Employment AMA; text: Graced

[miss_brilliant]

EMPLOYMENT AMA
Preferred Alias: Amanda Perry

Worst Job(s) Held: Every bit of consulting work I did before I was discovered by the military for businesses and projects I had absolutely no interest in. They all sort of blurred together.
Best Job(s) Held: Consulting software engineer for a project designing a new generation of FTL drives.
Fantasy Job(s): I guess probably still an astronaut.

Current Job(s): Nothing here yet, the last job I had was a consultant and show designer at a planetarium.

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[miss_brilliant]

Right now humans are the only sapient beings on Earth, and the only people on that ship were human, too. We have some relations with other races, but we're nowhere close to them settling on Earth yet.

It was beautiful. And terrifying, because if we didn't complete the repairs I was there to do the crew would have died since the ship wouldn't have been able to stop for supplies or fuel. And we were attacked once. And I did get thrown back into my body a couple times when the technology we were using lost connection momentarily, which was unsettling. But it was still the most wonderful thing I've ever done. Of course I guess I could be seeing things through rose tinted glasses since someone I love was up there.

[astralera]

My world has many. Au Ra, Elezen, Miqo'te, Hyur, Roegadyn, and Lalafell. There are the Padjal, but they are outliers and a rarity. We also have the Dravanians - you would likely know them as dragons - Moogles, Amalj'aa, Sahagin, Sylphs, Kobolds, and many other beast tribes who are not 'human' but I have not yet met.

To have seen so few other races here has been odd to say the least.

It sounds wonderful. Did you find your way back to your someone after you were returned to your body?

[miss_brilliant]

Wow. Yeah. If it's strange for me knowing other races exist but not being able to tell anyone who doesn't have the security clearance, I can't imagine what that must be like.

No. He and the rest of the crew still haven't found a way to return to Earth, so when the work was done I went back home and the woman I'd switched places with was back on the ship. I keep telling myself it just means we'll have a whole lot of stories to share when we do see each other again.

[astralera]

Au Ra were not common in Eorzea for quite a while - we originate from the Far East - and so I grew accustomed to unwanted stares. I have been lucky and only encountered a handful of exceptionally rude people here.

I think a situation of knowing but being unable to share knowledge sounds much worse, regardless of what knowledge it may be. Will you have to keep silent for your lifetime?

If you are meant to meet again you will. If you aren't, you will at least have those sweet memories to hold on to.

Sometimes I find myself wondering if it is better to remember or forget.

[miss_brilliant]

I don't know if I'll need to keep my lips sealed about what I know for the rest of my life. I hope not. I hope that it won't be that much longer, relatively, before we're able to share our knowledge with the whole of humanity. But that's mostly out of my hands.

Yeah. Considering that even if this entire situation weren't happening, I don't know if we would ever be what I want us to be, I was trying to prepare myself to just have those memories as that for the rest of my life. But that was better than having the chance to see him and tell him the truth and not doing it. At least I know that he knows how much I'm worried about him, so hopefully he'll take care of himself.

I've wondered that myself. Not...about him, exactly, other things. I think I prefer to remember, even the bad things. Because they make us who we are.

[astralera]

If he knows you're worried I am sure he will take care. I find myself more careful than I would be otherwise if only to keep my friends from fretting.

From experience, I think you would be surprised at how concrete one's self is even without memories. Though it is my opinion that having memories is always preferable, even if they are unhappy.

[miss_brilliant]

Hopefully. I know it's been a long time since he's had anyone worry about him, so I don't know if he'll actually keep it in mind, especially when we're so far apart. But I know even if he's in danger sometimes, he's finding purpose up there, and I know he's needed that for a long time, so I can't be too upset at him for maybe taking some foolhardy risks for it.

That's an interesting idea. I'd sort of been pondering it a little, before I came here. The...place that cured me, before all of this happened, I had option of going home without the memory of ever having been injured. And I'd been debating the merits of that. It's moot now, but I think I would have chosen to keep all those memories.