CMO 2019

[yeahtotally]

✿ Only characters listed above available! (unless we've rped a while and you have a request)
✿ Canon/CRAU options are available for Roxas (Forest Covered, The Far Shore, Route 29, Recolle, Awash, Deerington), Pidge Gunderson (The Far Shore, Deerington), Cloud (Aefenglom)
✿ Smut is not to be posted here, but shipping is fine! Smut is in a different post.
✿ Crit is welcome since some of these characters are being voice tested.
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Pidge; more vague jamjar setting

[in4apounding]

Pidge! Pidge Pidge Pidge Pidge Pidge-

[That's definitely an excited come-look-at-this voice, which is distinguishable from Penny's normal excited voice only by prolonged exposure and careful study.]

Look-! At the Depository, they had it-!

[Penny is seeking out Pidge and just kind of shoving a box in her face. It might actually take a second to see what the garish print on the front says: Mercury Gameflux II.]

[tinygreen]

[Pidge stops what she's doing and looks over at Penny. Something must be exiting if the other girl is that worked up.]

They have a lot of things there.

[Box is now shoved in her face and it takes a moment for Pidge to realize what she's seeing.]

Is that seriously a Mercury Gameflux II?!

Cloud - Canon AU - During Rescue of Aeris From Shinra Tower - Recruiting Reeve Instead Of Cait Sith

[plate_builder]

To call the last few days ‘bad’ would could as something beyond an understatement in the books of one Reeve Tuesti, executive of the ShinRa Electric Company in charge of Urban Development. There had been multiple attacks on his Mako reactors, acts of the revived AVALANCHE terrorist organization. The cost in lives had been low for the first, and painful for the second. Worse, the money estimated for the repairs would of course come from more important projects he had to repair rail lines and a ‘beautification’ project in Sector Five that was actually one of his means of filtering more money into the slums. And then...

Reeve had been up for so long now. The bags under his eyes were worse than normal, and the Cait unit on the couch was frowning at him, clearly wishing for him to sleep. Yet after that meeting with the board, how could he? All those people dead. All that life lost? The fact that years of work had been destroyed didn’t matter anymore. The attacks were, in a way, quite personal. A strike against the company, yes. A strike against his life’s work, moreso. And destroying a plate?

Reeve, dear... the stress was so great. I... I’m sorry to say Hanson didn’t make it.

Lives lost in the plate collapse, one of whom was his father, who he had sent with his mother down to the Honey Bee for a personal weekend at his father’s request. Scared to death.

The clock read eight at night. Reeve reaches up to pinch at the bridge of his nose. After all of that, those people breaking in here to the tower. Having been in his office... he was glad they had been captured. Very glad. If only he could...

He could. He could confront them. He could demand to know why they had attached the reactors. Because clearly caring about the Planet was a lie given what they did to the plate. Anger in his heart Reeve pulled open his lower desk draw and pulled out his materia bangles. He was more than just an executive after all. He slapped the pair on, defensive bangle on his left, offensive on the right, and ran his fingers over the materia studding them both. He would get his answers. He also grabbed his high level keycard and headed out.

Bullying his way past the guards on the 67th floor wasn’t easy, but soon Reeve was standing outside of one of the cells, a second-class Soldier at his side.

“Move the leader into the cell across from the one he is in now,” Reeve commanded. With the man unarmed and Reeve in possession of high level spells he wasn’t nearly as worried as he might be.

What he didn’t know was that the SOLDIER had assumed that the one in charge was the one dressed like a first class SOLDIER. Not an unreasonable choice, but as the blonde was shoved into the cell with Reeve and the door to the cell closed behind them, Reeve was left frowning.

“You? A SOLDIER caught up in the ends of a mercenary organization? Have you no loyalty?”

sorry about that! AC Odyssey ate up my life

[actuallyadork]

It was for money.

That's what Cloud told Barret and Tifa. Pay him and he could make it all happen easy as pie. He knows he's skilled, knows what kinds of enemies they might face, and better yet, knows his way around a reactor. Why wouldn't he? He was a SOLDIER. He'd been in a few before. A few? Yes, a few. There might be some pieces of memory that were a little vague at times, but that could be ignored. As long as he could get the job done and get paid nothing else mattered.

