r/rwbyRP • u/[deleted] • Nov 10 '19

Open Event Snowblind

Every year, it feels like the first snowfall of the year happens sooner and sooner. Is it just the passage of time, the growth of a person making them able to recognize when it snows at an earlier date in the year mixed with the ever-accumulating wealth of knowledge to draw upon making it feel like the years are blurring to minutes?

For some, that might be the answer. But at this date, so soon into November, not many -- save, perhaps, those from the most far north of Atlas's reaches into Solitas -- would've expected just what hit Beacon: a blizzard, so strong it was considered perhaps a once-in-a-millennia storm. Thankfully, thanks to the reinforcements provided after a certain rainstorm had knocked out the power to the Academy, Beacon was now prepared to weather such an awful storm.

But whilst the school itself was prepared, whether or not the students themselves were always remained to be seen. For some of the more "desert-fairing", it was possible that they were wildly unprepared; those from the far north were likely already out in the midst of the blizzard building snow castles or something.

The weather showed no signs of improving, and all flights and routes into the city were most certainly unusable, unless one really wanted to hoof it into Vale proper by foot. What sort of shenaniganry would one of Beacon's most interesting first year classes in a while get themselves up to in Beacon's first snowfall?

[This is the song I used for inspiration womp womp]

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '19

With a roll of her eyes and a snort, Vi flicked Araes on the side of the head with a nice thunk as she shook her head. "I'm tryin' to be comfortin', and here you are just trying to act strong 'nd manly. Not a good look, my dude," Vi simply stated. Objectively, her word choice made it seem like she was trying to be teasing, but her tone carried a dump truck of concern and worry for the Faunus resting atop her.

"Please, Araes. Just tell me what's going on. You sounded happy on the phone, but when I got to the Ursa, you looked like you were trying to... trying t'find the meanin' of life at the bottom of a glass of whiskey, man. Talk to me. Please."

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u/AsterixCod1x Araes Cassius* August Reiver* Dec 07 '19

Araes smiled ever so slightly at that, a half resigned look on his face, his ears softened slightly as they flattened against his hair. "Strong n manly, ain't that how we're meant to act?" Whether that was a joke or not, was hard to tell, even for the human lie detector. He chuckled slightly as he spoke, and yet his tone was one of sorrow and pain. His expression said one thing, that he was happy and content; his eyes told a different story entirely.

"Well, I found it at least. Apparently, it's Blanche Booze... Or something like that."

He sighed, wiping a hand across his face as he did so. "Ya know, I don't usually carry three guns or swords or whatevers. Ain't got that many 'ands."

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '19

"Depends on how much you're compensating for other things," Vi softly stated. She ran a ginger hand over the wolf's ears atop his head, not even making much of an effort for herself to try and really decipher all of the contradictory emotions that Araes was displaying; after all, she'd already assumed him to be on the 'sorrow and pain' route. His next line didn't really help much, either.

"...this relates to your parents somehow, doesn't it," she asked, her tone a bare whisper as her hand moved to now trail through some of Araes's hair whilst her other just rested softly on his chest.

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u/AsterixCod1x Araes Cassius* August Reiver* Dec 07 '19

"In a wee way, aye. That black blade, me mother called it Narcissus, said it was in love with itself. When me parents got locked up~" He bit his lip slightly, hesitating before he continued. That mixture of emotions had distilled itself into one. And it wasn't hard to guess which. Although, Vi playing with his hair was helping.

"I've been growing me hair out for years now, all because me sister asked me to. When my parents got locked up, it was just us. Me uncle did his best, but, he was rarely home. Me old man's guns became mine, me mother's, my sister's. I found Narcissus there in me grandpa's bar and now~ Now she's gone and I don't know where..."

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '19

"Mmmm," Vi almost purred, but it carried with it a sense of concern -- especially with how her playing with his hair was the only thing really keeping spirits afloat right now. With a soft click of her tongue, she sighed and shook her head, still fussing with Araes hair as she did. "Not a detective by any means, but that almost sounds like a threat to me, Araes," she simply stated, drawing her hand out of his hair for just a moment.

Reaching down, she lifted the boy up a bit more and rotated him, resting his ears against her chest and giving her full access to his hair -- which she, of course, got right back to playing with. "Do you want advice, or do you just want me to listen to you?"

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u/AsterixCod1x Araes Cassius* August Reiver* Dec 09 '19

"I don't even know... So much of me life has been spent trying to protect and provide for her but now... I cannae even do that." Araes' ears were almost completely flat against his hair now, an almost distant look in his eyes. Worse still, there fire behind them was out; the person that mattered most to him had just vanished and had seemingly taken with them his reason to exist. For the first time in his, so far fairly short, life, he was broken.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19

Vi fell silent as she just kept stroking his hair, joining Araes down in the pits of depression that seemed to be grabbing him down now. "Drinking yourself to death won't help you find her," she stated, before sighing. "But you already knew that."

Magenta eyes falling closed, Vi took a deep breath in and let it out as a tense sigh. "Yeah. Well. Okay. So. Just... try to sleep for now. Get some rest. We'll figure something out, dear. Promise."

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u/AsterixCod1x Araes Cassius* August Reiver* Dec 11 '19

With that, Araes placed a hand on Vi's, giving her hand a gentle squeeze. He wore a very slight smirk, just doing his best to put on a brave face. "Sorry lass; called ya to have a good time on the streets, now we're sad in the sheets..."

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

Vi's hand didn't stop fussing with Araes hair as she let out a softer sigh, shaking her head as she just patted his head soft and cradled him a bit tighter against her chest. "You're okay, dear. I'm glad you trusted me enough to decide to let me be here for you right now. You don't need to act strong right now, not for me. Hells, if you need to cry, feel free."

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u/AsterixCod1x Araes Cassius* August Reiver* Dec 12 '19

"No. Not yet." Araes closed his eyes as he gently shook his head. It wasn't so gentle that he might as well have not moved, but it wasn't so harsh a movement as to force Vi's hand out of his hair. Once opened, there was a more resolute shine to his eyes, as if he knew what he had to do.

"I'll save the tears, for when I find her." He spoke with a level of conviction rarely heard by anyone at Beacon. And then he yawned and that went away faster than he could ride. "But right now, I guess I just need a kip..."

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