[Day 187]

[coolerthansora]

Who: Roxas and you!
Where: Vicinity of the ice cream shop
When: Afternoon
Style: I'll match~
Status: Open!

It's not exactly unusual to see Roxas in the vicinity of the ice cream shop. He's probably one of its top customers, aside from the not-having-to-pay part.

What is a little unusual is that he's eating... strawberry ice cream. It's gotten to the point where he doesn't have to say what flavor he wants, but this time the lady at the counter gave him something different, remarking she heard it was his favorite. He's overheard a few similarly strange things from the natives, but mostly harmless stuff about people he doesn't know and he dismissed most of it.

Anyway, there's nothing wrong with trying new things, right? Actually, strawberry's not bad.

((Another rumor going around which Roxas hasn't heard is that he likes kissing folk. Vanitas sure got all the important parts out of that diary. So be forewarned your character may be subjected to kissing... on the cheek.))

Comments

[flared]

Speaking of which, all of his zippers are tugged to leave as much skin hidden as possible. Not usual for Axel, but it has to happen.

"Exactly." He looks down at his ice cream and then finally takes a taste of it. ... Whoa, that's sweet.

[coolerthansora]

Roxas hasn't noticed. He tends to spend a lot of his time with Axel craning his neck to look at his face, not staring at his coat hem.

Axel being lucky... He wouldn't exactly say either of them was lucky back home, but there are a few things going right for them here, right?

"...how is it?"

[flared]

Probably better if Roxas never does notice.

He has to take another taste of it to figure out how to describe it other than 'sweet'. "It's... like cotton candy," he says simply. Assuming Roxas even knows what that tastes like. "Sort of. Geez, can't imagine eating more than a scoop of this stuff with how teeth-rotting-ly sweet it is."

[coolerthansora]

"Not salty enough, huh?" Not that salty is usually how ice cream tastes, as Roxas had some idea of but is starting to see for himself now. The strawberry isn't salty either.

Aha, bench spotted. Roxas heads over to sit down, then he can have a taste of this super-sweet ice cream.

[flared]

"Definitely not." Or maybe his mind's been fooled here. See something that looks like Sea-Salt, automatically expect it to taste like Sea-Salt. Once Roxas' spots a bench Axel follows him and sits down with a sigh and one arm thrown over the backrest.

"Here, you judge for yourself," he says as he offers his cone over to his friend.

[coolerthansora]

Roxas scoots a little closer and leans over to have a taste. ...man, how can something so perfectly blue taste so unlike sea-salt?

"Wow. That is really sweet." He thinks for a second and then decides, "I think I like the strawberry better."

Although that assessment is also suspect, what with the rumor going around that it's his favorite.

[flared]

He blinks at his ice cream before deciding to take another lick of it. It's not that it's bad; it's just different. "Mm. Strawberry is pretty good. Used to be one of my favorites before I discovered Sea-Salt, actually." Axel bites the cone and then looks up at the sky for a while. Well, another curse to deal with. It could be worse.

"What d'you think our next curse is gonna be?" Small talk. Something to distract them from right now.

[coolerthansora]

"Really?" Roxas looks down at his ice cream. Another of Axel's favorites, huh.

"I dunno. This one doesn't seem so bad." As awkward as randomly kissing people on the cheek is, he'd rather have that than most of the other things they've been through. "I'm gonna hope for something else silly. Maybe that one where we all grow tails."

[flared]

Well, it used to be. Now it's like anything other than Sea-Salt tastes funny to him.

"Tails, huh." He scoffs at that. "I bet you'd look awesome with a pig tail."

[coolerthansora]

"What? A pig tail?"

Of all the things...

"Well, then you can wind up with- with a beaver tail."

[flared]

"A beaver tail?" Snort. He rolls his eyes. "Hey, if I had one of those, I could at least build some pretty cool stuff!"

[coolerthansora]

Roxas blinks, and then starts snickering at the image. "Build stuff? I don't- think you can build dams over the ocean."

[flared]

"Hey, I'm sure I can manage somehow. And if everything else fails, I'll have something to smack you around with." He snickers at that and then gives Roxas a playful push.

[coolerthansora]

Roxas pushes him back. "Just you try it. I'll totally kick your tail." The idea of them actually sparring with these ridiculous tails is too funny, and he starts laughing.

[flared]

"With a little piggy tail? As if!" He laughs along with Roxas and gives him another push, you know, like boys do. "You just wait. If that happens, you're gonna be so sorry."

[coolerthansora]

"You're gonna be- all off-balance with that huge tail. So I'll still win." Roxas shoves back a little harder this time to emphasize his point, still laughing.

[flared]

Axel snickers at that push and then reaches over to try and steal Roxas' ice cream away instead. "Dream on, porky."

[coolerthansora]

"Ah, hey!" That's his ice cream! He leans back away from Axel, quickly taking a few bites; he's down to the cone now, almost done.

"Maybe I'll just kick your ass now."

[flared]

Well, that's not worth stealing at all, now is it? But he's still reaching anyway! "Hey, hey! Who taught you how to talk like that, squirt?" He's still smirking, however, showing that he doesn't mind Roxas talking that way at all. If anything, it's cute.

... Not like Roxas would like to hear that about himself again.

[coolerthansora]

"Talk like what?" He doesn't even realize he's doing anything. He grabs for Axel's hand, meaning to hold it back from his ice cream.

[flared]

"Who told you you could use 'kick my ass' like that?" And now that Roxas is holding his hand Axel stops to tilt his head at him.

"Gee. If you wanted to hold my hand, you could've just asked."

[coolerthansora]

"I- " ...He really doesn't know where he picked it up. Axel doesn't say it? "Doesn't everybody say that?"

And then he stares at their hands for a second. "W-well, you can't steal anything this way." Axel probably already knows that, but it seems important to make it clear.

[flared]

"Not everyone." It doesn't bother him, so he'll just let it go. Axel scoffs at the next response before he shrugs and leans back against the bench so he can eat his ice cream before it starts to melt all over his other hand.

"Ah, well. It's not like there's much left to steal of your ice cream anyway." He nudges his chin over towards that empty cone.

[coolerthansora]

"You were still trying." Roxas settles back, too, not letting go of Axel's hand just yet. So long as he has some of his ice cream left, even if it's just the part in the cone, he has some excuse for holding on, right?

It feels kind of nice.

[flared]

"It looked like fun to try." Messing around with Roxas usually is. Axel laughs and doesn't move his hand either. Nothing wrong with it, really. "It's just nice pokin' fun at the real you and not someone else after that last curse, you know?"