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Rebecca ([personal profile] thewildflower) wrote in [community profile] legionworld2016-09-04 10:16 pm

softly, with grace [open]

Who| Rebecca & OPEN
What| After adjusting to culture shock, Rebecca is released to the world at large! Surprise, she's still overwhelmed.
Where| Around the tower!
When| Her first day or thereabouts, sometime after TTHS!
Warnings/Notes| None!

[Crew Quarters, generally around]

It’s just her luck to finish fighting one dragon and end up in some bizarre otherworld before she’s even made it back to the ship home.

...Actually, it isn’t, she thinks to herself. Normally her luck is pretty good, and she can’t imagine what she’s done in her life to deserve waking up in a death void and then finding herself surrounded by steel magic. But she’s over it! She’s definitely over it. It's been enough time that she's accepted this, and how could she not? She has people to help...people who aren't even here, but even people who are here. Rebecca never thought her soldier life would bring her to this point, but...you don't need a reason to help people, not when she's in such a position to do so. Becoming a Legionnaire had been the right thing to do, she's sure of it.

She’s inside the ship (or miniature planet, whatever, adjusting), she has her room and everything. Crew quarters aren’t much different than a tent (, she lies to herself)...and Legionnaires aren’t much different than fellow soldiers, and...

No, no, it’s all completely different, but she's going to get used to it! Just because it's different doesn't mean it's bad. Well, it's not good, she'll just figure it out! She settles on leaving her bow and arrow in her room and heading out on a walk to familiarize herself with everything. If anyone so much at looks at her for more than a half-second, she’ll greet them with a slightly hesitant, but still smiley:

"Excuse me...if you’re free, might I have a moment of your time?"

[Mess Hall]

The first thing Rebecca does in this new place is load up her tray with vegetables that look familiar to the ones she knew from back home. Well, or the ones that looked mostly similar. She’s not about to take her chances on that melon(?) with polka dots or the fruit she’d assumed was an orange until someone cut into it and revealed it was blue inside. What a ...wonderful place.

She’s ready to make her way to a seat, admiring how quiet the mess hall seems to be at this hour, when she notices that the ground is coated in some sort of slimy gelatin paste that someone had spilled previously. Just from looking at it, she knows it’s going to make a gross mess if she slips in it...and it’s too late to stop walking, her eyes going wide as she realizes she’s about to walk right into mess she’ll have to clean off of herself. Eyes on the wall, she just thinks at the last millisecond that she needs to get away, and—just like that, she vanishes in a flash of flame that disappears as quickly as it came.

The new problem is that she finishes putting her foot down as soon as she reappears, and the only thing in front of her is a wall. She immediately walks into it, hitting her head, and stumbles back. To everyone else, it probably looks like she burst into flame and then walked into a wall, but there was a very unfortunate chain of events there, and she looks mortified. The tray of vegetables she'd been holding onto just drops onto the ground with a clatter, and she hurriedly scoops them back on. Rebecca miraculously manages to say a few words before taking the quickest exit—hopefully someone will come and say something before she walks out, everything is the worst.

"Oh...oh, you idiot!"

Either way, she still needs to eat, and later she can be found standing next to a vending machine and eating whatever’s available inside of it. She looks exhausted and in need of a proper meal, but she will persevere. She can't afford not to.
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[personal profile] deafleppard 2016-09-19 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, yeah sure. That's no problem at all." It was all a lot to think in, and that was all after the complementary near-death experience everyone had before actually making it to Legion World.

"So before we get started, here's a question for you... Where exactly are you from?"

It'd help her get a decent point of reference before moving on to the information dump.
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[personal profile] deafleppard 2016-10-06 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, you're right about that." Castle, villages, and archers... it all literally sound so medieval. Which, in turn, made it cool. Castles were cool, right? Maybe not a time-period she'd actually want to live in but because she liked not going crazy. But still, cool!

"Well, I'm from Queens over in New York City. I was supposed to start new job at a convenience store but I ended up here, instead. My dad's a cop, but I turned out to be drummer in the family. And... I have no idea if any of this is making any sense to you."
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[personal profile] deafleppard 2016-10-19 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Um, sort... of. I mean, they pretty much uphold the law and make sure to catch all the criminals and crazies running around the streets. You know, not all that different from knights. They just, uh. Don't wear all that heavy armor, or use swords, and most of them don't really use horses to get around anymore." But set aside all those differences and yeah, totally the same.

Kind of!
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[personal profile] deafleppard 2016-11-04 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
"I think you'll be just fine, one everything starts to feel less weird for you. And let me just say that future is actually pretty awesome." Although it admittedly had a distinct lack of... pegasi? Man, flying around on one of those sounded really cool.

"So you're an archer instead of a knight then, right? Here's a question for you: how good are you at that?"