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Who: Selphie, an unnamed Green Chocobo and YOU
When: All throughout July minus the week of camping
Where: Sparks Golsaucia, Yun’Ashia, Myste Aure and wherever her tickled fancy takes her
What: Selphie’s going exploring, chasing down her unnamed Chocobo who… isn’t very happy about that and whatever else comes to pass
Warnings/Notes: Nothing… yet.

[ Days of our Sparks Golsaucia ]

[ Not being the type to let things get to her for very long, Selphie attempted to bounce back from the disagreement she had with Hunk over Mognet. She got called out and served a warm slice of humble pie and didn’t have it in her to fight back. She talked about it with Jaelyn and knew that she’d have to talk things through with Hunk eventually but for now, things needed to cool down. She was pondering what to do on a warm morning as she pulled on her overalls, pulled her hair back and made her way down to the Chocobo Farm.

When she arrived, she heard the sharp trills of the Chocobo she’d befriended a couple of months ago and it didn’t sound very happy at all. She was still learning how to handle the Chocobo’s properly, but she knew an unhappy animal when she heard it. She dashed to the stables and grabbed a fist full of greens along the way to try and placate the distressed bird who was surrounded by her colleagues. The Green wasn’t adjusting to being cooped up in a stable all day as she made her to her friend and tried to soothe it. ]

C’mon buddy… calm down and I’ll take you outside. Here, I brought you some greens.

[ Selphie offered the greens to her Chocobo as she opened the gate to its pen and lead it out toward the pasture so it could get some exercise. She stroked the bird’s neck gently but felt that something was wrong. The minute the two got toward the exit of the stable, the bird bolted from Selphie’s precarious grasp. ]

No! Come back!

AFTER THAT CHOCOBO!

[ And there goes Selphie, bolting off like a bat out of hell after her Chocobo who goes running through the streets of Sparks Golsaucia without its owner. ]

[ Weekends of Wildcard Adventures ]

[ The weekends find Selphie hopping onto the first airship out of Sparks Golsaucia to explore the world. This was something that she’d always wanted to do while she was still living on Crystallis but the time had never really been right. There was always something going on that had her attention going elsewhere at a breakneck pace. Honestly, she wasn’t sure how long this peaceful life would last as she started making her way around the world, one weekend airship ride at a time.

The first weekend has her head to Yun’Ashia to do something training at the Stave Master guild and check out the sights of the town that gave her the ability to protect herself. The second weekend of the month has her heading to Myste Aure to not only check out a Blitzball game but to visit one of its players as well if he was up for a visit. Weekend number three finds her at the Curti Centres Camp and who knows what manner of shenanigans will go down.

The final weekend of the month is the couple of days in the month that Selphie genuinely took for herself. She walked the streets of Sparks Golsaucia and when she’s not riding roller coasters or playing games where the prizes were stuffed animals, Selphie was at home in her apartment, taking some time to decompress from the busy months.

Perhaps she’ll stop by the Curti Centre to visit some friends who are still living there for the time being? ]

[ooc: if there’s something here that you’d like to play out but don’t see up here, I’m always open to ideas! Feel free to send me a message or ping me on plurk (

boomchucka) if you want to do something else entirely! Let's leave the shenanigans for Camp for the event though! :) ]

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[It's been a busy few weeks for Tidus settling here---after the tournament the team is getting serious, and there's talk that he might be able to make the starting roster in a few months.

And that means practice game! He finally has a chance to show off everything he's learned, and though his half of the practice squad fell a bit too far behind for even him to make up the gap? It didn't stop them from some spectacular dives. Did he find Selphie in the stands and flash her a peace sign after a goal, as promised? Yup.

After a round of congratulations and consolations, he slipped into the locker room for a quick change into dry clothes and sprinted up the bleachers to find her, grinning widely.]

Hey, you made it! How's the town treating you?

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[Selphie waved at her friend excitedly before her gaze wandered over to the emptying stadium pool. With her hair pulled into bizarre looking pigtails, she could probably go for a dip in the pool given the the weather. She'd ditched her usual dress and boots for sandals, tank top and shorts as she watched Jaelyn start to make her way over to Tidus to confess that they'd gotten lost a few times trying to find the stadium and only caught the last bit of the game.

The perky brunette wrapped her arms around her Moogle and bear hugged her partner into silence as she grinned.]

I did, as promised! Rather warmly I'd say!

