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[attr=class,lyric1]i am noctis, prince of lucis and
[attr=class,lyric2]king of fishing
[attr=class,bulk] Usually Noctis had no trouble at all with falling asleep. Not just at night either—he used to love sneaking a quick nap in the back of the Regalia while Ignis was driving, and he was still infamous for being hard to wake up in the morning. Gladio was about the only person who could get him up for early training, and that was only because his shield refused to take no for an answer. Thoughts of his friends hurt right now though. They were just a few days out from their big plan to rescue Ignis and Gladio from one of Sonora’s prison camps, so maybe that was why Noctis found himself staring at the ceiling in the middle of the night. His thoughts just wouldn’t slow down this time.
Noctis and Prompto were currently staying at an inn down in the scrapyard of Sonora. It wasn’t exactly the nicest area, but it gave them somewhere to lay low while they made their plans. Prompto was currently letting out tiny snores in the next bed though, so after glancing over at his friend, the prince made the decision to get up without waking him. Prompto wouldn’t be very happy that he’d gone wandering off alone at night, but he wasn’t planning on going far. Anyway, there weren’t any daemons that cropped in the dark on Zephon like they did back in Eos. The biggest threat here was just the other people.
Noctis pulled on his coat as quietly as possible before closing the door behind him and starting to descend the stairs towards the main room. He expected the inn to be deserted at this time of night, and he wasn’t surprised to see that the lights were off except for a single fluorescent lamp behind the counter. The prince hesitated on the foyer and weighed his options before deciding that maybe he could use a drink on the roof. He could warp up there easily enough, and with a tiny flash of blue sparks, he pulled a thin bottle of wine out of his glaive. Drinks from home would get fewer and more precious the longer that he was stuck here, but he could use the nostalgia tonight. So much was on the line right now.
It was while he was starting to move towards the front door that Noctis realized the lobby may not have been as deserted as he had first thought. “Oh.” The prince squinted through the darkness as he tried to make the other figure out. “Sorry. I didn’t think anyone else would be awake right now.”
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Late night feels anyone? He'll share his wine probably lol.
Post by Tifa Lockhart on Feb 22, 2024 1:07:14 GMT -6
PROMISE YOU'LL COME AND SAVE ME
Tifa had a love-hate relationship with the night shift. She made good money, but the crowds could get a lot worse than the day ones. It was like once the sun went down, so did manners. Of course she was all smiles through it all, even when she had to kick someone out. She didn't have quite the amount of guests as she had with Seventh Heaven, but she had made a bit of a name for herself around Sonora. Maybe it was her looks, maybe it was her personality. Either way, she didn't mind, she had met some interesting people this way.
Finally the last person left and she could close up for the night. Gathering the rest of the glasses off the tables, she wiped them all down before sweeping and mopping the floor. Then she moved over to the bar itself and cleaned all the dishes and the back bar. Once the money was safely locked away, she did one final check before heading towards the door. She did check the windows first before shutting the lights off and exiting the building and locking it up.
The walk home wasn't very far, so it didn't worry her too much. Then again, she was more than capable of defending herself. As she walked by the inn, she saw a familiar set of blue sparks. She had almost forgotten Noctis and his friends were still here and their mission hadn't begun yet. It was strange to think she knew what was going on even though all but Noctis hardly knew her. Then again, she had done some of the same things before, so she understood.
Deciding to see if he needed an ear before everything went down, she headed into the inn just as he was turning to leave. "The perks of working at a bar." She was sure he definitely didn't expect her to turn up. "Sorry, I saw the blue and thought I'd come by." She hoped she was intruding on his thoughts or anything, but she didn't want him drinking a bottle of wine alone.
[attr=class,lyric1]i am noctis, prince of lucis and
[attr=class,lyric2]king of fishing
[attr=class,bulk] Noctis had assumed that the person coming through the front door was just another patron of the inn, so he was surprised when he actually recognized the voice. “Tifa?” The streetlights from outside shone against her hair and confirmed that it really was the bartender. At first he was a little confused as to why she’d come to an inn—he’d thought that she had an apartment in town—but she explained that she’d noticed his magic in the dark from the street. “Fair enough. I guess it’s pretty distinctive.” Noctis laughed a bit ruefully and glanced at the clock on the wall to confirm that it really was as late as he thought it was. “Must have been a rough shift. I know your bar’s pretty close by, but I didn’t know it was open this late.” He was probably just revealing how little he’d been able to get out and about in Insomnia though honestly. Noctis had been to a bar with Prompto exactly once after he’d climbed out a window to avoid taking security with him. Ignis had lectured him for weeks afterward.
