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April Catchall!

Characters: Zelos Wilder and YOU
Date: All throughout April!
Location: All over the city!
Situation: Arrival/Mugging/Etc
Warnings/Rating: PG-13 For mugging stuff also Zelos flirts a lot.

April 3rd

The former Chosen had quite literally found himself 'washed up.' Despite having clear memories of falling asleep in Meltokio, he'd woken up in the middle of a canal in a strange city. Everywhere he looked, the buildings seemed to be in shades of blue and green, with the occasional purple. While some of the buildings might not look out of place in Meltokio, to see this many at once was unlikely. He was also feeling pretty drained and lethargic, which certainly wasn't helping matters, and the new bracelet on his wrist is strangely foreboding.

The first thing that springs to mind is foul play, but it doesn't take long for him to discount that thought almost entirely. If somebody had gone through that much effort, why would they just drop him in a canal?

His first order of business is making it onto land, and he might appear disoriented (and wet!) for a bit, but it won't take long before he sets out trying to find out more information. Eventually, he'll end up at the welcome center.

April 4th-5th

After he has a better idea of what's going on, he'll spend the first two-or-so days trying to get acquainted with the city.

By this point, he's obtained (through slightly questionable means) a new set of clothes that help him blend in better with the surrounding area. As he's still pretty wary about this entire ordeal, he's going to do his best to blend into the background (as much as a foreigner can, anyway) for these two days and gather information.

He'll be mainly sticking around the Fire, Metal, and Earth Sectors, and might pop out to ask a question, but will otherwise be pretty unobtrusive.

April 6th

Anybody who knows Zelos might notice that he looks a little more on edge on the sixth. His behavior starts more subtle, but gradually becomes more obvious as the day goes on. Eventually, he'll be walking a little bit faster and constantly ducking in and out of alleyways, almost like he's trying to lose someone (or someones, as the case may be). Anybody watching closely might see a young boy and girl not far behind him.

April 7th

Zelos notices the bracelet missing pretty quickly, but despite his best attempts to track down the brats he suspects are responsible for taking it, it's not long before he's doubled over in pain in an alleyway in the Central Sector. Anybody wanna help a guy out?

April 15thish-Onwards

A - The Midnight Hotel

A little more adjusted to the city and with a better idea of the situation, Zelos' abrasive nature has returned. He's managed to find a room at the Midnight Hotel, and needless to say, he's not the best of roommates.

Maybe he left his shit in your area, or maybe he keeps flirting with your girlfriend and/or sister. Whatever the case, he can be found in Room 20 for any and all necessary confrontations.

B - Pick a bar, any bar.

On about any given night he can be found in a bar not too far from the hotel, drink in hand. His behavior there really isn't any better than at the hotel, be it flirting with anything with a skirt and a pulse or taking part in a game of dice or cards with the other patrons. Whatever bar-related activity you can think of, it will be relevant here.

C - Choose your own adventure!

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Raine had been having the fortnight from Niflheim, and it showed, but it was time to start returning to a more normal schedule at the Guild. Even so, she was heading back to the Hotel in the afternoon, rather than the evening as had been her wont, when she spotted a familiar (if bedraggled) figure making his way out of one of the canals.

For a moment, she stopped and stared. A small, traitorous corner of her mind wondered why couldn't you have been Regal. Regal would have been a concerted help keeping Foreigners from murdering each other. Zelos... Zelos was likely to get himself punched at some point.

But it was Zelos, and whatever else he was, he was among those she'd saved the worlds with. Raine made her way over to where he was, offered a hand down to help if he needed it. "Hello, Zelos," she said. Surprise wasn't evident in her voice. He might notice she looked tired, perhaps even a little older than he'd last seen her, and while she wore the same orange jacket as ever the cut of the clothes beneath was different. She'd been here a while.

