Atton's Coruscant, Saturday

[suitably_heroic]

This would not be the first time that Atton woke up a girl. It would, however, be the first time Atton woke up a girl while on Coruscant, and so there'd been a lot of groaning and complaining for about half an hour until he realized just how badly he could freak out Mical with it.

Also, the boobs. He'd lost another half hour on the boobs.

Of course, by the time it was time to pick up Sparkle from Portalocity, both had kind of lost their novelty factor, and he was left with a body that didn't balance quite the way he expected. Which meant no training, because he was absolutely not going to break a toe or something in front of Sparkle, thank you very much. He was going to have to do something he'd half-promised Sparkle at... some point, instead.

Though, he realized as he waited in the Portalocity office, at least no one had accosted him about being that Jedi today. (And Jedi tunics were unisex, which was nice and easy, at least. Even if he'd had to steal one of Mira's bras. He was just... not going to tell her about it later.)

[[ for the kid, and phone calls, what have yo. ]]

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[suitably_heroic]

Atton might be a mental and emotional mess, but he was interesting, damn it, which was more than Mical could say.

"Makes you wonder how he even managed to pull off becoming a spy," he said, as he maneuvered the speeder into a lane at reasonable speed. "You'd think he'd cave on the first lie."

[myownface]

"Maybe that's his trick," Sparkle mused. "If you're boring enough, nobody's gonna want to pay enough attention to you to notice little things like 'spying' and 'caving.'"

[suitably_heroic]

"True," Atton said, casting Sparkle a look. "Of course, he'd be laughed off a place like Nar Shaddaa. Nobody'd let him work, they'd just drag him into an alleyway and take all of his stuff."

[myownface]

"... Did he have much stuff when you met him?"

Sparkle liked to ask the big questions.

[suitably_heroic]

"He was living in a library in the laigrek-infested basement of the Jedi Enclave," Atton said. "I guess he had, like, stuff to read?"

[myownface]

"And are there many people on Nar Shaddaa who strike you as the type to mug some boring guy for his reading material?"

This was a very roundabout way of justifying that even Mical could suck enough to be a spy. Or... something. Even Sparkle wasn't completely certain where he was going with this anymore, but at least he was enjoying the conversation.

[suitably_heroic]

"Okay, fair point," Atton sighed, pulling back out of their lane and heading down to a platform up ahead. "But don't tell him I said that, all right?"

[myownface]

"Wouldn't dream of it," Sparkle replied. "I mean, like, for starters, it would make teasing the fuck out of him way more tricky if he thought you'd conceded something like that."

And where would the fun be in that?

[suitably_heroic]

"Right, we don't let Mical know we think any part of him isn't pointless," Atton said sagely.

He set the speeder down in the designated lot near a bustling market.

[myownface]

"Mical is pointless, even his boringness," Sparkle agreed, nodding his agreement before peering out at the market. "Ooooo."

This was all full of fascinating things. He was going to get so many weird foods he knew nothing about!

"So, you're going to help me pick food that isn't going to kill us all, right?"

[suitably_heroic]

"I'm going to walk behind you," Atton announced, slipping out of his seat, "and yell 'don't eat that!' if something's poisonous. How's that?"

[myownface]

"... Effective. Just so long as you don't yell it about every vegetable I reach for, I mean."

Maybe he'd be better off just looking at people's faces to see if they thought he was nuts when he picked something up.

[suitably_heroic]

Probably not. There were at least a bunch of beings at this market who probably wouldn't care about one less human in the galaxy.

Atton shrugged, as he strolled towards the food stalls. "There's a lot of poisonous vegetables in the galaxy," he said. "Oh, I'd also avoid anything that looks alive. I figure wrangling living food is a little beyond your experience level."

[myownface]

"Yeah, I'm a big fan of already dead food," Sparkle decided. "Um. And vegetables. You don't have to eat the vegetables, you know. If I manage tacos, they don't even have to, like, touch the meat."

See? Tacos! Everyone could appreciate those! Probably!

He hoped!

[suitably_heroic]

"Don't know about finding any actual taco shells, but I think they sell Alderaani flatbread up ahead," Atton said.

Okay, so he was going to be a little helpful.

[myownface]

"That might actually crisp up if I toast it," Sparkle mused, looking thoughtful. "Ground nerf should be easy enough... I guess the trick is going to be the spices. Veggies are kind of straightforward once I know they aren't likely to kill anyone..."

This actually seemed pretty doable. Score!

[suitably_heroic]

"Just for the record, I don't know if anyone has any allergies," Atton said.

He waved vaguely at the stalls. "But hey, have at. I'm just going to wander after you. You know how much I know about food."

[myownface]

"You know what you don't like," Sparkle offered. "That's a start anyway. And I can, like, set everything out for people to check out, if they aren't sure. That ought to do well enough."

[suitably_heroic]

Atton shrugged. He was still feeling pretty physically unbalanced, but he was doing okay - not great - at hiding it. "You're the chef," he said. "So you finally get around to doing some fancy cooking at home?"

He raised his eyebrows at a passing Bith who was staring at him for a second too long. The Bith scurried along.

[myownface]

"Not super fancy, unless a giant pot of spaghetti counts," Sparkle mused. "It's hard to get, like, dinner party fancy on a budget, but the kitchen's nice and big, at least. Plenty of room to make messes in."

[suitably_heroic]

"No news from the front otherwise?" Atton asked. He came to a stop by the Alderaani food stand he'd pointed out and picked up a starblossom at random.

Been a while since he saw one of those.

[myownface]

"I guess? I mean, not really. People are bitching about teenagers in the neighbourhood, lordy lordy, pearl clutching and all that. Same story everywhere."

Sparkle shrugged and leaned in for a better look.

"What's that?"

[suitably_heroic]

"Starblossom," Atton said, tossing the one he was holding in Sparkle's general direction. "An Alderaani specialty."

[myownface]

You could probably guess how surprised Sparkle was that a space vegetable had star right in the name. He caught it, anyway, and gave it a once-over.

"Oh yeah? You know how people usually prepare it?"

He was totally game.

[suitably_heroic]

Atton shrugged. "It's a fruit," he said, "All I've got is 'not the way my mom used to', because that was disgusting."