open | come bury your toes in the sand

[redigere]

WHO: Naminé and friends; open to passersby
WHERE: Beach near Heropa
WHEN: October 15th
WHAT: BEACH PARTY! Feel free to create a new prompt if the ones below don't appeal to you.
WARNINGS: None for now!

It'd taken a lot of last minute scrambling, a lot of runs to the grocery store, and a lot of help from her friends. But as Naminé steps back from the set up, she smiles. Allows herself a little bit of pride in what she's accomplished.

The home tent is where all the food is. Fold up tables have been loaded with an array of sandwiches, finger foods, and drinks, and a cooler nearby has fish and other seafood goodies to be grilled at the bonfire once someone gets hungry for it. This is also where she'll direct friends to drop off snacks and homemade goodies. Please do not sneak any of the chocolate and marshmallows meant for s'mores later.

Close by is the rest area, which is really just a big spread of blankets and a couple fold up chairs on the sand. She doesn't expect everyone to want to stay standing up all day, after all. Naminé knows she's going to be there for a bit, chatting with friends who are visiting, and she may have started a tiny sandcastle and collection of sea shells at the edge of the blankets as well.

The volleyball net and accompanying volleyball are borrowed from a co-worker, so it definitely needs to get back to her in one piece. There's plenty of space for other sports and competitions though...perhaps a game of soccer? And how could anyone ignore the ocean? She and a few others will likely be waist deep in it, learning and practicing how to swim.

Not bad for her first party. Now all she has to do is wait for her guests.

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home tent

[valuemeal]

[ Hyunsoo is definitely making use of the opportunity to devour some free food, of course. Which means that he sure isn't shy in grabbing what he needs - although he doesn't really expect someone to offer anything to him. When he looks who it is that's holding out a sandwich, his eyes grow a little wider. ]

Hey-- you're alright! [ Sorry, Sorey, but the last he heard Mikleo was looking for the other since he was apparently nowhere to be found. It's almost a little like seeing a ghost, and Hyunsoo can only count himself lucky he didn't topple over in shock and make a fool out of himself or something. ]

[historiology]

[Sorey, unfortunately on his part, doesn't so immediately recognize the other. But that recognition and relief on Hyunsoo's end is all but palpable, even without Sorey's strange new empathy.]

Um, y-yes.....?

[He's gonna get this a lot, isn't he?]

[valuemeal]

[ Yup. It's what happens when your friends start asking about you all over the place, Sorey... ]

Geez.. and you caused such a fuss too. [ At least the reaction seems to calm down Hyunsoo a little again. Relatively speaking. Enough for him to grab some food and just shove it into his mouth, chewing and swallowing before he speaks up again. ] People were looking for you, you know.

[ And he did too, since he offered to help.. but you know, Hyunsoo can't just admit that. It's not cool. ]

[historiology]

I...I didn't mean to? I hope I didn't worry everyone too much. [He had figure it was probably just Mikleo. Not considering others he had previously met and befriended and all as well on top of the water seraph himself.

But even as his guilt rises, Hyunsoo's calm manifests through him and it isn't nearly as bad as it could be.]

I'm here now though. So...so it's okay, right?

[valuemeal]

Of course it's okay...!

[ Hyunsoo isn't pouting. He totally isn't pouting. He'll blame that on just about anything - like the fact he's eating, obviously that's why it looks like he's pouting! You know, despite having swallowed his food from just now already. ]

It's not like I was worried or anything. [ Pfft. Not at all. Clearly. It's why he has to state it so obviously. Because it's obviously true. ]

[historiology]

But then why can I feel it.....?

[Sorry Hyunsoo. As much as he is kind of used to the tsun from Mikleo, he's still figuring out his new power with the empathy and all. Accidentally picking up on other's feelings is happening a lot, and he's still figuring sometimes in separating what he and what others feel, but. That doesn't lie.]

[valuemeal]

[ Hyunsoo was just about to eat some more - or rather, he already put the food into his mouth, but when Sorey says that of all things, he looks more like he's choking on it. He has to cough a few times to prevent himself from choking even more and just looking embarrassing.

A moment later he looks over at the other with wide eyes-- ]

What do you mean?!

[ No way anyone could ever notice he does give a shit about people, right? He's so subtle. So cool. (Although someone wouldn't even need Sorey's powers to notice it, honestly..) ]

[historiology]

[Please don't choke and die, friend. Even if Sorey may have kinda blindsided him a bit there?]

I dunno. I'm not sure how it works. It just....felt like you....I dunno how to explain.

[It's weird for him too. Sorey still isn't sure he understands how it works or why he can suddenly do this.]

But it's also, I guess, you remind me of how Mikleo gets sometimes?

[Sorry Hyunsoo. It is actually kinda obvious. With the tsun attitude and all.]

[valuemeal]

[ He feels like he wants to dig a hole in the sand right about now and just go lie in it just to disappear.. but he'll get through the embarrassment here. Somehow. 80% of his life consists of embarrassing moments, anyway.

Hyunsoo has no idea how Mikleo gets though, so it's a moment in which he's spared. For now. ]

And how is that?

[historiology]

Ah, you know. He'll say something like 'so you can put lipstick on a pig' when I know he liked my Shepherd cloak that Alisha gave me. Or saying he wasn't worried when he totally was while I took her hunting that one time.....

[Do you really want him to keep going here, because he totally can. There are many, maaaany more examples.]

