#ft. aerith

      With all the injured people due the explosion, Robin was quickly set on his feet as soon as he showed signs of a good recuperation, but his mother was also quick to send his son into the medic wing of the League’s headquarters to get sure that he was alright ( and to run some tests and find out why he wasn’t as hurt as the others ). Calm reached him upon receiving the first texts of his friends, informing him of their good status and in case of Madi, a picture of her at her hospital bed with the caption ‘ I lived, bitch ’, yes, everything was alright for a second, he was even going to allow himself some sleep when…

          [ text received ]: Does anybody know anything about Aerith?

His heart skips a beat at the sudden realization that NO ONE knew a thing about their alien friend and so, he pushes the blankets aside and begs his mother to let him go out, to which she agrees under certain conditions he doesn’t mean to keep.

Robin considers a reunification would take too long and maybe they don’t have that time. What if Aerith hasn’t woken up? What if the government decided to take her in for being an alien? What if the effects of the explosion caused a different consequence for her?    What if she is…?   NO. He refuses to think the worst and rushes to the hospital.

Once there, in front of her door, he knocks softly and peeks into the room carefully, immediately noticing her golden eyes sparkling like a cat’s. Robin makes his way in, closing the door behind him very quietly and then approaching just a little.

“ Uhm… hey… how are you feeling? ”, he asks, even though the burns over her skin and her weak appearance speaks for her. Idiot, how did you expect her to be if she is not even answering her phone? “ I’m sorry for coming without any announcement, I was—- WE WERE very worried about you, so… ”, and he gifts her a sad smile and a little shrug. Her condition makes him feel GUILTY. He doesn’t what he could have done to help her and the rest of the guests… but he still feels bad about it. The boy was going to apologize about his stupid question, inform that the others would be happy to know she is awake and that he would leave now…

                              THEN SHE HELD HER HAND OUT FOR HIM TO TAKE IT.

“...oh, you mean Aerith! Yeah, she’s from... afar. Russia. Yeah, she’s from Russia and was home schooled and she grew up in a very VERY restricting household so that’s why she doesn’t know a lot of stuff, but she’s really cool. I just happened to meet her when she just arrived to the city so we became very good friends immediately, we even have sleepovers on weekends; no, ACTUAL sleepovers, we watch movies and talk about how stuff works in Crystalline City. Her pink skin? She’s a super, obviously, but she’s also quite interested in space, you could almost say she’s from another galaxy; she’s amazing overall”.

▼ What is their greatest fear?

Aside of the ‘losing the ones he loves’ cliche?? Losing his powers. His mom is super amazing without powers and his dad is quite a villain icon so he feels like he has to use his most significant traits to stand out aka his brains and his powers, BUT he also thinks that without his powers he would simply be an annoying nerd 0% interesting. Summary: he thinks his powers give him worth and losing them would mean losing himself. Someone please block his powers for a day or two or more and let’s see him freak out and throw himself to the bed crying Disney princess style.

☾ What is their favorite and least favorite thing about the night?

Favorite: SILENCE. He can finally work without distractions. He also has late night calls with Aerith whenever he’s stuck or just too tired to continue.

Least favorite: When it becomes to cold that his fingers become too cold and he cannot write or type properly. Also, when it ends. He can get obsessed over a project and before he knows it, it is already morning and he has to get ready to start the day and he is too tired for that.

★ Do they have a favorite scary movie? Book? Show?

Slashers; Scream and Halloween are into his favorites, but also anything related with supernatural horror, but only a couple of days a week, otherwise he can get too much in the mood and get rather broody... or it can give him ideas. Book related, once he accidentally borrowed a Lovecraft one from the library because he thought it was a lighter story (he was around 12) AND IT WAS SUCH A SHOCK WHEN HE READ IT, so it stuck with him and continued reading Lovecraft afterwards. Show related, he was trash for the Scream tv series and is still super angsty that it was cancelled, but he also loves some feelsy things like Hill House or The OA even though the last one is not scary at all.

◯ Do they believe in ghosts?

He hasn’t had any paranormal experience, but he doesn’t really think much about it; he doesn’t deny his existence, but isn’t chasing after them neither; specially with so many different powers, it would be hard to differentiate what’s a ghost and what’s a superpower.

웃 Do they believe in aliens?

Q. RELATIONSHIP STATUS AS OF RIGHT NOW.

“ Single. Relationships are a no-no, don’t do them ”.

E. MY BEST FRIEND.