caveofsapphires | Today is the first day of the rest of your lives [ opening post ]

WHO: EVERYONE. NPCs will be around to actively engage if you so desire.
WHAT: Sleepers wake and begin to figure out just what, exactly, they are supposed to do with themselves. tl;dr: REACTION POST for new characters to get out and mingle.
WHERE: Everywhere. Mostly the living quarters, but really: anywhere you want.
WHEN: The first week, April 1st through April 7th.
WARNINGS: Travis Touchdown (Ryan LeCourt) has quite a mouth on him.
NOTES: This is a serious game, guys. WE’RE SUPER SRS HERE. ~~This may be a lie.~~

Shimmering blue blanketed the underground city as the light reflected off the sapphires in the ceiling. It cast its eerie glow, almost mimicking the effect of light on water without the sort of freeing peace one might feel with the soft ocean waves. Figuring out how deep down the city was located was near impossible when the air was obviously heated to something approaching comfortable, and nothing seemed to echo too far past the quiet hum of the city.

Workers made their way down the street, every one with a Sleeper in tow. Something that would have been unheard of only a few days ago, now more likely than one would think. They intended to start slow, but considering how many others were still in cryo, this was a laidback pace.

"Hey, no problem," he offered to her apology, especially considering he was doing a fair amount of zoning out, himself.

As for her question, his brow knit, and his hand dropped from the back of his neck. "So we can still-...?" Talk about it? "I mean-..." But then it occurs to him that to be quite honest he's never quite given a damn about the authorities anyway--'No Obligations, Rules, or Authority' was his militia gang's motto back home, and while he may have learned a whole lot about the world as a whole since then, he still had the inescapable tendency to dismiss rules he didn't quite mesh with.

"I hate to sound cliche, but I dreamed about an adventure. All over Cocoon--that's home, Cocoon is--and all over Gran Pulse, too. We fought all kinds of monsters and the fal'Cie, all of us did. Me, Lightning, Hope, Fang and Vanille, Sazh..."

He lifted his hand up near his chin to eye the outside of his forearm now, and for a second he looked a little bit troubled, despite that there was nothing there. 'Nothing there' was kind of the point. He rubbed it casually with the palm of his other hand. "Had a l'Cie brand right here. A 'tattoo' I guess, but that's not even half of it."

And the absence of his brand sobered him up a little. Enough that it actually occurred to him that he was looking significantly more pensive than he usually allowed. So Snow wipes the thoughtfulness off of his face, replacing it with something like determination. "I was looking for Serah. We all were." And as an afterthought, he clarified, "Serah's my fiance, and Light's sister." Smoothing his bandanna in place with one hand, Snow tacked on, "Or 'was', anyway."

"I don't see why not," Elena said, giving him a shrug and said in a tone that was far too casual to be genuinely oblivious. However, she does flash him a wry smile. "I'm just curious what everyone else dreamed about."

She listened to his recollection of his adventure with a mixture of interest, and disappointment. It definitely was nothing like Earth. At all. In fact, it almost sounded like something straight out of some kind of video game, or movie. Or... a dream.

There was a brief moment of silence as Elena digested everything he said, and compared it to her own life. A strong wave of sympathy crested over; the strength of it surprised her, but it was to be expected, now she was human again.

"I'm sorry," she said softly. "It must be hard to be told that all of that was just a dream."

'It probably would be, if I believed it,' that's what he wanted to say, but he'd pushed it plenty for one day already. Snow wanted to be a little more sure of his environment before he had to elude the authorities in it.

So the reply that ended up coming out was, "Yeah, it's... definitely pretty frustrating." Snow's never been great with expressing negative emotions, and this wasn't an exception.

"But hey, what about you? What'd you dream about?"

"Me?"

She took a moment to consider how much she trusted him. The answer was, not very, considering they'd only just met for the first time. He had given her his own life story... or what he'd lived through anyways. On the other hand, he also admitted that he fought all kinds of monsters. Elena was too disillusioned to be oblivious to the fact that morality or not, vampires were considered 'monsters'.

And from the way he talked, she got the feeling he firmly believed that this was all a lie, and everyone's 'dreams' were what was real. Or at very least, he believed his was real.

With a slight smile, Elena simply said, "It's pretty bizarre now that I think about it. Way different from yours."

Today is the first day of the rest of your lives [ opening post ]

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oh my gosh i'm so sorry for late

it's okay, shit hit the fan at my other game so I'm a little slow too, whoops

mutual slowness then hahah