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finalbowsKuja has a phone as of December 16th! He got sick and the thanatophobia won lmao <3. Feel free to contact him by text, voice, or video now-- he's terrible at answering his phone right when it rings, though. He tends to leave it sitting around, and sometimes even leaves it at home.
Kuja can very easily be found around town. He kind of sticks out, what with the height (the official height chart says 7'1" but I nerfed him to 6'7") and the habit of floating around places.
He has a habit of perching atop buildings, so a good place to look is Up.
If you want to hit him up at home, that's cool too!! I have a comment below describing his.. abode.
Kuja can very easily be found around town. He kind of sticks out, what with the height (the official height chart says 7'1" but I nerfed him to 6'7") and the habit of floating around places.
He has a habit of perching atop buildings, so a good place to look is Up.
If you want to hit him up at home, that's cool too!! I have a comment below describing his.. abode.
Feel free to talk to him!!
(why does it look like the town is on fire behind him? ....don't worry about it.)
Awkward bonding go
Date: 2023-01-31 07:32 am (UTC)He's not going to sneak out yet, but he might soon- Kuja was due for his regular visit so it was too risky anyway. For now he is reading a book that Kuja may find quite familiar- a copy of "I Want to be Your Canary". Hard to tell without a visible face but he seems quite happy.
He only looks up when he hears the door. ]
Hello
[ a very casual greeting. He's getting used to Kuja's visits. ]
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Date: 2023-01-31 07:56 am (UTC)[ Who? Who knows. All that's obvious is that Kuja's complaining as he comes in, quick to work himself out of a coat he wore only reluctantly when the wind chill was ridiculous this morning. It's warm in this house, he'll suffocate keeping that thing on.
Kuja slinks into the living room where Vivi's been set up, nice and toasty beside Yuri's improvised fireplace. He leans over the back of the couch, leveling the Black Mage with a quiet, evaluating look before he answers... Watching the gears turn behind that man's eyes is always a bit like watching a cat size up a bird. Even if he's forgotten his nature, he's every bit something that prowls... but that look has become much less threatening than it used to be, when it's the look Kuja has every day when he's checking that--
...
--there's been no obvious shifts in Vivi's condition as far as he can sense, through methods mundane and not. ]
You're chipper. What's that you've got?
[ Kuja's.. leaning over at an angle that makes it so that he can't see the book's spine. Rip. ]
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Date: 2023-01-31 11:34 am (UTC)[ The world really had not wanted him to get to the end of this story for one reason or another. First the ticket, then the kidnapping... and then he got stolen while reading it. Honestly... ]
I love reading plays and stuff. They're fun.
[ he does tilt his head innocently at Kuja, though, concern entering his tone. ]
Woman? Did the Queen do something..?
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Date: 2023-01-31 12:07 pm (UTC)[ It sort of goes without saying that Kuja... also loves 'plays and stuff.' Lord Avon's a favorite, of course, but he was no opera composer - and Kuja had learned to parse sheet music specifically to better understand librettos. Kuja's in the middle of leaning in to snoop on what page Vivi's on when he pulls a sour look at his question. ]
...No, Her Majesty doesn't... do, much. She hasn't a voice, and neither could she hear me. It was someone else. [ Though the potential candidates for Kuja's claim were all of... seven people? Maybe? Mayyyyyybe? ]
Are you past the swordfight?
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Date: 2023-01-31 02:28 pm (UTC)Oh. [ A glance at the book ] No, this is my copy from home.
[ He'd bought one, hard cover, some time after their adventure ended in hopes he could finally finish it. Kuja's question of if he's past the sword fight is met with a thoughtful hum ]
Not yet. I was reading it back from the beginning... but I remember that part from watching Tantalus perform... I almost didn't get to see the play at all. Even if it ended badly I'm glad I went...
[ Vivi looks up at him, shifting a little over in bed so Kuja can join him with the book more comfortably ]
Did you like the sword fight?
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Date: 2023-02-01 12:22 am (UTC)[ He's seeing the book with a new eye, now, knowing Vivi had went and bought it. Not a terrible pick for what was out there, considering Vivi was, like. A year old. ]
Tantulus, Tantalus... Wasn't that... when those bandits stole away the princess. [ oh we may in fact stumble upon some of Kuja's newest memory losses here. ] That was a fiasco.
[ All three Waltzes failed or went into conniptions, and Brahne had cornered him in a rage at her nearest opportunity, demanding to know what his angle was with the Black Mage 'planted' among the kidnappers...
Endless headache. He had to say, though, it was some stellar work on his part, defusing the situation. ]
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Date: 2023-02-01 01:50 am (UTC)[ He's not sure what Kuja knew or didn't know about that night, so he expanded on it quietly, ]
... I like Blank. Both the character and Zidane's brother.
[ He still has nightmares about what happened to Blank. He'd felt so guilty for running when Blank got trapped back there. ]
... It was a lot, though... I don't think I ever properly apologized to Dagger for catching her cloak on fire...
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Date: 2023-02-01 02:07 am (UTC)He's distracted reading the passage Vivi's left open, except... ]
You lit the fire? I just thought Her Majesty was lying about mishandling her own Bombs.
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Date: 2023-02-01 02:26 am (UTC)[ He tries to order his thoughts ]
See they started to do improv on stage when they captured the princess. she took the place of Cornelia. They were in the middle of a death scene because she'd taken a sword from her father for Marcus, and that's about when the guards chased me up on stage. I used a little fire spell to try and get them to leave me alone, but it accidentally caught part of the princess's cloak on fire when I did. So she threw it off and... well, her identity was revealed and everything got worse.
[ And that's putting it lightly to say the least. ]
After that the others kinda scrambled to get out of there while we fought the knights on the stage... After that was when the queen used a bomb.
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Date: 2023-02-01 02:44 am (UTC)Delightful. My goodness, and I hadn't even heard the half of it.
So Dagger was...? One of the guards, at the time? A little young for the job...
[ Vivi clearly said he'd lit two different people's cloaks on fire. ]
How far were you down the page? [ now that he's started reading over vivi's shoulder he's getting invested... ]
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Date: 2023-02-01 02:58 am (UTC)Dagger's the princess. We called her that after we escaped with her 'cause she asked us to. We couldn't call her Garnet or we'd be caught.
[ ... And now he just habitually still calls her that. He blinks at the question. ]
Oh um, I was almost done with the page, but I can wait.
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Date: 2023-02-03 02:29 am (UTC)What? Dagger was the one... dark hair. Very orange, very pretty, but-- that wasn't the princess.