[OPEN] Haibara adjusts

[deage]

Who: Haibara & OPEN
Where: Quiet Car, Medical Car, Triage Car, Library Car
When: From just before mission through end of the mission
What: Haibara puts off worrying by making herself busy
Warnings: nah

[ A: Before Mission - Quiet Car ]

Things were unraveling around Haibara. Secrets revealed from all sources, putting everybody in even further danger. But those unraveled threads of secrets and conspiracies were also coming back together, forming a tapestry of new norms and possibility. She was roomed with Mouri, she could mitigate the danger Ran was in while gaining another set of eyes and ears around her. Kudo knew that she had the antidote with her, but... no, honestly that part was bad, he was far too reckless with it. And then there was Masumi Sera, Haibara still didn't know what to make of her.

But the people around her were becoming more aware of and conscious of Haibara's role in the APTX-4869, and Haibara needed to think about how to continue work on the antidote. She couldn't hide from Vermouth forever, not and still pursue any sort of goal... and so she had braved the world outside her cabin.

She was back at the place she had tried to gain access to so long ago, when she had first arrived. A lab space created in the Quiet Car, by one Tony Stark. He had left the train some weeks ago, and so she figured the space would be open for all - assuming people hadn't simply taken the equipment from it. But what she didn't expect was...

"Why is this still locked?" Who would even manage a lab now?

Crud.

[ B: During mission - Medical & Triage Cars ]

Haibara had opted to stay behind again. But something nagged at her in the back of her mind, telling her to get up and stop being a burden, and she couldn't ignore it. In her mind, the best she could do now from the train was simply to make sure things were ready for those who came back.

And with her skills, that meant ensuring that the train was prepared to treat anybody who came back injured.

So she could be found in both the Medical and Triage Cars, organizing the medicines, ensuring the supplies were ready and sanitized properly, and in general doing a lot of things a seven-year-old shouldn't be doing.

Feel free to spot her and give her a talking to. Also if your character DOES come back injured, they might have to deal with the bedside manners of a little girl without manners.

[ C: After mission - Library ]

Haibara does make some trips out of her room. A girl still has to eat and shower, even if hiding for your life. But she might be growing more bold lately, even heading over to the Library Car to find some books to read. When she's sure there will be people around besides Vermouth.

Mostly, she seems to stick to mystery novels or non-fiction. The lengthy, boring kinds of non-fiction. It might deserve some comment...

Or it might just be a good place to run into her, if one is looking.

Comments

[pleple]

"I'm not even sure what we should be requesting exactly. I should consult with someone like Senku." Then they can work together on spending points towards a purpose. "There's a lot I could stand to learn."

[deage]

"Ishigami-san is smart, but he's not the only knowledgeable person on the train." Haibara is, of course, referring to herself. And possibly Kudo.

[pleple]

"I've worked more closely with him recently, but if you have any ideas I'll take those into consideration just as strongly." Unless they sound like terrible ideas - she doesn't expect that from Haibara though.

[deage]

...Ugh, okay, fine, she started this conversation, let's see it through.

"What's the goal we'd be aiming for? What are we working towards with our book selection."

[pleple]

"Well that's the issue. I don't... actually know that." Ple Two's entire 'education' until arriving here was just to turn her into a mobile suit pilot, after all. "Practical, educational books in whatever fields we need more knowledge in."

[deage]

"From both a practical living standpoint and a mission-based one, I'd say computer literacy is probably most important. So how-to guides in operating computers, tablets, and the like. Following that, basic engineering and electrical work. That covers a wide range of activities I've seen or heard about in missions."

[pleple]

"Mm. I've been working on the electrical work subjects myself, since I seem to have a knack for it." A pilot needs to know how to put a few wires back together in the cockpit when it takes damage, right? "Computers are foreign to a lot of people here too..."

[deage]

"Even to people familiar with them, there is more to learn. Data recovery, cybersecurity, networking... those are all things that might pop up in any given mission."

Not that Haibara is the foremost expert, but then again, she was also the usual go-to for computer expertise when it came to opposing the Black Organization, so she had to be pretty decent.

[pleple]

All stuff that should totally be familiar to a sci-fi character, if her setting wasn't invented in 1979.

"Or we'll just go inside the computer as a hologram and literally fight the infection, that happens too." Because their reality is very silly. "I will keep those in mind too."

[deage]

".............................."

"That's not how computers work."

[pleple]

"It's not. And yet..." Sometimes life is just a little stupid.

[deage]

"I think I'm going to ignore what was just said, for my own mental health. There's only so much I can be forced to accept."

[pleple]

"...that's for the best, yes." The advantages of being a noncombatant, perhaps.