[ Aw, that's not the reaction he was going for. Jim pulls a face - a wince - and steps closer and crouches down, so that they can be eye level. ]
I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable, [ he says. ] It's just that my job is to explore and make contact with new planets and new cultures, so I'm supposed to be a little quicker on the uptake with things like this. [ His tone turns rueful, and he smiles a little. ] And a little more graceful about it, but I don't know if I ever managed that part even at home, honestly.
[ HE JUST FEELS DUMB ALRIGHT he knew you were a space penguin. ]
Thank you for sharing your name with me, Amaterasu. [ He should be pronouncing it right; Jim speaks pretty good Japanese. He speaks a good number of Earth languages, being too smart for his own good and once-upon-a-time possessed of a desire to annoy the heck out of a xenolinguistic major friend. ] My name's Jim Kirk, I'm a captain in Starfleet.
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I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable, [ he says. ] It's just that my job is to explore and make contact with new planets and new cultures, so I'm supposed to be a little quicker on the uptake with things like this. [ His tone turns rueful, and he smiles a little. ] And a little more graceful about it, but I don't know if I ever managed that part even at home, honestly.
[ HE JUST FEELS DUMB ALRIGHT he knew you were a space penguin. ]
Thank you for sharing your name with me, Amaterasu. [ He should be pronouncing it right; Jim speaks pretty good Japanese. He speaks a good number of Earth languages, being too smart for his own good and once-upon-a-time possessed of a desire to annoy the heck out of a xenolinguistic major friend. ] My name's Jim Kirk, I'm a captain in Starfleet.