(open) help out a newbie

[reloves]

🧙 WHO: Minako Aino and you!
⚔️️ WHAT: Minako is new to town, so it's time to explore.
🕒 WHEN: Mid-July
🗺️ WHERE: Camelot
⚠️ WARNINGS: Should be none, will edit if that changes!


(a. at the senshi (and friends!) house)

[ Minako's arrival hadn't exactly been.. pleasant. Somewhere between everything being so chaotic back home right before she showed up here instead, then suddenly being dropped into the water out of nowhere, and then getting covered in gross jelly stuff didn't exactly make it the most fun course of events.

But at least Makoto helped her over to the house, and now Minako has been able to bathe and get all that junk out of her hair, things are starting to look up a little more. Or at least, Minako thinks she looks presentable enough to be seen by others.

Which means she starts wandering the house, peeking her head into all the rooms so she can greet people with a: ]

Hi! [ You know, casual. Just showed up here. No biggie. ]

(b. on the streets of camelot)

[ If you just happen to be calmly walking along the city streets, your moment of relative peace and quiet gets interrupted really, really quickly.

Because you might suddenly feel something jumping on you. It happens so fast that you can't even see what it is, other than that there's a sudden pressure on your head, like something is clinging on for dear life up there. If you try to remove it - which is possible if you put some effort into it - you'll find it's a cat. A kind of.. odd-looking cat, since it's a little too big for your usual cat, but it's still definitely a cat.

Or even if you don't manage to remove it, there's suddenly a blonde girl outright charging at you, yelling out-- ]

Wait!

[ What do you do. Do you run. Do you stay. Do you ponder why your life suddenly turned out like this? ]

(c. outside a bakery)

[ After having managed to recover her familiar, Minako is making sure to tightly hold it to her chest, not wantin to start an entire chase scene all over again.

Which means things are a little bit calmer right now. Instead you might find the blonde girl standing outside a bakery, staring at the delicious goods inside, looking like she's about to drool right over them. ]

Ahh, it looks so good, right? [ She squeezes the cat-like creature a little. ] Maybe you were just hungry too.. Rough is the fate of those who don't have money.. [ Please, Minako. You literally have a house full of friends you're staying with. Cut down on the melodramatics.

Still, her stomach growls. Loudly. That chase must have taken some energy. Do you help out this poor blonde girl. ]

(d. on the streets of camelot, less chaos edition)

[ Or maybe you, very simply, just find the girl walking up to you on the middle of the streets. Do you know her? Probably not! And yet she talks to you so casually, as if you're not total strangers. Welcome to the power of an extreme extrovert. ]

Hey! Sooo.. if someone wanted to practice these new powers everyone's talking about, where do they do that? Won't you help a cute girl out?

[ Look at her batting those doe eyes at you! You're locked into this fate now. It's inescapable. ]

(ooc: as a note for those who have threaded with me on the tdm, i am more than willing to carry those over as in-game canon, so feel free to assume those interactions happened! c: )

Comments

B.

[beautyrest]

[Aurora is, not surprisingly, very used to animals just randomly showing up around her. When one jumps onto her head, Vivek, her Eurasian Eagle Owl, lets out a very loud screech in warning to the creature. Even now, Aurora is literally surrounded by animals.]

Now now, Vivek, no need to threaten the creature.

[She reaches up and pries the cat from her hair and safely into the crooks of her arms.]

Why hello there, you poor thing, you seem frightened. What's wrong? [She gently scratched under its chin.

However, when she hears the loud "WAIT!" and sees a blonde girl charging at her, Aurora's eyes widen but she merely hugs the cat closer and promptly moves out of the girl's path.]

d.

[idoliceking]

Well, you figure out what magic you have, and ask someone with that magic to help you, if you need it.

[Sorry Minako, you got one of the grumpiest idols to deal with. The only friendly part of him is the puffin sitting on his shoulder taking a nap.]

c

[borderoflife]

[Eventually Minako will see Yuyuko exiting the bakery, using her kinetic magic to make a noticeably large amount of baked goods float around her so she doesn't have to carry them all.]

