escordvi | [ open ] never lose hope

Who: Cloud Strife + You
Status: Open
Where: Various
What: MANTA quests - all prior to abduction time
Warnings: TBD

🌩️ Dragon's Gale

a. baby bathing

Hold on, stop squirming.

[ The little baby dragon is covered in, well, whatever is inside of one of those eggs. It won't stay still though. Such a small creature is trying to get out of Cloud's grip. Wiggling. Trying to bite at a wrist, even with teeth that won't do anything to break skin.

Cloud just sighs. Sometimes? He really does miss his little pink dragon girl. She probably could have helped him with this. ]

It's just water. It's not like it's going to hurt you.

b. dancing

[ One of the dragons keeps shoving their face into Cloud's shoulder. He keeps putting a hand on the creature's face and redirecting it. However, the dragon? Quite persistent regardless. ]

No, I'm not interested.

[ The dragon wants Cloud to participate in this dance. Even its tail is slapping the ground in agitation ( or is it eagerness? ). But Cloud? Doesn't really look like he wants to be a part of this. Why would he? This is something that looks like it'd be embarrassing! ]

🌩️ Derby Time

[ Guess who has gotten too close to the races? That's right. Cloud. As per usual, though, Cloud would much rather watch than participate. ~~No, he actually wants to participate but Cloud is Cloud.~~ Watching is fine. It's not like it's a chocobo race, right?

Too bad that, in the end, he's going to end up right next to someone else. There's a moment of alarm while he looks his partner over -

But ultimately? ]

Guess I should have expected this...

🌩️ Book Heist

a. the plan

This is either going to work or be a disaster.

[ Right now Cloud is Staring at two large boxes. Large enough to fit a person inside. There's a fake "top" sitting off to the side. The plan? To fit into the box and then fit the "top" over where the person is hiding and to stack a few books on top of that. Make it look like a delivery of books. ]

Hopefully nothing goes wrong.

b. things going semi right

[ Turns out the ship he's on DOES get robbed. Cloud soon finds himself being hefted up and off of the original ship. Once settled, he's starting to break himself out of the box.

Now, if he has a partner, they can make their way around the ship.

Alternatively, maybe he comes across someone else doing an investigation instead? ]

I didn't think that would actually work.

🌩️ Wildcard

[ You know what to do. Hot me up with whatever you want. Alternatively, we can do a little plotting if you want to reach out to me on Discord ( verthunder ) or at

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