Aboard the Jade Shadow [Tuesday, Fandom time]

[momslilassassin]

Ben was grabbing a quick snack as he waited in the galley for his father to finish docking the ship on the first human-majority planet they'd seen in months and taking the chance to catch up on more reading about the Aing-Tii Monks. As soon as they restocked their supplies and checked for physical mail (Ben hoped that Tony's package would catch up with them here), they'd be heading into Aing-Tii space, which was a challenging enough flight that Luke Kriffing Skywalker looked slightly apprehensive about it.

Ben stopped being nervous by remembering that if Jacen had been able to do it, Luke would be able to do it better.

...it had never been said that Ben could not be very petty if the occasion called for it.

[OOC: Open for calls, texts, visits from the boy who's in space with him, care packages from home full of YA gay literature...]

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[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"I regret sending you that picture," Tony replied sulkily. "And the armor could totally stand up to a dinosaur attack. They don't have the jaw strength to crack it."

[endsthegame]

"Rancors might," Ender said, shooting Ben a questioning look. "A lot of people use protective armor around here."

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Ben nodded thoughtfully. "It's possible. I don't think they've had many problems chewing through old Stormtrooper armor. We could try some experiments..."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Is that the stuff they wear at the police station?" TONY HAD DISDAIN FOR IT, BEN. DEAL.

[endsthegame]

"I think so," Ender said. "Don't get snobbish on us, Stark."

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"Besides, that stuff is like a hundred years out of date," Ben replied. "That's my grandfather's era."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"It's bad," Tony said definitively. Because he had opinions on armor. Opinions.

"You guys better have something more effective there. If you're going to be chased by alien dinosaurs some more. Because I don't share my armor."

[endsthegame]

"Oh, Ben doesn't do armor," Ender said, lightly, and snagged a bottle of Mountain Dew off-screen. "I think he thinks it's an insult to his Jedi honor."

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"It makes me look like a bounty hunter," Ben said, making a face.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"...right, armor for you is out. Ender?"

[endsthegame]

"I don't at present own any, but I'm not opposed in theory," Ender offered.

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"Does he also get a helmet?" Ben asked, grinning. "And a jetpack?"

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Oh god, Ender. You'll end up with your own suit.

"Jetpacks are just asking for burns and your butt," Tony insisted. "Jetboots, on the other hand..."

[endsthegame]

"I'm not dressing up like Boba Fett, Ben," Ender said, with a sigh, "Or Iron Man."

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"Good," Ben said. "Boba Fett's the galaxy's oldest bounty hunter. It's getting pathetic."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"And he wears armor." Tony was just going to sulk now. Maturely. "Your home is weird."

[endsthegame]

"Why," Ender said, raising an eyebrow at Tony as he opened up the bottle, "Because grown bounty hunters wear protective armor because they get shot at every day?"

[momslilassassin]

"And it's kriffing impossible to kill Fett," Ben groused. "He got dropped into a Sarlacc and got out of it."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Because armor was awesome and not for bad people. DAMN IT.

"And the exiling. Do I want to know what a Sarlacc is?"

[endsthegame]

"Big living pit creature," Ender supplied. He was going to become the resident GFFA-to-Terran translator at this rate.

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"Where you are slowly digested over a thousand years," Ben added. "Unless, apparently, you're Boba Kriffing Fett."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"...ew. Digestion-proof armor is next up."

[endsthegame]

"Have you ever thought about just incorporating these features into the existing armor?" Ender asked. "It might be a little... awkward... if you turn up for a rancor situation in space armor, after all."

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"It'd be a lot heavy," Ben agreed.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Well, that would be the idea," Tony said slowly. "And it's not that heavy."

Yes. Yes it was.