jikan_rpg | Catch-All

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Catch-All

⌛ Who: Prompto Argentum, Aerith Gainsborough, Duo Maxwell, Xie Lian, Rude and you, maybe?
⌛ What: Shenanigans. Permanent catch-all.
⌛ When: Anytime.
⌛ Where: All over.
⌛ Warnings: R. Language.

✽ Xie Lian

Cooking With Xie Lian

Busking Adventures

Event: Trial of the Soul

Event: Waterpark Waves

✽ Prompto Argentum

Chocochicks!

Travelling Cameraman

Event: Trial of the Soul

Event: Waterpark Waves

✽ Rude

Event: Trial of the Soul

Event: Waterpark Waves

✽ Duo Maxwell

Lovers Tiff [Closed to Wufei]

Event: Trial of the Soul

I Can Explain! [Closed To Wufei]

✽ Aerith Gainsborough

Rock Garden

Event: Trial of the Soul

Event: Waterpark Waves

Gems In The Making [Closed to Maglor]

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Prompto was excited. They’d gotten a permit and had gotten a whole hell of a lot of help to get it all sorted in time, but now he and Noct were the proud owners of a Chocobo Farm.

And even better? Prompto had woken up a surprise from Birb. She’d lain several eggs within the next she had made for herself. He couldn’t believe how lucky they’d been! There were four eggs so far and Prompto knew they would have to protect them to ensure that they would be born safely. But for now? Now Prompto lay in the hay within Birb’s stable with his camera in hand taking pictures of the eggs.

He had plans to take pictures of every stage of this journey!

“They’re so cute! And so small… How do those little eggs become big yous?”

Edited 2022-06-12 00:15 (UTC)

It's a quiet evening where Xie Lian found himself cooking a nice meal.

The little housing complex he had found for himself was, luckily for him, abandoned. He was the only one who lived there and that was perfectly acceptable for Xie Lian. It meant that he was allowed to keep doors and windows open with no worries of bothering anyone. And it was through these open doors and windows that the warm smell of cooking food...

At least that is supposed to be what it smells like!

What it actually smelled like was anyone's guess.

Xie Lian didn't seem to notice anything strange at all and could be found in the small kitchen stirring a large pot of something oddly brown and lumpy to which he added a handful of carrots.

He hummed to himself, singing a few lines in a beautiful, elegant voice. At odds with the monstrosity cooking in the pot.

Edited 2022-06-27 20:01 (UTC)

When Noctis woke up that morning (technically afternoon), the other side of the bed was empty with the exception of a note left on the pillow. Noctis lays there a few minutes, trying to will himself awake, before looking over and grabbing the note off of the pillow: "With Birb ♥". The heart makes him smile. Prompto is an early riser, always has been, and never woke Noctis up unless they had plans aka unless absolutely necessary. He takes his time getting ready, pulling on some clothes he didn't mind getting dirty, and grabs two cold drinks before heading out back to find his boyfriend.

That's something that Noctis isn't quite used to yet, that Prompto is not just his best friend, but his boyfriend. It will take him a while to get used to it, even if this was a development that had been years in the making. Noctis is crazy about Prompto, has been for longer than he's willing to admit, and it's so freeing to be able to tell him and show him that.

Once Noctis makes his way across their property, he sees Prompto's feet sticking out from Birb's stable and immediately heads that way, stopping to ruffle Solis's feathers before reaching his destination. What he sees when he rounds the corner shocks him; the very last thing he expected to see was Prompto, Birb, and four large eggs.

He kneels down beside Prompto and presses a kiss to the side of his head, "What have we got here?"

"Eggs!" Prompto can't hide the excitement from his voice and doesn't even try to! Birb is sat in front of him, looking every inch the proud mother.

"I got up for my run and come by to feed em and... just look at them! They're so cute, Noct!" And they were just eggs. Nothing special, aside from the fact that they were the first eggs on the farm! He hadn't even known that their chocobo's had done it! The sneaky things.

