People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously.

[runebladeknight]

Who: Celes Chere (runebladeknight) and YOU
When: April 6, various times of day
Where: All over the city
Summary: A day and a night in the life. Started as prose, but action tags are welcome to those who prefer them.
Warnings: Likely to be violence against monsters in the nighttime thread. Will add others later if needed.


Celes didn't lead the most exciting of lives. Even work as a police officer could be dull at times, filing all of that paperwork and handling minor disturbances.

And home life was rather lonely these days, being the only one left at the boarding house. So much empty space. Maybe she should start looking for a smaller place of her own herself; she's saved enough. But that would be something to think about another day. And it wasn't really the solitude that she minded most of the time.

Even if that was some of what made her go outside some nights.

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Daylight -- Just give a time and place

[runebladeknight]

She had various things to take care of during the day. Work, picking up a few necessities here and there, perhaps stopping at a park and watching people go by. She wouldn’t shun company, but she wasn’t really the type to seek it out, either.

Sector 5, around 11am?

[thelittlestbub]

Jubilee had never felt so damned free. No wonder Kurt used image inducers all the time. She should use it a lot more often. "Jay" - a name she answered to anyway - could just wander about and no one thought anything of a guy in t-shirt and jeans (thank god for 1) her boyish body and 2) her unisex wardrobe) wandering around sector 5, looking for a decent place to eat.

Jubilee would've hit the first burger joint she came across; Jay was looking for salads and something light. No soda; water only. Froufrou coffees. She sipped the double shot espresso low fat lattee with a triple pump of vanilla coffee in her hand, looking for a decent restaurant.

She stopped outside of a computer store, studying the new pad they had, when she turned and bumped into somebody. "Oh god! I'm sorry!" She reached out a hand to steady the blonde woman she'd bumped. "I'm sorry, miss. Are you alright?" The image inducer gave her a lower voice so she even sounded like a guy.

[runebladeknight]

She shrugged off the hand, but not rudely. It was an accident, after all. She could tolerate those, despite her reputation for being a hardass. Yeah, that reputation had basically followed her here. Go figure. Nobody got knocked down, nothing was spilled. Totally fine.

"I'm fine; don't worry about it. You?"

[thelittlestbub]

Jubilee shook her head. "I'm completely fine." Because a bump wasn't going to knock her down. "I wasn't watching where I was going, that's all." She sipped her coffee, and decided to really try on this new persona.

"Let me buy you lunch to make up for it?"

[runebladeknight]

There would have been something wrong if either of them had been hurt. She'd only asked the question to reciprocate; her social skills still left something to be desired, at times.

Her eyebrow went up a little at that offer. What the hell? "You don't have to do anything like that. It was just an accident."

[thelittlestbub]

Jubilee just smiled. Too many guys had used that lame line to pick her up. She was glad she wasn't the only one who didn't fall for it. To push or not to push? Jay... would push, or not.

... Being someone else was hard with her brain.

"Ah, well, can't blame a guy for trying to take out a pretty girl to lunch."

... Where the hell had that come from? Whatever. Roll with it. "Don't suppose you know a decent place around here to get soup and salad do you?"

Hey, is the image inducer making Jubes look any taller? If not, Celes has about 6 inches on her.

[runebladeknight]

That? Just got a flat stare. Honestly, who in the world thought this was clever? It was just pathetic. She was dangerously close to rolling her eyes, but she had more dignity than to actually do it. At least for now.

Still, the guy wasn't being overtly rude or anything, so she supposed it would be a bit excessive to be too annoyed with him over it. Or at least keep from expressing her annoyance too much. Because she couldn't deny the feeling; she tended to get hit on regularly anymore.

So she shrugged dismissively before chucking a thumb over her shoulder. "There's a serviceable place about three blocks down the street."

It COULD but it isn't, no. So she's still SHORT.

[thelittlestbub]

Ah, this girl was more like Rogue who didn't seem to understand or accept a compliment when she got one. Jubilee could roll with that. Luckily, she knew how to hide her mannerisms. Training on Blue Team, by Betsy, by Logan... all of it culminated in her being able to do things like this and hide.

"Thanks." Jubilee pushed herself up, sipping her coffee. "Sure I can't entice you to that lunch? I hate eating alone."

Which, actually, was true. She got tired of eating alone. Because, seriously, she did it all the time. And being out like this was a chance to do things without people realizing who she was. And a chance to get her brain straight.

[runebladeknight]

Well, she did have time before she had to go into work; she only had afternoon duty today. And was there really any reason to just isolate herself when she was already moving about in the city? Daylight, and a public place meant that things were less likely to go awry, anyway.

"I do have a bit of time before work. I suppose it couldn't hurt. But I can pay my own way, so don't bother asking to treat me again."

[thelittlestbub]

Jubilee smiled, and held up her hands in surrender. "I promise. No more asking to treat you." Because, why not? "How about we head to that soup and salad place?"

Oh, she should probably have manners. "I'm Jay Yashida by the way." She extended a hand to be shook. Somewhere, Logan was growling. She just knew it. But she also thought he might understand.

Darkness -- Anywhere

[runebladeknight]

She wasn’t out every night – she had to sleep sometime – but tonight she was. Her sword saw little use during her work for the police, and at times she grew to miss the familiar weight in her hands. She still favoured it over her gun, and it was the blade she took with her. Just her sword and her magic against monsters. It was almost like home, save that her friends weren’t here. And that was a very important difference.

[OOC: Any character who wants to run into her and has magical abilities should take a second to reply to her permissions post: she can potentially screw you up.]

[defineshinky]

Having satisfied her curiosity about the night in her first few days in Port, Wendy tried to avoid being out past sirens these days, but accidents happened. It was her first day of work and she lost track of time with all the new responsibilities. So not only was she out avoiding monsters, she was doing it in a barista's outfit.

"This blows."

[runebladeknight]

It was early into the night yet, and she hadn't seen much activity. And what activity she'd seen was mostly a few stragglers hurrying their way indoors before it got any later. Celes found it almost odd, really, that in a place where few people were without power, most still ran from the night.

She caught sight of a woman out of the corner of her eye -- someone heading home from work, if the clothing was any indication -- and some intuition that she couldn't name prompted her to look up. And it was a good thing she did.

A half-moment of concentration, a quietly whispered spell, and a blast of flame shot forth from her hand, intercepting the Death Head Squid when it was about two feet from landing on the woman's head. So instead of an unpleasant new hat, the potential victim just ended up with a shower of ash.

"Hey. You all right?"