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[emanation]

will make this pretty later

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action, post-Cinder thread

[roundandaround]

[Not long after the text, Rinku can be found running over from the direction of the nearest teleport node. She's pretty easy to spot -- a young woman with giraffe horns and a tail, scars spreading across her face, and a shirt that says "weird sisters build character" isn't too common.]

Hi! You're the new guy on Cinder, right?

[emanation]

{ thankfully, having met before, it's pretty easy to identify her from the post as she comes running over. it's true she definitely stands out though, at least amongst the crowd of locals here. he's not really ventured too far, just a bit into solarpeak to chase the sun a little bit. }

Yeah, that's me! Thanks for coming to help. I've kind of just been wandering so having some direction would be nice.

[roundandaround]

Yeah, yeah! [smile smile -- wait is she glowing.] There's parks and nature spaces all over, though a bunch of them are way smaller. Some places in Nightwake are only a block and some? Frostreign has a lot of natural area, but that's because most people don't live up there 'cause it's freezing. I dunno why, it's fun! Exotic!

[emanation]

{ is she glowing- she is met with a bright smile in return either way, glad that even if she finds the cold area exotic he won't be stumbling to find his way around now. }

How long have you been here anyway? I met someone when I arrived who said they'd been here 2 years. Kinda hard to imagine that's possible. But I bet if you've been here a while the city is easy to remember like the back of your hand.

[roundandaround]

Hm... on this calendar, it was February in 215, and now it's April in 217, so a little over two years, yeah!

[sparkle.]

Let's go! Which district do you wanna explore first?

[emanation]

Huh! So you've been here just as long. Well, in that case, how about we go with your favourite local spot? Unless that's also Blossomcrown, I guess we already covered that one...

[roundandaround]

Hm... I know!

[She reaches for his wrist to start tugging him towards the nearest teleport node.]

There's a park in Amberfall where they used to hold the Arts Festival before it moved to the Titanic Dome. It's nice there, everything's always colourful!

text | un: leonhart | the day after the june cinder conversation

[lyingheart]

Have everything reasonably ready to go, but not specialized items. If anything comes to mind for you that shouldn't be missed and isn't a basic, may be worth bringing.

Annie

[emanation]

Yo! I can grab whatever else we need - it's mostly just whatever we need for survival until we get there. Shouldn't need much.

Wanna meet at the air station?

[lyingheart]

Air station works.

I'll be bringing an egg and what gear was dropped off for me via bear this morning.

[emanation]

{ annie wtf }

Why an egg?

{ he'll use the time to get his own stuff together, at least now he has clothes that won't have issues when he uses his powers from home. but whatever annie answers to that he'll travel light. just enough to live off while going there and back.

he'll keep his coat from home on for the time being though, so he looks like a priest at the moment. he also has a backpack with a few supplies which doesn't match well. }

[lyingheart]

Pokemon thing.

( Does he know what that is? Hell if she did before coming here, and it's still just a word rather than anything sensible. Companion creatures that want to live in balls. She supposed she could have tossed the egg to one of the neighbors, or asked for Reiner (or maybe even Bertholdt) to watch it, but it's somehow her responsibility for the moment, and thus an egg is... carried around in a satchel. If these things are meant to be combat assisting anyway, this is probably fine.

Annie looks like she decided to show up in black pants, a white hoodie, and a very weird version of bondage gear worn over both. If Ezra'd ever seen one of the Scouts wearing their ODM gear the straps will be familiar; if not, she makes incredibly questionable fashion decisions.

She also has a rectangular wooden box with a handle in one hand and a rucksack over her shoulder holding a jar, extra socks (never... forget... socks, when you're military) and other practicalities. What may seem less practical is the satchel worn sideways across her front. It's the pokemon egg. Being egglike. How this is logical presently evades her.

His outfit... ... is an outfit. To Annie, whose brushing up against forms of organized religion was vastly different from anything Judo-Christian, it's just a different style of coat. Overall, they're both sufficiently mismatched for this place. )

The egg. ( She says, pointing to the satchel on her front. ) It's shell is ridiculously strong.

( ... Right. )

And hello. Is there anything else we need before we head out?

[emanation]

{ THANKFULLY he does know what the pokemon are. he doesn't have one himself, but he watched as jean essentially adopted a skiddle that was enamoured with him. he isn't aware of any of the others wearing the gear for quests yet, annie is his first experience with it, but honestly he just takes it as a weird fashion choice for now.

it's fine, he frequents gay bars a lot. people wear that all the time there. at least his own is mostly black, with the church of providence's emblems on the sleeves. nothing too fancy. }

Y'know, I knew the existed but I haven't seen one. You have to carry it around with you? It doesn't need to like... incubate or anything?

{ not that it matters, he'll wave his hands in front of himself. }

But yo. Nice to meet you. I don't think so. I'm not exactly used to a life of luxury though, so if you aren't used to camping it may be a shock?

