Allura - Open Log Prompts For Mareuer

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Who: Allura and [OPEN]
When: Vague times around March
Where: Aefenglom and specifically Diplomatea for some options
What: Allura is getting settled into life here and also experiences her first rainy season
Warnings: None


A. Princess' First Job (At Diplomatea)
[Allura is thankful to Everett, for giving her a chance with his shop. The flowers and the scent of the tea was what drew her in in the first place – when she found herself without a coin to her name for the first time in her life, and the atmosphere had been warm and welcoming. He'd even been kind enough to give her some clothes (or, a uniform, as some put it. Allura thought it was quite cute.)

She's never had a proper job before but she's a hard worker and so far she's been met with nothing but patience. Putting together flowers is her favorite part, though the tea serving took some... learning.

Maybe she's not paying attention, or it's just a bad stroke of luck, but there's a clumsy moment where her knuckle brushes against the heated side of one of the tea kettles – just for a second but it's a second long enough for her to feel a sharp pain and she yanks her hand back with a startled yelp.]

Ah- [She winces, already hearing someone else hurrying over to her side – one of her fellow employees, or a guest perhaps.] I'm alright, just careless.


B. The vague open ended one (Diplomatea)
[It's late one evening, when the lights from the tea shop glowed warm against the cool night air, the business empty and Allura was sitting, enjoying her own cup of tea, her limbs heavy after a long, but good day of work. It was... nice. She still had thoughts of getting home that hung heavy over her, but days like this it was a little easier. To fall into a routine and feel a little more normal than she has since she arrived here.

The bells at the door pull her from her reverie and she looks up, setting the cup down,]

Can I assist you?


C. Rolling up her sleeves. (In town)
[Now that she has a little money to her name there's an item in town that she's been eying for some time – a simple, sturdy wooden trunk from a local carpenter's shop. It's nice and she's been wanting a safe place to put her belongings from her world until it's time to go home (and maybe a safe place to hide shiny valuables from her Merrow housemate.)

Coin exchanged and trunk at her feet, Allura only now realizes a big mistake: When she arrived in Aefenglom it was without any of her Altean-born powers. Which means no hoisting around heavy boxes like they weight nothing. But what to do with the trunk?

It's pure stubbornness that gets her as far as she gets, lifting and hefting and pushing until at some point down the road she has to stop, Panting as she leans to take a rest against the large trunk.]

Stars, how do humans live like this? They're made of gossamer compared to Alteans.

[Help a princess out?]


D. It's like rain
[Altea didn't have rain. Not in the same way that humans knew thanks a lot Voltron canon and certainly Allura has never experienced anything like the rainy season in Aefenglom. What is a normal, even annoying phenomenon for one has Allura looking up, shielding her eyes the moment rain starts to pitter-patter on the roofs of the buildings around her

It's not the first rain she's seen, and she's delighted, but delight quickly turns into distress as the gentle sprinkle turns into a real downpour. And she quickly jogs for shelter- but not before getting absolutely drenched in the meantime.]

Apologies- [Allura sputters, standing in the doorway of the first building she came upon with water absolutely coming down in rivulets from her hair and dress, in a puddle on the floor underneath her. She holds her hands out, a little at a loss of what to do with herself] That's- Is this a normal amount of rain?


E. Wildcard
[Feel free to throw anything at me, or my plotting post is over here if you'd like to talk something specific! I'll probably be adding some closed starters below as the month goes on as I make plans with people too!]

Comments

[yesdoubt]

[Momo makes a vaguely doubtful noise at that, but it's mostly for humour's sake, especially since getting the trunk from point A to point B is more important than debating the definition of a workout. He lifts his end on cue, both hands on it to keep it steady and even the burden a bit, since he's more about making sure he keeps in good condition than showing off.]

Alright, you're gonna have to lead the way since I have no idea where we're going. [Other than in the direction Allura pointed, but he doesn't want to leave them weaving all over the road or something if he picks the wrong side of the street to walk up.]

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[Listen, she agrees with him that the harder the workout the better, but in this case, she's not being picky with the definition.

The trunk lifts up without a problem and Allura nods, picking up at a walk that's awkward at first, but evens out as he matches her pace.] It's just up the hill this way. I wasn't so far off, on my own.

[And they're heading to where some of the largest houses are in The Haven, heading towards one of the mansions.]

[yesdoubt]

That's pretty close! I think anyone would've keeled over at that point. [As far as Momo's concerned, that's an achievement to be proud of, since even he'd probably struggle getting something this heavy from the Shopping District back to the Haven on his own. Unless someone was some sort of monster with additional strength, this isn't the kind of cargo a single person typically transports by hand in his experience.

That said, he can't refrain from a bit of a teasing grin when he spots the house they're heading for.] Housing a family? You don't seem like the type to take the glamorous life all for yourself, even if you are a princess.

