#Also thinking about how intense Minkowski would be about this is funnier

[hephaestuscrew]

Minkowski would be so intense about introducing Eiffel and Hera and Lovelace to any of her loved ones back on Earth. She makes the crew sit through a PowerPoint presentation on suitable topics of conversation to discuss with her mother. She gives Dominik a folder of detailed guidance about how to interact with Hera because he's never met an AI before. She asks Eiffel several days beforehand if he has decided what he's going to wear to meet her family, as though Eiffel has ever in his life put thought into an outfit more than 30 seconds before getting dressed.

She tries to control every parameter of the interaction in a way that actually makes it more uncomfortable for everyone involved. She spends the entire time sitting right on the edge of her chair, looking anxiously between each of these people she cares about, trying to tell whether they are getting on, and attempting to communicate with them individually through urgent expressions.

And of course it doesn't work. Eiffel puts his foot in his mouth. Dominik is confused and curious about all the wrong things. Minkowski dares to leave the room for a few minutes and when she comes back, her mother is showing the crew her baby photos, and Minkowski knows she'll never live this down.

[herawell]

Minkowski's mom should tell the crew a charming anecdote from Minkowski's childhood#that Minkowski finds intensely embarrassing#and I agree#Also thinking about how intense Minkowski would be about this is funnier#if you share my idea that Minkowski's family is generally more chilled out than she is#Like I don't imagine her mother to be the kind of person you'd need a briefing to interact with successfully#but Minkowski is giving that briefing anyway#She'd just be very freaked out about the colliding of worlds I think#Eiffel and Hera and Lovelace are so so important to her#but she's also known them in this very particular context#in which the parameters of her life were fixed and limited#and she could (mostly) control what they knew about her#When they are back on Earth#they've got to work out how to be important to each other in a very different context#They have to work out how they relate to each other in this wider world#which includes Minkowski's husband and family and friends#(and Lovelace's loved ones. and Eiffel's. such as they are)#And I don't think that will be an easy process#but I think it will add an important new dimension to their closeness

Minkowski would be so intense about introducing Eiffel and Hera and Lovelace to any of her loved ones back on Earth. She makes the crew sit through a PowerPoint presentation on suitable topics of conversation to discuss with her mother. She gives Dominik a folder of detailed guidance about how to interact with Hera because he's never met an AI before. She asks Eiffel several days beforehand if he has decided what he's going to wear to meet her family, as though Eiffel has ever in his life put thought into an outfit more than 30 seconds before getting dressed.

She tries to control every parameter of the interaction in a way that actually makes it more uncomfortable for everyone involved. She spends the entire time sitting right on the edge of her chair, looking anxiously between each of these people she cares about, trying to tell whether they are getting on, and attempting to communicate with them individually through urgent expressions.

And of course it doesn't work. Eiffel puts his foot in his mouth. Dominik is confused and curious about all the wrong things. Minkowski dares to leave the room for a few minutes and when she comes back, her mother is showing the crew her baby photos, and Minkowski knows she'll never live this down.