Open | Obligatory Pretty Woman Montage Reference Here

[effiomsfavorite]

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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[doctopoda]

[Out on the sidewalk, Otto pauses to watch this whole thing. On one hand, he can imagine several reasons for another obvious meta to get hustled out of a fancy boutique! On the other...]

They wouldn't have had anything to fit you, anyway.

[The guy's got enormous wings! Otto feels a certain kinship there; he's got some unusual back-limbs going on himself.]

You know, they've got specialty stores in this world for people with different limb configurations. I can show you the one I like, it's not too far from here.

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[badbutsadboy]

[As Huvrye compares shirts Hunter notices the delight first and it strikes a chord. The man is holding up colorful clothes like it's the first time he's ever gotten to really choose.]

[It's how he felt when he first got here. The first time he had a choice in his clothing, after the Rebellion had given him better than his mismatched, stolen clothes, it's not like they had whole stockpiles of clothes in his size. They found clothes that were practical, correctly sized, and functional and he still had his boots.]

[And it hadn't been that different because the clothes he wore when he wasn't in his Golden Guard uniform at the palace were... practical and functional and he wore the same boots.]

[No, it's only since he first came here that he's had time to really think about what he wants to wear. What colors to try (he still likes yellow). What cuts of fabric (loose and soft, but not too loose). He's found like he likes bright clothes, and comfortable ones, and he likes things with Earth animals or cute designs like little fruits or brightly-colored clashing patterns. He even found a t-shirt with a cool Earth creature he's learned is called a wolf and he wants to google more about them the next time he remembers to. He especially likes his pair of crocs even if it's too cold to wear them now. Very comfy.]

[Earth's clothes are especially nice because they have an infinite numbers of styles. It's a large world with many peoples and more than one culture, so there's more of a variety to it all.]

[(Shame he has to give a lot of it up and focus on wearing what's practical again, what with his plans to run away).]

[So the gestures and expression catch his eye first, ringing as familiar but his expression fades from amused familiarity (a "yes, aha, mood") to confused only a half-second later. He walks around a free-standing rack full of jeans to make sure it's not the lighting, squinting.]

[Then his jaw drops.]

[Pointy ears. Reddish-tinted eyes (though Hunter's are a touch pinker). Even light hair like his, though that possibly isn't exclusive to Grimwalkers. Not that he's entirely sure. Caleb could've been blonde or maybe that was a Grimwalker thing, too. There's so little he actually knows, even after the books he found.]

[It's all still enough to leave him in shock. He's too shocked to make the first move. To say anything. His mind races. Is it just coincidence? Is it another Grimwalker somehow? Pulled here too?]

[...is it one of the others? Was there one that'd come right before him, an older Golden Guard, that had quickly escaped before being introduced to anyone? Had he somehow escaped alive? One between Darius' mentor (this guy looks too young to have mentored Darius) and himself? The pointier nose isn't a deal-breaker - Belos did say he looked the most like Caleb, which means others hadn't looked as much like him.]

[So Huvrye is treated to the sight of a gaping teenage boy, with similar eyes, similar hair, and similar eyes, looking at him like he's never seen another like himself before.]

[A bird climbs out of the hood of his hoodie, where he'd been using it as a little hammock where it lay against Hunter's back, and hops to his shoulder. Somehow the bird also looks surprised, which is a weird thing for a bird to look like. It tweets out a few cuckoo-like noises and while they don't sound anything at all like the cadence of human words there is somehow a tone to it that, when matched to its expression, sounds like the surprised bird equivalent of "what the fuck?!" followed by some kind of question.]

[Hunter hisses. (To the bird, it should be noted.)]

How am I supposed to know?!