(open) why is he like this: the log

[heavyhead]

who: Noctis and u, new and old CR welcome!!
what: some prompts feat. Noct and also Noct, but 8 years old
when: June
where: around
warnings: doubtful

A. not a literal child

[Not by age, anyway. When Noctis isn't on his shift at the petting zoo, he can be found out and around Riverview, usually with his nose in what appears to be a strategy guide for a Riverview-equivalent of the wildly popular!! (not really) board game Kingmaker. Nerds and children might be familiar with this game, but besides them: there's Noctis.

Every so often during his intense study, he checks something on his phone, scoffs in disappointment, and looks at the book again. Occasionally he makes a note with a pencil. This is the most studying he's ever done in his life, for the record.

Eventually he'll stick a finger in the book to hold his page and flag down a passerby, complete stranger or not.]

Hey, can I ask you something? I need a second opinion for, uh, work stuff.

[it's fucking board games, he's full of it]

B. actually a literal child; after June 14

[Once 8-year-old Noctis has slipped cleverly away from the clutches of his various babysitters, he quickly realizes something very important: it's hard to make a daring escape in a wheelchair. Thankfully (uh, maybe) he doesn't need it for more than a slowly healing injury, so he makes the wisest choice an 8-year-old child could make:

He just abandons it, because an empty wheelchair just sitting in a public space isn't a concern, or anything. The boy himself doesn't make it far—in fact, he's quite literally up a tree nearby. Not very high - he is tiny - but he sure did get up there.]

Whoa—this is higher than I thought. [genius]

C. still a literal child; still after June 14

[Other fun things kids do: make a lot of noise and a lot of mess. Noctis isn't as rowdy as plenty of 8-year-olds, certainaly, but he's bored and when you're a child stranded in a weird place with no friends to keep you busy, you make a lot of noise and mess.

He appears to be playing with fireworks because he is literally playing with fireworks; little round ones that seem to go off not because he's also playing with matches, but just because they... go off after he tosses them high enough in the air. After a few he gets bored of just tossing them and takes to batting them higher and further with a giant, squeaky rubber mallet.

Surely this is not annoying.]

D. choose your own age-defying adventure

[hit me up via pm or @ melodrama if you'd like a starter! Nocts of all ages available!!]

Comments

[followhim]

Okay, just be careful! I'll come up and get you if I have to.

[he is pretty much preparing to go up there and rescue him lmfao.]

[heavyhead]

[Hey now, he's a respectable tree climber. He got up here somehow, even though... it hurt... it's fine.]

Then how are you going to get down?

[followhim]

I'd make you cling to my back! Then I'd climb down with you clinging to me.

[heavyhead]

[He's a grownup, so he can probably manage that, but...]

I'm tired, I can't cling to anybody.

[followhim]

Hm ... maybe you could get on my shoulders and I could carry you down that way.

[heavyhead]

[Is that even more dangerous, or... meh, whatever.]

I guess so. You have to come here first.

[followhim]

[HE DOESN'T KNOW. HE WAS JUST TRYING TO HELP YOU NOCT GOSH DARN IT.] I'm on it.

[it's been awhile since he's climbed a tree, but he's a pretty fit guy ... and he just did the other day wrangling more children so. he's got it under control. he's a tree-climbing pro.]