ninthfeather: Waist-up image of Louise Halevy from the anime Gundam 00. She is a white woman with green eyes and long, straight blonde hair. (Default)
 Happy Birthday @sapphireswimming!!! Hope the day’s been great.  Wasn’t sure what to do at first, but have some bridge crew headcanons, because your fics are always really good to them and also they need more content.
 
At some point during a break in armed interventions, Lasse, who canon tells us was a member of a mafia, teams up with Ian to teach the younger bridge crew members to play poker.  He also teaches Feldt and Christina to count cards and generally cheat, because they’re smart enough to do it better than him, and then sends them off to clean Neil, Ian, and Moreno out of whatever they feel like betting.  (They win a lot of candy, alcohol that only Christina can drink, and a pair of Ian’s old combat boots)
 
They all have favorite Gundams, in terms of their fighting capabilities.  There are impassioned arguments on the bridge, sometimes.  (Feldt definitely likes Dynames because of it’s technical specifications and for no other reasons, she insists.)
 
All of them, from Chris to Milena, are trained in how to pilot Ptolemy solo, how to operate the weapons alone, and how to do basic communications, regardless of their actual duties.  Milena gets the most training because she comes on after Fallen Angels, when the possibility of things going wrong is more immediate.
 
Christina makes most of Feldt’s fashion choices for the length of their acquaintance.  Feldt likes Christina’s taste, and Christina seems to have so much fun doing it.  Whereas Feldt doesn’t see the point.  A year or more after Fallen Angels, she starts using fashion blogs to study up, as a way to carry on where Chris left off.
 
Milena feels like the odd one out at first, given how young she is and how much  shared history the rest of them have.  Even after Feldt takes her under her wing, it takes her a while to feel she belongs on the bridge.
 
Lichty almost never gets angry, not at anyone, so the few times he does, he practically shuts down the whole room, because everyone’s so surprised they stop talking.  Probably the most notable time was a few weeks into armed interventions, when Tieria crossed a line and Lichty snapped, surprising even Tieria and giving Neil enough time to step in and referee.
 
Lasse and Neil both have a bit of a fondness for dive bars, so the two of them have spent leave time together finding the most disreputable place they can and going there to drink.  They don’t actually start barfights with people for insulting CB, but they did once join in on one that was already going. 
ninthfeather: Waist-up image of Louise Halevy from the anime Gundam 00. She is a white woman with green eyes and long, straight blonde hair. (Default)
 Wang Lui Mei has her information network, but if you want information about the inside of Celestial Being, the person you need to go to is Feldt Grace.  She and Christina Sierra start Celestial Being’s informal gossip network around when Ptolemaios is preparing to launch the Gundams. Later, Feldt recruits Milena Vashti.
 
It starts as a sort of workaround for the “no discussing your pasts” rule–obviously, they aren’t going to break it, but just as obviously, if so much as mentioning a certain subject around a member of Celestial Being will send them into a day-long funk, it’s practical to share that sort of important tactical information with the rest of the crew so future incidents can be avoided.  It’s not a foolproof system, but it’s functional.
 
Later on, as the crew includes more people who weren’t involved with CB from the start, the gossip network becomes a way to fill people in on the things that aren’t really going to show up in the introductory packet.  Even with permission to discuss their pasts, everyone is still fantastically quirky, and sometimes it’s just easier to take the new person aside and explain that, Yes, Setsuna says that sometimes, and no, it doesn’t quite mean what you think it means.  Just go with it.  He’s Gundam.  
 
And, of course, they do sometimes just engage in mundane, just-for-fun gossip, because everyone needs a hobby and their coworkers’ relationships are amusing.

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