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[Open] Shifting Your Perceptions

Who; Nida, Ignis, Mono, Open
What; Family is something Nida wishes he had, and maybe it's in reach. Also a chocobo chase
Where; Markets, Library Rooftop
When; Early April
Warnings;

I. Chocobo on the Loose | OTA
It's actually impressive, just how much a chocobo could grow in a year. Back when he'd first acquired her Hibiscus had been small enough to tuck under one of Nida's arms. These days the crimson feathered bird walked at Nida's side, her head up to his shoulder, happy on her training lead and with a small, weighted saddle on her back and full backs at her sides to help train her to the feel of weight on her. Soon enough she'd be more than large enough to start their riding training together, and Nida wasn't excited about that.

But with her increased age was coming to be a reasonable young bird.

Or so Nida thought. Being a guard, on duty, in uniform, sometimes wasn't the best thing. It meant that some children liked to play their little pranks. Which int his case meant running past Nida and cutting his lead line. Hibiscus, bothered by the sudden motion, jerked aside. And then realized that she was further away from Nida than she should be. Which meant freedom. For a moment her little bird brain considered. And then, seeing nearby melon, she strode confidently away.

"Hibiscus?" Nida said, shocked to see her walking away. He lunged for her cut lead without thinking, and she, seeing this as play, darted away with a warble.

"No, wait, come back!"

II. Afternoon Shopping | Closed to Ignis
Their schedules were such complicated things that often Nida and Ignis left their free time that would be shared together for, well, things far more interesting than basic errands. But things had been busy lately and there was a lot of things that needed buying, and Nida had just come off shift, so... Well, when he saw his husband moving among the vegetable stalls, he of course made his way over.

"Hello my gorgeous love. How are-"

Nida pauses in his way to kissing his husband's cheek when he saw what was in Ignis's hand. Spinach. That earned a cringe.

"You doing spinach stuffed in something for dinner? Promise the 'something' is potent. I prefer not to taste my cooked spinach."

Yeah, sometimes Nida was a picky eater too.

III. Heights Give Perspective | Closed to Mono
The talk with Ignis had taken a while, but in the end they had come to the same conclusion. Of the two of them, Nida would be the one to extend the initial offer. And what better time than tonight, while the two of them were celebrating the success of the young man. For tonight Mono had climbed all the way to the roof of the Library, at good speed, with no rope. Then he'd gone back down. And come back up again. While he was approaching the top the second time Nida had laid out the snacks he'd asked Ignis to prepare for the night. He'd had confidence that all of this result to the evening.

IT was something needing celebrating. So Nida pulled the small 'bento boxes' as Ignis had called them, from the bag at his side. A light evening meal, as a gift from his husband, to broach the subject.

"I'm quite proud of you, Mono. And this? Our celebration meal."

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Mono was going to take a while to get used to the whole, people being proud of him thing… But it really was a nice feeling. Like he already felt he accomplished something, but it was new in a strange but good way. “Yeah?” Mono tilted his head with curiosity. “What kinda stuff?” He asked, moving to the edge and carefully beginning his much smoother descent down the side of the building.

That was actually a particular source of pride for the boy. Going back down wasn’t nearly as difficult as it was when they started their lessons.

Nida waited for the boy to start heading down before he started himself down as well.

“Well, now that you can go down and up this, it’s time to start working on using momentum to your advantage. Some simple parkour. Lessons that will help you move faster and this can help on roofs too.”

“Parkour…” He mused with a curious tone as he continued working his way down the wall to the bottom. “That’s like the fancy stuff you do?”

That would be neat, and definitely useful. Especially since Mono spent a lot of time traversing roof tops and rather perilous areas of the Pale City. Not that it seemed like something to worry about here, but he definitely wanted to learn everything he could. It was useful, especially if his abilities couldn’t help him somewhere along the way. Which, more often than not here, was the case.

“That’d be really useful, especially to get around the city faster!” He added as he finally reached the ground below, a few moments behind Nida.

"Yeah, a lot more like what I do," Nida answered. He'd start with tricks on how to safely fall of course.

"It's a good thing to start learning some of the basics at night, so we aren't bothering people."

Learning to fall safely was a very good one for the kid to learn. Especially good, really.

But Mono was definitely excited about the idea of learning to do some of the other stuff Nida could. He already liked the climbing lessons, so even more? That would be great.

Following along, he listened curiously for more details. “Yeah? I guess that makes sense, would be kinda bad if we bothered people or got in their way. They can get mad if you do.” He responded. It seemed sensible was all.

"Exactly," Nida smiled. "And part of it is that I want you to learn the basics before you have to do them at speed around other people."

And he's going to figure that out when he's got time too.

Mono definitely could understand that. His eyes were wide as he considered even trying to do what he saw Nida doing at a normal speed. “Yeah, if I tried going fast, I’d bump into people or trip a lot, I think. I trip a lot alright sometimes.” The child added with a wise-looking nod. Six used to find it kind of amusing, the way he’d throw himself into things and then end up flat on his face.

