open ♔ valentine's day

[romanticidal]

♬ Careless Whisper - George Michael

WHO || Anyone and their special someone [Closed]
WHAT || Various Valentine's Day activities
WHERE ||Anywhere
WHEN || Feb 14th, 2016
HOW || Actionspam or Prose

[ It's Valentine's Day! ( aka Singles Awareness Day )  Assume that all missions that are posted already are going out after this. ♥ ]

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[forcevisions]

[ that better targets something she can empathize with, but rey doesn't say so. instead, she nods, turning her full attention towards vi. ]

What made it so hard to survive your world?

[graveflowers]

Mostly me. Have you heard of aasimars yet?

[forcevisions]

[ only the name, really, so she shakes her head. ]

[graveflowers]

Basically, they're people descended from gods. Most of 'em are pretty distant, many generations back; great, great, great, great, great, great-grandparents, that kind of thing.

Where I'm from we're called demigods, but it's pretty much the same thing. And the monsters there could smell the divinity in our blood and just... [ she shrugs. ] Hunted us down. We were born to protect mortals from the parts of the world they couldn't see, but it made us twice as vulnerable.

[forcevisions]

[ her nose crinkles a bit at the drop of 'gods'—only because rey's never been religious, and she's always considered it silly teedo superstition. then again, many would say the same of the force, and she knows it to be real. ]

These monsters, were they sent after you by some kind of master, or were they hoping to eat you to survive? [ Apropos of nothing but curiosity, really. ]

[graveflowers]

Depends on the situation, honestly. Gods can't drift into each other's realms, but the creatures they make can -- including their mortal children. A lot of the times it was because they were trying to stop us, but some things, I think, just really liked the taste of demigod.

[forcevisions]

[ she makes a face like eugh that's bad news, then qualifies it, ] A hired hand can be reasoned with, but not a hungry strill. [ and her expression then offers sympathy like yep that means it was awful. on the bright side, she now seems to have her feet flat on the bottom of the pool, drawing away from the edge without much noticing. ]

[graveflowers]

[ omg finnick is a genius. dragon's fish is real, son. ]

That also depends on the monster. Some of 'em are just dumb as a box of rocks, reasoning with them is impossible just because they don't even know why it's reasonable. What's... a strill?

[forcevisions]

Vicious, six-legged monsters trained to hunt by the Mandalorians. The smell terrible; you should be glad you've never met one. Bounty hunters loved them for their senses, brought plenty through the planet I grew up on looking for people hiding away. [ they never found any, of course. no one, not even those fleeing pursuit, marooned themselves willingly on jakku. ]

[graveflowers]

That sounds horrible. Oh, the first time I met the knights? I was looking for directions to some place and this guy just turned into this huge red sala- salami... no, slade- slaadi! Slaadi. It was huge and disgusting and smelled like bodily fluids.

[ she looks down, smiling fondly. ] I pancaked it with a train.

[forcevisions]

He turned into one? [ with no small degree of horror, rey balks. ] That sounds terrible.

[graveflowers]

It was disgusting. Apparently they, like, incubate inside people and then just explode out of them and the person they were in is just gone and then they go on rampages to implant their spores or whatever into other people. It's so gross.

[forcevisions]

[ when u miss the rathtars, you know it's bad. rey is just ... disgusted into silence by this and doesn't want to even think about what else is out there. maybe missing jakku like 5%. ]

[graveflowers]

Yup, exactly. But my friend Jess went after one with a bat, bless her soul.

[forcevisions]

Well, your friend must be very brave. [ the implication of her tone is "or very stupid." ]

[graveflowers]

Definitely brave. You do what you gotta do.

[forcevisions]

I guess we all do. [ she agrees with a sigh, stepping out from the wall and into the water where it pools around her shoulders. this isn't swimming. this is standing. ]

[graveflowers]

[ it's progress is what it is. ]

How y'feeling about the water situation?

[forcevisions]

Well, I haven't drowned yet. [ She laughs. ] So far, swimming's a lot like standing.

[graveflowers]

I'm gonna be real a minute, I had a serious aversion to water. Finnick had to ease me in slowly. Why don't you stick your face in the water, get a feel for that while you hold your breath.

[forcevisions]

That must make Finnick a good teacher, which means you're likely to be the same. [ Rey nods firmly. ] I don't have an aversion. It's only that the planet I grew up on didn't have much natural water: it was all rationed. [ And after explaining, she holds her hand up to plug her nose and dips down, bending her knees to submerge. Stray hairs flood around her face, but her buns control the rest, which is a relief when she pops back up. ]

[graveflowers]

[ how do you ration water??? that sounds awful??? ]

Already doing better than I was, honestly.

[forcevisions]

Well, I do have competition. [ She indicates Lucia. ] Can't have her one-upping me, can I?

[graveflowers]

She cheats. [ how??????????????? but it's with a teasing grin and tbqh idk how to teach an adult how to swim so insert thirty minute montage of surprisingly knowledgeable and insightful swim lessons (wis 22). lucia falls asleep during it, napping in the sun streaming through the window. rp game on lock. ]

[forcevisions]

[ Well Vi is apparently the best fucking teacher ever, because Rey rolled a 20 total on her swim check. Which, to be clear, she has a +1 in from her str bonus. What the fuck. It goes to show that Finnick Odair's influence is still making waves, or rather, Rey is making waves with the benefits of Finnick's tutelage getting grandfathered into the Knighthood. ]