eight (video) ♞ ❝but i won't complain; i'll open all the windows.❞

[limitstorm]

[ as usual, Riku's been helping Transports that're coming in. it's the courteous thing to do, he figures. but even he needs a break, and remembering what he was told as a kid during the event, he's ... made something of a makeshift soccer field in one of the gymnasiums. with two goalposts and lines in tape, it looks like a proper field.

without the grass, of course. he'd love to play in the rain, but with all the new Transports and with dirt turning to mud and good god, the chill... well, not much of a game if everyone's slipping and sliding and freezing, anyway. he bounces the ball on his head like the proper showoff he is. ]

Who's up for a game?

There's got to be soccer--uh, or football [ he glances to the Initiative staff member who coughed when he said 'soccer' with a raised brow ] on other worlds, too.

There's a lot of new people around, now, like there always is around this time of month. So if you just arrived and need to kick something--

[ there's a flash of yellow and purple suddenly, and the ball he'd been bouncing is suddenly gone. he has to turn to look off-camera, and he levels his gaze. ]

C'mon, Stellaluna. You can't...

[ ...!

he rolls his eyes and moves off-screen, himself. ]

That's not for eating. Spit it out.

[ off-screen wrestling; the ball shoots out, hitting the chair his device is sitting upon. it tumbles over and reveals Riku taking the ball from a flapping bat's grip.

once the ball's let go, the bat perches atop his head, and he gives her a pet before looking back at the device. ]

... oh, right. [ he starts to get up. ] If you helped me as a kid, I'd like to talk to you. Privately.

[ he moves over, and clicks off the feed. ]

Comments

[limitstorm]

[ he nods, answering all three of her questions in one fell swoop. ]

They're all like this. I'd summon them here, but... [ a sigh; a frown. ] I've tried. Looks like the only one I can summon is Stellaluna.

[sleepingvalkyrie]

All spoiled, like her?

[ A tiny hint of teasing, rare for Gwendolyn, though it falls away abruptly when he frowns. ]

..I am sorry to hear that. I would have liked to see them as well.

What are the others like?

[limitstorm]

[ animatedly, with bright eyes; ]

Stellaluna and Littlefoot are my main team. She's a bat, he's a dinosaur--kind of. He looks kind of like a dragon, but he has tiny arms. He acts a lot smaller than he actually is, because I'll be standing on a cliff or something, and he'll just bound up and swing his tail around like a puppy and make me fall. [ a little bit of laughter. ] There's also Rainbowfish, she's a piranha, and Babar, he's an elephant...

[sleepingvalkyrie]

[Somewhere in the middle of all this, Gwendolyn gets a little lost at the descriptions, but this is one of the few times she's seen Riku so genuinely happy. An answering smile follows, particularly at the thought of a 'dragon' with small arms knocking people off.

He must miss them all, to speak of them so fondly. But at least he has Stellaluna.]

They sounds like quite the handful!

[limitstorm]

[ his hand travels to the back of his neck. ]

They definitely were. [ he smiles, though. ] Wouldn't have it any other way, though. There's nothing that feels better than one of them actually doing something I taught them.