[TRP] - Inbox

[thepurpleone]

"You're conversing with Donatello-

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Just kidding, you got my inbox bu~t if you leave a message I will get back to you as soon as I possibly can."

Comments

[cactusy]

I don't know any of the people in medical, on either ship. They any good?

[thepurpleone]

Tae is pretty good. I think...off the top of my head it's her and Billy that have the data point, although I think Tae is a medical practitioner from back home.

...that Wesker guy is supposedly a doctor too but eh.

[cactusy]

Yeah, the animosity between him and basically everyone else is palpable; what's going on there?

[thepurpleone]

Honestly? I have no idea. I think it's just a him thing. I can't even talk to him without things going like I've personally offended him somehow.

[cactusy]

[Shaw snorts. ]

Yeah, tell me about it. He got all pissy about people not doing enough to investigate the explosion, then got pissy all over again when I told him to come help us. Lose-lose situation.

[thepurpleone]

Wow. Yeah, I really cannot figure that guy out. Tony said it was better to keep my distance.

[cactusy]

I can't figure out Tony, either.

[thepurpleone]

No?

...I mean, I guess I can see why he'd be kind of hard to figure out. Sometimes I think I'm understanding him right and then he says something and I feel like I did something wrong. But...I think it's just how he says things?

[cactusy]

Everything he says is a performance. You familiar with the type?

[thepurpleone]

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Mmmmaybe?

[cactusy]

[She pauses for a moment, considering what she's deduced about Donnie before responding. ]

I mean a particular kind of performance. Acting smarmy, jokey-charming, pretending not to take anything seriously.

[thepurpleone]

Ah, yeah. That...that is him to a tee. Frustrating a lot of the time.

[cactusy]

Mm.

Not impossible to work with, though, so there's that.

[She'll forgive a lot from someone she can work with.]

[thepurpleone]

Yeah, sometimes it's kind of like herding cats though when things go off on a tangent you weren't expecting, right?

[cactusy]

Exactly; it's a waste of time.

[thepurpleone]

Ohhhh thank goodness, I thought it was just me.

[cactusy]

No way; I bet even people who are just here to make friends think it's annoying.

[thepurpleone]

But not that annoying? I think it's like a defense mechanism sometimes. Sometimes he means well. He's just... I don't know. Different way of functioning.