If there was one thing Alrik Rey was bad at, it was figuring out what women liked.
Part of him wished girls could be more like the ones he saw in video games. You hand them a gun or a quest turn-in and they were happy as a clam. They thanked you, they gave you a reward and that was that. Sometimes your reputation rose, sometimes you never saw them again. Most of the time you did, though, if they were a reoccurring NPC.
Not that...any of the girls in his life were NPCs but they were recurring characters, so to speak.
He tried not to think about Olga -- he guessed there were some that just made a quick blip in a lifetime before disappearing altogether.
Anyways. Back to presents: he needed some.
You couldn’t just give a girl what you wanted -- none of the gals (save for maybe Ciaran) would be interested in video games. And even if they were (like maybe Ciaran), video games were expensive and he couldn’t exactly drop like, two hundred bucks buying video games for all the girls in his life.
Not that he had a lot of girls in his life, of course.
Video games were just expensive, s’all.
Candy was a tough one too, since there were food allergies and stuff to worry about, teeth and calories and crap. And girls always were worrying about getting fat and stupid stuff like that. If he told them they were pretty, wasn’t that enough? Why did they gotta listen to stupid things like television shows and magazine articles talking about appropriate sizes and body types they should be wishing they had --- it’s not like he wouldn’t be honest and TELL them when they got fat. But, y’know, nice and all. But he didn’t date or hang with any fat chicks so it was a moot point and yet Alrik knew he’d run into trouble if he got one of them the wrong kind of candy to eat.
Ugh.
Buying presents for girls was hard and Alrik wasn’t up for this kind of challenge. A speed run through classic Mario? Sure. But not when it came to shopping] for the opposite sex.
So when Alrik stumbled across a table of cuties that were selling flowers… well, it was an easy answer, as far as he was concerned. He knew he’d have to come up with something else - maybe a sappy card or something - but a colorful flower was out of the ordinary and different. Maybe different enough to get him off the hook and impressin’ the girls on his shopping list.
It wasn’t hard to pick out a flower that called to him over the others, not when he found the one that reminded him of his own uniform as Epidote. Sort of a subtle thing, ha.
Hey, maybe this shopping business wasn’t so bad after all.
To Penny:
Nuxaz
To Adaline:
Nuxaz
To Cass:
Nuxaz
To Ciaran:
Pixie Nyxie
