It's a normal morning for anyone who's managing to sleep a standard schedule- up until a mass text goes out, that is. Everyone will find the same thing from either Mafuyu or Aerith's username:
... Simple enough. And should you choose to attend, both your hostesses will be pleased to see you once it's time to head over.
As they said, the aquarium is largely empty save for the group, and it's definitely worth it. A serene song plays overhead while attendants give tours or explanations as needed. The variety of aquatic life is surprisingly vast as well, and spacious halls give way to plenty of opportunity to explore.
Come nightfall, certain rooms dim the lights but the tanks stay lit- or black lit as darker enclosures like the jellyfish hall and the octopus tanks remain- and only a few staff remain to keep an eye on things- so... stay on your best behavior. The two restaurants stay open- a regular fast food joint with kitschy island cabana theming, and a much more upscale lounge where Aerith plans on corralling the adults for fun this evening.
Once it's time for the age groups to split, Aerith will lead the adults to a pleasant lounge with more tanks, large couches or more private tables, and a view overlooking one of the main rooms of the aquarium- wave to the kids if they're there! Or don't. Bouquets of flowers are placed around the room, and it looks like Aerith has a few ideas already, though she won't stop anyone from going out to review the different sections again.
Contrasting Mafuyu, who is content to let the fellow teens do whatever- though if they do congregate, she's not really the social sort and will simply be content to enjoy the vibes. Even if you just want to take a nap somewhere, there's plenty of dark secluded areas to do so.
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but he does, however, spend most of his time wandering around the exhibits and taking photos of the various sea creatures on his cellphone. the orange one he's been using to attack, not the one that has been standard issue here.
he's also in the "looks like a teenager but also an immortal angel that has been around for way too long" conundrum, so... he's pausing outside the adult lounge (and the alcohol) like he's not sure if he's going to be allowed in there.
whatever, he's sneaking in.
he's also staying up later in the whole "doesn't usually need to sleep but has been surviving here on 30 minute catnaps" thing that he has going on, so if anyone wants to like, find him for a private chat without too many people listening, now's the perfect chance. he's perfectly content to be left alone looking at jellyfish though, so maybe you should get him to stop being antisocial. ]
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with a cold drink to the face from behind. )
... Brought you something.
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joshua startles because wow, being depowered and not being omniscient means that that totally catches off guard
(the drink better be an ice coffee or something)
but he manages to recover enough to not make it too obvious ]
Thanks~ Didn't anyone tell you that sneaking up on people might give them a heart attack?
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I'm confident that you'd live.
( it is an iced coffee! a vanilla latte, because she took a guess entirely on what he might like, but he seems like a fancy bitch. )
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like his soul.]Alas, I seem to have been cut off from my immortality here. I'm just as fallible as any of you here now~
[ there goes my plan to have joshua killed off in the next round of palaces--
anyway. he's not saying no to a free coffee, even if it's not 100% to his tastes, so he's taking the drink from mafuyu and taking a long sip from it. does this mean he'll be up late from the caffeine? probably. that's a problem for later, though. ]
Having fun?
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( despite the lighthearted monotone, it's... painfully sincere.
she immediately distracts herself with jellyfish. )
... I am, yes. And I hope that it's helping everyone. Aerith and I saw the flyer for overnight rentals.
I'm not as sociable as her, but- I hope you and the others are also having fun.
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[ she can never really compare to neku, but even though joshua's tone is teasing, there's... okay there's some sincerity to match hers.
the jellyfish are very eye catching, tiny blobs of light providing just enough ilumination. ]
... I'm not really used to being in crowded settings.
[ something something being sociable is hard!! he's so much better in one on one settings, which is the only ic excuse i have for why i haven't thrown him onto the party games section yet. ]
But it is nice. Peaceful. There's actually an aquarium like this in my city, but I haven't had any incentive to visit it recently. Maybe I'll add it to the list of things I'll need to do when I get home~
[ i don't know if it's been mentioned icly yet that they're both from shibuya but oh well ]
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( it hasn't been, but it is now!
mafuyu watches quietly, though if joshua is paying attention, he can tell that she's also watching his reflection. )
I had to ask permission for anything. Despite raising sea grass, I'm not sure Mom would have let me go to the aquarium without there being some sort of special educational event. She got weird about me going to a museum just because she didn't see the value of the exhibit.