Zelos wasn't sure what to expect when he stepped out of the canal, but seeing Raine standing there certainly wasn't it. She looked pretty different too, it wasn't anything major or overtly obvious, but it was definitely more than Zelos expected in the few months since he'd last seen her.

He'll happily take her hand as he pulls himself up. He was still pretty on edge about the whole situation, but if one of his old companions was here, it probably wasn't as malicious as he initially thought.

"Hello there, my gorgeous beauty."

He tries to pull himself together and put on his usual theatrics as he says it, but as he's still suffering a combination of bedhead and "waking-up-in-a-canal-head", the effect is considerably lessened.

Raine rolls her eyes and drops his hand as soon as he's upright, taking a step back. He cannot help himself, can he. "I think I preferred it when you were calling me 'Professor,'" she says, looking him over for signs of obvious injury. Truth be told, she'd prefer her name, but she's long since given up getting Zelos to abandon nicknames. "You're soaked. Did you just get here?"

Whether he woke up in the canal or was tossed there by someone who took offense to his flirting, she can only assume it wouldn't have happened if he had all his power available to him. That thought raises another question, actually. "And what's the last thing you remember before waking here?"

In some effort to try and keep his pride, he's going to ignore those first two comments and go straight to answering her questions.

"I was out with all my lovely hunnies, of course!"

He was actually in bed, asleep, but pointing that out might have made him feel a little too vulnerable (and it didn't really fit his image, anyway.)

"Oh, honestly," Raine says, with some annoyance. Unsurprisingly, he hasn't changed at all, and that combined with how sorely she's been pressed recently makes her a little sharper than she would be ordinarily. "Zelos, I couldn't care less about your philandering tendencies, though I would appreciate it if you directed those elsewhere. This is important. Sometimes the people here, even if they're from the same world, are from different points in time, and it's caused problems before. With relation to our journey, what is the last you remember?"

She frowns a little, realizing he hasn't addressed her by name, and while it looked like he recognized her, and he hasn't treated her as a complete stranger, neither has he said anything useful as a point of reference. Raine throws him a bone of a sort, to which his reaction will be informative in one way or another. "For comparison, the last memory I have of our world is the new Tree," she says. 'World' is pointedly singular.

"Sheeeesh, I've got ya." Zelos sighs, clearing backing away a bit. If he knew one thing about the professor, it was that she was someone that you didn't want to make angry.

He shrugs his shoulders as nonchalantly as he can before replying. "There was a giant tree, the worlds reunited, and I was on a giant PR trip to keep the Sylvaranti and Tethe'Allans from killing each other. Happy?"

Maybe she needs to snap at him more often, if it gets him to back off that quickly.

Raine sighs, rubs a hand across her eyes. "Thrilled," she returns, a little dry. "That puts you a little ahead, though. That's interesting-- I wonder why..." She trails off, considering possible reasons for the discrepancy between his time and theirs. Perhaps it's just that random, though she doesn't really like that explanation.

"Never mind," she says in a moment, clearing her thoughts and focusing on Zelos again. "Come on." Raine motions that he should follow her, waits to make sure he actually will before starting to walk. "I'll show you to the Hotel. It's considered neutral ground, here, and the man who runs it has the power to enforce that. He's a Foreigner, like us, so you won't need to be as cautious as you might in the rest of the city."

Perhaps unlike Raine, Genis' life had become more and more settled as time goes on. And like Zelos will be, Genis has settled back into being his pretty normal bratty self by this point. He had a routine going finally, and he was almost operating on autopilot. Which is why, to no surprise, Genis will be at one of the markets in the Fire Sector today, looking at the wares and seeing what sorts of different foods were commonplace in this sector, and of course perhaps to buy in case he actually found somewhere where the price was just right.

It's only as he pays for a couple of things that looked vaguely like chilli peppers where, out of the corner of his eye, he sees a familiar long-haired redhead. Sure, he may be dressed up, but the voice and the look are unmistakable. He gets his change back from the kedan before rushing over to Zelos.