Taking a seat in the hay, he watches quietly as Prompto takes yet another photo of the four eggs before Birb stands up to reclaim her spot on top of them. Watching Prompto, his excitement contagious, the smile on Noctis’s face widens. He nudges him, offering one of the drinks he brought, hopefully pulling his boyfriend’s attention away from Birb and her eggs now that they’re no longer visible.

“Looks like Solis and Birb have been busy while we weren’t looking.”

They don’t even know if the eggs will hatch, at this point, but the prospect of having a few little chocobo chicks is exciting… especially if they’ll be as cute as the little black chick they rescued back at Wiz’s. Raising his own chocobos has been a dream of Prompto’s and Noctis hopes, for his sake, that at least one of the eggs hatches.

“Does this make us grandfathers, now?” he asks with a laugh.

"Real busy!" Prompto laughed as he struggled to sit himself up and set his camera down so that he could take the drink offered.

"Haha I'm too young to be a grandfather, but yeah I am." He didn't care if he wasn't making sense or not, he was happy. Birb looked happy too, sat on her eggs, keeping them nice and warm like a good momma. Prompto didn't even realise that he was covered in hay and had a few feathers stuck in his hair.

"Do you think the eggs will even hatch?" he asks, looking over at Prompto. "I know Nippon is weird, strange things happen here... But I haven't seen any baby animals, or even any kids here."

Noctis lays back in the hay, attention still focused solely on Prompto. His joy was unmatched that Noctis can't think of a time he's ever seen his best friend this excited, certainly not within the last year of their lives. If he was a religious man, Noctis would say a prayer to the Six, asking them to please let at least one of these eggs hatch.

"Yeah about that..." Prompto moved himself so he was sat at Noct's feet, his back to the hay bale his boyfriend sat upon. He leaned against Noct's legs, head falling to rest against his thigh.

The prospect of losing eggs or chicks was very real. He'd talked to farmers about what they had done to help and he'd used some of their funds to buy the kinds of talismans and wards they all used to protect their livestock. But he also had an ace up his sleeve. "I've put wards up around the farm that should help... But I know we're probably gonna lose a couple over time and that hurts. I'm gonna do the best for these guys to stop that though."

When Prompto moves to rest against the hay bale and leans against his legs, Noctis reaches down to run a hand through Prompto's hair, removing a stray piece of hay from it. He looks down at Prompto with so much admiration and devotion, anybody could take one look at Noctis and know he is crazy about his best friend. It doesn't take for Noctis long to slide off of the hay bale so he's sitting next to Prompto.

"You've done what?" Noctis asks, giving Prompto a quizzical look. "When were you going to tell me about that?"

He can't help but smile, proud of Prompto and what he's accomplishing here that he wasn't able to in Lucis. Putting up wards? Having a chocobo farm? It's all wonderful, Noctis thinks to himself.

With Noct now at his side Prompto just goes and leans against him instead. He can't help a grin, a warm flush to his cheeks hearing his boyfriends tone. It wasn't often that he could honestly say someone had been proud of him. It was a sweet feeling.

"If it worked... I wasn't sure if it would. Still not sure really. But it's what the farmers around here do to keep their critters from getting caught up in the time distortions or whatever they are. I hoped it'd help here." He paused for a moment and took a sip of his drink. "... Actually, they said that even with the wards and stuff, things could go weird. Like them aging slower or faster than usual. We could have grown up chocobos in a month. That kinda thing. So we have to be careful."

"You're using magic and you didn't even tell me..." Noctis can't hide the grin on his face at this point, "Prom! This is amazing, this is something even I don't know how to do!"

Noctis is just so unbelievably proud of Prompto right now, learning all of this and putting it into action while also helping build stables for their chocobos, having a full-time job as a photographer, and changing his entire life around to suddenly account for a change in the relationship he has with his best friend turned boyfriend. Noctis can barely handle one of those things at a time, needing a nap after working on their farm after he wakes up for the day, so he can't even imagine doing everything Prompto has been doing.

