voidtreckerexpress | [ OPEN ] "would you calm down a little bit"

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[ OPEN ] "would you calm down a little bit"

Who: Tidus and You!
Where: All over! Armoury, standard coach, training gym, sports gym, and games car
When: Merriment 16 - 20
What: Supplies moving, setting up games and exercise equipment, watching that sports game Tidus is really into and also catching a case of ~~home~~ lifesickness!!
Warnings: Last prompt has connections to death/disappearing, but nothing to do with suicide or negative thoughts.

[ DAY 16 ; armoury car ]

"Heyyyy. Uh, so it looks like the train added the lockers I was hoping for. Since Light left, and Tobes's been gone for a while...," Tidus adds with a mutter, already not sounding that pleased, "--I'm puttin' everything from the supplies into them, 'kay? The healing, shields and weapons. There's a tablet with a list of what everything does and how to use 'em. It's voice-automated too.

So...yeah. That's it. See ya."

It's far from confident, the usual casual-sounding that's Tidus been heard over the ICP, but it's on par to whenever he talks about supplies. Lightning's leave already has his mood down, which is an evident sight to anyone who comes to the armoury, where he made the call (and then switched off, not interested in holding a conversation over the thing). There's nothing exciting going on: just suitcases on the ground with their lids open, the array of healing and weaponry waiting revealed inside that's to be stuffed away.

Maybe you come because of the announcement; maybe you're just passing by. You might hear a "shit!" hissed when one of the finger-sized bottles go rolling towards the other side of the carriage from where Tidus is. His movements are sluggish, and he wears an unguarded, doleful look, uncharacteristically quiet. Unless he notices anyone lingering, or just catches someone's eye -- then he'll pull on a smile, and give a simple "Hey."

Or, he's just taking a second to look at locker and its supplies once it's filled, his back to another locker, sitting on the floor. And you might hear him say-

"Hope you kick that god's ass, Light."

[ DAY 17 ; training gym - standard coach ]

( a: treadmills ~~cw cw inigo don't look~~ )

But he's being better by the next day, or seems to be. In the early morning he's in the training gym, pulling odd square containers out by a wall, with what appear to be bars curled around the sides. To anyone whose attention he gets, he offers cheerily: "Hey, how about a go on one of these?"

It takes some pressing in the right places, and then, the 'box' stars to unfold, turning rectangular while the bars raise - and it turns into what's essentially a treadmill.

"Ever seen one of these?"

Or, he could already be running on one, while the second sits there, a spare waiting to be used. Hop on! Tidus won't stop you.

( b: standard coach - blitzball )

There's a few close CR he might push to join him, but if you're friendly with Tidus and you happen to passing through, he might usher a hand, stop you from where you were going.

"Hey, hey! Wanna see me in a blitzball match?"

He's at a table, a device rolled out and a picture taking up the entire 'screen' and an energy drink open. There's footage similar to this to behold (note: without city destruction), with Tidus perhaps present an outfit like this, and his hair blond. Or, you might even get a chance to see him a year younger, in an outfit the same the rest of his team -- and with his hair a brown.

"Oh man!" He says through a laugh. "I can't believe it got video of me like this! This was when I was starting off!"

[ DAY 18 ; sports gym/games car ]

( attempt a: whomp whomp )

Tidus has got a plan. He's had a plan for a while, thanks to Roland, but now is the time to achieve it. It starts somewhere around morning to noon, after breakfast. There's notices slapped on the outside of the sports gym doors, written in fat felt.

'USING THE SPACE 2 MAKE A POOL'

'SWIMMING POOL INSIDE'
One on one side, one on the other. You might get to read them, before the troubles, or after. What are the troubles? That would happen to be when a sound like the equivalent of a bomb going off sounds from inside the gym, and before the doors can be opened from outside, they slam open from within - and water floods out into the hallway, possibly knocking anyone out there off their feet.

The good of the situation: the water is only knee-high deep on an adult. The bad of the situation: ...the car is flooded, welcoming any unsuspecting person who welcomes through the sports car (and thank goodness someone moved the transgate back out). Tidus can be found inside the car - that's impressive flooded from one end to another, in swimming shorts and coughing up water, while a blue pal is floating on the water the opposite end, wiggling and squeaking 'hiiigle!! piggle!!' desperately. ( But, they're only visible to those with a good heart/of good intentions. )

A plan may have not gone off right here.

( attempt a: dingdingdingding! )

"I've got a pool going in the gym for an hour or two! Come join me if you want!"

But by some miracle, they finally get it right. This pool doesn't take up the full length of the gym but one half of one side, away from the walls and about half the size going up from the ceiling. Tidus might be seen inside the water, or just enjoying floating above it; his blue pal nowhere but to seen, but for those who sense energy, may be able to discern there being entities with the water, that is otherwise nothing more than fresh, natural water.