Needless to say, he wasn’t an expert on the nightlife of cities.
“Hey, I’m actually glad you stopped by. I wanted to say sorry about the other day. I know we dropped in without any warning and then things got pretty intense…” That was an understatement. After multiple yelling matches and a planned jailbreak, he was surprised that they hadn’t been kicked out. Tifa was a saint who deserved every cent of the tips they’d left. She’d even gone outside to calm Alex down, which had somehow worked and was more than the rest of them had managed. He honestly didn’t know how to thank her. “You probably heard everything that’s going on. We’re putting that in motion soon, and…guess I just couldn’t sleep. Too much on my mind with that.” There were a thousand ways this could go wrong, and nearly all of them would be his fault. Noctis didn’t want to dump any of that on Tifa though, so he gave her a weak grin as he raised the bottle of wine that he’d pulled from his glaive.
“I don’t want to keep you if you were going home. But if you wanted to stay out a little longer, then I could pour you a drink this time.” Being a bartender, she probably didn’t get that as often as she deserved.
Post by Tifa Lockhart on Mar 7, 2024 23:58:13 GMT -6
PROMISE YOU'LL COME AND SAVE ME
Just as she figured, he was suprised to see her. "Hey." She was glad to see him again. He was great to talk to, and she didn't know how long it would be before she saw him again. As he pointed out his blue light thing was distinctive, she giggled. "It really is." She watched as he looked over to the clock and mentioned it must of been a rough shift. "Nothing I couldn't handle. I've gotten used to it over the years. Yeah, most bars are open pretty late. I'm just glad there is a time to call it quits." Tifa couldn't imagine what it would be like if bars never closed.
Noctis then apologized for what had happened during their planning and she shook her head. "Don't be sorry. I've been through meetings that ended up like that before, it really wasn't a big deal." She thought back to some of the meetings for Avalanche and how worked up Barret could get. A lot of theirs ended up just like his had gone. If Tifa had to be honest, it felt like she was right back under Seventh Heaven, listening to Biggs and Barret go back and forth. How she missed that...
Tifa couldn't imagine everything that was going through Noctis' head right now. "I don't blame you at all, I'm sorry about your friends. I really hope everything goes alright. You're always welcome at the bar, and you can reach out if you need anything." She wasn't sure what exactly she could offer to him at the moment, but she could at least lend an ear for him for the moment, and have a place for him and his friends to get together as well.
Noctis offered some wine to her and she gave a smile. "I'm used to being up late, and my place is kind of boring. I will gladly take you up on that offer. It's been a while since I've been served a drink." To be honest, it had been a while since she had a drink at all. There were times they drank after successful missions or meetings, but she was always the one serving so she never drank too much. Having a drink would be perfect right now.
[attr=class,lyric1]i am noctis, prince of lucis and
[attr=class,lyric2]king of fishing
[attr=class,bulk] Tifa explained that bars were in fact open pretty late, but they did at least close eventually. “No six AM cocktails I guess,” Noctis joked while rubbing the back of his neck. “And I’m glad you don’t have to work all night. You’d never see the sun.” He commented that without really thinking, and then immediately felt weird about it considering that Eos actually had lost its sun. Noctis had only experienced one long night in Gralea, but if Caius was to be believed, then there’d been no light for a decade after that. It was crazy to think that anything could survive that long.
Tifa said that he didn’t have to apologize for the meeting that had gone sour in her bar because she’d seen things like that happen before. “Yeah, you said you used to host those in your bar back home, right? When you were taking on that evil corporation.” He was blanking on the name of the company, but it was hard to forget a story like that. It was partly why Noctis had gotten the idea to meet at Tifa’s bar in the first place. He had a feeling that she’d be sympathetic, or at least look the other way. It was hard to find somewhere else like that in Sonora.
