#lightrookie

[mcurnful]

( from the assortment of dialogue prompts !! )

‘ do you mind if i smoke ?? ’

"I only mind if you don't offer me one."

She knew she shouldn't have been smoking, SOLDIER required peak physical performance. But it was almost more of a comfort than a habit at this point, and after the recent intervals of Mako enhancement, she barely felt the cigarette.

Though she offers the very glimpse of a smile at the young blonde, something not far from worry sews itself into her brow. "Not a lot of us left, huh?"

It was an understatement, SOLDIER was a husk without Sephiroth. Dietrich, herself, had been promoted to 1st Class two months prior.

But the SOLDIER looks down at the Turk, eyes scanning her blonde hair. "I don't think I've seen you in the building before. Not until today." Sage green eyes break contact to focus on her gloves.

"I'm Dietrich. SOLDIER 1st Class."

[yunhuntress]

@lightrookie asked: ‘ i'm not staring . . . i'm admiring . ’

"Oh, you are staring." Fang corrected only to grin quite widely. Ther wasn't anything wrong with that in her mind as she had been working out in a sports bra and shorts. Her muscles were on display along her torso for the woman to enjoy watching. "You know you can come in closer to touch, yeah?"

[ofdeference]

@lightrookie asked: ( from the 40 random questions meme !! ) ‘ do you believe in ghosts , sir ?? ’

The questions stirs the fine layer of dust on a life lived eons ago, of hushed whispers and fearful giggles, in awed silence the looming steady beat of his heart. Faster, faster, faster until, light headed, all he knows is flight in a dark village.

Do you believe in ghosts, Tseng?

Lips half curl a delighted mania in the challenge. Face your fears, you're a Turk now.

"Do you?" His hand extends beyond the hilt of his gun, a step taken down onto the rubble below. The remains of what used to be a sector shifts beneath his weight and stabilizes against...something. Better not to look too hard.

[gcldfanged]

eavesdrop

The scent of tobacco and honey from Jae's thin, gold and black shisha cigarette wafts on the breeze coming from the open balcony doors. The B Division agent is on his PHS, exhaling thin snaking trails of smoke from the left corner of his mouth.

"Yeah, that's what I told you, ain't it? Geez, Two-Guns, your hair manage to grow into fuckin' your brain while you were away?" he laughs, unspoken affection managing to warm the low and gravelly quality to his voice.

"Hah? Oh, I'm on babysitting duty today... I heard she was feeding us intel as far back as high school or some shit? That's pretty impressive, but she's nowhere near Gun's level yet. She's a spitfire though, give her some time and I'm sure she'll come into her own. Or cark it, whichever comes first. Don't matter none to me, we got plenty of young blood coming in after all the shit that went down."

[strykingshot]

( from the blood meme !! )

[ standing over a body ]

‘ oops . . . ’

"Well, that's not something I see everyday on the morning commute," Kat said, walking over and nudging the body with her boot. She was too tired and without coffee to care if the person was alive or not.

"So, correct me if I'm wrong but aren't you Turks supposed to be covert when taking out people?"

[strfe]

[ aperol spritz ]

🐝 cocktail quiz / @lightrookie

[ aperol spritz ] what is one thing they still think about a lot ?

his chocobos! cloud leaves them in the care of choco bill for quite some time towards the end of the og vii & in the time following that, but he misses them a lot. ever since he was a kid he's had an easier time communicating with animals than with people, and has always had a soft spot for them. ( minus the mild vendetta he has against them for others constantly comparing his hair to their ass ) he loves chocobos in particular. i write the chocobo racing arc as canon, and as such he has a whole rainbow of them that he raised from hatchlings back at the stables. he'll call with choco bill & co from time to time if he can't get out to go see them, but will sometimes stop off late into the evening after a day of deliveries if they've been on his mind for some time, or if he happens to find a good stack of greens / some carob, zeio, etc. nuts while he's out.

[marie-dufresne]

Marie Valentine let herself into the office. Despite having been a ghost for eighteen years, her reintroduction to society—and her place with the elites—had been seamless, so when she needed something, she helped herself to it.

There was no complaint from Reeve.

