SHUFFLE/WAY-STATION/ILLNESS/WHATEVER MINGLE POST

[save_the_souls]

Who: You! Me! Him! Her! Them! Everyone!
Broadcast: If you want!
Action: On your respective ships, or the Waystations!
When: After the shuffle over the next couple days! Whenever man!

[It's been nearly a week since the fleet's said their goodbyes to the planet full of skull face folks, and another Shuffle has come and gone. Despite what was mentioned on the last week's Shuffle about cannibalism, it doesn't seem like any crews has resorted to that, so maybe some of you have begun to relax.]

[Or maybe not. In fact, maybe you should do a crew headcount just in case1.]

[By now, some of you who handled any red stones from the planet natives may be feeling under the weather or even downright shitty. But hey! What's that to stop you from visiting the way-stations? These way-stations may be in the same crappy condition as the last way-stations - but at least they're people on these ones! Really...shady looking people! But that's not about to stop you from making friends right2?]

[Essentially, this is a game wide mingle post for this week's shuffle, November's way-stations anyone getting ill, or anything else you want to do but too lazy to make a post about! Please feel free to tag in and tag around! Just make sure to put your characters' location and communication methods (action/network) in the header and/or in the prompts!]

1. - This recommendation goes double for the SS Blue Fish.
2. - Warning: Attempts to make friends with extremely shady characters on the Way-Stations may result in heartwarming musical numbers, or much, much more likely - being kidnapped. Please use your own discretion.

Comments

[limitstorm]

[ a moment, and before riku can stop himself-- ]

That's a weird name... [ uh wait! ] But--kind of cool.

[wilder]

Yeah, and I'm sure Riku's a perfectly normal name all the kids get named.

[Seriously bro]

Whatever, I don't care. It's not a name I use anymore.

[limitstorm]

[ a shrug. ] Apparently, Riku's a girl's name. I got called Princess Riku a lot.

So, you want me to still call you Kaneis.

1/2

[wilder]

[..There's some twitching going on in his face, as he tries to hold back some jokes] ....You know, for helping me out and listening? I'm gonna pass on the cracks, just this once.

[BUT NO PROMISES NEXT TIME YOUR HIGHNESS]

[wilder]

[But that'll pass and he'll rub the back of his neck again]

But, ah... yeah. If that's alright.

I mean, even if it started off as a lie and it's really not that great a name, I've...kinda gotten attached to it. And it's not like I can go back to being who I was before... [And frankly, at this point? He's not sure he even wants to.]

[limitstorm]

No way, Zelos is much cooler.

[ riku crosses his arms.

... the facetious moment's gone, and he smiles at him with a helpless shrug of his shoulders. ]

It's your name, I'm not gonna call you something different. Kaneis it is. Besides, [ his eyes wander away. ] ... sometimes lies become truth after a while.

[wilder]

[He makes a "tch" sound with his tongue at that, shaking his head a little. Don't be such a brat Riku]

[Sometimes lies become the truth...maybe that had weight to it. How long had it taken him where he no longer had to school himself to react to that name? And when was it that he didn't even think twice when he introduced himself as Kaneis? When he started doing so here, he hadn't even thought of it as an attempt to hide who he really was. It had simply been his name.]

[And it's not like the bonds he's built as Kaneis were anymore lies than the bonds he built as Zelos. If anything, in a way, they had been more sincere than anything he had had as Zelos Wilder.]

Heh...maybe you got a point. [He offers just the slightest of smiles to Riku] Thanks Riku.

[limitstorm]

[ he gives a firm nod. ]

Anytime.