Journal & Action

[heliotropesmoke.livejournal.com]

-1 : Journal-

You know, I'm a little shocked. I know I'm a cold-yet-spicy, and I know my breath smells like alcohol and cigarettes, but here we are at a theme park, the perfect place for a date, and I've been going around it all my lonesome.

Come now, ladies, gentlemen. In this age, when's the next time you'll get to go on a theme park date?

-2 : Action-

[On a prior night, Loraine is in a tacky aquarium themed bar in Fairy Park, colors of blue and purple luvdiscs everywhere. A mermaid costumed beauty sits halfway out of a tank, mixing drinks. She's drinking some kind of red, blended drink. She seems ... thoughtful. Perhaps the liquor has put a downer on her mood tonight.]

This place is tacky as all get out, but... no one here seems to much for want.

[She stares over at a grand piano, which she considers desecrated by all of the decorations, making it look like a giant clam with black and white musical teeth.]

... I wonder if they need a pianist.

Comments

[heliotropesmoke.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind that. Keeps life interesting.

[saikyocivrobo]

Well, seeing how different my life is now from what I had a few months ago, I'd say I did enter a story already. Just one with less romance and more explosions.

[heliotropesmoke.livejournal.com]

I'd prefer a romantic comedy to a war drama.

[saikyocivrobo]

We could see if it's possible to shift genres a bit here, then...

[heliotropesmoke.livejournal.com]

We didn't already?

[saikyocivrobo]

Hmm, slightly... You think the world would listen if we told it "make love, not war"?

[heliotropesmoke.livejournal.com]

Not a chance, but I might believe that love can blossom on the battlefield.

[saikyocivrobo]

I'm sure it can, provided that we can manage to avoid drowning in the meanwhile.

[heliotropesmoke.livejournal.com]

... Don't say such dreadful things.

[saikyocivrobo]

Sorry, it's just a joke. What are the odds of White Chalice sharing Titanic's fate anyway? For starters, I'm pretty sure we have at least a few robots capable of lifting the whole thing.

[heliotropesmoke.livejournal.com]

Maybe not, but for a while I was scared witless that the L Boat was going to share the Titanic's fate.

[saikyocivrobo]

Each time I return to thinking about that time, I'm starting to feel regret I stayed with White Chalice instead of going to the L Boat. Of course Prometheus chose exactly that moment to go missing, leaving me no choice in that matter... Or at least I'm trying to tell myself I had no choice.

[heliotropesmoke.livejournal.com]

... Funny. I wish I never went.

[saikyocivrobo]

Yeah, I can imagine how fun being there was. It's just that if I was there, with Prometheus, maybe thing would have gone differently. Better. And, at the very least, I could've at least be there when Ryo passed away.

...Oh man, talk about a grim conversation topic for a date.

[heliotropesmoke.livejournal.com]

But it's an honest one. That's not so bad.

... Ryo was... not long for this world. I think he's the only who knew that better than I did.

[saikyocivrobo]

Yeah. And somehow that knowledge made him one of the most mature people I ever knew. Though I didn't get to really know him as much as I'd want.

[heliotropesmoke.livejournal.com]

... sometimes that's for the best.

[saikyocivrobo]

Maybe, but I still consider that a mistake. One I'd rather not do again.

[heliotropesmoke.livejournal.com]

... I knew he was going to die, so I tried to not get overly close with him.

I wouldn't say I succeeded.

Sometimes I think I'm crazy not involve myself with the soldiers.

[saikyocivrobo]

I guess it's fortunate I'm not a soldier then, right?

[heliotropesmoke.livejournal.com]

... well done. I think that qualified as the right answer.

1/2

[saikyocivrobo]

Well, we've been talking for a while and I gave so many answers that I had to stumble upon the correct one sooner or later by laws of probability alone, right?

2/2

[saikyocivrobo]

[Werter notices he's not cleaning Loraine's clothes anymore and just resting his hand on her chest. He quickly takes it away.]

Err...

[heliotropesmoke.livejournal.com]

Ohh, how cute. You're blushing again.

[She smiled and brushed his hand away finally]

Well... That's enough for the first date.

[saikyocivrobo]

Funny how one can fight monsters routinely and still feel awkward in such situations... It's like a high school show about teenage superheroes, only it's been a while since I attended high school.