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Most Certainly Not Gaia... [active]

Character(s): Cid Highwind, and anyone else who happens by
Content: Obligatory gate post, plus gratuitous swearing
Setting: Niflhiem Gate
Time: mid-morning
Warnings: Cid swears. A lot.

Most people's reaction to finding themselves waking up in a place that was most definitely not where they had gone to sleep would be to wonder if it wasn't all just some strange dream. These people were not Cid. Cid's reaction to waking up in a place was far simpler and far more emphatic as a stream of profanity split the air.

"Goddammit, Shera, I've told you before..." The sentence cut off abruptly as he finally realized that this was absolutely nowhere that he'd ever seen before. And considering that he'd traveled across the majority of the world during that mad dash after Sephiroth two years earlier that was saying something. And he was pretty sure he'd have remembered a city like this - all built under domes. Almost reminded him of Midgar, except for the lines. Ain't nobody who'd line up to get into Midgar of their own will, he thought to himself. Or at least not without a damned good reason.

Nothing in there for him, though. No skies under those domes, that was damned sure. Still, he couldn't help but wonder just what was drawing all these people into the city. Wasn't the sky, so what was it? He sighed as he realized that the only way to now for sure would
be to go in himself. "Can't believe I'm doing this," he mumbled to himself as he headed to join the line. Whatever was on the other side of that gate had better be worth the trouble.

Unfortunately, the city itself was scarcely worth the wait, in his opinion - an opinion he made quite clear as a stream of profanity shattered the early morning air.

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Kairi strangely found herself ending up at the same place she started, despite that it wasn't even on purpose; she was really trying to settle into the city at long last, and was even saving up on anything shiny so that she could get herself into one of the townhouses. Maybe even get herself a job!

But she was still back at the Niflheim gate. She forgot how long it had been since she walked through it for the first time. A plastic bag saying 'Matinal's' in blocky letters hung from one of her arms, full of some food and beverages to keep her going.

Something caught her eyes in her reminiscing. She glanced over, surprised, a soft oh! falling from her mouth. But she frowned a bit - yes, the man looked familiar, from all that time ago back in Traverse Town. Still, he looked... different. But then, so did she, so who was she to talk?

With a bit of a spring in her step she moved to the entryway of the gate, glancing at the people in the line, seeing who she was looking for, and raising up a hand (the one without the groceries), and calling out. "Cid! Hey, Cid!"

Ah, maybe it wasn't the right person, now that she got a better look... Oh well. Sora always made a fool of himself. So she could catch up.

At the sound of a voice calling his name, Cid glanced up from his exploration of the little electronic doodad the man at the gate had given him. If he was any judge, it looked to be some sort of journal - and almost on par with some of the stuff that he'd seen while he'd still been working with ShinRa. Now if only he could get the damned thing to stop telling him that he had a shop in a place he'd never been he could even get some use out of it.

But that could wait until later, as he closed the journal for now and headed over towards the person who'd called his name. True, he didn't have the slightest clue as to who she was, but that didn't mean he couldn't get to a distance where he wouldn't have to to yell back and forth to hold a conversation.

"That's my name," he commented once he got near enough. "Haven't got any damned idea who you are though."

She should have known. But he was Cid. That was... good, right? Kairi had to admit, this city had some strange people, and it... did things to others. She had ran into the oddities herself, and read about others on the boards...

Really, finding out that he didn't know her, wasn't as much as a shock as she thought it may be.

"Oh..." she offered him a smile, anyway. "It's just I know a Cid, and he looks an awful lot like you. But..." she had to laugh, just a bit. My, this city could be confusing sometime. "Well, I can tell that you're just not him."

She looked around the gate area for a moment. "You've got that confused look of a newcomer... We all kind of get that. This is Paixao. Ah..." Now this was slightly awkward. She looked a bit uneasy, and then something hit her, and she shuffled into her grocery bag and pulled out a small, glass bottle of soda and handed it to him with a bright smile. "Here! It must be a bit stressful ending up here from... well, wherever you came from! So hopefully it'll put some ease!"

Awkward. Awkward.

Confused would be putting it mildly. Wondering if perhaps he had gone as insane as Sephiroth had when he had decided to torch Nibelheim a couple of years ago would be a good deal closer to the truth. The comment about there being another him didn't help matters either - especially when that journal-thing he'd been given had also seemed to imply as much.

"How the hell is there another me?" Hopefully the answer wasn't going to involve clones. He'd had more than enough of clones and remnants over the last few years. Damn the ShinRa for that. And damn Hojo for wanting 'The General' back enough to try and make copies of the man.

