#🦋 / cerise v. honkai

[solarisligatus]

"Oh-! You're one of those um- Express folks, right?" The selkie adjusts her weight nervously, brushing part of her hair behind her ear now. How does one really come to ask a question of a guest on the space station? Not that Cerise herself isn't currently a guest just visiting to speak with Herta, but all the same! She gets rather nervous.

"Do you have a moment to um- to talk? I had some...questions, actually."

@reversescale || sc.

[solarisligatus]

"I do suppose the climate extends a great deal to making sure something could get that cold...I don't think I've had water at that temperature in a long while- I used to hear my mother say it was great for a selkie's coat, you know."

Though, then came the next part and she was red, looking away. Arms crossed over her chest. Okay, maybe she shouldn't have said that part, but still! When did she ever feel she was understanding what he said?

"I- sometimes I don't get what you mean is all. I think our brains work on different wavelengths, which is fine I mean, you're not- I'm- a-anyway um. I don't know what exactly to ask you.'

"I mean, yeah, a fridge would be the prime idea. But a lot of the time I'm not even around one to make use of one. Like when I was in Jarilo-VI, I use to keep my bottles out in snowstorms for a while to get it crystal cold, man that was good as hell!"

He wasn't ignorant to their more leveled approach to handling water. Having a voice of reason like that was always good, on the other hand, when could a Trailblazer's life ever be so simple?

"--Also what's that first bit supposed to mean? I can make plenty of sense! Ask me a completely normal question as a test!"

[solarisligatus]

"Y-you're- that woman on the poster-." Her tail is tucked immediately between her legs as she takes a few steps back. Adjusting the way that her coat hangs on her shoulders. A safety in the oversized garment that marks her for a Selkie. "What um- what do you want with-- with me-?"

@scriptospark || sc.

[solarisligatus]

"You're so sweet, I could just eat you up.~"

@ Cerise, sorry about Kafka truly.

"H-huh what-?! I- um- I don't think I understand what's going on here-. Why- wh-what do you even-- mean, Miss Kafka-?"

[solarisligatus]

Cerise is the first fandomless to get fandom verses so here are a hsr and genshin verse under the cut for her

Honkai Star Rail

Within this verse Cerise is a member of the Genius Society with a specific focus on the fauna of the universe and preserving / bringing back creatures close to / lost to time. She is the child of a former member of the Intelligensia Guild in her father, who was exiled due to his experimentation on her and her mother. Alongside this she is the last of her kind, being a Selkie from an aquatic planet that has since been destroyed by Nanook. She is an ice-type unit on the path of erudition

Genshin

Within this verse Cerise is simply a researcher from Fontaine. She's traveling Teyvat in the hopes of cataloguing the creatures she finds and compile a compendium for them. She is, once more, one of the last living Selkies, a species formerly native to Fontaine similarly to the Melusines. She is a cryo catalyst user

please look at my beautiful daughter.

[solarisligatus]

"Regardless I'm- not entirely sure that Norman would appreciate someone in our house messing with the electricity- h-helpful or not!" He'd probably also try to rub all over Caelus and get static-y. That part was less fun.

But she does definitely perk up as he explains more.

"Oh wow- s-sorry, that's totally weird for me to be poking and prodding at you with but it's just really interesting-! Endless screaming sounds- horrifying but all the same."

"C'mon, have a lil more faith! I haven't mastered three paths just to let this Stellaron fly around like a turned on garden hose. I'd hone it!" That said. It has to be a first that someone found the voices in his head neat.

Gotta love the universe.

"More like endless screaming of the damned, but, you get the picture. Despite being part of their flock, they ain't exactly the happiest with me."

[solarisligatus]

"That is- a good guess? But not quite. Uh- well- actually maybe I should tell you, you're like- you've got some sort of...code you stick to-."

She hopes he does.

"Ahhhh, I get the angle here. The coat's part of your powers, huh? The key to your super form?"

Look, he's thinking positively about it.

[solarisligatus]

"I think that much electricity would blow up my lab." Such a small station isn't meant to house a stellaron like Madam Herta had.

"Wait, wait- it talks to you-? That's fascinating, actually-."

"Absolutely." No hesitanace within that tone!

"Why pay for electricity when I can be that electricity. This damn thing needed to find it's way for 'rent' anyways. Much as it loves screaming in my soul when I try to sleep."

[solarisligatus]

"Oh, splendid-. Um, My name is Cerise, I'm um- a Genius Society member like Madam Herta." Really it was only because she'd been here enough times that she'd heard of all the Nameless had done for the place. Not just the Antimatter Legion, but she'd even overheard some of the staff talking about bugs. She silently thanked Nous she hadn't been here for that one.

"I'm mostly curious um- about your recent travels, actually, maybe that's weird-. Let me start over-. You all travel quite a bit more frequently than someone like myself can. So- I was wondering if by chance you'd run into any interest creatures? Any that might not be in the compendium or that would need um- conservation efforts? That's sort of my- area of expertise, you see."

"Yes, did you need something?" Between the myriad destinations that the Astral Express traveled between, sometimes he somewhat forgot that their names were still well-known since the day they'd helped defend it from the Antimatter Legion over a year ago. At the mention of wanting to ask questions, Dan Heng visibly relaxed. That seemed simple enough.

"I'll try to answer what I can."

[solarisligatus]

"Um- I s-suppose she can but- uh- people don't typically just-." Approach her. That wasn't something she was going to get used to ever. Even if she was a member of the Genius Society! The teeth and the tail and the claws and the coat- those typically made people nervous. Guess a Stellaron Hunter wouldn't be nervous though, huh? "P-precious-? Tantalizing-- colors-? D-do you mean my hair-? My coat-? Um- th-thank-- you-?"

"Aw, you've heard of me~." She can't help herself when it comes to the fearmongering the IPC has done. It did her a great service in skipping formalities. Kafka chuckles at the other's nervous response before waving a hand dismissively, would it be relaxing for the other? Oh likely not. "Can't a woman be drawn to tantalizing colors without being accused of something?... Mm? You're precious."

[solarisligatus]

"Actually-- Caelus that makes the most sense out of anything you've ever said to me. You do want to boil it, but you need to make sure you have a proper vessel for those things to go you can't just--."

Oh he's lost her again.

"Caelus what are we talking about?! Just put it in the fridge!"

@solarisligatus replied to your post “"??? Buy a bottle of water? Why worry about that...”:

Cerise vc: Caelus there are chemicals in there and so many other things that make it bad for you to drink--

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"This is exactly why we must dominate the water. Boil it until it's screaming from mercy, weeping seething tears of smoke to display it's gratitude. This is part of the essential 101!"

A fist clench is made after noting such thoughts!

"And then I absorb the heat to make it cold. If water doesn't take a cold stance, how will we ever survive the summer days?"