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@pidgii // starter call !

   “Ooooh, wow, that one went faaaar.”  He stands with a posture that seems somehow a bit too battle-ready to be actually necessary considering what he’s actually doing: skipping rocks off the shoreline with as hard a throw as physically possible. The brute force pitch makes up for the part where he’s not actually that good at rock skipping. Emmet flings another one out, getting a solid three bounces before it plunks into the sea.

“Hey, hey, you should try.” Said to the kid who appeared nearby. Competitions are more fun, aren’t they? “See that floatie marker out there? I wanna see if I can launch a rock all the way out there. Or get more than five bounces. Either one. Betcha a dollar you can’t get closer than I did.” Competitions have to have stakes to be fun, too– though it’s not much of a serious bet. He expects little of himself, but still!

          MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, PIDGE finds herself wandering the city of koi, rather than remaining holed up in her room all the time. quite a drastic change from when she HARDLY found herself around others! but the more she can find out about the city, the better─ and that involves making sure she knows the city ( and she doesn’t exactly have her giant, flying green lion to help her out ).

a voice calls her out of her exploration of the shoreline. brown hues look up to where someone stands, looking rather excited about skipping rocks. she’s ready to dismiss herself until a bet is established─ JUST a dollar, but who would she be if she backed down from a challenge? especially one so easy....

❝ you sure you wanna do that? ❞ she asks, approaching the shore and kneeling down to find the PERFECT stone. if she’s to win, it has to be the perfect shape, size, weight... ❝ i’m PRETTY good at this kind of thing, just so you know. ❞ she informs─ in fact, she’d just recently had a night of pitching rocks into the water with her roommate! after a few thoughtful moments, pidge picks up a rock with a small exclamation of “ah-ha!” before approaching the water’s edge. she looks to her competition with a grin. 

❝ watch and learn! ❞ she taunts and reels back her arm, just as she’d been taught, mentally calculating the distance she’d need and flicking the rock out at an angle. it bounces neatly along the water right about five times before stopping short of the stranger’s throw─ he’s got more power in his arms, it seems. brows scrunch together as she looks up.

     ❝ because it’s annoying, of course. ❞      humans. did all of them ask so many questions ?      elias says nothing as the new individual explains the device to him, his already small pupils managing to get even smaller as he notes the… notifications, that’s what they were called, yes ?      ❝ chise is my fiancée. ❞      he takes note of her advice to not accept calls from unknown contacts– hm. the caller had to be foolish to claim that they were important. elias only had a handful of important people within his life, the number so small he could likely count them on one hand.      ❝ ah. i would like to silence it, yes. it’s very loud– much too loud for my liking. ❞      just the other day when the magus had been minding his own business, nose buried in a new bit of reading material ( magically related, of course ), the phone had jumped to life and startled him from across the house. the sheer trilling noise, accompanied by the intense buzzing had taken forever to cease… that was the moment that yes, he hated TECHNOLOGY. especially the tech of today.      ❝ as i said, i would prefer to destroy it– a simple spell could easily make it burst into flames… but chise has told me not to do that, so i suppose it would be best if you could show me. ❞

     the stranger’s question catches him off guard, though he REALLY should’ve seen it coming. at least they hadn’t had the audacity to call him a monster to his face like people had done in the past.      ❝ i’m from england, specifically not too far from the london area. i am familiar with technology, but i have avoided using it, if i can. i have no such need for it. ❞

           ❝ WELL, THAT SEEMS LIKE A silly reason to want it destroyed. ❞ she comments, tipping her head and pushing her glasses up. she means no rudeness, but a puzzled expression decorates her features as she considers his reasoning, ❝ lance and hunk─ those are some of my teammates─ can be pretty annoying, but i don’t think i’d destroy them. ❞ she chuckles a bit at that, unrelenting with unneeded exposition as usual. for a second, though, the mention of her missing FRIEND causing a sort of sadness. expression doesn’t falter as the thoughts are shoved away in favor of the current task at hand. 

❝ besides, why destroy it simply because you can’t understand it? that’s the best time to learn everything you can about it! ❞ she chippers up right away, bubbling with excitement just thinking about uncovering something new! she’s ready to ramble on more when the stranger mentions a fiancée─ it surprises her and only succeeds in creating even MORE questions in her head. she puts those on hold as she nods, reaching up to take the phone. she gestures to the buttons on the side, holding it up for them to see. 

