Splish Splash, I was taking a bath (Bendy timed to just after the weddings)

[psi-flames.livejournal.com]

Not everybody wanted to go to the consummation huts straight off the bat. Which meant if they wanted to get cleaned up, they needed another spot to do so in.

Luckily, the city had just such a place: the great public baths. They were rather immense. And open, since the Moai didn't have much in the way of nudity taboos. There were private stalls around the edges, though, for those who weren't quite so open. Or just wanted to do a little 'private' bathing (wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more). It's traditional for the baths to take a while. After all, pretty much everybody here has just gotten married! Enjoy!

(Oh. And your clothes are going to disappear. Nothing personal, the Rapa Nui just want to make sure you have something clean and dry to change into when you've bathed. Isn't that nice?)

((Yep, there are public baths in the city. Have fun with it! And Jono's still outside the city. I just want to be able to get notifs after I ask for no notifications on the main post.))

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[knifeurrib.livejournal.com]

Mai wasn't all that shook up about public baths, but it was still a bit awkward. She kept herself submerged to her chin, eying the rest of the group. At least this part of the trip was going to be relaxing. Unless someone decided to bother her. That'd be beyond irritating.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Well, she WOULD be interrupted, by someone who tended to be as chatty as Mai depending on the situation. Mindy was more or less lounging at this point, perfectly fine not having to talk with anyone at the moment.

"Hey," she said, eying the apparently bashful person. "Not comfortable with the baths?"

[morphitudinous]

Ah, of course the baths would be public. Much like his own work back in the City, actually, but he knew he'd definitely installed more privacy features on-board. When you were just married and lacked a nudity taboo, he supposed this structure was sufficient, but it definitely wasn't his preference.

Billy tried to settle in a corner near the crew members, focusing his attention on bending his arm backward as far as it would possibly go. If he tried hard enough, surely he could wash his own back, right?

[radiantcourage.livejournal.com]

Public baths weren't taboo to Hoshi. They had them in Japan and she used them with her teammates, so she was pretty chill with them. That, and they were also on the ship. Awesome.

She sank as much as she could in the water, Seraphiel coming to join her as he was perched on a rock. She knew her pouch with her beyblade inside, as well as her launcher and the Gaia Memories were all safe with her clothes.

"Mm... feels like the hot springs back home," she idly commented, a smile on her face.

[morphitudinous]

Seraphiel appeared in the corner of Billy's vision after a while, signaling that Hoshi was nearby. He glanced toward a blond head poking out of the water and hesitated. Would she be all right if he talked to her? She had a cool and carefree attitude during their past conversations, but this could be...different.

"Hoshi?"

[memory-hax.livejournal.com]

The water rippled as Phillip stepped into the bath, stretching out as he sank into the water after scrubbing up. Back home, he, Shotarou and Akiko only had enough space for a small sink and toilet so they had to use the bathhouse all the time.

And it wasn't like the other place that he could clean up was like this, so with gratitude he sank into the water.

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

Ronnae knew about public baths. Her siblings had tried getting her to join plenty of times. It just wasn't her thing however, she'd usually stay far far away from them.

However, she was unsure if denying the hospitality of the elders was something that might ruin the mission. She wrapped a towel as best she could around herself and got into the bath. She decided to be far from the group, but close enough in case she needed to hurry to them, after all, public bath meant the locals would also be joining the group in their bathing.

[chosenfamily]

Of COURSE the public bath was, well, public. Sam just wasn't going to catch a break today, was he?

He sighed, stripping off and getting in the water as quickly as he could. At least if he kept his back against the wall, it wouldn't be so bad? At least, that was what he kept telling himself.

[makeherblue]

Maybe one more time and then the magic will happen.

Until then, the human can enjoy the company of the Doctor, who's slipping into the water next to Sam whether he's ready or not. The Doctor has a big grin on his face, the kind a cat gets when it's found a cardboard box. Dunking his head into the water, he bobs back up, his hair in his face as he sticks out a hand. It's a small miracle he even gets Sam's direction right when he looks like he can't see a thing.

"The Doctor. I didn't catch your name back in the TARDIS. Good work, by the way."

He offers that dripping wet hand in Sam's general direction.

[governorkang]

Kang quirked an eyebrow ridge at Sam from his spot near the water, where he was completely nude as well and cleaning paint off of his scales with a damp cloth. Nudity was a nonissue to him. "So who'd you end up marrying to get into this city?"

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

Getting married was hard enough. Wait not hard, god... bad! Bad enough. But he had to bathe in public? He didn't have to do that since high school and it was just no, filled with wrongness and badness. But that paint got everywhere, including a little splotch on his eyepatch so even that had to come off. He can just hide in the corner somewhere and hope nobody freaks out.

[chosenfamily]

Well, there's one person that's not freaking out. Well, not freaking out about the lack of eyepatch, at least.

Sam scoots over next to Xander, hands in his lap. Yeah, difficult enough being married to a guy without being NAKED next to him. "I think this has probably beat any previous record for weirdness in my life."

