Open - Egret and Fiddlesticks catchall

[enthunder]

Who: Lightning and YOU
Where: 1. Dining Car | 2. Dressing Car | 3. Gym Car | 4. Wildcard
When: Egret + Fiddlesticks (backdating fine, she was on autopilot for most of Egret)
What: 1. colouring books and chill | 2. light fails at makeup | 3. know what this train needs? a 10' magical robot | 4. wildcard
Warnings: N/A

1. colouring books and chill
[ The long table of the dining car is often cluttered with half-finished projects, bowls of snacks, forgotten mugs of coffee... And, sometimes, Light, and whatever she's picked to occupy her free time today. It took her a few months to realise that training and sleeping and training some more was a stupid use of her time - or rather, a few months and a day where she's pretty sure she passed out on more than one person, even if everyone involved is either too polite or too intimidated to mention it.

The point is, she still feels a little silly tucked against the table, her 'colouring book for adults' quote unquote open to a meadow of unfamiliar wildflowers. It's not something she's done since... she doesn't actually remember when she had the time to do something as pointless as colouring. When she was four, maybe, before her parents would let her help with Serah and she had nothing better to do.

So it's with some self-consciousness that she squints down at the pencils that came with it, trying to work out which colour she should start with. ]

2. light fails at makeup
This month was apparently the month for catching up with things that she never had the time or the motivation to look into before now, because when Lightning woke up and, stretching, remembered that the gym was booked up today for some kind of informal (but deeply meaningful) sports tournament involving webshooters, she only cast around for a minute or so before the unassuming tote bag caught her eye.

She'd bought it as an experiment, really. Thea and Misa had reminded her that it was probably going to come up sooner or later; they couldn't rely on missions having a convenient 'kill 'em all' section for Red team every time. Eventually, they were going to have something with a social aspect. Plus, the fact that it was something she didn't know how to do rankled a bit.

Easy to fix, though.

Or, easy in theory. Fifteen minutes later, she and a spider were perfectly amiably ignoring each other on opposite sides of the dressing carriage, and she had a layer of red nail varnish drying on one hand. One nail was already smudged, and her SCA now had a fetching smear of red along one corner.

"How long's this meant to take?"

3. know what this train needs? a 10' magical robot
[ She's picked a relatively quiet time of day for this, and the furthest section of the gym. See, watching the shades gather in the sky made her realise, amongst other things, that she'd let herself get complacent. The missions were challenging, but she didn't think she'd ever felt inadequate, or ill-equipped. Until that moment, that is, when suddenly having the service of a mystical being gifted unto her by the goddess Etro would have been useful.

The thing is, Lightning genuinely isn't sure how the Eidolons work, theologically and physically speaking. A l'Cie has a crisis of faith, and the goddess sends them from the world beyond, right? But, is the world beyond a real place, or just a hokey explanation for a phenomenon fueled by fal'Cie smoke and mirrors? Does the Eidolon live within the l'Cie? The glowing crystal rose that glimmers and sparks in her hand, that until seconds ago was a nebulous feeling of warmth in her chest, indicates yes. (A small part of her, cynical and afraid, wonders how much it will hurt, if she calls and he doesn't answer.)

(That part is crushed down remorselessly.)

Nothing for it. She's cleared the area, warned people that she's going to try something and she'll answer questions afterwards. The crystal goes spinning into the air, and as it begins to fall back down, she jumps up and smashes it with one blow of her knife. No shards fall - they explode outwards into a blinding circle of pink magic. By grace of Etro, let thunder herald your arrival. Come forth, sunderer of falsehood, spins around one petal-like section, and, A name in blood, a pact of truth. Odin shall rise, his bond eternal and unyielding spins widdershins against it. ]

Come forth, Odin!

[ There's a moment of stillness, as she catches her breath and stomps down further on the fear, and then the circle is a flower, spiralling upwards, and the end of the gym car is suddenly filled with both deep pink rose petals, and a robot, armour still gleaming with the residual power of the summoning. He drops to one knee, knightly, and still towers over Lightning.

She exhales, shakily, and gives the 'all clear' signal to the rest of the carriage. And brushes the petals out of her hair. ]

Long time, no see, big guy.

4. wildcard

Comments

[kabe]

( with a soft nod of her head, yuna pulled up a chair across from lighting, taking a seat. )

Of course you can, and I'd be more than happy to be your friend and help you. Just....no more sword fights, okay?

( there's a soft laugh that follows her words and as yuna becomes more visibly comfortable around lighting, she begins to speak once more. )

So how long have you been on this train anwyays?

[enthunder]

[ she laughed as well, a surprised, soft noise. The relief was almost startling. ]

Thanks, but no promises, fighting's a pretty big part of life here. But, mm. I was in the first batch of travellers, in the first month. We're in the sixth month now.

[ Still smiling faintly, she tilted her head, and settled herself more comfortably. Made herself obviously available for further questions. ]

[kabe]

Wait, so you mean to tell me the train started running only six months ago? If you were in the first batch-

How did you guys find out what this was all about?

( for as relaxed as yuna appeared before, she was back on the edge of her seat. she was more than eager to find out more about this place and of lightning's experience with the train. )

[enthunder]

Trial and error, mostly. Ordered kids' books from the vending machine that talked about Void Trains. We got a 'training mission' on a 'hub world' our first week, and the innkeeper on that world had seen other trains like ours... Stuff like that, pieced together like patchwork.