Grab some shorts from the spa car, come and gawk, complain about the room being used up or whatever you like. Tidus dives into the water and reaches out of the 'wall' of the water, to a large trunk homing pieces of coral, breaking it off and bringing it into the bizarre pool - where it shatters into pieces, and the water wobbles...in delight??

[ DAY 19 ; sports gym - standard coach ]

( a: dance dance dance!! or shoot shoot shoot!! )

Oh no, he's in the sports gym again.

But don't worry, there's no water. This time, there's a holographic figure being projected from a round disk on the floor. About as defined as a wii fit trainer, they stand idle as Tidus - dressed appropriately - flicks through a screen of settings.

"Wanna give it a go with me?" Tidus offers, always happy for company. The dance difficulties he goes for are simple to follow, and there's the option of finding him with Inigo for company, if you want to up the potential for dumery. Two guys just doing repetitive dance moves, and if Tidus happens to catch you staring (though, he really needs to keep his eyes on the coach!), he'll grin and challenge, "Think you can keep up!?", in all his usual daring nature.

( Warning: if Inigo notices a girl/woman looking at ~~him~~ them, the possibility of him shrieking is 90%. )

But when isn't Tidus like that? Always up to something, and willing to include another. There's a new addition in the games carriage that Tidus has been having goes on, aiming to raise his highscore. Look at this wonderful gameplay.

( attempt b: 3am thoughts )

But there's more than only his usual buzzing energy going on with Tidus. He can be found in the standard coach on some of the later nights; another energy drink opened, indulging in a fizziness a guy like him shouldn't be so late. The tablet device sits on a simple stand, while his head rests in his folded arms, watching the blitzball footage.

To some, he just looks focused on whatever he's watching - intensely so. But if he happens to notice anyone come in (a 50/50 chance), he pauses the video, or just brings the device down -- like a guy trying to hide his shame, head turned towards the window, his face a warm pink. He might look back with a not-trying-to-appear-awkward "Hey" if he recognises the person - but otherwise, just, you know. Acting like he didn't do that!

Nothing weird about him, bro.

[ DAY 20 ; sports gym (late) ]

( note: prompt has some allusions to death, may involve talk related to it; nothing negative/suicidal! )

It's late again, and Tidus has something he wants to find out.

Why? There's a few reasons in his head. A few thoughts have been in his head, leading him into the sports gym, out of the way. He could go somewhere more private like the quiet car, but Tidus likes the sports car, spends most of his time in it. He likes the space and silence, as empty as it is right now.

He has a device on him, and he's counting down the time; his SCA on the floor next to him, in easy reach.

Counting how long it takes for his skin and the rest of him to start to discolour, shimmering into greens and blues; until it becomes see-through, until it gets to a point that it scares him, and he can't countdown any more and needs to grab his SCA again, all he can grab at that point.

But as late a time as Tidus picks to do his experiment, maybe he ends up not the only one there, caught with his eyes on the tablet device, ears not picking up on the doors farther away from him when they open.

Unless the person is particularly loud - then he'll reach for his SCA, and scramble to get it on quickly, the colours across his body fading as a more solid form returns.

[ OTHER DETAILS ]

[ Want to do any of the above but on different days? Treadmills, dance exercise, and gaming are available on any of them! Inigo can also be a 3rd person for dancing. Feel free to message me for any questions/plotting!! ]

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"Sure, but most of them involved breathing in some capacity! And a lot more weapons and ninjutsu training, of course." Two very different beasts. A ninja likely couldn't play that game no matter their training.

"'Nunjutsu'?" Tidus repeats. Or tries to repeat. What's a nanjatsu...? Give Tidus a moment to be distracted from Edge's point for whatever this thing is.

"Ninjutsu is the magical inheritance of the Eblan ninja clan, of course." Edge nodded, as if that should be obvious. "We master not only blade and shuriken, but fire and lightning and ice in turn!"

"Oh, that's neat." It isn't not neat - even if he doesn't know what an Eblan is, but! Learning all that can be handy.

"Learning how to hold your breath for a long time could be handy too though, right? If you're near any water."

...

"A lot of water. Like for diving!"

"We aren't so unskilled as you think! The Cave of Eblan is only properly accessible by the ocean, outside of our secret passages, so we know how to swim. Just not long enough to play a game like that." He waved a hand at the ongoing display.

"Hey, no judgment here! I can't pull off ice moves!" No thinking these guys are unskilled in this blitzhead sitting here. "But so you're a clan that live in a cave...that's only accessible underwater? Through secret passages? ...'cause that's pretty cool."

And he wants to ask why they wouldn't learn to hold their breath long enough for cool blitzball games, but he also wants to hear more about this cave.

(He could totally reach it.)

