page 624 – notes and more notes
…because secretly taking copious notes about where they girl you have a crush on is going next isn’t creepy at ALL!
So, it’s reeeeaaaally late, and I’m doing a really text heavy page. I apologize in advance for all the typos I didn’t catch.
Also, I wasted a lot of time thinking of dorky sci-fi references to slip into the notes Trigger’s taking. Then a lot of it got obscured when I stretched it around to fit on the screen and slipped it under Trigger’s hands. Clearly, this page is irreparably damaged now that I had to cut out that one obscure reference to Battlestar Galactica.
And for an example of extreme over-exuberance that’s far less creepy, there’s a new voting incentive!
(Historical Notes: This pad Trigger’s using is a bit I swiped from Start Trek, where the person is writing with a stylus and it automatically translates it into typing. That’s another entry on the “Star Trek predicted the future” list of things, since I think there’s actual apps for that now.)
Honestly, if you consider this in context of how Trigger was raised, I would not at all be surprised if he is under the impression that his behavior was normal for potential relationships. After all, he was taught to be an espionage specialist (sabotage, specifically, but he’d need to do espionage to get to sabotage), and “making friends” rapidly would be an important skill for one of those. “Stalker” Style Behavior could have been one of the things taught to him in order to have him be able to “stumble across” individuals who could become backdoor entrances to otherwise secure facilities, and he has yet to learn otherwise.
I mean, we saw him “training” for inter-personal interaction via some sort of primitive-looking conversation simulator, so it does make sense that he’d be used to talking in blunt, simplistic, multiple choice options.
I now really want, at some point in the future, for Trigger to get them into or out of some secure facility through the use of a freshly baked pie. Got to get some use out of that training! Surely you can work that into the plot somewhere in the next 30 or 40 years of FOT? 😀
Ed8, we’ve seen Trigger get use of his training. Specifically in relation to the Mechanics part of his training, but use out of it none-the-less.
Yes, of course he’s used the sabotage part of the training several times, that’s why I said “that” training referring specifically to the infiltration part of his training in the preceding link. As far as I can recall we’ve never seen him use that training yet. He probably thinks of the sabotage part of his training as the “fun” part so he uses it more.
Honestly, there’s still a LOT about Trigger’s childhood of training we haven’t even seen yet. Who knows WHAT other skills he was taught when we weren’t looking?
Dude, you have NO idea how many “Oh yeah, I need to do a call back to that” moments I’ve had while re-posting these. The ones I’m mentioning in the historical notes are only, like, half of what’s actually hitting me.