To my warm home

[angelolatry]

🧙 WHO: Colette Brunel & Open
⚔️️ WHAT: March catch all!
🕒 WHEN: March, throughout the month
🗺️ WHERE: Camelot/surrounding area sort of thing.
⚠️ WARNINGS: Nothing off of the top of my head? I mean besides the general 'raised as a sacrifice' thing that kinda. Comes with Colette because being the Chosen Sucks guys!



Closed: Kratos

[She has by now heard that some new arrivals show up every now and then. So when she hears the next group should be coming, she decides to head to find out if there might be any familiar faces among them. She isn't necessarily expecting it, knowing it might not be guaranteed but she won't know if she doesn't check, at least, right? So she does. She heads out with the carriages and keeps an eye out for any familiar faces (even if she might be more limited in that in not being able to recognize Presea, Zelos or Regal for example.)

So when she spots Kratos among them, she waves, jumping up on tip toes in not being able to actually use her wings here as she calls out to him.

Sure. Last she recalls he was kinda pretty much leading her to her death but. Still. It's a familiar face among all this and he was just doing his job then. Keeping her safe until she got to that Final Seal and all. That wasn't his fault that she had been raised believing sacrificing herself was her duty. What everyone wanted. If it meant they prospered and the mana was restored again.]

Kratos! You're here too?

[Of course in her enthusiasm as she rushes over in approaching, she trips. Her arms flail as she starts toppling forwards. But no, she doesn't try summon her wings to help her regain her balance. Because she can't. Not here. The fact she can speak again is another indication things were different. Or at least. They are on her end from what she last recalls.]

Quest: Sir Fuzzerton

[Colette. Admittedly doesn't know rabbits as well as she does dogs but even then. If she knows what this rabbit looks like it shouldn't be too hard to find it? She just has to check the cafes. He's probably in one of them at least.

Though maybe initially she isn't sure how many there are it couldn't be that difficult an undertaking? Surely? Colette puts together a list with the names of each and goes through them, checking the rabbits. Of course she still gets distracted playing with them thinking they were still cute. But she is still there for a reason! So she tries to stay on task, asking the owners of the cafes or anyone else nearby if there were any rabbits that had been pets that were found and brought in or something. She has a note, a piece of paper with the basic information at least as she asks around. Glancing between it and the rabbits.]

He's an angora rabbit. His name is Sir Fuzzerton. I'm sure since he's lost he's alone and upset! We have to find him. Actually, I wonder if he had a collar, that would help.....wait, do rabbits wear collars? I'm not even sure what an angora rabbit looks like in comparison to others.

[Please help. Colette is much more clueless around rabbits. But she wants to help in hearing about a lost pet!]

Quest: Run, Snagglefoot!

[Colette.....is a klutz. That's well known enough back home given her tendency to leave Colette shaped imprints in walls she trips into, often tripping over air and it might be debatable in how much her wings helped with that in her flying. Not that she has said wings here but as she does manage to approach the thieves she.....yes. Yes she has just straight up tripped into one of them. Of course she has.

Which may or may not have others working with her to try find said thief basically just. Facepalming at her as she flails her arms in some attempt to keep her balance and fails, tripping right into Snagglefoot on his way to the stables.

And. Yes. Yes she is apologizing to him for it.......]

Ah, I'm sorry!


Wildcard:

[Basically here if people want to do something else? She can probably be found alternatively practicing her Light magic, taking her huge Not Dog (that is not actually specifically Noishe, for those familiar) for walks or playing some sort of catch/frisbee like game with her new familiar. She's actually pretty good at throwing, given chakrams are her preferred weapon outside of her Angelic abilities back home. Or maybe she is crouching and petting and cooing at Every Single Dog she encounters.

Or just. Generally tripping over air because that's kinda also her Thing, obviously. Alas for all those poor walls with their Colette shaped imprints in them.]

Comments

[angelolatry]

Hm? Oh! Yes! I know she looks like Noishe but. I figured that it wasn't. It's pretty amazing, I've never seen another like Noishe before!

[Yes, she.....still just thinks of Noishe as some rather unique dog. At the least, Colette seems distracted enough with the arrival of her familiar that she misses that head tilt of his. She shifts in turning her head, instinctively petting the familiar that still seems smaller than Noishe and with slightly different placements of the green amid the white fur.]

[worldsokayestdad]

[Kratos is far from an easy person to catch off guard, but hoo buddy he sure is thrown off by this turn of events. Not that everything leading up to this point hadn't been confusing enough, but damn.]

I honestly thought I'd never meet another Protozoan besides Noishe, and this is the second one I've seen since I arrived here.

[Speaking of Protozoans, it's right about now that Kratos' familiar decides to drop in, and by drop in I mean it divebombs his head and lands in his hair like a shitty bird. Because it is a bird, a pretty big bird with coloring almost identical to Colette's "unique dog".