“Elena,” she greeted in return, though didn’t go much further. She wasn’t terribly comfortable arounf the girl. She had…many things to say to her.

“Loz has lost something. I’ll be quick.”

Her boys were all out of the office (probably for the best. They worked best in the field, not behind a desk), but she was familiar with where they dropped the belongings that she so often came in to fetch.

She was thankful it was Loz who had forgotten something. Reno’s station was just as much a mess as Kadaj’s room had always been, but Rude, who Loz had been partnered with for his atonement, was a pristine, orderly, minimalistic sort of man and though her son was not, she clearly found the key that had fallen from it’s chain, perfectly set inside the middle drawer of the desk, next to a staple remover.

Closing the drawer with a little click, she straightened herself, adjusting the wide black belt that hugged her natural waist before letting her gold purse slide down to her elbow, flicking it open and depositing the key.

Loz and Rude would be working late, so her instructions were to drop it off to Tifa. Did she have to? No. Did her husband disapprove of how she continued to coddle them? Yes, yes he did. But Marie had always been the sort of woman to overstep every boundary where he children were concerned.

Though she didn’t intend to stay, Elena’s hair caught her eye and for a moment, she pictured it drenched in red. It was an intrusive thought, one that truthfully, she was avoiding.

When she had heard of the torture her sons had administered upon Tseng and Elena, her heart had broken. Having known Tseng since he’d been a child, approaching him after the fact had been easy. She hadn’t been well received, but she reached out, she offered all of herself for whatever he needed. They were healing.

But Elena?

She didn’t know this girl. She hated hearing what had been done, but Elena had become a TURK while Marie had been away in Mideel, in hiding, raising her family away from the prying eyes of Shinra (Tseng excluded). She had no connection, but she did harbor guilt. At some point, she had to confront this girl, to let her know she didn’t condone what they’d done. That was not how she raised them.

Clearing her throat, she tucked some of her greying curls behind her ear, resisting the urge to pull it all into a braid. Her underarm flashed aqua, her sleeves stopping at her elbow, the mako that glowed beneath her skin as bright as it had been forty years prior.

“Elena,” she repeated, approaching her desk, extending a hand, her gold bangles jingling lightly, “we really haven’t been properly introduced. I’m…the triplets’ mother.”

Marie knew that she knew this. She’d been called ‘mama’ in the office often enough. Not to mention the rumors that flew around. Still, as much of a people person she was, as much as she could talk her way out of or into most anything, this was an incredibly uncomfortable situation.

closed thread with @marie-dufresne

pale fingers paused in their typing frenzy as elena exhaled loudly , eyes scanning the screen in front of her. they darted back and forth , double , then triple checking her report. data entry was mind-numbingly boring on the best of days , but that didn't mean that she didn't want it to be incorrect. she had standards , after all. a few clicks later and the document was sent with a whoosh to the appropriate inbox.

reaching her arms above her head , elena linked her fingers and stretched. her back popped in a few places , alluding to the length of time she'd spent hunched over writing. a content sigh left her as she lowered her hands and then propped her chin up with her palm , gaze directed towards one of the many windows in the office.

a bright orange was refecting off the the many buildings surrounding the tower she was in , bathing the room in a myriad of dusky tones. she could almost feel the warmth of the setting sun on her skin. the door creaked open , causing her to look the other way. at the sight of the figure , elena let a small , polite smile arrange its way on her features.

‘ marie , ’ she greeted , rising from her desk. ‘ hi , what brings you here today ?? i'm the only one in at the moment. ’ she kept her tone casual and tried to not be as clipped in front of strangers as she normally was. marie , after all , wasn't a stranger. elena had seen the other woman around often , sending her a polite smile whenever they made eye contact. truth be told , she didn't know how to act around her ; elena was used to working with men , and the only other woman she'd been close-ish with was her sister.

