Video, Monday week 84: When you're sixteen (going on seventeen)

[infourbooks]

[Filtered from Tenel Ka]

[In a highly shocking turn of events, Neville looks nervous.]

So. Uh. Convergence.

And the festival.

[He has the flower situation well under control. And nothing else.]

What are you supposed to... do, when you take a girl to a party like that? I've got dancing down, but that's about it...

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[last_ofthe_jedi]

[Now that he's married, Luke feels that he's qualified to give dating advice. Hey, if he was successful that means he must have been doing something right. And no, "being cute" and "having nice abs" doesn't count. He totally did more than that despite what Kaylee might say.]

Just be yourself. Focus on having fun and make sure she's having fun too.

Oh! And sometimes surprising her with things you know she likes can be really helpful. On one of our first dates I took Kaylee to a hardware store.

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[infourbooks]

A hardware store?

[He's fairly certain that won't work for Tenel Ka. But he can kinda see what he's getting at here.]

[last_ofthe_jedi]

Yeah. Kaylee likes tools, she's a mechanic. [Luke is going to leave it at that. He's not about to get into the details of Mayfield and why Kaylee couldn't just buy her own tools.]

Just find out what she likes and ask her to tell you about it, show interest, get her something related to it, take her somewhere later, things like that. But for this party I'd say keep it simple. Just talk to her. Those other things can come later.

[infourbooks]

Oh... I guess that makes sense.

[Not a hardware store for Tenel Ka. Maybe dinosaur hunting sometime.]

During Pepper's event she had work to do... so this one's a bit different.

[last_ofthe_jedi]

[Luke nods.] I see.

[Then he tilts his head.] Out of curiosity, who is this girl that you're taking to the party?

[It sounds like it might be someone from the ship, and there aren't many of those who are girls Neville's age.]

[infourbooks]

Tenel Ka. Dr. McCoy introduced us.

This time it's a bit different because I actually asked her.

[After stammering a lot. That's how he rolls.]

[last_ofthe_jedi]

[Hey, Luke's a stammerer too. No judgement here.]

Oh, no kidding! Tenel Ka's my student. Or, I guess I should say my future student. Time stuff. It's complicated.

[infourbooks]

I was getting lessons from one of the people who started my school a thousand years ago. Time stuff is always complicated.

[Suddenly it occurs to him that Helga would probably have... all sorts of reactions to this]