Tori Metaxas

Tori Metaxas, 35, Icarian 4 lyfe. Hermes kiddo. I wanna find my purpose when I grow up

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myhearthealing​:

He nodded at her suggestion to get some Kool-Aid. “Maybe it wasn’t exactly spicy,” Atticus continued. “It had a weird spicy-like taste. You know, it could have been the artificial ingredients. Now that I think about it.” He frowned, stopping as Tori grabbed one of his items of the shelf. “Do you make dinner a lot?” Atticus asked her. “Or do you usually order out? Just wondering, since you’re mostly getting basic stuff.”

“Spicy... That probably makes sense. I don’t really get food science, but it sure makes some interesting combinations.” Tori did not understand science-y science so much to begin with either. Eh, food science was probably a mystery to most people. “I usually make dinner. But since I live alone, when I cook, it’s like cooking for four Toris. Most of what I’m missing is the basics, honestly. I always run those down to the minimum and then have to get it urgently. Oh, but ordering out sounds really good right now... What do you usually do?”

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luciferpens​:

“The weirdest responses.” Jolene chuckled as she pushed herself off the floor and brushed her pants off, “It shouldn’t be but – seriously, they’re all so precious, how do you choose just one?” she asked as Sue hopped up onto her leg, basically trying to climb up her. “Laugh at them?” she chuckled as she bent down and picked up Sue, letting the ferret wiggle its way onto her shoulders. She could see how she would just… laugh at any ferret she had. They were so strange and goofy. The ferret bounced around before basically jumping off her and onto Tori. “I hate to take all your time –” she said smiling at Tori and Sue her words dropping off as Sue playfully nipped at her fingers and she scrunched up her nose making a face at the little ferret. 

Tori was okay with weird responses, but maybe she did not want to explore the idea too deeply. “You go with what your heart tells you because you can’t go too wrong.” Sure, there was something to choice (Tori really loved how her ferret looked), but she was sure she would have been happy with just about any other color or personality. Her bubbly cuddle monster suited her just fine. “Why make them feel more insecure about how funny they’re shaped because they look like little bear weasels?” Long pets were the best. She shook her head at the abandoned statement. “You’re not! My time isn’t very occupied right now. But I can give you my number so we can chat or whatever you’re up for again.”

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kassmeifyoucan​:

Kassandra rolled her eyes at Tori, nudging her with her foot. “You’re officially now a pain in my ass it seems. But that’s completely fine because I plan on kicking your ass in this scrabble game and I for one do not plan on backing down from a–” The brunette stopped as soon as she watched a squirrel move in their general direction. Before the words ‘oh no’ could leave her mouth, she watched in horror as Nugget yipped in excitement at a potential friend and immediately began to chase after the squirrel. “Tori! Help!” Kass yelped in horror as she watched her puppy begin to sprint off after the squirrel. “Fuck, shit, fuck!” 

Tori was very into this game. So into it, that she had forgotten that there was a world outside of tiles and calm competition. The trash talking was all well and good until it... stopped? Not sure if this was some kind of trick, Tori looked over in the same direction Kass had pointed only to see a dog on the move. She didn’t really know how she was supposed to help, but if she could catch a squirmy ferret, maybe she could catch a dog. Smoothly activating her phasing to keep from disrupting the game board (it needed to be preserved for future generations at this point), Tori bounded in the direction of the dog. She called out to Kass, “Got anything to bribe him? Anything better than a... rodent?” 

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anoukschaffhauser​:

Anouk threw the cash on the counter. ❛ Sounds fun. ❜ To pay her bill, and all the drinks Tori had and stood up. ❛ Let’s go… ❜ She picked up her phone texting her driver that she’s leaving, and when she spots her limo on the entrance, entering inside of it, giving space for Tori to join her if she wants, warning her driver the location she’d go.

