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 Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:25 pm
Santa Claus had been good to Sailor Europa this year, though she hadn't exactly considered the logistics of requesting a full-size first aid kit. Surely it wasn't convenient for carting around to places where she might actually need it, namely patrol - as much as she frequently longed for gauze and liquid stitches and peroxide and band-aids, it was just more convenient to Europa to use portions of her bow - although as a lifeguard and a pre-veterinary major she knew this was disgusting and unsanitary.
After pondering what to do with the magnificent first aid kit for several days, Europa found herself reverting to the satchel she'd carried at the very start of her tenure as a senshi, although now instead of stuffing it full of rope and cameras and notepads she'd strategically packed it full of gauze and instant-cold compresses and liquid stitches and other goodies. It was easy to shuck if she really did get caught up in a battle, but tonight Europa was more keen on finding someone out on patrol who might need the assistance of a medic.
It had taken her a while to really figure out what she wanted to do as a senshi - certainly longer than it had to pick her college major - but fate had been pushing her this way for a while now. Between patching up allies at the Surrounding and mother hen-ing over her teammates, Europa was starting to feel more certain of her calling.
The senshi of the deep hesitated on a street corner and stretched out her senses, trying to get a feel for who was nearby. Since the summer, she'd been paying more attention to the limited extrasensory abilities that came as part of the basic package - after neglecting them for so long, it seemed silly to not make an effort now. Especially if they could help you in finding an ally or evading an enemy.
Europa glanced up and down the darkened shopping district. The weather was chilly, with a heavy blanket of fog starting to roll in. Certainly no one would be out tonight if they could avoid it.
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:49 pm
Sailor Iris was poking Eunomia in the shoulder.
And more than likely, Eunomia was not happy about it. It probably had everything to do with the fact there was a reason behind the prodding.
"...Come on... ya know ya wanna show me yer shoulder!" Finger jab.
"Come AAAAWWWWWN!"
The blonde had called up the various teammates to see who would be up for a patrol, and it was just her luck that Eunomia was the only one available. At the start of the patrol, she had been beating her brain to try and figure out how to make the situation a bit more tolerable. And the only thing she could think of was to start pestering the darker haired girl about a certain injury she had suffered recently.
With another firm jab to her teammate's shoulder, she commented "It had t' leave a scar! Jus' show me... ya know ya wanna!" Giant claw marks didn't just heal nice and pretty.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:27 pm
Eunomia tolerated only a brief amount of poking before she rapidly slapped at Iris' hand and the empty air near it with both hands and a frustrated noise that was close in kind to a dying water buffalo.
"Can we not talk about that s**t for one goddamn minute?" She complained, although it might've been unfounded considering she didn't really mean the scars, but the whole big battle that lead to Iris' reveal and less pleasant things, including the scars and icky emotional s**t she'd like to just brush under the rug.
Plus the entire ordeal led to some really awkward tension with her dad who was curious about the physical aftermath and his usually open daughter's secretive nature about it.
"I was mauled by a jaguar," She announced, glad to be deliciously over dramatic about it and her miraculous survival, "I require time off for trauma and therapy and to relearn how to tolerate you, your highness."
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:48 pm
Europa's eyes flitted down the street, towards the pair of figures emerging from the fog. They'd certainly made their presence known through their exclamations, and a quick check of her sixth sense revealed what she guessed to be a basic ranked senshi and an eternal. There was no reason to not say hello - maybe it was even someone familiar. It was commendable enough that the pair was out patrolling together - she sort of idly wished it was a pair of Jovians, but the silhouettes looked all wrong.
Adjusting the position of her heavy bag on her shoulder, Europa made her way towards the pair of mysterious senshi. She waved in greeting, the fog thinning as she got closer. It certainly wasn't anyone that the senshi of the deep recognized, but then again, she was nothing if not friendly, and the tail end of the conversation she'd caught seemed interesting. Maybe these two would be forthcoming with information.
Having no reason to suspect that your highness was anything other than a sarcastic nickname, Europa chose to pay attention to the dark-haired senshi's remark about being mauled by a jaguar. That was what really had caught her attention, not the tension between the base rank sailor and her superior.
"Good evening," Sailor Europa greeted the pair of taller girls. Gosh. She was hardly petite, but up close this pair towered over her! She gave them a sheepish smile, feeling small, and then felt immediately silly for feeling sheepish. She was an eternal senshi, captain of the Jovian court - surely she could conduct herself with more dignity! But alas, shrinking violet it was.
