[open] i make a penny, the train makes a dime

[blitzcheer]

Who: Tidus & You! (Open!)
Where: Kitchen car, around, where pets can be petted (or bite him)
When: Grasshopper 16 onwards (can include a few days before)
What: Tidus has a 'bet' that's less of a bet now and more 'see what doing chores consistently does for your points', but also just generally around the train too!
Warnings: should be nothing!

1. aid // for purple team CR:

Tidus has an objective, first coming from a bet of 'who can get the most points!' to 'okay, but do you get anything out of doing chores than the sense of self-satisfaction of helping out the community (pffft, boriiing)'? That's what Tidus wants to do, and suuure, he really has no reason to think that chores gives you anything when he hasn't...been the best at them, but.

That's not stopping his little inner nag from wanting him to find out, and what better way to run experiments with a friendly face? Perhaps an unsuspecting one, when he comes to a Purple-clothed team and starts, with a bright and familiar face on him.

"Heyyy. You free?"

2. cleaning:

( a. kitchen ) Or maybe he's already recruited your character, they were already there to do chores, or they just happen to be in the kitchen at the time, which great! Tidus is easy with conversation, piping up with a "Hey!" to anyone that comes into the kitchen, and for those he's already with, ask, "You meet anyone interesting on the platform?", "You order anything in?", "So, what'd you think about that last mission?"

Despite this, he is trying to do as much he can think of to do: Put the plates and cutlery through the dishwashers, set them aside to be put away again; mopping the floor (and even saying to those he's partnered with beforehand, 'I'll do the floor', like it's his personal mission). And he's fine with clearing up some of the trays and bowls by hand in the sink, but he's...rather awkward about it. Minding how deep his left hand goes in, his SCA still strapped around his wrist, and doing what he can to make sure it doesn't hit the water. And maybe even looking around and seeing if there's anything he can put around it. Can he tuck kitchen roll around it...? ...he does try...

( b. bathrooms ) lol no he won't and YOU CAN'T MAKE HIM.

3. around

Otherwise, Tidus can be found around normally on the train. He's often trying out the sports in the gynasium, from badminton, tennis, to volleyball, and if your character happens to like to join there too, he won't be afraid to ask, "Hey, mind if I join in?"; he's on the lookout to see who's into sports, or who might be checking out the room with interest.

He also takes part in the training gym, whether in one of the group sessions or taking time in it setting up obstacles with the balancing beams, ropes, and so forth. The floor is lava and you need to run across the beams, jumping onto the climbing set and swing across the next lot! He's a monkey with too much energy. Or maybe your character is already up to something in there?

Tidus does know how to do chill however. Find him in the cinema car watching what's already playing or some dumb comedy, or even in the music car to see what tunes are available for his SCA. There's a also a chance of finding him on the upper quiet car floor, the doors closed and...he's sitting cross-legged on the floor between the couches, his eyes closed and head slightly hanging. What. Knock on the door, or leave him be?

Also, maybe he'll be checking out a random pet wandering around. Heyy there little guuuyy how friendly are you? Insert your pal [here].

( ooc: Tidus will easily approach others so if you want to set up a thread where he'd need to be the one to say hi, go for it! above is some areas where he'd be to do such or even for your character to do it first. o7 )

Comments

[blitzcheer]

Uta had a point. Amnesia didn't entirely make sense, and the way Voidsickness was spoke about--would it actually affect everyone? It still felt like they were missing something, some kind of before--before the train arrival, before the platform--and it tightens the frown on his face as he thinks, the knot of his brow.

Until it's disturbed the joke that Uta offers, and Tidus blinks, needing a second for it to hit before he pulls the side of his mouth in a half-smile. He isn't completely relaxed, but not so sunk in his own thoughts as he was a moment ago.

"It's the way people leave. They just...walk off, without a word. Everyone. No expression. There's people who got together with someone on here, who had friends from their own worlds still around. One guy was the adviser to a king here," Tidus explains, a hand lifting as he does. "Took care of the guy his entire life. He wouldn't be the kind to just ditch him, you know? And nobody leaves anything, a note or something."

What else... there was another point, too. "And there's when people's names go gold, and then end up leaving or coming back. While they're gone...they're nowhere. If you can feel people, by magic or a bond--" he brings both his hands up, forefinger and thumbs pinched as if holding a piece of string at two ends, "--you'll stop feeling them. It'll be gone."

And he 'lets go' of the string, fingers flying open. There. Gone. Nothing.

[cannibalartist]

Uta couldn't feel people by any particular way, so that was less useful to him, but it was interesting to hear. It seemed that there was no lacking of mystery on this train, though he wasn't sure what to do with this information at this time. He also wasn't sure how he felt about it, either. It sounded almost as if they checked out and were autopiloted, but that seemed a bit extreme. There's a silence between them as Uta considered what Tidus said.

"I admit that in my experiences that is something new." He paused, thinking. "I've seen people on worlds act as if they were from that place, unaware of who they truly were, but they are not empty like how you describe. That is curious."

The disappearance of people was a little less strange - the concept of someone being floored was something that Uta was aware of, and that made people disappear for a time. Uta did know that this seemed to happen randomly without explanation, and that was the part that was concerning.

"These are both outside of my own experience. It sounds like some powerful being is coercing people to leave - maybe they are no longer a good match for the goals they were brought for, or perhaps their duties at home require them too greatly. It makes me uncomfortable to think that something may have that kind of unfettered power over us, as well as the power to tuck us somewhere that is away from here." Another dimension. Another pocket, elsewhere, separate. "Somewhere like in there, but for us instead of petty items." He pointed to the Arms that Tidus wore.

Thanks, Uta hated it.