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ximilialog2021-10-17 01:38 pm
hatejakku) wrote in ximilialog2021-10-17 01:38 pm
Open; October
CHARACTERS: Finn & You
LOCATION: Various places on the station
DATE: All of October
CONTENT: Finn's got his eye sight back! Also, come take his gun safety/self-defense courses.
WARNINGS: fighting and guns and things?
I. Seeing for the First Time, a Second Time
II. /plays that one mulan song
III. Wildcard
LOCATION: Various places on the station
DATE: All of October
CONTENT: Finn's got his eye sight back! Also, come take his gun safety/self-defense courses.
WARNINGS: fighting and guns and things?
I. Seeing for the First Time, a Second Time
[ Finn's got a headache that slowly wants to transition into a migraine but it's like the best migraine ever if there is such a thing. It's caused by the sudden amount of light and information and everything that his eyes are suddenly getting. Because he can see now. After being blind for a few weeks, he can see.
In a way, it's almost like just became blind all over again considering how much it's knocked him off-balance. He'd just managed to get used to navigating with the Force and now--
Well, now he's kind of gawking. Finn's already gotten Blue and James seen to in the infirmary, and now he's just sort of wandering around. (He's going to go back soon, though, since he didn't really want to leave them in the first place.) What Finn should maybe do is go to his room, rest his eyes, slowly crawl back into the world, but that's obviously not what he's doing.
It's just. Everything. Everything is so pretty and shiny, and how did he forget all of these little things? The floor is so polished that it's practically reflective. There are tiny little lights on the doors that blink bright colors when they sense movement. And don't even get him started on the view outside the windows.
He spends a lot of time in the sunlight room for the next few days and can be found squinting at the fake flowers and fake trees and fake sky. There's a dopey grin on his face, even if he's trying to find tells that prove these aren't real.
During the station's evening hours, however, he's usually in the common living area. Finn's found a window with a couch in front of it and usually just sits there in the dark, watching the outside. There's not much to see if you've seen this view a million times like he has, but it reminds him of the rare glimpses of space he'd get during his childhood. Weirdly, it took all this to remember why he treasured those sights so much.
... For anyone that argued with him back in Braccia, though, this is absolutely not proof that he wasn't fine being blind. Because he was. It was fine. Everything was fine. This is just... better. ]
II. /plays that one mulan song
[ True to his word, Finn can be found in the training room during the station's morning hours. This is where he goes for his own training, anyway, so it's not like he's going out of his way to wait on someone that may not appear.
But if they do appear, they'll be met with a bright smile and a lot of questions. After the whole "how are you? how was your morning? did you sleep okay?" since he's in such good spirits lately, he'll actually ask the real questions. What do you want to learn? What do you already know? Have you ever been in a fight before? Have you ever used a weapon before? Etc.
If you're a seasoned fighter and just here to spar, he's down with that, too. Everyone needs to keep their skills sharp.
Want to learn self-defense? Well, the first lesson is to know how to fall properly, because you're going to fall a lot. You should also know how to take a punch, how to give a good punch, how to break defenses, how to disarm your opponent, how to handle the weapon you just disarmed them of, all of that good stuff.
Want to learn how to use a firearm? Be prepared for a lecture before you even so much as see a gun. Don't point it at people, always assume it's ready to fire, don't point it at people, keep your finger off the trigger unless you're shooting it, and, for Force sake, don't point it at people. If he trusts you enough after The Lecture, then he'll let you give it a go with every single safety precaution he can think of, but don't expect to use one on your first day with him.
>> ooc. He'll be doing this for the entirety of their downtime, so feel free to start a thread at any point of the learning process you prefer. ]
III. Wildcard
[ ooc. Want to do something else? Go for it! PM me if you want to plot something. ♥ ]
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[but he's also afraid of that, because it's as natural to be afraid of something new for a Mu as it is a human.
with that in mind, he stops.]
I owe you an apology, Finn. [looking to him:] Will you listen to it?
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I-
Okay. For what?
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For...when you were afraid. Of reaching out, tapping into that latent power of yours. Even though I knew you were afraid...I still wanted to see you pursue it. Not solely for you. [he lowers his head in apology.]
Just the mere chance that someone could be remotely like me in that way...I wanted to cling to it as fast as I could, to feel like I had some kind of foothold.
[with a little headshake:] That isn't a fair way to help anyone, least of all someone relying on me for that help.
So I apologize. My perspective was skewed from the start. I did not have your best interests in mind in those moments.
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It doesn't change that you've helped me. And you did. You helped me a lot.
I don't think it's fair to think about it like this, because you weren't doing it for selfish reasons, not really. I don't think it's selfish to not want to be alone. If it is... then I'm selfish all the time.
[ Hell, maybe he is. Regardless, he smiles. ]
How about we just think about it as a way to help each other? I owe you, anyway.
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yet Finn is...remarkably forgiving. in that moment, Blue is fairly certain he'd be that way even without that extra sense of his, and that's all the more remarkable. so while Finn absolves him and smiles, Blue can only look up at him with a bit of soft wonder.
...at least, for a few seconds. it can't last forever, because he can't stay on his feet for that long! Blue bows his head once more with a soft sigh, inevitably endeared.]
I understand. [this is a less chastised admission, and more just the plain truth: he does understand.] Thank you. I'm grateful that...you, particularly, are here. I don't think I'd be doing half so well otherwise.
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You'd do okay.
[ Because that's just how Finn thinks of himself but also how highly he thinks of others like Blue. Anyway, he kind of wants to hug him, also pretty endeared. ]
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