Make the Clock Reverse (Day 22 Jelly)

[voidtreckermods]

Make the Clock Reverse,
Bring back what once was mine.

On the evening of Day 21, before it goes dark, any Voidtreckers who look out of the windows might see the void is a little more chaotic than usual. There's a little bit of turbulence. Nothing too bad, nowhere near how bad it got during the void storm, but noticeable all the same.

It doesn't last long, and the night continues. Those who are not early to bed may see the odd golden flicker out of the corner of their eyes, darting away and vanishing if pursued.

Strange...

Heal what has been hurt,
Change the fates' design.

"Good Morning passengers. Today is day twenty two of the month of Jelly." The morning announcement wakes everyone up as usual, and they awaken in their own beds.

Though, for some passengers, those beds may seem completely unfamiliar: a strange room full of people they don't recognise. For others the room and people are perfectly normal, just... bigger than they remember them being yesterday.

Or it might be that they feel healed, old scars faded. The changes might be small, sporting their embarrassing teenage hair cut; or drastic, their whole body younger.

Either way, it is clear that something very strange has happened on the train.

(OOC: All the information about this event is Here. All changes will reverse the next night and passengers will wake up normal on day 23.

Update: In early afternoon the dressing carriage cupboards will open and animal onesies will be available in child size.)

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[yondu]

"Byakuya? He somethin' like your daddy?"

He sits back and rests his elbow on his knee, watching Senku's progress.

[10billionpercent]

"I guess." Senku answered with a bit of a nod. "My parents didn't want me anymore so they gave me to him."

He didn't stop tinkering. "I'm on his family register." Whether or not that would mean something to strange blue people he hadn't met before, he didn't know, but that made them family.

[yondu]

He got the context.

"Mine didn't want me either. Sounds like a good guy if he did somethin' like that."

He fights back a thought of what it might have been like to have someone claim him. He'd mostly got over those thoughts decades ago, but that moment with Peter caused a despicable relapse.

[10billionpercent]

"Yeah." Senku can agree with that. He liked Byakuya. "Sometimes he says dumb things, but he's pretty good. He got me all kinds of science stuff and he lets me study whatever I want."

He grumbled a little bit. "But he makes me watch TV sometimes because he said I can't study all the time."

Byakuya liked to pick his battles. Getting Senku to understand the concept of fun and trying to socialize him a bit was where he'd settled as far as important things go.

"I think he knew my parents, but he doesn't talk to them anymore."

[yondu]

"There somethin' you both like to watch together?"

TV, right. That's what Peter talked about sometimes. With shows like the one where the guy had the robot ship? Vehicle? Something. He's never sat down and watched together.

"Maybe 'cause he decided you was more important. Which is what someone ought to do."

[10billionpercent]

"We watch Doraemon. It's about a cat robot that travels in time and has all kinds of scientific gadgets."

It would always be his favourite anime, even when he was older, what was there to dislike about a cat robot?

"...Maybe." Senku agreed with a bit of a nod. He wasn't sure what he thought about that. He was however, much luckier than he knew right then.

[yondu]

Damned cats. He's going to get used to them and then let down his guard and a flerken's gonna kill him.

"Travels in time? I don't know that much about your planet's history, so if you got a favorite story you'd have to explain it."

He says that rather than dig too much about the kid's parents. He doesn't want the guy to suddenly remember and be full of shit he doesn't want. But Senku talking is him not being in trouble.

[10billionpercent]

He's too tired to refute things like aliens and magic and a weird place he's found himself where people can make things happen that he's not used to. It very much seems like a dream.

"Yeah. He was made in the future, and then robot mice bit off his ears, and he cried until he turned blue which is not how anything works." He informed Yondu. "But it's a story it's not real. And then his owner sent him back in time to be with his grandfather who was a kid then, and then they go on adventure and use gadgets to get out of trouble."

He was just about done with the toaster, screwing the panels back into place.

