[Planet. He said planet. Maybe this isn't a totally off-limits civilization after all! ...not that she's been any good at navigating the Prime Directive since she got here, but at least Tendi is trying. A little. I mean, a bit. Either way, this is good!]
Space dandruff? Ew, no! That'd be so gross! [But she says that in a really amused way, with a hearty laugh and a legit snort, not like she's actually grossed out by it.] What, is it a planet made of hair? Ooh, actually, I've heard stories about civilizations living on giant creature bodies! Maybe something like that?
[... Yeah this is getting really far from the point, actually--] My planet just has these sharp little rocks. No sand. It's actually pretty uncomfortable...but it can be a nice place, too! Just. Not the beaches.
It sounds weird, right? But this one station my friends and I go to all the time called Knowhere, was built out of the floating skull of a Celestial. So there's parts where people mine the dead brain 'cause you can melt it down for fuel, and it makes all this awful brain dust. It's soo gross!
[ He says this like, in an amusing way? Well. He says it like it's weird, but also kind of cool. Space is cool. ]
That's rad, though! What's it called? I've been to some weird planets, but I don't think I've seen one with sharp rocks. Seen some cool caves though. Ooh, and creepy rock formations.
Oh, wow, no way! That sounds so gross! [She says this with a delighted expression and a laugh.] You have to wonder how people come up with things like that, right? Like, who thought of that, anyway? Maybe it was something like, "hey, let's melt down this brain goo and see if it'll power our spaceships!" I just wanna talk.
[She gasps at that last bit.] I was just in a cave before I got here! It was full of this weird glowing moss stuff that ate animals and also talked. [WISTFUL SIGH.] It was so great. I love away missions. --Oh, right, you asked a question. I'm from Orion. It's not actually that weird, just...the not-sand.
[She has a weird little feeling as she says all of that; the fact that he asks means...he doesn't seem to know offhand? But she's still watching his reaction to that bit, I'm from Orion, like she's waiting for a shoe to drop.]
Right? Who went "hey, that floating skull seems like a pretty neat spot to start a space colony!" And then using the brain? So gross!
[ He laughs. Finally. Finally, it's like he's talking to someone who is speaking his language. ]
That's cool! Never heard of it. Must be another galaxy or something!
[ He just says that. Like it's nbd. Because it's not. He briefly wonders if maybe Gamora was from Orion? She wouldn't know since Thanos murdered her parents and kidnapped her but. That's not Peter's story to tell. Plus, he's way more excited about the talk of caves. ]
Oh man. One time I was in a cave with like—weird mind-reading mist. And it created these copies of whatever you talked about or thought about, right, and then those copies would totally attack! Seriously, my friends and I fought like 3 waves of those things before we realized what was going on. They seriously packed a punch!
[Wow. Woah. He just said that like it's no big deal.
... Okay, so maybe this place isn't literally all bad, after all. She can handle being looked at funny for being green for a while, instead of for being an Orion.]
Ye...yeah! That could be. I mean, the universe is a big place, right? We've only explored even a fraction of it. [And isn't that what Starfleet is really all about?
That, and cave missions. She gasps.] No way, that sounds so wild! Did it try to tempt you into following it into some weird device, or distract you while it knocked you out, or something like that? Or was it like, making perfect copies of you that knew your every move and made fighting really tough?
[ It's totally no big deal, girl, he will just keep smiling. She seems happy? Good for her! ]
Totally! Plus there's like, multiple universes and stuff. Could be yours doesn't have Xandar or Spartax or any of those!
[ He's met people from different universes and it's nbd if you ask him. But he's also very good at rolling with weird stuff. Like cave missions. ]
It totally did! AND IT TOTALLY DID THAT! [ He waves a hand like, omg. How'd she know. ] We had to fight copies of ourselves and they just kept coming! Turns out it was the water or something? We had to close off a skull-shaped waterfall to get it to stop. [ What is your life, Peter. ] In the end it was kinda like... I think it was some kind of weird cave trial because there was a guy hiding down there? I dunno if he made the mist or what, but he'd been hiding down there cause he was super powerful and was tired of people asking him for stuff.
