriously don't want to hurt you with these, ok? There's no arrow or nothing. They shoot plasma fire, which I mean, it won't burn you, but it hurts like flark.

1/2

[incessantness]

... Peter?

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[incessantness]

... Shoot me someday. I promise I'll be fine. Not today, though, but someday.

(it's how he'll understand it, so that's what he'll get... sorry, peter...

no thoughts, brain empty, confusion.)

[starguy]

What... [ Peter blinks. ] Hey, no! I don't wanna shoot you any day. Even if it won't hurt you, friends don't shoot friends, okay? That's like rule #1 of gun safety.

[ Okay, not really, though it might have been Yondu's first lesson on gun safety tbh. Lesson 1: don't shoot your friends. Lesson 2: shoot the bad guys. ]

[incessantness]

Ah. I didn't know there were gun-safety-rules. I'm sorry, I'm just curious!

(or, well, instinctually curious. if peter had known all the very gruesome ways fushi has been maimed and is still walking and talking, well, maybe he'd see how he doesn't see that as such a bad deal!!!)

[starguy]

Don't sweat it, you couldn't have known! Plus, guns are pretty dangerous. You gotta learn the rules before using 'em or you could accidentally hurt yourself, never mind other people.

[ Peter would be so horrified if he knew all the gruesome ways Fushi has been hurt. He's already willing to go to bat for them, this would only steel his resolve. Instead it's now his job to talk proper gun etiquette, which is really taking him back. ]

[incessantness]

Well... I don't know anything about guns, but... I can teach you how to use a bow, would you switch that knowledge with me then...?

(technology of his time, it is as such.)

The girl you saw when you got here was good at it. I was bad at it with this one, so I can learn and do things responsibly! I promise.

(fushi you can bite at 400pi in doggo form)

[starguy]

[ Peter chuckles. Okay, he can see what Fushi is trying for here. It's not the same, but Peter will throw him a bone. ]

Maybe. I'm always looking to learn new stuff, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna shoot you, alright?

[ It would be wrong!!! Two can play the stubbornness game. It's sweet to think of Fushi remembering all these people who are long gone. Maybe that's what makes Peter acquiesce, at least a little bit. ]

Guns are a little more dangerous than arrows, just so you know. But the principles are pretty close to each other, so maybe one day I'll show you how to shoot.

[incessantness]

(there's that stubborn squinting from fushi. peter!!!!!!! the sooner he knows, the better he can heal when a gun actually shoots him on purpose!!!!!! but perhaps that's on fushi for sounding insane and not actually explaining.

not that he knows that he is.)

Fine, fine, but it's better for all of us if you just do, you know.

[starguy]

[ It'll make sense one day, Fushi. Just not today! Peter pets Fushi's head again, smiling victoriously. ]

I'm sure it is, buddy. But for right now, this is good enough for me.

[ Peter made a cool alien friend!! That's all he needs, really. ]

[incessantness]

(adult-like, certainly, there's fushi showing his tongue in stubbornness, before he bumps shoulders with peter.)

... Fine, fine. You should eat. I can't eat it all, and it doesn't get back in.

(no vacuum hand.)

[starguy]

[ Peter smiles, bumping him back as he grabs another pear. ]

You can just make stuff out of nothing, huh?

[ For a moment, Peter thinks about all the ways that could be exploited. Infinite units, infinite food, infinite treasure... Yeah, Fushi must be protected at all costs. Because someone meaner than Peter could take advantage of him so easily. ]

Does it go bad if you leave it, or is it like, stronger...?

[incessantness]

It's the stimuli thing. I can't make everything -- nothing alive, and some things just won't. Can't make fire, water, things like that.

(what a good question! no one's ever asked him that before.)

Ah, it's just a normal pear. I can't create or enhance, just copy.

[starguy]

Gotcha. Well, if you ever need to make fire or ice, my guns can do that.

[ It's all very interesting. Peter isn't a man of science, but if he was, he'd be having a field day. ]

That's still pretty cool.

[ He takes a bite. It's good! And he's feeling #blessed to enjoy somewhat familiar food made in an alien way. It's really his style. ]

It'd be kinda funny if you made like, a super pear. But that's a slippery slope, I bet. Probably a good thing that the copies are just regular ol' copies.

[incessantness]

I think... Perhaps I could? I really don't know. Blackhood said I could technically make an ocean, but I can just make a cup -- one I've seen, touched, and things like that.

(there's a moment where he looks at the food, and then back to peter.)

... Is there anything you really like to eat? Or miss? I might have had it.

[starguy]

Well, don't sweat it for now. You'll figure it out.

[ Is 'Black hood' the god guy? Probably a bad memory either way, so Peter will just ask another time. ]

Hmmm. [ He considers it, munching on his pear while deep in thought. ] You ever had a burger before?

[incessantness]

... No! I don't think? Can you make one here?

(from his hand, a little skewer comes out, and fushi's teeth sink on the meat.)

[starguy]

[ Oooh, a skewer. That's a little weird, but Peter decides he's fine with it. ]

Ooh, probably! [ Somehow, it had not occurred to him at all. ] I'd need some bread, beef, lettuce, tomatoes... Maybe ketchup and mustard, too. And a grill to cook it all on!

[ He can see it all now... his own off-planet BBQ... ]

Hey, it might actually be fun!

[incessantness]

We can go shopping, and we can try to make it, I think we could! I don't know what ketchup and mustard is, though. Can you make those too?

(a cookoff!!! fushi's been through a lot to learn how to cook, he'd love to cook more!!)

[starguy]

Totally, that'd be fun!

[ Hey, this is actually a cooler goal than his aimless ones, so Peter's here for it. Does Aldrip have ketchup or mustard? Maybe? Hmmm... ]

Huh... I think ketchup is just like, tomatoes and salt, mashed up together. Mustard though... it's been a while, I don't know what goes into it. It's yellow though! And kinda bitter?

[ Peter definitely doesn't know about turmeric being the main ingredient in mustard, unfortunately. ]

[incessantness]

We can get a lot of ingredients from here, have you taste it, and then you can see if you can find the closest taste. We should do that!

(food brings people together, and mustard is a mystery to be solved. although the bitterness does not really make it that interesting...)