She said that she hoped everything would go well in the upcoming jail break, and that he could reach out if he ever needed anything. “Thanks Tifa. I think we’ll probably just have to lay low for a while after this…” Hopefully between Caius and Prompto, they’d be able to keep their faces from showing up on camera at least. “Then I’ll have two more guys for you to meet. I think you’d like them. Ignis and Gladio are definitely the responsible half of our crew.” They were also the older pair. That just made it all the harder for Noctis and Prompto to do this alone, but the prince liked to think that Ignis would be proud of how they’d banded together and come up with a plan. He could absolutely never hear about what had gone down in the bar though.
Tifa agreed to have a drink with him, and Noctis grinned weakly as he glanced down at the bottle of wine in his hand. “I can guarantee you’ve never had this brand too. I was feeling like a taste of home tonight. Still have a couple of these tucked away in the glaive.” Along with some cup noodles actually, but he really needed to save those for Gladio. “Think it would be too cold up on the roof right now?” He thought Tifa might have an actual answer to that question since she’d been walking home outside just now.
Post by Tifa Lockhart on Mar 27, 2024 20:39:41 GMT -6
PROMISE YOU'LL COME AND SAVE ME
Tifa giggled at his joke. "Gaia no, I don't think I'd survive if people could just keep drinking." There was a reason the bars closed, or people would drink until they couldn't anymore. "Yeah, I like being able to do things during the day and then go to work. I sleep in kind of later than most, but I'm still up at a decent time." She was starting to ramble, so she stopped. Little did she know, his world had lost its sun and was in darkness for a long time...
"Yeah, Shinra. We blew things up, a jail break isn't strange to me at all." The confrontation between the people at the meeting wasn't either, she had felt right at home if she was being honest. Also, they had technically broken someone out of jail when they went to rescue Aerith from Hojo's lab, so she could relate to them wanting to get their friends out of jail. She would've offered to help herself, but they had it all under control and didn't know her too well.
Giving a nod, she had to agree. Man, a secret room in the basement of the bar like she had back at Seventh Heaven would be great for them right now. "If only we had Seventh Heaven. It had a secret room below the bar, that's where we held our meetings." Barret had put that together, so she wasn't sure if she'd be able to do it herself. Maybe if he ended up here, they could build a new one.
When he mentioned that there were two more for her to meet, she had to smile. "I would love to meet them, though maybe not like I met the others." She gave him a playful smile. She wasn't mad at all for how things had gone down at the bar. Obviously there was some bad blood between some, but it had made her glad to see they all did end up coming together to help the two.
"Oh, is it something from you world? Then I would love to try it." Tifa loved to try new foods and drinks, so she was excited to try this. Looking out the window and then looking at their attire, she shook her head. "No, it's too bad out there. Lead the way, Prince." She gave a wink at that, hoping he wouldn't be upset with her calling him that.
[attr=class,lyric1]i am noctis, prince of lucis and
[attr=class,lyric2]king of fishing
[attr=class,bulk] Tifa talked about how she liked her job because it gave her time to do things during the day, even if she had to sleep in a bit. That made sense, though at this point Noctis wasn’t even sure what a normal schedule was supposed to look like. He and his friends had mostly done odd jobs around Lucis, which could have been at any time of day or night. Well. At least once Ignis had trusted him enough to handle the daemons that were out and about at night at least. Before that his retainer had absolutely refused to drive the Regalia once the sun had gone down. It was both responsible and infuriating, which summed up Ignis pretty nicely now that he thought about it.
Tifa said pretty bluntly that her friends used to blow things up, so overhearing a jail break being planned in her bar wasn’t too weird. Noctis had to laugh at that, since he wasn’t expecting something like that to come out of her mouth. “I hear you.” Literally, since they’d wrecked havoc on more than one imperial base set up around Lucis. “It sounds like Shinra deserved whatever you gave them.” She also said that her old bar used to have a secret basement where they’d conduct their meetings, which made the prince grin. “Maybe you could add one to your new bar. Sonora’s government doesn’t seem so great either honestly. I’d say your services are needed again.” He was joking but also…not. With how horribly Ignis and Gladio had been treated, Noctis definitely wouldn’t mind if someone took on the council here. Or blew something up.
The bartender also teased him that she’d love to meet Ignis and Gladio in a different way than she’d met his other friends. “You’ll get some warning next time, I promise.” He was still a bit mortified by how that had all gone down, even if Tifa wasn’t upset about it. Everytime he thought about Alex blowing up or Cindy showing up out of nowhere, he just wanted to shrivel up into a tiny ball. Maybe this was one of those things that would be funny someday though. Maybe.