[valuemeal]

[ Ah.. yes. That's definitely something Hyunsoo recognizes.

It's why he glances away a little bit, trying to force down the redness he almost feels creeping onto his cheeks as much as he can right now. ]

That's just-- [ .. he's trying to find an excuse here, okay. ] That doesn't mean that guy and I are both like that!

[historiology]

...Oh, no? I just thought then, you reminded me of him.

[That continued flush of Hyunsoo's cheeks might betray him and say otherwise, but Sorey for his part, doesn't push anything. Instead he looks almost sheepish for a moment.]

Sorry. I don't...Mikleo and others have said I was here before but I don't remember.

[valuemeal]

[ At least that's one awkward subject dropped. Hyunsoo's ego thanks you, Sorey.. Just not out loud, because that would go beyond his tsun capacities. ]

.. you don't remember? [ That's something new to him - he's seen others disappear and return, but usually they.. knew, right? Hence why he actually looks pretty openly surprised. ] Nothing at all?

[historiology]

No. But you're not the first one to recognize me and all. It doesn't mean we can't still be friends.

[It'll just be. All over again, getting to know each other. And with Sorey having no clue he was previously running around as a five year old here.]

[valuemeal]

[ It's.. weird. The idea that someone just could stop remembering things like that. Not that he was super close with Sorey or anything, and it does erase some embarrassing talking-to-a-five-year-old things that he wouldn't mind the other forgetting about, but still..

.. it's weird.

Not that it stops Hyunsoo from letting Sorey get to know him again - even though his reaction is very.. Hyunsoo-y as always. ]

W-who said I wanted to be friends? [ The f word. Deadly to tsunderes. ]

[historiology]

Oh, you don't? I just thought we might have been before, if you were worried about me before.

[Which it sure seems like. Sorey doesn't think that is wrong, anyway. But regardless, it won't stop him from reaching out and offering the hand of friendship to Hyunsoo or anyone else anyway.]

[valuemeal]

That's...!

[ He almost denies having worried again out of sheer instinct, but then again... if Sorey could sense before that he was lying about it, then he probably could do the same thing again now, huh. So even though Hyunsoo's cheeks grow a little red in embarrassment, he at least lets it out - and with that wordlessly and reluctantly admits it. ]

I dunno if I'd call it friends.. You're just-- just an okay guy, I guess. That's all. [ Tsun tsun. ]

[historiology]

Heh. Well, you're an okay guy too!

[Sorey comes back with that so easily. So casually. But....well, it's the truth. He can tell, somewhere under the bluster and tsun. Still, his bright smile and easy come back to this has to make up for possibly making the other flustered, right?]

[valuemeal]

[ The smile only flusters Hyunsoo more, honestly. But.. at least it's not completely in a bad way. It's not often that he gets compliments from people - hence why he deals with it so badly - but it's not a bad thing. It's.. nice. Yeah.

Not like he can ever admit that though. ]

You sure decide that easily. [ He's not still blushing. Not at all. Except he obviously is. ]

[historiology]

You think so?

[Sorey is naive and optimistic enough to want to believe the best of most anyone. To try see beyond their facades they present to the world. He's used to being blunt and honest, given he was raised by the seraphim and all. And seraphim don't lie.]

[valuemeal]

Yeah! There's a lot of people out there who pretend they're okay but are actually just trying to screw you over.

[ Even if they might not in all cases be supernatural.. but then again, where Sorey comes from, they probably are. His world sounds so.. odd. ]

You could get hurt, you know. [ Hyunsoo, you're showing you care... ]

[historiology]

Screw me over? How?

[Sorey isn't quite sure he gets it. Most of the time when he has encountered people doing mean or violent things, it's been through the influence of Malevolence. And, well, growing up with the seraphim, they (and by extension, Sorey himself) just don't lie.]

I'm sure I could manage to defend myself if I had to. Or if I did, I could just have Mikleo heal me, so it's not that big a deal.

[Sorey he is probably not talking about physically getting hurt.]

[valuemeal]

[ Oh god, why did Sorey have to miss the emotionally hurt implications there? Emotions aren't anything that Hyunsoo is good about talking about in any context, and he has to take a moment to swallow and even fully pull himself together before he can even start about it. ]

H-hey, I don't mean people trying to hurt you! [ Geez, Sorey, why does it always have to be about monster slaying or fighting or something? ] People could scam you, or.. you know, that kind of stuff! Do I look like that trustworthy of a guy?

[ No, Hyunsoo, it's more that you look like the weenie you are that could never hurt anyone.. ]

[historiology]

Scam? You haven't given me any reason not to trust you.

[Sorey's just naturally rather trusting. Naturally still fairly sheltered on a streetsmart level in comparison to most, even if he traveled and encountered so many hellions back home and all. There's a reason even with all the humans he purified, he never gave in to the Malevolence.]

[valuemeal]

See, that's what I mean!

[ He lets out a sigh... But he knows it's not too bad. Well, it's bad for Sorey, and it's bad in the sense that it makes him worry and he's not supposed to worry since it'll make him look lame. But it doesn't make Sorey a bad person or anything - pretty much the opposite. ]

I'm not out to scam you though, you're right. [ This time!! ] So I guess we can.. know each other, yeah.

[ He can't say the f-word. Don't make him say the f-r-i-e-n-d-s word. He just can't. ]