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✖ ffxv: noctis lucis caelum

February Open Post

who: Noctis and YOU
what: Open prompts
when: Throughout February
where: Various
warnings: Updated as needed

a. community housing (i)

(Ignis and Gladio are gone. For the first time since he can remember, Noctis is alone in the literal sense. He's felt it before, with a busy father and deceased mother, but there was always someone around to care for him. He's an adult now without the same need for a guardian, but he can't say he doesn't miss them. Prompto, Luna, his father; they've been on his mind, but he had Gladio and Ignis nearby.

Now he doesn't. It kind of sucks.

He'll be out and about, somewhat distracted. He's alone and without the purpose his title gave him. Noctis has to find a new direction.

And he will.)

b. community housing (ii) - kitchen

(They didn't leave him empty-handed. Among other things, Gladio had tried to help Noctis have the tools he needed, including the tools that would keep him from starving. He's in the shared kitchen in the beginning of the month, tablet in hand. During the very early portion of the month, he's doing well enough on simpler recipes, cooking eggs and the like with almost-practiced skills. However, more complicated or larger dishes surprise him with how much concurrent cooking must be done, how much prep should happen beforehand. These dishes turn out more questionable.

Bad.

However, toward the middle of the month, even these start to turn out a little better as Noctis practices with the help of the tablet. It's not the quality he's accustomed to, but it's good he have that kind of independence.)

c. around town

(Groceries, feed for his new Chocobo friend, toiletries, selling his catches to the market; Noctis spends a lot of time out. Some of it is for exploration reasons so he isn't so lost in this still-new town. Some of it is out of necessity as he gathers the day to day things he may need. He can be found in the market, stocking up on food; he can be seen selling his fish to the fish supplier; looking at possible rental locations that allowed him to keep his Chocobo nearby. Certain times, he's so lost in thought that he isn't watching his path closely enough. Sometimes, he's helping someone with an errand or two after seeing them in obvious distress. Somehow, the prince is very easily turned into an errand boy.

He can also be found in the arcade on a regular basis.)

d. wildcard.

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[Link knocked on the door to the second floor communal. He had been contacted by a fellow food enthusiast, and he was excited to meet him and start cooking. He had brought a small satchel of dried wild plants he had collected beyond the wall and found were safe for cooking that they could possibly mess with.]

(Noctis would consider himself a student in comparison to the more seasoned Link. Growing up, he had access to only the best cooks, and Ignis had pushed him to try things outside of his comfort zone, but he'd grown a reliance on those more skilled instead of learning their wisdom.

Most important, he'd never cooked without the traditional tools. Link has a lot he can teach the cooking-challenged Noctis.)

I'm coming.

(The prince appears on the other side of the door, cooking tablet tucked under his arm.)

You're Link?

Yup!

[Link extended his free hand.]

And you must be Noctis. Nice to meet you.

[He has a genuinely friendly smile on his face. Whether it's from making a new friend or from the prospect of food in the near future is anyone's guess. He came hungry. ~~But he always is.~~]

(He's friendly. With only a few words, Noctis can tell Link is a nice guy. That will have more than a little impact on their lessons considering someone with the wrong attitude would make it difficult to learn. Noctis isn't particularly cruel, but he normally responds to attitude in kind.

After a quick handshake, Noctis motions for Link to follow him to the communal kitchen. During their walk, he holds up the tablet.)

This has a lot of recipes and instructions. It explains a lot of dishes pretty well. The guy who left it was a pretty good cook.

('Pretty good' only be Noctis' standards. For anyone else, Ignis is a world-class chef. The prince, however, is accustomed to only the best food.)

[Link follows and glances at the tablet as Noctis holds it up. Link was used to throwing things together based on what he thought might make a good combination, but he could follow a recipe if given one.]

That should help a lot then. What did you wanna make?

[Link places the satchel on the counter and moves closer to Noctis to get a better view of what's on the tablet. He's flexible, and if something sounds new or strange to him, he's still more than willing to try it.]

A lot of the food is kind of different here, but I think it's because the beasts are different.