❝ it’s these ones! just press up when you want it louder, and down when you want it quieter. ❞ as she explains, pidge turns the phone all the way down and holds it back out for him to take, ❝ there, now it won’t make any noise! but, uh, check it once in a while! in case chise is trying to get a hold of you. ❞ she suggests.

❝ wait, did you say SPELL? you’re magical? ❞ doubling back on his words, curiosity ignites expression. eyes widen in wonder─ her hypothesis had been correct-!! ...to a degree. she’s confused even further when he mentions england, a quizzical look now present. 

❝ england? really? but that would mean you’re from EARTH. ❞ she concludes, ❝ as am i, but i’ve never seen anyone like you before. thing is, i’m PRETTY sure the earth i come from isn’t this one, and you’ve pretty much proven that. i KNEW something was weird about this place! do YOU come from another world too, then? ❞ she’s half-talking to herself at this point, fists pumping with excitement at the small victory in knowing she was RIGHT all along!

@pidgii

                 To Keith, Koi was surprisingly warm. It didn’t matter the season or the time of day. He could feel the warm brisk air hit against his face. Even on the beach, despite the hint of wind here and there, it was just right. Coming to the beach at night was a good idea. It got him out of the house and outside—he had the entire beach to himself.

                                                           Well, not quite.

                 Somehow, one of his close friends followed him out here. He thought she would be asleep like Lance was. Who was up past midnight? Oh right, him. Though, she did have a bad habit of looking up her weird mathematics. He never did ask her what she was discovering this time. They were on Koi, so perhaps it had to do with the strange phenomenon of this place they currently rested.

                 And he had to admit, using Koi as a place to relax was better than home. So far it was, anyway. There were strange life forces on this island that Keith wasn’t used to, but he hasn’t interacted with anyone peculiar yet. Not that it would matter, since he was pretty peculiar himself.

                Another soft breeze went by and it got him out of his thoughts. He didn’t bother to sweep the bangs that went in weird directions. He remembered that Pidge was close beside him this entire time. Maybe he really should converse with her. It might help her get sleepy.

                ❛ Hey Pidge, ❜ he turned to look at her, ❛ Do you know how to skip rocks? ❜ what kinda start of a conversation was that? Whatever, Keith.

          thinking. always thinking. especially now that she’s been cast into a seemingly-inescapable world disconnected from any she knows─ pidge’s mind has been a cascading array of thoughts and wonders. trying to figure out what happened ; figuring out this new world ; making the best out of what limited resources she now had access to. it’s all so LACKLUSTER in comparison to traversing the universe. still, at least there was some fun in reprogramming any piece of equipment she can find─ even earthly ones! 

she’s generally up late─ keeping to herself in her room and tinkering with new gadgets and expanding her knowledge. usually well past the time her two roommates fell asleep ( she’s honestly grateful they’re with her. she can’t imagine being sucked into this new city alone )─ or so she thought. in the midst of a project, footsteps catch her attention. a peak out out her door reveals the tail-end of keith and her curiosity piques. 

if it weren’t for boredom, she probably wouldn’t have cared. she scrambles to follow silently, presence undeclared. or, until their destination is seemingly reached. the beach? pidge slowly and quietly makes her way to his side. he’s noticed her by now, pidge knows. if her following him was troublesome, he didn’t announce it. she’s not even quite sure why she followed in the first place─ wanting some adventure, perhaps?

the quiet beach is soothing. her gaze trails upwards to the sky; pidge admires the stares, feeling a pang of longing. the longing to travel again ; figure out this universes mysterious. something she can’t do - 

thoughts are intruded, keith’s words cutting straight through. she’s not bothered, though. she considers the inquiry ( silently grateful he's skipped the awkward “you followed me?” topic ), supplying a shrug. 

     he’s not quite sure what to do about the noisy device trilling away in his hands, elias’ blank expression not giving anything away as his eye stare down at the phone. his pupils flatten out some, the number on the screen being read… that doesn’t look familiar at all– definitely not anyone back in england, that’s for certain.      elias straightens up as a voice– apparently speaking to him at that, reaches his ears. his tone makes his innards twist and pull, the obvious discomfort heard– uneasiness, maybe ? it reminds him of how he speaks to children, the magus both disliking small humans and having a considerably hard time interacting with them in general. 