"Quiet evening?" she asked the girls, regaining her composure. "I couldn't help but overhearing - a real jaguar? Or a youma jaguar?" Because there was a pretty big difference, and she'd be interested to know where the dark-haired scout had managed to get mauled by a real jaguar.
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:44 pm
"Don't call me that!" was the first thing that the blonde snapped out at her dark-haired companion. She was already having a hard enough time accepting these things fully, but having a teammate poke the rank at her really tended to strike a nerve.
However, before she could actually get out another retort, another senshi approached the area, gradually fading into view from the vague fog. The wings were the obvious sign of another eternal senshi, but upon a simple glance, Iris couldn't say she knew the newcomer very well. With a half nod, she replied to the girl's polite greeting with a less-than-formal "...'sup?"
However, the moment that the other eternal senshi mentioned it, Iris managed to regain focus on something she had wanted to ask before the new company came around. Which meant that question was being asked now, no filter.
"...Yeah... 'bout that... how th'f*ck did ya know it was a jaguar? I thought that sh*t was a leopard..."
There was a distinct pause as she glanced to the second dark-haired girl. "Oh... and it was a youma..."
Another pause. "A leopard youma."
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 11:36 pm
Eunomia was caught off guard by the sudden appearance of another eternal senshi and her approaching suddenly alerted her to the half ignored sense she was there. Like completely missing a smell until you saw the food, it was suddenly obvious.
"Hi," She said, barely getting a chance to crack a smile before Iris had to go and be Iris and absorb her attention with considerable negativity. "...Maybe it was a jaguar. And yeah, don't worry, it wasn't a zoo trip gone awry or anything," She informed with a thoughtful nod before speaking in a lightly lower. more hissing tone that was meant solely for Iris.
"It could've been a jaguar. You don't know the difference either. You always have to be right," She complained in such rapid succession they could've all been on crammed, choppy sentence. Part of her wished she found a way to inject Iris' new nickname into it after the fact but decided it'd just sound forced. She knew it struck a nerve, of course. That was the whole reason she started using it.
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:28 am
Europa wasn't about to get in the middle of this argument. Asking about spots seemed faintly pointless when discussing a youma, given that the creatures frequently looked entirely uncanny. She gave the pair of senshi a hapless shrug. "It was a big cat youma?" she suggested. Agree to disagree.
"Glad we cleared that up, though," she added. "I didn't think I'd heard about any break-ins at the zoo... I was starting to worry I'd missed something major!" The thought of missing something major was what kept Europa patrolling and asking questions. She breathed an inward sigh of relief and adjusted her bag again before extending a friendly hand towards the other two scouts.
"I'm Sailor Europa of the Deep," she introduced herself, offering up a friendly smile. She was picking up on a degree of tension between the girls that didn't seem entirely unfriendly, but it still wasn't something Europa wanted to get in the middle of. Better to defuse it, she thought - maybe they'd have some interesting news.
"How long ago was this?" she asked, fidgeting with the strap cutting into her shoulder. "The mauling, I mean-" She could only hope the dark-haired scout had gone home and done something along the lines of dumping a whole bottle of peroxide on the wound. Europa didn't trust youma to sanitize their claws before sinking them into senshi. "Is it healing okay?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:33 am
One of these days Eunomia was going to get a punch in the face. Not today, but it would happen one of these days. Planting one hand on her hip, Iris seemed to glare for a moment at her teammate. "...I ain't th'one who's gotta be right all th'time..." At least, in her own (extremely biased) opinion, it seemed like the darker haired of the pair seemed to demand being correct much more often.
However, something about what Europa had said did seem to catch the blonde's attention. Turning to face her just in time for an introduction, the eternal senshi shoved her own hand in the shorter girl's direction. "Sailor Iris... of Rainbows..." Introductions meant handshakes, it was like pairing cookies and milk for some people. She could have introduced Eunomia, but she figured that her teammate would get snooty about not being permitted to introduce herself like a big kid. So instead, all she did was motion with her head to the other, as if that was supposed to be a hint she'd be introducing herself.
