This memory is of Kuja wandering the busy streets of Treno! He's made it down near the waterfront, where all the fanciest of fops and most armed of guards are. The people around him almost look more like him than he does; he's not yet evolved himself into the untouchable hothouse orchid he would one day become; sporting his natural red hair, blue eyes, and a lack of visible feathers or tail. His clothes look very... slutty wanderer of the land. Listen, it IS still Kuja.
There are little interactions he has, with passers-by, that can subtly tip you off he's at a point in his life he's no longer all that socially inept, in this scene. But he still looks wide eyed and overwhelmed, taking in the forever-dark city and its throngs of people... on a grassy stone pathway, he walks directly by a blond man in a pointed wizard hat who he looks, maybe, passingly similar to. It's mainly in the height; the passing stranger could be 6'3, whereabouts. There are people parting so he can pass. Kuja notices the man's given him, for whatever reason, a lingering gaze.
Once he's at a safe distance, Kuja inquires quietly who THAT guy is, that everyone's acting like this.
"Do you live under a rock? That's Lord ■■♤■!"
That's odd. That the name's censored.
...Kuja steals away out of sight, into a dingy between-space of one building to the next, and conjures up his little Scan orb. "That one, with the pointed hat... go follow him," he tells it, and it goes flitting off. He waits, completely still, in place. The ambient light doesn't change, but one of the lanterns nearby burns down and goes out. There is a small slice of the street visible, with people passing by.
Eventually, the Scan returns. Kuja holds up his hand to receive it, and it melts away into his palm.
From the fountain's point of view, there's no way of knowing what he saw. But he gets a... small, cryptic smile. "I see... so that one really is one of the most powerful of this city's 'nobles.'" He idly twirls his crimson hair around his fingers... "Gaians are really all the same. I could probably cause a lot of them to die without having to do anything at all, if I got close to that man..."
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momijizukamori
first passing encounter with lord king, in treno
Date: 2023-08-08 11:33 pm (UTC)There are little interactions he has, with passers-by, that can subtly tip you off he's at a point in his life he's no longer all that socially inept, in this scene. But he still looks wide eyed and overwhelmed, taking in the forever-dark city and its throngs of people... on a grassy stone pathway, he walks directly by a blond man in a pointed wizard hat who he looks, maybe, passingly similar to. It's mainly in the height; the passing stranger could be 6'3, whereabouts. There are people parting so he can pass. Kuja notices the man's given him, for whatever reason, a lingering gaze.
Once he's at a safe distance, Kuja inquires quietly who THAT guy is, that everyone's acting like this.
"Do you live under a rock? That's Lord ■■♤■!"
That's odd. That the name's censored.
...Kuja steals away out of sight, into a dingy between-space of one building to the next, and conjures up his little Scan orb.
"That one, with the pointed hat... go follow him," he tells it, and it goes flitting off. He waits, completely still, in place. The ambient light doesn't change, but one of the lanterns nearby burns down and goes out. There is a small slice of the street visible, with people passing by.
Eventually, the Scan returns. Kuja holds up his hand to receive it, and it melts away into his palm.
From the fountain's point of view, there's no way of knowing what he saw. But he gets a... small, cryptic smile.
"I see... so that one really is one of the most powerful of this city's 'nobles.'"
He idly twirls his crimson hair around his fingers...
"Gaians are really all the same. I could probably cause a lot of them to die without having to do anything at all, if I got close to that man..."
- used in day 22 of