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metalogs2022-11-30 01:46 pm
effiomsfavorite) wrote in metalogs2022-11-30 01:46 pm
Open | Obligatory Pretty Woman Montage Reference Here
Who: Huvrye effiomsfavorite and whoever would like to join in
What: Huvrye has never experienced civilian life, and now he's in a new world with an unlimited credit card. This is the venn diagram overlap of Fish Out Of Water and Shopping Montage.
When: Late November/Early December - within the first few days after his arrival
Where: Central City
Content Warnings: None so far, will be labeled if they come up
1. The Pretty Woman shopping montage
[Huvrye has never been shopping in his life. It's been all military uniforms for day one, and they only got as personalized as patches with his identification number and, when he received one after surviving basic, his name. So getting clothes to replace his - because his shirt is still stained despite his best attempts to wash it - needs to happen.]
[You might see him in a department store, looking very lost in the men's section. He's not spoiled for choice so much as he is paralyzed by it. How is he supposed to choose?]
[Or you may see him in that same department store, having discovered the Hawaiian shirts. He's holding one that's bright blue and patterned with pink flowers and looking absolutely delighted. Someone please keep him from buying nothing but Hawaiian shirts, because he absolutely will.]
[Or you may find him later, on a street lined by boutiques, being firmly escorted from one of the fancier ones. He doesn't resist - it doesn't look like he's been causing trouble - but he definitely glares at the door as it shuts behind him. He's been treated like a person for a few days now, and it turns out going back to being treated like a lesser being stings after that.]
[(It's possible the boutique doesn't like metas; it's also entirely possible they threw him out for bad taste, because he's definitely wearing a brightly patterned sweater. It's not quite Ugly Christmas Sweater territory, but it's very close.)]
2. Lunchtime
[It's been a while since Huvrye has eaten - he'd been given a hot drink when he was helping with the snowstorm a few days back, and before that he can't really remember. But he's got the time now, and the money, and he can still hear Gozol's warning about aura poisoning rattling around in his head, so he might as well get a meal. He'd found something near the Diadem hotel called a Food Court, and upon arrival...well, it's the same issue as the department store: too many choices, zero context. He's at least found a map of the place, and is looking it over (and trying his hardest not to miss Yin, because even if Yin didn't have context for this world in particular, he might at least know more). He sees you passing, and waves you over.]
Hey, is this-
[He points at a completely random listing without even looking at it.]
-any good?
3. Lobby
[Huvrye has seen places this fancy before, sure, but they were for top brass and rich civs. He still hasn't quite wrapped his mind around the fact that he's staying in the Diadem Hotel himself, if only temporarily, but he's still taking advantage of it. For now, he's sitting in the lobby, in one of the plush chairs, wings splayed out over the sides and draping onto the floor, people watching. He's still not used to the fact that he's the only homunculus here, the only fairy - it's weird to be in a fancy civ place not to see the bright colors of salon-modified wings everywhere he looks. Still, his sweater is cozy, and the coffee he'd picked up on the way here has salted caramel in it (which is a new and fantastic experience for him) - he can be comfortable here for a while. Join him, observe him, judge him for getting his coffee from Starbucks - either way, he's not going anywhere for a bit.]
4. Wildcard
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effiomsfavorite and whoever would like to join inWhat: Huvrye has never experienced civilian life, and now he's in a new world with an unlimited credit card. This is the venn diagram overlap of Fish Out Of Water and Shopping Montage.
When: Late November/Early December - within the first few days after his arrival
Where: Central City
Content Warnings: None so far, will be labeled if they come up
1. The Pretty Woman shopping montage
[Huvrye has never been shopping in his life. It's been all military uniforms for day one, and they only got as personalized as patches with his identification number and, when he received one after surviving basic, his name. So getting clothes to replace his - because his shirt is still stained despite his best attempts to wash it - needs to happen.]
[You might see him in a department store, looking very lost in the men's section. He's not spoiled for choice so much as he is paralyzed by it. How is he supposed to choose?]
[Or you may see him in that same department store, having discovered the Hawaiian shirts. He's holding one that's bright blue and patterned with pink flowers and looking absolutely delighted. Someone please keep him from buying nothing but Hawaiian shirts, because he absolutely will.]
[Or you may find him later, on a street lined by boutiques, being firmly escorted from one of the fancier ones. He doesn't resist - it doesn't look like he's been causing trouble - but he definitely glares at the door as it shuts behind him. He's been treated like a person for a few days now, and it turns out going back to being treated like a lesser being stings after that.]
[(It's possible the boutique doesn't like metas; it's also entirely possible they threw him out for bad taste, because he's definitely wearing a brightly patterned sweater. It's not quite Ugly Christmas Sweater territory, but it's very close.)]