“Cool, thanks,” Tori said, following along slowly. She was never really in a rush to do anything in life. It was all just worth savoring and not tripping over anything ridiculous. “Uh, all right,” Tori said, a little surprised that they would be going into the limo. Why was she surprised? She was not really sure. It seemed a little extra to have an eccentric car like this on the island with a driver for just one person, but it was still a fun touch. Probably convenient for if the nights went somewhere weird or if Anouk needed to carry a lot of things home. Settling into the seat next to Anouk, she let herself relax more and decided she’d done enough thinking about the car for a while. “Love Nightshade, but it’s not very private. And you’re like crazy gorgeous, so I’m glad to get the chance to spend this time with you alone. You okay?”

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kassmeifyoucan​:

Kassandra felt triumphant as a few minutes went by where Tori looked positively stumped. ….Until she wasn’t. Mother fucker. “Feisty? Feisty? Really? I am not….” Kass trailed off, huffing for a moment before deflating. “Okay, fine. I am. But that’s just simply cheating. Somehow… Someway.” It really wasn’t but she was only slightly grumpy that she didn’t see that whole move coming. Pulling out four more tiles, she immediately frowned at her new additions. ‘SFTN’. The fuck was she supposed to do with those when her other letters were ‘CMI’. It was her turn to take up a long chunk of time, even going so far as to stand up and rotate around the board a few times before she grinned widely. Quickly she placed the tiles down, using the previously offending 'Y’ as part of her latest victory. “M-Y-S-T-I-C. Thanks for the help, Tori!”

“It’s not cheating- especially not when the shoe fits. I love that these tile choices are random. Jokes write themselves.” Tori gasped audibly when Kass managed to drop down a word that made use of that Y, and also the M and C. Dang, Kass didn’t come here to play. Well, she did come her to play since it was a game, but she as intense. Luckily for Tori, the little bag of tiles gave her the gift of the letter ‘E’ - just what she needed to make use of that notorious Q tile- and she would manage to nail it down on the double word score along the way. With her tiles at present reading USQTXNE, she put them down triumphantly. “You’ve done me a solid yourself, Kass. Thank you for the T in QUEST. Sorry I had to do this to you, but... your quest is looking like it’s almost over when it’s barely begun.” Of course Tori was pretty proud of herself- after some truly agonizing turns and some heinous word banks, it was nice to get a little win in. Still, she had no idea what kind of horrible combination of tiles the bag would gift her with next.

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kassmeifyoucan​:

“Nah, I don’t think you, Tor.” Kass smirked before re-focusing back on the board. Sure, she liked scrabble well enough but Life was always more fun to her. Or Clue. This was neither of those games, sadly. “So we really are doing wordplay. You intrigue me, Tori. So with the jig being up, why don’t you tell me how the Isle has been going under your oh so dutiful watch over it?” She pulled out two more tiles, blinking as she noticed the I and E. Great. More vowels. After several moments of hesitation, she used the ‘F’ from ‘GOOF’ and began to spell out ‘FEIST’. “I think that’s a word…”

“Eh, the jig’s up, but it’s on you. So I’m walking out of this just fine.” Tori frowned down at the board, also not entirely sure if ‘feist’ was a word. “I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt since I would one hundred percent cheat if we checked a dictionary,” she admitted. Now that she had accepted the word, she fixed the board with a relaxed stare, hoping it would reveal its secrets. A little troubled by the lack of good vowels, she checked her tiles. USQTXNY was not what she wanted today, but it was what she had to work with. After nearly dropping the Q while she rearranged the tiles, she suddenly had an epiphany. “Good thing I accepted that word. This one also might be about you.” She dropped a Y right on the end of Kass’ last word to make ‘FEISTY’. Fucking bam.

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allegra-keele​:

Allie couldn’t stop her body from shaking as she laughed. The two had watched a fair few movies together, but this was really topping the list that she kept on the phone of the worst movies of all time. She looked up at Tori as the text came through to her phone, and raised her eyebrows at her. Oh yeah, I took them as different species! Didn’t you? Maybe it’s a twist, maybe they are the same thing - or perhaps they’re the big thing that fight each other at the end? She trapped back, a laughing emoji following shortly. Oh, they definitely beat Sharknado, but they’re not as good as that alien-mermaid thing we watched a few weeks back.

