rookshire | Being the kid sister

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Being the kid sister

Who: Iris and anyone!
What: Trying to get to know the people and place she's stuck in better
Where: Around
When: New Moon
Warnings: Unsure, will add as needed

It had been an interesting month for Iris. She had been dragged from her sunless homeland and to a strange place with strange people, her older brother included, and learned a lot about her homeland's distant past. It took her a bit to adjust, but she was doing her best. She was glad to be around old friends and her brother, but there was something about this place that still seemed very off to her.

She had been spending a good chunk of time with the chocobos as of late and it was time to go and look around and get a better feel for the place she was going to be staying for a long time. It wouldn't hurt to talk to some of the others and get to know them a bit better.

So off she went, wandering down halls and testing doors. If they were unlocked, she carefully looked inside to see if it was safe. Come say hi to the little sister.

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Prompto had spent a good amount of time further inside since he and Noct had decided to stay in one of the therapy offices, but he tried to take a decent amount of precautions. Staying close to the entrance. Being around others. It was still a creepy place and he didn't want anyone else to be alone and disappear.

So when he spotted Iris down the hall he was pretty quick to greet her.

"Hey, watcha up to?"

"Just wandering around. There isn't a lot to do right now and it's too dangerous to go outside," she said, giving Prompto a small smile. She didn't plan on disappearing or doing something stupid while she was here. She'd leave that to her brother.

"Have you been in here before? I could give you the tour, if you want."

Sorry Iris, he wasn't going to leave you to wander around alone. On the other hand, he'd do the same with anyone else. He didn't trust this place.

He didn't want anyone to end up like that table that was split in half.

"Kind of. I haven't looked too deeply at any one room yet and I'm staying away from that one weird door," she said with a small shrug.

"That'd be great. I've been spending a lot of time with the chocobos since I got here." She didn't mind the tour. It'd be rather nice.

"Well, there's not much, but here goes."

He pushed open the door for the bathroom.

"To your right we have a lovely and not at all creepy bathroom. This was here last time we had a storm, so if you ever get stuck back here for some reason it's probably the place to go."

Of course, they had sets of keys and had already unlocked the stuff in here, so besides the doors they couldn't get through yet they were good to wander around. As he headed towards the hall he swiveled around and walked backwards to look at Iris, holding up his hands to direct her down the corridor.

"And if the lady would come this way, we have, uh. Showers."

She covered a laugh as she followed along with Prompto. The place they were stuck in was rather small and she could easily find her way around, but she liked being with her friends.

"That's good to know," she said before they moved on.

"We could also all use a few more showers in a place like this," she added with a grin. She knew supplies were limited and water was something that they would need to save.

"Yeah, would be pretty nice if they were actually working. Especially when it's so hot. Sorry the place probably spells like a sty to you."

At least they had a pool to work with?

"If you really want to work up a sweat, though, our lovely 5 star gym is right down this way." Which. Prompto hadn't been using, but maybe Gladio had. "Actually, I wonder if there's anything in here we should pilfer while we have the chance."

She might start using the gym on a regular basis. Cor would get so mad at her if she didn't keep up her training while she was gone. Gladio could help her out as well. "It wouldn't hurt to look around. You never know what could be hiding in there."

"If things keep changing in this place, it'd be a good idea to take a close look around."

As long as she stayed safe...! Prompto wasn't a gym type of guy, but at least he was getting some exercise in the pool and helping out.

"We still have to open some of those doors, too. I bet some of these weights might be strong enough to hold them open when we get to that."

A metal table had done the trick. A large dumbbell probably would too, right? Prompto headed into the gym to look around and see what was available.

For the time being the water was being rationed, not strictly mind you, but enough that everyone was a little bit dehydrated and if you wanted to clean up you better be planning to use some of the pool water cause like hell was there enough fresh water for bathing. So eventually when Iris pokes her head into the gym she'll find her brother perched on a piece of equipment, taking a slow drink from his water bottle and then kneeling down beside his poor wilty tigerlily to pour a much more substantial drink into a shallow bowl.

"I know buddy... couple more days and papa can get you more water." As the lily drinks he scritches his ears gently. Then Gladio is capping the bottle and moving over to pull one of the mats down, clearly getting ready to start his workout routine before it gets too hot when he catches her by the door.

"Hey kiddo... what'cha up to?" Please don't mind the train wreck that is his back and shoulders right now. It's fine. Just a few scratches, no big deal.

"Just looking around mostly," she said as she stepped inside and looked at the plant. "What's that?"

She moved a bit closer so that she could get a better look at the tiger lily. It looked kind of familiar to her, but it was still rather odd seeing a plant drink like that. She then looked over at her brother and frowned. He really needed to stop getting hurt.

"Gladdy, you need to stop getting yourself hurt," she said, shaking her head. She knew that he was rather reckless, but he still needed to be careful.

Leo rumbles softly at her, curious, one ear perked up inquisitively, the other angled back towards Dad. The only reason she hasn't been glomped by him yet is just how hard the poor thing is taking this desert heat. All his leaves are droopy and browned on the edges, a few vines withered and dried. Even the plentiful ruff of soft pink and orange petals are limp and wrinkled.

"Hurt?" He tilts his head, confused. Look he does a lot of stupid shit but what'd he do this time? He's not hurt? This is fine.

"And this is Leo... Leopold really for Leopoldii Lillium but Leo." She might recognize the latin name for the breed of tigerlily it was. If anyone was going to it'd be her.

"A tigerlilly? Interesting," she said, moving closer to the plant so that she could get a better look at it. She was glad that she could spend some time with her brother. It had been too long and things got a bit crazy after she woke up here.

