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thebastion2013-09-10 09:28 pm
notduchess) wrote in thebastion2013-09-10 09:28 pm
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day 108 - Action [open] | Lemon Gels, sour so you don't stay drowsy
Who: 'Duke', Alucard, anyone!
Open: Open
When: 108, during the 'night'
Where: Onsen
What: a knight is having feels in the bath
Format: log
Warnings: .... People are in the onsen, which i guess means nekkid people.
The knight supposes there's always a bit of humans that is hypocritical. This is probably why Duke is settled in the onsen with as little lighting as the knight can see by, sunk up in water up to pale shoulders.
"Damn."
It was easy enough to forget everything, like the knight had been telling Rin, when one kept busy. With paperwork, discipline, and keeping up order once, and now with practicing in 'mornings', core runs when they were spotted, general runs into the skyway... But those still left Duke with more time to think.
And that wasn't good. Sure, the knight hadn't run across any familiar statues yet, but at the same time...
"They had just found you, you damn bastard. So they said..." It wasn't that the knight distrusted Brave Vesperia, it was just that someone could only hear so many people comment on how unlikely it was to survive outside the barriers for ten years, let alone twenty.
"Why couldn't you have just come home, instead of leaving me to second guess..."
That splash was the knight dipping below the surface to try to stop anything more than a tight sound to the words.
And while it isn't terribly dark out, given its only thick clouds, but the knight is settled hopefully out of the way from the main entrance, with hopefully enough steam going on that no one can see quite what the knight looks like under the water. That would be awkward.
---
For most of the population of the Bastion a bath is nothing more than a fact of life. Even those not used to public baths like the onsen can just time it so that they reduce their likelyhood of seeing anyone else; the fact remains that it's still just a bath. For one resident however, bathing has always consisted of a bucket of water and a cloth to scrub himself off with. It's not that Alucard is precisely afraid of water, so much as being immersed even slightly in it would burn as much as any flame - and if exposed too long, just as deadly.
Of course, he had found that one little artifact before his world was destroyed that negated these effects if on his person, but habits built up over a long time as a survival mechanism are a bit hard to break. Which is exactly why he's keeps eyeing the water almost nervously, even as he's sitting chest deep in it. Nearly four hundred, and only just now having his first bath...
...Is that a little snorkel-shaped charm around his neck?
Open: Open
When: 108, during the 'night'
Where: Onsen
What: a knight is having feels in the bath
Format: log
Warnings: .... People are in the onsen, which i guess means nekkid people.
The knight supposes there's always a bit of humans that is hypocritical. This is probably why Duke is settled in the onsen with as little lighting as the knight can see by, sunk up in water up to pale shoulders.
"Damn."
It was easy enough to forget everything, like the knight had been telling Rin, when one kept busy. With paperwork, discipline, and keeping up order once, and now with practicing in 'mornings', core runs when they were spotted, general runs into the skyway... But those still left Duke with more time to think.
And that wasn't good. Sure, the knight hadn't run across any familiar statues yet, but at the same time...
"They had just found you, you damn bastard. So they said..." It wasn't that the knight distrusted Brave Vesperia, it was just that someone could only hear so many people comment on how unlikely it was to survive outside the barriers for ten years, let alone twenty.
"Why couldn't you have just come home, instead of leaving me to second guess..."
That splash was the knight dipping below the surface to try to stop anything more than a tight sound to the words.
And while it isn't terribly dark out, given its only thick clouds, but the knight is settled hopefully out of the way from the main entrance, with hopefully enough steam going on that no one can see quite what the knight looks like under the water. That would be awkward.
---
For most of the population of the Bastion a bath is nothing more than a fact of life. Even those not used to public baths like the onsen can just time it so that they reduce their likelyhood of seeing anyone else; the fact remains that it's still just a bath. For one resident however, bathing has always consisted of a bucket of water and a cloth to scrub himself off with. It's not that Alucard is precisely afraid of water, so much as being immersed even slightly in it would burn as much as any flame - and if exposed too long, just as deadly.
Of course, he had found that one little artifact before his world was destroyed that negated these effects if on his person, but habits built up over a long time as a survival mechanism are a bit hard to break. Which is exactly why he's keeps eyeing the water almost nervously, even as he's sitting chest deep in it. Nearly four hundred, and only just now having his first bath...
...Is that a little snorkel-shaped charm around his neck?
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"...I was unaware that they made special gear for swimming, but you may be correct." Because again, living in/revisiting an eldritch abomination that ignores what time period things should be in was kind of a thing for him.
And there probably really isn't a proper way to react to being told that demons have no sense of shame whatsoever either, other than just to accept it and move on. At least that's what he's taking her bewildered expression to mean. It's a bit difficult to tell, given that he has his eyes trained on the opposite bank and is only glancing at her every now and then.
"...I would understand if you wish for me to continue to treat you as a man, but I'm sure you understand why I cannot help but be slightly ill at ease." Because he's not outright going to admit that naked people make him a bit tense, given that he's essentially been conditioned to expect an attack from them.
TERRIBLY LATE BUT SHE BRAINED THIS SO
And everything is awkward. The knight listens to that, then just... crosses her arms under water. That could be a little better, right?
"... Here is the slightly ill at ease part, right?" Nope, Duke is still fairly uneasy with this whole thing. "Its... been a really long time since I've ... not acted as a man." More than half her life, actually. That's depressing.