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Nyx Ulric ([personal profile] sirnyxalot) wrote in [community profile] pineslog2017-04-28 05:57 pm

A soldier on my own, I don't know the way

Who: Nyx Ulric and YOU
Where: Nyx and Luna's house, Crossbones Boxing, around town, etc
When: Late April into May, dates applied where necessary
What: Open Catch-all for various non-plot going ons
Warnings: Blanket warning for potential Ibaraki, but other than that we should be good. [Thumbs up.]
[Open]

A. Papa War Chicken has arrived!

[He knows there are chocobos in town. He isn't sure how they got here, since there don't seem to be any wild nests, but here they are. They're small, adorable, and only a minor handful all things considered. But current digs aside, Nyx has lived all his recent life in a city. He hasn't owned so much as a cat since he left Galahd. And apparently a small child or two if his fake memories were any indication.

So why is he stepping outside one morning to see a fully grown, green chocobo trying to dig up all the grass around their mailbox?!

Nyx stops short, not yet comprehending just what he's seeing. The bird is huge, clearly big enough to ride,
and seems momentarily content to remain tethered. He steps back into the house, closing the door behind him. He needs to make some calls.]



B. For all your ogling needs~

[Five days out of the week, sometimes six, Nyx spends hours working for Rumlow. It's not nearly as exciting as being a Glaive, what could be? But he's hauling weights, wiping down bags, and maintaining equipment, and in his off moments he gets to use it all. It's enough. Most days.

He'd had to adjust some old habits: learn how to tape his knuckles and turn his body into armor in the absence of leather and steel. This wasn't bar brawling by any stretch of the imagination. It was a focused style of combat that resulted in him on his ass more times than he'd like to admit, but there's a thrill in his blood every time he gets up in that ring that isn't tempered by a quiet knowledge that death could be around the corner.

Even without a partner to fight with, Nyx works out hard; pushes himself to regain what strength he'd lost coming out of the hospital. Making sure he's ready, but for what he wouldn't be able to say.]



C. Why bother locking the door when no one pays attention to it anyway?

[Before Luna arrived, Nyx had done very little with his house. He'd taken the main bedroom and then spent the majority of his time there when he was at home at all. Couldn't remember why until he started getting his memories back and realized he missed his stupid apartment in Insomnia. The house was just too big for him.

Now, though... now it's practically lived in. There are flowers decorating tables, and new things on the wall, and most of the rooms are even used for one thing or another. Nyx still spends most of his time in his room, but the rest of the house no longer feels empty. So he keeps the kitchen stocked with whatever gets put on the list on the fridge, keeps a list of numbers for whoever needs to be called if something goes wrong, and somehow manages to carve a life here.

It's weird, and somewhat wrong, but it reminds a part of him of Galahd, and every day it's just easier and easier to fall into an old routine that the soldier in him had long forgotten. He's even getting used to the regular company he gets, so whenever he's home he ends up just leaving the door unlocked so that he doesn't have to worry about someone parkouring through a window.

And sometimes, when the nightmares get too bad, one can find him sitting on his front step, staring up at the stars in the middle of the night.]



D. Choose your own adventure!

(ooc: Feel free to ambush him anywhere about town or use this to establish specific threads that might not fit into the above prompts. Otherwise, please question him about his overgrown green chicken or catch him working out in the very very rare times he's ever close to shirtless in public. Or hell, just walk in and say hi and steal his hot pockets. He'll only complain a little.)
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c!

[personal profile] votively 2017-04-29 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[When Lunafreya awoke in the hospital, she felt restless, conflicted. Her memories were vague, but those feelings were vivid, and even as her memories started coming back to her, the feelings never quite went away. If anything, they only started to make sense. But even if she understood herself a little better, the fact remained that she didn't know what it was that she was supposed to be doing.

...or, at least, she didn't. Not until now.

She isn't sure what triggers the memory. She'd been with him since she left the hospital, so maybe it was just— natural. But one day, she wakes up, and she remembers. She remembers a promise. She remembers him.

