Raise a Glass [OPEN]

[lordshield]

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]

"Still alive, that's something." Prompto commented, that was the best he got sometimes.

"Not a great mood, but look there's beer." He offered a little smile.

[shinra_dog]

"Sometimes being alive is the highlight of the day," Reno agreed with a nod. "And beer. And as someone who's died before, I can say being alive with beer is pretty good in the big scheme of things."

He smiled back gently. "Yer mood'll get better. But it looks like you got a lotta' friends here who got yer back. I mean, damn -- you didn't tell me Noctis was a prince. You're in with royals?"

[chocobosnap]

He smiled slightly at that. "King." Prompto corrected and he shrugged. "It was really weird. All these guys are nobles and stuff. Not me though. I'm nothing. Well you saw, anyway."

He shook his head. "I don't know what I think about dying."

[shinra_dog]

"King." Reno whistled. Fuck. That young and a king. That didn't happen for a good reason.

"And what? What?" Reno stared at Prompto and shook his head. "Nothing? Bullshit. C'mon, Prompto. That ain't what I saw back there."

[chocobosnap]

He nodded. That was about how they'd all felt about it when it happened, but unfortunately it meant the loss of his father, which Prompto knew upset Noct, so he didn't bring it up too much.

"Yeah." He breathed. "Well at the time I was kinda..." He waved his hand. "Messed up. I wanted to be- well my reaction wasn't good anyway."

Things hadn't gotten better after he left that room and he responded by taking a drink.

"But I'm okay now."

[shinra_dog]

"What reaction to death is ever good?" Reno asked sincerely. Going to a bar and drinking away the feelings wasn't the best coping, either, but here they were doing it. He shook his head again.

"That doesn't make you lesser 'n anyone else." Reno had a feeling this was going to be a repeated conversation for Prompto, but he was willing to do it.

[chocobosnap]

"I don't know. I've never had anyone to lose before Noct. Not really." Prompto shook his head a little. "I didn't deal with death before. And I'm not upset that man is dead, I just...I knew the job came with the possibility of killing someone but it hadn't come up. I was shaken."

The feelings of inadequacy were not new, or exclusive to that memory. They just cemented them. Ardyn knew how to hit him where it hurt.

"And what I learned was worse. It was about the worst thing I could come up with. My friends are amazing and accepted me...didn't even scold me for worrying about that, at the time, but outside of the people I know?"

He took a drink. "Lucians have never liked Niffs. My friends are all I have anyway, so I would do anything for them."

way overdue

[shinra_dog]

"I dunno what a 'Niff' is," Reno admitted, unsure if it was something other than human or something other than Lucian. "But... I've seen a process similar before. On my world. It was ugly an' disgusting an' inhuman. An' I hated it an' the people who did it."

"But," he continued with emphasis, "the people who came out of it? They were still decent people."

Sure, Genesis went a little loopy but he always was an odd duck. And Angeal had a crisis of faith, but he had honor. And Sephiroth...

"One of 'em saved the world."

[chocobosnap]

"Sorry. A Niff is just someone from Niflheim. And really, not exactly the nicest way to refer to them, but to be fair they have been trying to kill us for hundreds of years." He sighed a little, a process like that? It made him shudder.

"Thanks. I don't know if I'm as impressive as all that, but I do okay, I guess. I like what I do, I'm devoted to Noct-" In case Reno hadn't known that much. "And things are pretty good for the most part."

Prompto sighed. It was just his head that was messed up.