The Pirate and the Pacifist

Nashua raised a bit of an eyebrow as Kayen implied Habana might not be so fond of the current state of the Kingdom. She wanted to say something to its defense, but decided it probably wasn't a good idea to immediately get into a debate about that sort of thing. Besides, Kayen probably knew more about her ancestor than Nashua did. Maybe she just meant that Habana wouldn't have been impressed with how Vegeta had been conquered so easily. From what Nashua had heard, Habana was one of the most powerful Saiyans in all of recorded history, if not the most powerful. It was a big shoe for Kayen to fill! "Well, I'm not sure how strong they were," Nashua admitted, "And, my grandmother on my mom's side actually wasn't Saiyan at all, so that part of the family probably never met Habana, at least."

She pointed up at her eyes and hair, adding, "That's why these aren't all black, probably, like most Saiyans' are." That was what she assumed, anyway. When Kayen asked Nashua about what she did before the whole conflict began, the Saiyan happily replied, "Oh, I was a foreign relations ambassador! That means I went to other planets and settled deals or smoothed over some minor conflicts that broke out. It didn't involve a whole lot of fighting, though." She thought back on a couple of times that she'd gotten into tiny squabbles with the people she was supposed to be meeting with, though most of them never escalated further than one or two people attacking her. And they weren't exactly strong. Though, neither was she. "It might be hard to believe, but before all this started, I was probably one of the weaker Saiyans around," Nashua added.

"I think my power level was... Two hundred? Somewhere around there until about ten months ago or so. But I got a pretty good zenkai outta getting blasted off of Vegeta." She let out an awkward chuckle as she very faintly recalled how close to death she'd been after the initial invasion. It was gonna feel great to finally strike back the next day. "So, what about you?" Nashua asked, leaning forward in her chair towards Kayen. "I don't know, like, anything else about you from before quite recently. Aside from the whole Habana thing. I assumed you were some kind of pirate, or something, though are you just wearing that eyepatch cause you couldn't afford one of those cybernetic eyes?"

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"I dunno, might have been human, might have been something else," Nashua replied with a shrug as Kayen inquired more into her heritage. She'd never really asked before when she'd had the chance, and now the answer to that question lay in a grave with the rest of her family. Hearing about Kayen's own heritage was pretty interesting - her eyes and hair betrayed the fact that she wasn't a pure Saiyan, and, as she'd just said, Saiyan - Human hybrids were the most usual sort of interbred, as far as Nashua had seen. Tarch was one, right? Nashua had a feeling Ramen might have been, too, but distantly, which would explain her lack of a tail and the bright red hair. The human certainly had the same kind of muscle and strength of will that all of Nashua's tailed comrades had in common, that much was for certain!

"You uh, killed your mentor?" Nashua asked with some clear discomfort at the thought. "I mean, I guess that's sort of how rising to the Saiyan throne works. Although you don't have to kill the opponent, just... Beat them." She supposed pirates were notoriously barbaric, and most of the general population of the galaxy wasn't so adverse to killing as she was, but it was still a strange thing for Kayen to speak so casually about. "What'd you lose it doing?" Nashua asked in reference to the pirate captain's eye shortly after she finished speaking, although she quickly realized it must have still been a sore subject for Kayen. "Oh, actually, sorry, you don't have to say if you don't want! But the eyepatch sure does complete your whole 'yar har I'm a pirate' aesthetic!" Nashua smiled up at Kayen as if she had no idea of the ridiculousness she'd just said - which, to be fair, she didn't.

The Saiyan swiveled back around in her chair, and checked the autopilot quickly to make sure it was on course okay - which it was - then swiveled straight back around and stood up, walking over towards one of the ship's cabinets and shuffling through it. "It's gonna be a long trip, anyway, so we might as well get comfortable and have a snack!" Nashua called back towards Kayen with her head still deep into the cabinet. After a few moments, she turned around with a box of crackers and a bottle of diet soda in her hands. "Do you like grape flavored hetap or orange flavored? I think those are the only two I have. And I never bought a mini fridge, so they're just room temperature, if that's okay. And then the crackers are whole wheat!" Nashua waited expectantly for Kayen's response, a beaming smile on her face the whole time. It was nice to make the trip with a friend, this time!