She crouched down close to the plant so that she could get a better look. "Poor guy. All this heat is not good for him...or any of us really."

"Yeah him and Cobweb aren't doin' so hot... been givin him some of my water and I know Iggy's been sneaking him drinks too." But he's made almost entirely of water so it's not as though the limited amount of water they have is enough to keep him in good condition.

"It's rough but we've got a plan as soon as powers kick back in. Can't believe I didn't think of it earlier."

"Oh really?" she asked, smiling at her brother. "Please tell me Ignis or someone else came up with the plan and not just you."

She had to have some fun with her brother and she knew that he came up with a few rather odd ideas as they grew up.

Spirit is similarly trying to get a grasp on the building's layout, though he knows it's a somewhat moot point considering the building changes form fairly frequently--so he'd been told.

He's actually coming from the sally port hall, once again going through the motions of maneuvering from the outer portion of Rookshire further in. He spots Iris from behind, and clears his throat before approaching.

"Hi." Spirit is still standing a fee feet behind her, an eyebrow raised curiously. "I think we're both new here."

She turned around with a friendly smile. "Hi. Yes. I'm pretty new here myself. I'm still learning the layout of this place."

"I remember you from the dreams. You're Spirit right?" She wanted to make sure she was thinking correctly. This place was so weird and she didn't know if she was thinking right or not.

Don't feel bad about getting things straight, Iris. Spirit is similarly discombobulated. "Good to know it's not just me. I've got the barest lay of the land so far, but that isn't saying much."

The redhead nods, slowly. "Yeah, that's right. I don't recall your name, though. A lot of that dream is...er," he struggles to find the right word, "jumbled up, so to speak."

"I'm Iris, Iris Amicitia. The walking wall of muscle around here happens to be my older brother," she said with a friendly smile.

She didn't really want to talk about the dreams, so she let that conversation go. "I don't think I'll ever understand this place."

"You're Gladio's kid sister? I would've thought he took up all the genetic material. He's huge." This is both a joke and somewhat unfair, considering that Spirit is taller than Gladio though it can be hard to tell with that perpetual slouch.

"So long as you can find your way to the front door and the food, I think that's good enough. I'm sure there's more to understand but...uh, you know. Creepy hospitals aren't really my thing." He shrugs, swiping overgrown hair from his face. "I'll let the crazy kids do the exploring and reap the benefits of their efforts."

Liam hadn't been purposefully avoiding Iris, not by any means. It was just the case that in the days after her arrival, Liam had spent much time sulking to himself, licking his wounds and tending to his shattered pride in private. Not much opportunity to get to know someone when one was inside their own head.

By the time he'd reconciled with Gladio and put his hostility towards Ardyn aside, enough time had passed that a re-introduction at this point felt too late, and Liam simply nodded at Iris as she passed by from time to time. Now, as Liam wanders the halls, he catches Iris coming towards him and offers her a genuine smile, open to conversation. An instant later, he remembers his body is covered in bruises, evidence of his and Gladio's night together. Shit! Liam thinks he's never been embarrassed of taking a lover, per se, but he thinks a young sibling might not want to know the sordid details practically written all over him.

Feeling more self conscious than he's felt since he was young and desperate to impress, Liam's smile turns to nervousness. He adjusts the hood of his cut-up hoodie to hide his neck better, letting his loose hair spill over his shoulders. Unfortunately, trying to duck now out would just make it look like he was actively avoiding her. He didn't want that kind of impression. "Uh, hey, Iris." Gladio? Never heard of him.

It looked like Liam had a rough night, but she didn't remark about it. Things were rough when she first arrived and she didn't know how things were before she arrived. She knew her brother had different lovers and tended to not remark about how he was a man-ho at times. She didn't want to know details, but she understood what went on most of the time.

"Hi, Liam," she said with a friendly smile. She was used to seeing people beat up a lot. Her family was always throwing themselves into fights and other such things. It was just the way that they were.

Even at her age, Iris had the good sense to pretend that she hadn't noticed. She wasn't acting like someone who had been permanently psychologically scarred, either, so Liam relaxes a bit, confidence flowing back into his words.

"Glad to see you're safe," relatively, at least. Gladio had told him about her world, so he assumed that this may even be preferable to the Starscourge. "How are you holding up?" Even so much as being trapped in a cage was sure to leave its mark, but she seemed to be coping well.

"As well as I can. I'm not sure which place is worse. Here or back home," she said. At least here she would have regular contact with her brother and the rest of her friends, but there were a lot of people that needed help back home. "But that's why I started my training. I wanted to be able to help more."

She shook her head a little bit and gave Liam a friendly smile. "At least there are people back home to help take care of the daemons since we're stuck here."

Liam nods sympathetically. "Your brother told me about your world." The sort of hell that the people- her people, Liam supposed, in time- in her world were suffering. Liam tried not to think of what befell the team he abandoned on the mountain, though he knows in his heart what must have happened. The fact that Iris had already confronted that thought said a lot about her moral character. He decides to say as much.

"It's good that you're thinking of the people you left behind. I'm glad to hear that they'll be fine without part of their leadership, at least for awhile." Liam didn't like to keep secrets unnecessarily, so he makes it clear that he knows Iris and Gladio are nobility - and much as he hated class systems, their people had lucked out with the Amicitia siblings. At least, this was his understanding of the situation.

"Though, I've been trying to figure out if there's a goal beyond 'survival' we should work towards. If you could, would you want to go back home, Iris?" Liam supposed that if the Gods had brought them here, there must be a way to return. Willingly, that was.

Edited 2019-08-19 15:22 (UTC)

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