[ She ticked off the ways on one hand, fingers flicking out and then back in. ] One time, we got boarded by some guys in heavy armour, said they were ticket inspectors. We were kept in our cabins as they checked us all, and then they just left. Some of the guys went with them to make a report, but they've never heard back from anyone about it.

[kabe]

Kids' books? You mean there are children on here?

( the whole set up for the train was rather confusing and a bit odd, but she won't question lighting's methods of obtaining information. )

That makes no sense, if we were brought here by force why would they need to check if we're allowed here......

Has anything else happened since then?

[enthunder]

Check the roster, some of the ages are pretty unbelievable.

[ She thinks. ] Plenty's happened, but nothing... Oh, wait. Right. There was a... breach. Something from the Void outside collided with the games carriage. The first the rest of us knew about it was the warning message, and then we all blacked out. Had a load of weird dreams, then woke up in our bunks like nothing'd happened.

Few missions later, and we're on-world when our watches start going crazy a few hours into the mission. There were these 'shadows' in the dreams we all had, and something like'em was pouring down from the sky. We got yanked back onto the train, and it just... left. It's all a big mystery, and everyone got pretty pissed off about it.

[kabe]

I can understand that....I actually was pretty annoyed and angry before I came here. I was in the middle of something that left me pretty confused. I'm not sure how much of my world you know about-

Actually do you know of Sin?

[enthunder]

You mentioned some things, but you and Jecht were both pretty quiet about the details. It's what you went on pilgrimage to defeat, right? Some big monster?

[kabe]

That's right. We defeated Sin and things finally became normal in Spira. No more fear of dying because of Sin, no more destroyed homes.

However there's a new threat and I was in the middle of being confronted by the perpetrator. I'm not sure why but he thought I was his.....former lover. I wasn't very happy that he had touched me but....

Basically I understand how the people here could be so angry, I don't like being kept in the dark and even now-

( here on this train, she was being confused by the one she loved too. )

[enthunder]

No resting on your achievements allowed, huh? First that, now this.

[ But the mention of mistaken former lovers was the prompt she needed for her previous concerns to re-emerge from the space they'd been ruthlessly shoved for the last few days. ]

Yuna, about you and Tidus. When he said... [ she spoke in fits and starts, clearly embarrassed. ] I... had the impression you two mean a lot to each other. When you, uh, the you in the last world, found him again, and he didn't remember you...

[kabe]

No, it seems like something is always happening in Spira. That's alright, I'm just happy I'm in a position to help or at least I want to be.

( she knew people would be angry at what spira did and the crimes caused by yevon, but she didn't think the answer was to blow up the planet.

even if the man responsible was justified in his anger. )

A-Ah.....

( although lighting's words seem to come out of left field, yuna had to agree with her observations. )

I thought that too, to be honest. I'm not really sure what's going on between us right now.

[enthunder]

Do you think he might have... memory issues again? [ After all, he did when she knew him. ] Have you asked him?

[kabe]

No, he doesn't. He knows everything that happened up until he disappeared.

( with a soft sigh, yuna held her face down for a bit. )

I never really talked about him with anyone back home, they all kind of know of our relationship. Truthfully I've never mentioned it really or thought about it but the truth is-

I really do love him and I thought....we were both in agreement over that.

[enthunder]

Sounds like he's just being an idiot, then.

[ Harsh, but... She folded her arms. ] You have it handled, or..?

[ She tried to look like someone who'd be totally comfortable confronting a guy on her friend's behalf. ]

[kabe]

I appreciate the sentiment, I really do. I'm just not sure if that would solve anything.

( she isn't saying yes to do it, but she also isn't saying no.

take that and run with it. )

Thank you for letting me vent a little, it shouldn't be such a big deal. Maybe it's just a misunderstand is all.

[enthunder]

... Probably, yeah. Might just be me, but I get the feeling he's good at putting his foot in his mouth.

[ running will definitely occur. She'd give them some time to sort things out themselves, first, but... Tidus's days of idiocy were numbered.

Not wanting to linger on an awkward topic that they won't solve on their own, she changed the subject back. ]

So, what other spheres do you have?

[kabe]

( alright that comment made yuna chuckle a bit, bringing her face back up. although she was still getting to know this person, it seemed as if yuna was more than comfortable being around her.

in fact it felt as if they had always known each other. )

I guess you really do know us, huh?

( picking up on her subtle change in topic, yuna pulled forth the rucksack she had on her and pulled out a grid with three holes in it. )

So this Grid allows me to put the dress spheres together. I have quite a few actually, not all of them though. I have the gunner one which I'm wearing, thief, warrior, songstress, black, white, and gun mage, alchemist, dark knight and samurai.

Oh! There's one more but I'm not sure if it works here. If I transform into three dress-spheres on the grid in one go, I actually can activate an overdrive one called Floral Fallal.

[enthunder]

[ She blinked, running back through the list. ]

Let me get this straight... those all give you different powers, and different outfits?

[kabe]

Yes, but most of the powers only work against fiends effectively and I'm not that strong.

( she hasn't been leveling up as much as she could basically. )

[enthunder]

[ She huffed. ] Getting stronger is the easy part. You sticking with Purple team for missions?

[kabe]

Well I've met good people on the purple team and it would feel bad to go on another team.

( she was loyal....even to a team she was forced to be on. )

[enthunder]

Makes sense. I wouldn't force my worst enemy onto Red missions, they're a mess. [ She thought about it for a second. ]

You can train against me in-between worlds, if you want.