... I think, though... that I'd like to make something like this a regular activity.
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Huh. Are you not sure where you belong either..?
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[ should have played him when he looked eighteen but alas, he sure is stuck in a scrawny 16 year old body ]
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[He shrugs his shoulders! Guess Josh is stuck with him in the ??? category.]
Some of us don't have such an ability...
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[ said with a wink, definitely in jest. ]
Do you want anything?
[ jerks his head towards the bar. stealth roll says (19) so I GUESS grabbing drinks from the bar is going to be a success so they can have their own drinking party outside. ]
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[But it's a party and they're both well over the drinking age.]
White wine.
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[ he thinks it's Funny. but anyway he's off to slink and stealth some ill-gotten (?) alcohol: a bottle of white for atem, red for himself, and just because i rolled a 19 earlier i'm also dictating that he got a couple of cans of premixed whisky highballs and some fruity premixed drinks because he seems like the kind of person who would like that kind of thing.
so! drinking party of 2, start! ]
Thought you'd be a red kind of guy, honestly.
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[They move somewhere a bit more secluded so no one bothers about their supposed underage drinking. Not that he thinks anyone would care. Most people already know both Atem and Joshua are old as balls.
He actually flops to sit, and allows himself to stretch by lifting his arms high to loosen up a little.]
And red was what the peasantry predominantly drank, so I never got a taste for it.
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It looks too thin to be blood, though? Needs to be a little darker, too.
[ swirling the liquid in his own glass to make a point since there's probably at least enough light to show that. joshua only likes red because it tastes stronger than whites. love it when canon actually tells you things like their preferences in food. ]
Look at you, slumming it out here with us peasants.
[ is he going to continue with all the royalty jokes? probably? most likely. joshua, meanwhile, has probably stolen several large cushions from a handwaved somewhere and is probably proceeding to sprawl all over them. ]
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[something something sekhmet was tricked into drinking the nile when they poured a shit ton of wine in it something
not me shriveling up because the only known preferences are tea, falafel, and how much he hates fish. but at least... at least i know what was normal for his time period... right...]
Tell me, what's it like to lose your wings and fall from grace?
[If Joshua's gonna start with the royal jokes, then Atem'll dish angel ones right back.]
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[ loooooong sip because hm. atem somehow managed to accidentally open a door to Complicated Feelings and Thoughts.
........ you know what, it's fine. ]
I do happen to know someone who was Fallen, though. I think he's kind of banned from helping me for at least the next couple of decades or something.
[ there's a wince there. does he feel guilty about hanekoma? maybe? a little bit? it's Complicated. ]
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[He saw the wince.]
What's it like? You may not believe this, but you're first one I've met.
[He's kinda changing the subject? And his tone is purposely light--- Joshua should absolutely knows he's the first.]
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[ he sees you changing the subject, atem. it's really only thanks to braphine's gift over the last two weeks that he's not being part of the cagey bitch conglomerate rn. ]
No angels as part of the Ancient Egyptian afterlife, huh. [ he sounds actually... a little amused by it? ] That's a good thing. Most angels are assholes and convinced that they know better than anyone else. If anyone from the Higher Planes takes an interest in you, that's never really a good sign.
[ he is Aware that he is possibly talking about himself in that category too, yea ]
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[He leans his head on his hand.]
But higher plane huh... Another thing we have in common. That's part of why I tried to remain impartial and observe when I first got here. Couldn't do it for very long, though. Don't know what Lady Braphine did, but she cut me off from my divine power. Is it the same for you?
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[ the sheet ghosts that shoot lasers from their eyes, he means. joshua is thinking that would be something cool to implement as a noise form, but he's digressing.
anyway, he's taking another sip of his wine. ]
Different kind of Higher Plane, though. I think yours probably has a lot more colour, and is less... boring. [ makes a face. ] They're all about the status quo up there. A little bit of discord throws them all into a frenzy.
Yeah, but I kind of expected it. It always happens whenever I try jumping dimensions. Takes a huge chunk of power and also it's like a coin flip on whether you make it through.
[ i'm never playing a jrpg protag ever again i had to nerf him so bad ]
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Does it really put that much strain on you? Because I never had a problem with it until here.