HOLIDAY ARRIVALS.

[terminalrookies]

Characters: Everyone! (Only new arrivals are allowed in the Terminal Room)
When: Starting December 3rd, 2013
Where: Terminal Room or all over town!
What: An open mingle log for everyone to play in!

It has been a long November, and the weather is starting to get colder, a side-effect of the worlds merging. Maybe it's welcome, maybe it's a hindrance, but a rumble rises at the start of the day, signalling new Chosen are starting to arrive. Culumon bounces about the Terminal Room, lonely after waiting so long. Stepping outside, the Chosen will find a bit of a mess before them. The city's been through a lot lately.

Outside the Main Terminal, there is a bin with pamphlets to help supplement the information received on the new Chosen's D-Terminals. The information is...a little bit outdated, with last month's troubling reveals.

OOC: Feel free to mark your characters in different locations! They can be just arriving in the Terminal Room you read about in the arrival post or anywhere on the map! Also feel free to mark the day for each thread. You can also request to play with Culumon, too! Have fun, guys!

Comments

[notmyprophecy]

"Oh, of course." Hollyleaf dips her head. "Hollyleaf. New around here? I can show you to the dens, if you'd like."

[burnblonde]

"Sure am. Just dropped into town...literally." Yang doesn't seem at all bothered by talking to a stranger. At least she seems friendly and Yang has a name now. Bearmon, meanwhile, hangs back. He really is way too shy for his own good, but Yang is already planning several ways to break him of that.

"That would be great," she looks over her shoulder, "See, I told you it would work out if we asked."

Bearmon open his mouth but then closes it and looks back down at his feet.

[notmyprophecy]

Hollyleaf laughs lightly. "I remember that feeling, of course." Well, that feeling and the crippling fear of being something other than a cat. "Follow just this way, it's not too far."

Her tail, raised behind her, sways gently and she nods at Yang and the Bearmon. "You're just about the opposite of my Bearmon, she's...a bundle of energy."

[burnblonde]

Yang pushes her hair back and moves to walk beside Hollyleaf. She looks down at Bearmon who tends to walk just behind them and, Yang notices, on the side furthest from Hollyleaf. "So you have a Bearmon too? He was actually pretty energetic when I met him, it wasn't until we got out of that building we arrived at that he stated getting shy on me."

[notmyprophecy]

"Is that so? Well, tour partners sure are always excited to meet us," she says politely, flicking an ear at Bearmon. "Mine just seems adventurous, bringing back a lot of trinkets. I've yet to have a lasting conversation, outside of battle."

She speaks fondly, however. Something about her newer partner reminds her of...someone.

[burnblonde]

"Interesting. My sister would argue that you can learn more about a person in battle than you do in conversation. Of course, she's also a weapons nut so that might be part of it." Yang replies, certainly amused by the idea. "But, if not, you'll have time to talk soon, I'm sure."

[notmyprophecy]

"It's not for lack of interest," Hollyleaf admits. "I'll catch her one of these days, home from a hunt. It's fitting, I always hunted back home a lot-- oh."

She cuts herself off and her tail slumps down. "You probably don't want to hear about that."

[burnblonde]

Yang is a little surprised by the sudden reservation. Not that she knew this girl very well, but her cat-eared guide had seemed fairly open about things up until now. Curious. Yang falls back in walking before asking, "Why not?"

[notmyprophecy]

"I know not a lot of people here are like the ones back home," Hollyleaf admits. Her tail wraps about her leg. "Obviously. Things are a lot different, being a cat, and it's weird to some."

She stops and looks guiltily at Yang. "I didn't mention that. I'm a cat. Hi."

[burnblonde]

"Wait...so you're actually a cat and not a faunus." She hadn't actually thought that was possible. Then again she was walking with a bear wearing a baseball cap. She has to reassess this situation and quickly. "Uh, well, that's super cool. How'd you get turned into a human then?"

[notmyprophecy]

Instantly, her nose wrinkles in confusion. "A what? Just what's a...?" She lets her question hang and shakes her head. "When I was brought here. Apparently, if you aren't close enough to...a Two-leg, you get made one. It's happened with quite a few here, and it's not any fun."

[burnblonde]

Yang is surprised by her confusion but then she remembered she wasn't exactly in Vale anymore. "Right. A faunus shares traits with animals like how you have your tail and ears. Sorry, I just assumed." Yang wasn't sure if she was supposed to apologize or not, but it felt better to be safe than sorry.

She still did feel bad about it though. "Also...that does sound pretty terrible, being forced to be something you're not."

[notmyprophecy]

Now Hollyleaf's stuck on the idea of it, a faunus, trying to wrap her mind around it. Distracted, she flicks an ear, a dismissing motion. "It's not...at all what I'd want, but I... I'm sorry, so it's just...a human, but with... That's so..."

She's been like this for moons, and she's now trying to imagine something like it, just naturally. "I've never thought of it before."

[burnblonde]

Yang shrugs, "I don't think they'd like that summary, but they look mostly human, yeah." Maybe if Blake got here she could introduce her to Hollyleaf. Blake would be able to explain it better.

"Anyway...how close are we now?" They'd been walking and talking, but Yang hadn't been paying much attention.

[notmyprophecy]

"Oh!" Hollyleaf's tail twitches. "Sorry. Just there, see that building?"

She points, with both her hand and her tail, because she's still used to using it more. A large, L-shaped place, very close to them.

[burnblonde]

Both she and the Bearmon turn their attention to the building. "Well that wasn't as hard to find as I thought." She looks back to Hollyleaf and smiles, "Thanks."

[notmyprophecy]

She flicks her ears and dips her head. "It was nothing, don't worry about it."

[burnblonde]

Pause and then. "Okay! If you say so."

She then looks down to her partner, "What do ya say buddy, should we try to find our room now or do you think we'll get lost doing that too?" Her voice is light hearted and clearly joking, but Bearmon actually looks like he's blushing and mutters something incomprehensible.

"Sounds like a plan then!"

Then to Hollyleaf, "Hope we didn't waste your time. I'll be around if you want to talk some more about the whole cat thing."

[notmyprophecy]

How shy Yang's partner is still interests Hollyleaf. It amuses and intrigues her, because she's only ever seen her own rowdy and excitable Bearmon. She returns Yang's kindness with a gentle smile.

"Of course. Not a waste at all. I'd enjoy talking again, later."

Whenever humans take interest in her being a cat, nowadays, Hollyleaf finds herself a little excited. Maybe it shows she's growing.

[burnblonde]

"Great!"

And with that Yang nudges her Bearmon and starts heading for the building, "Come on. I want to see if we're rooming with someone interesting and if I have time to get the best bed."

Bearmon said nothing, Hollyleaf was still in ear shot and he was still too shy around anyone but Yang apparently.

[notmyprophecy]

So the Bearmon's still quiet and shy. Of course he is, changes don't happen that fast, and she barely spoke with him. Hollyleaf's uninjured ear flicks, and she watches in amusement, shaking her head.

Maybe she should go and find her own Bearmon; she turns on heel and goes out to look for her.