maskormenacelogs | catch-all for May

WHO: Tadashi Hamada + various + YOU
WHERE: De Chima locations + probably Heropa
WHEN: throughout May *vague hand wave gesture*
WHAT: A lot of stuff? A lot of stuff: open prompts for anyone after the cut + pre-prepared starters in the comments!
WARNINGS: Nothing I can think of atm

[OPEN to anyone: De Chima]

You're walking in De Chima. There's people around and your phone is charged. Out of the corner of your eye you spot him: Tadashi Hamada.

It's a relatively nice day (for once) with not as much rain. And Tadashi is out on a day off buying some new supplies for their garage-lab and a few other things. Tacky ass thrift green jacket and everything to hopefully cover how burn-scarred his arms and hands are from his fire abilities.

But always making a stop for coffee. He waits in line patiently, smiles when he sees anyone looking at him. And you know, he's proud? He's proud of how well everyone worked together during the mess that was April. Working together to find a cure, to help keep the uninfected safe and quarantined, the unbelievable team work he saw when Heropa came under fire (literally and figuratively) to evacuate everyone they could and put out fires. Why not pass that on?

When it's his turn to order, he doesn't even think twice. Orders his regular and then pays for the orders of the next four people behind him, whether it's an espresso shot or a mass bulk order for the entire office. People deserve something good happening after all that.

He stops by the grocery to pick up some things for dinner next week and - man these people are having a hard time carrying everything. He'll stop and help them carry some bags, even help load their car on his way in. That one person needing help reaching something on a high shelf, he'll reach up and get. Help this person put a heavier item into their shopping cart. If the person at the register in front of him is short a few dollars, who would he be if he didn't offer to cover it?

All in all, a pretty good day! Out and about helping people and imPorts who need a hand with something.

[OPEN to anyone: Heropa]

Eventually Tadashi will make his way to Heropa to assess damage. All things considered, it's still... No, it's terrible. Buildings and homes alike in smolders and ashes. People still recovering from the plague on top of the fires. He's not sure what there is he can do to help here. But. Well, there are still people needing to be healed from burns and other injuries. He'll do what he can with that, native and imPort alike.

He'll stop anyone that looks like they're having trouble with an inury and offer to heal, or help them look for that one missing keepsake in the wreckage.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[He shakes his head.] C'mon, don't be like that. It's not gonna work unless you guys actually believe in the project, and it's a really good idea. This is what we've been waiting for, or -- or working for this whole time, y'know? I've just been talking with a few people about the logistics of getting it to work, and who gets to go where.

[He's never one hundred percent aware of the shift in his expression whenever he begins to talk about research and reason, logistics and game plans. That's always been the purview of the Blue Beetle, not Jaime Reyes, and he usually winds up standing a little straighter, eyes becoming a little more focused.]

There's one imPort who wants to bring other imPorts with her, to help win a war. You get this thing built, and we have to figure out a way for people to get back to where they belong, you need to slap down some limitations on it before it's functional. You know what I mean?

No, I-- I totally get that. Definitely something to consider in the parameters we're setting as we develop it.

[He doesn't have much choice but to believe in it. If this doesn't work... he doesn't have a chance to live.]

It's just. We have to do this. There's something I have to change, and if we build this ourselves, we can remember this place if we go home.

...how do you figure?

[That's the real sticking point for Jaime, when it comes down to it. If they go back home, they might not remember, they might not be able to change anything. He should chase after that nugget of information, the mention of Tadashi having to change something, and he would if his mind didn't focus on one thing: Wally.

One day, he'll find out that Tadashi's focus isn't so very different from his own.]

You think that us forgetting has something to do with the Porter and not with interdimensional travel?

Transporters, interdimensional or not, shouldn't have any effect on our minds or our memories. Not without real brain damage in the process, and if you consider how some of us get ported in and out constantly...

That has to be Lachesis' doing.

So if we take her out of the equation...

It's not like this is the first place to start pulling people from different versions of the same world.

[He sounds thoughtful. It would be nice if he knew more about interdimensional travel from home, but he just accepted the existence of alternate universes and moved on with it. In hindsight, he should have asked more, but the other Titans seemed to have it under control.]

Did you guys account for that? People needing to get sent back to different versions of the same world?

[That.... does give him some pause. Everyone working on it only were interested in San Fransokyo, in saving Tadashi. Tadashi's the one who's trying to think more outwardly, about helping everyone else here.

Just more holes poked into the theory. More voices in the back of his mind telling him this can't be done. All the potential angles disappearing.

He shifts with the weight of the bags he's carrying, tries not to be so obvious that the wind's out of his sails at the thought of all this now. He knew talking to Jaime about this was the right decision, as far as information went, just... It's also probably the worst decision he's made.]

I think... that might take some time. Right now, we're just focusing on one place, and we don't even know if it'll work yet.

[With how concerned Tadashi had been about staying with Hiro, Jaime hadn't realized just how much Tadashi must miss home. Stupid of him, perhaps; he knows he missed home like crazy when he had only been here as long as Tadashi. Maybe he got a little too wrapped up in his own worries, fact and reason presiding over just being supportive.]

Hey, you'll never know if it'll work until you try. Just heading to one place might actually be a pretty good way of taking it for a spin. So you guys were just focusing on your world?

[Surprise, the guy that goes around supporting everyone... Sometimes needs support from people he respects for his dumb ideas. He ducks his head a minute, like he's inspecting this bag in his hand, before looking back up with a smile.]

Yeah. Yeah, probably. [Maybe.] We'll see, just... Don't mention it? Don't want to get it around if it ends up not working, y'know?

Oh man, no, I won't tell anyone. Promise. This is the sort of thing you need to keep pretty tightly under wraps especially with... you know. [He shrugs.] The authorities wouldn't be so chill with this.

[But there are others out there who could help, aren't there?]

If you needed to bring it up for whatever reason, though, use the MirrorNet. It'll be safer that way.

MirrorNet?

[Hi Jaime, he's been here for almost almost five months and this is the first he's heard of that. Isn't he just the most innocent near-adult here.]

Guessing a ...private network, word of mouth kind of thing?

Yeah? Oh, man, we really have to get better at getting this thing spread around... okay, so. It's a network set up so we can talk away from the government. It's just one more step towards being secure, you know?

[He shrugs the best he can.]

It's still open to all the imPorts though so it's not like you're going to be running your mouth like crazy. [Some imPorts are more eager to work with the government than others, after all. And Jaime? Well, Jaime's satisfied to act as if he's really on the government's side and work with them when it conveniences them, but to spread their information to unsettled imPorts behind their backs.

Nobody said that being good meant that you had to be nice.]

But it's a way better place for fishing for information, is all I'm saying.

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