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Izunia Lucis Caelum ([personal profile] founderinglight) wrote in [community profile] phantasmalrift2018-05-09 08:50 pm

and the hope of morning

Who: Izunia and you! And a kitty. (First prompt closed to Ardyn)
What: TWIN FIGHT TWIN FIGHT and general catchall. And a kitty.
When: Twinfight: Morning of Tues the 1st. Everything else, whenever whenever after that.
Where: The beach; around the Station
Warnings: All the hecking warnings on the twinfight.

Closed to Ardyn

[It takes some time to find his brother; as a result, people might see Izunia doing the "think murder and walk" thing for a half an hour or so around the Station before he concludes that Ardyn isn't there and heads elsewhere. Those with a careful eye will notice more than just his stance being different; he's clean-shaven and decked out in full black coat and boots, including a black tricorn hat with an impressive plume and a bird skull of some sort attached to it. If the growing heat of the mid-to-late morning bothers him, it's hard to tell.

Those who are more used to the casually-dressed, laid-back man usually seen around the Station could well be surprised to see this side of him. Today, the Founder King walks.

And so it is eventually out of the Station that he roams, and there spots the figure down on the beach from the cliffside. A thrown dagger hits the sand, leaving behind it the blue trail of a very long warp, and Izunia plucks it from the sand before crossing the last few yards to his brother.]


Ardyn. If you have some time, might I have a word?

[menacing]

May 2-4, aka the Heat Wave, around the Station

[Come the heat wave itself, however, Izunia is dressed at least a little more practically for the weather, though still in teeshirts and black pants. He can be found in all his usual places - the low-numbers kitchen, the deck, and the library - during the day, as well as sitting in the Annex underlevel on a blanket to enjoy the breeze in the cooler underground cavern. He's not completely immune to heat, only mostly.

Those who hang around the outside of the station at night, when things have cooled off a little more, will find him either on the deck still or out on the sand behind the stables, working with some sort of light magic as he turns it into different colors from his usual blue, and, eventually, into the shapes of letters and simple symbols. It seems like he's having quite a bit of fun, at least.]


Also May 2-4, also around the Station but more common room/kitchens/his room

[What's that sound? What's that flash in the corner of your eye?

It's a cat - the size of a full grown feline already, though her proportions mark her as not yet an adult - with a dark blue collar and a ringing bell.

And she is having the zoomies around the residential floor after escaping her dad's room. Nyoom, off she goes!

Or perhaps you're sitting in the kitchens or the common room when she finally wears herself out a bit, and you've been approached for Pettings, Please. Or perhaps you have food. Or perhaps your shoelaces have just become her new toy in place of randomly zooming around.

However it is you encounter this fluffy little monster, you can be sure that Izunia is not too far behind, led by the sound of her bell.]


May 5th, Night

[Once the heat wave breaks, it's finally time to make use of one of the Station's new features. With all the windows open to the breeze and the sound of the storm, Izunia is sprawled out in the hot tub in a pair of black trunks and nothing else. The way his head is tipped back, it's easy to mistake him for asleep, but the sound of someone else arriving makes him glance in the direction of the door. It's still fairly easy to tell him apart from Ardyn, though, if you know what to look for - blue eyes, still clean-shaven, and a black tattoo on his chest, the majority of it blurred by the bubbling water except for the two crows flying highest in the direction of his neck.]

Evening.
photoshooter: (HUFF 📷 You're joking right?)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-12 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[Prompto considers that, and there's a very clear moment when he's mentally comparing himself to everyone else--Noct, Gladio, Ignis, but also Aranea, Cor, even Iris--but then he remembers something else and tilts his head a bit to the other side.]

Well... thanks. There's still stuff I wanna get better at, but I worked hard to get where I am.

[Amazing what destroying an entire Niff research facility and the giant worm horror that built it can do for your self-confidence in certain areas.]
photoshooter: (SMIRK 📷 Get in the car)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-12 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Again, I wasn't aiming at your hat. Always room for improvement. ...Except for your hat. Your hat was bad.
photoshooter: (BORED 📷 gon fishing)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-12 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It's... I don't know, it's going? The main point is figuring it out well enough that I stop accidentally freezing things when I get upset. Which I guess is working out so far. I mean, I didn't notice icing anything while we were talking, did you?
photoshooter: (EENY MEENY 📷 Think think think)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-12 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. Yeah, sure. I guess it can be practice time.

[He eats some more chili first, though, and sets the bowl aside so he doesn't accidentally freeze that in his hands, too.]

Um, don't get mad at me if I break the glass? Is it your glass?
photoshooter: (UP 📷 You think aliens have furries?)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-12 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I'll try not to, still.

[Prompto brings the glass closer and holds it between both his hands, half-closing his eyes to sink back into that feeling of cold that lives within him, now, that never leaves. With the soft crackling sound not of glass shattering but of the start of winter, the water freezes right up inside the cup, expanding as it goes but up, so as not to damage the glass.

Relieved, Prompto sighs--it comes out as a wisp of wintry mist--and pushes the glass back over to Izunia. Frost clings to the outside, too, spreading in circles where his hands rested.]


I wasn't sure if I could shape it at all like that. I've mostly been practicing with cans and bottles, not glass, and I couldn't make it freeze all the way through at first.
photoshooter: (DUKES 📷 W-wanna fight?)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-12 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[He smooths his hair back and glances away. Aah, compliment. Aah, potentially getting called out again for being a fuckup.]

Ummm, I think I noticed it was happening a few weeks ago, but I only started really working on it after we got back from the forest. I mean, more than just trying to make it stop. But I've been practicing really hard since then.
photoshooter: (WONDER 📷 Kingdom Hearts is LIGHT)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-12 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
If I tried lightninging the glass I definitely would've broken it. I mean, if I had lightning.

[He flexes his hands and then rubs them together to get them warm again.]

I guess maybe I'm okay at little things because all I've been doing is little things. Seriously, pretty much all I've been doing is cooling drinks. Most ambitious thing I thought about trying was helping Iggy make ice cream.
photoshooter: (WIDE 📷 Uh what the fuck is that)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-12 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, we grow them on the chicken level.

[It's not the farm level anymore. It's the chicken level.]

Why?
photoshooter: (BACKLIGHT 📷 Rise and shine)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-12 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
You'd probably have to talk to Ignis about that. I'm just the ice dispenser.
photoshooter: (CANDID 📷 Can't force that smile)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-13 09:14 am (UTC)(link)
[...Prompto ends up smiling sadly.]

Yeah, he can. He never gives up.
photoshooter: (WHISPER 📷 So what's the plan?)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-13 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
Sometimes I wonder how he does it. Or maybe it's a used-to thing, now. I used to wonder.

[He turns one hand palm-up and concentrates. After a moment, the water vapor in the air above it starts to crystallize, slowly clumping together like a hailstone.]
Edited 2018-05-13 09:44 (UTC)
photoshooter: (TCH 📷 Another supermodel shot)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-13 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I kinda think I get it now, actually. Maybe I should ask him if I've got it right.
photoshooter: (BACKLIGHT 📷 Rise and shine)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-14 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Fingers crossed.