vatheon | Seeing the Sights

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Seeing the Sights

Who: Sollux Captor and OPEN!
Where: Anywhere in the city! He's had a day to ~~come down from the high~~ recuperate from his surgery, and is out exploring and meeting new people.
When: Today.
Style: Starting in action, but open to prose
Status: Open

[Sollux is taking his first few steps alone out on the town, to explore his new home. He arrived blind, but now has two blue robotic eyes - something he needs to have a word with Equius about - and is enjoying a bit of independence after a while of being stuck in bed unable to do anything without assistance.]

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Heehee, they really do! Signless likes looking after everyone. He's been purrticularly nice to me, but I think it's beclaws my ancestor was his matesprit... He told me once that he always wanted a wiggler to look after, the way the Dolorosa looked after him when he was a grub. And he's really good at looking after people too.

[Nepeta is always happy to inject cute into every conversation she takes part in.]

[His jaw drops at this, not sure if that's gross or just completely WEIRD.] He wants to be a lusus?

Uh huh! Beclaws his own lusus was a troll and he's really fond of us younger trolls too...

Actually he's sort of already asked to be the one to look after me here. He said he knows he can't efur replace Pounce but that he'd really like to be my guardian. He's Karkat's too! [NEPETA KNOWS IT'S REALLY STRANGE but really, Sollux, after you've been on the receiving end of some Signless cuddles it's so hard to say no to the chance of more.]

[Sollux hmmms and watches her uncertainly. He doesn't need a lusus to take care of him, and he's a bit weirded out by the whole idea of having a troll for a lusus. But whatever, he knows other people were close to their lusi.]

That's nice, I guess.

Mmhmm. I always thought that if I met adult trolls I'd be so scared of them? But Signless just makes things better, he fixes things. I suppaws I really do feel safe with him, the same way I used to feel with Pounce...

[And Nepeta and Pounce de Leon were arguably two of the closest lusii and trolls. While the greenblood was fully capable of looking after herself, she still often found herself wanting someone to fuss over and comfort her when she needed it.]

...it really is weird, isn't it? But everything about being here is.

Yeah, they're not like we heard. Well, I guess some of them might be, but none of the ones I've met.

[He shrugs faintly] Whatever works for you.

The Grand Highblood is. He's pretty scary. And Dualscar is a little bit too but he's not that bad... But I like all of the others so far!

It does! I think being happy is the most impurrtant thing here, don't you? [She pats at his arm.] Do you want to come have some ice cream with me purrhaps?

Dualscar's not that bad? [Skeptical...]

...Okay, sure. Ice cream sounds good.

...next to what I expected, knowing Eridan? He really isn't. [When he's not molesting Sollux's ancestor's horns, that is.]

Yesss! We can get you something in red and blue! Come on, this ice cream parlour is this way!

[D o u b t f u l] He's not like Eridan? I would have thought he'd be like him, only a million times worse.

[He grins and follows her] Appleberry blast ice cream?

He's sort of like that, except not...he's a lot more serious than Eridan, he doesn't whine the way he does sometimes, and he's a bit scary really, but he seems furry...I don't know. Competent? He seemed to know what he was talking about when we were all investigating this horrible murder that happened a while ago.

Heehee, yes! Something like that! [She holds the door open for him and shoos him in, the sooner to get to her delicious sweet treat.]

Maybe because he killed the victim. [Cynical, it is him. But Eridan serious and not whiny sounds scary, rather than good. He shrugs faintly] What about his attitude? I mean, about lowbloods and stuff.

[He enters and peeks at the options, hmm]

Nuh uh, it wasn't him. We found out who it was afterwards. And it looked more like something the Grand Highblood might have done rather than a seadweller... [Oh. Yes. That...is a tricky question.] Well...he's a seadweller, from the past, an old seadweller. I think he's listening a furry little bit to Signless so far and that's already a lot coming from someone like him. He does think we're beneath him but at least he hasn't really done anything too bad.

[And then serious conversation is derailed as she plasters her face to the plastic window in front of all the different tubs of ice cream, exclaiming aloud at all the choice and how it all looks so yummy and oh her paws she doesn't know how to choose! ...this is the point at which Equius usually intervenes. It's also the reason she's rarely allowed to go buy herself ice cream unaccompanied.]

Huh.

[It's cool. He doesn't really want to talk about Dualscar that much, anyway. He facepalms at Nepeta and then starts pointing out different options, fully intending to wind her up more. She's hilarious!]

Sollux, Sollux, which do I get, I can't choose, oh no...

[Her eyes go wider and wider as she slowly slides down the plastic and ends up in a heap on the floor, her brain having gone into choice overload. She wants all of them and Sollux isn't helping!]

[And she's not helping Sollux to stop laughing]

How about rainbow sherbet? That's almost like getting all of them at once.

[She stares up at him, pathetically wide-eyed and forlorn looking. This isn't funny, Sollux! Ice cream is serious business.]

No, no, it wouldn't be, there are so many more flavours if you try them all separately!!

[It's not that serious! He eyes the display] But you can't have all of them at the same time.

[Nepeta seems to be faintly twitching by now. IT IS TOTALLY SERIOUS, SOLLUX. The native behind the counter looks apprehensive; the last time this happened someone had had to bring Nepeta's big blueblooded moirail in to calm her down.]

But I don't know which one I want!

[Woah, he's not really sure what to do about this, and he pats her shoulder awkwardly]

How about chocolate? You can't go wrong with chocolate.

And...and if I have chocolate this time I can pick a different one next time?

[Just kind of trying to remind herself how her moirail reasons this problem out with her when it happens. It really is a silly thing to get overwhelmed by, she knows, but sometimes trolls simply have no logic.]

Of course! [Wow, Nepeta, you really need to chill. He paps her a little, hoping Equius won't mind. She really needs it] And you can have a taste of mine, too.

[...is Sollux papping her? He seems to be an it's a little awkward, so she rubs her head against his hand and turns it into a simple headpatting instead. She won't deny it did help to calm her, though, and when he offers her some of his ice cream too it's enough to return the smile to her face.] Really?? Oh, okay, I'd like that!

[Oh thank god. He withdraws his hand and smiles, feeling awkward about what he'd just done, too. It was sort of a panicked reflex]

Okay, well I'm going to have oreo cookie. [He has no idea what it is, but it looks nice with its white and black swirls so he goes to get a scoop]

Okay! [Nepeta actually takes charge of ordering for them now that they've negotiated the tricky business of choosing what flavours they want, getting the ice creams in large waffle cones with sprinkles all over and proudly handing Sollux his.]

That one is really really good too! Equius had it once and he let me taste it then too! [And ended up having to get another when Nepeta sat on his lap giving him wide pleading kitty eyes until he handed the whole thing over.]

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