He grabs Prompto's face and kisses him, "I really hope everything you've done works. For at least one of the eggs... Once we have more than two or three chocobos, I'd love to introduce the Lucian national sport to the people here."

Edited 2022-06-17 04:48 (UTC)

Prompto blushed and twisted to try and hide his face against Nocts shoulder. He was embarrassed with the praise but also loved it. He wasn't sure how to reply and struggled finding the words, but there was no need when Noct had all the words for him. He was caught by hands and his head lifted to be kissed. Prompto was smiling now, a goofy, happy smile.

"Sorry I didn't tell you. I was supposed to be a secret... But I guess you knowing doesn't hurt." He set his cup aside so that he could lift his arms and wrap them around Nocts shoulders. "It'll work. I know it will. And then the track'll be finished by then. Think people'll wanna race these guys?"

"I hope they'll want to race them," he says with a laugh. "It's fun, and it's something most of the people here aren't familiar with."

He knows there are others that know about chocobos, having recently learned that they're also staples in Cloud's world, too, but he doesn't know if they raced them like they do in Lucis. The thought of kicking ass in chocobo racing here brings a smile to Noctis's face. That was one of his favorite things about visiting Wiz. Building a race track will be a slow process unless they're able to get some help like they did building the stables, but he thinks it will be worth it.

He rests his hands at Prompto's waist, pulling him closer to kiss him once more. Being with Prompto like this, even if he's not as crazy about chocobos as he is, is everything to Noctis... And he knows it all means so much to Prompto, too.

"Tell me about this magic" he says, breaking away from their kiss. "I want to know what you've been up to in secret."

Prompto moved easily to cuddle up to Nocts side, have curling around him, even going so far as to throw a leg across his to hook it and get even closer. He smiled when he was kissed, softly returning it with one of his own. While he did know that Noct wasn't as enthused about chocobo's as he was himself, it made him feel so loved and cared for that Noct was making an effort for him. He felt validated. He felt seen.

"I think they'll be missing out if they don't! But... uhh... well the magic is called Sora and it's... kinda hard to explain? It was explained me me over and over and I still can't work it out! But I kept it a secret because the one who taught me said I should..." He blinked. "But I think she was probably teasing me." Another blink, a pause. "She, uh... she wanted me to take her on a date... So I did. And that was my first lesson with her." He laughed then, remembering it. Prompto had been nervous about it at first and had tried to rationalise it as just taking a friend to dinner or something, that it wasn't cheating. In the end it wasn't cheating because they'd just grabbed food from a vendor and he'd sat cross-legged and listened to her tell him all about Sora magic and how it could help him.

Cheating doesn't even come to Noctis's mind when Prompto mentions going on a date with some mysterious magic user. He knows Prompto well enough to know that he would never actually cheat on him, wouldn't even dream of it. Prompto had given everything to stand by Noctis's side in Lucis, going with him when he had no obligation to besides his love and friendship... So, Noctis felt confident in thinking that nothing had changed here in Nippon, that nothing will change.

"Will there be other lessons?" he asks, genuinely curious. "The Sora magic sounds so complex... It took me years to master the magic that comes with the Lucian line, and even then, I still don't have the skills my dad did. There's no way this mysterious person covered everything in one lesson."

He runs a hand up Prompto's leg, pulling him closer to rest comfortably in his arms. The chocobos smell, and Noctis doesn't particularly want to be cuddling in the barn with the chocobos, but he doesn't have the heart to tell Prompto that they should go inside. He's so damn happy... and that makes Noctis happy.

[Xie Lian would easily admit that it was nice that they were given a monthly sum of money to help with the cost of living. He'd been using that money to slowly build his home up. While most of his fellow refugees had grouped together, Xie Lian had moved as far from people as he could. He had found a little rundown and abandoned home that he had decided to fix up to the best of his abilities.

And between doing that, he had found something strange happening.

