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[runawayandroid]

[Victor is looking straight into the camera; he's got nothing to hide, after all. He seems fairly nonchalant about being here, and he mostly is, except for a couple of concerns about people he's left behind. Sure, giant turtle cities are pretty weird as alternate dimensions go, but he can cope. At least people seem to be friendly enough, and it does sound like his help might be needed.]

Hey. My name's Victor, and I just got here, so I thought I'd say hi and see who else is here. I, uh, don't think many people will recognise me, unless my friends turned up as well and I just didn't see them. Mostly I'm looking for a couple of kids called Molly and Klara, so if anyone sees them can they let me know?

[He shrugs, and looks down at the console itself, now looking a little confused.]

Anyone know how these consoles work? I usually do okay with technology, but I can't even tell what these are made of. I don't want to mess around with them if I don't know if I can read the code... if they even run on code.

[He'll avoid mentioning why he's usually good with technology, though. He's not sure what kind of prejudices people even have here, and cyborgs usually make people a little uncomfortable even at home. He looks up again suddenly, having just remembered something.]

Speaking of which, I'm meant to find a job, apparently. Anyone know anyone who needs a mechanic or an electrician? I'm not officially trained, but I'm good for an amateur and I pick things up pretty quickly.

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[justlittle]

[Bean's eyeroll at the word "magic" is noticeable, as is his sigh at having to accept magic as a thing.]

That is correct. Originally? I'm from Rotterdam. But before I was here, I was in space.

[runawayandroid]

Yeah, I know. Usually my team-mate deals with all the magic stuff, it's really, really not my thing.

[He has almost the same opinion on magical technology. But space? That's actually kind of cool. Victor's a little more noticeably enthusiastic asking the next question.]

Dude, really? What's it like up there?

[justlittle]

[Miles raises an eyebrow. What does Victor think it's like. It's space.]

Cold, dark, and quiet, mostly. Unless you're in the middle of a warzone.

[runawayandroid]

[He thought there'd be some awesome technology, okay. He's a nerd, he sort of expects people to find things like that cool.]

No, I meant what are the ships like, stuff like that. I have a couple of friends who are aliens, but they were mostly stranded and any time a spaceship turned up it tended to be kind of hostile.

that should've said Bean, not Miles. >_< too many tags

[justlittle]

[Oh. Well.]

You're friends with aliens? [Bean can't imagine anyone from his world trying to befriend a Bugger (not that the Buggers would have let them). The closest anyone ever came was Ender just trying to understand them.]

The ships are fine, I suppose. The I.F. has the most advanced technology on the planet, some of it stolen from the race we were fighting.

[runawayandroid]

Sure. Some of the biggest heroes were aliens, too. They're kind of the exception, though. Most aliens don't like us much.

[He looks slightly confused for a second.]

I.F.? Not an acronym I know, sorry.

[justlittle]

Where I come from, that would be an understatement.

International Fleet. The force behind the war against the aliens that tried to invade Earth.

[runawayandroid]

It's kind of an understatement where I come from too, to be fair. We've had a couple of invasion attempts, but they've never worked, thankfully.

So some kind of defense fleet then? We really don't have anything like that at home. Usually we're pretty reliant on the heroes taking care of it.

[justlittle]

Neither did the Formics' attempt. The I.F. started defensive, but then brought the fight to them. That's where I came in.

[And this is officially more than he's told almost anyone here about where he comes from.]

[runawayandroid]

You were up there as a combatant?

[He's a little shocked, honestly, but he's trying not to be judgemental. There's people back home who probably were fighting off alien invasions at what, nine, after all, and it's always possible Bean isn't the age he looks as well. He tries to cover by explaining something else entirely.]

I mean, I'm assuming it's over, because you've been talking in the past tense about it.

[justlittle]

[Eight, actually. And he looks younger than he is, but not by much.]

As a commander. The men who flew the ships to the Formic worlds were sent out generations ago in order to get there. And yes, we ended it. [Ender ended it. Bean feels a pang of... what? Loneliness? Longing for his friend? Yes, that's probably it.]

[runawayandroid]

Huh. Man, that sounds...

[Unpleasant? Difficult? Victor's not really sure what the right word is here, without sounding patronising. There's a pause, while he settles on a word.]

...rough. Must have been a pretty long war, then.