[Alliance. Reavers. The "verse," spaceships and pirates and smugglers and backwater colonies and everything in between. On arrival here after having been kicked out of Luceti as they were, this world, this universe was so entirely outside the realm of what Masaomi Kida ever thought he would experience. When he was told they were going home he actually was initially dismayed, then anxious, and then... he was here. He actually had arrived in the storage compartment of a transport ship, and that really informed the whole course of the early part of his stay from there, haphazard and confusing. At the time, the only solace and solidarity he found was that he was with someone else. A woman from Luceti who was older than him and he didn't know all that well at all, honestly, but a familiar face with which to weather out what he had figured was likely a Shift.
Then a month past. Then three months past, and the woman and him both had to find jobs and before they knew it, a year had past and both found themselves pursuing different callings in this wide "verse." The boy, Masaomi Kida, settled into the realm of business and transport, trying over time to make a name for himself in the business of running items that various moons and colonies couldn't get themselves. ...Or rather being on the crew of a ship like that.
He still is on that crew, but he's no longer what anyone but the elderly would call a boy. A man now, and a man who's totally adapted - or as close to totally adapted as one can get when one's been torn away twice from something they'd called "home" - to the verse he was left to. He goes by "Masa" a lot of the time now (it's simpler, for the purposes of negotiations) and while he's still irreverent, still something of a "ladykiller," in many ways he's also hardened. Guns hidden on his person, fighting skills improved, negotiation talents improved, and frankly, the life he has now really suits him.
He does, however, make a concentrated effort to meet with the woman he knew from Luceti at least semi-regularly. Though they came from the same world (sort of) the 'worlds' that they entered to find a place in the verse are very different indeed.
So today, while on shore leave for a local holiday in this system which has flight clearance all but locked down, he's gone to meet with that woman, who also happened to be in this system based on their last correspondence. In fact, he actually means to surprise her, if he can find the right place]
Firefly, four years later
Then a month past. Then three months past, and the woman and him both had to find jobs and before they knew it, a year had past and both found themselves pursuing different callings in this wide "verse." The boy, Masaomi Kida, settled into the realm of business and transport, trying over time to make a name for himself in the business of running items that various moons and colonies couldn't get themselves. ...Or rather being on the crew of a ship like that.
He still is on that crew, but he's no longer what anyone but the elderly would call a boy. A man now, and a man who's totally adapted - or as close to totally adapted as one can get when one's been torn away twice from something they'd called "home" - to the verse he was left to. He goes by "Masa" a lot of the time now (it's simpler, for the purposes of negotiations) and while he's still irreverent, still something of a "ladykiller," in many ways he's also hardened. Guns hidden on his person, fighting skills improved, negotiation talents improved, and frankly, the life he has now really suits him.
He does, however, make a concentrated effort to meet with the woman he knew from Luceti at least semi-regularly. Though they came from the same world (sort of) the 'worlds' that they entered to find a place in the verse are very different indeed.
So today, while on shore leave for a local holiday in this system which has flight clearance all but locked down, he's gone to meet with that woman, who also happened to be in this system based on their last correspondence. In fact, he actually means to surprise her, if he can find the right place]