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Who: A visibly bothered momma Axel and YOU
When: Sometime around sundown today, I guess
Where: Park
Style: I'll match
Status: Ongoing and open

This past week has been a train wreck, though Axel would go so far as to call that an understatement. The curse had been fine at the start, and he'd even contacted the entire dome about it all for the sake of some harmless entertainment, but as the days went on he found it more and more difficult to talk, namely with certain people. Of course, the unexpected arrival of a certain someone did nothing to alleviate his stress.

Thankfully that week is done and with it the curse. Still bothered by various thoughts, however, he leaves the apartment right at sundown... with three little ones following behind him: a yellow, red, and a light blue chocobo. He doesn't mind it. It fact, part of the reason why he's out anyway is that he can give them some fresh air. It's better than them camping in his hair all day.

Once at the park, he finds a quiet spot at the edge of the nearby pond to sit and watch the little birds frolic about, pecking at the ground and fluttering their tiny wings. But something's clearly distracting him. At one point he has to stand and just pace, because his body doesn't want to sit still. What's supposed to happen now, he wonders? With Sora and Roxas, Namine and Kairi and even Riku all here--

Now that Saix is here, what's going to happen?

It's the sound of peeping and rustling in the tall grass which snaps Axel out of his thoughts and makes him glance over in time to see that the red chocobo has climbed up on a rock and accidentally fallen into the water. Even as shallow as the water is, for a little guy, the pond might as well be an ocean.

"Hey," he calls out just as he hurries over to wade through the water and scoop up the bird before it hurts itself. If you happen to be wandering by, don't mind him. Or one of the baby chocobos coming over to say hello at your feet.

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Heh. Domestic, ey. Axel would be lying if he said that didn't sound nice.

A few more pets and scratches before Axel looks up, a little surprised that Roxas would guess that so easily. It's not like he talks about Isa a lot. "... How did you know?"

Roxas may not be the most perceptive person, but he does know Axel pretty well.

"He was pretty important to you before." Even if he never said much about it, Roxas remembers those nightmares he had. "And I figured he'd be on your mind lately, since... well, you know."

Axel looks away, embarrassed and a bit pink in the face. Right. He nearly forgot about those dreams and he would rather not remember them at all. Seeing his friends hurt like that with him unable to do a thing about it– And now that Saïx is here, those memories might just come back along with similar dreams. Great. More stressing thoughts.

"... You met him?" Saïx.

...he really can embarrass pretty easy, huh.

"Yeah. How did that- go with you two? Did he try anything?" They are both traitors, and given Axel tends to be more of a jerk than Roxas...

Only with certain people, Roxas, geez. Just don't get used to it.

Axel ruffled up his hair a bit as he thought of how to put this. Well, it wasn't a great reunion as one would expect, but he really didn't want to go into great detail about it. The last thing he needed was Roxas getting all up and arms about it and having the two of them meet again. As much as possible, he wants them to stay apart.

"Nothing serious. He wasn't in the best shape after all."

He'll never get used to it. Too adorable.

"...yeah, I guess not." Roxas frowns, forgetting about the chocobos as he tries to put his thoughts into words. After a little while they start nudging at his hand, cheeping.

"Do you think we need to worry about him? It's- not like we're in his way, here."

The chocobos are surprisingly understanding, Axel's discovered, and capable of figuring out human emotion and language, so it's no surprise they're reacting the way they are during this conversation. He wonders if they exist somewhere in their World...

Axel thinks for a moment, staring at the ground, before he shakes his head.

"Just stay out of his way regardless," he says. As stoic as Saix seems, Axel knows better than anyone that even he has his off days.

"I don't plan on bothering him." He can't see that the things he normally does would be anything Saix cares about. He'd have to go out of his way to antagonize the guy. Probably...

"I just- wanna make sure you're okay. That we're okay."

"Heh. That's definitely for the best." He knows Roxas wouldn't do anything to get in Saix's way in the first place just so long as nothing dramatic happens. There's no promises that Axel won't get into some sort of scrape with Saix at one point or another, but... hm. Roxas doesn't have to know about those.

"We'll be fine," he says as he reaches over to give his best friend a reassuring pat on the shoulder. "You can trust me on that."

Roxas does not buy the reassuring pat. Axel said Saix didn't try anything 'serious' when they met, which means something did happen. He doesn't trust his friend not to be enough of an asshole to spark another fight, when Saix is feeling better.

"If it gets serious, I want you to- call me or something, okay?"

Aw, come on, Roxas. You can totally trust Axel. Totally.