It's early when she wakes, when she realizes this, but it's important, so she's up and knocking on his bedroom door.]


Are you awake?
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c - first day or two of may??

[personal profile] volitaunt 2017-04-29 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Poe told BB-8 that the droid didn't have to go with him. It's not an order to stay at the house. He doesn't give BB-8 orders unless it's important, and besides, he's pretty sure the little droid doesn't like the house either. How massive and empty it is.

Poe doesn't remember the details yet, but he knows he's used to having a lot more people around a lot more of the time. Consulting BB-8 is half-useful, leading to a deluge of information about the New Republic, the Resistance, their base, his pilots. It's a little too much to take in.

So here he is, wandering along the neighborhood streets in the wee hours, hands in the pockets of his jeans, talking quietly to the droid keeping pace at his heels. ]


No, buddy, I believe you. I just don't remember. Give me a little time, all right? It's frustrating for me too.
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b!

[personal profile] unweaving 2017-04-30 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a lot to think about, and Aranea's comfortable with precisely none of it. The constant surveillance, the wreckage, the memories that still nest in the back of her brain like they belong there. Aranea prides herself on knowing herself, on her drive and self-determination, and having that toyed with feels like a violation.

All of that adds up to a lot of frustrated steam to burn off, and a really good reason to head to the gym. It's that or taking her lance out into the woods to murder some trees, and that seems like it'd draw a level of attention she doesn't want. She's planning on pounding punching bags until her arms feel like jelly but then Nyx is there, and the memories she knows are false still pipe up and tell her he's a friend, and that's a hell of a lot less depressing. She greets him with a motion that's more a jerk of her chin than a nod, stretching her arms behind her. ]


Need a partner?
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b

[personal profile] smuttywitch 2017-04-30 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[to say she's been out of it lately would be the understatement of the century. But Rachel's pretty sure she's been justified--not just having to mourn her boyfriend for the second time, but having to keep so much of it secret. She's been slowly getting back into something of a groove, working at the shop and secretly spelling.

But she needs to get her body moving again, to be that woman who kicks demon ass that Kisten fell in love with again. He wouldn't want her to fall apart forever, she knows. He loved her for being stronger than him, and letting herself wallow too long would be disappointing his memory. And the gym also gets her out of the house for more than work, so there's two birds taken out.

She's wearing pretty casual clothes, just a tanktop and loose pants, hair tamed with both a charm and a ponytail, but nothing sexy by any means. And she's not sure if she regrets that or not when she sees Nyx]


Uh...hey Nyx.

[smooth Rachel. Real smooth]


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[personal profile] volitaunt 2017-05-01 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
Bit late to go to bed, though.

[ Poe grins crookedly. There's nothing odd to him about Nyx's appearance, beyond the fact that it doesn't match their surroundings. He might not remember it, but he's seen far stranger things.

BB-8 rolls backwards a little, angling his head-dome to get a better look at Nyx. The little droid lets out a tootling stream of noises. Poe is a little surprised, still, that he can understand them. ]
He wants to know why you have knives, and if you're going to use them-- Beebee, come on. Sorry. He's protective at the moment.
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[personal profile] volitaunt 2017-05-02 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
No reasons from me.

[ He suspects he could hold his own in a fight, but he's not eager to test that speculation. The bit about not being attacked so far is also good to know though somehow not reassuring. Poe can't help mentally comparing this place to a prison, with its rules and its surveillance. Violence is waiting. He just doesn't know what form it's going to take yet. ]

I'm Poe. [ He tosses off a little half-salute. ] This is BB-8.
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may 3rd - at the gym

[personal profile] otrazhenie 2017-05-03 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ With two days in Wayward Pines under her belt, Elena felt comfortable enough to really venture out on her own and explore, try to jog some more 'memories' of this place that didn't feel quite like home yet. And she just needed some time to think, to try to process everything that was happening without an overly concerned loved one hovering around.

Of course, if that was her intention, she perhaps shouldn't have decided to check out the gym. Boxing wasn't really her thing, so she'd learned a bit back when she'd trained with Ric, but perhaps there were other things there she could utilize. Now that she was human again, she wanted to stay in shape and be prepared for... she didn't know what, actually, but it seemed like a good idea. It felt right.

