the adventures of one nerd jedi and his emotional support droid

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The Nexus was an unusual place. It was full of people and things from all over the multiverse. Wild. A little nerve wracking for Cal. He's not really used to being in such a... festive? environment. Sure is nice being somewhere he doesn't have to constantly look over his shoulder for the Empire OR it's inquisitors though. Probably. Ugh... he should be careful anyways.

His little droid friend BD-1 is significantly more excited. And eager to explore. Cal was distracted for just a few moments examining the weird and outlandish chalkboard menu of some kind of hot drink shop (Café au lait?) before he noticed that the familiar, ever present weight of his small best friend was NOT on his back or shoulder where he typically perches.

The redhead glances around. He was gone! He feels a bit of a panic coming on. BD-1 is so small! What if someone steps on him? Steals him? He can't even sense him through the Force because, y;know, droid!

It's okay, it's fine. He can find him his little friend. Deep breath. He has the rare gift of psychometry. Through echoes in the Force he can read the history of objects, he can see and hear the things that item has experienced. All it takes is a quick graze of his fingers here and there on things he thinks were of interest to his little buddy and he's got a good idea where he is.

And there he is.

...Scanning some random passerby to enter them into his databank.

"BD! You just ran off, I was worried..." with an excited trill and a series of beeps in binary the little droid runs over to the redheaded Jedi, excitedly chirping about all the things he's found. Cal looks up at the person BD has scanned, "Sorry, he gets curious. He wasn't bothering you, was he?"

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BD tilts his head down so the PINpoint slides neatly into Cal's hands who examines it curiously. Honestly he hasn't had anything this new and shiny looking in AGES. Very new seeing as there was a total lack of memory in it's echo. Knowing his luck though it'd have a cracked screen in a week.

"Yeah? That sounds useful. I sure could have used an instant teleport recently..." Escaping from The Dark Lord himself had not been pleasant. Besides that though... the mayhem he could cause for the Empire if he just had free reign to teleport about.

"I'll keep on my toes then. I've got plenty of experience with aggressive local fauna though. And flora," BD whistles in agreement. He's been rattled around a bit himself, "Have you ever been to Kashyyyk? Almost everything there that's alive is constantly trying to make sure you're not."

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"They're useful things. Mine got me out of a few situations." Both of Ben's encounters with Jason, to begin with. "It got me into a few new ones, too. Don't go to Midgard unless you're sure you're ready for a fight. It's a lot like how you described Kashyyyk, except the weather's trying to kill you too."

Ben doesn't mind visiting the rougher corners of the multiverse, since they provide him with things to fight. Nothing like taking out a few skeleton warriors for a confidence-booster. But the typical Jedi is neither as bloodthirsty nor as hotheaded as Ben can be.

He can't help but smile a little. "I've never been to Kashyyyk personally, no, but I had an honorary uncle who was a Wookiee." Ben misses Chewbacca - the last time they'd interacted was as enemies, but Rey had informed him that Chewie knew he had come to the right side in the end and had been told Ben is still alive.

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"I'll make a note to avoid Midgard then," he shakes his head, picturing some insane amalgamation of Kashyyyk and Illum. Terrifying, "...Unless someone there needs help or something."

He's certainly not bloodthirsty, no, but he DOES have a huge bleeding heart for people in need and literally WILL leap out of a ship in flight into the middle of an ongoing battle if he thinks that's what it'll take.

"An uncle Wookie? My sympathies to your ribs," he winces a bit in memory. In his experience if a Wookie liked you they could get HUGGY, "I helped spring a tribe from a prison camp once and most of them decided that the best way to get around the language barrier and express their thanks was robbing me of ALL the air from lungs."

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Cal's perception of Midgard is not inaccurate. "That would be a good idea," Ben tells Cal. "There are skeleton warriors, cannibals, and trolls - probably worse things than that that I haven't heard of yet." Like Baldur. Ben hasn't seen Baldur since that one encounter, which is more than fine by him. At least Jormundgandr seems nice, especially for something that terrifying. "I go there sometimes to kill monsters who prey on people."


"I think you'd like my Uncle Chewie." From Ben's childhood memories of Chewbacca, he was certainly one for Wookiee hugs. "He's really something, I can tell you that much."

Since they're no longer enemies, he wouldn't mind seeing Chewbacca again if he appeared in Ben's neck of the woods. But Chewie and Lando live in his home galaxy with Rey, while he lives in the Nexus. He's resigned himself to never seeing them again. It's lucky for both of them he and Rey were able to find each other and repair their dyad.