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who: Re-L Mayer & Various Others
what: All Kinds of Shenanigans
when: All of May
where: The Quarantine - ( streets, police headquarters, shared housing, etc etc literally anywhere and everywhere)
warnings: Probably language but otherwise, none atm

note: Message me/catch me on plurk at goblinrex if you have any ideas you'd like to throw my way, etc! I'm not opposed to doing something with the fire flies, just didn't really have a good enough idea while I was getting this together!

001. WORK IT OUT

[ Early mornings were a staple in Re-L’s life before she’d arrived on the Eluvio or in the Quarantine, and nothing has really changed for her since her arrival. Her alarm goes off at a prompt 6 AM, and after a moment to gather herself, she quickly pulls herself out of bed to begin the first leg of her day : a nice 2 mile running circuit. It’s a rather quiet morning practice, honestly – she’s rather unassuming in her usual uniform of all black, heels traded for tennis shoes and dark hair tied up and out of her pale face. If the weather is hot enough she might even bless the Quarantine with an unusually “undone” outfit for Re-L – a little bit of middrift showing as she ditches a shirt in her room for a more simplistic leggings and sports bra look. It’s practical, at least.

- The safest bet, however, is that her make-up is still on for vanity’s sake, even as she’s sweating off the previous day’s stressors on her run.

Once her two miles worth of laps is under her belt there’s the predictable cool down walk to an open spot in a park where she can get to stretching and some body weight strength training. All this in the early hours of the morning, every single day without fail, except maybe for a lazy Saturday every now and then. It’s an easy enough to track habit, should anyone wish to join her in her fitness efforts.

She may not even notice, at first, if focused enough. ]

002. BAD KIDS

[ During day time hours it’s easiest to find Re-L in one of two places: police headquarters with her head buried in a case or ten, or the café with a new volume in her hands to read.

Her work areas at Headquarters are always kept pristine and organized, her assigned cases outside of her assigned watch points organized in rather meticulous files. Small, looping cursive notes dot paperwork she keeps with observations and notes on locations and suspicious circumstances, the lot. Her natural curiosity and, at times, just being plain nosey has already been a bit of a thorn in the side for those looking to be a bit nefarious, but… Stay out of nefarious dealings and maybe she won’t have to lend voice to a conviction.

In the café she’s easiest found tucked away in a quiet corner, either with a hard volume or whatever she has uploaded in her holojournal. Flicking through pages and occasionally making some kind of note about some line or another, seemingly absorbed in taking in the information in front of her. Interruptions won’t be too unwelcome, though – she’s already read many of these passages before. ]

0003. IT’S 3 AM

[ Early mornings collide with late nights with regularity – at least as often as her body and sleep schedule can take. It isn’t unusual to find a certain darkly dressed woman wandering the streets of the Quarantine late at night and in the early hours of the morning, exploring the small crevices and forgotten alleyways. This practice is just as much for her curiosity as it is her edification should she ever have to escape the city quickly. Mental maps are drawn with increasing detail in her wanderings, more often a passing shadow in the night than a talkative creature, though..

Well, it’s pretty safe to say she’s going to assume most people wandering in the dark of night are up to something they shouldn’t be, despite her own appearance in the streets late at night – prime for questioning to see what the hell she’s up to in the wee hours of the morning, right? ]

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[Just as he'd mentioned when their paths first crossed, Morgan too favors a morning run. He tends to vary his, though, so she doesn't have his company every morning. Maybe for the best.]

[But this morning he's after a straightforward course, no jumping or obstacles or gratuitous parkour to get in the way of simple running. So at the spot their paths tend to meet, Morgan joins her on the intersection with a friendly wave.]

[As usual for these runs, he doesn't have a shirt on. Morgan would take any excuse not to wear a shirt, because frankly he's damn proud of his torso. Not without cause.]

Morning! How goes?

[ Re-L had gotten used to his occasional company over time - she wasn't necessarily a very personable person at times, particularly when she was trying to focus, but he'd proven to not be too distracting. Occasional conversation wouldn't kill her any, either, let's be honest here. Either way she's thankfully fairly well rested today, probably thanks to a good sleep instead of staying up to explore.

