hauntedsavior: (turned your back on affinity)
Anna Amarande ([personal profile] hauntedsavior) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2019-02-03 09:16 am

forward-dated to 2/5

[this is the first time anyone's seen Anna around on the network since the beginning of the month, and the first time she's been back in the city since Saturday. she went on an adventure.]

Maybe stay away from Bosuma for a while.

Anyone know where to get eyepatches? Asking for a friend.
belligerentwarrior: (I could see it in her face)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2019-02-03 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Freya really shouldn't feel as apprehensive as she does. It works, or it doesn't. Fretting wouldn't change a damn thing. She gives a token knock on the frame of Anna's door before heading in, since she was expected.]

Hey.

[Not much else to say, but Freya does lift the bottle of Fireball and gives it a little shake. It's one of the few things Freya's seen the other woman drink, and besides, the cinnamon seemed appropriate with the chill back in the air.]
belligerentwarrior: (It's called "interference.")

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2019-02-03 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It's cheating if you start that way, [she jokes morbidly back. Freya saunters across the room, dropping the bottle on the nightstand before continuing her way to the window.]

[Freya doesn't stare. She only glances at Anna's patched eye once, but there's a lot in it; Freya's deeply concerned. It's in her eyes, the set of her shoulders, hell, every line of her posture screams with worry, despite Freya's relatively aloof approach to "Hey Specters I need an eye patch."]

[It's brief, and she turns her attention out the window.]
Can't have you getting ahead of me, yeah? 'sides, I offered to bring you something else. I dunno, if you can still eat, I guess comfort food ain't off the table.

[Seriously, what do you give a robot? She got high off of... something. There's got to be an equivalent.]
belligerentwarrior: (How's this make us lucky?)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2019-02-04 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Freya snorts. She's not here to get plastered. No, this feels like one of those days that Freya feels the need to be alert for, inexplicably.]

It's not about what I want, you bloody drongo. [Her tone's dry and drawling, not sharp.] I'm askin' what you want. I don't know what your go-to is that isn't a substance. Even if it's a damn small consolation.

[She glances back at Anna, an arched eyebrow.] Or you can just say "nothing."
belligerentwarrior: (I'm great you're great everyone's great)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2019-02-04 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, that's about what Freya thought: a whole of nothing. It's pretty selfish to feel frustrated on her end, since this isn't about her. Instead, she sighs, leaning back against the windowsill and crossing her arms.]

I've been givin' this robot thing more thought. Bahamut, he's got this healing magic or whatever. Saved my life with it a few times. I've seen him restore himself with it, too, and he's mechanical, yeah?

[A half-hearted shrug. There's a lot of guessing involved here.] He's a whole lot of magic machine, granted, but it's better than nothin'. If he can fix himself, maybe he can help you.
belligerentwarrior: (Bahamut)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2019-02-04 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head, Freya's left hand rising to hover before her right shoulder.]

Not my magic; the big guy's. I wouldn't exactly call what he does "surgically precise."

[It only takes a moment of concentration to find that power in the Brand, though Freya did have to dig a little more for it than usual. Bahamut was displeased, she thought; there was no danger here, nothing to destroy. Why bother?]

[She pressed anyway, and that strange L-shaped crystal popped into existence with a little flash of light. It shattered easily under Freya's fingers, and she directs her attention out the window as a patch of sky suddenly grows stormy.]


Gotta open the window. Sorry about the cold.

[As she does, there's a sudden, great WHOOSH as something giant and purple and silver leans into view. It wasn't the dragon-machine that snatched Anna out of the sky, that one time, but something far more humanoid looking, and far too much claw adorning his hands.]
belligerentwarrior: (Took you long enough)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2019-02-04 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Bahamut doesn't growl, or make any kind of noise. It was only through her bond with her Eidolon that Freya could feel his immense displeasure about being summoned for this trivial task, but she didn't care. He had to do what she very well wanted.]

I wouldn't go that far. He can, but he's more of a "raise hell" kinda guy.