[Momo's lived in luxury for the last few years, but a cottage had been a much nicer prospect for him while living on his own here, so he can't imagine living in a mansion with anything less than several other people in it.]

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[He should see her bedroom! Which admittedly isn’t that much to look at. She lives simply, even if it is in a giant castle.

She huffs at the teasing, and from the physical exertion,] There were four of us to find a home for. And if the rest of the paladins arrive, we’ll need room for them.

[Forward thinking!] You may have met my friends already – Keith, Lance, and Shiro.

[yesdoubt]

I've met Lance, but I don't recognise the other two names. [Lance had mentioned being from Earth, though, so Momo is going to take a wild guess the other two also are and that Shiro might be Japanese.] "Paladins", though? Are you some big world saving super squad or something? Lance mentioned some of the space travel stuff and even that sounded kinda wild to me...

[But then, it'd make sense as to how he met Allura if she's an alien. Either way, this sounds like the kind of thing that would come out of an anime or one of the more ridiculous dramas Momo has acted in. Slightly more so than most of the other stuff Momo's encountered here, since his world is about the most mundane he knows of in this one.]

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[She nods, expression not flickering or giving any indication that she thought what Momo suggested was ridiculous at all. Mostly because it's not.]

Lance and the others pilot a ship called Voltron. Together they fight to stop Zarkon and defend the universe from those who would threaten it.

[Said with no small amount of pride. If only Lance was here to hear her talking him up.]

[yesdoubt]

[That sure does sound like something out of an anime, but Momo doesn't make that particular remark, instead looking very much like he wants to know more.]

That's really cool...we haven't gotten super far with space travel on my version of Earth, we're still in the baby stages of space tourism. And by that I mean just people paying to even leave the atmosphere, not go to other planets.

[Needless to say, giant universe-defending spaceships aren't exactly on the table where he comes from.]

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[It's for the best, because Allura probably doesn't know what an anime is, and would lead to an entirely mundane sort of questioning.]

The humans weren't so different. They were only just exploring past their solar system when my Lions found them.

[Ah, she quickly corrects,] Those are the ships that they now pilot.

[yesdoubt]

That's still way further than we've gotten, we're still kinda having trouble sending unmanned ships that far. [Let alone manned ones. They still haven't gotten past that whole speed problem when it comes to crossing space in a reasonable amount of time.

He can't help but go back to comment on the name of the ships, though, because lord is this sounding even more like something he'd read in a story back home.] Do they actually look like lions...? Because that already sounds incredibly amazing and way, way cooler than anything we've been able to send up so far.

[Curse the laws of aerodynamics and practical spaceship design.]

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[How cute and quaint. Everyone's species advances at different rates.

She nods,] They do resemble them. With paws and faces, so to speak.

[Like giant cats made out of blocks.] That is until they combine to form Voltron. Then it looks a little more like a man.

[yesdoubt]

[Momo would put a hand over his mouth in appropriate cuteness reaction, if he had a hand free to do so. Instead, he just scrunches his face into a catlike, cutesy grin.] Having them look like cats sounds way cuter, though! We don't have ships that look like people in my world, but we have plenty robots that look like people, so I feel like other kinds of robot deserve more exposure.

[He's putting these ships somewhere between spaceship and robot if they can transform into other considerably less ship-like shapes anyway. Officially filed in the "transforming mecha" category in his brain.]

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[She just titters lightly. Honestly she never thought too deeply about why Voltron was the way it was. It was her father's design and that's just how it Was. They had to look like something, so why not lions?]

Oh, we're almost home! [Just a few more steps away.] I appreciate all of your help, Momo.

[yesdoubt]

[Momo just gives a cheery grin at that, as if to say it was nothing.] I'm just glad you didn't have to drag it up here all by yourself. You don't have stairs or anything you need to cart it up, do you?

[Since he's not going to ditch out if she'd have to drag it up to the second floor or a loft or something.]

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[Here is where narration probably should have pointed out that she's living in one fo the mansions in the Haven, so there are at least a few flights of stairs inside. At his question she nods.]

I am on the second floor, so there's just a little further.

[The house itself is grand, but looks mostly like they'd just moved in, without much personality thrown into it yet. Grand ball rooms and a large kitchen and it felt. Empty.

A home away from home, really.]

[yesdoubt]

[He wasn't sure if she wanted it in the main room or a bedroom, so that's all he really needs to know. It's been a while since he moved houses himself, but he still grins a little nostalgically when he sees the way things are inside.]

Still doing the move-in, huh? When my partner and I moved into different places, it took a while for my new apartment to stop feeling empty.

[In part because Momo wasn't living with anyone else anymore at that point, but he feels like it can still apply to situations where there's a few people living together.]