#ft. aerith

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      With all the injured people due the explosion, Robin was quickly set on his feet as soon as he showed signs of a good recuperation, but his mother was also quick to send his son into the medic wing of the League’s headquarters to get sure that he was alright ( and to run some tests and find out why he wasn’t as hurt as the others ). Calm reached him upon receiving the first texts of his friends, informing him of their good status and in case of Madi, a picture of her at her hospital bed with the caption ‘ I lived, bitch ’, yes, everything was alright for a second, he was even going to allow himself some sleep when…

          [ text received ]: Does anybody know anything about Aerith?

His heart skips a beat at the sudden realization that NO ONE knew a thing about their alien friend and so, he pushes the blankets aside and begs his mother to let him go out, to which she agrees under certain conditions he doesn’t mean to keep.

Robin considers a reunification would take too long and maybe they don’t have that time. What if Aerith hasn’t woken up? What if the government decided to take her in for being an alien? What if the effects of the explosion caused a different consequence for her?    What if she is…?   NO. He refuses to think the worst and rushes to the hospital.

Once there, in front of her door, he knocks softly and peeks into the room carefully, immediately noticing her golden eyes sparkling like a cat’s. Robin makes his way in, closing the door behind him very quietly and then approaching just a little.

“ Uhm… hey… how are you feeling? ”, he asks, even though the burns over her skin and her weak appearance speaks for her. Idiot, how did you expect her to be if she is not even answering her phone? “ I’m sorry for coming without any announcement, I was—- WE WERE very worried about you, so… ”, and he gifts her a sad smile and a little shrug. Her condition makes him feel GUILTY. He doesn’t what he could have done to help her and the rest of the guests… but he still feels bad about it. The boy was going to apologize about his stupid question, inform that the others would be happy to know she is awake and that he would leave now…

                              THEN SHE HELD HER HAND OUT FOR HIM TO TAKE IT.

Robin freezes on the spot; he is not very used to contact… much less hers whom he had relatively little time knowing. The only time they shared such a close proximity was when he was helping her run away from the beach, but that was about it, nothing else. His hands fidgeted in the insides of his olive hoodie’s pockets, but finally, decided that rejecting her gesture would be absolutely rude, so he pulls his hands out and with one, reaches her, walking closer to the bed. Upon touch, though, a weird electric sensation ran from his hand to the center of his forehead, which caused him to briefly stop in his tracks.

“ Good to know you are awake, I was----- WE WERE very worried about you, but now I can tell the others you are fine and I will also let them know to come visit you ”, he told her as soon as he reached her side. Robin let go a bit of her hand, but her grip didn’t give in, so he squeezed her hand again softly with a sad side smile as he looked at her. “ I’m sorry you had to go through that ”, he apologized in a mutter as he instinctively pulled her hand up to his cheek, causing some surrounding little objects to briefly float. “ This won’t happen again, I promise. I don’t know what you are running from, but if I told you Earth was safe, the last thing I can do is fulfill my word somehow ”. Robin pulled closer the chair next to her bed and a sudden wave of weariness hit him so he leaned down on the mattress, his grip to her hand loosening, but not breaking as he  rested his head on his forearm. “ I will take you to the amusement park as soon as you feel better; you will love it and we can tell the others too!...”, he yawned, “ there are roller coasters that go very fast... almost like a space ship and there is also the house of mirrors and I feel you will be particularly fond of the Ferris wheel and the merry-go-round ”, Robin explained with a sleepy voice. The boy managed to keep his eyes open a little longer to raise their hands and move him to lace their pinkies, “ I will keep you safe, Aer’i, I PROMISE ”.

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“...oh, you mean Aerith! Yeah, she’s from... afar. Russia. Yeah, she’s from Russia and was home schooled and she grew up in a very VERY restricting household so that’s why she doesn’t know a lot of stuff, but she’s really cool. I just happened to meet her when she just arrived to the city so we became very good friends immediately, we even have sleepovers on weekends; no, ACTUAL sleepovers, we watch movies and talk about how stuff works in Crystalline City. Her pink skin? She’s a super, obviously, but she’s also quite interested in space, you could almost say she’s from another galaxy; she’s amazing overall”.

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▼ What is their greatest fear?, ☹ Name one person they would kill for., ☾ What is their favorite and least favorite thing about the night?, ★ Do they have a favorite scary movie? Book? Show?, ◯ Do they believe in ghosts?, (and teehee) 웃 Do they believe in aliens?

▼ What is their greatest fear?

Aside of the ‘losing the ones he loves’ cliche?? Losing his powers. His mom is super amazing without powers and his dad is quite a villain icon so he feels like he has to use his most significant traits to stand out aka his brains and his powers, BUT he also thinks that without his powers he would simply be an annoying nerd 0% interesting. Summary: he thinks his powers give him worth and losing them would mean losing himself. Someone please block his powers for a day or two or more and let’s see him freak out and throw himself to the bed crying Disney princess style.

☾ What is their favorite and least favorite thing about the night?

Favorite: SILENCE. He can finally work without distractions. He also has late night calls with Aerith whenever he’s stuck or just too tired to continue.

Least favorite: When it becomes to cold that his fingers become too cold and he cannot write or type properly. Also, when it ends. He can get obsessed over a project and before he knows it, it is already morning and he has to get ready to start the day and he is too tired for that.

★ Do they have a favorite scary movie? Book? Show?

Slashers; Scream and Halloween are into his favorites, but also anything related with supernatural horror, but only a couple of days a week, otherwise he can get too much in the mood and get rather broody... or it can give him ideas. Book related, once he accidentally borrowed a Lovecraft one from the library because he thought it was a lighter story (he was around 12) AND IT WAS SUCH A SHOCK WHEN HE READ IT, so it stuck with him and continued reading Lovecraft afterwards. Show related, he was trash for the Scream tv series and is still super angsty that it was cancelled, but he also loves some feelsy things like Hill House or The OA even though the last one is not scary at all.

◯ Do they believe in ghosts?

He hasn’t had any paranormal experience, but he doesn’t really think much about it; he doesn’t deny his existence, but isn’t chasing after them neither; specially with so many different powers, it would be hard to differentiate what’s a ghost and what’s a superpower.

웃 Do they believe in aliens?

Rubbish. Fairy tales. There’s no such thing. Since he was introduced to sciences, he was convinced the universe was way too big to not be occupied by other beings. He was always in love with physics, but his huge crush on space ( such choice of words, huh? ) came when he promised Aerith he would repair her spaceship/shuttle/escape pod and so, he had to research and study a lot about it, specially since the spacecraft is a little secret even in Haggis Tech and he is too petty to let anyone else work on it ( but Piper and Go will be helping #FiteMe ). Because of this he’s gonna try to get a second major in astrophysics and this way he’s gonna graduate until he is like 30 smh. ALSO, realizing Aerith has powers has made him thought a lot of the kind of abilities aliens of different planets may have as well and he would love to get his own USS Enterprise and travel across the universe discovering different alien species, so congratulations, Aerith, you turned this boy into a space nerd when he already had world domination plans, now he doesn’t know what he wants to do with his life.

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Q. & E. For the alphabet asks

Q. RELATIONSHIP STATUS AS OF RIGHT NOW.

“ Single. Relationships are a no-no, don’t do them ”.

E. MY BEST FRIEND.

“ Noah, Aerith and Piper. I’d say my sister, but she’s dumb so no ”.