Tavros: What problems? [OPEN]

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

How long has he been on the ship, a couple of weeks? Three? Time's flown by for the dorky little troll, and he's stopped keeping track. It doesn't seem to matter much, anyway. People go about their business, drama rises and falls, and for the most part he stays out of it.

As much as he's gotten to know and like this mostly-human crew, he has to admit it sucks being the only Alternian on the ship. He'd love to see another grey face or be able to talk about his custodian without having to stop and explain what they are. And of course, there's the matter of the evaluations. He has no idea what to expect or what's going to happen if he fails. When he fails, maybe. Conversations with Alex have made it obvious to him how different troll culture is from the basic human one that governs the ship. Are they going to judge him by their standards? Will he be culled if he answers wrong?

But enough of these depressing thoughts. Alex has been spending time with Luna lately, which has left Tavros free to explore the ship by himself. Today he's decided to see what these sensoriums can really do. First comes the easy part, reconstructing his hive and the area around it purely from memory. Barn, cliffs, and far below, the strip of beach and glittering dark ocean beyond. He's done this before. The darkness is just as comforting as it was the first time.

Now for the hard part.

Tavros closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. Happy thoughts, that's how it works, think of good things, and...

He doesn't open his eyes until he feels the wheelchair drop away beneath him. He's still amazed to find himself suspended in the air, nearly seven feet off the ground.

He's flying!

He can't help it. Even homesickness and evaluations can't bring him down now. Grinning happily, Tavros takes off, swooping this way and that, only stopping near cloud level to have another look around. The forest, the ocean, the distant glow and thrum of a city just beyond the horizon, and above him...

Tavros smiles. He's spent enough time staring at these stars to replicate some of the constellations without Stacy's help. And let's not forget the moons, the huge baleful green one and the other tiny and pink.

None of this is going to fix any of his problems, but as far as distractions go, rearranging the stars is a pretty good one.

((OOC: Feel free to hop in! I'm never too busy for another thread. And don't worry, your character should be able to float or "walk" on the open air near him, unless you particularly feel like having them drop like a stone, in which case Tavros will do his best to save them. XD))

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[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Tavros isn't the only one thinking about the evaluations. Hit Girl, who made sure NOT to let on she was Mindy to anyone but that Sasami girl so far, was making sure that the bandages she had would stay. Like she'd said earlier, she didn't like questions and she definitely didn't want to be bothered by anyone trying to get all close to her now. She might be stuck on the ship and she may have to eventually listen to the stupid governing body here, but she damn well didn't have to like it.

The Sensoriums, she found, were actually an excellent way to get rid of some of that tension, not to mentioning kicking a little fake ass when necessary. When she walked in, she found it was being used: a moment later, she also found she was floating off of the ground.

"The fuck?!" She exclaimed, and shattering that illusion, plummeted.

Really Mindy, you should have a better imagination than this.

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

Tavros turns in surprise. He hadn't been expecting anyone to show up, and he was willing to leave if someone else wanted the room. He smiles, recognizing Hit Girl from earlier, but before he can say anything she has her outburst and starts one hell of a dramatic descent.

Tavros stares in horror, then dives after the girl. He's not sure if the sensoriums can kill, but he doesn't want to be the idiot who finds out the hard way.

God, she's falling fast. Tavros narrows his eyes and moves faster. This was his dream, he built it, and he'll be damned if anyone's getting hurt in it.

He catches her by the arms and carefully pulls into a gentle stop a couple hundred feet above the ground. He hovers still, holding her at arms length, staring wide-eyed. Breathing slightly harder from fear and adrenaline, he finally finds his voice.

"Are, are you okay? I'm, uh, I'm really sorry about this..."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

She was falling pretty fast, too fast to even appreciate the wonderful scenery and cursing up a storm when she was grabbed up by a pretty familiar person. She looked up and saw that it was Tavros, the troll guy that she met from before. Wiping her mouth, she adjusted the purple hair and the skirt, almost glaring.

"Are you telling me you can fly now?" she asked, panting. "What's going on here?"

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

Tavros is starting to settle down already, though he still looks upset. He hadn't meant to scare anyone.

"No, uh..." oh wow, how awkward. "I'm really sorry, if, if that scared you. I can't fly, not, normally. But in here, I thought, maybe I could at least, um, try. So I did." He grins. "And it works. You could fly too, that is, if you wanted to."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Huh. Well, that was comforting. She should have remembered that this was the Sensoriums anyway, and that she couldn't be killed. Then again, if it was true that she could fly...

She rose high in the air, grinning. It had always kind of been a kind of dorky dream, to be able to fly like some of the superheroes in the comic books, and seeing as how the jet pack was gone, why not?

She got higher and higher, now being able to fully appreciate the background around her. "Hey," she called out, "where are we anyway?"

[thunder-ace.livejournal.com]

Fate normally didn't enter a Sensorium when someone was using it, but there were rare exceptions. She wasn't that surprised when she stepped out in the open air; her magic immediately kicked in, so she was floating in midair under her own power. She looked all around, admiring the view of the area she had walked into... the twin moons almost reminded her of Mid-Childa's, though they didn't nearly dominate the sky like her planet's.