She steps into the building and glances around, her boots tapping as she crossed the floor of the entry. ]
Hello?
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sure thought i tagged this already

[personal profile] volitaunt 2017-05-03 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ The droid tilts its head dome, pantomiming human thoughtfulness perfectly. He lets out a stream of friendly bips and boops that Poe doesn't feel the need to translate. It's pretty clear that BB-8 has deemed Nyx acceptable, at least for the moment. ]

A little old fashioned. The knives, I mean. I haven't met someone who fights with knives in...

[ He pauses, suddenly frustrated. ] Actually, I have no idea.
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May 1st

[personal profile] comic_relief 2017-05-03 10:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Is there a word for when a place is the most comforting and discomforting place you know at the same time? Nyx's house is represents that for Jack.

It's the second time in his life he's felt this way--moving to Akademeia had been the first, a milder apprehension behind knowing it would be his new home while not wanting to leave the old one behind. But this is different. He knows beyond a shadow of a doubt this wasn't and isn't his home, but it feels like more of one than Akademeia ever was; visiting is a double-edged sword, humoring memories that were wrongfully planted in his head while making him see himself carved into the bones of this house.

It bring him closer to long-buried memories of his real house, too, in the real Rubran village in which he'd grown up, something Jack doesn't know what to do with and tries not to think hard on.

Sitting at the kitchen counter after school one afternoon, Jack considers a painting on the wall he doesn't remember seeing before, some floral, artistic-looking thing he'd only glance over in an art store, but one he has to admit makes the house more look lived in. The fact that Nyx's... fake relative? friend? girlfriend?... is slowly but surely redecorating helps paint over some of the past.]


New stuff, huh? Smells nice in here. Must be what they call a "feminine touch."

[If he feels a strange and distant sadness like something has passed him by without realizing it, he wouldn't know what to do with it and doesn't think hard on it, either.]
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[personal profile] smuttywitch 2017-05-05 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
[despite the fact that doing so still feels wrong, Rachel's smile is pretty easy]

Well, I figured I should start burning off all that junk food before it caught up to me, and working in the store doesn't involve that much heavy lifting.

[sure, her muscle tone hasn't suffered much, but she doesn't want to slack off much longer just in case. And mentioning the junk food itself is safe, because it doesn't voice what he knows, why she was pigging out and hiding

She's noticing more of the scarring now, and with her real memories coming back, she can't help thinking of vampire shadows--and, heart twisting, of Kisten with his torn earlobe and own faint network of scars on his neck from being one of Piscary's favorites.

She swallows that down quickly, trying to get the spunk back into her posture even if she doesn't feel it]


So, you looking for someone to spar with? No powers, promise. [she grins; now that she remembers why she can fight so well, she has more confidence in her abilities. Training with someone who has more than twice your speed and strength will do that]
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[personal profile] unweaving 2017-05-05 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Box might be pushing it.

[ It's been a long time since she fought without her lance, but her time before the military included plenty of scrapping - most of it dirtier fighting than she'd get into with a friend, but enough to hold her own. She stretches briefly, grabs some wrappings and sets to work on her hands. Blowing off steam is all well and good, but split knuckles are no fun. ]

I can tussle. Maybe you can show me a thing or two.
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[personal profile] unweaving 2017-05-05 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Sweet talker.

[ And with a savage little grin she squares up and throws a jab at him. It's an easy opener, something she expects him to block without trouble, but she doesn't exactly know how you're supposed to start these things when someone's not going for a gun or smashing a glass over your friend's head. ]
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[personal profile] unweaving 2017-05-05 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
What can I say? I know what I like.

[ A little stilted, considering she's twisting away and blocking the strike with her forearm as she says it, but hey.

Slow as they're starting, it's enough to get her blood pumping. There's been too much going on to drag her down since she got her memories back for her to even notice how much she missed this, but her body remembers. She kicks out towards his knee, aiming to throw him off balance. ]


You give lessons here?

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