Kratos doesn't react for a moment because he's hoping the bird Protozoan hops off his head on it's own, but no, it's going to be an asshole and stay there, so he finally reaches up so that it can climb onto his arm instead. Thankfully it does so without putting up a fuss, but man.]

[angelolatry]

I did initially wonder if it was Noishe at first but the green, the markings are a little different. And I think this -- oh! Is that yours? Your familiar?

[It's no dog but Colette still admires it if initially confused since she has never seen a bird like that either. Though. Wait. He said second? Was this one too? It's odd. To consider Noishe as anything but an oversized, travel convenient and wimp of a dog. Or, the closest to a dog at least.]

[worldsokayestdad]

My familiar, hm? Yes, I suppose it is.

[The bird puffs it's chest out and looks all proud of itself. Kratos sighs and gives Colette a little shrug.]

It's a Protozoan as well, they're birds before they take this dog-like form. Noishe used to look like this once, a long time ago.

[angelolatry]

....Noishe was a bird?

[Yup. That's. All she got from that. It's kind of hard to imagine but that is probably because, at sixteen, she's only ever known him as a dog. Or the closest thing resembling one anyway in such form. She thought all along that he was a dog. It was what Lloyd kept saying anyway. She can't help being curious. And confused at the idea.]

[worldsokayestdad]

Before that, he was a fish.

[He pauses for a moment because the bird wants attention RIGHT NOW and keeps trying to grab his hair with it's beak. It seems to chill out after he stops to pet it, but damn, of course he'd get landed with the bratty familiar.]

I thought I'd mentioned all this before? Or, perhaps I'd just been talking to Lloyd.

[angelolatry]

A fish Noishe?

[...no really what is this concept? Does not compute? Sure she might know the theory of evolution and all but? Noishe as a fish or bird is kinda hard to imagine? At least. For Colette. She blinks and gives a shrug.]

Maybe it was with Lloyd. Or I just forgot. But it's kind of strange to imagine. I've only ever known him as a dog.

[worldsokayestdad]

Hm. I suppose it wouldn't be too surprising if it's something you'd simply forgotten. You had been going through a lot at the time, it wouldn't have been at some point during your journey of regeneration.

[Even so, Kratos is beginning to grow a bit suspicious about little things that just aren't adding up. ]

...Speaking of which. What would you say is your last memory from back home, before you were brought here?

[angelolatry]

My last memory? Ah.....that...the Final Seal.

[So. Yes. Definitely earlier on than what Kratos himself last recalls. She doesn't yet remember Tethe'alla, remember Zelos or Presea or Regal. All that was revealed after that point. She's still oblivious to a lot of things. Ignorant on a lot that they find out later on. But she's been doing her best to figure things here as long as she is here, at least. Even if she's unsure she really has anything to go back home to, on her end.]

Why?

[worldsokayestdad]

[For perhaps the first time ever, Kratos looks legitimately surprised. For. About two seconds. Blink and you'll miss it, but it's there. He'd suspected that something seemed off, but he hadn't expected something like this.]

...I see. The end of your Journey of Regeneration, that's your last memory?

[He pauses, rubbing at his chin while he thinks this new information over. He just wants to make sure they're on the same page before he starts trying to piece this puzzle together.]

That... actually happened a while ago, from my perspective.

[angelolatry]

Yes. The Final Seal, at the Tower. But it.....huh?

[It had all already happened for him? He does look surprised when she tells him what she last recalls on her end. She supposes perhaps it makes sense. If people were getting pulled here from different worlds, different times too was probably not that much different. She just hadn't experienced it yet on her end given she had nobody else from home here, at least that she was aware of yet.]

You remember more then?

[At the least. He'd be able to tell her then. That it worked? That Sylvarant was saved and Lloyd would be okay.]

[worldsokayestdad]

[Kratos simply nods, crossing his arms.]

Yes. I remember much more.

[He goes silent for a moment, honestly unsure of how to proceed from here. There is so much that Colette is behind on, so much that he's going to have to explain. Knowing her, Colette's primary concern is most likely the fate of the world, so at the very least he can reassure her about that. He'll figure out how to explain the rest later.]

Everything is fine. The world has been saved. [He hesitates for just a second, before adding,] You... you were also saved.

[angelolatry]

The world -- Me....?

[She was? How? Colette isn't sure what to make of that. They had saved her? From the Chosen's fate if they succeeded in their Journey? She wasn't aware that was even possible? But apparently it is. She wasn't sure if it was just this place that she could eat and sleep and talk and all again. Did that mean she could do all that again back home too? Colette's eyes widen and she isn't entirely able to keep the tears threatening to spill hidden from him.]

I -- how?

[worldsokayestdad]

[His expression softens noticeably, but apart from that he doesn't really try to do anything about the fact that there's a girl on the verge of tears in front of him. He doesn't know what to do about that, he's not good at this part.]

