august & september quests (open)

[hometown]

WHO: Reiner Braun & YOU
WHAT: August-September quests!
WHEN: August & September
WHERE: all over
WARNINGS: n/a


(starters in comments! follow the links to top-levels)


🏙️ CITY QUESTS

• Blind Cooking
  
• Magic Carpet
  
• Pipe Express

❄️ WINTER QUESTS

• Just Around the Riverbend
  
• Snowed Out
  
• Yet We Must Fight

☀️ SUMMER QUEST

• Pirates of the Great Lake

🍂 AUTUMN QUESTS

• Leaf Me Alone
  
• Silent Streams

🍆 NSFW QUESTS

• Sex on Air (follow the link to the mingle)
  
• Shibari Lessons (closed starters; comment on reiner's plotting comment if you'd like one!)

notes

• reiner's info/permissions post
  
• please feel free to use prose or brackets
  
• if a starter doesn't quite work for your character/their cr, you're welcome to tweak it slightly or wildcard (i.e., skipping reiner introducing himself to someone he already knows)
  
• for additional plotting, please use reiner's plotting comment

Comments

CLOSED: La Va Land (for Shoto Todoroki)

[hometown]

The "high risk" warning on this quest doesn't concern Reiner when he signs up for it. Perhaps that's arrogant considering his progress with his seasonal powers, still struggling with earth manipulation and creation. But then again, Reiner is exceptionally difficult to kill. He has his Titan powers, able to transform into a fifteen-meter-tall fully armored giant that damn near nothing can defeat. Moreover, his Autumn telepathy allows him to communicate while in that form. He's confident that he and his partner will be fine.

When the guild assigns him said partner, Reiner's spirits are brightened. Shoto Todoroki. They've only spoken over the network, but Reiner likes Shoto; he's looking forward to putting a face to a name.

At the airship station they're meant to protect, Reiner waits, his hands resting on a railing, looking out over the abandoned port toward the great crossing. He's dressed for the weather in short sleeves and combat trousers, boots securely laced, and vertical maneuvering equipment strapped on. He also has a bag of provisions and supplies resting at his feet. (It's bigger on the inside.)

Physically, Reiner looks very much like the description he gave at the guild: eighteen years old, tall, blond, and muscular. He's keeping an eye out for someone matching Shoto's description, which is—in his opinion—more distinctive than his own.

I'm sorry this is so late...!

[itsmypower]

The slimes aren't totally unfamiliar. He'd seen one larger a few years back, wandering the plains, and followed a man he barely knew to fight a big, too-big, flaming slime. Another quest another world ago... Half the reason he's "reassigned", he's well equipped, a flame's no power against his Quirk; he's made for heat, and there's his worry he's been paired with someone slightly less durable. His look stands out, and two entirely different sides sit paired in his split-even body. His eyes don't match, and naturally mussy, two-toned hair shows bright its whipped cream and strawberry. He can't be missed; his left eye scarred-red and rusted, and raised eyes study the tall, blond older boy. His lack of flaws. His hand extends; he smiles shyly.

"Are you Reiner... by any chance?"

He clearly hopes.

"My name is Shoto. I think we're partnered."

no worries at all 💕

[hometown]

Turning at the sound of his name, Reiner finds himself face-to-face with a shorter (than him) boy with striking features. He'd heard the basics in the description given by the guild: red-and-white hair, eyes of two different colors, and a facial scar. But Reiner had pictured something closer to a redhead going gray, not the even split before him.

"Striking" really is the best word for Shoto's appearance. Not in a bad way; not at all. Reiner takes in the sight of Shoto as he would any other new acquaintance, quickly memorizing those distinctive features as he focuses on Shoto's expression.

Immediately, Reiner decides he likes Shoto's smile, its shy nature reminding him of a dear friend.

"Hey," Reiner greets, returning that smile with a friendly one. "Yeah, that's me. Reiner Braun."

He takes the offered hand, his touch a bit warmer than the average person's. It may feel like Reiner has a mild fever; however, he's not the slightest bit sick.

"It's nice to put a face to the name," he adds, meaning it.

[itsmypower]

It shouldn't feel that warm, should it? A smaller hand keeps the other's, warm, a shock to Shoto's too much cooler right. He nearly asks him why; he doesn't.

He eyes their fingers. Peeks up.

"Ah..." Soft agreement, smile lingering because he's shy. Not the friendly warmth of Reiner's yet, but wavering and subdued and maybe clumsy seeming how it shifts. A boy's who's trying his awkward best... He can't remember when he's smiled last; though Shoto does like Reiner's warmth, and rather than simple, cold response, he nods appraising, thoughts considering each own's strength though there's little known to go on yet. A kindness warms his heart too quick, and Reiner will find he sends light back, trades encouragement best he can through a simple, air-conditioned boost. His cold's his Quirk's. He doesn't say, and only casually drops his hands, eyeing his boot-straps.

His answer's murmuring, quiet.

"We should head out." Said softly, giving his gear a once-over. He tugs at straps—the little unit made to heat and cool—rolling his shoulders and shrugging them up, two straps on, and taps his boots, quickly eyeing up both his wrists to shake and adjust his own gauntlets. If Reiner moves, he'll shift to flank his left. Not so much to guard his side, but subtly cooling with his right-hand's Quirk.

"I'll watch your back." Is all he says.