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Tidus ([personal profile] blitzcheer) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerexpress2021-08-04 08:19 am

[ 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!! ]
flatteries: (and sat in the back booth)

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-08-09 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a part of Inigo that gets it. All the nuances that underlay what Tidus is saying here. The way Tidus brings it to a level that's both easier to understand for Inigo and also more realistic for their current situation. Considering they've never encountered a single sphere pool before, but sure have gotten into plenty of fights together.

There's no way Inigo couldn't smile at that. Genuinely.

"I don't know, it might be fun to play blitzball together with you too, sometime." If they'd ever get the chance. Probably not, considering how miniscule the chance is to ever come across a world other than Spira that actually has the sport, but..

.. you never know, right?

"Even though you know I'm not really a sports guy! But.. you always look so vibrant whenever you talk about blitzball, Tidus. You look so happy, and energetic.. And that's what I really like about you, you know?"

N-No homo, bro. JUST BROMO. JUST ADMIRATION, BRO, H-HAHA!

"It'd be fun to be part of something you love so much for once."
flatteries: (from misery; take it from me)

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-08-10 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
Inigo can't help but think that Spira is such an odd place whenever he hears tales like that from Tidus. But he gets its purpose here - it's to illustrate just exactly what he wants from the train.

Even though Inigo is pretty sure that if they get any pool at all, it'll probably be a whole lot more like the hot springs they went to. Except deeper.

"You want us to put a blitzball carriage on the poll?" And yes, the poll sucks, but Inigo is here to skip over that part, okay. Instead he just smiles. "I think we'll have some major campaigning to do then. We might have to enlist Roland."
flatteries: (you don't gain a single thing)

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-08-11 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
There's a brief pause in Inigo's jokey attitude.

It's not accompanied by a drop of his mood or anything similar to that though. No, instead he just turns quiet for a moment, as if he's considering this sight in front of him. Tidus looking like a particularly guilty and whiny puppy, all for the sake of the kids on the train - and Inigo knows that he always gets along well with them, even looks out for them.

"Well, that shouldn't be a problem, right? First we get them an art car, and then we organize that blitzball car!" It's said with a joking tone, since it's mostly just a joke, though Inigo's tone seems to sober up a bit more a second later when he continues. ".. you really want to get them that art car that badly?"
flatteries: (to shoot me out of a cannon)

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-08-11 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Wow."

There's something about that wow that immediately makes it already clear that he's about to make a joke, especially with the way Inigo starts to stretch out casually where he's sitting next to Tidus.

"You think about that, but you didn't see the 'dance' option on the last one and think, you know what, my good old pal Inigo deserves something nice? I've been on the train longer than Taiki has, you know!"

.. it's not a joking attitude he can keep up for long though, because it's really hard to pretend to be thinking about himself here. So Inigo drops it, instead just laughing.

"It's fine though. As soon as they have their art car, we can just start voting for the pool, right? It's just annoying that we have to wait so long each time for the poll to come back up in the first place."
flatteries: (from misery; take it from me)

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-08-12 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
It takes a moment to follow the direction Tidus's mind went in there, especially when the other suddenly speaks up with that of all things.

But once Inigo does get it, he just lets a hearty laugh escape him, before gently patting Tidus on the shoulder. Clearly he's unbothered.

"Hey, it's fine. The train just put it on there because I asked for a dancing spot with a bit more privacy, so I don't have to feel so worried every time I sneak into the music carriage." Not like he needs a poledancing pole!

.. though it'd be fine of fun, he guesses.

"I've already gone without for so long by now though that it's fine. Your pool is way more important, considering it's not like you can just swim without water! And I want to swim too!"
flatteries: (i used to feel it too)

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-08-12 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Inigo's smile fades - though just a little.

A moment later his mouth opens, and then closes. He just needs a moment to figure out how to put this delicately. Because he knows Tidus, and he knows the other is going to insist on this whole idea if Inigo replies in the wrong kind of way. Though it's really, really hard to figure out if there's even a 'right' kind of way here in the first place.

