[ fiora please feed soo-won ]

[recrowns]

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week 0, saturday

[recrowns]

[QUICK PC STARTER - in the sense that soo-won is hungry. oh god he's hungry. he's just putting out ingredients that he thinks sound good (potatoes, bellpeppers, a singular carrot) and is looking at them]

... I think I can make something from this....

[bisouled]

[ Fiora is not hungry, but she is tired - she always gets tired - and her attempts at taking a nap have failed, so here she is, hoping a glass of water will refresh her a little. Unlike every other character I've played in murdergames in the last 2 years, she did not specifically target her kitchen visit for a time where she wouldn't have to interact with anyone, and, in fact, she's happy to see someone else. ]

Oh! Those look good. What are you making?

[recrowns]

[OH THE CHARACTER VARIETY

but soo-won's answer is very serene]

I don't know. I think I was hoping to get lucky, and have it result in something edible.

[bisouled]

[ so serene........ so serene it seems like a joke, but it probably isn't. She laughs anyway. ]

Luck's a terrible ingredient, you know.

[recrowns]

Only if it's spoiled?

[no he's just being cheeky]

Fufu, do you have any ideas? Maybe if we put our creative thoughts together, we'll get something good!

[please help him]

[bisouled]

Are you asking for my help? [ oh, this is a good way to kill time. ] Sure. I may not look it, but I'm pretty good in the kitchen. What are you in the mood for? I think we could make a good soup with these. Maybe a curry, if they've got the ingredients.

[recrowns]

[gasps softly]

Oh, curry!

What other ingredients do we need? I'll fetch them.

[he looks so happy]

Thank you for your assistance!

[bisouled]

[ at least SOMEONE appreciates her! shulk!! She looks a little smug... just a little. ]

Save the thanks for after it's done! You'll have to be my taste tester. Let's see... Oil, garlic, ginger, and a whole mess of spices - just bring whatever you can find. I'll sort out what I need.

[recrowns]

Ah, alright!

[he's going to bring out the whole pantry until she tells him to stop]

I'll happily volunteer for this task. Thank you.

[this is the attitude that let kano feed him a peanut butter taako]

[bisouled]

[ i'm afraid to ask what a peanut butter taako is

anyway, while he's doing that, she'll start getting out pots and utensils and all the things she'll need to make curry. ]

I'm Fiora, by the way. You are?

[recrowns]

[HILARIOUSLY I MEANT TACO BUT I SEE MY FINGERS ARE TRAINED

anyway - he's bringing out so many spices still]

Won! It's a pleasure to meet you, Fiora. There's still a few faces I haven't gotten to meet yet, but I'm starting to think we have time for that.

[bisouled]

[ DANA I'M CRYING ]

Nice to meet you, too, Won.

[ she's sure her face sticks out in the crowd, but she's grateful he hasn't even mentioned anything about her Mechon body - maybe it's not as strange to people from other worlds. ]

Oh, I hope we aren't here that long. This has all been so crazy. -- Um, I think that's enough spices, [ she adds as they start to crowd the counter. ] Speaking of, do you want it spicy or not?

[recrowns]

[no it's strange and he's curious but he's not going to be impolite when she's offering to feed him? he might ask about it later but he's just going with the flow lately,]

Oh, something spicy could be fun.

[he's willing to try! but he just offers a bit of a smile]

It has been rather disorienting, you're right about that. Are you adjusting well enough?

[bisouled]

Well enough, [ she repeats with a small shrug of her shoulders. ] As much as anyone can adjust to all this. I'm more worried about my friends back home than me.

[ time to start chopping up veggies. she slides the singular carrot over his way, holding out a knife for him once it's moved. His work is not done... ]

[recrowns]

[he accepts it! he'll take the knife and move to start peeling it and chopping it both]

Ah... Well, I do have a theory on that - so I believe your friends will hopefully not notice your absence.

There's a chance that time's stopped.

[bisouled]

[ she was prepared to teach him how to do that, too... that makes life easier. Fiora looks up when he mentions that, although she keeps working as she does so - a combination of lots of practice and a lack of fear of cutting her fingers. ]

Time's stopped?! What makes you say that? It would be nice if it was true, but...

[recrowns]

[he's not completely hopeless! he's seen people cook before he just can't do anything if he doesn't know the recipe

but! he'll answer even as he works on cutting - a bit more slowly compared to her pace]

There are some people here who are from the same place - and their memories are misaligned, from what I understand. The fortunate part of that is that it means that it implies time has been stopped - and possibly the creation of a branching timeline - because it would have been far harder to miss someone disappearing out of the blue to be kidnapped.

[bisouled]

Really?

[ she hadn't heard that, but she definitely believes it. She hums in thought, a little worried. ]

That does make sense, but I've got to wonder if we'll really be all right creating multiple futures like that...

[ spoken like someone who has experience, weirdly ]

[recrowns]

Is it not the natural way of thinkings?

[he just looks thoughtful]

I never thought of time as something linear - there are multiple choices that one can make in their life after all, if things were just slightly different each time they made a pivotal choice...

Though I suppose I'd only entertained it as a thought experiment until now.

[bisouled]

Well, you can certainly change the future with your choices, but I never thought that the "other futures" might actually exist somewhere.

[ it's a bit of a scary thought?! is there another Fiora out there somewhere? Weird. ]

[recrowns]

[there's just a bit of a laugh at that]

It's a humbling thought, isn't it? That there may be versions of events that are ever so slightly different from the norm you know.

Or perhaps incredibly different.

[bisouled]

I can imagine it.

[ they're always a lot closer than anyone realizes. If it wasn't for Shulk and his visions, who knows how many more people would have died already...? After embarrassing herself blurting out that little tidbit to Alex earlier, however, Fiora decides to keep that particular facet of her home life to herself for now, and continues on while she grinds up some garlic into paste. ]

Maybe that's why all of us remember such different things, too? We're all from really different timelines?

[recrowns]

That's an idea - to have all the worlds that we've come from branching from one origin point, and how all the worlds shaped were because of the decisions that people made...

[he hums thoughtfully, almost wistfully]

... though as much as I'd like to agree, there are some aspects of worlds that refer to their very core composition that might be a little harder to explain away.

[bisouled]

[ curiously: ] Oh? Did you hear an unusual one?

[ a pause and a small laugh. ]

It seems like my world's the strange one to most people.

[recrowns]

[he shakes his head]

Not unusual... but there are some worlds where magic seems very commonplace, as if woven into the very fabric of everyday existence.

For myself, coming from a world without such a thing... it's hard to imagine how the worlds could be branched from one another.