[PRP] A Different Perspective (Reemus + Tevini)

[Doutei]

looking through a new lens

 

[Doutei]

Even though she'd accepted becoming a rebel and had come to visit the swamp many numbers of times, Tevini always found herself unsure of what to do when she was stuck waiting for Cerpin to finish his business so they could head home to Chittentown. Bored, she'd spent a few minutes observing the village before deciding to look for a place she could sit down. Figuring there'd be tables and chairs anywhere food was near, the redblood followed her nose.

As she wandered, the engineer let her mind do so as well. Quickly she was lost in solving her latest design problem of how to hand drag when she walked straight into something that managed to be somehow hard and soft at the same time. Knocked backwards from stumbling, the redblood yelped as she went down and fell into the swampy mud.

"Ow! Ah, I'm sorry!" She apologized quickly, a physical reaction she'd been conditioned to do. Glancing up at the other troll, she couldn't help but notice he was rather big. Broad shouldered and large, Reemus looked very intimidating to the easily startled coward.

Gl!tch~

i wasn't sure which cert to use, hope this one is alright! if you'd rather a different one lemme know and i'll change it! also if i need to change any details of this post, lemme know and i'll edit!

 

[Gl!tch~]

If anything, there was always plenty for Reemus to do in the swamp. With new trolls growing up and needing places to live, construction was pretty regular. That, and upkeep. Really, if someone just told him to carry a thing or hammer that, saw this, whatever, Reemus was down. He liked being given direction. It helped pass the time from night to night. Not every night could be an outing with Voscil, unfortunately.

But it was good to keep busy, especially after the space ladder. Things were quiet here. Stable. He liked that. Even throwing himself into his work, though, eventually his body complained.

Namely, his tummy.

It growled at him as he finished carrying some lumber to another tree site, so he decided it was time to sate the beast. Woofmum followed in the meantime, now that it was clear she wouldn't be in the way. She greeted him with a bark, and he patted her head. Then, they were on their way. It was about lunch time, he figured, so the local place should probably have some good stuff...

In the middle of scratching his cheek idly, he was jostled a bit as someone ran right into him. "Hwuh?" It took him a second to focus as he looked down at the figure who had bounced off of his body. Before he knew it, they were apologizing.

"It's okay, mate," he said with a confused blink, still grasping the situation. He squinted a little, as if that would help with his half-blind eye. He caught the red on their shirt, and after a second leaned down. The yellowblood went from a hazy baffled to immediate concern. "Ah, are you all right? Fallin's never fun..." He reached out to give Tevini a hand.

Doutei

 

[Doutei]

"Thank you." Tevini flushed as the yellowblood extended a hand and looked at her with such concern. He was able to tug her up with ease, and she tried to wipe some of the mud off of her.

"I don't think we've met before. I'm Tevini. What's your name?" Glancing the other troll over, she was nervous but curious about the spots on his face. Whoever this troll was, it looked like he'd been through a lot! And then there was that eye... it made her think of Polair. Except it was different, it didn't look the way she expected a blinded eye to look.

Socially awkward as always, Tevini didn't realize she was staring.

Gl!tch~

 

[Gl!tch~]

"Guess we haven't, mate. 'M Reemus. You been with the rebellion long?" he asked, dusting off his hands after getting Tevini up. It gave him something to do. Even so, it didn't take long for him to look at the redblood again, brows furrowed in his attempt to focus his vision. He looked that way a lot, especially with new people.

Despite the vision problems, Reemus did notice Tevini staring. After a bit, anyway. "Whatcha lookin' at? Is'ere somethin' on my face?" A hand immediately went up to feel around for anything that might be clinging to his cheek.

In the meantime, Woofmum yipped softly and started to sniff at Tevini from afar. The troll smelled like sand.

Doutei

Short post is short, didn't have much going on for this one =w =;

 

[Doutei]

"No, I'd consider myself still relatively new." Tevini admitted. She didn't know very much about the rebellion's history but longed to. It was important to the redblood to know what she'd signed up for. The girl had honestly joined because she'd felt she had no other choice, which didn't sound very good. If she could talk to some of the rebellion members and learn more, that might help her feel better about the whole thing.

"Ah! I'm sorry- I didn't mean to-" the girl stammered, realizing she was being incredibly rude. Embarrassed but grateful for him being nice and pretending not to mind, she looked down at the ground and tried to calm down. Taking a deep breath, she decided to admit the truth. If the yellowblood was being this nice to her, surely he'd appreciate her honesty and maybe help her out a little.

"... I was looking at your eye. I'm sorry for being rude. I was just wondering if you're alright."

Gl!tch~

super sorry for the wait! i will try to step up my response time for the event!

