Civilian morale

[majestic_keiki]

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[With the Earth remaining under siege and no end being in sight, the ESUN has asked Unity Group to provide some of its pilots to visit various workplaces to build morale and Commander Antov agreed. Different groups have been sent, but you've been paired with Kei as you get to pretend to work everywhere from a kindergarten to a hospital to more unusual places. Whatever you're doing, she's clearly uncomfortable and trying to avoid letting it show. What kind of place are you currently at?]

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[In the car between two places late in the day, Kei is very quiet and just trying to focus her attention on some weird drink.]

Why did they think this was a good idea?

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[booty_chaser]

[And as absolute contrast to Kei's complete lack of enthusiasm, here we have Ashe clearly enjoying their job as part of humanitarian relief efforts in some place lost around the map. Charity is really good business for marketing, after all - though, of course, the plan was mostly to look good and help some apppropriately cute children in front of the cameras, because being covered in dirt helping dig the foundations for a new school surrounded by old ugly construction workers doesn't sell to TV stations as well.

The Legion Hunter, though, is clearly much less concerned with the cameras than with actually helping. And Ashe's approach to other people's plans tends to be, famously, easily likened to a bull in a glass shop. So she's completely derailing the whole thing both her and the production crew are getting increasingly testy. On the plus side, Kei, that's a few eyes less on you]

Hey! You with the camera! Get out of the way! What part of "construction work in progress" didn't you get?

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[majestic_keiki]

I think it might be better to leave the organizing the professionals who understand the job properly.

[Ashe drawing the attention helps. In fact, the lack of attention makes her comfortable enough to snark!]

[booty_chaser]

Yup! That's exactly why I'm letting the foreman tell me what to do instead of the guys with the cameras!

[Ashe's grin is so cheeky it's almost disarming, even as she digs with surprising ferocity]

[majestic_keiki]

[For once Kei does not have a response to something obviously, flagrantly wrong and deliberately misinterpreting the situation. Instead she just tries to puff herself up and look cool. As much as she can while the cameras are rolling.]

[booty_chaser]

[Ashe just keeps at it, whistling happily and generally being one more of the crew - though, admittedly, one that is doing like four times as much work as anyone else. Of course, problem is this'll probably mostly look good to people who have done enough manual labor to appreciate what she's doing, and these exercises never really target the humbler classes' opinion.

But then, Ashe has always had a subversive streak. She's clearly enjoying sticking it a bit to Kei's handlers and keeping them on their toes constantly. You told her she was going to get to help people in this trip, and she is going to do so.]

C'mon, Kei! Wanna give me a hand? We're setting foundations and doing some preliminary filling next - do you know how to drive?

[majestic_keiki]

I'm sixteen, I'm too young to drive. [Because that's obviously relevant for somebody old enough to pilot a giant death robot.] But what do you need?