Not that I've heard of...but who knows? It's a big galaxy, and an even bigger universe! I don't think anyone has explored outside the Milky Way, so maybe Xandar and Spartax are out there somewhere in my universe too!
[She's taking this whole multiverse thing kind of well. More like she hasn't exactly parsed it yet -- she's sort of saving it for later. Right now she's still in the middle of the first mental break, then she has to have the temporal panic attack, and then we can think about the ramifications of multiple universes colliding like this.
Anyway, onto funner conversation topics: aha! She nailed it!]
A skull-shaped waterfall? [That has her laughing.] Boy, your universe is just totally going with it on design, huh? That is so wild! It's kind of nice to know that caves are always just like that, no matter where you go.
We're both in the Milky Way though, huh? It'd be pretty awesome if it was like that!
[ It's ok, we can't all get sucked into a space hand that takes a shortcut to the other side of the galaxy by traveling through the space in between universes. Peter's special like that. ]
Right?! Yeah, it was pretty wild. Caves are always creepy! And I think that one might've been alive? I don't even know. Felt like we were being watched the whole time. It's like, geez, everything in space is always different everywhere you go -- except for caves!
Right? It'd be pretty cool. And there are whole quadrants that we just don't know much about! Not to mention wormholes and alternate universes and all of that.
[Voyager represent, amirite?? Anyway, she's totally fired up with the space talk, but also, she's a massive nerd. So when he mentions--] It was alive?? I mean. Maybe-alive?? That's amazing!
Of course, my first thought is "ohhh I wanna study it!!" But also, that does sound kind of creepy. If it was watching you the whole time, I mean. ...even if it wasn't watching, that's still creepy.
Dude, for sure. All the different universes out there? It's nuts.
[ Yes, perfect. Like, there's a universe where he's a jerk and he fights Thanos? Bizarre. ]
It totally was! There were all these like, faces in the rocks. And we're not talking like "oh, this rock kinda looks like a face" I mean like, these things had eyelids and lips, it was freaky! All the eyes were closed? But it still felt like we were being watched.
[ He sounds more excited about it than necessarily creeped out, though. It's always an adventure with Peter Quill. ]
Faces in the rocks? Wow! I mean-- totally weird, but that's so cool! Do you think they were sleeping? Or was it just like...they didn't need their eyes to see? I guess if it's a whole planet like that, maybe it's one whole symbiotic system and they communicated in some rock-language or something!
[Oh. Oh no. The gears are turning. She is thinking way too hard about this.]
You're right though, space is the best. And-- I'm sure there's some cool stuff to discover on this planet, too! There's gotta be more to it than just this city, right?
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Space dandruff? Ew, no! That'd be so gross! [But she says that in a really amused way, with a hearty laugh and a legit snort, not like she's actually grossed out by it.] What, is it a planet made of hair? Ooh, actually, I've heard stories about civilizations living on giant creature bodies! Maybe something like that?
[... Yeah this is getting really far from the point, actually--] My planet just has these sharp little rocks. No sand. It's actually pretty uncomfortable...but it can be a nice place, too! Just. Not the beaches.
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It sounds weird, right? But this one station my friends and I go to all the time called Knowhere, was built out of the floating skull of a Celestial. So there's parts where people mine the dead brain 'cause you can melt it down for fuel, and it makes all this awful brain dust. It's soo gross!
[ He says this like, in an amusing way? Well. He says it like it's weird, but also kind of cool. Space is cool. ]
That's rad, though! What's it called? I've been to some weird planets, but I don't think I've seen one with sharp rocks. Seen some cool caves though. Ooh, and creepy rock formations.
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[She gasps at that last bit.] I was just in a cave before I got here! It was full of this weird glowing moss stuff that ate animals and also talked. [WISTFUL SIGH.] It was so great. I love away missions. --Oh, right, you asked a question. I'm from Orion. It's not actually that weird, just...the not-sand.