His wave it met with a little nod, most of the color in her cheeks from her running blotted out thanks to her pale make-up. ]

Well enough. It's not raining, for one. [ Weather was annoying ok? She still wasn't entirely used to it not being a planned thing. ] Though it is spring so it's to be expected to a point.

[He's getting a handle on her limits to accept company over time, and not making too much a nuisance of himself. Today seems like a reasonably good day, though.]

Not a fan of rain? Running in it isn't the most thrilling thing, but spend a few years not having a choice in the matter and you stop noticing it, really...

I don't run in rain. I have a particular aversion to injury without my doctor here for a quick patch up. [ Granted, there was always Doctor McCoy, but she also didn't want to use him too much for her silly insistence on keeping a steady schedule. The second she found a place with treadmills those problems would be solved, though with Gladio around she would probably get her work outs regardless of weather. ]

Regulated exercise has been expected of me since my early teens like it is for every Romdeau citizen. It would due to waste all the effort of creation just to sit and eat yourself to death.

I know a thing or two about patching people up if you ever do get hurt. Assuming you don't mind acupuncture. [Not that Morgan wouldn't keep her moving if he felt he had to.]

Your entire nation had regulated exercise? [So, great in principle, but that sounds a bit tyrannically dystopic...]

Acupuncture? [ She's heard of it, but mostly as some kind of archaic 'healing' practice that didn't give much in the way of results. But then again, this was a place with biometric screening and bandages that, when sprayed with a compound, healed an injury near on instantaneously. After learning all sh had about proxies and everything Daedalus had invested himself in, there's a small wonder in her mind if they'd been laced with Amrita Cells, but -

Well, it's all kind of null and void now. ]

If scientists spent time and energy creating and birthing you to fulfill a certain purpose, you'd want to live a long and healthy life as well. [ She shrugs - it isn't all that bad, just a more annoying expectation that some fulfilled and others did not. Restless as she always was, Re-L just tended to fulfill it out of boredom. ]

Or, well.. they'd expect you to, to a point.

[Morgan has a mighty power, which is to hear stuff like this -- things that sound mad or insane or beyond the pale -- without so much as blinking. But then again, he's heard and lived through some very crazy stuff of his own.]

Depends on the purpose, really. I mean, I'm all in favor of a healthy life... you know, obviously. [He lifts a hand so he can flex a little, blatantly showing off.] But if the purpose was a bad one I might have a problem with the setup.

[ There's one of those sort of... sardonic, side long looks at Morgan as he flexes, apparently unmoved by the gesture at any rate. Vanity wasn't uncommon in Romdeau by any stretch of the word, or even in Re-L's own personal habits. But, well, she was fairly strong herself and would more than likely reserve being impressed until she saw it put to action. ]

The purpose was health - and any problems would have to be taken to a lake or the remnants of the dome itself instead of people. [ And even if Daedalus or anyone else showed up in Riverview curiously alive.. they weren't very likely to take many people seriously. ]

Plus, I don't think Daedalus would be all that intimidated.

[Oh, Morgan isn't showing off that he's strong. (He is, but not exceedingly so.) He's showing off that he looks damn good. But a sardonic look in return is pretty much exactly what he expects, to the point that it cracks a smile out of him. Morgan doesn't expect anyone to take him seriously, and would in fact be sad or disappointed if she had.]

Principle is important. You know, I'm kind of getting the impression your world has a pretty colorful history.

[He phrases that so she can elaborate or merely grunt noncommittally as she chooses.]

I wouldn't say that.

More like did what was necessary to survive a nuclear winter and then.. went a little overboard with the controlling factor. [ Of course, she'd only been around for nineteen years of the thousands of years that Romdeau dome had existed, but what she'd come to learn was enough to surmise the factors they'd stemmed from.

Granted, he may still consider that 'colorful' but to her it was more a boring gilded cage than anything else. Such were the hazards of being the regent's granddaughter, in the end. ]

Either way, I can't fault Daedalus for wanting to make sure I stayed in shape.