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As she'd been expecting, Kayen wasn't all too broken up about killing her captain. Nashua simply quietly nodded along as the pirate explained her reasoning, an while Nashua still disagreed, of course, she wasn't really looking to contest that any further. The guy was already dead, after all, no amount of complaining would undo that. And, also as she'd assumed, Kayen didn't want to give any further comment on the wound that cost her her left eye. That was fine, though; there was still plenty they could talk about! "Something... Stronger?" Nashua asked with a confused tilt of her head after Kayen made the request, clearly perplexed by the question. Something stronger to drink, right? Well, did that mean, like, a protein shake? Those made you stronger, but Nashua wasn't sure that was quite what Kayen was looking for. What exactly quantified a 'strong drink'? "...Oh!" Nashua exclaimed as she got what the pirate meant.

She held up a finger at Kayen to signal for her to wait a moment, then turned around and shoved her head back into the cabinet, pushing past a few boxes of cereal and other light snacks for a moment until she emerged again with a brown, glass bottle in her hand, a black label wrapped around its middle. The Saiyan carefully tossed the beverage over to Kayen before grabbing herself the orange hetap and popping it open with a sizzle."You're a root beer kind of girl, I should have figured!" Nashua exclaimed before taking a sip of her soft drink. Once the liquid had vanished down her throat and into her stomach, she started trying to think of more things to talk about. It was a bit tricky to tell what kinds of things Kayen might find interest in, compared to someone Nashua was more familiar with.

Mollusc would have liked talking about Porunga, Ramen probably would've enjoyed talking about her hairstyle, and Vocado was a stickler for the old Queens of the Empire. Maybe Kayen liked... "So, you uh, have any pets?" Nashua asked with a somewhat sheepish smile. "I don't, but I always liked dogs. They're adorable, especially the little ones with the floppy ears! I think I'd definitely want to get a beagle if I ever got myself one, though I could see going for a golden retriever, too, those are the friendliest!" She paused for a moment, thinking about dogs, then continued, "What about you, what would you want? It doesn't have to be a dog or anything, of course, but, you know, any kind of animal!"

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It was only about halfway through Kayen's response to Nashua's pet question that the Saiyan realized what the pirate had probably meant when she'd asked for a 'stronger' drink: alcoholic beverages! Right. Well, the closest thing that was actually on board to that was the root beer Nashua had just tossed her. It was dangerous enough to be drinking and driving in a car, but drinking and driving in a space ship that was hurtling through the galaxy at speeds practically unrivaled across the universe? That was pure recipe for disaster! Although, it did occur to Nashua that she didn't have to do any of the drinking herself. That, and her ship was mostly on autopilot when traveling between planets. Oh, well. Maybe she could just stock up on a couple of beers or something for her passengers to possibly enjoy on later voyages.

"I've never really thought about Saibamen as uh, pets, though I suppose they do sort of qualify!" Nashua replied once Kayen had finished her piece, pausing momentarily to take a sip of her hetap. Once the liquid had gone down her throat, she continue, "Those things always kind of confused me. I couldn't picture myself being okay to self destruct on command like that!" She laughed a little bit, though her face took on a somewhat worried expression near the end. "N-Not to mean if I was ordered on some kind of suicide mission that I'd disobey you or Vocado's orders, of course! Dying for the Kingdom is uh, one of the most honorable deaths for a Saiyan to have! I just meant the, like, exploding yourself part." She'd already been accused of treason and punished for it once, and that was not an avenue she was looking forward to going down again.

"Oh, uh, speaking of Vocado," she continued after her reddened face had whitened back up a bit. "You aren't gonna, uh, kill him, right? If you beat him when you guys fight for the crown?" Nashua sounded quite genuinely concerned, and her fingers nervously tapped along the side of the plastic bottle she gripped at a hastened pace. "Um, I know you don't exactly have the reservations I do about ending lives and all, but uh, do you think you could... Try your best not to kill him? I don't think he'd kill you, he's a good person - not that I mean you're a bad person,, you're just, uh... Well, I don't know you as well, you know?" She grinned a bit sheepishly up at Kayen once she'd finished. Was she even managing to get her words across clearly with how nervous she was? "I hope he doesn't kill you either, of course!"

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