Feeling his cheeks heat up, he glances away from his friend.

"I.. am not going to use a pole like that to dance where people can see. Sure, it's fun, but.. it's even more embarrassing than regular dancing!" Overcoming his anxiety to dance in the music carriage during quiet moments? That much he can do if he tries really hard, but poledancing under the same circumstances? Just murder him. It'd be a quicker and more merciful death.

"That's exactly the sort of thing that would be nice to have in a more private dancing studio."
flatteries: (i don't know how to word it)

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-08-13 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm sorry that things aren't better right now."

It's said with a smile on his face though, because Tidus at least doesn't seem super sad - more just floppy and whiny, which is a mood Inigo can very much understand when it comes to this train. But there's still a very genuine note in it. Because he knows about Tidus's fate now, knows that he'd just stop existing the moment he'd be disconnected from this train. And while Inigo hopes to still find a solution for that, it is just Tidus's reality for now.

This is all he has. And so things deserve to be better right now.

Inigo moves his arm to be able to ruffle the hair of that head flopped against his shoulder.

"But hey, at least we got this neat blitzball thing! You know, I'm really glad to be able to actually see all of it, even if I'm still not very good at following it. If anything, it's just nice to.. to see you."

Which probably sounds dumb - he sees Tidus every day, after all! - but.. you know what he means, dude!!
flatteries: (somebody said that life isn't fair)

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-08-13 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Inigo is making what's possibly the biggest mistake of his life as he answers, entirely casually: "Of course there are."

While not quite realising that it might just be one of those things Tidus decides to sink his claws into and not let go of. But-- look, he's just being honest to his bro here! Yes, those exist! Or.. have existed, anyway, since they technically all got destroyed right along with his future when they opted to change the timeline.

"But those are way too big to just order here on the train, you know. It's not like.."

.. Inigo seems to lack the proper words to describe it, but he just reaches out to the screen, tapping it. These-- these things! These moving images of Tidus! They're small and compact, unlike the huge royal paintings meant for castle walls.
flatteries: (for breakfast in the heartbreak hotel)

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-08-13 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, Inigo knows exactly what Tidus means the moment the other says that. It takes so very little time for the realisation to dawn in his eyes, and then for the surprise to be replaced by something closer to refusal a second later.

Even though he doesn't use the word, every single bit of body language Inigo is showing off right now is just screaming dude!

"We can't spend that many points on something we'd just tuck away forever!"

Also, he's probably wearing embarrassing poofy pants on it, please!!
flatteries: (you look like you've been)

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-08-14 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Innocent Tidus is not innocent at all! Especially when he's making that suggestion about hanging it up.. Inigo knows that the other knows exactly what he's doing here!

"Why does he need to see?!" Not to mention that Roland already saw a baby version of him in that illusion - but he prefers to not think back on that too much, shoving the memory of his parents right down. "No-- why do you have to see?!"

Mister 'innocent'!

Inigo points at the screen again. "It's not even like that was a kid version of you, only your hair was different!"
flatteries: (so tell me; i need to know it)

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-08-15 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
All Inigo can think as he's sitting here, listening to all of this, is the fact that this is never the way in which he wished Tidus would think he's cute. Dear Naga, does it ruin your shot at romance when your crush sees your baby paintings.. Please let him know.. Send him a sign..

It leaves Inigo staring off into infinity for a moment before he returns back to reality.

"What makes you think that?!"

Explain yourself, dude.
flatteries: (it takes a push and a shove)

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-08-15 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
He is getting bapped! Or even more than that, it's just that Inigo is trying to outright shove those cheeks away from his face.

"I can't believe you're the second person here to do that!" He didn't even expect the first one! A single one! And yet here Tidus is, making it worse.

(.. Are those hands off his face yet? Did he succeed?)

"Besides--" Inigo sputters, "I bet baby Tidus had even chubbier cheeks! And huge eyes!"

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