(Many of the foods Noctis is familiar with involved mostly meat or bread. Obviously, the breads remain the same, but the meats have changed to better fit those found in their new home.)

Ignis' tablet has the different names. (Of course he would be able to translate it over to the local offerings.) I want to try the meat-and-beet bouillon, but with fewer vegetables. It keeps tasting weird.

[The recipe certainly sounds interesting to Link. Challenge accepted.]

Sounds good. Do you have all the ingredients we need for it?

[Link likes vegetables, but he won't mind leaving them out too much. He's flexible and certainly not picky about his food.]

Yeah, everything should be here.

(Swiping through the tablet, he stops when the picture of the proposed meal is on the screen.)

I put everything but the vegetables in there, but it's turning out wrong. It's way too salty, even if I don't add salt.

The vegetables are probably a part of the recipe to help balance the flavor. They can absorb some of the saltiness and add their own flavor to the meat to compliment everything. We can try to make it with them, and since you don't like them I can eat the vegetables.

[Of course, he's going to want a taste of the meat too, but he thinks that's understood without him having to say anything.

Link looks over the recipe and starts gathering what they'll need, ingredients and proper tools alike.]

Why don't you like vegetables anyway? [Haven't your parents taught you to eat them by now?]

That sounds good.

(Noctis is willing to share the meat, but the vegetables are the archenemy of his taste buds. He can also help with gathering their supplies as he has tried to make this a few times by now. Aside from subtraction of vegetables, he hasn't done horribly.)

Why? (He glances over his shoulder to Link.) How should I know? Everybody has foods they like and they don't like.

(Poor Papa Regis attempted to teach him, but Noctis has always been stubborn.)

Fair enough. [He shrugs it off. It would just have to be something he would have to accept. Besides, it just meant that he would have more delicious veggies for himself.

Link glanced at the recipe and grabbed the vegetables that were listed and began washing them before preparing them for the meal.]

Since you like meat so much, you can prepare that.

[Why put effort into something he wasn't going to eat anyway?]

(He sincerely doesn't know what the reason may be, it's been his preference since being a child, even with a lot of people trying to get him to eat healthier foods. Maybe it's a blessing he doesn't particularly like sweets or his body would be very different.

Looking at the food in front of him, he grabs the different cuts and places them on the board. He's become skilled enough in this. It isn't that Noctis is completely inept as he's very particular in the foods he likes and tried to cater meals to that. )

Where did you learn to cook?

[Link paused from his vegetable preparations. It wasn't a question anyone had ever asked him, nor had he ever really thought about it. Even when he was first awakened and found himself cooking for the first time on the Great Plateau, it had felt like it was something he had done before.]

I'm not sure. I guess I taught myself some of it. There were a few things I had to learn the hard way.

[Link resumed his chopping and glanced over to see what Noctis was doing with the meat. He nodded in approval and continued with his work.]

Did this Ignis person you mentioned cook for you a lot?

(A long, sharp knife slices through the meat to cut it down into smaller pieces for the dish. The cuts aren't as fast and expert as someone with more experience in cooking, but he isn't removing body parts by accident.)

Sometimes...not as much since I moved out, but he brings desserts and makes dinner when he stops over sometimes. When he doesn't, I was mostly living on ramen, but I learned how to make a few things. He just left all of this behind when he took off, and I wanted to learn how to use it.

(The tablet is of special interest.)

It's not going so well that I'll forget how I learned.

(Link must have taken to cooking naturally.)

[Link is a little faster in preparing the vegetables. He's had to cook with the most basic of tools and over an open flame, so the utensils he was using now made it all the more easier for him.]

It's not easy living on one kind of food. Once you get the basics down, it's not hard. Then it's just figuring out what flavors you like together.

[Link looked up at Noctis' comment.]

It's less that it went well and more that I uh...lost my memory.

(Well, that isn't how that conversation was meant to go. The chopping stops as Noctis finds himself feeling awkward at likely bringing up a bad memory. Or lack of memories. Or whatever.)

Sorry.

(That would be horrible, forgetting everything. Maybe it would help with the bad memories, but Noctis doubts the amnesia was so selective.)

But you remembered your skills?

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