Island Living

[want_to_belong]

Who: Prompto, Ignis, OTA
What: Various things!
When: Various times! Can be over a period of days
Where: Around Enso and Islet #1
Warnings: Awkwardness

Building Time! - OTA, Islet #1 Cabin #2
After getting some tips from Kid, Prompto went back to the cleverly named Islet #1 to help try and build a cabin for the guys. It went without saying that he, Noct and Ignis were going to stay together. It was hard to imagine it being any other way - the only confusion was wondering if Nyx would be joining them.

Other than that, it was mostly a group of city boys trying to figure out how to put it together. Gathering supplies, moving stones, deciding where to put a cooking pit, what to use the tarps for... There was a lot of figuring out to do.

Not to mention they weren't the only one. Prompto worried less about people like Kid and more about the actual kids on the island. Sure, they wanted to have their shelter to sleep in, but if they finished it could they really plop down for bed and leave some kid stranded outside?

And, perhaps something Prompto worried about more than the others, there were the girls. Some of them seemed tough as nails or had magic or something else to take care of themselves, but there were also ladies like Terra, who seemed to lost and confused, and J, who seemed more like a city person. He was just fortunate that he was with a group of guys that he wouldn't have to argue with - they would give up their space to help someone else for a while, no doubt about that. They weren't the only ones out here trying to figure out where they'd be sleeping.

While he was carrying a stone over to their spot he paused for a second next to someone, asking softly, "Hey, you okay?"

Weavers Unite - OTA, Enso
After learning about weaving, Prompto had gotten himself some palm fronds to work with and was trying to figure them out. It was a whole new art to him, so they were loose and awkward as he worked on it, made with hands that weren't confident in what they were doing.

Was it too thick? It seemed like weaving the leaves together was making a solid slat almost rather than a fishing net. His initial plan had been to make something to fish with, but it was looking more like something to put on the roof of a hut. It was just sort of straight and stiff not at all a bag.

Maybe that wasn't something to complain about. Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he looked it over to figure out what he was doing.

Hunting - OTA, Enso
Prompto usually used ranged weapons, but that didn't mean he couldn't melee. Taking along a knife from his group, he decided to catch some food today rather than trying to climb another tree. Today's menu? Snaplings. They looked enough like crabs that Prompto figured they probably tasted like them, too.

If he could just used his gun this would be a piece of cake. How his fingers itched to be on the trigger as he crouched down behind some rocks and kept an eye on some potential prey, knife in hand. If he was careless it could get away. If he did this right? Maybe they'd get a nice snapling soup tonight. And maybe those shells could be used for something, too...

Coffee - Closed to Ignis, Ruins, Backdated
Just as the Storyteller had promised, Prompto awoke to several potted coffee plants lined up in the ruins. Not only were they already covered in beans, but there seemed to be a bunch of seeds to go with him. He didn't know anything about coffee. He didn't know how many plants it took to keep one coffee drinker satiated, or how to make coffee without a coffee pot, or how long they took to grow from seeds, but still he was ecstatic. He just wanted to show Ignis what they had. He'd even made sure to ask that they be the same kind of beans that were used in Ebony! He did good.

Naturally, Ignis had gotten up well before he did, though he had no way to know something like that was sitting in the ruins. Ignis was always the first to be up and ready, getting breakfast ready for them when they were still tossing and turning. It wasn't exactly hard to find the other man.

He jogged up excitedly, grabbing lightly at Ignis' sleeve as he spoke, "Hey, Iggy! I have to show you something!"

His tone was most definitely lighter than it had been for many things recently, what with how much they were dealing with.

Dirty Boy - OTA, Enso, the scandalous prompt?
Prompto did like bath time, and not having a tub was definitely not cool. He had no intention of going around smelling like the King of Garbage, especially not when there were pretty girls walking around. So while he was out and about and seemed to have some amount of privacy, he decided to take a dip in the river. And he went in naked. He'd be in and out in a jiffy, after all!