"Oh, not quite. The Cave of Eblan is an emergency refuge, a place of sanctuary for our people in time of need. So it's as inaccessible as we can make it." No living underwater, honestly!

"Ohhh." Ohhhh. "So you all have to learn how to dive and swim just to get there, just in case? ...you don't have things like submarines in your world, do you?"

Probably the case. Maybe?

"Not at all. But even if we did, the rocky shoals outside the cave mean it can't be approached on or below the water, and there's nowhere to land an airship. The only vehicle that can reach it is the hovercraft of Damcyan... we really need to do something about that," he muttered to himself. "Not that there isn't peace in the world now."

"How about taking a few transgates home, teach everyone there the secret art of using them?" There's a grin that joins the suggestion - not serious, but hey! "Sounds like a way of fixing that! 'Til they break."

As tech tends to do. Heh.

"More trouble than it's worth, and besides, too much Lunarian technology is responsible for the mess we got into in the first place! If they'd had to face us with sword and shield instead of a giant robot, we'd never have had to fear to begin with." Stupid cheating Lunarians. Not that they weren't powerful, but their science truly gave them the edge.

"A giant robot? That's-- er. Sucks." Cool, he wanted to say cool. "So there's no giant robots around now? 'Cause, I mean, both sides or neither of them having the giant robots sounds like it'd be useful. Or other tech? Other, no-fighting tech."

"No, we destroyed the core that powered it, and good riddance. It took the entire armies of the world just to slow it down long enough for us to do so."

Edge hadn't been impressed in the slightest with any virtues or upsides to the giant Lunarian machine.

"Airships are enough for anyone's taste, I think."

"Whoa! Okay, that's a big super machine." Is he getting the right idea about it? But if it took armies of an entire world... He knows about some worlds, they have a lot more than Spira going on!

"An airship sounds good! And some really good boats? Easy travel's good for the whole world, 'specially if you come from a world with different kingdoms or countries all over."

"Of course! Airships are the province of Baron and Eblan, so besides the Serpent Road, boat is the only way for anyone to travel. Not that I'd go back to one if I could help it!" He was far too enamored of the Falcon.

"Airships are a lot nicer for getting around." That Tidus can agree with. "I mean, I grew up on a boat, so when it came to the long-run, I'd pick sticking around water? But-"

He gestures to the game still playing.

"But if you're a guy who needs to get around, go places, an airship's cool! I'm hoping my world's using them more these days too. And better boats," might he add. "They were using animals to make them move while I was there."

"Animals! Not sail power?" How primitive could such a thing be? "And yet your world also has airships?"

"Had them, more than we do now. There's two around, maybe a few more?" It's been a while since he's been alive. "But our world had a run-in with tech too. The magic users didn't like it, the two sides clashed, and the stuff that came after led to everyone deciding machines were bad, and anything to do with them made their life worse."

He shrugs - as if that's a situation to shrug over.

"Not everyone agreed with that, but people who didn't got shunned, and no one liked them. But life's doing better now - people are more open to machine these days. A little."

"Strange. The Lunarians were every bit as proficient with magic as they were with their science. That was the main problem, actually -- they were so advanced, they didn't think they could live with us until we got closer to them." And ultimately, they chose not to do so at all.

"Who are the Lunarians?" Tidus asks. "Are they just one of the other countries, or kingdoms?" Or whatever they have over there?? "What's their deal?"

Because something sounded peculiar with them, with the way Edge was describing them.

Edge leaned his head back to laugh. "Far stranger than that. They were people from another world! Theirs died long ago, so they built a ship and came to ours to find a new place to live."

"Another world?" Tidus's eyes widen, his own head leaning back some; but, if he thinks about other people on the train...

"...I guess that isn't that strange, to some people around here." But evidently, not him or Edge. Tidus rubs the side of his head. "Talk about stingy. They come and hang out on your planet, but they won't even say hi 'til you guys come knocking? Wait, so why did they let loose a giant robot on the rest of you?"

That was a thing, right?

"They didn't, though. They stayed in the Red Moon, waiting for the time when they thought they could live among us. But one came down, and taught us things like airships, and another was so evil that even when in the deep waiting sleep, he could influence people. So he was the one trying to kill us all." It was simpler than it sounded, really!

That's... uh... bwuh?

"So... The Lunarians were in this place, waiting and judging, but one of them was in there and decided he'd used the people where you lived - on the planet," he clarifies with a hand sweeping the air, "just because he could? And no one else went hey, knock that out? Or noticed?"

This sounds like a giant mess to Tidus!

"They were all asleep except one, the caretaker. And he couldn't do anything, because his power didn't reach down to us the way Zemus's did, and he couldn't reach Zemus physically because he was deep down protected by monsters and guardians. Hellacious ones."

Absolutely terrifying ones. Edge would never, ever admit out loud how close he'd come to breaking and fleeing during that descent.

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