[Voice]

[thelastb1]

[A robotic, yet expressive voice speaks over the radio.]

If I could just ask everybody following this Convoy, for no particular reason...

What's your favorite food?

[There's a pause, before he adds]

Unless you're Akihiko. If you're Akihiko, stop listening. [He means that last part in a sort of tongue-in-cheek way, except that he has neither of those things.]

Comments

[hexrot]

Care adds zest.

[ would an automation know what love is? this one's expressive enough that jayce doesn’t want to take his chances in offending it. roger wasn't already . . . keen on him some days prior. ]

Anyone you care about here?

cw: mentions of war and death

[thelastb1]

No. [Roger turns very morose.]

The galaxy had just gone to war when I left. Moxie and Ka-Pao had just helped me escape from a Hutt, and we had all gotten stranded on an asteroid. They didn't come here with me.

One of my family members was a Senator, which means she lived on Hosnian Prime, and that blew up when the war started. I don't know if she was on-planet, when it happened. [He hopes not, but the odds aren't good.]

Everyone else I care about is either scattered across a galaxy that's just gotten very dangerous, or are fighting for a very small army against a very big army. [He didn't even know the Resistance had survived the Battle of Crait at all until a few hours before he arrived on Revan.]

I don't know if it's better to be here, and worry things might be bad, or to be there, and know things are bad.

[So far he's just tried to keep it out of his mind. To be grateful that he's here, that he's spared whatever the First Order is doing. He knows it can't last, that he needs to get back and fight, eventually. But for all of Revan's challenges, it's relative bliss.]

[hexrot]

[ well. that answers it. jauce wasn't expecting an admission as big as this one, but, you know? as awkward as it was, he stays quiet for it to go through. who knows how long roger's been holding that one in.

good thing he doesn't have to look at any eyes during this. but, still. damn. feels like he should be. ]

Been keeping that to yourself for a while, haven't you?

[thelastb1]

Not on purpose. [He'll talk about any part of his life to anyone who will listen without a second thought, but it hasn't really come up before, and he certainly isn't trying to dredge up thoughts about the matter himself.] But... yeah.

[He ought to return the question, in any case.] What about you? Anyone from your... [What's the terminology here? Universe? Dimension? Those seem too large in scale to mean anything, and he doesn't know if Jayce is from an Earth.] home, here?

[hexrot]

[ jayce's voice goes noticeably soft when he replies: ]

My partner, [ the only person he'll ever need across the universe, ] Viktor.