If you're thinking of going in, the goods here are certainly worth trying. [Is she really that oblivious to Minako's plight? Who knows.]

B!

[flapsin]

[The cat is on top of a duck. Drake can feel the cat on his head and is nervously trying to coax it off. What if it bites him or something?]

Ea-easy there, little one... Just get down, nice and easy...

[Then some girl shouts towards him and he winces. She's even charging towards him! He raises his arms defensively!]

What's going on?!

A

[roseeclair]

Hey~

[Said room is a rather roomy kitchen, one with a good-sized herb garden in the window sill and several pots and hanging planters of more heat-tolerant plants decorating the rest of the space.]

Just in time; chicken curry and rice is ready when you are, and I fried up some tonkatsu too!

[And knowing her for two years, the stew's spice and consistency is perfect to Minako's tastes.]

C

[sos_pilot]

[ Della was chosen to go grocery shopping for Duck House - a poor decision, really - and had begun to walk out with a bagful of pastries, including one in her mouth.

At the same time, she does overhear the stomach-growl. She pauses, and after a moment of thought, digs into the bag and pulls one out to offer, with a garbled - ]

Fawn fun?

[ That's "Want one?" in "mouth full of pastry"-ese. ]

[reloves]

[ Thankfully it seems that the girl wasn't on an entirely full collision course with Aurora. Sure, she comes running at the other, but she seems to manage to stop at the last moment, very quickly sliding to a halt, until she's just standing in front of the other.

Or, well, standing.. Minako is more just resting, her hands on her knees, seeming to catch her breath again after all that running. ]

O-Oh.. Thank god, you caught him..

[ Please, she wasn't wanting to continue this whole chase all over town!! ]

[beautyrest]

[Aurora's hand is gently stroking the top of the cat's head as she tilts her own.]

Is this a friend of yours? [She smiled.] Catch your breath, my dear, then we can talk to one another.

1/3

[reloves]

[ Minako opens her mouth to reply.

But the very moment she does, and she looks at him, she realises something. ]

2/3

[reloves]

[ Oh no.

He's super hot. ]

[reloves]

[ Just look at that hair, it's gorgeous! His eyes, striking! His face, like a marble statue!

She doesn't care that he's practically radiating an icy attitude from here all the way to Mars, this is an incredibly hot guy, and Minako is latching onto this opportunity to talk to him with a metaphorical vice grip. ]

Ahh, really? In that case, you won't mind telling an incredibly beautiful and innocent girl how she can figure out which sort of magic she has, right?

[ The cat she's holding in her arms looks so done with her. ]

Or maybe you could even provide some.. personal help?

[reloves]

[ There is indeed no sign - yet - whether this person is torturing her on purpose or is just that oblivious. You know, while having their little floating baked goods cloud around them.

A cloud that's enough to make Minako's stomach growl again. ]

Y-Yeah, I thought as much.. [ And yet Minako is not stepping into the bakery. Instead she's just staring at what Yuyuko bought, her gaze growing more longing by the minute. ]

C

[saltmage]

[Yvelon had taken a moment to go over his weekly shopping list when he heard the young woman talking to her pet. As much as he generally tried to avoid people outside of his work, he had once been that hungry youth. There was a moment of internal debate, after all, he couldn’t feed every wayward teenager he came across, but in the end morality won out.

He heaved a sigh and turned to see what she was looking at.]

It is all merely sugar, it will only sate your appetite briefly. Meats and cheeses will do you far better.

[Perhaps coming off a little harsh, but he was a healer. Such lectures were difficult to switch off.]

[reloves]

[ Thankfully it seems that the cat isn't trying to eat or bite him. It's just clinging to his head, and even once it's removed, it doesn't try to attack him - though it might be squirming a little bit in his hold. Make sure to hold on tight!

The girl, however, seems to show no signs of slowing down. And she's getting closer and closer now.. ]

You got him!!

[ Now that isn't omnious at all. ]

[reloves]

Thanks.

[ Minako looks around a little as she glances around the kitchen. Her hair is still wrapped up in a towel, though she thankfully managed to get it more or less clean at this point. If water didn't take care of that junk in her hair, she seriously would have screamed loud enough for the entire city to hear.