But he did accept the offered soda at least, even if he would have much preferred something a good deal stronger. But in the absence of a nearby bar, this would do. "Rocket Town."

Clones would be a bit... interesting. But then, Kairi wouldn't know what to do with herself if she ran into a clone of her! Though she had practically seen two different Soras, and it didn't help that one had amnesia. Too bad both of them had disappeared, but Kairi wouldn't let that put her spirits down.

"Well, I donno, really. The Cid I knew was on a world called Traverse Town. There doesn't seem to be much of world-travel here, or... any travel for that matter..." She looked at the ground a bit sheepish for a moment. "I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but currently there's no way to leave this place. Not to say that stops people from trying. But Paixao is kind of like being... in it's own sort of universe, so I guess in a way that always means there can be multiples of... people?"

Kairi was obviously no scientist. She liked her odd guesses. Most of the time they were better than those of her boys.

"Goddammit all to hell!" First the domes keeping him from the sky and now some unnameable force keeping him from getting back to his airship. And what the hell was up with this 'in it's own universe' shit? It made no goddamned sense.

"Multiples of people? From anywhere?" And most importantly, did that mean that it was possible that Sephiroth was here? After all, he'd rather not have to fight the man again - once had been quite enough for him.

Kairi, of course, made up the 'in it's own universe' on the spot, but if she really thought about it, it kind of made some sense. Really thought about it.

"Yeah, I suppose so. It wouldn't really surprise me. This city is really weird, you have no idea." She wished she could do something to comfort him, but everyone handled Paixao in their own way. She had found her friends quickly and not much else had mattered to her; she figured her ending up in the city was some sort of fate. Now everything was catching up to her, but she would settle. She had to.

"I guess after being here awhile, you kind of get use to it. It's probably best to just find some place to stay or something. It's better than wandering blindly... The currency here is easy, at least. The citizens will accept anything that's shiny, even the leaves on the trees." She pointed to the strange trees and grass. "It's not... too bad, I guess..."

Though she hadn't fully convinced herself of that.

She looked around as people entered through the gate and chuckled slightly. If she was blond, she would probably look like some sort of tour guide. Wonderful.

Whether or not it made sense, it wasn't exactly what Cid would have liked to hear. In short, Paixao was beginning to to sound like the worst place he'd ever heard. He'd just have to hope that none of the people he'd seen defeated in the past three years showed up.

"I'd like it better if the place had some sort of airship," he grumbled.

Or a sky. That would help. Well, as long as he had some method of flying at least. Fucking domes keeping him from the sky.

Different Cid or not, he did still sound the same. Curses were more over-the-top, but Kairi kept from flinching. After all, she had seen too many kind of people in this city. She pulled out her journal and took a quick glance at the boards, and then after remembering something, checked the map. She rose a brow. "Not everyday you find your name on something without even trying. Lucky you. Me, I actually have to go rent a place."

She smirked and closed the journal, slipping it back into a pocket in her pants. "You should have an easier time settling in than most, airship or not."

That's probably due to the extra bitterness that comes standard with Cids of this variant. Having your dream taken away tends to do that after all.

A vague grumble at the mention of that place with his name on it. "I know. Damned thing keeps reminding me." He gestured with the journal he was still holding, presumably in an effort to make it clear what he was referring to.

"No idea what sort of shape this place is even in. And what the hell am I supposed to do with a store? I'm a mechanic, not a shopkeeper."

She smiled, trying not to laugh at his reaction. It shouldn't be funny. But maybe... well, Kairi did like to be useful after all...

"So be a mechanic, silly. Who says you've gotta be the shopkeeper? Just because it's got your name on it, doesn't mean you've got to be the one out front handling the customers, or whatever." She had never actually been to the place herself and had no idea on what kind of condition it was in anymore. Still. She shrugged slightly. "Maybe I could help you clean it up if it's bad? If anything, it's not like you have to open it up again. Gives ya a place to sleep."

"Haven't seen much that would need a mechanic around here," he grumbled. Okay, so he'd just gotten here, but aside from the journal he hadn't really seen much of anything in the way of large mechanical things - the sort that he knew best.

Not like he really had any intention of letting that stop him. If this place wasn't kind enough to let him bring his ship here, he'd just have to find something to replace her for the time being - even if he had to make it himself.

A shrug at the offer to help clean the place up. "Not gonna stop you if you want to."

Kairi beamed at him, happy that she would be able to be of help to... well, someone. Not someone she actually knew, as she first thought, but it was better than no one at all.

"I suppose you're right... there isn't all that much from what I've seen either. I mean, there's the rickshaws... and whatever people may have on them." She shrugged a bit. "But I guess you never know. If you advertise a mechanic is available, well, all sorts of things might pop up."

