#aevum starter

「𝔟𝔞𝔫𝔤 𝔟𝔞𝔫𝔤!」- Vash was rocked back and forth as he took the last bus home from the errands he'd run after work.

The weather hadn't been kind to his body, and truthfully, Vash couldn't wait until it was summer again. In the winter, those little aches and pains seemed just a bit worse, rather less bearable than usual. It was strange how the changes of weather did that to him - the snow, the rain, they both made him ache in ways he had long learned to block out.

His right hand idly rubbed his left bicep through the thick coat material. It ached around his prosthetic, even with the insulated coat he'd picked out. - It ached at his chest where the metal grate sat above his heart, and at the plate of metal on the back of his shoulder, around the screws that littered his body ... Everything ached, actually, the more he thought about it.

Around bits of metal and scars alike. Everything hurt from the chill.

Vash leaned back on his seat, long legs stretching out in front of him, the back of his head bumping into the glass behind him.

Hello hello everyone! Bread here and thank you for such a warm welcome!

you can find him:

YULE LOG HUNTING (he WILL get chased by dire wolves so...)

KRYSTAL HUNT

STRAWBERRY HARVEST

STARLIGHT SOIREE (the museum, while sometimes boring, has those STORIES and that's interesting-- and he MIIIIGHT be able to be conned into ice skating and we are getting some eggnog)

anyway should we go look for scary legends and get gifted with coal instead miraculously...?

「𝔟𝔞𝔫𝔤 𝔟𝔞𝔫𝔤!」- Blue eyes searched frantically around the street. His coat was heavy on his body. He was huffing and puffing.

Where was she? Where was she?! Blue's wavered every which way, a sheen of sweat over his face.

His gaze dropped low. She was so tiny... So young and small...

There! There...

The small child, dressed in her oversized green scrubs, looked back at him with wide blue eyes. She turned to weave her way through the crowd of people so much larger than her.

Vash bumped shoulders as he ran to keep up. His chest hurt. His breath hurt. Everything ached. Yet he couldn't seem to catch up to the girl - it was like all those years ago when her apparent spirit had guided himself and Knives to...

Then he blinked and there was suddenly the retreating back of another figure, one he knew well. Long black hair, a white t-shirt even in the cold of winter. Following the girl close to her side. - Rem. Rem! Rem?!!

His eyes started to burn. It made his blood boil, made him want to wail --

"TESLA! REM?!"

He blinked, trying to clear his vision. But slowly he stopped running and started trembling with hand slightly outstretched, an action he hardly even recalled taking. Stood in the middle of the street, in the midst of the bustling Clearview District -- They weren't there. She wasn't there.

「𝔟𝔞𝔫𝔤 𝔟𝔞𝔫𝔤!」- Vash sat atop the roof of a building, one leg hanging over the edge and the other tucked up so that he could rest an arm on it. He hadn't yet gone back to his home for the day, instead taking to looking out over the bizarre cityscape that he had found himself in.

This place was different from anything he had ever known. It was even different from the rapidly transforming land of No Man's Land. It was enough to boggle the mind and all of it set Vash just a bit on edge. He could hardly imagine No Man's Land becoming a place like this even with the relative interference of the Federal Forces and all of their aid.

So high up, the lights of the city hardly reached him, the occasional streak glinting off of tinted glasses. There was only the bright moonlight to back him and although it was quite cold out, he didn't quite feel it in the way that he thought he would. Though perhaps that was due to the way he was currently lost in thought.