[ Just... for a plethora of other things. ]

[Considering the number of intense changes his life has gone through in a few short months, it's no wonder that he's giving into his old habit of skating off his thoughts when he can't sleep.

When she approaches him as he's heading back from the rink, Yuuri freezes in his steps for a moment. Recognition makes him relax again.]

Re-L? [Yuuri shifts the duffel bag on his shoulder.] You're out late tonight.

[Never mind that he's doing the same.]

[ Back in Romdau it would've been looked down upon to be out and about at such an ungodly hour for any other reason than a newly discovered crime that needed investigating - thankfully, having grown up in the dome, the place became a well known map in her mind regardless. Riverview... like the Eluvio.. was a place that had to be learned in all of its back alleys and intricacies. If she hadn't been charged with police work, this would be less of a priority, however... she had a sneaking suspicion that this may be knowledge she'll need in the immediate future. It was only the annoyance called the sun and the fact that she was... a bit remiss with talking to too many people that prevented her from doing this in the light of day.

Plus.. she could be a little more nosey with no one around to grow suspicious.

Seeing Yuuri was a little bit of a surprise, though she's more bemused than anything else. ]

I could say the same for you, you know. [ Her brow arches for a moment before dropping, again neutral. ] Finding the nooks and crannies of this place is easier at night.

[Yes, Morgan would call 'nuclear winter' colorful.]

To be fair, it's a good enough goal on its own and for its own benefits. But having it forced on anyone is pretty crappy.

[He pats at his duffel bag, smiling slightly.] Couldn't sleep. I headed over to the community center to skate around for a little while--old habits die hard, I guess.

[It's his turn to raise his brows at her.]

Oh, that's what you were doing. [Somehow, he isn't too surprised.] What are you hoping to find?

[ Back home, Kaneki was in a pretty dire situation. He had been attacked and actually kidnapped by some ghouls, and was barely even able to do anything to defend himself against them, even though he had been training hard.

Now in this new place, he figures before something like that happens or before he is attacked by someone, Kaneki should probably resume his training. Which consists on some form of karate and judo at 6am before work. Because Kaneki's teacher isn't here, he has to go back to learn things by himself - which means he is back to reading theory in books and then apply it.

So Re-L will find him doing just that. With a book in his hand, he reads a couple of sentences and then puts it down to try and mimic what he read and saw in the pictures. It might look like a ridiculous way to learn, but Kaneki actually manages to do as explained quite well - though it's only slow motion for now.

However, the moment he spots the woman, suddenly he stops, face going red from embarrassment. Yes, he knows; it's silly, yes. ]

Good for you to have the choice in the first place. [ Ah, a little sarcasm there. It wasn't like any fellow citizen would've known any different, honestly. They were all pretty brain washed from the start to consume products, stay fit, stay neutral and, of course, to never let their appearances fall down lest they lose standing in Romdeau's near stagnant social strata anyways.

She hangs a tight right, next, aiming for a bit of a run uphill to make things a little more challenging. ]

Most citizens of Romdeau dome were engineered with a certain metabolic rate, in any case. Exercise was encouraged both for the health benefits and the mental benefits.

One day I may have time to learn a little skating. [ More than likely she wouldn't have too much trouble. Daedalus had tried to teach her things like ballet as a child but her patience had been much more lacking than it was now, then. She hadn't had the attention span for it, and so they'd moved on to something a little more active to take care of all that excess energy. ]

Escape routes, if need be. Mainly the back places that anyone in the police force ought to know about if they're going to be finding.. let's say the less savory of this place, to be proper... [ Extracurricular work on top of her 'training', if anything. Perfectionism has its pit falls. ]

If I happen to find anything secretive at the same time.. all the better.

[ With her run done, it was time to find a common area to do a little bit of muscle building. She's glistening with a little sweat by the time she makes it to Kaneki, taking a drink from a water bottle as she finally comes to a resting place. It's not ideal by any means for her, working out outside, but when push came to shove that's just what needed to happen.

