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Apprentice(shipping)

APPRENTICE-SHIPPING

From the moment we begin our lives, we're learning. It's imperative to surviving, to growing - don't walk in the shadows, it's dangerous, don't touch the fire, you'll be hurt. These days, most continue to hone this natural instinct with formal schooling, but that's certainly not the end all, be all of knowledge. If you go to school or not, if you have the opportunity or otherwise, you won't stop sharpening your mind after those formative years. That's just not the way our incredible brains work.

You, specifically, have actually decided to something equally incredible: you want to really dedicate yourself to learning a skill, and what better way than an apprenticeship? Formal or informal, you're under someone's tutelage, absorbing everything they can teach, growing closer to them in the process...

...unfortunately, though, you've gained a little something extra with that bite from the fruit of knowledge. You've fallen for your mentor.

Do you realize this pitfall immediately, or will you have to learn the hard way?

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( master or apprentice, i'm comfortable with either role. )

[ Master. ]

[ anything & everything! ]

[he's a (space) pirate captain, lol, come be his cabin girl and learn about ships (in space). m/f preferred unless you're a rare & elusive castmate]

[he should definitely put this tiny stowaway kleptomaniac mechanic to work on his space pirate ship. and make her put back all the shiny stuff she may have pocketed.]

[LOL this sounds like a plan. i can start us off, is there anything you'd like to parse out first before i do?]

[Nothing off the top of my head! If you've got an idea to set the scene, feel free. I am happy to play it by ear!]

[It hasn't been long since Marvelous acquired this ship from its last owner. At the moment it doesn't even have a crew. Over the past few months Marvelous has been attending to the menial but necessary tasks of emptying out the cabins, cleaning out the hold, restocking the galley, repairing the damage to the forecastle...]

[So it's safe to say that the Galleon has been docked in one place for a long time now. That's plenty of time for a stowaway to sneak on board; and there are many rooms where she might hide away. The hold's a good one, and of course there's the engine room, which Marvelous doesn't set foot in by principle because the machines confuse him. He might have to fix that at some point, if he's going to get the ship up and running again. As far as brigs go, this one isn't very high tech, no, but Marvelous is the kind of man who balks if you put a can opener in front of him.]

[The day he discovers the stowaway is a day of much confusion, and staring (on Marvelous' end), and then some height jokes, because she's tiny, and Marvelous, who has never been very tall for a man, is glad to have found someone whose head he can look over. Thank you, space gods. He grabs her by the shoulders and steers her into the galley, because yes, she's a stowaway, and yes, Marvelous has just gone through a really bad mutiny, but people need to eat, and they deserve to sleep in a proper cabin, and for better or for worse, Marvelous has always been one of those bleeding heart kinds of guys. He just pretends otherwise. Sometimes.]

[He gives her some time to rest up. He hasn't really gotten around to asking her who she is or where she comes from. Considering it might be a sensitive topic, he kind of wants to ease into that.]

[Barging into her cabin early one morning isn't the best way to do that.]

Get up, get up! Meteor shower!

[Yeah, he likes to watch them from the exosphere.]

[She calls herself "Five," and he's not so far off in his guess that she might have some traumatic backstory. She'd stolen something very important from some very bad people, and sneaked onto his ship in hope of escaping with her life. She hadn't known the ship was grounded until she had gotten on board, but as it turned out, it had been the right choice. Her pursuers would have never guessed that any stowaway in their right mind would stow away on a ship that wasn't going anywhere.]

[So what did that say about Five? She tried not to think about it too hard. Marvelous hadn't seemed to mind having her around, and she couldn't complain about having three square meals, and a proper bed to bunk in. And, seeing his reaction to household appliances, it was probably a good thing she was there to get his ship in shape. He'd be completely lost without her. Even if she did say so herself.]

[She sat bolt upright when he barged in, wondering how in the world he still managed to surprise her. But his enthusiasm is catching.]

I'm up! I'm up!