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

Karis let the warm water soak into her. Probably literally in a few places. As it was, she was enjoying the feeling of being surrounded by warm water - this was one of the very few pleasures she still had in the world and she intended to enjoy it. Even if it meant certain other people had to see naked zombies.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Well she had no reason to have any kind of ridiculous embarrassment issues: she was TEN, there was nothing going on, and she had to get that paint off somehow, right?

Still, despite getting to hang with Negi and Sasami and doing what she wanted, she was still missing Ruffnut and Overlord Zetta. Not that she would ever tell them that of course: she was a LONER, and she didn't need anyone.

So she bathed quietly, dipping her head in the water and taking her time.

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

Ronnae floated nearby, seeming a bit nervous and trying her best to move away from any encroaching crowds; doing her best to avoid moving into someones space. She wasn't comfortable in crowds, not at all. She held on to the towel that she wrapped as best she could around her form.

[radiantcourage.livejournal.com]

Yup, Hoshi was still making her rounds to either check up on or get to know more of the crew.

Her form was toned and it showed that she really did take good care of herself. "Hey, there! How are you?"

[thunder-ace.livejournal.com]

Considering how easily embarrassed and flustered Fate could get during certain public situations, it was probably surprising to see how at ease she seemed in the baths. After all, she's been to several hot springs over the years, so she's long since gotten over feeling embarrassed over public bathing.

So! Right now, she's working on scrubbing the paint off her face and arms. She seems pretty damn happy, too, so she probably wouldn't mind some company.

[governorkang]

Unlike a lot of the crew, Kang didn't care about nudity, so he didn't mind at all getting out of the ridiculous-looking clothing he'd had to wear for the wedding ceremony and sitting down next to the water's edge with a cloth. He dipped said cloth into the water, not noticing the woman at first, and began trying to scrub the paint off of his scales with an annoyed look.

[starlightace]

Splish splash, Fate. That would be your temporary-wife squeezing some water at you from the side, just out of your peripheral vision.

Sure, she's all clean, but it doesn't mean she has to get out of the bath.

[radiantcourage.livejournal.com]

Hoshi was still soaking in the baths, deciding that while they could do this, why not get up on the opportunity?

She noticed a blond-haired woman, smiling and deciding to introduce herself. "Hey! I'm Hikari Hoshi, nice to meet you!"

Another thing was that why not get to know more of the crew while they were on this planet?

[makeherblue]

Ah, nudity taboos. Humans.

The Doctor in the meanwhile will enjoy this bath nude or not, and he's not being patronizing when he can honestly say this is one of the finer baths he's seen, out of a long, long history of sampling all sorts of baths. Some of them were rather...well, too terrible to even put into words. Not worth revisiting, at any rate. There's some places he just tried to steer his companions away from as not being worth the visit. Too-Terrible-to-Put-Into-Words baths were some of them.

This, on the other hand, is indecently perfect, and what's more, the warm water has a way of going into his bones and making him feel relaxed in a way he hasn't quite felt in...oh, he's not even sure when. Quite a while. "A bit". All a bit vague. The Doctor settles for lazily turning onto his back and floating. Not bad for a wedding day.

He makes a very slow circle of floating around the public baths, somehow not quite bumping into anyone.

[radiantcourage.livejournal.com]

Oh, well there was a familiar face! Sure, Hoshi already ran into Billy and Ronnae, but more friends made it better to be in the baths, no offense to the locals at all. she excitedly made her way over to the Doctor, a grin on her face.

"Hey, Doctor!" she called, waving her arm in the air as she kept her distance to give him some room. "Enjoying yourself there?"

[bonnypiperlad]

Jamie hadn't been particularly in any hurry to take the paint off, but after a day spent wandering around the city it was starting to look rather the worse for wear - so it was off to the very public baths. The fact that they're public isn't exactly making Jamie feel comfortable, but at least the Doctor knows where he is at the moment, should the Time Lord want to track Jamie down again.

Sinking into the water up to his neck, he finds one of those scrubby things that are laying around and starts having a go at getting the paint off of his eyes first. It's much easier than thinking about where he is - or who else might be in the water with him.

[morphitudinous]

It's a while after Billy parted with the girls, and he still hasn't managed to completely wash the paint from himself. All those massages, splash fights, and heartfelt conversations keep getting in the way. This time, he promises to himself, he's really going to get clean.

He tries to find a relatively empty spot---oh, there's a human male he can't quite identify. Perfect. Billy sinks in a short distance away, muttering to himself about enthusiastic wives.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

Beastboy was rather enjoying himself in the bath. The public bath scene was something from his comic books he'd always been curious about.

For the time being he was floating about as an otter looking just so adorable.

[thewunderkind]

"Public baths?"

[thewunderkind]

Well, it wasn't any different from living as a Commanding Officer with thousands of soldiers under her command. Showers weren't things that were done by yourself.