Keith (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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maskormenace2019-09-23 11:13 pm
lonered) wrote in maskormenace2019-09-23 11:13 pm
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[This is new for Keith. He monitors the network, of course, too paranoid not to pay attention to everything that's going on around him, but actually posting something? It's out of his comfort zone. It's the vlog all over again.
So he looks awkward, like he can't believe he's actually doing this. But he is. He's still wearing the green apron that makes up his uniform (the Moonbucks logo just barely visible in frame), mullet tamed back into a little ponytail. He's got a coffee in his hands, and he's tucked himself at a table back in the far corner of the cafe he works in. He's on break.]
Is it really that bad if someone spells your name wrong on a coffee cup? I mean, the drink's right. I always get the drink right. Isn't that the important part?
[Someone has had a few complaints apparently.] It's loud and busy in here. How am I supposed to hear the difference between Bob and Bog? ...Bog could be a name. I know I've met a Bog.
[They were an alien, but that is not the point. He spreads his hands in a "see? a point!" gesture. And in this gesture he uncovers his own name written on his cup. Somehow he's left off the "h" and and scrawled the "t" in such a way that it looks more like a "f" and anyway, he's currently drinking a coffee that belongs to "Keif."
This problem goes deep.
Anyway.]
Sometimes I think this job isn't a great fit. Also I'm pretty sure I'm going to smell like pumpkin spice for the rest of my life. There's not even any pumpkin in it.
[Keith's having that kind of day.
Anyone who wants to catch him in person at work, feel free to find him brooding into his coffee on his break. And feel free to have been personally victimized by Keith's inability to get names right on coffee orders.]
So he looks awkward, like he can't believe he's actually doing this. But he is. He's still wearing the green apron that makes up his uniform (the Moonbucks logo just barely visible in frame), mullet tamed back into a little ponytail. He's got a coffee in his hands, and he's tucked himself at a table back in the far corner of the cafe he works in. He's on break.]
Is it really that bad if someone spells your name wrong on a coffee cup? I mean, the drink's right. I always get the drink right. Isn't that the important part?
[Someone has had a few complaints apparently.] It's loud and busy in here. How am I supposed to hear the difference between Bob and Bog? ...Bog could be a name. I know I've met a Bog.
[They were an alien, but that is not the point. He spreads his hands in a "see? a point!" gesture. And in this gesture he uncovers his own name written on his cup. Somehow he's left off the "h" and and scrawled the "t" in such a way that it looks more like a "f" and anyway, he's currently drinking a coffee that belongs to "Keif."
This problem goes deep.
Anyway.]
Sometimes I think this job isn't a great fit. Also I'm pretty sure I'm going to smell like pumpkin spice for the rest of my life. There's not even any pumpkin in it.
[Keith's having that kind of day.
Anyone who wants to catch him in person at work, feel free to find him brooding into his coffee on his break. And feel free to have been personally victimized by Keith's inability to get names right on coffee orders.]
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Maybe do strange drawings next time. "Order up for... horse eating a taco."
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[A shrug and Keith cracks a smile at that.] You know, that's not a bad idea. Kinda cute.
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It might get some laughs out of people. Though I'd run out of ideas pretty fast or just want to draw different horses.
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[And he's trying. He really is.]
It might. I'm not sure I'm even that creative. [Let's be honest he'd just draw knives and then his manager would have to talk to him about that issue instead.]
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[And now he perks up because he's quite confident he'd be better at what they're looking into than he is at customer service.] I guess I'm trying to find my way back to the sky.
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I know someone who ended up joining the Air Force here, though that's also assuming military appeals to you. Or maybe you could get a job at the moon base, that would be fun.
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[Maybe more special forces? The Paladins operate like a Galaxy Garrison squadron in many ways, but the Blades are a different beast entirely.]
I need to check out the moon base. I miss space too. Have you been to the base?
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I have been. It's so beautiful up there, but looking down at Earth can make me feel a little small and insignificant, too. I realize just how many of us are on this planet.
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[There's a little flicker of a smile on his own face, almost wistful.]
But I don't think you need to feel insignificant. There's a lot of people in the universe, but everyone has a part to play. Everyone's connected. Everyone matters, in some way to someone.
[They're all made of the same star stuff!]
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I get that though. It screwed me up a lot when I was a kid. I'd kind of given up, mostly.
[Before he met Shiro. He'd never expected to matter to anyone, never mind do anything worthwhile with his life.] Sounds like you've got it figured out way better than I did. I'm glad.
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[Boy has he learned that one in the past few years.]
I'm not exactly happy about random interdimensional kidnapping part, but it's not a bad place to be stuck while we figure that out.
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[Keith says as if he wasn't just barely an adult when he got swept into space, most of the other paladins were teenagers. But that isn't the point.]
I'm Keith, by the way. [He turns his cup to point at his name and just now realizes he managed to screw that up to, stares and slowly turns the cup around so it isn't visible anymore.]
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I'm Tina. And yeah... I'd be pretty helpless without it. I wonder why this place picked me of all people sometimes, but I've accepted I might never know, too.
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Good to meet you, Tina.
[And he's not great at words, especially when it comes to these sorts of subjects, but he'll give it a shot.]
For what it's worth, you've helped make my day better. Maybe it brings people who notice things that aren't buildings on fire or monsters attacking the city. Those things have to be important too, right?
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