[lyingheart]

( all of AOT is in its gay bar phase and we're proud of them for it.

Annie rests her palm on the top of the satchel, looking a little bemused. puzzled is a good state to be in when it comes to pokemon eggs. )

That's what I would assume, but apparently I'm the donkey. It wants to get walked?

( sure did nothing sitting at home, and it just feels weird leaving it around. weirder than carrying it? apparently not. she shrugs at the question about camping. )

I'm former military. I'm used to roughing it.

( or is she still military? ...

this is it. Annie's claiming her retirement. she hitches her bag a touch higher on her shoulders. )

Any idea how far the airship's drop-off is from our end point?

backdated, belated bday gift! finally!!

[fauxbot]

[Around his birthday, Ezra would have found gift on his doorstep - specifically it's a leather jacket that he's customized by hand.
Chipp did say he'd be getting him exactly that, after all!!

Packaged with it is a little Tupperware container full of brownies, everything all wrapped up to hopefully keep them warm... he finished baking them just a few minutes before he left the house. Nice and toasty just for the birthday boy.]

🥺 bless u

[emanation]

{ even if chipp had already told him his plan it still feels like a Lot when he receives the gift anyway. it's clear a lot of thought and effort went into it.

chipp will receive a text thanking him in return, along with a promise to take care of the jacket. }

delivery

[divineliar]

[Ezra received a package of a choker with an opal pendant. The note above it says "DO NOT WEAR".

A note beside the note says.]

"This is a limiter I got when I attended school. It can suppress a god's form. Take it to the Research Center to study, you might be able to figure out how to help your friend.

Just don't wear it.

- Loki Laevatein"

text

[emanation]

{ honestly he'd forgotten most of the conversation until he went back and reread it, but seeing the object now he's surprised the guy went through with it. he has no idea what a limiter is, but he'll follow the instructions.

along with sending on the message. }

Hey, it's Ezra. Thanks for the limiter, I'll make sure no one tries to wear it when I take it to the research centre too!

on the sixth day of flower yard; Loki -> Annie -> Ezra?

[divineliar]

[Loki seems frustrated. It has been longer than the estimated time and yet there is no change at all. None. Nada. Loki waves to Annie when she arrives for "shift" change.]

Still nothing. I swear I'll smack him senseless when he finally emerges.

[The flower behind him just moved a little without him noticing.]

slides in to home plate

[lyingheart]

( Annie is visibly displeased and anxious, in part because she's not bothering to disguise it. Today's treat is...

... donuts, again, but these ones are fancier. She stopped by a different store this time, in need of a distraction on top of whatever else has been going on. )

Won't help, he'd need sense in the first place.

( She shoves the half-dozen box at Loki, jerking her head around when she detects further movement from the flower. Not just a breeze passing by, or a storm, or the sun beating down hot enough to make it bow. It moved. )

We've got movement.

on the 6th day of awakening my homies gave to me, a punch to the face-

[emanation]

{ unknown to ezra he's just left one battlefield to enter another.

the flower starts to blossom out, changing being a bud to showing the flower itself. since it's a rose it doesn't expand too far outside the normal, but the white petals do shake a few times before it seems to be ready to spew ezra out onto the floor.

he lands face down, shirtless and exhausted but seemingly healed from whatever he went through both here and at home. he lifts himself up, only just noticing loki and annie both sat there eating donuts (apparently???) and blinks a few times. }

Um... hi?

{ his head is a mix of home and here, pls excuse him for that much. }

6 punches, 5 kicks, 4 drinks on head, 3 ear pinches, 2 back head slaps and a pocket full of sand

[divineliar]

[At the news of the flower moving, Loki turns around -- but also starts eating a donut because dayum delicious.

Besides he can still smack the back of his head with one hand, it's fine.]

You're late you idiot.

[Welcome back.]

plus a handful of glitter in your hair~

[lyingheart]

( Loki reaches him first, so Annie opts for the narrowed eyed glare. Fucker. )

Three days late.

( She, too, is eating a donut. Now that Loki has the box she can't even toss it at Ezra's head, which is for the better, as it would have been unfair to the donuts. )

You were scaring the hell out of us.

[1/2] not his hair!!!!! :'(

[emanation]

{ honestly he hadn't expected anyone to be here when he woke up again, so even if they're both mad (rightly so) he feels grateful that they care enough to be there to berate him for it.

being late or dying or whatever else it is. }

Sorry... { his face twists then, a mix of apologetic and sad. } I guess I fucked up here and back home.

[2/2]

[emanation]

{ he holds his hands out in front of himself, clenches them a few times before his eyes drop to the new marking on his chest and it's a reminder that yup. he did die back there. sunny is still avoiding him (if giving yourself in to the church and being locked away in a cell in the vatican away from him counts as that) and he was fighting beelzebub, had just destroyed him and then--

oh right. }

Neither of you would happen to have a spare shirt with you, would you?