Tori would have been mildly embarrassed to make this assumption from any other genre of movie. But misunderstanding what in the world made sense just came with the turf. Embarrassment was only temporary anyway. I don’t know! I figured it was one movie, so they would all be different forms of the same monster, but idk if I should be trying for logic. She snorted at her phone. That’s fair. I miss Sharknado, though. It’s great to talk about this stuff with you, but everyone was excited about that one. It was nice to have something niche to share, though. These were the only movies really worth pausing in the middle of to make sense out of. 

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oceanic-finn​:

“Briar likes you. We’re friends, she likes you and trust you. Did I tell you that we told each other we loved each other? That was a huge step. Just after she called me old, you know!” He spoke, rambling off at Tori without even realising. “Wait, what? Oh, water! Mhmmm…” He mused before then shaking his head. “Nah, I don’t fancy any. Lets just go, hopefully the fresh air makes me feel better, and not worse.”

Tori couldn’t help but laugh a little at Finn’s excitement about Briar. It was sweet, okay? Really sweet. “Aww. I don’t think you told me that. Unless you told me today... No, I don’t think you did. But congratulations! I promise you that you’re not old,” she said, shaking her head. If Finn was old, then there was nothing good in store for Tori. There might still be nothing good in store for Tori if Finn refused the water, but she couldn’t force someone to do what they did not want to. “That bodes extremely well. We shouldn’t be outside for too long, though.” She gestured for him to follow her so that they could get out of this place.

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luciferpens​:

“She just left the house – no idea where she’s gone to. I came back from dropping Feliks off at the airport and she was nowhere to be found.” He grumbled. “I mean, I’m happy if she’s getting out and about doing things, but after the whole thing with Zeus and Weston’s death – she’s been very off and not wanting to leave the library.” He explained resting his head on his hand as he sunk lower into her seat. “I just want to make sure she didn’t go out the main door today because we’ve moved four times since this mor-”

Kai furrowed his brow when she snapped at him. He pulled his head back and slowly raised one eyebrow. “Well that was uncalled for,” he said after a moment with a bit of a chuckle. His instincts turning more fatherly instead of an annoyed friend who could get mad at being told something like that. “What suddenly snapped your attention so far right you lost your senses?” he asked after another few moments of silence.

Tori was more distracted than anything else, glancing out of the corner of her eye to hear if there was anything else. She didn’t even remember who Kai was talking about anymore. His daughter? A cat? It could really be anything, but she was very far away mentally at the moment... Were cats allowed in the library? No, she didn’t have time for fun questions.

“Nothing. Nothing! Everything is fine. I wasn’t able to follow what you were saying anymore.” She felt really bad about the momentary lapse in judgment, but she was still more focused on trying to hear if there was anything else. Unfortunately, she couldn’t just say ‘someone’s talking about my little sister that doesn’t know I exist and I have to get all of my intel from eavesdropping and awkward questions’ without causing a huge disruption. “I’m sorry for being mean. It was getting to be a long story. Is everything okay with... your kid?” Tori was guessing here, and really hoping that this was not about a cat after all.

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luciferpens​:

“Right?” Jolene said shaking her head as she picked up the ferret and pressed a kiss to its nose. “I guess we’re going to have to start asking around – just to see.” she chuckled leaning her head onto her hand, her fingers drumming on her cheek as she set it back down and watched it run around in circles. “Uh – God.” She let her head fall from her hand and rested it on the floor as Tori’s fur child ran around and played with her hair. The one creature she never minded touching her hair without asking. “Cinnamon, the little black ones that sorta look like pandas, Dalmatian, and the  black ones. But let’s be real, they’re all precious and I love them.”

“Bet we’d get a lot of weird responses if we put out an ad for this or something.” Tori was really glad that she had a particularly affectionate ferret because Sue was having the time of her life being touched and playing with a stranger. She would have been jealous... except she wasn’t really a jealous person, and was sure that there was enough room in Sue’s life to give her attention later. It would be interesting to see how much this wore out Sue, though. “Then it shouldn’t be that difficult a decision. As long as you don’t bring home whatever you think is too many ferrets. The little panda ones are so funny, but I’m glad I don’t have one because I’d probably just laugh at mine and hurt its feelings.”

