<a class="link link--internal" href="https://bluemoonroleplaying.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=83335&amp;pid=2016239#pid2016239"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff1493"><i>Jin-Lai Park</i></span></a><br/>Location:  Shuttle "Annie"<br/><hr class="bbc-hr bbc-hr--3"/><br/>Jin gratefully took a helmet "Oh yes I did notice she is a stickler for safety.  I guess i can respect that", and she smiled at El and blushed  when the woman called Jin 'cute'.  In restaurants , as the chef, she was treated as a rockstar and given deference.  Even outside them, she could barter, bargain and scrounge with the best of them, deal with regulations, medical restrictions, customs and corrupt officials with the best of them.<br/><br/>But in small groups around new people, sometimes she felt invisible or nervous.  She was very popular in a group once she knew everyone, but being the new person was difficult.  She remembered having to do it several times in her life, as her family had  acquired new companies and her  father went  to a  new posting. It got to where she was tutored much of the time.   Sometimes people thought her  stuck up, but really she was just a little shy sometimes.<br/>She turned as Mateo enthusiastically boarded the little shuttle. "Thank you..  Mateo, right?  Just call me Jin for short."  Jin felt the flush rise further onto her  cheeks as she had to explain her pronunciation sometimes to new schools.  That "lai" was pronounced like "lie".  So of course the nicknames would  come.  Liar pants on fire. She remembered once  telling  them it was pronounced like "lay" . She smirked, big mistake.  She shrugged and shook her head sadly.  What a bunch of losers most of those kids had been anyhow.<br/><br/>Of course, she was now  a cook on a tramp freighter. It's not like her career had been going like gangbusters latey, her little voice opined in response.  Then she realized tht Mateo had been looking at her rather.. oddly.  Just then she decided to put  on her helmet and seal it for takeoff, and secure herself in  her seat.   With the added benefit of them not being able to tell she was blushing.