Raise a Glass [OPEN]

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Who: The XV Cast and You!
When: June 6th
Where: Curti Center, Jiminy's Juicery (bar)
What: After saving innocents from the Dream Width, some people just need a drink.
Warnings/Notes: Alcohol consumption, possible violence, whatever people do in bars.

Their first foray into the search and rescue business in the Dream Width had been intense, to say the least. Stressful, heartbreaking, exhausting, and enlightening were other words some might use to describe the experience. After a night of rest and a day to somewhat sort things and people out, the next evening brings about a mighty need to head to the local tavern. Some drink to forget, some drink to remember, some drink to relax. There are even representatives of the Bard's Guild providing live music. You can try to make a request, but chances are they don't know your foreign songs.

Maybe you were invited by one of the excitable young men from Lucis, or maybe you came on your own. There's enough room in the bar for quite a few people, so long as they're of age. Sit right at the bar, or pull up chairs around a table, the choice is yours.

[OoC: Make your own toplevel or tag around. Please put content warnings as necessary. Have fun!]

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[chocobosnap]

He'd been thinking of going...somewhere. It was difficult to keep his thoughts straight when he'd had so much to drink. Prompto wasn't entirely sure where he was going, and his steps were unsteady when the stranger told him to sit down.

"...Okay." He answered, letting himself be guided to a seat.

"I'm just going-" He waved his hand. Prompto didn't know this person but they seemed nice, at least nice enough to not let him do something incredibly stupid. "Hi."

[spaceforged]

"Hi." He sets a glass of water down on the table by Prompto in case he'll be up to drinking it. He recognizes him from Noctis memory. By default that means watching out for him while Noctis is...blasted. "I'm pretty sure you don't want to wander outside while you're like this." Or maybe he does.

"It wouldn't be a good idea." He adds in case he just accidentally planted the seed of an idea.

[chocobosnap]

"Prob'ly not." Prompto confessed and he sighed, the water was probably a good idea, and so he sipped at it.

"I was...well I don't know where I was going just, moving around I guess."

He was trying to get away from his demons, and running away literally would be an excellent way of dealing with them, but fortunately he didn't remember that idea, because honestly he was too drunk to be out running.

[spaceforged]

"Restless?" He asks, with a touch of concern. He knows that feeling. It's part of why he prefers being tipsy to being drunk. Drunk he doesn't move around much or do anything. Tipsy he's social and will move when he feels like it. "I'm Shiro, by the way. I live in the residence near the massive red wings."

He traces the wings in the air with his fingers. Sometimes he feels a bit guilty about how they dwarf the other buildings. Then he remembers he has the Lion far away from Zarkon.

[chocobosnap]

"It's so cool." He sighed contently.

"I mean hi. Prompto. I'm Prompto. That's me." He pointed at himself and he was clearly somewhere between tipsy and outright drunk and probably shouldn't be wandering around too much.

"Can I touch your machine?"

That was probably an inappropriate question.

[spaceforged]

That was kind of cute. It reminds him of Pidge and her starry-eyed adoration for anything mechanical. He laughs quietly. "When you're sober you can touch the Black Lion. If you'd like to ask questions about my Lion right now. I'm glad to answer them." It would keep Prompto safely in one place.

He could tell him about a lot of little tech things as well. He'd seen many things in Noctis memory but...he shies away from that. There are some things he doesn't want to know. Or...would rather forget.

[chocobosnap]

"It's so big. I like it. Did you let Noct touch it?"

If Shiro was looking for intelligent questions, that would have to wait until he wasn't drunk.

Shiro would be glad to have missed Prompto's memories in that case, there were horrible things in his, things that were haunting him at the moment.

[spaceforged]

"I did. He let me see the car. It felt like a fair trade." Intelligent conversations can wait until tomorrow or any other day. He'd known when Noctis suggested hitting the bar what he was in for. So long as everyone is alright at the end.

"Speaking of that car. I still can't believe it flies. I can tell how it probably does but...that's still really impressive."

[chocobosnap]

"You wanna know a secret?"

Prompto leaned in and whispered, just slightly less lower than his normal voice.

"I'm scared of heights, that car flying is fun for like a second, then you look down and it's like holy shit I'm gonna fall." He babbled.

Then he pouted. "I'm not allowed to drive the car. It wasn't my fault the car broke."

[spaceforged]

He raises an eyebrow. “Then how did the car break?” He has to ask. If only because it sounds like a story and a half. “And if the car flies... wouldn’t the top come up over all of you to prevent you from falling?” He gets the fear. But maybe he can make it a little less. “Usually that’s how it goes.” Unless someone has some serious thrill issues.

Probably better not to bring that up he thinks as he takes a sip of his own drink.

[chocobosnap]

"Nah, I dunno, I don't remember right now." He commented about the top.

"And it wasn't my fault it just...sputtered and stuff and we had to push the car, I just happened to be driving. I think it was Noct's fault." It really wasn't.

thought I hit this back

[spaceforged]

"...I'm guessing you guys don't know basic car maintenance and what to check for." The list of reasons a car sputters and has to be pushed is long. "Unless you looked under the hood but it sounds like you didn't. Might be no one's fault or the car was pushed too hard."

Shiro takes a swallow of his drink and thinks about that. "But tech is...more advanced in my day so, I probably wouldn't know what went wrong either."

[chocobosnap]

"Cindy does that." Prompto said with a smile. "But we hadn't met her yet. They blame me. It's totally not my fault, don't let Noct tell you otherwise."

He hummed a little. "I know a lot about tech. I mean, normal tech not cars. And Empire tech." He didn't want to think about that.

[spaceforged]

He raises an eyebrow then the other one. Empire tech. His mind flashes back to Noctis memory and he nods. “Well, when you’re sober I wouldn’t mind teaching you the basics about cars. It was a requirement back home. Not that hard to learn especially if you’re familiar with other tech.”

He thinks about the silent Lion asleep in his backyard. “I can only teach you a little about Altean technology. I’m limited to maintenance and repairs. The one to talk to would be Hunk. As for the Black Lion...only its maker knows how to build one. He’s not here and hasn’t been around for ten thousand years. When it powers back up I can still show you the inside of the cockpit.”

[chocobosnap]

"Yeah? That sounds good. If they even let me near the Regalia. Which they won't. But knowing stuff is good." He smiled, pleased.

"I wanna see the lion." Prompto agreed. "Did you show Noct? Noct loves cool stuff like that. He's such a dork. Don't let him forget it."

[spaceforged]

He cracks a smile at that. “He entered my memory. He got to see the Lion in action.” Noctis. He’s sober enough the traces of sadness bubbling up from within are concealed in a subtle brightening of his eyes. “Even if you can’t look into the Regalia we could build a car. I’m sure the engineers here wouldn’t mind the challenge. Hunk could keep us steady. And we could both learn more about them.”

You can learn so much by hands on action. “We can rope Noctis into it too. I bet he’d enjoy it.” If nothing else it would be something fun for the four of them that isn’t wrapped up in all the complicated things in their lives.

[chocobosnap]

"Yeah? Lucky." He grinned a little. He didn't pick up on that sadness, but he was familiar with it. There was too much to be sad about, these days.

"Build a car? Never thought of something like that." He would probably enjoy that, to a certain extent. He'd always had an affinity for Empire gear, things he knew but didn't know how he knew them.

"Noct would enjoy it, I think. Or he'll supervise or something." He grinned.