That's what Cloud kept telling himself until things got more personal. Aeris was captured and the plate fell. AVALANCHE had of course been blamed since they'd been causing such a ruckus with exploding reactors and other terrorist acts. He had failed to protect Aeris, almost failed getting her back, only to be captured. This was the worst day of his life. Maybe. No, there was worse, but this one was definitely the worst in a while.

It's no surprise to him when he's singled out and led to another cell. Torture was the first thing to come to mind as being possible till Cloud looked who was interrogating him up and down. A Turk? This could get messy...

"Loyalty?" That was funny, though Cloud doesn't let the amusement show. "I'm an ex-SOLDIER. Now I work for whoever pays me the most." There was a tutting noise in the back of his head that he chooses to ignore. "What do you want? I don't have anything to tell you that you and the rest of Shinra don't already know."

Not like Cloud was planning on talking much anyways. For now he wants to observe and see what'll happen. What this guy wants from him.

tfs au, gimme pidge

[forreals]

[ ryuji's been pidge's shinki for a few weeks now, and he's the kind of guy who just wants to let loose. unfortunately pidge won't let him do that, and it's annoying as hell sometimes, but she's pretty good with strategy and all that. ryuji isn't. he's come to trust her judgement over these past few weeks and he's gotten a lot more comfortable around her.

even if he complains sometimes. but that's also just...ryuji.

today, they're scheduled to spar early in the morning. ryuji isn't really a morning person at all, so he's shuffling his feet as he makes his way to the training room. ]

Man...why'd this have to be so goddamn early?

[tinygreen]

[A few weeks is more than enough time to get to know someone. At least Pidge thinks it's enough time. The restraint comes more from wanting to observe just how much Ryuji can take before he hits a breaking point and will rebel. He's already impressing her by going far beyond what she thought he was capable of. Maybe there was more to this boy than she initially thought...

As for early morning spar? At least she didn't have to send Newton the rooster after him.]

Believe me, when I was in the Garrison, we woke up even earlier.

[Pidge is suited up in her Paladin gear. Why? Because it's the only armor she has.] I wanna try something new today.

For Cloud (sorry for the delay. rp drive is fleeting lately)

[unkeptpromises]

For Zack, life as a jack of all trades was going well for him. He had no place that he could call home, none that he remembered anyway, but he was happy and that was all that mattered. He was saved by a kindly man and his family a few months ago, having been found badly injured and near death on the side of a cliff. It was a miracle he came back from it, or so they said.

Today, he found himself wandering into Kalm to complete a delivery. Midgar was nearby and while he remembered little of the place, he found that there was something about it that made him want to visit and stay away all at once. He had yet to comply with either urge.

And it was while he was lost in thought that he walked straight into someone while entering the only inn in town.

"Whoa, sorry." That extra fumble also meant he just dropped the package he had tucked under his arm too.

don't worry, KH3 ate me life up

[actuallyadork]

Cloud knows what it was like to not really have a home at the moment. There was too much to do to even think about where to settle down. Future Cloud could decide on that. If he has a long future. That was not something to dwell on since there was important things to do.

Or important to him at least. Who knows how the others really felt half the time. So for the moment they were separated for a breather. Everyone was doing their own thing, which meant Cloud could have a quiet moment.

Meant to be a quiet moment till he is bumped into. With a sigh, he picks the package up and holds it up to whoever just ran into him. "Watch where you're going," is his reply, without any real bite. This place sees a lot of foot traffic, so Cloud has had his share of run ins.

so i herd you liked some rebelmental aus

[cameupshort]

You know this is totally bantha-crap insane, right.

[They've spent nearly a month in captivity in the Fantasy Sweet, »static« people are dead, and Finn's been having a really bad time of things.]

[And he's currently staring down one (1) iced-up ramp over a flight of stairs and a pile of death orbs (dorbs).]

I mean, this definitely has a non-zero chance of killing someone.

[He folds his arms for a second.]

...Gimme a deathball.

[everylittlesecret]

Yes, but that's what makes it fun.

[Fun in what way? Nari will never tell. Maybe she just wants to see someone get hurt in the end, or maybe she wants someone to feel half as anxious as she does.]

Eh. I'll fix you up if you survive.

