seasonsrpg | welcome home

Who: Venti, Yuri, Saya, Lumine, and Kantera
What: A moment of respite
When: March 4th
Where: A house at the far edge of Blossomcrown
Warnings: Probably mentions of previous game trauma/violence

[ Venti has always been the type who wanders to the beat of his own drum, dipping in and out of people's lives as easily as the blowing wind. But Tokyo-F . . . changed things, somewhat.

Though his initial instinct had been to sleep under a tree and call it "home," an invitation to live with old friends put a halt to those plans. For starters, it would be protection from the unpredictable weather in the segments. For another, maybe he did get used to having a bed and a room to call "home," in no small part because of the teammates and friends who inhabited it with him. Now that solitary tree feels . . . lonely, in a way it didn't before.

And so here he is, standing at the threshold of a house full of people he loves and trusts, who asked him to stay . . . it makes him feel his age, but not in a bad way, for once. Nor does he feel that nagging urge to disappear into the wind.

Should he catch anyone watching him, the pensive expression dissolves into a smile. ]

Hehe, is this the part where we fight over bedrooms?

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[ Works for him. Honestly he's not gonna be policing any teenagers' extracurriculars, 16 is more too young for him than too young for anyone. ] [ A bit of a laugh! ]

Well, back home there's a lot of guilds, kind of like it seems like there might be here. You could operate by the seat of your pants if you really wanted, but most guilds signed up with the Union. Get your charters approved, pay a membership fee, agree to abide by some basic rules of business — and the Union was basically insurance for anyone who needed a guild job done.

Union-member guilds always follow through on their jobs to the best of their ability. No taking a client's money and running off with it, for example.

[ An airy gesture. ]

Minimal bureaucracy while still making sure clients feel safe. Non-Union guilds still get hired sometimes, of course, because they're cheaper. It's a risk-reward thing.

[ Beat. ]

We did a mix, though, honestly. Some jobs through the Union's job board, some through word of mouth, some we just stumbled upon.

I'll have to follow your lead, then. [ She usually prefers the direct approach, but it's whatever helps the guild evidently! ]

I guess we'll have to see how it works here, too. It could be pretty different. I wish they'd open them up, already.

Heh, me too. I know it might take a while to save up for, like... office space. I kind of want to saving now.

We should. The more cash we can squirrel away soon, the better.

I'm sure we can come up with some creative way to earn cash. Back there people used their skills for all kinds of things to earn points. We don't have the same abilities, but we have an idea what's popular.

Maybe you could bake those cute desserts and we could sell them. [ While dressed up in uniforms of *some kind*. ]

What, like a bake sale?

[ Charmed. ]

Think Doc'd help?

[ He'd also say Lumine but he doesn't know she can cook yet! ]

I'm sure he would, but he's not great at making desserts look cute like you are. They're tasty, but not fancy. So maybe he could help with the baking part more.

Edited 2023-03-27 14:33 (UTC)

[ There's the teeniest bit of potential Tsun Activation there, suggesting he makes desserts look unusually cute, because sometimes he's motivated to go to that much trouble for people, okay, but Yuri takes a breath and shakes his head with a chuckle instead. ]

I'm telling him you said that.

Edited 2023-03-27 14:38 (UTC)

Feel free. He'd admit it himself. He doesn't like eating cute things, so he doesn't make them cute.

—Is that a very indirect way of telling me I shouldn't be too creative with any food I expect him to eat?

...No? Honestly, don't you know by now that I don't really imply things, let alone very indirectly?

Heh. Okay, I was sort of joking, but mostly I mean: does it put him off when it's other people's food, too?

He doesn't like to watch people eat cute food. It's adorable. But I don't think he'd go so far as making it a scene or demand. He can look a different direction.

[ A soft snort. It's still hard to imagine Doc doing either of those things even if he were on fire, but he knows that's not an accurate impression. ]

No cake covered in chocolate mice for his birthday, got it.

Especially not chocolate cats. Although Venti would possibly object to that one too for entirely opposite reasons.

If his allergies extend to chocolate cats, I'll be so sad.

I think it's less allergies per se than a dislike of cats because of them.

welcome home

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