Tifa seemed excited that the wine was from Eos, and Noctis nodded as he showed her the bottle. “I picked this one up in an island nation back home called Accordo. That’s the nice thing about my glaive. I still had everything in it when I woke up here.” He’d get through all the perishables eventually of course, but it was just so comforting to have a piece of home in the meantime.
She told him to lead the way outside, and he groaned a little when she called him a prince. “Too much to ask for you to forget that part, huh?” It wasn’t that he was embarrassed or anything. It was just kind of nice to live his life and not have anyone know who he was for a change. He’d had the same feeling when he’d first left Insomnia, and that had only doubled since coming to Zephon.
Zipping up his coat, Noctis headed out the front door of the inn, deciding that Tifa had been right about the weather. “Yeah, it’s not too bad.” It was definitely chilly, but by Sonora’s standards that was pretty good. Nothing a light coat couldn’t fix. Looking up at the roof though, Noctis rubbed the back of his neck as he realized a slight problem. He hadn’t really thought this through before inviting someone else to join him up there.
“I can warp us up there, but you might want to hold onto me,” Noctis said a bit sheepishly as he offered Tifa his arm a bit too properly. That was not going to help with all the prince jokes, but he didn’t know of a better way to carry her without coming off like a creep. Since he needed a catalyst, he also quickly summoned a dagger to his other hand. “This might feel a little weird,” he warned her before tossing it up at the shingles and warping himself after it, with Tifa along for the ride.
Post by Tifa Lockhart on Apr 18, 2024 20:20:35 GMT -6
PROMISE YOU'LL COME AND SAVE ME
Tifa was glad to be able to get back to a schedule she knew well. Like Noctis, her schedule while traveling across Gaia had been a crazy one as well. Maybe here they would both get back to something normal. Well, him after his friends were free and they weren't all on the run anymore. Tifa gave a nod. "They really did. Our planet had something called the Lifestream. Basically, it was what kept the planet alive. Shinra was using reactors to pull that energy from the planet. There's a lot more, but I don't think you want me rambling on."
When he mentioned adding it to the new bar, she had to give a small smile, since she had been thinking the same thing if Barret were to show up. "It's definitely not a bad idea. I don't think I could do it on my own. I didn't even set up the one where I was." To be honest, neither did Barret. It was the owner before them that had done that. Barret and the others would be the only ones she knew that could recreate it though. She might be able to, but not by herself.
"Good." Tifa thought for a moment about who she met. "Prompto was the one you knew well, correct? He's one of the friends from your world? You seemed to know Cindy as well, Prompto sure did anyways." She had taken notice of the way Prompto acted around the blonde, it was the most normal thing about that whole night honestly. She wanted to make sure she had met as the correct person in regards to what Noctis had told her, especially if she was going to see them again.
"That's so cool, you get to have a little slice of home with you. I mean, if it's a good thing to remember anyways." Tifa didn't have anything with her, except some Materia in her gloves, which she didn't even wear. She had opted out for a thinner pair, especially since she had gone back to bartending. She heard the groan, but still couldn't help but smile. "I can if you would like me to, just say the word." Obviously she wasn't going to do anything that would make him uncomfortable.
Tifa looked over at him with an eyebrow raised. "Warp?" Now that was a new one for her. She noticed the arm offering, but didn't make a comment, given their comments just a moment ago about the Prince thing. She watched as he summoned a dagger, and was both in awe and a tiny bit nervous. All she could was nod as they were being pulled away by, something. She went from lightly holding his arm to having a death grip on it by the time they made it to the roof. She stumbled a moment, but then was standing next to him again. "Wow, that was fast. A little rough, but not bad at all. You can just do that to go anywhere?"
[attr=class,lyric1]i am noctis, prince of lucis and
[attr=class,lyric2]king of fishing
[attr=class,bulk] Tifa explained a little more about what Shinra had been up to back on her world, and Noctis grimaced at the description. “I wouldn’t mind hearing more,” he refuted when she got a little self-conscious about rambling. “That’s crazy though. I mean, they lived on the planet too. It’s not like they were just hurting another country.” Humans were bizarre when you got down to it. They could do so much damage to everything around them. Even Niflheim hadn’t been as irresponsible as Shinra though.