[Finn gets a death orb and a smile.] Smooth sailing~

henlo

[galrarm]

[ Shiro is... needless to say, he's not having the best time. It'd started with bright yellow eyes. That had been a hell of a shock, considering the fact that Haggar had used an illusion of just that against him, long ago. He'd hoped it would go away, or it was just a trick of the light. When it hadn't gone away, Shiro had started to panic.

He'd locked himself away in his office. He's gotten people knocking at his door, asking if he's okay. Shiro had answered--still does--with a strained I'm fine, I'm just not feeling well. But for some people, it's not enough. Specifically, the paladins. Hunk's taken to putting food outside his door. Pidge yells at him through the metal. Keith knocks a few times every couple hours, and the first couple days, Shiro had heard him take a seat outside his door.

That's new, too. He could hear so much. Sometimes, it's too much. Whatever's happening to him, Shiro hates it.

(Not to mention that fact that his fingers are turning into claws. It's his worst nightmare, becoming the monster the Galra had wanted him to be.)

And then... Lance. He's the one who comes around most often. Shiro finds himself taking solace in Lance's presence, in hearing his voice. Knowing he's outside the office is comforting. It's getting to be too much, though. It's slow, but Shiro feels himself changing, and he doesn't know how to stop it.

Even if the war is over, and no one needs the Atlas, he's still an admiral. How can he do anything if he's not human anymore? If he becomes a danger to everyone around him? There's an urge to run away, find refuge in another planet... but he isn't sure what's keeping him here.

Yet here he stays.

And he's becoming more monstrous with each passing day. ]

uwu

[greatestsharpshooter]

[Of course Lance would keep visiting. Shiro was by all accounts his friend, a fellow Paladin, and most of all, Lance's hero. Something he's never been able to actually tell Shiro personally. Takashi Shirogane was an amazing man, and Lance just finds himself wanting to get closer to the man he admires.

Everyday he shows up and sits in front of the door. Gives reports on what everyone's doing, adding his usual embellishments. He doesn't know if it's doing any good. There was only ever silence that met him as he'd sit there for hours and just talk. Sometimes Keith was there, teasing him or correcting parts of stories. Sometimes Lance would be joined by Kosmo. The wolf was just as worried about their friend.

One day Lance sits down and sighs softly.]

This is gonna be my last story for a while. My mom wants me to go back home to help out for a few days, and I was thinking of just spending a few days walking around my old hometown. I'll make sure Keith comes by and tells you about what everyone is doing when he's back. He's supposed to return tonight from some mission he of course didn't tell us about.

POKEMON!!!

[disciplineissues]

[ Keith Kogane is easily one of the most recognizable trainers in any region. That's probably because he's Johto's champion. Honestly, sometimes Keith is a little surprised that he is. Then again, he treats his team with love, and makes sure they're never in too much pain. They've built up a lot of trust, and Keith prides himself on that.

Right now? He's in Alola. It's a hard-earned vacation. He has his Mightyena out of his pokeball, and he's out running along the beach. After a while, he slows to a stop, and lets out a breath. ]

Good pace today, Kosmo.

[ To which the Mightyena replies with a 'boof'! ]

[missingache]

[Seeing them running inspires a Dusk Lycanroc to do the same. She's been running behind the two of them, never getting too close, and stops short of them. Curiosity wins out in the end and she circles them a bit as she moves in front of them with a soft bark.

'Hello!' Are these two friendly? Who knows. The Lycanroc bounces, a star shaped charm bouncing on the collar she's wearing.]

roxas, tfs crau!!

[gentilitea]

Are you truly all right with this?

[ He checks the knot on the back of Roxas’s apron for the hundredth time, before following that up with an inspection of Roxas’s oven mitts. Then he casts a worried glance at the piping hot stove and that preheated oven, the knives in their block and the assorted cutlery laid out on the kitchen counter.

There were so many accident-prone areas. What if something went wrong? Was this the right idea after all? ]

I am always happy to cook for you. You really need not trouble yourself over something like this.

[missingache]

[Jakob fussing over Roxas like this makes the small blond want to laugh. Is he really that worried Roxas is going to get hurt?

He shakes his head with a smile.]

I don't think it's trouble! I want to learn, and you're the best cook I know.

