Everything fades away, come turning of the tide | Day 332 [OPEN]

[grandiflora]

Who: Rose Quartz, OPEN
Open: Open
When: Evening of 332
Where: Monument -> Rose's house
What: Most of the Bastion is grieving, angry, or trying to deal with said emotions. Rose? She's just trying to settle in to this strange new life of hers.
Format: Action
Warnings: Possible spoilers for Steven Universe? Also possible talk of war and the like

[Not everyone was affected by events recently passed in the Bastion. As much as Rose would have liked to say she had a feeling regarding it one way or another, she really couldn't. This place was still new to her. It's people were still new to her. The passing of one whom she had never spoken to was sad and she was more than understanding at the sorrow the others around her felt...

It was just not an emotion she herself could dredge up properly.

There were always going to be casualties, and for as peaceful as the Bastion itself was their situation was hardly peaceful at all. Time would pass as it always did, regardless of how any of them dealt with it.

In the quiet that had settled on the Bastion in more current days, Rose had spent time on the Skyway as she always did, hoping for some hint of her Gems out there in the haze. There was none, but she returned with a good haul of shards in the meantime.

Today, however, she wasn't out there like she normally had been. Instead she could be seen, barefoot as always, taking trips from the house with the observatory room to the Monument and back again. Three times she went, carrying a wooden flat of some sort of strange plant. A fourth time she returned not with a plant but a shimmering pink weapon at her side.

Though she'll hardly expect to be approached given how busy everyone must be, she'll certainly respond if anyone does.]

Comments

[headphoneactor]

H-How do you know it's nice?!

[ UWAUWUWAAWAWAAA ]

[grandiflora]

I raised it!

[Naturally!]

[headphoneactor]

How can you raise moss??

[grandiflora]

Quite easily! All you need is a lot of love and understanding, and the rest falls in to place.

[She's even petting it.]

[headphoneactor]

[ lady you have a lot more of that than I do. she's just watching her pet the sentient moss and .... wtf does she even do or say to that??? ]

[grandiflora]

[Lacking in social skills as she is, Rose can still tell Takane is uncomfortable. So time for a little trick!

She set the flat down and crouched in front of it. A wave of her hand over the moss and it calmed. Suddenly large pink flowers with shimmering gems in their centers bloomed across the surface, leaving Rose with a proud smile.]</small.

[headphoneactor]

[ oh.

my.

god.

what just happened.

she's seen magic before, though, so she's not exactly as freaked out about it as she would have been when she first got here.

still, gonna just. awkwardly clap for her?? ]

[grandiflora]

[Magic. That's about the only explanation for it.

Rose plucked one of the flowers, holding it out to Takane.]

[headphoneactor]

[ Uh ... she's gonna take it and nod in thanks. ]

What kind of flower is this ...?

[grandiflora]

It doesn't really have a name. Lovely, though, isn't it?

[headphoneactor]

Is that a gemstone or something in the middle of the flower?

[grandiflora]

It is.

The planet I originated from, almost all life comes from gems.

[headphoneactor]

N-No way! How can that be possible?!

[grandiflora]

Different world, different forms of life. I've spent the last 6,000 years on Earth, though, so I'm well aware that Gems are hardly the norm for your people.

[headphoneactor]

Six-thousand?! You really don't look that old!!

[grandiflora]

Of course I don't!

[Sorry, Takane, you're being laughed at.]

I choose the form I want. I certainly wouldn't want that to match my age.

[headphoneactor]

[ Humans are funny, right. ]

So you can like. Shapeshift or something?

[grandiflora]

[They most certainly are.]

I can! Would you like to see?

[headphoneactor]

... I'm not sure.

[ Does she want to see? She doesn't know. ]

[grandiflora]

I promise, it won't be anything frightening.

[headphoneactor]

Okay, I guess ....

[grandiflora]

[Rose nods, setting her moss down so she can focus on the shape shifting.

And as promised, nothing freaky. Just a small tree.

... in shades of pink.]

[headphoneactor]

[ She's trying very hard not to freak out at sudden shapeshifting. ]

... You make a very ... pink, tree.

[grandiflora]

[She'll back to normal after that.]

Changing colors is quite a bit more difficult than changing shape.

[headphoneactor]

Huh. Explains the pink. I guess you could be a variant of a Sakura Blossom tree or something ...