And the greeting?

"Man, they'll let anyone show up here on this turtle." At least he's smiling when he says it; Genis is attempting to be funny, albeit in his slightly snarky fashion.

"You little..."

Man, if it isn't Zelos' favorite person in all of Aselia. Initially, he looks more annoyed than taken aback; after all, if Raine was here, it did make sense that her obnoxious kid brother wouldn't be far behind.

Still, as much as he doesn't want to admit it, seeing the twerp is kind of a welcome sight. There were certainly far worse people who could've ended up here with him, and knowing that he's not the only one from home here is comforting.

And how will he show this appreciation?

"Yeah, guess it's a good thing there's not a height requirement here."

Well, isn't he happy to see Zelos too after that.

"Or an intelligence requirement," he shoots back equally snottily. Yeah, Genis isn't amused by that, but it's better than him raising his voice. ~~Or casting spells.~~

"So when'd you get here?" he adds, trying to pass off the comment as nothing, even though it's clearly gotten him a little frazzled. "I hadn't known that you'd actually come to this crazy place."

Zelos bites back his retort and shrugs in response. It's pretty clear that Genis' comments are getting under his skin, as well.

"It's been a couple of days, and what can I say? The turtle has good taste. It's not that often you find such a magnificent human specimen, after all." But really, if he had his choice, he'd rather not live the rest of his life on the back of this weird turtle, thanks.

Yeah, that's no surprise. Genis is good at that.

But still, Genis is equally annoyed by Zelos' terrible haughtiness. "Magnificent human specimen, huh?" he says, just inches away from facepalming. "Well, I mean... it does seem that the spell that brings people here does pull important people, and I'll grant you that you're probably more important than half the people of Aselia." Sigh. "Seriously though, what have you heard about this place? You don't look nearly as spooked as you would be if it were your first day."

"Let's see...giant turtle, something about dreams, and all the natives are jackasses. That about sums it up, right?" He's tempted to say something about that reaction of Genis', too, but he refrains. He will comment on that last part, though.

"And what can I say? This world's going to have to throw a few more curveballs if it wants to throw off the Great Zelos." Despite the haughtiness with which he says it (and his less than graceful arrival), the statement is mostly true.

As pissed off as he is to be stuck here without any warning or real knowledge of the place, it still seemed remarkably easier to live in than his homeworld had been. Compared to dealing with Tethe'allan high society, he was sure living here would be a piece of cake.

"Well, not all, but a good many of them... but yeah, sounds about right," Genis says in reply. Yup, Genis wasn't the first to get to Zelos. Probably for the best. Genis probably would have gotten so frustrated trying to get that into Zelos' thick skull.

But seriously, Zelos? "The Great Zelos? Wow, I guess the memo didn't get around about you having a new title."

But despite that, Genis still cares about Zelos. A little bit. A very little bit. "So what is it that you're up to now that you're here?"

He's gonna do his best and ignore those comments, yep. Trying his very best.

At any rate, when it comes to Genis' last question, he can't help but shrug his shoulders when he responds. "Dunno. Meet some hunnies, have some fun, typical stuff." Really, at the end of the day, his plans amounted to not be the goddamn Chosen. He hadn't given it much thought past that.

He had to admit, though, the twerp seemed to have a pretty good idea of what was going on. Which begged the question, "So, how long have you been stuck here?"

Some hunnies. Yeah, typical Zelos. No big surprise there. "You actually met people here that liked you?" Genis starts out saying, though admittedly he doesn't mean it in a derogatory way... even if it's easy to interpret that way. "About half the kedan don't like any of us here, and you've managed to break through that so soon?" That's nothing short of amazing. Also impossible. And WHY ZELOS?

Yeah. Whoops.

"As for me, I've been here for about two and a half months now. I unfortunately didn't get here before the huge battle with Malicant, but I imagine I could have whooped him easy if I had. Instead all I got was a lot of scorn just for being from another world."