     ah.      a small human– very small, short enough in stature that she reminds him of his apprentice, actually. that’s… where the ( physical ) similarities seem to end though, as this mortal has short, messy brown-colored hair, and eyes of the same hue. his chise had vibrant, red hair that was longer… and green eyes that very much reminded him of emeralds. but they were both small.      ❝ this… ? ❞      the now silent phone is held up somewhat, its screen flashing a notification of a missed call coupled with a voicemail. they aren’t the only notifications, as it seems the being has a plethora of them.      ❝ no, i don’t think so. unless you’d like to take it and destroy it, that is. ❞      he feels uncomfortable, and would like to have this social exchange end as soon as it possibly could.

          despite being the one to initiate conversation with the mysterious being, pidge can’t help the involuntary flinch as the massive figure turns towards her in acknowledgement. she’s not intimidated, per se ( not at all! she’s encountered many different creatures during intergalactic travels! ), but rather in fascination. wonder. immediately, her mind whirs with thoughts. what planet do they come from? what are they? certainly not an earthly being! unless, of course, this is just a really tall person adored in very strange attire─ in that case, pidge would find herself INCREDIBLY flushed with embarrassment. in the few moments of silence following her inquiry, she considers─ a bit late, at that─ they might not even speak a mutual language. 

but- oh, right. everyone spoke the same language here. 

the voice is clear; understanding. it stockpiles her wonders and increases her curiosity. she manages a small, awkward smile as the phone is revealed, and she can’t help the chuckle of amusement that follows. she adjusts her glasses, looking up once more. if she isn’t mistaken─ it feels as if she’s being observed, as well. unfamiliar with people, maybe? 

❝ destroy it? now why would you want to do that? ❞ she responds, her tone light, ❝ you’ve, uh, got a few missed calls. ❞ she points to the said notification ( there’s a lot! ), ❝ looks like one of the contacts is already saved. someone named... chise? there’s another number here, but i wouldn’t answer those. they’re usually spam calls. word of advice? if they tell you they’re someone important, they’re probably not. ❞ she isn’t shy of info dumping without any incentive to do so; not in regards to technology. she rests back on her heels and digs her own phone out of her pocket.

@pidgii

He was at Statice Library again.

He couldn’t help but notice that he kept coming here. It was either here or going home after school. He also had settled down and started going to Hyacinth Academy for his high school classes. Yet, it wasn’t the same. He didn’t see his old classmates walking around. Or Hori-senpai running down the hall to drag Kashima to Drama Club. Of course, he sometimes he forgets his no longer where he use to live.

He shakes his head. He came to the library for one reason. He need to find a book for … learning how to do draw digitally. He almost groans at the thought. ’I might need it for the future.’ He reminds himself as he walks around looking at the shelves. The library… was a bit strange. It had a large collection of manga and graphic novels. It seemed to be more directed towards teens who would like it or want to know about it. Indeed, he found it a bit strange, but to it’s own traditions, he supposes.

He’s almost there. Looking around the books that are in orderly fashion, he finds it. In a way, it’s a dummy book for how to draw digitally, and another book that is a bit more technical. He’s good for now, he supposes, but he wants to explore a bit more. There could be something interesting to draw. Or rather, he doesn’t want to go back to his place.

He walks down another aisle and spots a girl trying to get a book that’s above her reach. He blinks and guesses from where her hand is reaching, taking it and offering it to her, “Is this the one?”

          life gets quite boring when BOTH roommates occupy themselves with work. on top of that, pidge finds herself LOST─ limited by earthly technology that steps back years from what she’s used to. transcending galaxies, defending a universe from a war erupting into something grandeur than she could ever conjure up in dreams. whatever ‘earth’ she’d been dumped on ( and not even her own! ) absolutely PALES in comparison. how’s she supposed to entertain herself with such limited options? she doesn’t even have her lion!

...of course, there are a few things that pique her interest. not evident upon her initial arrival; pidge had discovered quite a few oddities about the city─ or, rather, its citizens. a plethora of others seems to be stuck in a similar situation; being from another world, an all. it’s enough to have pidge’s curiosity raging, and the best place to start? .... maybe not the library, but it’s only of the only places she can legally access with history of the city. and so she finds herself browsing enormous shelves of books, captivated by the variety. distraction invades her original goal, surprise surprise, and she ends up browsing novels she’s yet to read. mostly on scientific theories─ some names she doesn’t recognize. 

.... and, just her luck, the book she desires is just a few shelves out of her reach. even on her toes with her arm outstretched, body practically plastered to the walls, she can’t seem to reach. cursed height impairment-!!! pidge considers climbing the shelves, but a stranger beats her to it─ a tall arm takes the book, much to her surprise. she looks over with a curious expression, nodding slowly as she accepts the offered book.