Allurance - Modern Magic

[greatestsharpshooter]

[Making coffee and tea was far from glamorous. It was hard, tiring, and the customers tended to be cranky until they had the hot beverage in hand. Or cold for the summer time

Lance loved it. No matter how grumpy and miserable someone looked when they came in, he laid on his charms until even the surliest customer left feeling better. There were some exceptions to this. Mostly grumpy gusses he intentionally irritated couchkeithcough, yet even those customers kept coming back. Honestly, Lance doesn't know if it's the drinks, the atmosphere, or the strange feelings he gets from a few of his coworkers. The latter is shoved aside and ignore because there's no way magic can be real... right?

No need to dwell on that as he saunters to the counter, leaning against it with a smug smile.]

Aaaaaand what can I get for you today~?

[heartofalioness]

[Ah. So this is what the others have meant when talking about this guy. Allura had been away for the week at a conference (and intel gathering), otherwise she would've handled the last round of hirings herself, but she trusts Coran with her life, after all. And people HAVE said his personality is rather sunny... if far too flirty with the ladies. They'll probably need to curb that before he insult the wrong person; the LAST thing they need is a lawsuit... or a curse.

So Allura just gives her best business smile as she approaches the counter. Her glamour is at full strength, so she looks like an ordinary human at the moment (hair dark, even if still LONG, eyes a slate blue with black pupils), but she's heard this one might be magic sensitive. Better keep her guard up around him especially.]

I'll have a large London Fog, please, with an extra pump of vanilla.

roxas! post-kh3 stuff

[miragesplit]

[ Since Sora left to find Kairi, Riku has been keeping himself busy. He's gathered everyone at Destiny Islands and set them up to enjoy normalcy for as long as possible. He's challenged practically everyone to a race - but it's still not enough. Without Sora and Kairi to pester him, without a job to do, he's restless. He thinks Yen Sid must be tired of him asking if there's anything he can do to help.

At least until Yen Sid says yes and gives him a mission, with a mysterious note to be opened once he arrives at his destination. The only problem is that his destination is Twilight Town.

Which isn't really a problem. He went back not long ago to gather the others, but he hasn't spent any time there since... well, everything with Xion and Roxas. It feels strange and he needs someone around to keep him out of his own head. ]

Hey, Roxas. [ He finds Roxas near the beach, everyone's favorite spot on the island. Something about his stance is a little uncertain, but he's holding Yen Sid's unopened letter in his hand to give him purpose. ] Are you busy?

[missingache]

[Coming to the beach with friends was nice. Even if it had been in the data world, Roxas always had hoped on day he could go with the Twilight Town gang. Having Lea and Xion there was a big plus. And Isa. Though he might take a bit of convincing to admit that. To his friends.

It's a little strange to have Riku approaching him out of the blue. Was the other up for another race? Roxas wouldn't say no to that... Riku just had the unfair advantage of height and being used to running on sand. That's all.]

Hm? No, not really.

roxas - slight canon divergent AU

[powerofwaking]

[There was nothing Sora wanted more than to spend the next million years lounging in the sunny rays of an extended tropical summer.

Okay, maybe not a million years, but... After the near nonstop adventuring, training, world-hopping and world-saving whirlwind his life has been, he's earned a vacation, right? A chance to be... home, for a little while. A chance to have time with all his friends, new and old.

Speaking of new friends! Roxas is on the agenda for today. He and Sora are scheduled into one day-long block of hangout time for two at the usual island, in what Kairi had teased as a "date" and Sora had grinned and said "sure!" without thinking anything of it. He's the first to arrive, rowboat docked and his whole self hauled out up on the beach to wait for Roxas to show up.]

[missingache]

[Sora did deserve a vacation. More than anyone Roxas knows. Except maybe Riku. Okay. A lot of them did, but Sora most of all. He's done so much and then so much more. So it's a bit of a surprise that the brunette wants to spend a whole day with Roxas.

Not that he minds. Sora was important in a lot of ways, especially in ways that made the Twilight Town gang tease Roxas. It's not his fault he's fallen for the other. That he can't stop thinking of him or lighting up when Sora is mentioned. Spending the entire day with the object of his affection without doing something dumb will be hard.