 

[Gl!tch~]

"Wonderin' if I'm all right," he echoed, and started scratching his chin. "Huh." By the expression on his face, furrowed brows and all, it was easy to tell that the big galoot found this to be odd. "I mean," he shrugged, letting his hand drop from his face to gesture, "if I wasn't you'd know. I howl pretty good." He smiled a little at the end of that. No offense taken on his part, or to dish out.

"Uhhh, but yeah, mate. 'M fine. My eye ain't, but there's nothin' to be done about that besides gettin' a replacement, I guess. You're new so ya don't know, but I joined durin' the raid on the ol' base. I didn't really mean to, but I followed me gut, n' here I am. N' I got this for it." Another gesture, this time to all the burns on the side of his face. Despite all the pain he went through for someone he didn't even see anymore, the yellowblood seemed rather at peace with it.

"Was a pretty ugly thing all around, honestly."

The wolf lusus kept sniffing at the new person, getting closer even, curious and not caring a single bit about personal space.

Doutei

Worry not :3a

 

[Doutei]

"H-howl?" Tevini's eyes widened at the very thought of it. The yellowblood in front of her was very peculiar- tall and physically imposing yet gentle and calm in his manners. She felt bad for having been scared of him in her initial quick judgement. Slowly Tevini was learning every day to stop stressing about first impressions and to actually pay attention to others.

"That's terrible. I'm so sorry." The redblood winced as he recounted his injury. The burns looked painful (though really everything did to her) but she kept coming back to his eye.

"I... was one of the children forced to escort the raid of the old base. It was horrible. I can see I got off easy compared to you." The engineer winced. Sure she'd been just a child and her lusus had been there to protect her- it made sense. But the guilt of seeing someone else in front of you who'd fared much worse... it wasn't something Tevini had much experience with.

"Ah! W-wait!" The girl yelped as a snout appeared close to her vision. Startled by the wolf lusus who'd approached without her paying attention, Tevini tried to back up into a tree.

"Are they with you?" The nervous girl squeaked.

Gl!tch~

i'll steer back to the blind eye question in a little bit! couldn't ignore Woofmum's cuteness- even if Tevini is a wimp!

 

[Gl!tch~]

"Oh! So you were there! Crikey..." Reemus barely swallowed Voscil's youthful involvement with the event, much less a stranger. He had no idea if she had any help, or was left flailing among the chaos. "I'm sorry ya got pulled into all that. It's good, though, that ya didn't get hurt." Even he could tell from her words and expressions that she was comparing herself to him, for some reason.

Surprising, too, was seeing someone be shocked by his lusus. Reemus couldn't help but laugh a little. "Aww, sorry, mate." He rubbed the back of his neck. "That's just me mum. She won't hurt ya." The yellowblood took a couple of steps over to the howlbeast and started rubbing her, and in a way kind of pulling her back, too. "Yer worryin' the girl, y'know. Yeah I know she's too stringy anyway, but she don' know that."

He looked up at Tevini again. "Maybe we should sit down somewhere, mate? Before ya end up in the mud again. We're a friendly lot, though, I promise."

Reemus continued to be in good humor, though deep in his thinkpan, the common ground regarding the rebellion sobered him some.

Doutei

Huhu

 

[Doutei]

"Too stringy!" The redblood gasped in a whisper of shock. She didn't seem offended, more embarrased. Tevini had a very restricted diet- that was, she ate when Scuttle or Cerpin reminded her. Even then, she was strict about only buying or gathering essentials.

On top of that, she avoided exercise.

'I really need to work on that.' She chided herself internally while nodding to Reemus's hint to sit down. Following him to a makeshift outdoor seating area, Tevini admired how hard the Rebellion had worked on making the swamp a little more like a village. It was hard to start over, even from a junkyard, she'd learned.

"This place has sure come a long way. It's amazing how much everyone here has accomplished. Do you live here or are you just visiting too?"

Gl!tch~

 

[Gl!tch~]

"I wish I just got t' visit," Reemus huffed a little as he sat down. His lusus considered trying to shove herself under the table as he did so. "Nah, there're drones keepin' an eye on m' old place, so I stay in the Outpost. It's kinda everythin' Chittentown ain't, but ya get used to it after a bit." He was only slightly bitter, all things considered. "N' the people here 're good. The li'l mates got a lotta spunk. I guess if I gotta be a hermit, it's helpin' someone."

He leaned back some. "Yer lucky if ya get to live elsewhere n' live yer life some outside a' here. Wearin' disguises all the time is killin' me." Clearly the injury didn't help any. "Where ya from, anyway, mate?"

