#fulgensun

[blitzking]

@fulgensun​, blitz off

“What was that all about? Tryin’ to embarrass me? Can’t strut the Abes logo and play like that. Your mind ain’t on the game.“ Half-time. A friendly match in Luca between the Aurochs and the Psyches had the crowd go wild. Some nasty counter-play put the team from Besaid in a bad spot and chances for a recovery looked bad. Normally he’d have passed watching this or any other match when it came on the screens outside, but a little bird told him that his kid was playing. What father would he be if he didn’t see what junior was up to in the sphere? Jecht kept his presence a secret until he slid into the break-room past the security guard. Not THAT hard when he had his fans here too. Entry-ticket price? A handshake. 

Sights set on Tidus, his cocky grin dared him to raise hell and take the game back. No doubt he could, and no doubt he’d never hear the end of it if he didn’t. Didn’t like the feeling that something was off though- kid seemed preoccupied with something.

[painsrequiem]

█ ▌ @fulgensun​ 💙’d for a starter

          Was it necessary to maintain this front?  For Tidus no less.  HIs brow furrowed already imagining the loud interjections and displeasure upon seeing the Guado.  In any case, things could remain somewhat civil.  Not like anything could be done to him if one isn’t a summoner.  And speaking of...

   “Tell me... How is my wife?”

[baajisms]

@fulgensun​

“I told you not to touch it without gloves.” She had a pair tweezers in her hand and her eyes were focused as much as they were able on the boy’s hand. The spines weren’t all that hard to see, but she wanted to be sure she got all of it. With a deftness that surprised even her, one swift yank and the spine was out. The wound, while not big, did produce a small droplet of blood. Which Anna quickly put a piece of tissue over. It wouldn’t bleed for long and it wasn’t something worth using a cure spell over. “Hold this.” Referring to the piece of tissue.

Leaning back, she packed up the small medical kit she’d brought with her and sighed. “I realise the fruits are nice, but you need to be more careful.” She hadn’t caught how he’d tried to get the fruit off the plant, perhaps he could’ve been careful. But a plant like a cacti, one had to anticipate the spikes. She’d been planning on seeing if she could bring a couple of them back with her, to see if they would grow and survive in Luca. Anna had her doubts, but if left in a warm apartment, on a windowsill maybe, it might have a chance.

She felt like a mother scolding a child. Which was not something she’d experienced for a good few years. She brushed off anything that might be stuck to her hands and looked around. “Funny. I thought there’d be more fiends around here. Did their numbers drop when Sin was defeated?”

[exciofides]

@fulgensun​ ( cont. [x] )

Scary. Unknown, too. He recalls his first moments in Spira, and he’s suddenly feeling an icy chill run through both his arms, to end in goosebumps. One similar feeling to the one she may be referring to did pervade him, back then; being alone and vulnerable, suddenly conscious of the thousand dangers behind the corner, and lost in a foreign place. He still kinda is, with one big difference– And although the dream of returning home fades away with each day that passes, the idea of being able to explore such a world with her still intrigues him. All is a surprise  – and a following sea of questions arising with each new thing to discover; but she’s been that careful and posed in explaining most of it to him, and believing in his story from the get-go, that staying by her side is just the most natural thing he can do. What he wants to do.

He looks at her and smiles, before something forces him to lower his gaze to the ground. Yet Yuna’s tone has been serious, so he matches hers to assure her, quietly. Those words may sound flimsy, but he thinks he gets her, and what she’s saying. Spira sure is more than the bunch of small huts in Besaid island now, isn’t it ?  ❛  Don’t worry about that. I promised. And I’ll make sure it stays that way, keep you out harm’s way… ❜

❛  Hey, once this whole deal with Sin is over and you finally defeat it… wouldn’t it be nicer than this, to travel around Spira ?  A less scary one. You’d deserve it for bringing forth the ‘Calm’, was it–?  ❜

     Together like this, just the two of them amidst the rose-colored backdrop of the warm, Mi'hen sunset is all she ever wanted out of this life, she thinks. Not even the finest sphere could capture how the light and his sun-bleached locks created a halo ‘round his crown. She ensued she would never forget--- not until her last breath. 

