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tabularasa_rp2021-01-03 08:06 pm
pinwheels) wrote in tabularasa_rp2021-01-03 08:06 pm
[open] I'm in love with a shooting star
Who: Rinoa Heartilly + you?
What: catch-all for January!
Where: different places around the Void
When: during January
Content Warnings: n/a! will update if anything comes up
I β βWe promise to see shooting stars together.β
II β βI can be fearless, too.β
III β βCool 'em down, Shiva! Freeze them to the core.β
IV β Wildcard
What: catch-all for January!
Where: different places around the Void
When: during January
Content Warnings: n/a! will update if anything comes up
I β βWe promise to see shooting stars together.β
[ It's easy to miss the changes that happen to the world when you've spent most of the last however-long indoors. In the end, her time in the nightmare that was Mementos hurt Rinoa somewhere deep, bringing with it a heavy feeling in her heart that took time alone to process. It was a little while after the clocks started to work that she emerged again, and she wasn't surprised to find that her processing time had brought with it further changes to the rest of the world.
The sky was one such thing, dark where it had been a light near-nothingness before, complete with auroras and stars that aren't from home, but could be. Since finding it for the first time, seeing the lights dancing across the darkness of the endless abyss, Rinoa's found herself spending a lot of time outside, amongst the ever-cycling purple scenery of the lake, looking up through the canopy and watching the stars. Sometimes, Angelo and Felix come with her; sometimes, like now, she's alone, her companions resting back in their apartment.
Every time a star falls from the sky, it brings with it a mixed feeling. There's a sense of its beauty, an absent-minded smile on her lips as she watches its path across the sky. But with it comes the hollow sense of homesickness that has haunted her ever since she got here, worsened by the fake Squall in the nightmare, strengthened even further by the taste of her magic, pulled abruptly away upon waking.
It's a feeling still trying to burrow itself into the pit of her stomach when she realizes that the star she's watching is getting remarkably close. But where most might try to move away, Rinoa moves toward it, black boots hurrying over the withering grass, and it's with pursed lips, a curious expression on her face, that she gathers the small glowing rock into her hands. ]
Wow...
II β βI can be fearless, too.β
[ When she's not watching the night sky, the next best thing is training. Rinoa's never been good at fighting alone; even here, she's proved that she needs people around her if she wants to stand even the slightest of chances against a foe. But she's already seen how people tend to wink in and out of existence around here, which brings with it a special kind of fear unique to her existence in the Void.
It's not the same terror that woke her from nightmares back at home, or the pain of the reality she's living now - no one can be as precious to her as Squall; there's no one she can fear losing as much as she fears being without him - but she does have friends here, people she trusts and has come to rely on. If something happens, and if they disappear too... what then?
She can't fight alone.
But maybe she can learn.
Without the power of her magic, Rinoa is left to the blaster edge perpetually strapped to her arm, and it's with that that she makes her way from place to place, setting up targets of whatever she can find and obliterating them before starting over. Today, she's in one of the many caverns within the mountain. If you find her here, feel free to join her; perhaps you can even teach her how to use something new! ]
III β βCool 'em down, Shiva! Freeze them to the core.β
[ It's not like snow is a new thing in the Void; it was part of Rinoa's arrival on the top of Mt. Silver, a constantly-falling cold in a place that otherwise seems to not know how temperature works outside of "mild". She's even experienced the sudden storms before, the way the snow sometimes just tends to just dump itself out of the sky into whatever is underneath it, only to disappear moments later.
She's never tried to actually build a snowman, though.
This particular snowfall has been going for quite some time now, and the rocky ground underneath it is covered in a blanket of crunchy white. Rinoa's clothes don't offer much in the way of warmth, but that doesn't stop her from stomping into it, gathering handfuls of the stuff and piling them into rough spheres in order to try and create a figure.
Whatever she does make, well... it's not very good.
If you try to tell her as much, though, you're liable to get a snowball to the face! ]
IV β Wildcard
( something else in mind? hit her with something random, or hit me up if you want to request something specific! β₯ )
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[ She laughs, shrugging helplessly. ]
Good thing there's not usually a lot of fighting to do, I guess!
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She smiles ruefully at Aerith, offering the other woman a shake of her head. ]
No one's magic seems to work here, no matter what its source is. It's kinda like the Void hasn't really... figured it out, you know?
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[ Somehow, she doesn't doubt this fact at all. For now, though, she puts the spheres away again, where they clack gently against each other. ]
Probably for the best. There's enough going on every day without magic being involved at all.
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(ironically the same powers that she herself inherited only a short while later)
βin the name of making the world a safer place.
But now? She misses her magic, feels an emptiness where it once was. Their trip through the nightmare only served to intensify the feeling. She can understand where Aerith comes from, but... ]
I have to admit that I miss my magic, you know? It's kind of a part of me, so... not having it is weird.
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[ It isn't complete BS, after all: nobody here knows how the Void works, or when some big aspect of it will appear or change. So, really, anything can happen at about any given moment. And, based on the place's track record, she'd bet it'd be something positive, rather than the alternative. ]
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Of course you're right. I... guess I kind of like wondering about what could possibly come next for us, you know? Even if it's kind of scary sometimes.
[ "Scary" is admittedly kind of an understatement, too. ]
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[ She's only human, after all, and the events of this world are pretty much the biggest thing going on at any given time. ]
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So, yeah. Impossible to predict. ]
It's all we can do to just... try to get by, right? [ It sounds more frustrated than she means for it to, and she's quick to shake her head with a small smile. ] I didn't mean for that to sound so negative...