He pulls his hand back then scoops up the yellow chocobo so he can plop it right on top of Roxas' head. Here, take this. ~~It's dangerous to go alone.~~ "Yeah, sure. But I doubt things will get that ugly." More like he doesn't want you getting involved.

Roxas ducks his head a little bit as the chick settles into his hair. Congratulations, Axel, you've discovered another way to mess it up.

"I hope they won't..."

Well, your hair certainly looks more like a nest than Axel's does, that's for sure. He has to wonder why the chocobos don't just settle in there more often. But whatever. At least they don't leave a mess behind.

"They won't," he says, though he's not looking at Roxas when he does. He can't guarantee anything, but he can try his best. "So, uh... Maybe we should think about names at some point then, huh?"

Changing the subject.

Maybe they like being high up, or think the spikes provide better cover. Who knows?

Roxas sighs, but goes along with the subject change.

"Yeah, definitely. I wanna have something to call these guys." He goes back to petting the red chocobo that's still on the ground near his feet. "How do you come up with names? Do people just- make up stuff that sounds neat?"

"You just kind of come up with them, yeah. Sometimes people like to go with generic things for pet names. Like... Spot. Or Fluffy. Things like that." As fluffy as these babies are, however, Axel doesn't think the name would stick very well. Or maybe it could if they said it enough.

Geez, this is harder than it should be. With a sigh he picks up the blue chocobo and brings it up to eye level.

"It's kinda why I thought about Isa for this one." Not only does it have the color and all, but it also seems to be a little calmer than the other two.

"They should have something nicer than that..." A name like 'Spot' doesn't seem very appropriate. "Maybe something like 'Sunset.'" He's not sure that exactly works as a name either, but it's no surprise the red chick is reminding him of someone, too.

He glances back up at Axel.

"...we could name it Isa, if you really want. I just thought- that might be a little weird for you."

"That's kind of a cute name." The yellow one looks like a Sunset, but, then again, so does the red one. Why is naming things so difficult. It really shouldn't be. After a moment of thought, Axel pokes the blue chocobo in the tummy then smirks.

"Fine. This one's Isa." It cheeps in response then nips at his finger.

Well, that's one taken care of, and maybe another.

"You think so?" Roxas tilts his head at the red chocobo and he's about to say something when a different thought occurs to him and he asks instead, "Are they boys or girls?" How do you tell?

You know, he never thought about that. Axel squints at them and realizes rather quickly that, no, he can't tell if they're boys or girls. He could obviously check the obvious way, but, uh, there's kind of a lot of feathers to go through. Well, at least Isa is kind of a girly name no matter what.

Axel shrugs. "I guess we can't figure out right now. But it doesn't really matter so long as we have something to call them."

True. As long as they aren't naming them obviously boyish or girlish names like Tom or Jane. Although he would have thought Lea was a girl's name so maybe sometimes it doesn't matter at all...

"Okay. This one can be Sunset then." He pets the red one on the top of its head, and then turns his attention to the yellow one. As much as he can with it nesting in his hair; he mostly just looks up in its general direction. "That just leaves this guy."

Lea is totally a girl's name, too. But don't tell Axel that or he'll kick you. Or something.

The red chocobo cheeps, probably liking its new name, then when Roxas turns to the yellow one it looks over and tilts its head. Hmmm. What will they name it, indeed. It kind of reminds Axel of a lot of things...

"Hm. You know what he reminds me of?" he asks with a laugh just as the chick hops around a couple of times. "A piece of popcorn." Even more because it bounces.

Sora's pretty much a girl's name, too. Clearly they are both manlier as Nobodies.

"Popcorn--" Roxas repeats with a laugh. He can't see it, but he can feel it hopping around up there and the image fits. "Are you sure we should be naming him after food?"

Roxas, we're Square Enix on the manly scale, ok.

"What's wrong with that?" It's not like you can really eat them... can you? Ok, no, Axel doesn't want to think about that.

Shh, let him pretend.

"Well... I guess it is kinda cute." They probably are edible, to someone. But Roxas doesn't want to think about that either.

"He even hops around like one." It peeps and leaps up high at that then tries to land on Roxas' shoulder. It misses an goes wobbling a bit through the air. Oops. They really need to work their wings a little more, don't they?

"So how's that sound? Sunset, Isa, and Popcorn." Wow. They just named some birds some pretty awesome things.

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I legit thought Sora was a girl at first

/stares judgingly at

what, no one else made that mistake?

/still judgmental