     They both lose their nerve at the same time, looking instead to an errant cicada beginning its evening song. He would keep her out of harm’s way, he says, just as his father did for her own.

     “ That... would be wonderful, ” she hides her laugh behind a hand, despite it all. “ The Calm always brings more travelers out onto the roads. ” Yuna smiles, although it pales in comparison to the sun’s own. “ Day after day is a celebration of life. There's music, and dancing, even the ferries are full! ” 

    ‘A less-scary Spira,’ was the last parting gift of her father. Even a year of childhood free of fear was the greatest blessing one could give-- what she could give. Yuna looks away from the burning sun, from the memory in her mind’s eye, and grazes fingertips over the movie sphere in her furisode’s pocket. 

     “ It may be nothing like your Zanarkand, but... I would like you to see it, too; Spira-- as she was meant to be. ”

[fabricatedsoldier]

@fulgensun​

☆ ━━━ Tidus and Cloud find a Crystal. It is settled in the center of an eerily glassy lake that reflects the millions of stars above that twinkle like sapphires and emeralds, sprinkled with the blood red of rubies. Cloud is not baffled by the beauty like someone else might be. He stares only at the Crystal lying just before them.

The task Cosmos had given them each had been laughably simple: find their Crystal and the worlds would be restored. 

But something churns in his stomach at the sight of the Crystal, which is not crystalline in nature at all. It is a movie sphere that hails from the reaches of Spira with only relevance to Tidus. Cloud expected that the Crystals would be something personally held dear to them each and he has watched Tidus closely all this time--waiting for that flicker of realization to bloom in his eyes. The moment Tidus snaps his attention to the foreign object, Cloud knows. This Crystal belongs to the cheery blonde. 

Cloud and Tidus had been assigned as a team. Cloud remained impassive the entirety of their journey together, almost cold to the point of flat-out ignoring the younger boy at times. And soon, Tidus would realize the reason:

Cloud darts out to the Crystal, sloshing into the lake far too quickly than a normal person could manage, the Mako pumping in his blood screaming at his body to go faster. He scoops up the Crystal neatly in his gloved palm. He whips out his sword from its sheath and zips around, facing Tidus...

His sword is pointed at Tidus’s chest while Cloud stands in the middle of the lake, defensive.

“I’m sorry. I’m going to have to take this,” Cloud states simply, his face still stubbornly blank.

[knaverie]

“Stay still.”

The world beneath them is cracked wide open but it feels so much smaller with Yuna’s absence. The air around the boy pulses with anxiety - he, like his father, embodies his emotions, couldn’t hide a single flicker if his life depended on it. The show would make him nervous by proxy were he younger, a touch less experienced. 

As it is, he’s far too weathered and much too tired to worry - ironically enough it’s faith that keeps him level, not of the usual sort but faith in them, in what they can do with his misplaced footsteps.

“Pacing won’t make the airship move any faster. We’ll be there in time. You’d do well to spend your time doing something useful.”

@fulgensun​

[blitzking]

@fulgensun​ ( sc )

“Say kid, ya been to Zanarkand, ever since...y’kno.“ Hardpressed as he was about admitting it, the sight of the ruins still stung. “Wonder what they made outta it now that Yevon’s over.“

[blitzking]

Yes, yes. I’m excited. And a little nervous. @fulgensun​

Guffaw washed like a wave over the plains, ‘nervous’ the boy said! Growls barked behind the bars that kept the monstrosity of the menagerie at bay that gave him all reason to be nervous, scratches at the steel and stone felt like they could’ve been against the nerves. But ever the rock in the surf that stood steadfast against seemingly insurmountable danger, he waved it off and lifted the heavy Greatsword over his shoulder. “Only thing ya should be nervous ‘bout is the spotlight I’ll be stealin’, kid.”​ And thus, the bars began to lower. A terrifiying roar sounded from the enclave in which the fiend was kept. “Ask me, a monster called ‘catastrophe’ gotta be compensatin’ with that name for somethin’. All show, no deal. Heh. What’s the worst that could happen?”