I gave a one shot of this fella before, and have waited to a degree to include more about him in the scope of a larger story. But my move-related inactivity of late has me wanting to show a bit more of him.---
The (reformed) Pirate, Captain Addai."I'm so... cold" The tinny digitized voice of the ‘droid’ carried an eerie twinge of emotion.
"Robots don't get cold. You know this," Ajax countered, knowing that Addai bristled at the term. "Besides, you're wearing a damn parka, and it's gotta be 70 degrees in here."
Many spaceport cantinas
were notoriously cold, but Club Moonshade was not one of them. Business was booming on the mining colony on the surface of the terra-formed moon below, and the quality of the conditions station-side had improved dramatically as a result. The resident-business owners almost felt affluent. Nevertheless, Ajax understood why Addai seemed perpetually cold. He even shuddered a bit thinking of it himself, despite the relative warmth of the station.
"I'll tell you what," Ajax proposed. "You get me what I want, and I'll help you get out of this mess."
"YOU!" The digitized response no longer sounded tinny - it now boomed and cackled, as though the voice chip could not handle the sudden surge of power. "You...got me
into this mess!" Captain Addai's voice chip had compensated for the surge and evened out once more.
"Your hijacking of King Leo's pleasure yacht got you into this mess. I just happened to be the one who found you first.” Ajax’s response was matter-of-fact. “If you don't like the metal body you’re wearing now, you should consider the alternative - had the King been
on the yacht at the time, you’d not even have that bag of brains left strapped onto your back to show just how merciful the King of Avalonia truly is…”
Addai twitched and buzzed. Ajax reflected on how watching someone’s wheels spin in thought was normally a figurative notion only. Finally, Addai seemed to reach an internal compromise: “Alright, dammit, I’ll help. But finding deBraun will not be easy.”
Ajax smiled and nodded in agreement. He withheld the temptation to poke the poor man further. The thing about Addai, Ajax knew, was that he no longer had leverage. As the Pirate Hunter who caught him, Ajax had retained something of a probation officer’s privilege over him: help Ajax find more pirates, and maybe your punishment will end soon. But if you don’t, then your anticipated return to the cozy human body that the Inter-Planetary Authority has been holding in cryo for the last 3 years might just be delayed a little bit longer.
"I'll pick you back up a week from tomorrow. I have some business to do first..." Screw it, he thought: "And say, why don't you see if you can find a vacuum attachment for your utility port by then? The ship could use a little tidying up..." Ajax smiled even more - he just couldn't help himself.
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Now for pics. And yes…that is his human brain in the canister on his back.
Thoughts are welcome as always. And, as always, I’m usually open to tweaking the figure further to enhance the effect. I dig the underlying character enough, I can see him as a recurring role of some importance. With that in mind, future props of the cryo-body, and perhaps even of the restored Captain are possible.
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Kwinn_Lives wrote:
you have now won more JCAs than anyone in the history of the award.
Mysterious Stranger wrote:
You sir are the definition of a Renaissance Nerd... you do it all so damn well.
