Aboard the Ghost in the GFFA, Friday Afternoon, Fandom Time

[uncertain_dume]

The supply run to Tarkintown had gone surprisingly according to plan, this week. They'd picked up the food and tools to bring to the Lothal folks who had been displaced, dropped them off, helped the locals hide them away somewhere that wouldn't be immediately noticed by Imperials, all while Kanan sauntered around in the Stormtrooper armor he'd... liberated... on that trip for medical supplies that had gone to hell the moment they'd stumbled across Imperial prisoners.

Hera blamed the success of this mission on fortuitous timing and solid planning.

Kanan, mostly just to be contrary, blamed it on his clever disguise.

"This armor is still stupid," he informed her, "but I'm keeping it."

[OOC: Open for texts and phone calls! Thread with Hera last chronologically!]

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[uncertain_dume]

"I'm allowed if I'm wearing it into enemy territory," Kanan chuckled. "I know what armor I'd rather be wearing, but this will have to do."

Admittedly, the armor he'd rather be wearing was more along the lines of 'Jedi Knight during the war,' but that one was entirely out of the question.

[thatwaslucky]

"And there have to be ways to upgrade it," she said. "Make it at least a little bit up to standard."

[uncertain_dume]

"The trick is bringing it up to standard without changing its outward appearance," Kanan mused. "I don't suppose you've got any ideas in that area?"

[thatwaslucky]

"It depends on what you have available," she said. Scavenger rule. "But I would look for a way to fortify the back side of the armor, maybe weld something on that will strengthen it. It would be thicker than what they use, but probably not in a way that they'd notice. I'm not sure what materials hold up to blaster bolts, though."

A benefit of not getting shot at.

[uncertain_dume]

"Something to take into consideration," Kanan mused. "The added weight would be a consideration too, but I can handle a little bit extra, anyway."

Little bit.

"It's a good idea, thank you Rey."

[thatwaslucky]

"That's why you test materials," she said brightly. "How did things go?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Smoothly," Kanan said, and he sounded weirdly bemused by that, yes. "No bumps picking up the supplies, no bumps dropping them off. We just need to get through our last Imperial checkpoint and then we'll be on our way."

A beat.

"I don't entirely trust it."

[thatwaslucky]

"Things can go okay every now and then, you know," Rey pointed out, like an optimist or something.

[uncertain_dume]

"Yeah," Kanan chuckled, "but it's still weird when it does."

Sorry, Rey. He came by his pessimism honestly.

"How have things been going for you?"

[thatwaslucky]

"All right. A little slow, but that happens sometimes," she said, sounding pretty okay about it. "It'll pick up."

Continuing that optimist trend.

[uncertain_dume]

"Can't stay slow forever," Kanan agreed.

... Because if it started to look like it might, he was crashing Jakku with a care package, dammit.

"This is how it usually goes? With the slow periods now and again?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Sometimes. Everyone's competing for the same stuff, so you might be left with things that aren't worth much. So it's a matter of finding what others haven't yet," she explained. "It's annoying but fine."

Well, okay, it wasn't fine, the system was broken and terrible and she knew that, but it was what she had to do.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan had told himself he'd stop saying this, but...

Hell. The Space Dad was strong with this one, lately.

"If ever it isn't, you know I've got your back," he said, going for a nice air of 'concerned dad casual,' there.

[thatwaslucky]

"I know," she said, and she still appreciated hearing it. "I promise I'll let you know, too."

Maybe.

[uncertain_dume]

"Okay, good," Kanan replied, and his relief was right there in his voice, too.

Yeah, Space Dad was gonna Dad.

"I have faith you've got this, though. You were taking care of yourself for a long time before Fandom, and all."

[thatwaslucky]

"Exactly. And I was smart about bringing things from Fandom, some of which you sent me with," she assured him.

[uncertain_dume]

"Right," Kanan agreed. "The first aid things and all."

Maybe one of these weeks she'd call and he'd manage to make it through the conversation without being all quietly concerned!

[thatwaslucky]

No.

"And I haven't needed to break into that at all," she said encouragingly.

She left off the "yet."

[uncertain_dume]

"Well, that's good," Kanan said, encouraged. Mostly! "I'll send you replacements for anything you have to use." A beat. "Carefully, so nobody notices."

He was learning.

[thatwaslucky]

It was a relief to hear that, because she hadn't wanted to make him worry more by telling him how much attention she could get for getting too many things.

"Thank you. Though my goal is to not actually need it," she said lightly.

[uncertain_dume]

"And that's a respectable goal," Kanan replied with a little grin. "Let's keep it that way, then."

For a certain value of 'us' that meant 'Rey,' since Kanan wasn't physically present to do the dadding in person, sigh.