Either way, she starts stretching her legs a little when it finally occurs to her that she isn't alone, fingers holding the toe of her shoe as she stretches her hamstrings.

He almost reminds her of Vincent, with the blushing and the lot, and almost instinctively she moves to swat down anything like blushing. ]

Don't let me stop you. Shortly I'll be upside down and I'll look like the real ass in this park.

[Morgan shifts his stride a little to accommodate the rise, still not breathing hard. It takes a hell of a lot to get him to that point; he might show off his muscles, but his true gift is his stamina.]

Mmm. [He's thinking of a different engineered species now -- one with a metabolic rate that accelerated to keep them from gaining weight, even at the expense of their health. Because they'd been created to look good. Re-L's world isn't exactly sounding like a place he doesn't want to bring revolution to.] 'Were, was', past tense?

[ He wouldn't be wrong in thinking of Romdeau's fellow citizens as an engineered species - they were in the strictest of forms. Created for specific purposes in the dome, and made in mechanical wombs through the intervention of some over looking being that she still wasn't quite sure of their purpose.

She was one of those engineered species - and more so than others, if she was correct in surmising her own origins. Which.. well, she'd be in denial if she didn't think she was correct. Real had been a little too like her for the answer to be anything different. ]

Romdeau fell .. mmn.. I think it's nearly five months ago now. The entire city collapsed in to a lake and nearly took me with it.

["!!!!!" is pretty much all that's going through Yuuri's mind when he processes her first words.] You want to learn how to skate? I didn't know you'd be interested. [His expression practically says he's about 2 seconds away from offering to teach her.]

Haven't found anything yet? [Yuuri looks at her thoughtfully.] I've been looking in the library for more information on this place. The people here seem to be more willing to explain things to us, too.

["Unlike the crew we were dealing with before" he doesn't have to say.]

I'd be open to a lesson or two, someday. That's not to say that I won't end up disliking it, though. [ There's the immediate rising need, slightly, to temper his expectations. She was fairly graceful, but that wasn't to say that failure for too long wouldn't mean a rage quit from Re-L either. Dealing with failure for very long wasn't exactly her style, even if it was over something as simple as keeping balance on a thin skate. ]

Not as of yet, no. I'm sure I will eventually. [ She hadn't yet made it outside of the philosophy section every time wandering to the library had occurred to her as a way to pass time on her days off. There were enough that she'd never read to make that feat just a little too hard. ]

Anything interesting come up in that? I've been.. preoccupied by their philosophy selection ..

[ Oops. ]

[Well, the species he's thinking about was magically engineered for far more... well, prurient reasons. Re-L, while perfectly attractive to those like Morgan who favored the athletic types, did not seem to have that problem. Though Morgan makes a mental note to quietly keep an eye out for potential complications of said engineering. Just asking would be rude, and Re-L seems like she's the sort to keep that sort of thing secret anyway, but... well, he can't help but try to watch out for people.]

You know, call me crazy, but I get the feeling a city advanced enough to survive and persist through a nuclear holocaust doesn't just wake up one day and realize it should have paid its hydrodynamic engineers slightly better.

[ Other than a massive ego - there don't seem to currently be any physical effects to be expected. If anything, she'll live an incredibly long life in better health than her grandfather had, according to the doctor who'd created her. Time and a little bit of sunlight might make a difference in that prediction, though.

Re-L, for one, isn't trying to think about it. That's too morbid even for her. ]

It was never meant to last forever in the first place. [ Learning that a little too late had been a hell of a shock, though. ] Humans from the domes were meant to be wiped out in time for humans who escaped to space to come back to Earth.

Vincent and I may be the only ones left, period. [ For that hell of a bomb drop, she seems casual enough, continuing on pace and seemingly not at all agitated by it. ]

That seems unnecessarily... ridiculous, frankly.

[Morgan, credulous, absorbs this with only mild signs of external agitation and puzzlement. He's heard a lot of weird things, after all.]

[That's a pretty horrific one, though.]

Being here seems like it could be a relief, given all that? [Not going to assume, but damn, it sure seems like it to him.]