He was bored.

Even back home when he was alone he had always things to do. Whether that was travelling and gathering scraps to busking, or even finding a good place to practice his cultivation.

So with that in mine, Xie Lian had gone out to gather items. The end result was he arrived on the streets of Tokyo one sunny afternoon, carefully laying out a straw mat upon the ground. Beside him were a huge stack of large, heavy rocks as well as a hefty hammer. Falling back on his old party trick would have to do.

Xie Lian smiled out into the people and rose to his feet.]

Good people of Nippon! This humble entertainer would like to impress you with a feat of strength. If I could dare ask for one of you fine people to assist...?

[And if that wasn't good enough, on another day Xie Lian could be found in another part of Tokyo, on the streets as well, the skies not nearly as sunny as before. He looked up at the clouds above and smiled to himself.

He was a man with little in the way of shame. He'd already placed a little bowl before himself in the hopes of monetary compensation for his entertainment.

After a breath, Xie Lian began to sing.]

Edited 2022-07-04 12:33 (UTC)

1) Tsunderoni: The Inn
[If Xie Lian was getting any strange looks from the vibrantly coloured Oni, he was unaware of it. Or if he was aware, he took no notice. Why would he let that bother him when he had a new and strange place to explore?

Odd plumes of steam gusted up from the ground. The heat was stifling, but bareable. At least for now.

Xie Lian had taken off his straw hat and was idly fanning himself as he stood outside of the inn.]

This is where I'll be staying, ah?

2) Soul Artifacts: Bondless
[It was a curious thing, standing on the sidelines, watching the goings on. Curious but not unfamiliar.

Watching the world move around him without touching him was a sensation that Xie Lian was more than intimate with. He'd always kept his head down, tried to leave as little of an impression as he could. If he had less impact on the world then he could continue to live his quiet life.

Though in recent months, back home at least, his quiet life had been rocked to it's very foundations.

Here, in Nippon, he had found that quiet life again.

And maybe now he suffered from that.

Xie Lian watched the people from afar, perched on a wall under the shade of a tree, as they were taught to pull objects from each other. It was an amazing trick to see. Imagine being able to pull something from within another with no consequences?]

Simply amazing! As magic tricks go, this is by far and away the best I have ever seen.

3) Aftermath: A Feast
[Once more Xie Lian acted as an observer to the festivities. He hadn't been turned away, but he hadn't really been noticed either. Despite the bright, white robes he wore, Xie Lian had an uncanny ability to somehow remain unobserved, even if by rights he should have stood out.

Maybe it was the way he moved, each step carefully taken, unhurried and with no unnessasery movements. Maybe it was because he didn't make eye-contact? Though how could he with that straw hat of his hiding most of his face from view? Or maybe it was just his bad luck causing others to not pay him any attention? Unless he was activly avoiding it, then he was sure all eyes would be on him.

As it was, Xie Lian was just hungry.

He had sat down at the end of a table and with a gentle movement had pushed his hat off of his head to hang at his back. Before him was a small plate with a few items upon it. He didn't need to eat much and once he had his fill he would leave.]

And not a steamed bun in sight. A shame.

It's a warm summer day and Aerith is, as usual, out in her garden in front of her house. The garden out back was home to more 'specialised' plantlife, but the garden in front had real, honest flower beds.

She was working on a little rock formation. Had spent days hunting ruins and around the areas for rocks that she could work with and took great effort to bring them home. Now there was a large pile, all different sizes, some large and others small, flat or bulbous. All would be put to use.

Aerith had cleared a corner and created a mound of soil that could serve as her base. And of course, she started at the bottom.

Having gathered her hair up with a silk wrap, she kept it away from her face as she knelt in the dirt and sorted through the rocks to find the ones she had intended for the bottom row. All as uniform as she could find, more brick-like than actual rocks. Aerith hummed a happy little tune.

"Just wait, this will be amazing once I have flowers growing here!"

Because so far... it just looked like a mess. But it was an organised one at least!