So there he was, minding his own business scrubbing with his clothes kind of sort of in a somewhat 'neatish' pile on the shore.

Comments

[want_to_belong]

What do you think of the islets?

[He knew Weiss had been staying in alternative places, but the little islands seemed nice. It would be good to have her around.

Not that it would be bad to upkeep secondary housing as well.]

Yeah, he probably won't give us much. I bet someone can figure it out, though. Kid seems really smart when it comes to building stuff. Once we get other things out of the way, maybe he'll know how to make a bathhouse?

[Seemed like the best bet he'd seen so far. He quieted a little after that, getting more thoughtful.]

And... thanks for that. I've been taking pictures since I was a kid. It'd be hard to imagine not being able to use my camera.

[As a matter of fact, it had been there along with his other stuff. Which was only natural. The boy took it into what might as well have been a volcano, he wasn't about to leave it behind anywhere here. He was already lifting it up - though not facing Weiss - when he asked.]

Want to take a pic?

[But one glance at her was a reminder that she was super wet, and if he started coming back with pictures of drenched girls the guys were going to give him some suspicious looks.]

I mean... Maybe not right now, but later?

[whiteas]

I want something near a clean water source. Unless I didn't see it, those little islands don't have accessible drinking water, and the ruins there are frankly not going to do anything to stop predators or weather without just as much work as trying to establish something on the main island would be. They're also ridiculously out of the way. There's a whole island we haven't explored, if we're actually going to make headway on that, we can't keep returning to the same spot at the very beginning every time. That's ridiculous. Also, I promised Finley he could come take shelter. He's cold-blooded, so he's going to need it far more than any of us do come winter time if this place cools down any and he needs salt water, so I want to find an estuary if possible.

[ Prompto probably wishes he didn't ask, but Weiss has very specific needs and she wants them met. She's willing to do the work to get there too.

Though a picture Weiss doesn't really think is a bad idea until he points out that later is probably a better idea. Weiss considers it for a moment, then shrugs. ]

Go ahead. It's not like half the island isn't going to see me like this any time I get in the water. I've given up on actually looking presentable.

[ At least her hair is well-brushed, bless the Storyteller for giving her the nice $200 hairbrush she wanted. But she's got no makeup on, so the scar over her eye is far more visible than normal, and her skin is starting to feel rougher because she has no moisturizer, and she's only avoided sunburning every other day because she's wasting her aura to heal the burns as they happen. She pulls her hair tie out of her things though, at least determined to try to get her hair back up before he does take a picture. She may look like she hasn't seen a mirror in more than a month, but she's at least going to keep her hair out of her face. ]

[want_to_belong]

Really?

[He perked up instantly. Look, she could be covered in mud and it wouldn't make much difference to Prompto. He didn't really have any issues with her giving her reasons. It was just like listening to Ignis when he went off on something. Instead of worrying about it, he focused like a laser on the thing he was interested in.

Well, she said it was okay, so...

He scooted next to her, camera turned around in his hand and lifting it up to take a selfie with both of them in it. Awkward as the angle was, he'd done this so many times that he leaned back and put on a dorky smile easily. Besides, he really was happy. He was getting to take a picture with Weiss!]

Ready?

[whiteas]

[ She turns to look at his face for a second. This is such a weird angle, learn to take selfies dude. Weiss has learned her selfie game from a group of three other very overly comfortable girls, so she scoots close enough that their cheeks are almost touching, and turns to face the camera again. Then sticks her tongue out at the camera.

Because honestly, she hates forcing smiles. She'd rather just make a weird face and not tell him until he looks at the picture, since her teammates taught her that was a wholly acceptable form of selfieism. ]

Ready!

[want_to_belong]

[Weiss greatly underestimated his weird picture game. Prompto was king of taking terrible shots. He was perfectly happy just being in a picture with Weiss, but as she slid in closer he tensed. There was a reason why, when he took a picture with Cindy, Noctis had to keep waving for him to get closer to her. And even that wasn't nearly as close as this.