[Kenichi was actually at the Chocobo Farm, tending to his own chocobo, Kohaku, when the green one decided to go rogue. Without a second thought, the two chase after it. He shouts warnings as they make their way through the streets.]

Sorry! Runaway chocobo on the loose! Out of the way, please!

[Selphie gives Kenichi a quick, grateful glance over her shoulder before she races ahead after the nameless green. She moves quickly and pulls out a couple of straggly strands of gysahl greens to try and entice the bird into a state of calm.

She roughly shoves an innocent Lalafell aside as their green feathered companion takes a sharp left down an alley.]

We've gotta cut it off!

[Kenichi and Kohaku slowly close the distance between them and the green chocobo. He could risk a jump, but there was no guarantee he'd stick the landing. As he carefully weaves through the streets, he remembers this road eventually leads to a plaza or small square of sorts and there were little sidestreets that could take him there before the rogue.]

Make sure it stays on this road. I'm gonna take a shortcut around!

Okay!

[Selphie continues chasing the rogue green while attempting to soothe it with some of the techniques she's learned so far working at the farm. She trills a bit breathlessly at her bird, hoping that the call will slow it down a little bit before she's pulling out a small handful of greens that she'd stuffed into her pouch.]

C'mon buddy slow down, you're makin' a scene!

[He nods and breaks away, turning into the nearest alleyway they could fit in. Giving how hard he's pushing Kohaku, he will absolutely spoil her after their target is captured. She handles the sharp turns with ease and sure enough, they make to the small square just in time.]

Okay girl, hold your ground. Steady now...

[He grips the reins tight as they stood their ground, ready to intercept the green chocobo. It might be a giant game of chicken, but he's hoping the rogue one would at least stop running.]

[Selphie wills her legs to pump a little harder as the rogue green puts a bit more space between the two of them. The bird stops eventually when Kenichi and Kohaku block the other pathway out of the square.

She skids to a halt several feet behind her Chocobo and holds her arms out to the side to try and block the bird from turning around the way it came. The SeeD trills again at the bird before offering the greens to the bird.]

Easy there, I'm not gonna hurt you...

[The bird huffs and pecks lightly at Selphie's outstretched hand.]

Hm? What's wrong?

[Kenichi dismounts from Kohaku and gives her a rub on the neck. She happily trilled in return. ]

Thanks, girl. You did great.

[Their attention turns to the Selphie and her rogue green bird.]

Man, it's times like this I wish I could speak to animals here. At least he's not as aggressive now. Did you recently get him? I wonder if he was just getting fed up with being cooped up in the stables/

[Selphie's not too sure what riled up her bird as she gently strokes its head. She'd have to speak with the other folks working at the farm to find out. She's still pretty new at looking after Chocobo's but they seemed to like her for the most part?

The reds though... temperamental little buggers.]

One of my duties at the farm is to let the Chocobo's out into the penned off area so they can exercise during the day and graze at the same time.

[Talking to animals...? Selphie regards Ken'ichi curiously at that topic of conversation.]

You could talk to animals? That would be super handy right now. Maybe I could figure out what I've done to upset my friend here.

[The Chocobo pecked a little harder at Selphie's hand which caused her to wince.]

Oh... maybe that's it. I still haven't decided what to call them...

[She pats the green's head gently before giving it an apologetic look and grabbing the reigns before it ran off again.]

To a small extent. I have the best luck with foxes, but sadly that ability's been gone since I arrived here.

[He takes Kohaku's reigns and walks closer.]

In that case, maybe he acted out to get your attention. Giving your partner a name is the first step to creating your bond with your chocobo, or so the Cavalier guild members told me.

Speaking Chocobo would be an awesome talent to have...

[Selphie let's her head hang for a few moments before she starts firing off a series of names ranging from Boko to Zamboni. The green rejects every single name as the brunette pouts at the bird.

There's only one other name that comes to mind as she eventually looks up at the bird with a curious look.]

Chester?

[The green trills happily and lowers its beak to nuzzle Selphie's left cheek as she strokes its neck.]

Sounds like we have a winner.

[ They'd been planning to meet up for a while, of course, but what is timing? That's why as soon as they were both at the Curti Center, Hunk made sure to reach out and request, no, demand that they meet up. So this can be over with, whatever it is.