So right now her focus is no longer on her hair. Instead she can't help but think - while looking at the kitchen - that this definitely looks like a Makoto style kitchen. Somewhere between all the plants everywhere, and how homey it is.. ]

Can't believe I'm making you cook for me right off the bat. [ She says, smiling slightly. ] That must mean I owe you one now, huh?

D

[rustyhonesty]

[Oh no, not the doe eyes. Jean looks a bit awkward to be put on the spot like this.]

Well, there are some training grounds available for everyone. And depending on what magic you have...

[reloves]

...

[ Minako's eyes widen.

She gasps.

For a moment she looks at Della as if she's ready to accept the duck as her new goddess. Even the whole talking, walking duck thing isn't so weird to her. Sure, she'll accept duck-people as long as they're offering her pastries. ]

F-For me..? You must have realised that beautiful young girls like me aren't supposed to have to survive a day without pastries..!

[reloves]

[ Minako nods, still clearly out of breath, but wanting to give an answer all the same.

She then sucks in some air, and although she's still not fully calm yet, she seems to at least be able to talk without having to stop to wheeze. ]

Well, I don't know about the friend part yet, but.. uh, he's my familiar.

[ Minako is pretty sure that's what they called it, anyway. ]

[reloves]

[ Minako turns towards him - if not just so she can give him the most intense puppy eyes known to man. Look at these dramatics. Listen to the way her stomach growls again. ]

Do you think I look like I have money for any of those either?

[ Besides, she can.. technically just get those at the house she shares with her friends.. It's those pastries she wants!

But apparently she's just opting to not say that. ]

[reloves]

[ Sorry, Jean. This is just the consequence of walking around on the streets when you're a guy. The Minako radar will always track you down, sooner or later.

And the intense doe eyes? They don't let up. They just keep going, even though he's given an answer. ]

Really..? I wonder if there's a super manly guy around who wouldn't mind showing a beautiful girl these training grounds.. [ Please, Minako, you can't lure everyone into doing everything for you. ]

[flapsin]

[There, nice and snug in his hands! But other than that, it looks like he has a worse situation on his hands. The girl running towards him... sure she seems to just be some young human girl, but the way she pursues him and says that - is she some kind of demon?! Perhaps coming to whisk this cat away? The cat snuggled in his arms, he starts booking it!]

What is going on here?!

[roseeclair]

[Makoto chuckles back as she starts dishing up Minako's plate.]

Hardly! You know how much I love cooking you guys. [And it's been too long since she could cook for Minako and Haruka in particular.] Think of it as a welcome party!

[Welcome to Avalon, and less likely to be spoken unless Minako brings it up... welcome back to the land of the living.]

[reloves]

[ Now this is just turning into an outright circus act.

Because he starts to run, but Minako just keeps chasing right after him. Maybe she should have grown exhausted from running this much already, but somehow she just keeps going. Like she physically can't give up for some reason.

Maybe it'd help if she would clarify things, but that sure isn't happening. All she's doing is waving her arms in the air wildly while still persuing the duck-cat pair. ]

Give him to me!!

[reloves]

[ Oh, it smells so good already! Minako honestly can't help but lean in a little when Makoto is putting the food on the plate, just to be able to smell it..

It really does smell like Makoto's cooking. It's not even like it's been that long, but.. well, time moves strangely when you're not exactly alive, huh. It somehow feels like it's been an eternity since she's just been able to sit down with the other girl like this and eat. ]

A welcome party? [ She smiles though, deciding to keep the topic a bit lighter for now. ] Well, in that case I'm missing the presence of some cute guys to keep us company, you know!

[roseeclair]

[That gets a light chuckle as she passes the plate to Minako. Warm, fluffy white rice, curry with a perfectly spiced roux and plump chicken meat and fresh veggies, and to top it off crispy, juicy pork cutlet with golden brown breading and perfectly sliced.]

Oh trust me; this place has plenty of cute guys. [Wink~] You missed the two living here by a couple of months!