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noctis "cover yourself in sombreros" lucis caelum ([personal profile] elemancy) wrote2017-01-26 12:05 am

week two; maximum suffering

[it's not as if the week is getting off to a great start—that whole "bonfire in the center of town" and the digging up tiara thing? not ideal.

really, it's enough to get under noct's skin, and rather than hang around the town and have to be around any of it... well, it's off to the watering hole to clear his head and go fishing. there are some people he wants to talk to and check up on, but he figures clearing his own head first would be good.

he's not exactly emotionally equipped for any of this, after all.

...but when he spots yuna out on the homefront while on his way, he realizes there's not really much time for clearing his own head. gotta keep his own up somehow and look out for the ones who need it more. she was attached to tiara most—and noct, being the one to make the formal accusation—

well, they should have a chat.]


Hey... Yuna. [excellent at greetings! but really, he's kind of quiet and a bit hesitant in his approach.] You, uh, got a sec?

[he'd understand if she said no, with how the morning went, but it's still worth a shot.]
cherrypuncher: (we'll put up such a fight)

[personal profile] cherrypuncher 2017-01-27 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Yuna's just sort of sprawled out in the grass at the moment, lying on her stomach and kicking her feet up in the air, but she looks up when she hears Noctis and starts standing right away, not wanting to be rude. She's...still very obviously out of it, not that she was doing great anyway but the corpse bonfire kiiind of fucked her up, but she still tries to smile. It's—well, it's a good effort, and it might pass on anyone else but it's definitely far less enthusiastic than Yuna's been the rest of the week.]

Hi, Noctis. I'm not busy! [She does sound entirely sincere, though, about wanting to chat.] What's up?
cherrypuncher: (you'll never find me gone)

[personal profile] cherrypuncher 2017-01-28 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
[This is Yuna pretending it's okay, is the thing, she's just doing an exceptionally poor job of it, while also pretending she isn't well aware she isn't passing all that well for an upbeat, pleasant person. His question is pretty much the one she's expecting, and she tries a little harder to look happy.]

I'm fine! It's really nice up here, and I like being around all the flowers. [yes she knows that's not what he meant] How are you doing?
cherrypuncher: (in a past life?)

[personal profile] cherrypuncher 2017-01-30 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Yuna gives up on that whole starting to stand thing when Noctis just sort of flops down next to her—she likes lying around in the grass better, anyway, so she flops right back down next to him and props her face up in her hands, elbows in the grass.]

Hero Club tenet. [She says this steadily, not having to fake her sincerity.] If you're troubled, talk to someone. [She looks over to him, a little expectant. She's someone!]
cherrypuncher: (might age you with no one to save you)

[personal profile] cherrypuncher 2017-01-31 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
I know it does. [But—she doesn't have the words for it; she's been close to death but never seen it and never like this, and for it to be so ugly and unjust on top of it all, never mind that Ao and Tiara were her friends...

She doesn't much want to talk about her own pain when she hardly knows how, and she's happier helping others with theirs. She doesn't have the words to say so.

She decides on:
] I bet we all are. It's... [For once, she falters in search of a silver lining.] It's hard. But I'm proud of all of us for moving forward today.