❝ oh! yeah, that’s it. thank you. ❞ she manages a small smile following her gratitude─ it’s a bit embarrassing to need help like that─ until her eyes befall the items in the stranger’s arms. normally, she’d dismiss the interaction and be on her way, but...

          her eyes widen in surprise as she receives an unexpected─ but GREATLY appreciated─ gift. and from her new friend, no less! with an equally wide smile, pidge gently takes the bouquet. awe settles upon her expression as she takes a few moments to take in their beauty. across the many planets- UNIVERSES- she’s traveled, she’s never seen anything quite like these. the aura she feels is much like when she connected with the nature with the olkarian. it’s comforting ; almost nostalgic. 

she holds the flowers close before looking up at chise with a wide smile. 

❝ thank you, chise! i love them! really, i do! this is awesome, you totally didn’t have to get me anything. but, really, thank you! ❞

@pidgii

          it’s her first venture out into town without her ever-present bonehead shadowing her. she’d left with a quick ‘ i’ll be back later! ‘ and a kiss to elias’ skull ( right between the eyes, his favourite ) while he’d been sitting enjoying a cup of morning tea and the paper, rushing out of the door and into the chilled morning air. she clutches her green jacket around her, hood pulled up over her mop of red hair to make sure her ears don’t freeze. she can feel elias’ gaze upon her as she makes her way down the sidewalk through their front window – she knows how worried he can be sometimes, and it isn’t like she had left empty-handed, either.           she had taken care to bring her wand along, and she keeps a few crystal flowers ( from the bear given to her from elias for christmas ) in her pocket, just in case. she tightens her grip on her wand as she steps into the thick of town, though it isn’t particularly busy this time of morning. most shops are open by now, and she can smell a strong mixture of baked goods, flowers, and fresh goods wafting through the morning breeze. she breaths it in and sighs, a small smile curling to her lips. she would enjoy this time on her own, even if it doesn’t end up being very long.           she has a list in mind – they needed groceries, badly, but she wants to take a bit of time to enjoy herself, maybe stop at a shop or two. she sets her sights on a coffee shop down the road a bit, and makes her way over —

          “oof — !!”

          she’s knocked onto her side by an unexpected force against her shoulder – thankfully, she did not fall onto her flowers, but they are now scattered across the sidewalk, some having shattered into smaller pieces. chise gets onto her knees and inspects the damage, trying to gather what she can back into her jacket. she’s not horribly saddened by it, but she isn’t sure if the fae will accept a broken piece of the crystal flower rather than the whole thing.           emerald orbs spy a girl, possibly even smaller than her in stature, a bit stunned from her own fall. she’d been a blur to chise, though it’s hard to tell who is really at fault here.            “ごめんなさい – i-i’m sorry, are you alright? i didn’t mean to get in your way—”

          after so long of intergalactic space travels and being a key part of the defenders of the universe, pidge discovers that life on her ( and not ever her own earth, on that matter! ) is rather... BORING. she’s got NO alien tech to fiddle with, her lion is missing, and there’s only so much reprogramming she can do with the limited electronics she has. things are better when her roommates around around, at least. unfortunately, both of said roommates work, leaving pidge to her own devices more often than she’d like. luckily, her 16th is coming soon, so maybe THEN she can find herself a job to occupy some time...

until then, she’s stuck finding things to do when bugging her roommates at work has become too boring. 

she takes to the streets, most of the time. learning everything she can about the city and whatever world they’ve been pulled into. at least then, she can maybe discover why she’s unable to contact her own world. UNIVERSE, for that matter. it concerns her that home is now left without voltron─ especially facing the inevitable war─ and pidge can’t help but worry about what they’ll do. find new paladins? take on the empire with their limited numbers? all the more reason to figure things own, sooner rather than later... 

caught up in her own thoughts, pidge doesn’t notice the stranger walking along the same pathway ( when did other people appear, anyway? ) until it’s too late. 

❝ ack─! ❞ she grunts as she stumbles backwards, nearly avoiding a fall. pidge adjusts her glasses, squinting to assess any damage done. she can’t even get out her own apology before the stranger utters her’s. pidge watches as the stranger gathers the fallen flowers, guilt trickling into her. she kneels down, smiling sheepishly as she helps as well.