"...and I'd say ya probably did miss on somethin' major if ya ask me. Not everyday that 8 different youma reek havoc in th'park at th'same time... happened jus' before Ex-mas time..." It definitely wasn't everyday that someone fought youma with live music being performed in the background to the merry tunes of the holidays. If it weren't for the fact they were desperately trying to survive the fight, then it might have been something that could have been enjoyed.
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 8:09 pm
Eunomia had no response to Iris and her glare except to narrow her eyes and press her lips into a straight line. She wouldn't dare argue out of fear of proving her point for her.
But she perked up considerably when addressing Europa. Her body language had a lot more energy to it when there wasn't Iris souring her mood. "I'm Sailor Eunomia, Senshi of Order," She introduced, forgoing the handshake, but finishing with a wink she occasionally shot at cute girls.
But she had been placid for only seconds before Iris filled the other senshi in, and the memory caused the corners of her mouth to take a sharp downward turn. "Seriously, <********> Carol of the Bells," She grumbled, not having anything to really add. For some reason that was the only Christmas song that she had really tuned into during all the chaos and hadn't been able to tolerate it without cringing since. And it had been inescapable afterwords, as per usual for the season.
"Why are you hauling that thing around?" She asked, hoping for a subject change and pointing out the satchel Europa was carrying. She really didn't want to talk about the mangled claw marks that decorated her shoulders any more now than she did when it was just her and Iris.
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:17 pm
Europa took the wink as a compliment, although there was not much she could do in return. Whether or not Eurnomia was flirting with her didn't matter to the senshi of the deep - she would just take it as friendliness. "It's a pleasure to meet the both of you, Iris, Eunomia," she replied, giving them both another round of earnest smiles.
The cursing of christmas carols was met with a sympathetic shrug, but no real constructive input. Obvious Eunomia had some sort of negative association with it, and Europa couldn't really do much else besides shrug sympathetically. The question about her bag was a welcome reprieve from her muteness - she'd been waiting for the topic to come up all night.
"It's a first-aid kit," she said brightly, patting the top flap. "I may have found my calling at the Surrounding," she admitted bashfully. There were many senshi who were stronger in combat and more ruthless fighters than Europa, but she hoped to make up for that by filling an important support role. "I served as a bit of a battlefield medic, and it just clicked. I'm always patching other senshi up after fights, so why not actually come prepared to do it?"
Carrying rolls of gauze was gentler on her ribbons, for starters. "I guess tonight I've been... chasing ambulances," she finished lamely. When you put it that way, it sounded sort of awful. "Looking for roughed-up senshi to help out. But... no dice." And she was a terrible person for wishing she could find an injured scout, but she'd gone through the trouble of hauling the first aid kit out on her rounds in the name of preparation. Surely it would prove useful... eventually. Europa would not be deterred.
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:06 am
"...First... Aid... Kit..." the blonde repeated slowly in a seemingly flat tone. Her eyes critically looked over the satchel, her expression clearly not reading as anything impressed. Europa recalled her experiences in the Surrounding, which definitely were much different from her own. Iris knew that ********* and Hygiea had gone to the Virgo outpost to help in the infirmary, where as she had gone to help with supplying food in the Leo outpost.
Her mouth stretched out wide like she was trying to imitate a frog at her own memories of the ungrateful brats she had to deal with. "Hopefully ya weren't stuck with whiny, ungrateful brats in th'Surroundin'..." Such a statement made it obvious what Sailor Iris had encountered.
Europa continued, explaining what she was trying to do with her patrol, and the tomboy's expression didn't seem to shift at all. Obviously something in her words had seemed quite off to her.
"...so... yer lookin' fer hurt senshi instead of youma?" There was a pause. "...wouldn't it make more sense t'look fer youma, since most senshi usually get drawn t'them, and if anybody gets hurt, then ya worry 'bout fixin' them up?"
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 5:47 pm
Eunomia suddenly looked like a kid pretending their hand totally wasn't stuck in a cookie jar at the mention of the Surrounding, and just kind of looked away and rolledo n her heels as Europa and Iris talked about it. What did she do in the surrounding? She fawned over how cute Irene was and got her a** kicked. It was a more guilt rendering thing than that the whole jaguar youma trying to eat her. One could hardly be blamed for not matching up with a magical jaguar monster lady, but being less than helpful in a crisis situation was something else.
