tushanshu | 001 ♒ Video

[When the video starts, the man sitting at the console is still peering warily at some of the hardware. It doesn't seem quite as advanced as the systems he'd outfitted the Aquacave with, but he doesn't particularly trust much of anything here. He's blond, probably tall, and somewhat damp-looking, dressed in an... interesting... orange scaled shirt. His posture is also impeccable, almost royal.] It isn't every day I start things off by being fished out of the sea. [He's not pleased. Not pleased at all, which is obvious from his scathing tone.] The joke is much less humorous to my wife and me.

Obviously I've been... filled in... by the natives, but I'm not sure I trust the information given. Alternate dimensions are rarely so straight-forward. [He mumbles something under his breath and it probably isn't all that appropriate or kingly, but hey, alternate dimensions, just another Tuesday. Or whatever day it is.]

I'm Arthur Curry of Atlantis. Contact me if you're someone I'd actually like to speak to, you'll know who you are. In the mean time, to my 'neighbors'... don't mind the noise, we're doing a little rearranging.

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Well, not overnight.

[Yes, that was a sex reference.]

[He can safely say he's never done it in a bath tub. The corner of his mouth quirks up at that, but that's about the only reaction. It isn't very kingly to laugh at dirty jokes and his wife might not appreciate it.]

We are thankful for the pool, all things considered. I haven't slept well on land in many years.

[Nita doesn't expect her Atlantean kings to play along, but she's a little surprised not to have collected a dirty look for her trouble. Arthur is much mellower than Namor.]

I can go either way.

[She shrugs. Her family isn't perfectly amphibious, but they're darn close.]

Seriously, though. Shout if you need anything--literally. You've gotta be close enough that I'll hear you.

[It's not as bad as the harem cracks he used to make himself when Dolphin and Mera didn't get along (mostly over him, as this was before Dolphin dated and then married Garth). At least it's about his wife.]

Likewise. Anything for a fellow Atlantean. [They may not be from the same Atlantis, but it's close enough to count in Arthur's book. And anyway, it isn't the first time he's met transdimensional waterbreathers.]

I'm not gonna go so far as "anything."

[Namor has gotten himself into trouble with ill-advised promises before, and Nita doesn't want to get a reputation as an oathbreaker, even if it's just something she said in casual conversation.]

Catch you later.

[She waves at the screen, giving Arthur a second in which he can say something else before she disconnects.]

I won't ask as far as anything. [He doesn't like asking for favors period, let's be real. It's just not something he does unless it's absolutely necessary for the survival and happiness of Atlantis.]

I'll see you around.

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