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angelslietokeepcontrol​:

Jane’s brows furrowed as she looked at Tori. She was confused by what she was saying. “The hospital does fix people but they didn’t have to fix me, which I think was confusing. Well, maybe teaching me new things is fixing me.” She hadn’t considered that. “I don’t know what a repair shop is or maintenance.” Jane was getting used to being very confused. “What’s snow? I really like the rain a lot.”

“Uh, I guess that is confusing. Is it like a powers thing why they didn’t have to fix you?” When something seemed impossible, Tori tended to assume it had to do with someone’s powers. Just about everyone on Icaria had weird superpowers, so she thought this was a valid response for most occasions. “Oh, have you never seen snow? Snow is rare down here, but it’s interesting to see. Snow is like rain, but if it was colder and more delicate. I don’t think I can do it justice to explain.” Tori thought it was definitely odd that someone did not know what snow was at all, but she thought it was rude to point that out. It was way easier to just explain, she figured, so that everyone was on the same page here.

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kassmeifyoucan​:

Kass quickly pulled the 7 tiles she would be working with, immediately frowning as she looked at the hot mess that she’d pulled. CSMOGIT. The utter fucking hell was she going to do with that? “Yeah the most I can do is some weird British slang and uh… Some other things that might make something naughty depending on what you lay on the board.” Kassandra chuckled before raising an eyebrow and looking down at Nugget who was now laying belly up, passed out. “Nah, I taught him real quick to not eat anything that wasn’t his puppy food. Or a treat. Thankfully he’s a quick learner.” As she eyed the board, she bit her lip before pulling at some of her own tiles. With a chuckle, she placed her G and O tile down in front of Tori’s ‘OF’. “Goof. Totally a legit word.”

“I desperately want to know what this weird British slang and naughty language could be, and I am so upset that you can’t tell me.” Tori drew up more tiles, and was relieved to find a T in the mix. She was not pleased to get an X, however. This brought her up to IUSQJTX. Frowning, Tori wondered if this set of letters was even worse now. She could see that 'QUIT’ or ‘TUX’ could be made out of her letters, but the board was doing her no favors. Letter herself get distracted, Tori smiled down at the puppy, who looked like he had no life problems at the moment. “Cute. As long as you’re sure when he wakes up he won’t want to eat his words.” Dogs couldn’t talk. Awful joke. “We will be going with ‘JIG’. As in ‘The jig is up because you are being a goof’.” Tori could not explain the definition of the word if she tried, but it sure sounded like she had at least figured out how to get rid of one of the letters trying to inflict pain on her. 

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anoukschaffhauser​:

Anouk pondering for a second, rolled down her last glass of her alcoholic beverage. It’s not like she had anything else to do. ❛ What do you say, right now? If you haven’t finished your drink, I’ll wait, and then we leave to my place or yours. Whatever you want it to be. ❜

Tori knocked back the rest of her drink. Luckily, there was not that much, but there was nothing like some healthy motivation. “How about your place?” She suggested this casually, glad not to have to explain her messy house again. Maybe she could get away with making the house look clean in the part that people saw leading up to her bedroom... Anyway, Tori set down her cup, and smiled. “I’m ready when you are if you want to lead the way.”

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  kassmeifyoucan​:

Watching Tori meticulously set up the scrabble board and the pieces was honestly quite adorable. The woman just seemed so at ease with everything while upholding a unique sense of charm. It was honestly quite refreshing. With a smile, Kassandra leaned forward, her elbow resting on her thigh as she let her palm cup her chin. An eyebrow raised as soon as Tori began to shuffle a tile back and forth between her hands. Once she was finished, she brought her hands back into view, fingers clenched into fists. “Left.” Kass didn’t care if she was right or wrong, first or last, this was already proving to be an interesting game of Scrabble.

Tori opened both of her hands up at the same time, revealing that the tile was actually in her right hand. “Oof, tough luck. I guess you can’t be too bad at games of chance. But take your 7 tiles, and let’s get to work.” She took her own seven, and stared at them. IUSOQFJ. Okay. Well. There were almost some dirty words in there, but not enough to do more than mildly amuse her. It wasn’t even worth laughing at ‘FUQ’ when it would reveal too much of her hand. “Uh... I don’t think I can make a lot of words.” She was pretty sure ‘QUO’ wasn’t even English, so she tentatively spelled out ‘OF’. Alas, she was going to probably be stuck with Q and J for too long. Not a great start. “Quick question- how likely is Nugget to eat tiles?” She didn’t want to insult the dog’s intelligence but- No, she totally wasn’t confident this dog knew what food looked like.