[The Eidolon somehow manages to spread his palm before the window without his ridiculously curved claws tearing up the side of the building, and with a little motion, a sparkling ball of light surges into the room and zips at Anna. When Freya mentally prods him, Bahamut doesn't know either whether the Curaga will accomplish anything, and he makes it clear he doesn't care.]

[Having accomplished his task, the Eidolon pushes away from the building, his weird wings unfurling, and shoots into the sky.]
belligerentwarrior: (Chasing shadows)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2019-02-04 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Figures.]

[Freya's resulting frustration and disappointment hits her hard, and turning around to close the window is a convenient excuse to look away. She knew it probably wouldn't work; there's no reason to be so upset from a long shot.]

[It eats at Freya, regardless. It took her a long time to embrace her career as an emergency responder, and now that she has... that powerlessness to help people around her when they needed it most stung so much more. Ryoji. Dante. Now Anna, too.]

[But that would be making it about her. Again.]


Spell's probably not meant for entire lost parts; hell if I know how all this magic stuff works. Was worth a shot. Hope it at least made things more comfortable.
Edited 2019-02-04 05:06 (UTC)
belligerentwarrior: (Took you long enough)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2019-02-04 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
[The attempted levity does help. It certainly makes this trip feel a lot less like abject failure. Freya runs her hand through her hair before she turns around again, shooting an amused half-smile at Anna.]

Like this counts. That eye of yours is just as much of a cactus as when I got here. [She ambles over to the opposite end of the bed, taking a seat on the corner.] I guess I can wrangle up a breakdown, if it'd really make you feel better. [#sarcasm.]
belligerentwarrior: (I could see it in her face)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2019-02-05 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Freya leans back on her elbows, looking up at the ceiling and slowly shaking her head.]

What even'd be equivalent exchange for that? [Well, she's probably got something buried in Fang's past since that seemed to be one whole trauma train of struggle and suffering, but as far as Freya could tell, her other self had remained all in one piece.]

You sick of telling people what happened yet? [Of course Anna explained it on the network in plain public sight, but. It seemed better to hear it directly from her, if she felt inclined.]
belligerentwarrior: (Thought there'd be more than flowers)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2019-02-06 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
[You know what. Look. She was internally dealing with a lot of stuff and got really busy, okay, and then that weird two-month haze in their memories happened and... shut up.]

[A breath whistles out of Freya. Where does she even start with that?]


It got your eye after you axed it. [It's not really a question. A beat, then,] That shit's weird, even by the golden standard we usually deal with.
belligerentwarrior: (How's this make us lucky?)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2019-02-06 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Freya glances at Anna, considering that. So many souls that she forgot who she was, huh. Given that on some days, Freya's having a hard enough time with her own soul twisting and re-calibrating or whatever, it was hard to imagine an unspecified number of them trying to buy real estate.]

[After a quiet moment,]
You okay? Not the eye. The soul roulette.

[So many of them had such winning souls from back home, she would bet the unused ones were, too.]
belligerentwarrior: (How's this make us lucky?)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2019-02-06 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, don't let it be said that Anna's life didn't have a theme. Even when it wasn't about her, it still somehow seemed to revolve around giant, overcompensating swords.]

[But a smile was good--probably. Freya had a slight sinking feeling over where this was going, but. Who knows, maybe this wasn't going to be a tragedy for once.]

[Right. Sure.]


That so? [It's a casual urging on, an opening to let Anna ramble if she wanted.]
belligerentwarrior: (Is that it?)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2019-02-07 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
[That tugged hard at Freya's heartstrings, and for more reasons than mere sympathy. If she closed her eyes, Freya was sure she'd see a bright, half-remembered smile. It was probably that 'little too close to home' bit that caused her to kick back a little harder than she should've.]

Careful; almost sounds like you're moping again. [She says with a snort, and immediately looks away. No, bad.]

I hate that self-sacrifice BS, [says the bloody firefighter.] No one gets anything out of it in the end, except more pain. That's rough.

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