[kunselxsoldier]

tag nine people you'd like to know better

I. favourite colours: red, always been my favourite.

II. favourite flavours: Loving asian dishes at the moment; teriyaki stir-fry, ramen, gyoza, chili-oil noodles.

III. favourite genres: Action and fantasy mostly. I'm such a wimp, I'm useless when it comes to horror.

IV. favourite music: At the moment, I'm OBSESSED with Epic: The Ocean Saga. It's a concept musical by Jorge Rivera-Herrans based on the Odyssey and tells Odysseus' journey from Troy and his attempts to get back home. The previous albums are the Troy Saga and the Cyclops Saga and they are amazing!!!! If you have a moment, definitely give them a listen.

V. favourite movies: I adore the original Beauty and the Beast, my all-time favourite movie. But I also really love Pretty Woman, as cliché as that sounds.

VI. favourite series: Oh, it changes depending on what's new at the moment and what I can binge. Yellowstone, Supernatural, The Boys, the new Percy Jackson at the moment is really hitting a vibe. Also adore The Sandman and House of the Dragon. The Last of Us goes without saying too.

VII. last song: Ruthlessness from Epic: The Ocean Saga. Seriously obsessed with this track and Steven Rodriguez who voices Poseidon.

VIII. last series: Percy Jackson and The Olympians on Disney+. (definitely helps that Toby Stephens is cast as Poseidon.)

IX. last movie: The last film I watched was Forrest Gump on New Year's Even, because I quite like the movie and my mam and sis had never actually seen it.

X. currently reading: The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker. An interesting and deep look into the signs our body gives us when we're in danger and how to recognise them and learn to trust them.

XI. currently watching: At the moment, I'm not watching anything, just binging Frontiers of Pandora on my PS5.

XII. currently working on: I'm still very slowly working on a fanfiction I've been writing since I was 17 in the YuGiOh fandom called Paper Roses. I didn't update for 4 years, but then finally got my arse into gear and back into writing. It's been rewritten over the years, but I'm doing a final overall rewrite of old chapters and slowly working on a new one for all the lovely readers who have stuck by me for so many years.

tagged by: @holyguardian tagging: @loqis @ceaselxss @denzelxstrife @fairfallcn @littlexsisterxulric @lightrookie @wingsandsteel

[bitterarcs]

PSYCHO ANALYSIS

touch starved | obi wan kenobi ? more like obi wan ken-someone pls hold me ! you just really need a hug right now. genuine question, when was the last time you were soul-crushingly hugged ? you're probably one of those people who pretend like you're okay when you're really not and who just want to FEEL something. you're the kind of person that sits in the dark with their hands around their knees, the kind of person that thirdwheels all the time. it will come. they will come.

tagged by | @poeticphoenix : )

tagging | @stingslikeabee @infamiia @illeiterumveniet @lightrookie

[sevnthhart-a]

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 ?

( dark blue character )

           dark blue characters are kindhearted & responsible, driven to care for others around them. they are good at strategizing in the heat of the moment, but are also quite impulsive & rush into things without a plan when they are fired up. while calm people & patient teachers, they are quite hotheaded & not afraid to stand up for what they believe in. their sense of morality guides them, both into battle, & into healing. they get along with a wide range of people, but do have a temper that causes them to get into short-lived disagreements.

they don’t like to be seen as inferior, as much of their strength comes from the softness inside of them. they like being needed & helpful, & want people to agree that they know what’s best for them, although others can get annoyed at what they perceive as nagging. they take turns being the voice of reason & the reason for the voice. they can hold their own, & believe in respecting everyone as long as everyone is respectful in turn. they often had to grow up fast & mature early, which they both take pride in & resent. they are likely to join a just cause on a whim, & do what it takes to develop the skillset they need to best help the cause, although they prefer to be at the center of the action. if they feel no one is doing anything & it needs to be done, they’ll step in. they are often close to prodigies, having some sort of incredible skill that they can expertly hone.

           they are inspirational & have a lot of emotional maturity. they can both maneuver people through their hardships & inspire them to rise up. they can often ignore their own feelings & needs in the process of being a sort of martyr for others, however, & can grow resentful when no one pays attention to them like they do for others. dark blue characters need people in their lives who will encourage & uplift them in whatever cause they choose to support, as well as give them space to talk out their feelings. they also need others who will recognize when they are taking too much responsibility on, & take some time to give them care & support & affirm their willingness to care.

