THORNE [ supposedly, he can't just.. leave, and after getting a look at the borders being so heavily guarded, he certainly gets that it's not going to be a simple matter if he tries. even so, he'd made himself scarce pretty much as soon as he was free to do so, and spent the next couple of hours exploring the castle and the surrounding town.
he stops by the library and decides that's a mess best left to others, looks for and doesn't find his personal belongings in his assigned quarters (disappointing), and finally winds up near the outskirts, inevitably drawn to the poorer sections of any city. and more importantly, perhaps, the lights that popped up there as he was drawing near. he winds up walking into the midst of them-- reckless, maybe, but they don't seem harmful, and they remind him of some of the simpler, prettier effects of materia. ]
FREE CITIES [ cloud's pretty small by soldier standards at home, but that doesn't seem to matter much the minute he gets his hands on a practice sword. sure, his mako-enhanced abilities are missing for now, but his training certainly hasn't gone anywhere. he's still fast and deadly-- maybe a little too deadly for the training field, actually. he can get a little.. lost, especially after what just happened at home.
still, if someone calls him on it, he's swift to apologize.. and also call the training session short. maybe.. maybe he's not really ready to be doing this without taking a little time to process, actually.
otherwise, the military camp feels familiar, like things had been before he'd left shinra employment. it's a little too simple to fall back into old habits, so he's grateful for cadens and the things that take him out of his martial mindset.
although.. the magic workshops are sort of sketchy, right? he's definitely frowning pretty obviously at the display of a lamp, for instance. ] .. Where does the magic.. come from, though? [ this feels like shinra during the early days, when people had thought mako and magic were unlimited resources. ]
SOLVUNN [ though this place is very different, it admittedly reminds cloud of nibelheim.. a little. it's smaller and slower and simpler than somewhere like midgar, and the focus on farming and community are a lot like his hometown. of course, unlike his hometown, they apparently recently executed someone, and here are her bones. on display, a morbid, awful warning to everyone who sees them.
had she deserved to die? he has no idea, he wasn't here for all that. but the indignity of not being allowed to rest in death is pretty fucked up, even by his standards (and he'd worked for shinra).
still, despite his uneasiness, cloud attends the picnic later, in large part because he gets his calories where he can, and the food here is familiar and enjoyable. he isn't shy about piling his plate high. he also takes the time to observe some of the giant vegetables, filled with a weird, almost painful nostalgia about it. he's sort of an odd figure, though-- slight and blond, but a loner, frowning faintly anytime someone looks his way. seriously, cloud, lighten up a little. ]
WILDCARD [ he'll also check out nocwich if someone wants to do a thing there. alsjf i know these are pretty generic prompts, so if none of them work, feel free to pm and i'll come up with something specific for our characters! ]
cloud strife ( ff7r )
[ supposedly, he can't just.. leave, and after getting a look at the borders being so heavily guarded, he certainly gets that it's not going to be a simple matter if he tries. even so, he'd made himself scarce pretty much as soon as he was free to do so, and spent the next couple of hours exploring the castle and the surrounding town.
he stops by the library and decides that's a mess best left to others, looks for and doesn't find his personal belongings in his assigned quarters (disappointing), and finally winds up near the outskirts, inevitably drawn to the poorer sections of any city. and more importantly, perhaps, the lights that popped up there as he was drawing near. he winds up walking into the midst of them-- reckless, maybe, but they don't seem harmful, and they remind him of some of the simpler, prettier effects of materia. ]
FREE CITIES
[ cloud's pretty small by soldier standards at home, but that doesn't seem to matter much the minute he gets his hands on a practice sword. sure, his mako-enhanced abilities are missing for now, but his training certainly hasn't gone anywhere. he's still fast and deadly-- maybe a little too deadly for the training field, actually. he can get a little.. lost, especially after what just happened at home.
still, if someone calls him on it, he's swift to apologize.. and also call the training session short. maybe.. maybe he's not really ready to be doing this without taking a little time to process, actually.
otherwise, the military camp feels familiar, like things had been before he'd left shinra employment. it's a little too simple to fall back into old habits, so he's grateful for cadens and the things that take him out of his martial mindset.
although.. the magic workshops are sort of sketchy, right? he's definitely frowning pretty obviously at the display of a lamp, for instance. ] .. Where does the magic.. come from, though? [ this feels like shinra during the early days, when people had thought mako and magic were unlimited resources. ]
SOLVUNN
[ though this place is very different, it admittedly reminds cloud of nibelheim.. a little. it's smaller and slower and simpler than somewhere like midgar, and the focus on farming and community are a lot like his hometown. of course, unlike his hometown, they apparently recently executed someone, and here are her bones. on display, a morbid, awful warning to everyone who sees them.
had she deserved to die? he has no idea, he wasn't here for all that. but the indignity of not being allowed to rest in death is pretty fucked up, even by his standards (and he'd worked for shinra).
still, despite his uneasiness, cloud attends the picnic later, in large part because he gets his calories where he can, and the food here is familiar and enjoyable. he isn't shy about piling his plate high. he also takes the time to observe some of the giant vegetables, filled with a weird, almost painful nostalgia about it. he's sort of an odd figure, though-- slight and blond, but a loner, frowning faintly anytime someone looks his way. seriously, cloud, lighten up a little. ]
WILDCARD
[ he'll also check out nocwich if someone wants to do a thing there. alsjf i know these are pretty generic prompts, so if none of them work, feel free to pm and i'll come up with something specific for our characters! ]