Europa's 'role', so to speak, did make her think she could poke at to segue away from the subject. "So, I'm guessin' your powers don't do it for you? What are your powers then?" The deficit of coolness the senshi or Order's powers had were a constant source of curiosity and comparison.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 2:07 pm
Well, clearly Europa was winning no admirers tonight just by showing up. "Um, no," she replied to Iris, frowning. "Everyone was very appreciative of my help. I don't know who you ran into, but, no." Or maybe she'd just made early notice of who looked like whiners and made a point of avoiding them. Complaining about iodine stinging a little when there was an eternal senshi exposing themselves to your bodily fluids wasn't exactly the best plan of action, now was it?
"That would make more sense, wouldn't it," continued Europa neutrally, inwardly indignant that the major problem with her course of action had been pointed out. It wasn't as if she wasn't also dusting Youma, but... Actually, this didn't seem like a huge problem at all. She relaxed some. If every senshi in the city was out looking for Youma, then who was looking out for the senshi and making sure they made it home okay?
"No, wait," said Europa, backpedaling. "There's lots of senshi already doing that. But lots of senshi don't have first aid kits or healing powers. Who watches the watchmen?" Which wasn't exactly the correct use of the phrase but you know what? It was late and she was being judged as incompetent and frankly she didn't quite care. It sounded impressive. She was being defensive. Correct use of a pop-culture reference frankly shouldn't matter.
Turning her attention to the darker-haired senshi, Europa said, "My powers are largely supportive. My basic attack generates pressure on chaos-aligned persons and creatures, impeding their ability to move, and my super attack adds a blanket of darkness." Frankly it was a useless power if there had ever been one, not to mention it made her glow like a lightbulb. Better not mention that - Iris and Eunomia already clearly didn't really respect her even without her stupid abilities. "The third, I'm not wholly sure what it does, since Youma can't speak and I've never had a negaverser describe its effect to me. I can only assume it involves fear, or maybe hallucinations, since it's called deep ocean terror."
Which was an embarrassing shortcoming to admit. Europa shrugged and adjusted her bag. "Since I'm here anyway," she said to Eunomia, "Would you mind me having a look at your injury?"
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 8:45 pm
It seemed like everyone but Iris had been lucky enough to entertain and assist the more grateful individuals in the Surrounding. All the blonde had been stuck with were a bunch of thieves. She snorted slightly recalling the vanishing burritos, since she had spent good money on it!
For a moment it seemed as if there wouldn't be any problems, Europa agreeing with what Iris said, but then she changed her mind. Just the indecisive manner she spouted agreements and disagreements was enough to cause a vein to throb slightly in her forehead, but before she could raise her tone in an insistent manner, she managed to catch a quick look from Eunomia that read "Don't go raging b*tch, please!" In a resigned manner, the yellow-suited senshi snorted even louder this time. Her arms crossed about her chest in a defensive gesture, as if she was ready to snap if asked the wrong question.
It definitely seemed as if Europa was just as adamant about seeing her teammate's injury, though not for the same reasons if Iris were to venture. Without shifting her posture at all, she uttered "Pretty sure it's closed up by now... Jus' sayin'..."
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 5:54 pm
Eunomia crossed her arms, shifted her weight back and forth from leg to leg as Iris spoke, and rolled her eyes to the point it looked more like she was staring up at the stars praying for the saving grace to not openly snap at her leader in front of an ally.
The Surrounding talk still made her feel guilty. Didn't help, didn't exactly look badass, accidentally robbed a Zodiac senshi. Not her greatest exploit. Still didn't want to talk about it.
"Well you know, it's all done now so," She said, awkwardly clearing her throat.
She opened her mouth to answer the question about her injury herself, but Iris went ahead and answered for her. Which made her close her mouth and press it into a straight line as she shot the blonde a look. Eunomia didn't like people answering for her any more than Iris did, but part of her wasn't brave enough to say so at the risk of looking like the biggest hypocrite in the world.
"Actually, it's pretty ugly, but I went to a legit doctor and stuff. Hard as all hell to explain in the ER," She said, turning and lifting up her sailor collar to show just the beginning starts of the scratches. Pulling down the back of her bodice a bit gave a bit of a clearer picture. The way the jaguar lady jumped on her shoulders it looked like she had gone to the zoo to give a large cat an ill advised bear hug. The skin had begun to knit, but the scarring was obvious, and the dissolving stitches were still present.
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