tagged by :  @poeticphoenix  ( u got light blue & i got dark blue hasjahjs giggling )  ♡

tagging :  @wolfkcst ,  @tsckcyomi  ( for any muse you'd like ! ) ,  @royalarmed ,  @lightrookie ,  @sortilegii  ( for ariel ,  but also sephiroth if ur feeling up for it 👀 ) ,  @withsorrowandregret  ( for any muse you'd like ! ) ,  & anyone else !  steal it & tag me so i can see your results ♡

[thissisatitle]

Fab! thanks so much! <3 - Bryony

No problem! Hope you have fun on your Elena rp'ing journey 💕

[yunhuntress]

@lightrookie​ continued from: [x]

The explosions of color caught her eyes as she waited amongst the crowds. It had brought her out from remaining on her own and out into the public eye once again. Work had kept her busy with bounties all alike but Fang was content to notice a familiar silhouette in the shadows. It had been too long since they had last seen one another but it didn't stop the beat of her heart from beating a bit harder.

She approached carefully and smirked when Elena registered her words. A soft smile was given before the huntress closed the distance between them only to lean down to the blonde. A calloused hand stroked a cheek before lips touched in a soft kiss. Sounds of fireworks and of laughter turned to background noise as Fang focused on the moment between the two of them. No one else mattered in those moments even after their lips parted from one another.

"Far too long for us in fact."

[ofdeference]

What Is Your Energy

@stagnantmako

I'm... If I have to stare at Tseng being called an angry gnome I want you all to suffer with me.

Tagging: @zackleos @aplistiarct @illeiterumveniet @busterswrd @unforestalledreturn @gcldfanged @soljaboii @hautevaux @lightrookie @bitterarcs

[steeleidolon]

it's not to say that she's lost, but she has definitely walked through this corridor about three times. ‘ hey!! ’ elena flags down the nearest solider. ‘ uh, can you tell me where i'd find tseng's office, please. ’ cheeks flushing with slight mortification, the newbie turk attempts to salvage somewhat of a professional persona.

Tseng.

What a complicated thing to ask of a SOLDIER. Particularly of this one, lurking as he does in the annex area between the stairwell and the elevators.

There are very few SOLDIERs left. Kunsel cannot precisely camouflage himself as much anymore, but he can blend into the background in most cases. It's a matter of attitude, a matter of posture, eye contact or lack thereof, no matter the kind of uniform one wears.

He lifts his attention from his phone screen, pausing at the sight, brows knitting with something difficult to discern. Familiarity, maybe parsing. He'd visited the bar in Wall Market in his off-time now and again in better days. Great place for juicy tidbits of information...

Not that he ever went in uniform. Ever.

But--

"...Elena? Love the new haircut."

You look hauntingly like your sister.

Not a word of that.

"When'd you pick up the gun?"

He hasn't answered her question.

[fakerthanme]

@lightrookie replied: ♟

   elena grits her teeth so hard she can feel her jaw squeak in protest. he's only trying to wind you up, she rationalised to herself, breathe elena. her hands form fists at her sides and she's ready to start flying at the blond, but it would just look like an unprovoked attack, and she knew that she'd be the one getting the blame for it.

   ‘ you... wanna run that by me again, strife ?? ’ she completely understands what he's on about. it's like mythril mines all over again. ‘ were you ever raised with manners ?? you should try them. ’ ha, good one.

The blonde actually blinks at her quick retort, just ever so slightly cocking his head as a brief smirk flits across his normally calm expression.

“Finally managing to get some bite to go with the bark, eh? Can’t say I don’t like stuff like that,” the ex-SOLDIER admits, one hand casually resting on the grip of his sword. 

Strife wasn’t particularly in the mood to scrap unless he had to but he was enjoying the back and forth a little.

[expendablc]

“ i never shoot to miss. ”

James Bond lyric starters

"Isn't that a basketball specific saying?"

He could be wrong and more than likely was, based off of the woman's expression alone.

"Uh, I know what you mean though. Even in Basic, they drilled into us the importance of having a weapon and why we use it. Never wave it around just to intimidate someone, especially not a civvy. There are a pretty prolific number of complete assholes in PubSec, so I'm not going to pretend like it hasn't happened but..."