[ One day he's gonna bust binary wide open and get all the gossip he could ever want. But then he'd also have to live knowing it. He's adaptable though. He's adapted to bigger and more terrifying things than Poe and John taking shore leave together. It's gonna be okay.
Finn narrows his eyes like he's half-convinced that's supposed to be a trick question somehow. Like he's trying to solve the puzzle of why Poe is like this as a person, just in general. He pulls a face. Does that thing that isn't quite a shrug, as much as it is a hands spread, is this relevant somehow gesture. ]
Yeah? [ He already knows Poe's not, so at least the basics are out of the way on both sides? Now that they've been living together for like three months. Give him two seconds to make these puzzle pieces Fit and board the realization train. He literally just said he knows what shore leave is. Duh. The topic's on the table. ]
It's not-- officers get to take shore leave. Planetside and everything. Troops might get some downtime between details day-to-day, a couple of hours. Depends on what's happening. But I mean, that's. [ Okay you know what, he's putting the bacon down so he can gesture better, and sighing through his nose.
He's aware that Poe wasn't raised in the whole First Order... atmosphere, and that sometimes the things Finn understands as givens don't necessarily translate. He's very glad that Poe doesn't understand some of these things as givens. He'd be a lot less Poe if he did, and Poe being Poe is a good thing.
But it's sort of like if someone from the Quarantine walked up and asked "hey, so what's a Wookie?" You never think it's something you'll have to genuinely explain. It's just... a Wookie. There are just ways that things work. Stormtrooper sex politics have always been one of those things. ]
Okay, uh. So officially, downtime is for approved literature and vids, staying in the barracks, extra training. [ Card games. Solo runs, as it were, a feat at least marginally easier to manage. Which he's absolutely not going to talk about because he has limits and they're very clear limits. ] Unofficially, I guess-- if you find someone who's interested, and you've both got free time at the same time, and you figure out how to get privacy in the middle of the First Order... then you could make something happen. In theory. It's not like they don't teach us how these things work.
[ He waves his hand again. Like it helps him with this at all. Maybe as if to say "I would literally rather fly into another cannon than go over First Order sex ed details with you on this or any day, preemptively." Or maybe as if to say "stealing babies is their whole gig, yes. unapproved ones from clueless soldiers fumbling around aren't the ideal." ]
Never heard about anyone managing it. But it runs a little close to "personal loyalties" on paper when you're in the same cadre or anything, so. Not like they'd be bragging.
[ Because the person you made look bad in training the other day would probably report you just to get commended for their attentiveness and loyalty. Anyway this would be easier with a powerpoint presentation. ]
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Finn narrows his eyes like he's half-convinced that's supposed to be a trick question somehow. Like he's trying to solve the puzzle of why Poe is like this as a person, just in general. He pulls a face. Does that thing that isn't quite a shrug, as much as it is a hands spread, is this relevant somehow gesture. ]
Yeah? [ He already knows Poe's not, so at least the basics are out of the way on both sides? Now that they've been living together for like three months. Give him two seconds to make these puzzle pieces Fit and board the realization train. He literally just said he knows what shore leave is. Duh. The topic's on the table. ]
It's not-- officers get to take shore leave. Planetside and everything. Troops might get some downtime between details day-to-day, a couple of hours. Depends on what's happening. But I mean, that's. [ Okay you know what, he's putting the bacon down so he can gesture better, and sighing through his nose.
He's aware that Poe wasn't raised in the whole First Order... atmosphere, and that sometimes the things Finn understands as givens don't necessarily translate. He's very glad that Poe doesn't understand some of these things as givens. He'd be a lot less Poe if he did, and Poe being Poe is a good thing.
But it's sort of like if someone from the Quarantine walked up and asked "hey, so what's a Wookie?" You never think it's something you'll have to genuinely explain. It's just... a Wookie. There are just ways that things work. Stormtrooper sex politics have always been one of those things. ]
Okay, uh. So officially, downtime is for approved literature and vids, staying in the barracks, extra training. [ Card games. Solo runs, as it were, a feat at least marginally easier to manage. Which he's absolutely not going to talk about because he has limits and they're very clear limits. ] Unofficially, I guess-- if you find someone who's interested, and you've both got free time at the same time, and you figure out how to get privacy in the middle of the First Order... then you could make something happen. In theory. It's not like they don't teach us how these things work.
[ He waves his hand again. Like it helps him with this at all. Maybe as if to say "I would literally rather fly into another cannon than go over First Order sex ed details with you on this or any day, preemptively." Or maybe as if to say "stealing babies is their whole gig, yes. unapproved ones from clueless soldiers fumbling around aren't the ideal." ]
Never heard about anyone managing it. But it runs a little close to "personal loyalties" on paper when you're in the same cadre or anything, so. Not like they'd be bragging.
[ Because the person you made look bad in training the other day would probably report you just to get commended for their attentiveness and loyalty. Anyway this would be easier with a powerpoint presentation. ]