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☇ Lightning ([personal profile] thestormishere) wrote2011-10-22 11:18 pm

☈ strike #17 (action / video)

Action; House 41; morning and onwards of the 22nd.

[ The calendar used in Luceti might be noticeably different than that of Cocoon's, but the way Lightning-- or rather, her friends seem to figure, since her previous birthday was roughly a month before her arrival last November... a Saturday in 'October' seems about as good a time as any to acknowledge somehow making it to twenty-two years of age.

She's really not looking for an outright party or anything, but after some stubbornness-filled discussion, the woman's reluctantly agreed to... well, what she'd likely do anyway: focusing on just having a relatively good day in general. That may or may not include humoring her housemates by dragging them around town to just Do Stuff too, though. Maybe indulge in just a little bit of the sort of food she tends to refrain from? Who knows.

After rolling out of bed and showering, it doesn't take her long to gather up Baldr and start looking into obtaining breakfast, studiously trying to put herself in a good mood. In other words, not thinking about how awful a year before now (and the events directly following it) turned out to be...

Of course, the problem is... coincidence is a tricky thing in a place like Luceti. Is she ever allowed to forget about anything for very long here? ]


Video/Action; plaza center/fountain; late afternoon of the 23rd.

Your moon... looks strange today.

[ Your moon because it's certainly not her moon, a sentiment that's quite obvious from the odd, tense quality to the woman's tone of voice. All things considered, with her homeworld's unknown status, her floating land's distinctly moonlike appearance as it hangs over the planet below, and most importantly, since it's pretty damn hard to forget the day after her twenty-first birthday being the one where she lost her sister and became 'fated' to tear Cocoon down out of the sky... she's understandably pretty tuned into any celestial objects' condition. Especially since it's currently the day following the one that, as a l'Cie, she never expected to reach.

As such, there's a looong pause, apparently thoughtful as she looks up at the sky. And then, randomly: ]


... How are you supposed to 'get over' something in the past, when it's still tainting what's supposed to be good?

[ -- Wait, no no no, asking that kind of thing? Not something she normally does at all, particularly over the journal or in front of strangers. Naturally, now it's too late, however. She aims a frowning Look towards her journal, then at anyone who might have heard from where she's sitting on the fountain. Her voice turns quiet and dry as she shakes her head, a hint of dark sarcasm sneaking in. ]

Why do I get the feeling something bad's about to happen anyway?
lunas: (one without a permanent scar)

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[personal profile] lunas 2011-10-27 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
... You don't know what a lunar eclipse is?

[ For a moment she blinks curiously, but then continues. ]

It's when the moon goes all black for a few moments! I think it has something to do with the position of the sun and the Earth.. Ami-chan could probably explain it better than me.

video/filtered

[identity profile] stilldontgotit.livejournal.com 2011-10-27 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, no kidding. Hard to get closure when you're torn out of your world before it can happen.

[He frowns. It's not just the fact that people get pulled from their worlds. The fact that people can get sent home so abruptly... it really doesn't help.]

[identity profile] gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com 2011-10-27 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Birthday girl, not birthday tyrant!
fierybluebird: Marco in black at his father's funeral (Edna Million in a drop dead suit)

[audio]

[personal profile] fierybluebird 2011-10-27 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe you can remove the taint, but not on the past. The past never changes.

[identity profile] contempsi.livejournal.com 2011-10-27 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Um...

[He's just finished sticking the candles in when Lightning arrives. Hope didn't think he could arrange twenty-two of them very artistically, and he didn't want to mess up the gunblade he worked so hard on. So there's just a few of them scattered tastefully over the top of the cake.]

Yeah, I did. Happy birthday, Light...!

[A bit of a shy smile here.] Well, it didn't fall apart, at least. I, um... I don't know how it tastes either but I followed a recipe, so... [More nervous shuffling!]

[identity profile] gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com 2011-10-28 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Are you really that bothered?

[ Although she doesn't sound annoyed. Or convinced Light's really focused on the singing.

(Spoilers: faces will be made.) ]

[identity profile] mistyarc.livejournal.com 2011-10-28 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ The unknown. Hubert can't stand it.

Another glance at the moon, then he turns back to Lightning, his arms dropping back to his sides. ]


We should prepare ourselves for whichever happens to be the case.

[ Though he figures she's already well aware of that. ]

[Voice]

[identity profile] beardpuddle.livejournal.com 2011-10-28 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Then it can be assumed that it shall pass?

[identity profile] capuchinja.livejournal.com 2011-10-28 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shakes his head, slowly.

Nothing. There is just the memory of his last mission, a scavenging mission - a routine foray, nothing that would be out of the ordinary. Yeah, people were apparently randomly drawn into Luceti. But people weren't usually randomly swapped out once they were there...]


Nothing except the last thing I did at home. And nothing about being some... human.

[identity profile] gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ Aerith--clucks her tongue.

Hooks her arm under Light's.

Attempts to make with the out-the-doorin's. ]


You'll see. This is going to be a fun day.

[ ...well, they'll at least get through the actual celebrating without disaster. ]

But there has to be a song.

[identity profile] mistyarc.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ He raises his glasses with a finger resting on the bridge of his nose, fixing it.

It is hard to prepare for something like this, especially where the moon and the odd masks are concerned. This isn't one's average oddball situation. This is one of Luceti's hard-to-deal-with antics. ]


Yes, it's difficult. And that is why we must make an utmost effort.
fierybluebird: (troubled)

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[personal profile] fierybluebird 2011-10-29 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry. I'm reminding myself as well with it.

[Voice]

[identity profile] beardpuddle.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
There is little that can be done except to prepare for whatever may happen.

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