2. Lunchtime
[It's been a while since Huvrye has eaten - he'd been given a hot drink when he was helping with the snowstorm a few days back, and before that he can't really remember. But he's got the time now, and the money, and he can still hear Gozol's warning about aura poisoning rattling around in his head, so he might as well get a meal. He'd found something near the Diadem hotel called a Food Court, and upon arrival...well, it's the same issue as the department store: too many choices, zero context. He's at least found a map of the place, and is looking it over (and trying his hardest not to miss Yin, because even if Yin didn't have context for this world in particular, he might at least know more). He sees you passing, and waves you over.]
Hey, is this-
[He points at a completely random listing without even looking at it.]
-any good?
3. Lobby
[Huvrye has seen places this fancy before, sure, but they were for top brass and rich civs. He still hasn't quite wrapped his mind around the fact that he's staying in the Diadem Hotel himself, if only temporarily, but he's still taking advantage of it. For now, he's sitting in the lobby, in one of the plush chairs, wings splayed out over the sides and draping onto the floor, people watching. He's still not used to the fact that he's the only homunculus here, the only fairy - it's weird to be in a fancy civ place not to see the bright colors of salon-modified wings everywhere he looks. Still, his sweater is cozy, and the coffee he'd picked up on the way here has salted caramel in it (which is a new and fantastic experience for him) - he can be comfortable here for a while. Join him, observe him, judge him for getting his coffee from Starbucks - either way, he's not going anywhere for a bit.]
4. Wildcard
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no subject
[The smile stops reaching his eyes, for just a second, when Hunter extends that offer to him.]
[Hunter can be a civilian, can choose what he wants to be, because he's not a homunculus - not the way Huvrye is. He's a Grimwalker, but he was made to be a person - odds are he even has a soul. Huvrye is government property, a soulless weapon made for an unending war, and that's all he'll ever be. Much as he likes people here treating him like a person, he'll never actually be one - it's all just a pretty lie.]
[(He has too much blood on his hands as it is to ever be anything but a weapon.)]
[Hunter is wrong, but Huvrye can't bring himself to dash the kid's hopes.]
Yeah? I'll have to think about that.
[Aaaaaand sidestepped.]
And have you figured out what you want to be yet, Mister Civilian?
no subject
No. That's the hard part.
But I like that I at least get to choose.
[A frown.]
Sort of. This place is making it harder.
no subject
Harder how?
no subject
This place has the guilds. You have to choose between one or the other. If you refuse, you lose all the things they give you. You don't even get to keep the weird little ID things everyone has to use in this world. Most of the time, you need those to get a job.
They take everything and you have to survive on your own.
[He looks thoughtful, as he tries to articulate his thoughts about it.]
The rebellion against Belos had to hide and work in secret but at least we were rebelling. We were fighting against him, his secret plans to kill everyone, and the entire coven system. We had enough freedom to at least do that, even if the odds were bad.
But nobody's fighting the control of the guilds here. There's a lot that's good here and I'm still freer because Belos is gone, but there's still that. And this time nobody's trying to overthrow the system.
[Being unaligned is a lot like how the Owl Lady must have felt all those years on the run. Before there were finally others willing to rebel with her.]
no subject
[He's not surprised that Hunter doesn't want to be in a guild - not after hearing about the coven system under Belos' rule. He wants to know what the guilds are up to - whether there's actual poison in that structure or just an overbearing self-righteousness - but there are more important things right now.]
Do you need anything?
[Survival first, then he can figure out intel.]
no subject
[It's not a great plan but he's at least prepared for it as much as he can.]
I don't want to go to their school when its purpose is obviously indoctrinating young people into accepting their system. Or live with the fake family they put me with. They're trying to convince me the guilds are a good idea.
But I've prepared for it.
You'll have to decide whether to be part of the guilds, too.
no subject
[He doesn't know enough about this world or this city yet to be able to say more than that. Hopefully Hunter knows what he's doing with it.]
[He sighs and extends a wing just a bit.]
I don't think I'm going to have a choice.
[He's a little recognizable.]
no subject
That would pretty difficult to hide.
[He thinks.]
There are mages here. Maybe someone could give you something to create illusions? To hide them?
[Other things like eye color can be hidden more easily in this world.]
[He might choose the guilds anyway but it should still be a choice.]
no subject
[Most of the attention paid to him by strangers has been because of his wings. They're a little hard to miss.]
[Both eyebrows go up as Hunter offers a solution.]
Okay, we don't have magic where I'm from - can it do that here?
no subject
[He rubs his chin.]
I could even maybe do it if I had enough time. I'd have to try new glyph combinations with my glyph magic. It'd be complicated and take a lot of experimentation. But maybe.
[His head pops up as he thinks of something.]
There are also the scientists. They do this thing called science that looks like magic but anyone can learn it if they study long enough. And they make things with it. Like machines they blip you across huge distances in just a second.
You might be able to find one that can help you create something that works like the illusion magic we have back home.