[She has a weird little feeling as she says all of that; the fact that he asks means...he doesn't seem to know offhand? But she's still watching his reaction to that bit, I'm from Orion, like she's waiting for a shoe to drop.]
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Right? Who went "hey, that floating skull seems like a pretty neat spot to start a space colony!" And then using the brain? So gross!
[ He laughs. Finally. Finally, it's like he's talking to someone who is speaking his language. ]
That's cool! Never heard of it. Must be another galaxy or something!
[ He just says that. Like it's nbd. Because it's not. He briefly wonders if maybe Gamora was from Orion? She wouldn't know since Thanos murdered her parents and kidnapped her but. That's not Peter's story to tell. Plus, he's way more excited about the talk of caves. ]
Oh man. One time I was in a cave with like—weird mind-reading mist. And it created these copies of whatever you talked about or thought about, right, and then those copies would totally attack! Seriously, my friends and I fought like 3 waves of those things before we realized what was going on. They seriously packed a punch!
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... Okay, so maybe this place isn't literally all bad, after all. She can handle being looked at funny for being green for a while, instead of for being an Orion.]
Ye...yeah! That could be. I mean, the universe is a big place, right? We've only explored even a fraction of it. [And isn't that what Starfleet is really all about?
That, and cave missions. She gasps.] No way, that sounds so wild! Did it try to tempt you into following it into some weird device, or distract you while it knocked you out, or something like that? Or was it like, making perfect copies of you that knew your every move and made fighting really tough?
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Totally! Plus there's like, multiple universes and stuff. Could be yours doesn't have Xandar or Spartax or any of those!
[ He's met people from different universes and it's nbd if you ask him. But he's also very good at rolling with weird stuff. Like cave missions. ]
It totally did! AND IT TOTALLY DID THAT! [ He waves a hand like, omg. How'd she know. ] We had to fight copies of ourselves and they just kept coming! Turns out it was the water or something? We had to close off a skull-shaped waterfall to get it to stop. [ What is your life, Peter. ] In the end it was kinda like... I think it was some kind of weird cave trial because there was a guy hiding down there? I dunno if he made the mist or what, but he'd been hiding down there cause he was super powerful and was tired of people asking him for stuff.
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[She's taking this whole multiverse thing kind of well. More like she hasn't exactly parsed it yet -- she's sort of saving it for later. Right now she's still in the middle of the first mental break, then she has to have the temporal panic attack, and then we can think about the ramifications of multiple universes colliding like this.
Anyway, onto funner conversation topics: aha! She nailed it!]
A skull-shaped waterfall? [That has her laughing.] Boy, your universe is just totally going with it on design, huh? That is so wild! It's kind of nice to know that caves are always just like that, no matter where you go.
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[ It's ok, we can't all get sucked into a space hand that takes a shortcut to the other side of the galaxy by traveling through the space in between universes. Peter's special like that. ]
Right?! Yeah, it was pretty wild. Caves are always creepy! And I think that one might've been alive? I don't even know. Felt like we were being watched the whole time. It's like, geez, everything in space is always different everywhere you go -- except for caves!
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[Voyager represent, amirite?? Anyway, she's totally fired up with the space talk, but also, she's a massive nerd. So when he mentions--] It was alive?? I mean. Maybe-alive?? That's amazing!
Of course, my first thought is "ohhh I wanna study it!!" But also, that does sound kind of creepy. If it was watching you the whole time, I mean. ...even if it wasn't watching, that's still creepy.
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[ Yes, perfect. Like, there's a universe where he's a jerk and he fights Thanos? Bizarre. ]
It totally was! There were all these like, faces in the rocks. And we're not talking like "oh, this rock kinda looks like a face" I mean like, these things had eyelids and lips, it was freaky! All the eyes were closed? But it still felt like we were being watched.
[ He sounds more excited about it than necessarily creeped out, though. It's always an adventure with Peter Quill. ]
Space, man!
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[Oh. Oh no. The gears are turning. She is thinking way too hard about this.]
You're right though, space is the best. And-- I'm sure there's some cool stuff to discover on this planet, too! There's gotta be more to it than just this city, right?