A/N: Written for the Temple of the Toad Sage Anime and Manga Drabble Tag thread. Based on the anime The Irresponsible Captain Tylor.
Prompt: Unusual Marriage Arrangements
Not for the first time did Lieutenant Commander Yuriko Star feel like slamming her head against one of the metal bulkheads of the passageways of the UPSF Destroyer "Soyokaze".
Hard.
Repeatedly.
But with even Lieutenant Yamamoto succumbing to the average, everyday madness in his own way, she figured that she had to remain the sensible one at all times. No matter how trying it was on her psyche and stress levels.
This time was no different.
And just as she was getting used to, possibly accepting, and perhaps even enjoying the madness that was rapidly becoming an everyday occurrence since the moment the Captain had set foot in the hangar bay with Emi and Yumi, Tylor had to throw an eleventh hour Hail Mary to stir up even more chaos than ever.
In his rather weak defense, it wasn't anything he said or did, but rather what he didn't say. It was THAT girl who had set things in a perpetual downward spiral of maddening chaos as Azalyn had brazenly announced that she, Empress Goza XVI of the Holy Raalgon Empire, was with Paco Paco's (her pet name for the Captain) child.
As a result, there was a celebration followed by fighting. Pilots vs Marines, Engineers vs Marines, Marines vs Marines... Though this was quite normal- at least by the Soyokaze's standards- the reasons were not.
Everything was being discussed from baby names, to the flower arrangements of the eventual nuptials between Tylor and Azalyn. It was a bizarre sight to watch the Pilots and the Marines trying to tear each other limb from limb as they argued where on the ship the shotgun wedding would be, the theme of the wedding and what color scheme would be used. And each suggestion was getting more and more bizarre as they were thrown onto the proverbial table.
They were some of the most Unusual Marriage Arrangements she'd ever heard.
Especially since all parties had already long agreed what dress that Harumi should wear. And though Yuriko had not been to many weddings, she hardly thought that the "dress" in question was really appropriate ANYWHERE, never mind the wedding of an Empress.
However, if the wedding arrangements were bad- the nursery ideas were worse. Ignoring the fact that an intergalactic warship wasn't a suitable place to raise a child, the Soyokaze even less so, some of the themes for the nursery (especially the ones brought up by Master Sergeant Cryburn) were DEFINITELY not suitable for the room of a child of any age.
She already couldn't wait for madness of this most recent debacle to settle down. This had been a trying experience for her as no matter how happy she had tried to be for the new couple on board, she just couldn't muster up the necessary joy- faked or otherwise.
If only...
No, she wouldn't allow herself to go there. Even if not for the anti-fraternization rules, there was still the fact that Tylor was the most irresponsible man in space. A romantic entanglement of any kind was just out of the question. Besides, the now happy couple would have enough problems to deal with once the UPSF brass found out about Tylor's indiscretions.
Lieutenant Commander Yuriko Star would just continue on as she always had.
It would be difficult, it would be lonely, but she would be relatively whole. And perhaps one day she could forget about the affect that she would grudgingly admit to herself that Tylor had on her.
After all, even a fool like Tylor deserved a measure of happiness.