I have much to explain, it may be best to find someplace where we can speak privately. But, you should know that it was thanks to Lloyd. Thanks to his stubbornness, and unwillingness to accept a system that called for sacrificing a life in order to save the world.

[angelolatry]

Like the rooms at the inn? We could talk there! But....Lloyd....?

[Colette lowers her gaze. Her expression softening in spite of her surprise, in spite of the threatening tears. Because. Well. Of course it's him. The one who only ever saw her first and foremost as Colette. Rather than everyone else seeing her as the Chosen. He had always treated her as Colette. Of course he knew about her status and all but he cared. Not that others didn't too, of course, but. With Lloyd, it was different.]

[worldsokayestdad]

[At her suggestion that they go to the inn, Kratos simply nods. Sounds good to him, it's probably the best option they have. He doesn't know his way there yet, having just arrived, so he'll follow Colette's lead.]

Surely that much should come as no surprise to you. You're very important to him.

[angelolatry]

I mean. I know I am important to him but....

[That didn't mean she expected he would risk the rest of Sylvarant in saving her. Though it sounds like things worked out at least. In the end. She just isn't sure what to make of it. As she clumsily wipes at her face and starts leading the way to the caravans, at the least in the meantime helping the others welcoming everyone and explaining on this place and the phone and such. Trying to distract herself from questioning it all too much yet.]

[worldsokayestdad]

You're worried that he was willing to risk abandoning the world in favor of saving you.

[In the grand scheme of things, Kratos hadn't traveled with Colette for very long, but it had been more than long enough to learn just where it was that her priorities lie.

[angelolatry]

Y-yes. This....it's my duty. What I was raised for. But you said it worked out somehow anyway.

[At the least, she doesn't say or ask more on the ride back to Camelot. Not until she leads him to the rooms, to hers specifically. Gesturing for him to enter and take a seat on the bed or at the desk. She takes whichever he doesn't go for, in curling up to listen to him.]

So, tell me.

[Her voice is soft, but her expression isn't. She's determined for answers from what he told her. An explanation.]

[worldsokayestdad]

[He opts for the desk, pulling the chair out and turning it to face her before taking a seat. Now he just... needs to figure out just how much he should dump on her this soon. Maybe he won't spill all the beans about Cruxis and the world just yet, but there are some smaller things that he can elaborate on. It's just that deciding where to start is a bit of a challenge, hmmm.]

As far as saving you is concerned, the simple answer is that Lloyd was able to craft a Key Crest for your Cruxis Crystal, which was able to restore your humanity. As for the world... You remember what Sheena said, about being from another world called Tethe'alla? Once you completed your Journey of Regeneration, Sylvarant would begin to flourish, while Tethe'alla would enter a state of decline. It was decided that rather than allow this struggle for mana to continue, you all would look for a way to unite the worlds instead.

[angelolatry]

A Key Crest? So that's it....? I just needed one of those?

[Like he had made for Marble? Her hand reaches for the now useless gem at her neck, biting her lower lip before she glances to him as he continues. His explanation about Tethe'alla makes sense, and she gives a nod.]

Like an hourglass, right? If one prospers, the other declines. I remember. But then....their Chosen? They won't go on their Journey then? To reverse it?

[Maybe looking for an alternative means is better. She's just not sure how that will work. How that is possible. Then again, her Journey evidently wasn't exactly by the book, either. If Lloyd was able to stop it. To bring her back from that.]

[worldsokayestdad]

[He offers a simple nod. It was more convoluted than that, as everything way, but the short answer was that the key crest had done it's job.]

Traditionally, yes. However, were the worlds to be united, the Journey of Regeneration would become irrelevant.

[angelolatry]

No more Chosen....? Nobody else....?

[Nobody else going through all that? It's a good thing she's sitting down, else she would surely have just collapsed to her knees at the idea. At the guilty feeling of relief deep down in some part of her. As it is, she just barely keeps the threatening tears from actually falling as she feels overwhelmed at it. Given she grew up with it and it was all she knew in her lifetime, it's probably not surprising this comes as a lot on her end. The idea of no more Journeys. No more Chosen after her.]

[worldsokayestdad]

Nobody else. You are Sylvarant's last Chosen, nobody else is going to have to endure the sorts of trials that you've faced.

[Implying that the worlds have already been reunited. Which is good, no more Chosen means no more people needlessly suffering.

Also he's lowkey suuuper concerned that she's going to start crying or something and he's not going to know what to do about it??? Look he doesn't know what to do with his own emotions, he sure as hell doesn't know what to do about a teenage girl's.]

[angelolatry]

So....it all works out? Neither are in decline?

[That's....yeah, that's pretty overwhelming for her to hear. So there's some tears that end up falling. Just in relief and being overwhelmed. She can't help but to slump more in relief on the bed as it sinks in. As he says nobody else would come after her to go through all that. Her arms raise in covering her face for a bit as she clumsily wipes at her eyes and cheeks.]

That's amazing....!