quintessent: (No longer afraid)
Allura ([personal profile] quintessent) wrote in [community profile] middaeg2020-03-05 08:41 pm

Allura - Open Log Prompts For Mareuer

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!]
yesdoubt: (i tried looking from the future and saw)

[personal profile] yesdoubt 2020-04-02 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
[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.]
yesdoubt: (why is it you use those tragic methods)

[personal profile] yesdoubt 2020-04-07 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[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.]
yesdoubt: (you can't 100% know)

[personal profile] yesdoubt 2020-04-11 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[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.]