open 🌠 hello world! i'm your wild girl

[starshower]

Who: Tifa Lockhart & YOU
What: December catch-all!
Where: Where the threads happen
When: When the threads happen
Content Warnings: N/A

𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘪'𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘳. 𝘪'𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘹 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳. 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚌 ★ 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚖 ★ 𝚐𝚢𝚖𝚗𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚞𝚖 ★ 𝚑𝚊𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍 ★ 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚍 ★ ♫

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✨ heavenly blanc

[starshower]

[She may not be running the place right now, but a familiar place is always welcome. One of the best things about Heavenly Blanc is that it's at the center of everything else—it's the place that everyone knows how to get to, and as a barkeep, she knows it's the place that people go when they need somewhere to think, or someone to talk to.

Meaning that it's the best place to be when handing out samples to draw the people of the Void to Wall Market, a gem hidden away in the underground of this world. A gem isn't something she thought she'd call it, given its origin, but this one is cleaner and quieter than its real-world counterpart.

She's standing at the counter with a platter of food and welcoming anyone who walks through the door, speaking over the bell and the music that lulls from the jukebox near the entrance.]

Can I interest you in some homemade sushi straight outta Strife's Bites?

[Who can say no to food?]

✨ underground academy - music room

[starshower]

[Having kept herself active enough, Tifa hasn't taken much time to explore the newer locations that have emerged recently. Between running Strife's Bites in the underground Wall Market and helping around the Void at places like the Lemon Cello Church, she's been a busybody who's hardly time to enjoy for herself. Not that she minds—she thrives on helping others—but it's about time she got around to seeing what else this place has to offer.

They all have to find ways to keep themselves occupied, after all.

This isn't the first time she's visited the Underground Academy, but it is the first time she's come to the place aptly labeled the "Music Room". She's drawn to the variety of things to look at, but the main attraction is the grand piano sitting at its front and center.

She draws invisible lines across its polished lid before she very tentatively takes a seat on the stool, fingers hovering over the keys. It's been a long time since she's played, let alone sat at a piano, that she wonders if she even remembers how.]

Just like riding a bike... [she whispers to herself as she lowers her fingers, pressing gently on the keys. The sound echoes through the room and out into the hall, filling the rest of the Underground Academy with music as her strokes become more frequent and steadier, until it transforms into a proper melody.

Anyone within the vicinity will be met with a pleasant song or two, and those who journey into the music room will see a woman lost in the music at her fingertips, eyes opening only when the song comes to an end.]

✨ underground academy - gymnasium

[starshower]

[If the music room wasn't surprising enough, the new gymnasium certainly is, especially coming so shortly after her conversation with Cloud and Raihan about finding a place to put training equipment. Sparring with others and punching the bag of sand in her apartment can only get her so far—a girl like her needs space, and a decent range of exercise equipment to make the best of it.

Which is why Tifa can be found utilizing the facility to its fullest potential often. The treadmills and bikes will be used, and she's slowly learning how to properly shoot one of those orange balls through the hoops. Basketball doesn't exist where she's from, so it doesn't have a proper name in her head, but she's smart enough to connect the dots.

She's spent some time alone in the gym, so when someone else enters, she's quick to reel them in, bouncing the basketball in their general direction with enough force for it to make it across the room.]

You up for a game?

[As if she knows what this even is!

Or! Maybe you find her at the punching bags, chains rattling with each connecting hit. She's worked up a sweat, so when she sees someone else, she's quick to lower her fists to wipe away the beads of sweat at her brow.]

Wanna give it a go?

✨ hammerhead book stop & garage

[starshower]

[A gas station truck stop feels more out of place than most of the places that have popped up in the world, especially considering functioning motor vehicles don't exist here, but she'll take what she can get. The garage has some interesting parts and tools in there and given the nature of the Void, the possibilities are endless—one day, they may just get a functional car or bike in here that could change everything.

Tifa makes a note of that before moving on to the mini mart, surprised to find nothing but books on the inside, with even a full library in one corner. Of course, the one thing that draws her attention is the section of cookbooks—shelves upon shelves dedicated to the art of food!? Call her old-fashioned but sign her up!

She might have gone a touch overboard with her collecting, with two stacks of books forming, one balanced carefully on each arm, and she reaches for another with what fingers she has left, trying to pull another book free with minimal success.]

'Scuse me, [she sighs to whoever has just entered the mini mart, and motions to a spine labeled Volume VII.] Could you grab that one for me? Please?

✨ wildcard

[starshower]

( You know the drill! Leave a wildcard starter here, or feel free to contact me via PM or at crystariums if you'd like to plot something! )

☁ closed to cloud

[starshower]

[Of course it was Cloud who Tifa dragged along with her to one of the newer locations. The Hammerhead Book Stop and Garage was one of two things it touts being—a garage was not one of them. Hearing about it and seeing it for herself, at first she imagined it having all kinds of vehicles. She didn't expect them to work, much like a lot of things here, but she wouldn't have minded a few fixer-uppers... ones that they could find a way to rev up eventually. Calling this a garage is a bit of a disappointment...

She's rummaging through one of the tool kits when she stops and turns to Cloud.]

Too bad there're no cars around. Even bikes would've been nice...

[With a wrench in hand, she waves it around.]

We could've expanded Strife's Bites! Make it a delivery service.