Day 123 [OPEN]

[bastionmods]

Who: Everyone
Open: Open
When: Day 123
Where: All over the Bastion
What: Obligatory "We just got more people/survived a hellish experience" mingle log!
Format: Your choice!
Warnings: Shouldn't be any?

[So the past few days in the Bastion have been very hectic and a little more than emotionally stressful for everyone. About two days have come and gone since the last very large batch of arrivals have come in to the Bastion, and thankfully since then it's been relatively quiet. It's a good time to compress, meet some new people and maybe have some good food at the distillery courtesy of Rin.]

Comments

[coolerthansora]

[Roxas has spent most of his time thus far in Bastion hanging around the hospital keeping an eye on Axel, but a guy's gotta eat. And at some point maybe a guy gets curious about the cooking which actually seems sort of familiar.

He pokes his head into the kitchen and-- is familiar still the right word if one thing in particular is drastically different?]

Uh...

[hellpyre]

[Sorry, Roxas. She hasn't noticed you yet. Tail swaying, humming to herself as she works, she's a bit wrapped up in what she's doing and a small noise like that isn't going to get her attention.]

[coolerthansora]

Um... Hello?

[Roxas steps into the kitchen now, puzzling over whether to just say hi or... The tail, the cooking, he just has to ask.]

This might sound weird, but- are you related to someone named Rin?

[Maybe he has a sister he never mentioned.]

[hellpyre]

[Nope, Rin is Rin, just a girl version of the one you knew.

Not that she's aware of it.

The voice catches her attention and she turns, tilting her head curiously. What an odd question.]

Uhm. My name is Rin.

[coolerthansora]

...

This place turned you into a girl!?

[hellpyre]

Wh... at... ? No! I've always been a girl!

[Oh. Wait. She knows what this is.]

You knew the other me? The one Bon talks about?

[coolerthansora]

The other... you?

[Not exactly a new concept to KH derps, but Roxas doesn't think she means like Others or facetwins. Maybe it's like how there were two Twilight Towns?]

So you're- Rin, but a different Rin?

...is your brother a girl now, too?

[hellpyre]

Well, yeah. Bon says I'm a guy where he's from. But Bon is still Bon and I'm still me.

[It total makes sense to her!

Not really, but that's the best she can do with it.]

Yuki was always a girl for me.

[coolerthansora]

Yuki..

[Not Yukio? Roxas scratches his head.]

You don't know me though.

[hellpyre]

[Not Yukio.]

Mmmm...

[She dried her hands off on a towel, striding over after to lean in and give the boy a once over curiously.]

No, sorry! But y'look like a nice guy!

[coolerthansora]

Um, thanks.

...it's Roxas, by the way. Nice to meet you? [Again-ish?]

[hellpyre]

Roxas? Nice t' meetcha, too! Sorry it's gotta be in a place like this. And without... well, y'know. Me but not me.

[coolerthansora]

[Roxas quickly shakes his head.]

You don't- have to apologize for that. Maybe we'll be friends, too, you know?

[hellpyre]

Well... I don't see why not. If we're stuck here together it ain't like we can avoid each other or anythin'.

[coolerthansora]

Yeah. Especially not if you're the cook around here. That's kind of important.

[hellpyre]

Wellll second cook. The main cook is currently in the hospital. But she's okay! She just had a baby and they're both healthy.

[A good point to bring up since 'hospital' often made it sound like something bad had happened.]

But yeah, I'm pretty much here most of the time.

[coolerthansora]

A baby! I've never seen a baby...

[People didn't have babies in Vatheon, a fact which is only now occurring to him.]

Um, well, I know where to find you then.

[hellpyre]

Really? You should go see him! I'm sure Mireille wouldn't mind.

[Honestly that was one of the few positive things that had happened recently, and it was enough to put Rin in a much happier mood than she had been. She could never picture herself having children but she was more than excited and relieved that Mireille had survived along with her child.]

Yup!

[coolerthansora]

Ah... Maybe I'll just take a peek, when I head back over there.

[He's not so sure she'd want some strange kid coming to stare at her baby.]

[hellpyre]

[Everyone has been doing it already!]

If you want to. I mean they'll be around so it's not like you're gonna miss a chance to.

[coolerthansora]

I guess that's right. Babies take a while to grow up, huh?

[hellpyre]

Uhm. Yeah. You've... really never seen a baby have you?

[Color Rin confused, wow]

[coolerthansora]

That- was a weird thing to say, wasn't it? I mean, of course it takes a while.

[Years? He can remember Sora being little but not that little.]

...I've really never seen one.

[hellpyre]

Huh.

[She's... not really sure what to say to that.]

[coolerthansora]

[Well, he's just cemented his first impression as a weirdo. He should stop talking.]

I'll just- go now.