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 Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:18 pm
Titania laughed as she was spun, moving easily with Neso's direction, coming to a stop with a flush on her cheeks and a grin on her mouth. Their kiss seemed to be the furthest thing from his mind, and maybe she was more than a little okay with that, because whirlwind romance novel kisses did not fit well into the little organized world she had built for herself. Especially coming from such a good friend as Bo.
"A senshi, yes," she agreed, feeling the word out, rolling it around in her mouth and finding that she rather liked the title, though it still was a little unclear to her what a senshi was, exactly. Sailor Titania, Senshi of Fairies. It sounded right, but what it meant was beyond her, at the moment. "Of Fairies, the cat told me. And, wow, that sounds a little crazy, but I just saw you incinerate a monster, so..." Looking at him now, it was hard to imagine Bo-- flirty, silly, kind Bo-- was capable of something so powerful. The scorch marks on the sidewalk said otherwise, though. "Fairies seem to be a little useless," the new senshi added, pulling a bit of a face. "It was like I was behind a curtain of glitter. You couldn't see me? Explains the name..."
It was a little strange, to be talking so calmly, logically, about this. Magic spells, different names, and these outfits... Okay, so she actually felt quite lovely in her outfit, and Bo looked... well, he looked good. "I take it you've known about your senshi-thing for a while?" Hypatia asked, raising her eyebrows.
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:35 pm
When Titania mentioned his attack, Neso shuffled a bit, kicking at the scorch marks on the ground. "Those little evil things are youma. Bad news bears. Senshi are supposed to get rid of them so they can't hurt people," he said quickly. Neso didn't like being violent, and even though youma were balls of pure evil, it still hurt him on some level to be a tool of destruction. He was far happier being one of protection, but his highly aggressive power did not permit that, unfortunately. Not that he didn't try. After all, the boy had been a Super Senshi for nearly a year, and had only used his attack a handful of times. The strangeness of this particular experience was a red flag warning him to practice more. What would have happened if Titania had not been there to help him cool down?
Neso shook the thought from his head because it was a bad one. Neso did do bad thoughts. "Sailor Titania, Senshi of Fairies who turns invisible!" he announced, rolling every 'r' with added vigor. "It has a peppy ring." One hand shot out stiffly from his body, offering a handshake to her. "Greetings, new sailor soldier. I am Super Sailor Neso, Senshi of Summer, Handmaiden to Princess Chronos of the Zodiac Court." The titles were rattled off with a comic clip, eyebrow waggling.
"Oh, you have to meet my princess. She is the greatest person I have ever known, in this lifetime or any other," he said, beaming with pride.
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:19 pm
Titania's head was practically swimming with all the information that Neso was rattling off with ease-- it was obvious that he'd been at this for quite a while. She wondered how she hadn't known, hadn't seen... signs or something. Perhaps it just hadn't been meant to be, at least not until now. It felt as though they shared something now, something secret and wonderful. There was so much to know, to learn, to do, and with school coming up right around the corner. This was going to be hell to work into her schedule, but... worth it. Definitely worth it.
"You sound like you're someone important, Neso," she said with a playful elbow to Neso's belly. "A court, a princess... I'd love to meet her, I'm sure she's absolutely amazing. It all sounds like, well, like a fairy tale." And it did-- monsters and warriors of justice, princesses and magic. It was the sort of stuff she studied at school as a folklore major, but suddenly, these weren't themes of morality and tales of woe and warning any more. They were about to become her life. That... that would need a lot of thought, but later. That was for later, now was for celebrating and learning.
She grinned at Neso, eyes sparkling with laughter and fun. "So, uh, Handmaiden, huh?" She waggled her own eyebrows now, then pressed a hand to her stomach, as it made a not so quiet interruption to their conversation. "Why don't you tell me all about it over dinner, hmm? I get a feeling there's a lot I need to know."
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 10:34 pm
It was true that Neso had been awakened for a very long time, but compared to many senshi, he was definitely a late bloomer. Some burned through their evolutions, surging to the height of their power in the time it had taken him to remember how to throw a decent punch -- and even then, he only worked up the nerve to do so once in a blue moon. His role in the White Moon was to protect one person: Princess Chronos. He considered very little outside of that. So long as she was breathing and happy, Neso considered himself at the top of his game.
Titania's poking elbow made him laugh. "I am a speck of sunlight on our glorious horizon," he said melodramatically. And, to him, Chronos was the sun. "I will most definitely introduce you to Chronos. You'll love her, everyone does." Especially Neso.
"Handmaiden -- yes, ma'am! Selected as a child to protect and serve Princess Chronos in that lifetime and all the ones to follow," he said. Dinner did sound excellent. He began to walk forward, but then realized that his current atire was not wholly appropriate. "We should probably re-civilianize ourselves." Neso did so quickly, dissolving in a glittery yellow glow back into his civilian skin. "It's easy. I think of it like taking off a coat and then, bam, it's done." Once they were civilians, they could continue this conversation over the meal that had been interrupted in the first place.
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