No reason to linger on something that was seemingly decided thousands of years before I was even living and breathing. [ She'd drive herself insane trying to think of ways she could change something completely out of her control from the beginning. Of course it didn't stop her from occasionally thinking about it and wondering who the hell thought up that kind of plan, but..

It ended up being a useless venture no matter what, and eventually the urge to think it over had tapered off. ]

Slightly. Of course being in new places repeatedly is not the easiest, either.

[Sometimes you couldn't think about everything. Sometimes you just had to live.]

Well, it has its upsides, right? [The smiles he flashes her ranks about a six on a one-to-ten measurement of charm.] And we seem to be here for a while, even if you don't intend to stay for good.

[He smiles at her immediately.] Well, you'll never know until you try it, right? Just let me know when you feel like giving it a shot.

Mmm I found a few things while I was looking up information about the portal. [There's a flicker of a grin at what she admits. Now that he thinks about it, she did mention liking philosophy before, didn't she?] It's...not a lot, but it sounds like this place had a lot more portals once. There was a war not too long ago--it's why they want us to stay here, I think.

Maybe after we're back from the mission and have some time to recover, you think? [ She doesn't want to stack her calendar too entirely terribly, after all. There's a part of her that wholly believes that she'd rather spend time in a bath tub every day for a few days after they return just to scrub the left overs off. ]

Oh? You haven't shared any of it with me. [ Partially teasing, partially guilting, on that note. ]

A war ... and since this is called the Quarantine, a disease, maybe... Probably shouldn't think too far in to that for my own sanity, though, if I'm honest.

Ah- [ that gets a smile out of him, even if it's just a shy one, before he shakes his head ] I think I'm the weird one here. [ he glances back at the book he had put down just a couple of minutes ago ] I don't think anyone learns how to fight like this, but-

[ he doesn't have his teacher here (Yomo, he means Yomo. Touka was kind, trying to teach him, but she really failed at that). ] well, it has worked so far, kinda. [ in theory. But let's be honest, it wouldn't be enough in an actual fight, probably ]

[ Re-L takes a moment to give him a little bit of a study on her own - he looks largely... well, not very threatening, to say the least. Learning to fight might not be a bad plan for him. But then again, she's not all that great hand to hand, but with a rifle - ]

There's a man here named Gladio that has been offering training.. physical and fighting, if you ever get tired of learning through a book. [ There's a pause as she makes sure she's positioned right, on a nearly flat space of ground before dropping down to her toes and palms, one arm moving to her back before she moves in to smooth one handed push ups. ] He's given me a work out routine to keep me in shape so it may not be a horrible idea.

I don't see how having to learn new place after new place has an upside. [ Particularly for someone who's very fixated on knowing all that she can whenever she can. With the policing job, too, she's paranoid about not getting lost or caught up where she isn't sure how to escape, either.

Her running route is reaching where she typically stops for her toning work out, and so she begins to slow, not wanting to go from a full run to stationary exercise too quickly.

Prime way to gain muscle cramps, that. ]

What appears is not always what is. I'll be convinced that this is where I will be for a long time when it's actually been that.

[ he looks like an absolute amateur, that's how most people would describe kaneki. In truth, he wouldn't blame them, since he feels like he truly is one, despite being part ghoul and having that crazy strength and power (which he can't control, true).

At Re-L's suggestion, though, kaneki pauses. He doesn't think he can actually train with other people, they'd soon find out he isn't just human and that could be dangerous to himself. But if someone could give him some sort of routine, maybe he could do that ]

What kind of routine?

It would probably depend on what you want to achieve and where you are currently, physically... [ Which by the looks of him isn't all that strong or conditioned. Of course she could be wrong - she herself looks thin and untrained to the naked eye, particularly without layers of clothing on that could conceal some kind of muscle tone. Here, even in her athletic gear, sh looks simply thin - not like someone who'd be able to do the push-ups she is or anything of that sort. So perhaps she shouldn't underestimate him so much.

Either way, she's not entirely sure of the exact mode in which Gladio figures out his training plans, or anything. She hadn't paid particular attention in how he'd built hers other than complaining about his damned vertical push-ups. If it meant she'd be able to actually defend herself, though..