Tazendra has a pulse, but her skirt is metaphorical. On the other hand, she can be readily found playing dice or cards and drinking at the local bar. One of them anyway.

Metaphorical or not, she's not playing long before Zelos slides in next to her, smiling.

"Hey beautiful, mind if I join in your game?"

"Why, not at all," Tazendra said. While Zelos wasn't her type, she wasn't going to turn down a compliment or a game.

Most of the time Larrikin stayed at the Hotel, as if he was worried it would all vanish if he left for two seconds. Besides, there were so many people around! It was awesome! People everywhere!

Larrikin was not known for being solitary.

And the people here could be strange even by sorcerer standards. Seriously, like that hair. It was bright red! Amazing colour. And stood all on end! How did he manage that without magic?

"Hello there, handsome man," said Larrikin, sidling up to Zelos by the stairs and giving him a bright smile and quite an obvious up-down appreciative glance. "So you're the one causing the cold water shortage--woof!"

Hey, Larrikin had seen the man flirt with every woman in the place. Surely that meant he'd be totally alright with getting flirted at back.

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With all the attention that Zelos gave to the fairer sex, one might expect that he wouldn't be surprised to receive that sort of attention in return.

One might be very, very wrong.

He's not really sure what to say to the man approaching him on the stairs, so he'll just deadpan and give him the standard response to when any dude talks to him. Ever.

"Yeah, no offence, but I'm not interested in guys."

Larrikin widened his eyes and put a hand on his chest. "Did I, at all, say anything about you needing to be interested in guys? Did I at all imply that I wouldn't mind finding a spare room?"

He grinned. "Not that I would, but I didn't say it. What, you can't take a compliment?" He prodded Zelos's cheeks. "You're too pretty to have a frown. C'mon, turn it upside down! Maybe I can help!"

"Y'know what, I'm good. Thanks."

He says it in the most flippant, dismissive tone that he can, very quickly removing the stranger's hand from his face. In some way, this was probably some sort of karma for the way he'd acted...pretty much his entire life.

Not that he'd ever admit that, of course.

"Oh, I'll just bet you are," said Larrikin admiringly, looking Zelos up and down and up again. "Mm-mm. Hey, wanna show me what you are good at? I don't mind the options being broad, neither! Really broad. I've got all day. What d'you say?"

There was no way this could go wrong, obviously.

Valdis stood on a bridge overlooking one of the canals, thinking about the memorial and the curses that the kedan had presented just a few days ago. There had to be a reason that Celaunn had spent so much time in the Water Sector, but she had no leads so she simply stared at her reflection in the water. Of all the foreigners on the Turtle, she had been the most beautiful, at least, until China Sorrows came along, but China was a cheater.

As Zelos was also spending the day in the water sector, it didn't take long for him to notice (and subsequently approach) Valdis at all. He'll stroll up next to her on the bridge, putting on his best smile.

"Why hello there, my fine beauty. And what brings you out today?"

She didn't even turn to look at him, slightly amused and slightly annoyed by his flippant approach. "The usual," She replied, allowing a smile to cross her face, "Murder, mystery and mayhem."

This was the room of the man one of her new kedan acquaintances said wouldn't stop flirting with every woman, right... Room 20. Well! The nerve of him! Having promised to talk to this man for her new, ah...friends? Is that what one would call them? Seles was very determined to give him a piece of her mind.

It was just taking her some time to work up the nerve to knock on his door. When she finally did it was more timid than she would have preferred as well. "Ex... Excuse me!"

She completely has this man where she wants him! If he even opens the door.

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April Catchall!

Apr 3?

lbr if all Zelos managed to do was get himself punched it'd be a miracle

she'll settle for not getting himself shanked

no promises

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4-5 April!

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B

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A

i am so sorry zelos is an awful person OTL

he just sealed his fate tbh

beautiful

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C, the Water Sector

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