But Kairi was an optimistic, more recently than anything. The city had bogged her mind down for awhile, but no longer! She just hoped her bubbliness wasn't terrifying the man.

"Uh, well, the shop isn't that far from here, but I'm sure you probably want to check out the city. Or not. I don't really know." She didn't want to be a bother, after all. She would of course be glad to help, when he needed it, of course. "I recommend asking on the message board to see if you've got any pals around, since you never know who shows up."

"Enh, they'll show up eventually if they're here. They always do." Sometimes when you weren't even expecting them to be there. But then again, when your friends include a robot cat, a lion with a flaming tail and a mercenary-turned-delivery-boy you tend to get rather used the unusual.

"Rather check this place out first. 'Snot like the city's gonna be going anywhere after all." Besides, that way he'd know what he'd need to make any kind of repairs the place night need.

Kairi nodded to that. Eventually she would probably see Sora and Riku again, but she wouldn't just sit around and wait anymore. When they come, they come. That's all there was to it.

"That's true!" she chuckled. If the city were to up and leave, they'd have some problems, no doubt. Though it'd be kind of interesting... heh. "Well then, right this way to your castle, Mr. Cid," she joked, but turned away before he could react, and started off to where she knew his shop was located.

"I ain't a 'Mr.'" he grumbled even as he began to follow his temporary guide. "If you gotta call me something other than Cid, I'd rather it be 'Captain'." Even if he didn't have anything to pilot at the moment, he'd gotten used to the term in his years at ShinRa and past that into his years in Rocket Town.

A slight pause as he realized there was something he still didn't know. "Come to think of it, I never did get your name."

Kairi smiled, though he couldn't see. She had a small spring to her step, livelier than she had been in quite some time now. She was sure that it was healthy, even if some of the locals stopped to blink at her.

But then Kairi too paused, turning around to face Cid again (continuing to walk backwards slowly towards their destination) and blinked herself. How rude of her! That should've been the first thing she said to him, after knowing it wasn't the Cid from her worlds! "Oh. Heh, that's right. Well then, I'm Kairi! It's a pleasure to meet you, Captain."

"Not entirely sure as I can say anything much'll be a pleasure in this damned hellhole of a city, but I guess I can say the same."

That was... probably about as polite as he was going to get, really - he'd never been one for social grace. But he expected Kairi might be used to that if she know a version of him, like she'd claimed to.

Oh yes, Cid-isms might as well be something she was familiar. They were like Leon-isms. Despite that she hadn't actually see those people in some time now, her mind was still prepared for others that were... similar to them. At the moment, it was more amusing her than setting her off balance. Maybe this is the sort of thing she needed. Yeah...

She tried to think of what other useful information she could pass on. So she rambled, not really paying that much attention to what he had said, other than showing that she obviously wasn't bothered by his speech patterns. "Let's see... apparently there's a group of people in black cloaks that aren't good to deal with... they're pulling the strings or something... there's a Resistance being formed - though I haven't heard much on it... some stuff here and there..." she waved a hand, as if dismissing it. Her mind was a bit fuzzy when it came to things like those. "Um... some meerkat oddly enough often acts more responsible than the city's mayor..."

Useful information, yeah right. She barely had anything. Lot of good that does anyone.

She sighed a bit.

((Uhhh so I was wondering if you [well, I could do it XD] want to make a new thread soon-ish for an arrival to the shop, orrr just continue on here?))

Black-cloaked men. Why was it always black-cloaked men? He seen enough damned black cloaks to last him two lifetimes and had absolutely no interest in seeing any more. Not that it really seemed that he had much choice in the matter at the moment, no matter how much he might complain or swear about it.

"Sounds just like home," he grumbled. "Only with all the useful bits taken out." Or more accurately, it sounded like Midgar - Rocket Town had been tolerable at least.

Why did have to get himself stuck in place like this anyway?

She didn't remember any black-coats from her home. Maleficent kind of did, but that was about it, really. "My home had Heartless. All sorts of them, always attacking people with hearts, and most of the time a friend of mine, because he wielded a weapon that they were afraid of, or something weird like that. Here I've seen a lumen or two, which apparently are the opposites of Heartless. Annnd... Nobodies... which could be related to the black-cloaked people... that one was..." She trailed off on the last part, shaking her head of the thought.

"Any~way... From what another friend of mine told me, Nobodies are, um... like... Shells left behind when the Heartless are made, and are seeking hearts to become whole... Weird stuff, really."

She shrugged lightly. Story of her life.

((Ho-kay~ Works for me. Kairi's done now, probably. I did have her rattle on again -.-;;;))

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