Seriousness and fancy

[jianai]

[1]
[After a practice run, Ren leaves their unit's cockpit - and looks up, at the training TSF Fubuki and the sky above it.]

If I recall correctly, first generation TSFs had a pilot life expectancy of only 8 minutes. And that's with veteran pilots, who had a lot of experience using fighter jets. How regrettable...

But to think technology advanced so much since then! When cornered, humans are capable of pushing themselves to incredible limits. Individual persons, and humanity as a whole.

[Ren's gaze returns to the ground level. Still with that omnipresent smile, the horned person adds...]

However, I don't think that's always a good thing.

[2, aimed at people with (possibly offscreen) CR]

Heey!

[Already waving from a distance, a familiar face approaches.

And it looks like Ren got a new haircut. A change of style?]


What do you think?

Comments

[prismphantom]

Maybe...

But... I still need answers. Answers about why the Captain collaborated with Ingram, why he sent everyone -including himself- to their deaths. And I know he probably had good reasons, but if I don't try to find those answers...

[Her hands clench into fists.]

[jianai]

And I am not telling you to abandon the search for those answers, oh no!

[Ren gestures, raising hands and waving them a bit.]

Just... don't make it a sole goal in your life. I saw people who were driven by desire to right wrongs done to them, or even by revenge.

And far too often when they succeeded, it looked like they had nothing else in life. They were empty.

[Ren's gaze falls and the smile takes on an apologetic, sheepish expression.]

I'm afraid one of those people were even in Unity Group.

[prismphantom]

Frankly I already feel a little empty. Nearly everyone's gone; it's just me, Elma, and Albhard, without answers or even a solid lead other than hope that masked woman shows up again.

And if ever gets widespread that the Captain was working with Major Plissken of all people...

[jianai]

Don't give up, Selena!

[Ren's hands reach out for your shoulders and hold on to them in support.]

Your Captain was not the type of person to sell out others and put them in a trap, or the type to blindly work with an enemy and walk into a trap either. He had his reasons. We'll just have to discover them, okay? Then everything will make sense.

So we'll do it together. It's not just you, Elma, and Albhard. Everyone in Unity Group is involved now. It's everyone's duty to find out the truth.

[prismphantom]

[Her hand goes up to rest on one of Ren's, and...]

I fear more for what others, who didn't know the Captain, might think... but gracias. Not having to go it alone... makes this all easier.

[Indeed. If it were just her and Elma? No doubt it would entail a lot of running and searching and dead-ends... hiding out in derelict colonies to rest and spending upwards of weeks in disguise to try to find answers. And who'd want that?]

[jianai]

Those who did not know him at all... well, I suppose most don't even know of Team Jelba's existence, do they?

You are very secretive for a reason after all.