[yondu]

"Sure, there's better ways to turn blue," he jokes. But that seems to explain a lot. "Looks like you're almost done. I'll check it out."

He's hoping at least the threat of having to fix some of the things he breaks will temper him. He's not super counting on it. He gets up and reaches down to take the finished toaster and the toolbox.

[10billionpercent]

"How did you turn blue?" Senku asked, since that seemed like the most important follow up question.

"I would've thought if the show was real they would paint Doraemon blue, but they didn't because it's fantasy. I don't like that part so much."

[yondu]

"I was born. All my people are born, blue. My blood's darker than yours, too."

And his eyes, really really red.

He points to his scars on the side of his face. "See these? All blue. All blue under my nails too." He holds out his hand flat.

[10billionpercent]

When it came to people, Senku was a lot less inclined to touching them but he did lean forward and peer at his fingernails.

"That's true." He agreed but blinked. "How did you get born blue? Is it a medical condition?" He didn't know a lot about those things, so it could happen, couldn't it?

[yondu]

"Nope. I'm actually from a different planet."

He doesn't expect that he'd believe him fully right now, all he's got going for him is being blue.

"Lots of other planets out there, kiddo. The Kree called yours C-53. Most of the rest of us call it Terra."

At least that's the rough translations.

[10billionpercent]

"Does that mean you go to go to space? Did you like it? Is it full of cool things? What's your favourite thing about space? I'm going to go as soon as I make my rocket!"

Apparently, contrary to probably popular belief, Senku as an adult did have some kind of filter. As a child, he had not, and pestering Yondu about space was definitely something he needed to do.

[yondu]

Okay he already disappointed someone by saying that it's full of rocks and assholes. Which isn't wrong. But this is a kid (temporarily) and it'd feel strange.

"Oh yeah, lotta cool stuff. You get to see colors left by stars that blew up. And you get to see lots of colors and shapes of people. They ain't all shades of brown."

A lot are. He figured it originated as camouflage on their planets.

"I met people that can shapeshift into different people. And there's these things that look like cats? With tentacles that come out of their mouths. And sometimes you gotta fly through asteroid fields? Taught my boy how to do that when he was ten." Like a responsible parent, he gave his ten-year-old Terran idiot a small spaceship.

[10billionpercent]

"That's so cool. Are you from further away than Neptune then? Because NASA says there isn't any people-like life forms on any of the planets of our solar system just micro-organisms. At least, that's what dad said, because he reads English and I don't yet, but..." Senku rambled on excitedly.

"Is it hard to fly through an asteroid belt? I know there's one between Jupiter and Mars, and if you want to get to Jupiter you have to be really good at flying in between asteroids."

[yondu]

"Yeah, I'm Centaurian. So, way out there. And we got these translator things right now, so if you wanna go read English you can go right ahead. I'm actually speakin' Kree right now."

Some janky ass local version of Kree.

"I have flown through your asteroid belt before. And it is a pain in the ass, you're right. Like a whole planet blowed up a long time ago or somethin'. Skinny and dense."

[10billionpercent]

"Really? You are? You're not speaking Japanese? Or is it like, the same kind of thing?" Senku didn't really know.

"Hm, I don't think it did though. At least, not in any of the recorded space history has a planet blown up. I'm...not sure why the asteroids are there." Clearly he had more studying to do then.

[yondu]

"Nope. As far as I know they don't sound much alike." Well, English and Kree didn't. Maybe Japanese and Kree do but he'll just say that 'cause what the fuck does it even matter? "And y'know, there are probably some books on space in the library. In any language, and right now you can read it."

Please, for the love of god, please go read the space books and stop taking things apart. At least for a few hours.

[10billionpercent]

"Oh that's true, maybe." Senku agreed and got up.

"I'm going to go see."

He was going to take off then to see if he could find space books and probably tear things apart when that didn't work out for that long. At least Yondu tried.