And then she saw Tavros fly by, and her smile widened. She only needed to glance once at the troll boy to tell how happy he was; that pure joy one feels during times like this is almost impossible not to notice.

So when he paused, she called out, waving to him. "Hello, Tavros!"

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

Tavros started and turned, surprised. Oh wow, he must not have locked the door. Whoops! Good thing Fate doesn't seem too put off by the fact that the sensoriums were occupied.

"Oh, uh, hey Fate." He grinned back at her. She was one of the first people he'd spoken to on the ship, and she'd done a lot to put his mind at ease about being stuck here. He'd been hoping he'd run into her again.

But still, if she had important business here...

"Um, you can, have the sensoriums, if you want. I was just..."

He glances around. Sky above, ground far below, stars glimmering across the darkened sky.

"...uh, trying something different."

[thunder-ace.livejournal.com]

"Oh no, you don't have to change it! I just got a little curious." Fate said. She looked around again, her smile not fading one bit.

"Is this your home? It's beautiful."

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

Tavros grins, a little shy suddenly.

"Yeah, um, this is where, I lived. Before I got on the, uh, ship, I mean."

He points down at the structure with the blue windmill blades.

"That's my, hive, down there."

[starbolts]

With most of her friends preoccupied, Starfire has been free to explore on her own. She's making it her personal mission to learn as much as she can about her fellow crew members and how they all fit together.

Today, her investigation starts in a Sensorium chamber with no ground beneath her feet. Instead, it's a beautiful sky stretching on seemingly endlessly.

Grinning with delight, she swoops into the air as naturally as she breathes, ready to meet another crew member. His world, as she sees it, is...

"It is beautiful," she whispers, admiring the view and hoping he'll elaborate.

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

Tavros stops pushing stars around with his hands and glances over, a bit startled. He's a bit more surprised when he realizes she's more humanoid than he is but definitely not human. She seems friendly, though.

"Uhh, thanks. It's called Alternia. Um... I don't think, we've met."

[starbolts]

"We have not," Starfire agrees, "but we may do so now! I am Starfire, and it is wonderful to meet you."

She dives right into things, doesn't she? "Could you manipulate the stars in your Alternia?"

She looks quite tempted to try it herself. She's flown among the stars, sure, but played with them?

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

"Starfire? Is that, uh, a roleplaying name?"

What? The kid knows trolls who call themselves Mindfang and Dualscar when they play their games. It's not too farfetched in his mind.

"And I'm Tavros, uh, Tavros Nitram. I can't... mess with the stars, where I live. I was just, um, doing it in here, for fun."

Go for it, Starfire! You'll mess up his accuracy, but he doesn't care. It'll be gone when he leaves anyway.

[hasnoteefs.livejournal.com]

There were countless reasons that Toothless had made the Sensoriums his most common place of residence on the ship. The scenery, the fish, the weather, the fact that it all changed whenever he or someone else wanted it to. Sure, it was an extremely foreign concept to the dragon, but...

The fact that he could fly on his own again, whenever he wanted. That was probably the biggest reason, right there. It was like, if he concentrated hard enough, his prosthetic fin (fond of it as he may have been) and the harness and all of the strange, foreign, human things that covered his scales would just melt away, and he could just fly. Fly like he had never been shot down, fly like he had never--

...Abruptly, the dragon's train of thought seemed to falter, and somewhere in the air nearby Tavros his eyes opened and with a disdainful, reptilian shriek he plummeted toward the earth.

[ooc; quite the opposite, here-- I've been meaning to thread with you but I'm way distracted and busy lately so I apologize if I'm stupidly slow. DX feel free to throw bricks at my head or something if I don't tag in a timely manner. ♥]

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

((Well, I haven't done a lot of open threads with Tavros before now because when it comes to making threads, I'm almost stupidly shy. XD But yeah I'll try to be patient and not poke you too much!))

Tavros turns abruptly at the shriek and stares for a moment as Toothless begins his descent. Was that thing his construction? No, he doesn't recognize the species from book, card game, or life experience. One thing is clear, however: dragons are real, and he's inadvertently put one in danger.

Oh, crap.

He takes off after the dragon, looking a little freaked but trying to keep his cool. There's nothing to be afraid of. He can always shut down the simulation or create a huge cushion underneath it to soften the landing, or...

He concentrates, reaching out psychically to calm Toothless down a bit and send him suggestions. He doesn't want to force the issue, but if the dragon gets much closer to the ground, he's going to have to.

Open your wings, dragon. Open your wings, you can fly, I know you can, please just open your wings so I don't have to make you.