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kassmeifyoucan​:

Kassandra blinked slowly; Tori had to be utterly bullshitting her about this whole wind currents and piece placement. “I… We’re going to unpack that at a later date. But first–If you played in high-school and watch teams play then you’ve got some knowledge of sports.” The brunette smirked before sitting down where Tori had been, her puppy jumping into her lap immediately. “Alright, so… Wind patterned scrabble. I’m ready!”

Set-up didn’t take long since it was literally just travel Scrabble which was only a real problem if the pieces spilled out of their bag. “Eh, it’s been a while since high school. Mm, hopefully you forget everything I just said soon enough after someone beats someone’s ass in Scrabble.” It didn’t really matter who won or lost- Tori was mostly just here to have a good time and play the best that she could. “Well we have to pick who goes first.” Smiling, she pulled a little tile out of the bag, showed her empty palms, and then placed them both behind her back to pass the tile back and forth. After a few passes, she held her fists out. “Pick the tile, you get the real home field advantage of going first.” Technically, there was an official way of choosing who went first, but this involved fewer flying pieces.

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myhearthealing​:

Tori had a reputation for not staying employed, but the thing was, Ezra had to remember he had a reputation too, and it was a lot worse. He knew Tori was working hard and really trying to make a good impression, so maybe it was better not to judge a book by its cover. “If I’m being honest…” he answered her, “Me, too. Otherwise Noah or I could get the idea we need to fill it. And inventory day is the worst.” He wondered if she’d had to endure one of those yet. “It’s a lot more fun than stuffing flowers in a refrigerator, anyway.” And some part of him did want her to like her job, only so they didn’t have to go through the hiring process all over again. “Let me know if you have any issues, or need to find something.” Ezra turned to open another box, but not before hearing her last thing. “Hey, don’t thank me yet,” he looked over his shoulder. “We still have a full day.”

“Oof. Glad things are the way they are.” Tori glanced around the room, and wondered how many more places there would be to hide things if it was a little bit bigger. “You’re telling me you don’t get your daily motivation from putting flowers in a cold box. Well, all right. I’m hoping I don’t have any issues, but I know who to go to if I do.” She shook her head and laughed lightly, grabbing what she needed for the display and scooping up the box that looked like it had the houseplants in it. If these weren’t houseplants, then she would have to deal with the consequences later. But it looked right, and Tori didn’t have much going for her right now apart from her questionable instincts and limited knowledge of flower shops. Whatever had happened with the unloading today made her trust Ezra a little better and wonder if there was a small chance that everything would work out for once. “A full day with a well-stocked store sounds kind of fulfilling. I’m gonna keep thanking you, though.” And with that, she took the stuff, and left the back room (not through a door, of course). Hopefully nothing weird happened to plants when they phased through walls because she couldn’t be bothered to care about doors.

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kassmeifyoucan​:

A snort escaped her, immediately wishing that she hadn’t just done that but it wasn’t like she could take it back. “You? Have an unfair advantage? Pffft that’s definitely not the case. Home turf typically means I would be the one with the unfair advantage.” She smirked, crossing her arms over chest as Nugget began to run in circles around their legs. “Am I beginning to get the sense that you’re not into sports?”

“It’s my game, and I’ve lived in Icaria all of my life, so I definitely know how the wind patterns should affect piece placement and the odds that come from the missing pieces.” Total bullshit. She played no differently with this set than any other set of Scrabble.  Tori reached down a hand to try to pet the hyper puppy, trying to remember which kinds of dogs liked to herd. “Guess not. I played some in high school, and I like watching basketball, but I’m not sure what ‘into sports’ qualifies as. And do I have any idea what I’m talking about? Your guess is as good as mine.” She’d been scrappy kid- not an organized one.