Doutei

A short one o wo;

 

[Doutei]

"Chittentown, actually. I used to live at one of the junkyards." Tevini replied, noting his mention of the city. "Which part of Chittentown did you live in?" It always comforted her to hear about other lowbloods like her. He must've chosen Chittentown for his home to avoid highbloods as well. He was strong looking so he could physically protect himself from basic attacks, so at least he had that going for him. His posture and manners were gentle, though, suggesting he knew there was a proper time and place.

"I had to move after the raid of the old base. They've got a drone around my old hive too. It's really inconvenient." The redblood confessed with a subtle pout. There were good parts being thrown into that junkyard every night and now she had to sneak around if she wanted to get her hands on them! And if anything was too heavy she had to bring someone with her- making it harder to be stealthy! It was a real pain. One glance at Reemus sobered her up right away again, however.

"... I'm sorry if I offended you earlier. When I was looking at your injury." Tevini apologized. "It's just a... friend of mine was injured during the space tower commotion. She's blind now and I... I don't know what to do. Seeing you reminded me of her."

Gl!tch~

 

[Gl!tch~]

"The junkyard?" Reemus whistled. "I woulda envied that as a kid. Sounds like an adventure every night! Ah, but me? I was near the edges of the place. Nothin' very excitin'. I'm sorry ya had to move, too, mate. Hopefully it wasn't too hard? Sounds like yer makin' it work, though." He wanted to be supportive, if he could.

The yellowblood wasn't prepared to return to the topic of his eye, and he blinked in confusion when it came up again. He thought they were past all that! He was ready to wave it off, but had to pause at the mention of the space ladder. And someone was outright blinded.

His thinkpan flashed with memories of the Civisect disaster, the multiple times he lost the energy to go on, the explosion and the wreckage and how they barely made it out alive. He had a bunch more scars, but he was still in tact. How lucky for him. For Voscil in similar shape. And Tevini, in comparison.

"There's nothin' you can do," he murmured in response. A knee-jerk reaction. But he didn't take it back. "You just adapt, mate. It's awful, goin' through somethin' like that in one piece. Much less...not..." He swallowed. "When I went through stuff, havin' my...my matesprit around helped it loads."

Reemus paused, blushing a little just calling Voscil his matesprit to start with. "I-I mean- back then we were jus' friends. We didn't have no feelin's like that. So it ain't a romance thing. But ya do what ya can, y'know?"

He didn't expect things to get so deep so fast. Reemus exhaled. Whew. Kind of intense. But he felt like he could help, so he didn't shy away from the topic.

"It ain't easy but it gets easier over time. Might take a while, but the time does pass. I know that much."

Doutei

A LONGER ONE o0o/

 

[Doutei]

"I see." Tevini bit her lip, feeling terrible. She knew that Polair would need to adapt on her own and find a way to handle her new situation. Still, the redblood wished there was something she could do. She'd lived her whole life running away from the hard problems and was just recently starting to try and face them.

"I'm glad someone was there for you. I'll try my best to be there for her too." The inventor nodded. She wasn't sure how comforting she would be, since they didn't know each other incredibly well, but the sentiment was not lost on her. Tevini had also been fortunate to have had someone with her during hard times and understood the importance of it. She wondered if Polair had anyone like that in her life already. That was a question for Cerpin, Tevini supposed.

She had a lot of questions waiting for Cerpin. But that was neither here or now.

"Thank you for talking to me about it. I know it's not a happy memory. And it doesn't help when people like me stare." Tevini apologized again, figuring she ought to one last time before trying to change the subject and spare Reemus more awkwardness.

"... on a related note to what you just said... how did you know they were your matesprit?" Tevini asked after a long pause and her face turning red.

Gl!tch~

d'awww all the vosree feelssss

 

[Gl!tch~]

"It ain't nothin' new fer me, n' if I'm not gettin' a hard time for it I don' really mind." Compared to getting called out for acting like a howlbeast as a child, or even the possibility of getting caught in his disguise, this really was nothing. He just kind of wished Tevini would get past it already. "Seriously, don' worry about it."

His wish seemed to be immediately granted, but at such a degree that the yellowblood was taken aback for a moment. "Oh- uh-" Just having an image of Voscil pass through his thinkpan made him blush. "Uhhh, well, I knew when she said yes when I asked?" But he wasn't sure if someone would ask a question that had such a simple answer. Someone older than a wiggler, anyway. "It, um, I guess it started when she kissed me in front of the cameras at Civisect. Nnnn' after that I kinda realized those were the feelin's I had? I dunno. Feelin's are hard, mate. All I ever really knew was that she meant a lot to me, n' we've been through so much n' get on so well, even after a bunch a' disasters n' such."

Reemus scratched his cheek. "Uhhhh did any a' that help?"

Doutei

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