He'd given her directions to meet at a bench in the park, though of course he didn't claim that spot empty-handed. He'd brought some chocolate chip cookies, still pretty warm. He must've thrown them together this morning. Anything to make this less uncomfortable.

But eventually, Selphie arrived, with Hunk mid-bite into a cookie. His eyes widened, and he quickly scarfed the rest of it down. ]

H-hey. Cookie? [ And then he holds the box out to her. ]

[Whatever this is between the two of them, it's a textbook definition of awkward. Selphie knew after Hunk had stopped responding in their initial disagreement that she had indeed crossed a line she hadn't meant to. Her intentions were to try and stop the others from fighting and ultimately ended up with her arguing with someone that she didn't want to.

She knows that not everything can be sunshine and rainbows all the time but she is quite earnest in her conviction that fighting amongst themselves and with the staff isn't going to do any good. On the other hand, she's taken the time to go over their disagreement again and after having a chat with Jaelyn (the more rational of the duo), Selphie knows that she has to apologize.

There's one thing lingering in her mind as she waves at Hunk with a guarded smile on her face. Does she want to explain the Sorceress War and Time Compression? Their stories before Vaikuntha sound incredibly similar.

She approaches the Paladin and accepts one of the cookies before sitting down on the bench.]

Thank you.

So... [ She took the cookie. Good! That means this isn't already dead in the water. That said, he just... Laughs... Awkwardly. ] You, uh... [ He sighs. ]

You wanted to talk about something, right? [ Doesn't help it's an elephant in the room and someone he doesn't really know. At least with Keith they'd worked together for a while. And the issue wasn't anyone's fault. This? Oof. ]

Maybe you should start?

Yeah...

[There goes the pit growing in Selphie's stomach as she swallows nervously.]

I read over the last thing you said to me again and again and I didn't mean to imply that I was ignoring everything that you've been trying to figure out. And I know that that new guy at the Curti Centre didn't make things any better by being a super jerk and all and well...

[Selphie sighs heavily as she holds the cookie in her hands.]

I crossed the line and I'm sorry.

[ Hunk hears the apology and just sighs. ] It's fine. I forgive you. [ And now he's smiling at her, nice and warm. He means it! ] That whole thing was just crazy. They didn't know we were so frustrated, and we didn't know they were just as lost as we were!

[ And then he sneaks a cookie out of the box and tosses the whole thing in his mouth. ] Onesh we all realished we were on the shame page and [ Swallow. ] totally winging it, we actually started to get some stuff done! Names, information, even some plans for supplies.

[ And then he shakes his head back and forth, smiling and sighing. ] I'd rather it be a stupid argument over the internet than something worse, like a riot. [ He's not, however, touching the assumptions she made about him. At least not yet. ]

[Selphie sighs in relief at the forgiveness and makes quick work of the cookie she'd taken earlier. She nibbles thoughtfully as she learns that the misunderstandings were cleared up and returns the warm smile with one equally as warm.]

I'm really glad that everything worked out in the end. I was really worried about all of that. I'm really glad that we've cleared this up too.

[As Selphie reaches for another cookie, she studies Hunk a few seconds before biting into the next cookie.]

These're super duper good. Do you like to bake?

[ He just smiles and shrugs. Live and let live, Selphie. It's easy to do when you've forgiven worse than an internet fight. Like space bandits. ]

I like cooking and baking. [ He'd mention he bakes as stress relief, but it'd show how worried he was about this. ] It's a great way to meet people and learn stuff. Everyone needs to eat!

Edible chemistry is important!

[Selphie chows down the cookie as she looks at Hunk with a serious look.]

I still volunteer to help with your cooking show. I'm not a very good cook so if I can learn to make something simple, I'm totally down.

[She gives him a wink.]

I'll even help with the dishes!

[ Hunk nods- she gets it! Cooking is just edible chemistry! ] We're moving soon, so I have no idea when the show'll get off the ground, but... I have it on good authority that Food Lion will be doing some recording at the camp retreat coming up.

[ He winks back. ] I'm sure once the ball gets rolling, we can figure something out. [ And then there's a pause. ] Might need some help with cleanup, too.

[Why wouldn't she get it? She has to learn sometime!]

Let me know when you're ready to go then. I'll be there in a heartbeat!

[Selphie had forgotten that the first wave of people would have to leave the Curti Centre in August. She knows that a lot of people have moved to Yun'Ashia but that doesn't mean that everyone is going to congregate there.]

Where are you guys moving to?

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