catchall caelus

[residentmerc]

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weekend 0, saturday

[residentmerc]

[ blabla man with big sword i am LATE to SETTING THIS UP, anyway i am placing him at the noticeboard so he can look over when he spots caelus ]

Think yours has a typo on it.

[ why does it not have an age. is this another robot situation ]

[trashprince]

[ yeah, caelus has been embarrassed a few times when someone knows information from the profiles he has yet to memorize. time to dedicate himself.

which is when that helpful comment is made. he looks to his page and squints. ]

No, that's right. It's C-a-e-l-u-s.

[residentmerc]

[ a pause ]

I meant the age.

[trashprince]

[ more peering. ]

Oh, that. That works, too. It's not clear to me, either.

[residentmerc]

... Your age, or why it's blanked out?

[trashprince]

[ (abruptly change the topic) ]

'Getting manhandled'...?

[residentmerc]

It's not a skill. And it's not a thing, either.

[ no!!! ]

week 1, monday

[residentmerc]

[ new island what's this. cloud has not yet found an appropriate sidequest and so instead he is looking at the horse like he is almost expecting it to explode, but despite that when he spots caelus he seems... almost... cheerful? there's a quirk to his lips and everything. wow. ]

Ever been to a ranch before?

[trashprince]

[ taken aback by the bright aura, tbh. whaaat? did cloud get bodysnatched AGAIN?

jk, caelus still doesn't entirely understand that such a thing happened. twice.

Never. What about you? Do you want a candy?

[ he has a bucket of candies. ]

[residentmerc]

Yeah, a bunch. Chocobo ranches mostly, though.

[ the bucket of candy makes him huff like it's funny ]

You got one too, huh?

[trashprince]

Those are the big riding birds.

[ he remembered something!!! wow, cloud, he actually paid attention. ]

Yeah. Most of them are good and none of them have weird side effects so far.

[ considers cloud. considers horse. ]

Are you gonna?

[residentmerc]

Yeah, the birds.

[ he nods about the candy, because same, but then the horse and. he looks at the horse. he looks at caelus. he looks back at the horse ]

Gonna... what?

[trashprince]

Ride him.

[ it's time. he reaches for the horse, flat palm, willing to let the gelding sniff his palm. a normal horse thing they surely do. ]

It can't be more difficult than a bird.

week 3, sunday

[trashprince]

[ forces you to go on a park date with caelus how could cloud possibly reject him after the week he's had.

teehee.

or, you know, they just happen to bump into each other at that lakeside park with all the mist. whatever. ]

Cloud. Hey.

[ nervous but trying not to be ]

[residentmerc]

[ the best kind of dates are the surprise one with people who just died earlier today? obviously.

cloud doesn't look surprised to see caelus, but he has the advantage here of already having been present for a week now. he nods in greeting ]

Caelus. Been a bit. [ because they died. ha, ha. but: ] You feeling alright?

[ the arrival was, in his experience, kind of disorienting, and then on top of that caelus has had... a ... time. recently. ]

[trashprince]

[ that's how you know they're based on real and true romance, not a sudden possible trauma bond ]

I've been better, but I'm relieved not to be alone and that I'm really myself again. Can't complain about that.

[ better to tamp down the feelings and hang with his good buddy cloud! this guy hates feelings! ]

How about you?

[residentmerc]

[ oh i guess i should mention he has like some like. healing burns or whatever on his arms and the slightest limp I GUESS ]

Better than a lot of people here. [ their injuries. at least we have a hospital. ] They give you the rundown yet?

[trashprince]

I got the notebook and was told you all had a rough week.

[ flaps notebook which he probably has with him, actually ]

Should you be walking around like that?

[residentmerc]

[ the notebook gets around it's fine cloud looks at it and nods because they have had. a week. sure. ]

I'm fine. [ the immediacy, but-- ] Iwatooshi, Aerith and I got healed from our injuries and only had the side effects to deal with. Pain lingered a bit, but that's it.

[ so it's fine!!! ]

week 4, thursday

[trashprince]

[ where is cloud? after making sure aventurine made it to the healing spring before being moved to the hospital, it's not like caelus stopped moving. now it is time to see how cloud's faring.

the entire front of his once white shirt is now quite, quite red. he will take care of it later. ]

Hey.

[residentmerc]

[ cloud was probably not moved to the hospital but it's fine caelus can visit him in aerith's room. or maybe they did a pit stop. unlike caelus cloud has been cleaned, so outside of his even more than usual glowy eyes he seems ... better! his stare is less vacant anyway. ]

... Hey. Is Aventurine alive?

[trashprince]

Yeah. He's out cold, though. I don't think he'll be up again for a while.

[ Already worrying about someone else? That's his true nature. ]

I'm going back once I talk to you, change, and get some food for him.

[ perhaps in that very order. ]

[residentmerc]

[ there's a slow blink that accompanies the no, it's not thought in response to caelus' own ]

... If he's alive after all that, he'll be fine. [ he sounds. strangely optimistic about that. ]

[trashprince]

[ Oops.

he cannot wait for thoughtshare week to be over. ]

What happened to you both?

[residentmerc]

Demons.

[ [kanda voice], but after a beat he adds: ]

We were with... Daan and Kanda. Fog must've gotten us.