Edited 2022-06-27 21:04 (UTC)

1) Passive Aggressions: Beach Babe
[Aerith had dismissed the patronising way the Oni treated her, it had almost become funny after a while. But it was all worthwhile when she got to sit on the beach and listen to the waves hit the shore.

As per a suggestion, she had opted to test out some of the Oni fashions. Nothing too outlandish, but there was a lot more skin on show. Aerith wore what amounted to a bikini in a warm purple shade, with straps of silk winding around her left arm and midsection. She also wore a rather flimsy skirt that was split straight up on side. Aerith thought she looked pretty cute!]

Warm toes~ Warm sand~ Now if only they sold buckets and spades so I could build a castle!

[And if you are not one for beaches, you'll find Aerith wandering all over, looking in shops and buying herself more of the interesting clothes she hoped she could integrate into her own wardrobe. Or maybe you'll find her relaxing in the hot spring late one evening? She'll welcome the company.]

2) Soul Artefacts: Bunch of Flowers!
[She was suspicious at first... But seeing others doing this, she became intrigued as to what her Soul Artefact would be.

Aerith would turn to her companion with a cheerful smile and spread her arms in invitation.]

Think we should give it a try? Can't hurt? I hope... It won't hurt, will it?

3) The Trials of Beppu: Are We Married Now?

a) {Trial of Promise}
"You cannot leave until you"... Until we what?

[Aerith cocked her head and squinted at the writing on the wall. The cave could be dimly lit or bright and she would still squint. Eventually, though, she would heave a sigh and plant her hands on her hips.]

Kiss or confess. That's usually how these go. [At least it had when she had lived in Havenwell. As soon as she had been caught in these traps the answer had always been to initiate some form of affection or intimacy, or confess to a secret that would, in theory, bring two people closer. Though given the name of this trial...

She shook her head.]

What do you think?

b) {Trial of Devotion}
[She was concerned by this one...

The walk was a long one. And armed as she was, how were they supposed to survive? They'd been promised if they remained in contact they would be safe, but would they?

She held her companions hand a little tighter. Aerith had grabbed it as soon as the spell had been cast upon them.]

This should be fun?

[Aerith tried for light-hearted, but who knew if they would meet any strange creatures or have an uneventful walk? Only time would tell.]

c) {Trial of Love}
[Holding the Artefact in her hands, Aerith gazed down at it for a long moment... Before she dropped her hand and looked up with a soft, kind smile.]

I refuse. I won't fight you. Destroy my artefact and we can end all this and go home.

[It didn't bother her. As she spoke there was an air of serenity about her, Aerith was completely confident that this was the answer. That the only way to get out of this was to have her Soul Artefact be destroyed.]

4) Aftermath: Relaxation
[The food was delicious and Aerith wasn't sure she could eat another bite, until she noticed cake. And then she had to grab a slice.]

This looks so good!

Edited 2022-06-27 20:57 (UTC)

Armed with his camera, Prompto can be found just walking around taking pictures of anything and everything that strikes him as interesting. Even things that might not seem interesting at all. Perhaps the way the light catches a street sign? A bird taking to the wing looking like it might be swallowed by a cloud? A man crossing a road, taken because of the way his hair fluttered in the wind. Strange things caught Prompto's eye, but that didn't mean he would keep all of those pictures. Once he returned home and looked through them, some might be deleted. But others? Others he would keep as memories of this place.

And maybe if you see him around, he'll take a picture of you? Or even a selfie together? Why not!

Maybe if you ask really nicely he'll show you some of his pictures?

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Catch-All

Xie Lian

Prompto Argentum

Chocobo Babies! [OTA]

Rude

Duo Maxwell

Aerith Gainsborough

Cooking Up Mischief [OTA]

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Everyday I'm Busking [OTA]

June | Event: Trial of the Soul [OTA]

Flower Girl [OTA]

June | Event: Trial of the Soul [OTA]

Prom About Town [OTA]