And to think, Nida hadn't bothered being fast around Mono yet.

"We'll work on it. But you need to consider your clothes and how they fit if you're going to do parkour. You don't want to get caught on stuff, or have your movement restricted."

Mono didn’t need to think too long about what that meant, and the kid had to frown a little. “So then… That means my coat might be a bad thing for that?” The kid was starting to realize how impractical it was, but it was hard to let go of something you’d had for as long as you could remember.

"Perhaps, perhaps not," Nida answered. "I don't presume things until I see how it works. It's better to not do that. Better to give yourself a chance to see and understand first. "

That was the life Nida had lived, had believed in.

“Oh… Okay, I guess we can try then and you can tell me what you think.” He responded with a small nod, though he wasn’t going to get his hopes up either. Mono respected his teachers’ experience and advice, after all. It would just be disappointing to lose it, since it had been with him for so long…

At least he had his hat collection, though.

Who knew, maybe they would both be shocked to find that Mono could easily keep up even in stranger clothers. It would be, in part, up to the child.

"You'll find I'm pretty good at telling people what I think."

“Yeah? I guess you kinda have to be, since you teach me and stuff.” He responded with a little nod. It just hadn’t crossed the kid’s mind before.

The boy looked around as they walked, eyes taking in the familiar streets carefully as he noted the direction they were going in. “Where is the place you guys live, anyway?” Seemed important to find that out too, even if he was going, anyway. Just to get an idea of where it was in relation to everything else.

"We're between the gates and the markets, because Ignis has to travel to the lodge for work."

He guides them through the streets.

"Meanwhile, I walk to work."

“Oh, I guess that makes both your days easier if it’s in between everything.” Mono responded with a nod, “I like to walk everywhere too.” Really, what else was the child going to do? He couldn’t drive carriages or ride the very large chocobos around the city. Running around was just second nature, considering his world.

"Yeah, Ignis figured it out as the best way to make our lives balanced," Nida offered with a warm smile. he was so proud of his beloved.

"My work basically requires a chocobo partner. But I was sorta scared of them. I was encouraged to hand raise one, thus Hibiscus."

Mono listened curiously. He hadn’t known Nida was scared of chocobos. That made sense to the kid, though. They were really big, and the beaks and clawed feet looked like they could do a lot of damage. At least that was Mono’s initial impression when he’d first seen one.

“I got kinda nervous around them when they appeared too, but Yuki’s got one and it’s really small and cute… So I kinda got used to them after being around him. So I bet Hibiscus does a good job of helping you get used to them, too.” The boy responded with a serious nod. Plus, if Hibiscus was being raised by Nida, that meant it was going to be pretty smart and be a good partner, right? At least that made sense to the kid.

"They're from my world, or we have a species of them. And they always scared me," Nida confessed. EVer since he was young. "But yes, she's definitely helping. I still don't like other chocobos much."

But his partner was going to be a good bird, one used to him specifically.

“They are?” Mono blinked in surprise. He hadn’t really known that Chocobos existed elsewhere… Though to be fair, even wildlife had become a bit limited in his world. He wasn’t sure what was in other worlds or only in this one. “So is your world more like this one than it is like other peoples?” It was question time, it seemed, as they made their way towards the house.

"Yep, Ignis's too. But in my world they are only yellow, and they're bigger than these."

So yeah, it's more like the ones from Ignis's world. "But no, this world isn't more like mine. We're lacking a lot of things. For instance, the moon isn't trying to kill us."

“Oh… If they were even bigger, then they’d be even more scary sometimes. I like the yellow feathers, though. I think it’s a happy colour.” He responded with a small nod, as though that was somehow a balance between scary and not scary to his mind. A pro and a con… Not that it was, but it had stuck out to him that way.

Then the boy’s eyes widened, and he looked up at Nida with some obvious confusion. “The moon tries to kill you in your world??? How does the moon do that? It’s so far away?”

"Monsters," Nida said quite honestly. "They come from the moon, warping the world around them. It's really bad."

“Oh…” He murmured with a growing understanding. So the moon warped the world and created monsters in Nida’s world? “… That sounds a little like the signal in my world, only it changes people.” And sometimes animals, but not nearly in the same way. “Is there a way to stop the moon or do you gotta just deal with the monsters?” A very pointed question, perhaps, but the boy wanted to know.

"We just gotta deal with monsters falling from the moon, and the way that moonfall affects everything else. We can't stop it. People like me, we're trained to fight them."

ANd he's been fighting them most of his life.

“So it’s kinda like your job there?” That made sense, the kid supposed. He had joined the guard here, and he fought the monsters and bad stuff that appeared sometimes… If he was used to dealing with it in his world, then he knew what he was doing here when bad stuff happened.

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I DID NOT GET THE NOTIF FOR THIS! AHHH!!! D:

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