percipi: 🧠 fanart → <user name=kirax1z site=twitter.com> (pic#17138972)
DR RATIO. ([personal profile] percipi) wrote 2024-04-23 08:52 pm (UTC)

a gift for me!!

[ Ratio is accustomed to Aventurine.

That does not mean, of course, that he is bereft of the opportunity to work with other people: a side effect of the source of his funding is the requirement to go on travels, as it were, to use his expertise in a variety of ways, outside the classroom and inside investment instead. The chance to work with someone outside his usual gambling companion is not unwelcome; the scholars do say that familiarity breeds contempt, and having some measure of relief from his endless chattering might be something to ease his migraines.

The travel to the planet provides something of a scientific novelty, bursting back to life with some unknown phenomena. Ratio has some theories, of course, budding already without having stepped foot on the surface, but it will take thorough investigation for him to discover the concrete cause - he is not one to leave a job half-finished, and he intends to have a well-written, suitably in-depth assessment of it completed by the time they are due to leave their destination and return to their respective jobs.

Sunday is, at least, a suitable companion. He asks question where necessary, seeking knowledge, and that garners Ratio's approval more than anything else: he will always respect those who seek to ease their ignorance with new knowledge, and he has an instinctive urge to grade the other man on his answers and theories. He manages to bite his tongue, but it is a barely-there phenomenon for a man more accustomed to sticking his foot in his mouth, metaphorically, than anything else.

Tilting his head, he frowns as he gazes out towards the landscape in front of them, he considers the question. ]


I have some theories, but nothing that can be proven with any form of evidence just yet. [ Which is fine. That is what they are here for: to learn, to understand, to create concrete fact. ] Something such as this suggests the work of an outside force, but it has not caused destruction to echo in its wake. Instead, it is a bountiful reward, therefore I imagine it to be something a little more...

[ What is the word? His nose wrinkles. ]

Benevolent, if it must be said.

Post a comment in response:

If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting