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vorpalrising ([personal profile] vorpalrising) wrote in [community profile] paixaorpg2012-08-27 11:34 am

Return to Wonderland [Active]

Character(s): Cid and Alice
Content: After tiring of doing nothing, Cid and Alice head to Wonderland. But what awaits them in there?
Setting: Wonderland
Time: Week 43, morning/afternoon
Warnings: Violence, possible mentions of abuse

The city Alice had grown fond of was gone, and in its place nothing but rubble and bitterness. The citizens hadn't so much as allowed Alice to buy supplies, nor would they allow her or anyone else not originally of the city shelter. They'd been reduced to sleeping outside, something Alice, even in London, had not been used to, and of searching for food. Luckily for them, Cid had supplies, but they couldn't last forever. Something needed to be done, and Alice believed that Wonderland, as ever, held some of the answers.

So it was that one morning, Cid and Alice had begun the long trek to the church. The trip had been made mostly in silence - how was Alice to tell her companion that Wonderland had only ever existed in her mind before? How was she to know whether this place was a dream, or a delusion? But they could not simply sit and do nothing. So it was, when they reached the church, they had stopped in Destiny Islands to rest, bathe and gather food. Cid had gone fishing, and Alice had gathered some fruit and mushrooms and a coconut or two - no easy feat for her, as she was unused to climbing trees any longer. Perhaps they would find some game in Wonderland, but one could never tell, and Alice hadn't the slightest idea as to how to hunt. Finally, they reached Wonderland, and Alice nearly held her breath as she looked at their surroundings.

"Here we are," she said at last. "I expect we may find more questions than answers here, but it can't be worse than sleeping in the rubble." Could it?
limitbreakpilot: (and we shall call it ... this land)

[personal profile] limitbreakpilot 2012-08-29 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Cid, by contrast, was used to sleeping outside. He couldn't say that he much enjoyed it but it was surprising what sort of things you got used to, when you got drafted into saving the world. All the same, he had to admit that hanging out in the same general vicinity of the ruins was damned creepy, and the rest of everything that had been going on didn't exactly make matters any better.

Really, by comparison, the traveling was worlds better than sitting around doing nothing, even he was pretty sure his spear hadn't every really been intended for fishing with. Oh, it had worked, but he couldn't help shake the feeling that something was distinctly odd about it all the same. Hell, the whole damn situation was weird, but it was better than staying where they weren't welcome, that much was for sure.

"There ain't a lot that's worse than sleepin' in the rubble," he answered with a shrug.
limitbreakpilot: (heh!)

[personal profile] limitbreakpilot 2012-09-05 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Any world was gonna have shadows, if you asked Cid. Hell, you were lucky if shadows were the only things in the corner, and if nothing had decided to move in. Sure, the town was safe enough, or had been before it had decided that falling to pieces sounded like an excellent idea. Sure, he hadn't any idea of what to expect but he had his spear and that would have to be enough.

Hell, even the jumping wasn't going to be much of a problem. He wasn't so old as all that and if that was only problem it was already better than some of the places back home.

"Shouldn't be too much 'f a problem."
limitbreakpilot: (and we shall call it ... this land)

[personal profile] limitbreakpilot 2012-09-16 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Hell of a name for a place," Cid commented, as he followed Alice across without any real trouble. Even the worst places at home didn't have names that were so straightforward, but damned if he was gonna complain. Sure, if the place loudly proclaimed itself to be a haven of malboros then it might be a problem but tears sure as hell weren't anything to be concerned about.

The rest of her explanation didn't make a whole lot of sense, save for the part about someone or another not being in a hurry to trouble them, and that was a damned good thing, in his opinion. Just because he could handle himself in fight didn't actually mean he was actually going to go looking if he could avoid it.
limitbreakpilot: (and we shall call it ... this land)

[personal profile] limitbreakpilot 2012-09-19 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
That much, Cid could agree on, or would have, if he'd been able to tell the general gist of Alice's thoughts. Moping hadn't done anyone good as far as he knew. Spiky had been the proof of that, even if Vincent had him outclassed as far as sheer broodiness went.

He hadn't failed to notice the general tone of her answer either. He wasn't really going to comment on it - she wasn't Spiky, no matter how similar the reactions might have been - but he'd noticed all the same.

"You ever wonder how they think to bring worlds to this place?"
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[personal profile] limitbreakpilot 2012-09-21 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that explained the name. A weeping statue was still weird, mind, but it was more of an explanation than not having one. Even if wasn't at all sure why someone would even bother making a statue meant to cry up a river. Cry into a river? Whichever one it was supposed to be.

"An' we've had a damned city inside a castle. Who says it ain't still a dream?"
limitbreakpilot: (my ship.  my rules.)

[personal profile] limitbreakpilot 2012-09-28 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That was always the question, wasn't it? There really wasn't any way to tell what was going on back home, short of having someone actually turn up and even then it was generally hit or miss as far as Cid was aware. Sure, it was distinctly unusual as far as dreams went but hell, the place had all but thrown out all any sort of logic as soon as they'd been told that it was nothing but a floor in a castle.

"No sense worryin' about it just now," he answered with a shrug. "It ain't like we can know."
limitbreakpilot: (lighting up)

[personal profile] limitbreakpilot 2012-11-02 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Without anything of great interest to speak to, Cid fell silent. He was, of course, still keeping an eye out for anything that might try to attack them but that was all but par for the course. You didn't save the world without killing more than a few monsters on the way, and he was pretty certain that was true in just about all the worlds out there.

Sure, he'd noticed that Alice seemed to be nervous about something, but hell, he was pretty sure he wasn't qualified to deal with that sort of thing past alternately swearing at it and doing his best to insist that things were going to be fine. Thus better to not even try, as far as he was concerned at the moment. Either whatever she was concerned about would happen or it wouldn't and him saying otherwise wouldn't help.
limitbreakpilot: (and we shall call it ... this land)

[personal profile] limitbreakpilot 2012-11-15 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Heartless," Cid answered, as he readied his spear. "Can't say I'm surprised either. Damned castle is full of the things."

Nasty little shadows of something that were little more than nuisances, sure, but that didn't make them any less problematic - or make dealing with them any different from what he already was used to. They were monsters by all accounts and that meant there was exactly one thing to be done: get rid of them before they got rid of you. Hell, maybe one day the place would stop being so damned infested with the things, but for now, the ones in front of them were of more concern.
limitbreakpilot: (let's do this! (fight))

[personal profile] limitbreakpilot 2012-11-29 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Thus far, Cid had yet to see anything in the castle that could easily be defined as "simple." Hell, there hadn't been much back at home that could have been defined as simple, much to his chagrin. Dealing with the Heartless, however, at least didn't take a whole lot of thought which he supposed had to count for something. Of course, that wasn't to say he didn't hold off on attacking just enough to see if Alice knew what she was doing. He did at least try to be relatively discreet about it (in a much as he could be), but he figured it was generally better to be safe than sorry.

Satisfied that she did at least seem to know how to handle herself in a fight, Cid wasted no further time in stepping into the fray himself. The sooner the fight was over, the sooner they could move on.
limitbreakpilot: (let's do this! (fight))

[personal profile] limitbreakpilot 2012-12-10 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Damned straight they wouldn't give up. Sure, Cid might have missed the days when they'd been able to take out a whole handful of enemies with only one spell, but things were different now. Besides, he didn't have any materia anyway so the point was pretty much moot. Fortunately, his spear worked just as well spells might have, and between the both of them the Heartless did, in fact, end up not lasting terribly long.

It was just as well too, as far as Cid was concerned. They couldn't really look for whatever it was they were meant to be looking for if they had to keep dealing with the local Heartless.