[Video]

[sand_wormie]

[The catlike alien face of a spukamas fills the screen. The animal's investigating Luke's Starkpad - he left it out on a table - and somehow got it transmitting. After a few more seconds of sniffing and pawing, the spukamus moves along, and Luke is visible, albeit at a poor angle.]

[He's got his back to the 'pad, but his face and so on are visible

Comments

[these_fish]

[Video, private. Because, really.]

... you might want to try toothpaste - when you're going to bed, I mean, when nobody will be seeing you. It might sting a bit.

[sand_wormie]

[Audio, also private, and after a pause for flinching and feeling humiliated and telling the spukamas off. The spukamas was unimpressed.]

...thanks.

[these_fish]

[Audio? Sure, let's try the different things that this thing can do. We're still on the experimental stage, you see.]

Don't worry about it.

[sand_wormie]

...Figures this would start now. It's so stupid.

[huffpuffblonde]

Aw, mate, bad timing.

[She shakes her head, propping her head up on one hand and supporting the screen with the other. As a notorious make-up cake-on-er, she knows the feeling.]

I've got a few tips that might help clear that up a bit.

[sand_wormie]

[Audio. Whining. He cannot believe the 'pad came on when it did.]

Rose!

- They'll go away?

[huffpuffblonde]

[She flashes him a grin and waves, seemingly not bothered by his protest.]

Hullo!

No, they won't go away, that'd be a miracle. It'll make your face look less like a pizza, though. First of all, stop touchin' it. Touching your face makes it, like, ten times worse.

[sand_wormie]

[SCOWL. But he lowers his hands. And -] What's a pizza?

[thepariahed]

[Video ---> Audio]

[Poor kid.] You know your datapad is on. [Luke, your problems make him sound tiredly amused.]

[sand_wormie]

[Audio. He doesn't know; one snippet of Anakin's voice isn't enough.]

I know now. [Dramatic adolescent groan.] Agh!

[thepariahed]

[Audio. Sounds good.]

They can be taken care of; it's not the end of the world.

[sand_wormie]

I know that. But it's one more thing, on top of thirty million other things, and of course people have to see...

If I get a face like the inside of a Sarlaac like Tank did I'm gonna shoot something.

[tonywankenobi]

[ Damnit, why is it his life to be watching videos like this and talking to teenagers about boys and puppies?

...he's not even going to respond to this one. After all this war stuff finishes, he's opening up a social network for all the people post-puberty. ]

[sand_wormie]

[Your life is so hard, Tony. So hard.]

[tippedthescales]

[Video]

Luke? Is everything okay?

[You know, mommy will love you no matter what you look like. ♥]

[sand_wormie]

[Audio]

I'm fine.

[He's embarrassed and snippy about it.]

[tippedthescales]

[Video still on her end because stubborn mother is stubborn.]

[Don't you take that tone with me, young man! >|]

If there's one thing I'm good at, Luke, it's seeing through Skywalker men.

[It's a bit of a joke, and she remains gentle in her approach. She really doesn't want to scare him off.]

Is there something that's bothering you? [More than your face, she means.]

[sand_wormie]

[Still audio on his, because he is also stubborn, so there.]

[You don't know me! I do what I want!]

Yeah, the blasted spukamas turned this thing on!

[She'll have to persist a bit longer; he'll be more willing to talk when the humiliation fades back a little.]