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Bix had heard from Stormy about shadowing him for some Sun Division duties. He didn't know what to show her since most of their duties were directly related to battle, but he scheduled to meet her on the training fields with the intention of showing her some of his ranged training exercises and his notebook of battle strategies.

The pale man waited, idly firing arrows into the training dummies to pass the time.

"Heeey I got nothing but time." Bix smiled as Stormy finally joined him. He lowered his bow to walk over to her, also where his belongings were settled in the grass (including his notebook of strategy and exercises).

"How's things? And how can I help you?" He wiggled his brows. "Treating my bro well, right?"

"Everyday is good for training.." He puffed his chest out importantly and gave her a grin. "You never know what sort of conditions we'll have to fight in! Always be prepared.. like the boyscouts.. or CONSTANT VIGILANCE.. like Mad-Eye Moody." Bix actually desummoned his bow because Stormy running her words together would never get him to ignore what could possibly be juicy gossip.

"But.. ohohoho.." He threw himself into the grass. "Gimme the dish first. And I will reward you with ummm.. SUN STUFF."

He was like a gossipy woman, okay.

"Oh.." Bix blinked, not expecting a question about he and Ceres. "Well just sort of around the island. I think I was reading comics and she's into comics too so we got to talking and then became really good friends." He smiled. "And then one day I was like uhhhhh duuuuuh you totally like this chick."

Bix scratched his head. "I was scared of messing it up, the friend thing, cause I usually fail so bad with girls but..." Well by the time he'd told her, he and she had soon after 'died' together. It was a further bonding experience in a way.

"Not really sure.." Bix turned a bit pink not knowing the exact details of his relationship. "We were friends a while though. Long enough that I was unsure about telling her I liked her cause I was afraid of ruining it."

And then it dawned on him. "We've been together over a year now. Crap." Both of them were bad with anniversaries apparently.

"Why the questions?" Was there problems in weather paradise? HE WAS CONCERNED.

"Not super personal." Bix sat up straighter and at the foot nudge looked almost scandalized. "We are CLEARLY working.. way hard." He waved his arms around like he was showing her things and then eventually flipped open his notebook on the grass. It was full of formations, for the most part for ranged fighters (represented by little arrow/bow symbols). It kind of looked like a football playbook with dotted lines, solid lines, and arching arrows all over the place.

"I like to live my life like this book." He paused, "Full of weird symbolism and lines... hahaha no I'm kidding. I meant OPEN." The archer gave her a playful and light push with his hand. "So come on.. out with it."

"Progressed?" Bix lifted his brows. "Like..." he made curvy-lady-body motions with his hands and then leaned in, cheeks pinkish, "oh my god is this a sex talk are you guys having sex?!"

He then regrouped. "Not that there's anything wrong with that!! It's natural and nice and..." uhhhhh he somehow suddenly doubted this was a sex talk. "....this isn't a sex talk is it?" Bix muttered slowly.

It had come up? Good job Gale. ;D ;D

"You aren't bugging me!" Bix waved his hands defensively. "I'm glad I don't have to do a sex talk is all haha.. cause.. you know.. everyone being grownups." For the most part. With Clarice not here anymore to play sex-ed-school-nurse, Bix didn't want to have to fill those shoes.

"I guess you just wanna know how intense and how fast we went?" Maybe? "Like.. emotionally? or ?" Bix's mouth twisted around as he thought. "Well she just moved in recently. Well mostly. I mean she's kept her own dorm this whole time because ya know, independent woman she don't need no man!" His head bobbled and he put on a sassy lady voice. "But she's always in my place anyway, and it's bigger, so I think finally she's acknowledged it." Bix smiled.

"I just like being with her to be honest. I think some of the people around here get too crazy and intense with their relationships. Like getting married?" He grimaced. "Why? What's the point really? Legally it makes no difference here. No insurance benefit. We can't have kids. The prospective of a house with a picket fence is sort of corrupted by the idea it could be smashed by a monster any minute."

Bix took a breath and frowned. "Living here, the way this place is, it could never be like that dream we had." He gave her a knowing look. "You know what I mean. We can't have families and build a meaningful community. Our connections are tight but brief." Their lives the same, burn bright and burn out fast. "So Ceres and I don't put more pressure on each other than we need to. We love each other's company, we are best friends, and we find each other super hot." He laughed and blushed a bit, "Well I think she's super hot. And we still totally fight about work stuff and jumping in front of bullets for people... but that's normal relationship crap." For hunters anyway, "That's all we need right? What else is there?"