Tifa also said that it wasn’t the worst idea to set up a secret basement in her bar, but that she’d probably need help. “I don’t know much about architecture, but I can swing a hammer around if you need it,” he offered with a faint grin before nodding when she asked about his friends. “Yeah, Prompto and Cindy both come from Eos like me. Prompto and I go way back—we went to school together and everything. Cindy was the mechanic who worked on our car for us. And yeah, Prompto’s always had a crush on her. Just uh. Don’t tell him I told you that,” he said a bit conspiratorially as he inspected the roof.
Tifa didn’t seem to mind the warping nearly as much as some people. Honestly, she did damn good for her first time, but that wasn’t too surprising with how much she’d apparently dealt with. Noctis got the impression she was real tough. “Yeah, as long as it’s somewhere in throwing distance, then I can warp there. Doing that helps to give an anchor,” he explained as he banished the dagger back into the glaive and settled in on the roof. The shingles weren’t the most comfortable seat in the world, but the view below them made it worth it. With all the street lights on, the whole city almost seemed to glow. Sonora didn’t seem so bad from up here.
“I guess cups would be nice. I’m sure I have some in here somewhere,” Noctis said a bit sheepishly as he mentally rifled through their camping gear before pulling two glasses and a bottle opener out of his glaive. Uncorking the wine, he poured a little for Tifa first. “Not nearly as fancy as something you could make, but I did promise you a drink,” he said as he held it out for her. Afterward, he poured some for himself and set the bottle down between them for whenever they needed more. He held off on drinking it himself though, as he glanced down at the Accordan wine. He’d picked it up on a whim while they were exploring the city, figuring the four of them would drink it together soon. A lot had gone wrong immediately after that though.
Post by Tifa Lockhart on Apr 29, 2024 23:12:16 GMT -6
PROMISE YOU'LL COME AND SAVE ME
When he said he wanted to hear more, she smiled just a little bit at him being interested in hearing her story. That smile turned into a scoff though. "They didn't care. All they cared about was making money off of people using it. Midgar was arranged, differently than a lot of places. It was a city of two levels. The upper level was under the sun on plates held up by pillars, and consisted of the higher class citizens. They had good jobs, great places to get food, good schools. All the works. The slums, where I lived, was under that level, under the plates. We had no sunlight, and lived by what we could grow. Luckily we did have running water and electricity, but we counted on each other for everything else." As she spoke, she looked down at her feet. As bad as the slums did seem, it was home.
Noctis offered his help, and she gave him a smile. "When I've got a plan, I'll be sure to reach out to you. Maybe you and your friends will be able to move about freely by then and they can all help out too. It'll go really fast then." Maybe not Alex though. Nothing would get done then, and something would probably end up breaking when they were actually trying to build. "That's pretty cool you have your friends here though, at least you're not alone." Even if the situation they were in wasn't great, they had each other for support. Well, they would soon anyways. Tifa had to giggle. "I could tell. He doesn't hide it very well. But I'll keep my mouth shut." She made "zipping lips" motion.
Tifa sat down as well, crossing her ankles in front of her. "That's interesting. I've had to climb, jump, and swing across things, but I've never warped. That's a lot faster than the normal route, and a lot less work too." They didn't have anything like that on Gaia, not that she knew of anyways. She noticed him look out over Sonora, and she did as well. Tifa loved the night time, maybe that was just the bartender in her. It was quiet, and the lights just made everything glow just right to make it a really pretty sight.
Noctis then mentioned cups and she looked over at him as he pulled out two glasses and a bottle opener. She couldn't help but giggle. "You're a man to call for just about anything, aren't you?" Tifa really hoped that didn't come across the wrong way, but he seemed to have quite the assortment of things tucked away. She took the glass and shook her head. "This is perfect, thank you." It was true, she could make some great drinks, but simple was always best in her eyes.
As she watched him, she also waited to take a drink. She noticed he didn't drink it right away, and that he was lost in thought. It was from his home, so she stayed quiet and let him have his moment. When he spoke next, she looked back over Sonora. "Yeah, I do. I learned so much there, met a lot of great people. Though I lost some of them along the way, I will always cherish the memories I had." Well, most of them anyways. Looking back over at him, she tilted her head to the side. "How about you? Do you miss Eos?"
As she waited for an answer, she held her glass up. "To new beginnings."
