You and me, we are two stars from different galaxies

[photoshooter]

Who: Prompto Argentum photoshooter; OPEN
What: Come meet the chocobaby, help Prompto research daemon malaria, return to Amesta Forest for a hunting trip, and/or experience hand-cooled soft drinks as Prompto practices his newfound magical skills.
When: IC dates April 22nd to May 1st
Where: Around Keystone Station and the fringes of Amesta Forest.
Warnings: Potential discussion of magical blood-borne diseases in the second prompt.

Any day, anywhere in Keystone Station: Sunshine, baby!

[The forest trip wrecked Prompto's sleep schedule, but it seems after a few days' rest, he's finally back to being more or less diurnal. He's even up to visiting some of his usual haunts, particularly the chicken room and tech lab.

But most importantly, wherever he goes, he's accompanied by a sweet little ball of sunshine. She's riding in style, complete with snacks and padded seats, and peers out from under her starry orange canopy with unruffled interest--unless someone approaches, in which case she starts fluttering and kwehing in her cheepy baby voice.]

Oh, hey. [Prompto smiles and waves.] You wanna say hello? She's friendly.

April 26th-27th, morning, Annex roof

[It's early, and the steady drumming of rain on the glass roof is enough to make anybody drowsy. Maybe that's why Prompto can be found snoozing in one of the lounge chairs with a pillow (and Sunshine, of course, asleep in her wagon). He's in his glasses and an enormous white T-shirt over his usual pants, so it may be he woke up sometime in the night and came to get some reading done. There's a book open across his chest, after all.

Except... it's a medical textbook? And Prompto's written some notes on his hand. They're hard to read, but one of the keywords seems to be plasmodia.

So that's probably awesome.]

April 28th, day, fringes of Amesta Forest

[Maybe Chocodaddy has custody of Sunshine today, because Prompto's making good on his promise to bring meat in. Don't eat his clucky babies.

Stabilized or not, he's making sure to stick solidly to the fringes of the forest and keep moving. He's even got a real hunting rifle for the occasion.]

April 30th - May 1st, afternoon, Bloodsands Beach

It's hot...

[Wow, what a whiner. Then again, Prompto's keeping well back from the water, instead focusing on Sunshine playing in the sand with a parent's watchfulness. Because he's staying with her wagon, of course, he's on belongings-minding duty, too. He holds a bottle of water against his neck, sighing as it warms in the sun--and then a thought occurs to him.

He looks at the bottle in his hand, concentrates, and then... crickle crack. A layer of frost laces across the plastic, cold seeping inside before fading in the sun's warmth again. After a moment, Prompto tests that against his skin and squeaks.]

Cold!

[But after a couple seconds, he presses it to his cheek, shivering happily.]

Comments

27th

[power_of_dominance]

[Soma came to listen to the rain, actually. He's calm, so that's not why. It's simply a familiar, meditative sound and not a bad way to start the day. He might go out in it later (as long as it's not dangerous, he doesn't trust this place not to produce magical or acidic rain), but for now he figures it's a good day to stay in and cook.

And then he sees Prompto snoozing in the chair and Sunshine in her little wagon. Now that makes him smile. Two adorable golden children, asleep without a care in the world? It's a good sight.

He leaves for a little while, returning with a thin blanket and a strip of cloth. The strip acts as a bookmark so he can set the heavy book aside, then he drapes the blanket over Prompto's sleeping form. How many times had he done this for Mina back home? She loves to read, and more times than Soma could count, she'd passed out with a book on her chest. Maybe doing this is just another bit of familiarity for him, a comfort of home. With that done, he sits in another chair and closes his eyes, not sleeping but simply listening to the rain.]

[photoshooter]

[Hardly has Soma sat than Prompto starts awake, groggy and disoriented.]

Huh? Wha? [He feels for the missing weight of the book, looks utterly befuddled by the appearance of the blanket, and grunts when he realizes he fell asleep in what is not a particularly comfortable chair, even with the pillow.] Gah...

[In the wagon, Sunshine stirs, too, and immediately voices the complaint of the young and eternally hungry. Rubbing his eyes under his glasses, Prompto groans and leans down to stroke her feathers.]

Shhh, shh, Sunny... Mommy needed some naptime, too...

[power_of_dominance]

[Soma opens his eyes and glances over at Prompto and his feathery charge, still smiling faintly.]

Good morning. Someone's hungry, sounds like.

[He wiggles his fingers at Sunshine, his smile growing.]

And adorable, too. What kind of bird is... she? He?

[ladytakamaki]

Aww, hi there, sweetie!

[ once prompto says the little birb is friendly, ann squats down to say hello. she's fluttering and saying something that ann assumes is her way of saying hi, so she starts to reach her hand out, but stops right before she can touch the bird. ]

I can pet her, right?

[photoshooter]

You can! Just be gentle. And pet in the same direction of her feathers, like this.

[He demonstrates over air, soft and smooth, then crouches by the wagon to address the bird.]

Isn't that right, Sunshine? Of course you wanna make friends with the nice girl.

[Sunshine peeps and comes right up to the wall of the wagon. These big smooth chocobos mean love and food and pets! She is happy.]

[ladytakamaki]

[ okay! ann is good with animals, so she pets sunshine exactly like how prompto showed her, careful not to hurt the baby bird or make her uncomfortable. ]

She's soooo cute! But...what kind of bird is she? Is she...oh!

[ ann pulls back a little, pointing her finger at the birb. ] Is she that...choco...chocolate bird that was on the network yesterday?

chicken room

[nojohnyouare]

[Mai pauses and looks the baby chocobo over. She nods and carefully reaches out.]

