for ZEX, it's time to par-tay

[bornsnarky]

[standing at the bar, yanking on the collar of this damn dress uniform]

[reeeeeeally hoping these Thraddash people don't approach me, surely there're enough interesting people around here that I can just get convivially drunk with Scotty and ZEX and Uhura]

[I can see Jim in the corner being all charming and shit, and there're a couple more being entertained by Chekov and Gaila, excellent, maybe I can get out of this formal reception with my sanity relatively intact]

[then a gravelly voice behind me says he'll buy me a drink]

[...turning]

Ah. Um. Thanks, I guess. I'm Leonard McCoy.


[he says he knows]

Comments

[zexyandiknowit]

I understand approximately zero Earth religions, but I do admire the aesthetic.

[Which is not an answer to your statement but nevermind]

[bornsnarky]

The worship of a higher power aesthetic, or the bondage aesthetic?

[genuinely curious/amused]

[zexyandiknowit]

Both. Either? It is interesting to consider, at least.

[Hearing those words in McCoy's voice has caused ZEX to cross his legs, hilariously]

[bornsnarky]

Sure is.

[observing, wondering a little, but not too much, no clues here]

Do your people have nuns?

[zexyandiknowit]

Hee! We have an equivalent, but they are not so stylish.

[bornsnarky]

What're they like?

[zexyandiknowit]

Mmmmm... boring, really. Speak mostly in religious quotes, and the like. Highly judgmental.

[Head tentacles swirling absentmindedly with McCoy's hair: things that are hyper-intimate for VUX that humans probably haven't figured out]

[bornsnarky]

Ah. Sounds like certain mothers in law.

[...mm, that feels good, and yeah I have no idea it means anything]

[zexyandiknowit]

Goodness, yes, that is exactly right.

[Lean ♥] What are nuns like, in person?

[bornsnarky]

[beaming congenially]

Ah, I was taught by a few when I was a little 'un, for a while. Scary as anything. But good people. I can't say I've had much to do with nuns as a whole since then.

[zexyandiknowit]

Hmmm... intimidating? Dramatically dressed, surely.

[bornsnarky]

Yeah, definitely. And some of 'em can make those faces at you...

[a small shudder, remembering childhood transgressions]

[zexyandiknowit]

[Soft giggle]

It sounds difficult.

[bornsnarky]

I'm sure you would've managed. You could charm anyone.

[zexyandiknowit]

[More of a laugh at that]

You--no. This just isn't true, I'm afraid.

[bornsnarky]

[flopping against you more, you're cooomfortable]

Bull. When you put your mind to it, you're unstoppable.

[zexyandiknowit]

[Arm around McCoy's back in a purely platonic gesture of support and man that IS comfortable]

That is not charm, that is stubbornness.

[bornsnarky]

[mmm, warm, too]

Same thing. Jim's a persistent asshole when he turns on the charm, too.

[zexyandiknowit]

...Are you comparing me to the Captain?

[STARTS LAUGHING]

[bornsnarky]

[mystified as to why you're laughing, because it's late and I was nearly taken into slavery and I'm drunk]

[but laughing, too, because you have a nice laugh]

[zexyandiknowit]

[YOU'RE A FUNNY DRUNK]

[Leannssss] Nooo, I do not think so.

[bornsnarky]

You're still charming.

Don't care what anyone says.

[zexyandiknowit]

People will not argue. They will be too surprised to argue.

[bornsnarky]

[I'm always up for an argument]

[except when I'm not]

Oh, c'mon. They've seen you do the diplomat thing. You're pretty good.

[zexyandiknowit]

Thank you, that is most gracious. However, it is my job to be good at this.

This is like how you insist that you are cold-hearted and also old but fall to emotional pieces over small animals, isn't it? Your strange standards for things.