[ audio / image ] un: wingingit

[volitaunt]

[ It starts with a blank screen and cheerful booping that anyone who has met BB-8 will recognize, with muffled conversation in the background.

BB-8 is working on something. The screen flickers from blackness to brief color, goes dark again, then abruptly displays the following image: ]



[ Yes, it is Poe Dameron, standing nobly above a motif of X-wings, over the word "RESISTANCE" and below the words "WATCHING OVER THE SKIES AND STARS."

The background conversation stops. Poe's voice comes through clearly: ] Bee, what are you--BB-8, take that down right now.

[ Annnnnd the image vanishes. ]

Comments

text; @fromTV

[spellslots]

[first, a gif:]



[and then, a text:]

Tell BB-8 I love him

[volitaunt]

i hate you

video;

[paged]

Where can I get one of those?

video;

[volitaunt]

I'm destroying all of them.

[ Yes, there is more than one. ]

» video, un: stormborn

[ex_jelmazmo599]

Did your little friend paint that? He made you look dashing.

( This is entirely amusing. )

video;

[volitaunt]

[ OH GREAT, THE MOST DIGNIFIED PERSON ON THIS MOON HAS SEEN IT. ]

No. A fri--a 'friend' of mine back home.

audio;

[bythehand]

[ It's safe to say Finn has a good laugh before he replies to this one. HE CAN'T HELP IT, JUST LOOK AT THIS INSPIRATIONAL SETUP. Laughter goes over better when he isn't expecting to do it.

He pulls it together. He sounds like he's wearing the biggest shit-eating grin even though he knows full well that Poe is like the ideal Resistance representative candidate for this kind of thing tbh. ]

Look at that. It's the inflammatory rebel propaganda they always warned me about.

audio;

[volitaunt]

[ FFFFFFFFF. ]

I'm going to put something soggy in your sheets.

video; @crimson.duelist

[verflair]

[ Sorry Poe, he finds that really funny so he's going to have a good laugh for a moment. ]

So dashing! Do you do autographs?

video;

[volitaunt]

[ There's just like, three seconds of Poe staring at him with a look of "why do you do this." ]

No.

video; @b.potts

[tutee]

This is brilliant!

[ Even funnier than learning he'd turned into a bird. ]

Is that your ship?

video;

[volitaunt]

[ A gusty sigh. ]

Yes. When I've got a choice, I fly an X-wing.

text; scrapper142

[trashvalkyrie]

i dont know you but i kind of love you already

that was so incredibly douchey

Re: text; scrapper142

[volitaunt]

IT WAS NOT MY IDEA.

text: un: scavenger.rey

[talentedscavenger]

So...was this how you got people to join the Resistance?

Also they forgot to put 'Commander' somewhere there.

[volitaunt]

because I need to be MORE identifiable.

[ Says Mr. Special Paintjob X-wing. ]

this thing was never supposed to see the light of the holonet.

text; un: ren

[killthepast]

[ ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

this is the kind of low-quality content that keeps him away from the network. except for right now, in this very moment, obvi ]

What a remarkable likeness. It captures your arrogance very well.

[ yeah he's always gonna be darth petty ]

[volitaunt]

here i just thought it made me look constipated.

[ CAN'T MOCK HIM IF HE'S MOCKING HIMSELF MOTHERFUCKERRRR ]

@maverick

[deploy]

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...

Screw it, where do I sign up to fly one of those things?

[volitaunt]

hey, i never said i wasn't a pilot.

i'd set you up with the general, but she's back where i'm supposed to be.

@arcarius | text

[angelic_archer]

Are those ships that fly to different planets?

[volitaunt]

not their primary function, but they're capable of it, yeah.

audio: sn: alexpnws

[11calls]

Wow. I'd probably join up.

[There's no little amount of amusement in her voice.]

audio;

[volitaunt]

[ his response is A LONG, GUSTY SIGH.

Then, as he puts his finger on something that's been bothering him: ]

It's not... The poster was a joke, but the cause isn't.

text; un: e.swan

[thesavior]

Nice. Are you some kind of war hero?

text;

[volitaunt]

me? no. not by a long shot.

video; @sif

[fiercestwarrior]

What are you resisting?

video;

[volitaunt]

[ Somehow, this is the response that takes him by surprise. The jokes, the teasing, all of that he expects. That's why the damn thing was made, after all. A moment of humor shared by desperate people struggling for something side by side.

Quietly: ]

They call themselves the First Order. They're murderers. Monsters. They want to bring the whole galaxy under their control.

text; un: gamora

[godslay]

[ She's gonna stare for a while.

And a little more.

Aaaaand a little more. ]

What. Is that.

[volitaunt]

Someone's idea of a joke.

video| un; thunderer

[worldsaway]

Brilliant. They really captured the smug.

[volitaunt]

[ Cue Poe, attempting to imitate the pose in the poster, and then ruining the effect by scratching his nose. ]

Yeah? I was hoping it'd get the whole ass thing across, too.

text; @l.dylandy

[holds_up_walls]

That's... interesting. Nice recruiting poster. What are you resisting?

text;

[volitaunt]

[ He's just gonna ignore that first part. ]

The First Order. They're monsters. Slavers. They destroy whatever they can't control.

video; un: kirk

[winscenario]

[ Luckily for Poe he won't have to listen to Jim cackling because he made sure to get all the laughing out of the way before replying. The mirth is still in his voice, though, bleeding into every word. ]

I gotta say, Starfleet never did a poster with my face on it. I'm almost jealous right now.

video;

[volitaunt]

The Resistance didn't do it. Yolo Ziff did it.

[ He's had his fits of annoyance at this point, at least. He can enjoy this for what it is: a reminder of a moment of levity in darkness. ]

There was a whole week when I couldn't turn a corner in the base without my face on a wall and somebody laughing.

Text; UN: blinded.by.light

[soulsflight]

Dashing. (She almost leaves it at that, but she is curious about something.) That's quite a claim. Who is BB-8?

[volitaunt]

It's a claim that belongs to the Resistance, not to me. BB-8 is my astromech. Flight assistant, droid, lightyears more sophisticated than a robot but that's the baseline most people seem to have.