Cute...

[photoshooter]

Isn't she? Her name is Sunshine.

[Sunshine peeps and leans right up for pets. Hello, new black-feathered friend!]

[nojohnyouare]

[Mai gives a tiny smile and pets.]

Friendly. Are most chocobo-san like that?

26th

[dubiouslychthonic]

[To be honest - when Jetshard comes into the Annex roof in the just barely pre-dawn and finds Prompto there asleep, her immediate thought is, oh, now he's doing it too.

What is it with humans and their inability to make it back to their own quarters before falling asleep?

She glances at the notes scrawled on his hand and frowns slightly to herself; both the subject matter and the clear archival difficulties posed by taking notes on his hand are a little concerning.

Troll sensibilities warn against shaking someone awake, but she's comfortable enough around Prompto now to lean against the side of his chair a bit and speak quietly.] Hey, kid.

[photoshooter]

Mnnh.

[At least he's a much lighter sleeper than any member of the line of Lucis. He stirs groggily away from her voice, then frowns and rubs at his eyes with the heel of his hand, pushing his glasses up in the process.]

Wha... Jetshard? 'Sup...

[Sunshine releases a sleepy peep as well and shakes her feathers out before plopping right back into squishy, round snooze mode.]

May 1st, beach

[thoroff]

Hey, Prompto!

[Standing a moderate distance away, Wren waves cheerfully in greeting. There's no sign of Catria nearby, so it would seem she came to the beach on her own. She is dressed for the weather, at least... well, except for the coat draped over her shoulders, anyway.]

[photoshooter]

Hi, Wren! Wow, aren't you hot in that?

[He waves a hand to indicate All Of That. Come on, is the coat really necessary for a late spring dip?]

[stormkingofshepherds]

[Aw. Nathaniel smiles pretty wide at seeing that baby bird.] Does she mind being pet?

[photoshooter]

She loves it, dude. Sunny, say hi to Nathaniel! He's a super cool guy who definitely knows how to pet.

[Sunshine bobs, shakes her feathers out, and peeps again. Pet pet pet pet pet!]

Babby Chocobo

[fistsofchange]

That is the strangest looking chicken I've ever seen.

[In her defense, she had never seen or heard of a chocobo before, and the size was probably comparable.]

Why the little wagon? Can it not walk?

[photoshooter]

She can! And she's not a chicken, she's a chocobo.

[He helps Sunshine out of the wagon so she can walk around and inspect Bai Lin's ankles.]

She's just a baby, so she still gets tired out easily. When she grows up, she'll be taller than almost all of us, not counting the androids, and strong enough to carry most people on her back.

30th; library

[cyclicalconcept]

Oh...oh!

[Oh my goodness.]

Can...can I pet her?

[photoshooter]

She would love for you to pet her.

[WE ARE SPOILING THIS BORB. Prompto even takes her out of her wagon to set her by Kana's feet, where she hops right up and kwehs for attention.]

I'm Prompto, and this is Sunshine. What's your name?

chicken room

[shiritai]

[ Chickens are just the best, aren't they? They don't ask why you've been in your room since getting back, or have any understanding of baggage and trauma. They're good birds. Which is why Violet is down here with a big bowl full of veggies for the good birds to peck at.

And perhaps she should've expected to see Prompto down here, but she still looks a little startled to find him there. Or maybe it's just the new cheepy friend he has with him. ]

Prompto. [ a polite nod. ] And... [ oh, this gets a confused tilt of the head. ] A very large chicken?

[photoshooter]

[To be fair, he's been hard to find for a couple days. But nothing can keep him from his favorite ladies for long--not even Ardyn and Izunia.]

Hey, Vi. And no, not exactly. [He picks Sunshine up and doesn't immediately set her down, instead bringing her to Violet.] Have I told you about chocobos? They're big, friendly birds where I'm from, we train them to ride. This one's just a chick, I named her Sunshine.

[He smiles broadly.]

You wanna hold her? She likes it.

[Kweh!]

4/26

[nightcure]

[ When he doesn't find Prompto immediately, he worries and he's half-tempted to send out a missing person report to the whole station... but Noct somehow stops himself and actually looks around. He finds him here, and for a while, he watches him with a fond smile.

Then... he ruins the moment by poking at his arm. ]

Hey, scoot over.

[photoshooter]

Mmmmh.

[Prompto doesn't even wake up all the way, he just rolls aside automatically, still half-asleep to make room for Noct. It's his right, what wouldn't they share? The book tumbles to the floor. Bye, book.]

Time 's it...?

beach

[meowna]

[Even just taking it one little bit at a time, there's still a lot of outside for one little cat to explore. Right now, he's found his way to a rather more ominous looking beach than the one he'd seen before--the water is seriously red, it's kind of creepy. He's trying not to look at it if he can help it.

Between that and the heat outside, Morgana is considering calling it a day until he spots a familiar guy and bird. He bounds towards them instead, tail held high and grinning playfully.]

Hey! How's life as a new mom?

[photoshooter]

Hey, Morgana!

[Yeah, this beach is a little scarier, but it has sand instead of gravel and is more pleasant to sit on. Prompto waves him over and sets his ice cold water down so his hands can start to warm back up for petting.]

It's so great. Have you seen her yet? Sunshine, come meet another friend!

[Kweh? Sunshine stops pecking at the sand, then trots fearlessly over to meet Morgana. A small black four-legged chocobo! How strange!]