[hasnoteefs.livejournal.com]

[[ooc;; ffff♥ I'm the same way. You're more than welcome to poke at me when I take forever, chances are I probably saw that I had a tag and then got distracted and forgot before I actually replied. =__=;;]]

It's not actually his wings that are the problem, Tavros, it's his tail. Toothless yelps in alarm when the troll reaches for him, but it's an oddly familiar gesture and sensation. Tavros was far from the appearance of his human boy (grey skin, dark hair, a good deal smaller, and humans weren't supposed to have horns, were they?) but it was enough like the time they had nearly plummeted to their deaths over a cheat sheet.

Oddly, this memory forced the wind back into Toothless' sails, as he somehow managed to angle his body and his tail just right to where he caught the air and sort of glided toward the earth. If he were a cat his tail would have been bushed out to three times its size by the time he got there, and when he eventually met the ground he dug his claws into the earth for a moment as though wishing to remain there for the time being.

He glanced over his shoulder at Tavros, ears propped to stand straight up to give him a thunderstruck look of confusion. Hi there, funny little human-esque creature, what are you doing there? And by the way, thank you for preventing me from crash-landing in a way that surely would have broken half of my skeletal structure.

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

((yeah, that's why I leave my messages up until I've had a chance to reply, or I'll forget. XD))

Tavros doesn't see the tail problem, and he looks relieved as Toothless regains control and lands safely. He swoops closers as the dragon gets his bearings and hovers uncertainly nearby. Toothless seems to be fine, except for the minor freakout over what just happened, and he's apparently not angry at Tavros for dropping the floor out from under him. Still, the little troll feels pretty bad about all this.

"I'm really, really sorry about that, uhh, I didn't know anyone else, was in here."

Another thread ok, then?^^

[behaemmert.livejournal.com]

Vita, of course, flew surrounded by some sort of red-ish aura, like she always did. She had spotted the vast area of the sensorium as she entered it, and due to the encounter earlier, she was aware of how the sensorium worked.

Thus, she simply had decided to explore the area, until she spotted a flying person in the distance.

"Hello." The tiny knight shouted, as she closed towards the other flying person.

Rght on! :D

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

Tavros stops playing around with star clusters and turns, surprised. He smiles and waves when he recognizes the little lady knight approaching him. Vita, the hammer girl, the one who'd been kicking butt during that game. Good to see her again.

"Hey, um, Vita," he returns, looking a bit sheepish. "Did you need to use the, sensoriums for something? Because, uh, I was just, plying around."

[behaemmert.livejournal.com]

Vita stopped nearby, and stood in the air. She seemed used to it.

"Hello...Tavros." She brought out, and actually...managed to say the name properly! Took her some effort, actually, but then, she had had trouble with the name 'nanoha' years ago.

"I don't really need it, I just wandered by and noticed someone had created this landscape, so I thought to explore it a bit. Is it your work?"

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair, 'Nanoha' doesn't exactly come naturally to some. Tavros smiles as she speaks and nods a little. She's welcome to go wherever; Stacy filled in everything he forgot, within reason.

"Well, uh, sort of. It's, Alternia, which is where I came from."

He shrugs.

"I guess I just sort of, uh, wanted to see home again. And, try some new things."

[sanguineroyal.livejournal.com]

The sounds of the night. However different they might be on any planet, they hold the same sort of feeling. For Nanashi that feeling was a comforting one. Oddly, the "ground" seemed to be the sky, as she entered mid-air. She dropped no more than a half a person before her powers of flight kicked in and she lifted herself up into the sky, taking off her sunglasses and looking for the blessed dragonkin who created this dark sanctuary.

She finally found him, floating mid-air. The gray of his skin and his horns were rather odd, but they did not particularly offend the eye. He was probably considered a handsome youth from his culture... Though it was always hard to tell ages with other races. She would assume youth until corrected at least.

She settled next to him, looking up to the sky and said, "It is a much kinder light than that of the sun, that of the moon, or in this case moons."

100 comments! I think that means I win. :D

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

Tavros looks a bit startled as Nanashi appears near him, but she doesn't seem hostile. He smiles back at her as she speaks.

"Oh, um, you mean, the darkness. This is just a, uh, replica of my home planet, Alternia. When I left, uh, we were in the middle of the sixth dark season, so, no sunlight for us anytime soon."

He pauses, looking a bit shy.

"You... like it too, don't you?"

XD you do!

[sanguineroyal.livejournal.com]

Dark season? No light for a long time? "Why, I love it. It seems to be the sort of planet my kind would thrive in. I cannot normally exist beneath the sunlight. In fact, I did not know what the sun looked like until I came to this ship, aside from paintings and descriptions."

She smiled warmly at him. He must be a child, if not at least having the mind of one. He didn't seem afraid of her, merely he seemed terribly shy.

Yaaay I will now prance around and shower myself with confettii

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

Definitely a child, mind and body. Also definitely a little shy, but her smile puts him more at ease. She's nice, and she reminds him a little of his helpful jade-blooded friend back home. Though oddly, that friend was the only one of the twelve who enjoyed the sun at all.

"Well, trolls can, uh, be out in the daytime, but the sun is so bright, most of us sleep when it's up. Why can't you, um, be out in it? Or... exist, under it."