They were so close their cheeks were nearly touching. If he shifted the wrong way they would be - and it wasn't that he was trying to 'sneak a feel' or anything like that. He was afraid if he made the wrong move she'd be upset.

So the big dorky smile turned into a "OMG" smile, and with a gentle click the picture was taken. Like a natural instinct, he flipped the camera around and scrolled to check the photo. And there they were, so insanely close. He didn't really care that she had her tongue out - it'd hardly be the strangest expression he'd caught on camera. Just seeing them like that... He would have never had the bravery to scoot in that close himself.

Happily, he tilted it towards her to show her, tension still racking his body. If she was worried that she had 'ruined his photo', though, his expression certainly didn't show that. But he was having a hard time formulating a sentence.]

Looks pretty good.

[whiteas]

[ The most experience Weiss herself had with a camera was whatever her team put her through and, well, pictures of Zwei. But Weiss was the one moving in close, and unless he grabbed her somewhere untoward she wouldn't be mad at him. They both made it through the picture and once it was over, she backed away from him, waiting to see the photo. She's relieved he didn't tell her to smile, too.

Weiss wasn't exactly pleased that she looked like a mess (in her opinion) but no more or less than anyone else on the island. ]

What if someone asks the context?

[ Because they were both clearly wet in the picture. She's kind of thinking they should agree on a story other than 'we took a picture after accidentally seeing Prompto naked.' For both their sake. ]

[want_to_belong]

[Wow. Just wow. Man, he was going to have so much to tell Noct about how a girl got in his personal bubble space. And he even had proof!

He shut off the camera and held onto it loosely. Even if he had a charger now, it was best not to wear it out. It would take a long time to recharge from dead batteries.]

We could tell them we went fishing...?

[Maybe, just maybe, he wasn't the best at excuses. But at least it was something the guys would probably believe he'd do, jumping into the river to get fish. Whether anyone would believe Weiss would do that or not...]

[whiteas]

I don't actually know how to fish, so no one's going to believe that.

[ She crosses her arms, then shrugs, holding her hand out to him as if she's physically offering her input. It's easier to tell the truth and just leave out the embarrassing part. ]

How about we're just honest? We went swimming. Fully clothed because we don't have swimsuits.

[want_to_belong]

[He mulled it over a moment, glancing down in surprisingly quiet contemplation, before pepping back up with a large smile.]

Sounds good to me.

[Hopping to his feet, for a fraction of a second he patted himself off thoughtlessly, like he would if someone like Noct was there. Then, in a quick movement, he seemed to realize he should be doing something else and turned to offer Weiss his hand sheepishly.]

Would you, um... [He glanced away.] Like some privacy?

[She did go there to bathe, after all.]

I could stand watch and make sure no one else comes around.

[whiteas]

I was actually just sitting in the water because it's stupidly hot. I finished actually bathing a while ago, but I really don't like heat stroke.

[ Whatever, it was too hot to go to the salt water and there was shade here. ]

[want_to_belong]

Oh.

[He glanced around. Now what?]

You want to... go... sit by the beach?

[He was trying to think of the best cool spots. While some areas were hot and humid, others had a cool mist coming in. Then there were some shady places with trees or old buildings.

Too bad they didn't have AC out here.]

[whiteas]

I tried making an umbrella out of palm fronds earlier but it didn't work very well.

[ It just fell on her face after a few minutes once the sands shifted where she'd buried it. ]

Shall we wrap up?

[want_to_belong]

I could hold some over you if you want!

[Boy was too eager to be an umbrella. But, it was at least something he thought he could do reasonably well - even if standing in one spot might not have been his forte.]

SI

[whiteas]

I think I'll be alright. I'll just go sit in the ocean instead. Maybe if I stay still long enough, dinner will swim to me.

[ That would be nice. She's joking, of course. This heat wave needs to end ASAP though. ]

If I catch something I'll bring it over later.

[want_to_belong]

That sounds good too me!

[And she would have one puppy bouncing after her, trying his best to be super cool and not a dork and all too willing to do whatever to make her comfy.]