❝ no, i should be sorry. i wasn’t paying attention. ❞ she admits, ❝ uh, are you alright? ❞ pidge asks, looking up from the flowers for a brief moment. it’s then her eyes catch an interesting object─ a wand, neatly secured within the strangers cloak. a strange aura emits, tipping off pidge that this isn’t some toy. her eyes widen as she leans forward, a widespread grin appearing across her expression.

@pidgii.

     a new place.      one so wildly different from where he once originally came, but at the same time not too different. the layout is similar to a famous italian city, but the location of said city lies to the east, supposedly nearby japan… chise’s place of origin.      with the sun having set an hour or two ago, elias took to the streets to do some investigating– hoping that most of the citizens had retired to their homes by then. exploring under the cover of darkness was easiest, bending the shadows to hide his form ( or hiding within the shadows in general, even ) from any passerby or peering eyes.      however, avoiding attention was difficult when the newly-acquired piece of technology within his pocket kept going off. a shrill-sounding tweet would fill the air, also combined with the phone buzzing away. unknowingly, the mage continued on his merry way, cloth-covered skull swinging  around sometimes so that he could get a better look at his surroundings. he took note of restaurants and other eateries ( places to take chise on… ‘ dates ‘, as she called them ) especially, but took care to pay attention to the flora found within the town– might be useful for his concoctions.       even as the phone starts to sing elias ignores it, that is until he pulls the thing out and glances at it, finger held uncertainly over the screen. someone, please help him.

          to the best of her knowledge, koi SHOULD be a city on earth. MAYBE. pidge has had her doubts─ given she’s FROM earth and has never heard of this place; nor can she make contact with anyone from her earth, either. she’s concluded that, somehow, this earth exists entirely separate from the earth she knows. currently lacking her high-tech equipment and the green lion, pidge can’t do much of anything to begin figuring this universe out. it’s frustrating, but she knows that, with time, she’ll figure something out. she always has!

but then an outlier makes an appearance, leading her to question everything she hypothesizes about this place. 

it’s a huge, humanoid-appearing figure with a skull for a head─ unlike any creature she’d seen before. her gaze lingers, eyes squinting as she adjusts her glasses and takes a few steps forward. they don’t appear to have noticed her, she thinks. they can’t be human. there’s something DIFFERENT about whatever they are, something pidge doesn’t quite recognize. 

the sound startles her away from her thoughts. her natural curiosity bears strongly as they seemingly ignore the phone’s call. she could simply walk away, move on with her night ( she’s out on a late walk─ aiming to meet a roommate at work for some free food ) as if nothing’s happened. but pidge is far too invested now. she’s determined to figure out who / what they are. 

          she’s been waiting so long for this. oh, so long. it was easy to wait for lance and keith to fall asleep before locking herself up in her room to begin her work: removing chocolate eggs from their wrappers only to re-wrap grapes instead ( all while storing the chocolate eggs in a bag for later, of course! ), placing them all in a big, easter-themed bowl. 

pidge makes sure to get up earlier than them and displays her completed work on the dining room table of their shared apartment, adorned with a small sign saying “HAPPY EASTER!”. 

@pidgii liked for a starter!

Lance scanned his eyes around the large furniture depot store- so many designs going from little kids rooms to for-rich-people-but-not-really in just one level of the store. Both Pidge and him were almost lost in the place. Didn’t help that they both were like kids left in a MacDonalds playground- a much larger MacDonalds playground but still a playground- assuming justice over every display mattress and couch cushion.

Ah no. there it was. Their distraction from what they truly were supposed to be doing.

“Yo Pidge! They have an electronic section!” He could feel his own face curl up into a devious smile.

 What stuff could they play with? what mischievous things could they ruin or- perhaps make better but also get them kicked out? who knows?

          the store’s size is rather impressive, she has to admit. in PALES in comparison to the space mall─ the most recent department store she’s been to─  but still totally awesome. she’s grateful for the chance to look around and spend some time with lance; despite their circumstances ( being brought back to an earth seemingly apart from literally ANY DIMENSION they were familiar with ), she’s kind of looking forward to exploring the store and collecting furniture for their new apartment. 

.....until her companion’s voice draws her attention up. she shivers in excitement, eyes wide as she turns to lance.

❝ seriously? coming─!! ❞ she doges through a few people to get to lance, skidding to a stop at his side. eyes widen as they befall the selection. she croons, leaning forward with her hands balled into excited fists. 

❝ there’s so much! i mean, it’s definitely not as impressive as the space mall, or alien tech at all on that matter, but for earth this is AWESOME! ❞ she’s already taking strides towards everything, completely forgetting about their goal to furnish the apartment.