(5) [There is a practical reason, Jack is realizing, that he stayed in civilian sector engineering up until this point. And that reason is that he is essentially terrible at a lot of the mainstays of basic training. His aim with a firearm is awful, running is torture, and his discipline . . . well. If he had this kind of discipline, maybe he would've figured out how to have a normal sleep schedule sometime in the last decade or two. Fellow members of the armed forces can find him on mandatory additional hours on the firing range, or maybe enjoying his usual post-laps activity of panting raggedly and wondering if he's going to throw up. Less merciful fellow members are of course welcome to mock - a bit of ribbing isn't going to make him feel much worse.]
(6) [Once he's out of boot camp, though, Jack will be returning home - such as it is. He has a new flat, in a different sector of the city, and though he doesn't lose time reconnecting the stronger social links of his pre-military full-time-party-boy days, he's occasionally out and about on his own. Mostly it's to pick up food - the most reliable thing he makes on his own range is acrid smoke, with bland mush a close second - though he can also be found out shopping on his own, humming along with the music he keeps piped into his ears as he sifts through music and resale clothing shops, or even idles through the aisles of the grocer's picking up his trusty premade essentials.]
5 and 6! Choose your own adventure~
[There is a practical reason, Jack is realizing, that he stayed in civilian sector engineering up until this point. And that reason is that he is essentially terrible at a lot of the mainstays of basic training. His aim with a firearm is awful, running is torture, and his discipline . . . well. If he had this kind of discipline, maybe he would've figured out how to have a normal sleep schedule sometime in the last decade or two. Fellow members of the armed forces can find him on mandatory additional hours on the firing range, or maybe enjoying his usual post-laps activity of panting raggedly and wondering if he's going to throw up. Less merciful fellow members are of course welcome to mock - a bit of ribbing isn't going to make him feel much worse.]
(6)
[Once he's out of boot camp, though, Jack will be returning home - such as it is. He has a new flat, in a different sector of the city, and though he doesn't lose time reconnecting the stronger social links of his pre-military full-time-party-boy days, he's occasionally out and about on his own. Mostly it's to pick up food - the most reliable thing he makes on his own range is acrid smoke, with bland mush a close second - though he can also be found out shopping on his own, humming along with the music he keeps piped into his ears as he sifts through music and resale clothing shops, or even idles through the aisles of the grocer's picking up his trusty premade essentials.]