He's determined, though, to have a good day with Sora. Stepping off one of the boats, Roxas looks around and spies who he's looking for. He heads over with what he hopes isn't too weird of a smile due to nerves.]

Sora!

Werewolf Engagement

[heartofalioness]

[Allura straightens the collar of her dress once again, even though she doesn't need to, then chastises herself.]

Get a grip, Allura. You are an alpha and the leader of your pack. You can't show weakness now.

[If this was any normal gathering of packs, or a battle, she might be fine, even new as she is to leading. But this is a very different meeting. Most ladies of her station in this age have meetings like this arranged by parents and chaperones, chosen after being paraded around in balls among the rich men of the surrounding society. But she is not most ladies, nor does her kind follow such stifling rules. All the clans around her are too closely related, so instead Coran has been negotiating with a pack from the Americas. Decently large, humble in social and economic status among the humans, but all the better to do their work, protecting the farms and jungles from monsters eager for blood and souls, freeing human and werekin slaves. Family history was important, but VALOR is the measure of true worth among werewolves. And in this their clans are very powerful equals.

So Allura took a deep breath as she exits her room and makes her way downstairs to the parlor of the townhouse, to meet with a younger son of this clan. To meet her potential mate.]

[greatestsharpshooter]

[Lance, unlike his soon to be bride, has had an easier life. Growing up under the cover of being rather wealthy vaquero, it was easy for his family to move things around politically. Even if most of the politics were strictly under the table deals. Lance felt most at home on the farms and ranch lands the family owned, hunting what he needed, and helping his family with the more illegal matters. The front he presents was that of a ladies man, and unintentionally that of an idiot. It was fine. It kept others from getting too suspicious if he played up being the rich pretty boy who could do no wrong. Though...

The engagement was a blindside to him. Especially with someone from a rather big clan. Lance always thought he'd be the lucky kid in the clan who got to pick their own mate. Not have one chosen for him. There wasn't anything he could do but hope that this potentially this wouldn't work out and he could go back to his usual ways.

Hearing someone come down, he stands and waits to see just who he's supposed to get together with.]

SURPRISE

[redbellion]

[ soulmates modern au

y/n ]

[greatestsharpshooter]

[HECK YES]

Roxas - Some Mer Stuffs

[heartdive]

[ honestly Sora should have known better. don't go too close to the shore. stay away from any boats. getting too close to the surface in general is just a bad idea! such things had been taught to him since he had been little, of course. humans and other land-dwelling beings and creatures are dangerous.

still, he can't help but be curious. Sora's been super careful about inspecting wreckage. it's a completely different world there, after all.

of course that's how he's caught in his present situation. literally. since nothing bad had happened to him before, surely exploring closer to land would be okay. but before he knows it he's gotten tangled up in a net. and with low tide he's stranded in a tide pool. desperately trying to wiggle out. ]

[missingache]

[The sea was one of Roxas' favorite places. Of course he's heard stories about beings that weren't human. Who hadn't heard of mermaids? Though some of the old ladies warned him that young men might get snatched away by them, dragged down to their underwater kingdom. No one ever agrees on what happens to the victims. So Roxas ignores the stories. That's all they were.

He happens to be exploring the tide pools as the water retreats. There was always something interesting to find, like starfish or crabs. As he's trying to carefully pick up a small blue crab, he hears the trashing around. Curiosity wins out and he heads to the noise. He stops and stares when he gets there.]

...... What the...? [WHAT IS THAT? MORE IMPORTANTLY he needs to help it out?]

Uhm...! Hold on! I'm coming in!

Weiss

[clickclickbloom]

[Placeholder for when I get home.]

Pokemoooon

[dustprincess]

[Elegance and balance. That's the kind of team that Weiss strives for. Even if one of her Pokemon still needs to evolve, she's proud of the team she's gotten together for any kind of battling. Unfortunately some of her Pokemon didn't have the personalities that tied in best when it comes to their trainer.

Weiss has spent the better part of her day looking for her Raichu. He was always going off somewhere, getting into trouble, and in the long run was more trouble than worth. Scratch that. He was worth a lot being a dual type, but he was still trouble.]

Where is that floating mouse?! [She stops the nearest person with a fixed stare.] You! Have you seen an Alolan Raichu floating around?