[He tosses her a coat. It's much like his own, but orange--garish. It was the first thing he found when he was looking through the hold. He goes outside to give her some privacy, waiting for her in the corridor. When she's ready, he heads up to the deck of the ship.]

[The ship is docked in the exosphere, rich and black, and the aura of the planet beneath them glows a hazy blue. When the meteors first breach the atmosphere, they are nothing special--slow tumbling rocks that break through the invisible envelope, then suddenly pick up speed. They burn white before they plummet through the sky. It's this part that Marvelous likes. There is sound on the ship, but not in the thermosphere. The meteors are quiet, glowing giants.]

Good luck, huh? [He certainly thinks so. There are many superstitions on a pirate ship; Marvelous eschews none of them.]

[The coat clashes with her hair, but then, what doesn't? Five is just happy to not how similar it is to the Captain's, and how much it makes her feel like part of the crew. Well. The only crew, really.]

[She smiles as she watches the meteors, like strange fireworks streaking across the sky. She's never seen them from such a vantage point. She probably never would have, if she hadn't stowed away on this particular ship.]

I'd say it's very good luck.

[For a while they just stand like that; Marvelous points out a meteor he thinks resembles a funny shape, but doesn't say much else, content to let the light show speak for itself. When the last of the meteors rains down on the planet, he puts his elbows on the wooden ship railing.]

So are you going to tell me what brought you here?

[Five leans there with him, quiet for a moment. She's pretty sure she can trust him. If he was going to space her, he could have done that a long time ago, instead of feeding her, and giving her a room, and a uniform.]

I stole something. Something valuable enough to kill for. I just needed a place to hide, but I kinda like it here. With you.

[Marvelous nods slowly. Stealing, he can't fault her for that. It's how he makes his living and he's never understood why there are laws against it.]

And these people--do you think they're still looking for you?

[That's really his primary concern right now.]

I don't know. I hope not.

[But there was always a chance that somebody might recognize her if she ever bumped into them again.]

I'm sorry if I've brought you trouble. I never meant for anything like this to happen.

No apologies needed. [He leans back against the railing.] We'll just run. We'll leave the star system, find another. There's always another.

Do you know anything about sailing, though?

[An invisible shield surrounds the ship, so they can talk and breathe, but in every other respect it is very old-fashioned. It has two masts with square sails. It's just like the pirate ships you'd expect to find on the ocean. The only difference is it's... red.]

A little. Probably not enough to pilot a ship on my own.

[But that wouldn't necessarily stop her from trying. She's a very ambitious little stowaway.]

Well, I can teach you. [Marvelous is cheerful enough about the prospect.] What about you? Is there anything you're really good at?

I can fix things. [She smiles back at him, her features brightening at the thought of being able to contribute her talents] Gears. Wires. Anything that I can take apart, I can put back together, good as new.

[That's a very sweet smile, though he doesn't say this.] Then you can try to explain the engine room to me, and I'll teach you what I know about sails and rigging. Okay?

Okay, Captain. [She likes his smile, too. He's not nearly as menacing as she might have expected a space pirate to be. At least, not toward her.] You've got yourself a deal.

[He touches her shoulder, then points at the sails. They are wrapped around the masts like flags, tied shut with ropes.]

The sails are reefed because we're anchored. We need to unfurl them before we can sail. Let me show you how, and then we'll leave.

[He wouldn't care about the pace of their journey, except people are after her, and he'd rather they not get their hands on her. He's still curious about what she stole, and he decides he'll ask once they're safely out of orbit. For now, he walks over to the mainmast. The ropes around the boom are tied up tight.]

[She follows, paying close attention to the way the ropes are knotted, and how the sails are furled. She knows they'll have to repeat the process the next time they dock. She's a fast learner, and wants to know all she can.]

[Most likely the Master. Open to Your Universe or hers, or a something completely different. Please no characters under 20 for shippy stuff. Assumed CR is good or first meeting. A-okay to start.]

[ooc: Probably the apprentice, but either / or is fine.]

[ooc: apprentice for this guy]

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