She'd put up with it. ]

If you're not in great shape I don't think he'll break you from the beginning. But he's not going to let you slack off, either.

[His nose crinkles as he laughs a little.] Hey, you're better at information gathering than I am. I figured you would've asked already and found everything already. [Yuuri scratches lightly at his cheek.] Ah, if there is anything about the portal you want to know, I can tell you what I've found, though.

[A pause, then somewhat wonderingly--] Oh, that's right, you're going on that mission, too. This will be the first mission we've gone on together.

Yes, well, a little collaboration wouldn't go astray either, don't you think? [ At least from sources she trusted like Yuuri. Other people she might just have to check sources a little more thoroughly, if she's honest, but of course there's no hint that she's even had the thought in her mind at the moment. She is working toward knowing more and more about the new place she was calling 'home' - even if it was in the dead of night when it might seem kind of suspicious from darkly dressed person. There's always a chance someone may think she's a burglar, or something, but so far no one's stopped her, and so she'd continue on. ]

I wouldn't mind hearing some about that. I've been mostly concerned with learning the streets and all, if they're going to want me to be a beat cop for a little while... Knowing streets and where everything goes will be important..

[ She gives a small hum of agreement and a nod as he brings up the mission and the fact that this will be the first one they go on together, taking a moment to study another passerby. ]

Yes, it will be. I'll hope that means it will be quiet, but I think we both know better than to be too sure on anything to do with that.

Probably not. The scientists we're looking for went missing--they could've run into some trouble out there. [In a way this is all familiar, exchanging information like they did back on the Eluvio. Except this place was safer...hopefully.]

Anyway, there's not too much more to the story. The portal we came out of is the only natural one; the others they had before were copies of this one. [He pauses.] Apparently... the people who lived here ended up using the portals to take resources from other universes, and that's how the war got started.

Well, other groups of people generally do not take it well when one is flourishing over the other... [ That little human emotion called jealousy that sh'd often shoved down now that she was out of Romdeau when it came to the freedoms other people had, namely. She knows, mentally, that even feeling it was kind of worthless, but it doesn't stop it from happening, either. ]

And they still profit off of the riches of other universes - bringing people here and the lot.

Does it seem to you that there's any particular... mmn.. rhyme or reason as to who comes here or not, though?

I can't think of anything. [He frowns, giving it some serious thought.] If they wanted people who could help them fight again, it wouldn't make sense that they'd bring me or Viktor along.

There's... what they told us during orientation. That thing about the portal latching onto people who feel like they need a new home.

I could think of someone far more capable of a fight than myself, still living, back in my world, too. [ One Vincent Law. She wasn't sure if she'd be happy to see him show up in Riverview, and not because of his own doing. He wanted so badly to figure himself out, and being yanked from place to place - She shakes herself from the thought, as if she might will his appearance upon him, blinking a few times before turning her attention back to Yuuri.

That part of the orientation had most stuck with her, if she's honest. She takes a breath in, seems to pause, and then - ]

Well, the Eluvio was not my favorite place to be, so I suppose that could be the reason for the three of us on the whole.

Or anyone else who was on that ship with us. [Yuuri muses quietly.

He turns his troubled gaze on her.] No... I don't think it was for all of us. Once we realized how much the Captain and his crew were hiding from us, and those murders... [Yuuri's jaw clenches.] It was hard to feel like we belonged there after all that, even if we were still stuck in that universe. It didn't feel...safe.

Exactly. I would have rather gone home, as well, but it is what it is. We're searching for a home there, too, so it may not have been any different. Or perhaps why I wasn't returned instead of being brought here... [ It was all a very confusing things, honestly. She wasn't sure what the hell she wanted to do at the moment - on one hand being here isn't too bad, on the other... she's very concerned for Vincent and the others. She's not been away from them for this long before, and she wonders how they're taking her disappearance. Vincent, for one, was probably worrying himself sick. ]

Really, the only way to make me more content would be to bring Vincent here, too. The others are autoreivs, they'll be fine regardless.

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