Fifth Floor Common Room, Tuesday Afternoon

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo had all this video from AT runs out at the warehouses that her newly-set-up drone had managed to capture, but it was hard to tell if said footage was any good on her phone's tiny screen. But there was a giant TV in the common room that she could review it properly.

Of course, a nice big high-definition screen made it really easy to see all sorts of things that a dozen viewings on her phone hadn't revealed. Which meant that it wasn't long before Ringo was doing running commentary that made it clear just how terrible the girl on screen was.

"Tuck in your arms!" she yelled at the TV. "How are you supposed to control rotation if you're flailing around like that? And what was that landing? Did you see that wobble? It's because you over-rotated! You call that a flip? That was terrible!"

Sometimes Ringo was her own worst critic.

[ooc: Open like a CR, with warnings for possible SP.]

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[rebelseekspizza]

"Oh my god," Dante said.

Look, yesterday with Ada had been fucked up. Ringo yelling at herself on screen? He was gonna relish that.

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo had gotten kind of really into her criticism, and hadn't even realized anyone else was in the room. So Dante's voice made her jump slightly and spin around. "What?"

[rebelseekspizza]

"Oh no," Dante said, eyes widening comically, "Queen Ringo, not being perfect."

[soniaroadsqueen]

Oh, no, and now Dante was getting flipped off.

"Better than you," she snapped back. Predictably.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Maybe at inline skates," Dante said. He hopped over the couch. "The fuck you doing?"

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo shrugged, turning away from the screen to look over at Dante. "Mostly just seeing how good the video quality is." Well, that's what she'd started with, anyway. It was pretty clear she was well past caring about how the video looked.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Oh, so that's what you were yelling at," Dante said, stretching his legs out as he made himself comfortable.

[soniaroadsqueen]

She reached over to lightly smack at his leg with the back of her hand. Then grinned. "You're always acting like you don't care about AirTrek, but here you are sitting down to watching an expert."

Yeah. That was totally what Dante was doing.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Expert in puffing up her ego? Sure," Dante said, giving her shoulder a gentle nudge.

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo rolled her eyes. "Just watch this, then," she said, leaning toward the screen. "I mean, yeah, the approach is a little bit sloppy, but this is a beautiful double full-extension backflip."

And it was, too. The drone's camera wasn't the best, but for this one trick it was at basically the perfect distance to capture an arcing jump that somehow looked lazy despite the impossible height of it.

[rebelseekspizza]

"A double full-what?"

Sure, it looked pretty. Dante was also pretty sure he could pull that off.

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Full-extension backflip," Ringo sighed, sounding like she was lecturing. "Flipping without tucking your legs in is way harder because of how much mass is extended away from your point of rotation." And thus more impressive. Also, pretty sweet looking.

And sure Dante could probably do that, too, but not on ATs! And anyone pointing out that it was probably way harder to do without AirTrek could shut up.

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante snorted. "It's not that hard."

Because you weren't put together the same way most people were, Dante.

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Is too!" Ringo insisted.

She sighed. "Most people can't do the stupid stuff that you can, you know."

She shrugged. "Anyway, like I was saying, I'm mostly just checking the video quality. And I think it looks good enough to send to my sisters." Just to let them see how she was doing.

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante shrugged back. "So?" he said practically.

It wasn't like he was anyone else.

"You send your sisters AirTrek videos?"

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Um." Ringo blinked at Dante doubtfully. "Yeah." Duh, Dante. Obviously.

Wouldn't it be weird not to?

[rebelseekspizza]

"That's weird," Dante commented.

[soniaroadsqueen]

"What? It's totally normal!"

Yeah. Building a camera drone to follow you around to shoot video to send home was totally normal, Ringo.

"Besides, they send me stuff all the time, so it makes sense to send things back. And at least I'm doing something productive with my time." For, you know, a sufficiently broad definition of the term.

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante shrugged. "You could just send them a card or a vlog of you talking to them or something," he said.

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo eyed Dante. "That sounds lame." Unlike AT videos, clealry.

She shrugged. Obviously he wasn't going to come around to the awesomeness of AirTrek like a sane person. "So you know what I've been up to," she waved at the screen. "What about you?"

[rebelseekspizza]

"Got drunk, got laid, got a new cat," Dante said lazily. "Not in that order."

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo nodded along to that, then froze. And stared. "You got a cat?" Dante? With a pet? She couldn't have heard that right.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Well, me and Anders got a cat," Dante conceded. "Now there's someone who really likes kittens."

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo was still sort of staring st Dante like she suspected that he was sone weird Fandom doppleganger. After all, he hadn't said that Anders got a cat.

Then she grinned, the expression managing to be bright and soft at once. "Congrats, then." As much for what a cat meant Ringo could project regarding Dante's emotional state as anything else.

"Is it cute? Can I come spoil play with it?"

[rebelseekspizza]

"Just don't feed her shit," Dante said. "Blondie's like, tiny."