The Beach, Late Thursday Afternoon

[okteiviakom]

Perhaps Octavia ought to have brought something other than her sword to the beach today. She was aware that people sometimes sparred with weapons made of wood, or ones that were otherwise made less harmful. But Octavia had never owned anything like that. And even if she had, there wasn't a chance in Hell that the island would've actually let her bring it with her.

Also she wasn't all that interested in things that weren't harmful, anyway.

So she was standing on the beach with her sword in its scabbard at her back, looking out towards the water while she waited for Magnus to show up. Time to see who could knock who off their feet.

[ooc: O is primarily here for the one mentioned, but feel free to catch her before he arrives! Otherwise, open place in town is open.]

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[magnusrushesin]

He had some pretty ballin' strength stats, so he felt pretty confident about his chances.

"Hey, Octavia!"

[okteiviakom]

Octavia had a kind of reckless stubborness going for her? That was about it. But it'd gotten her pretty far in the past, at least.

"Hey, Magnus." Her greeting was lacking in cheer, shockingly. "So you actually showed up, huh?"

Okay, there was some humor in that, if you listened for it. Dry and faint, but there.

[magnusrushesin]

"I even brought Starbucks!" He held one out to her to take. It was a frappuccino and so, so sweet.

[okteiviakom]

Octavia took it, but she looked mildly suspicious. "Starbucks?"

Please, as if that was something she was familiar with. It was another rant waiting to happen.

[magnusrushesin]

"They're super good," he promised. "I get them for Taako all the time."

[okteiviakom]

"'Starbucks' sounds like money."

And judging by her tone, money was the devil. Or at least a thing she wasn't particularly fond of. Still, she took a careful sip.

[magnusrushesin]

"I know, man. Fuck capitalism!" He said it so cheerfully.

[okteiviakom]

One day, Octavia was going to learn what that meant and then say that same phrase with a lot less cheer.

But today, she was going to sip her coffee and just decide not to ask. That, anyway. "How are you so happy all the time?"

[magnusrushesin]

Hell yeah!

"Well, I'm not always happy, but when I can pick, I want to pick happiness."

[okteiviakom]

"And when can you pick?"

It seemed like the most logical question.

[magnusrushesin]

"Well," he started, scratching at his beard. "When I think about what Julia woulda wanted me to do. If I went all brooding Zack Snyder, she would never let me live it down once I died."

So, really, he did it to avoid the embarrassment.

"Plus, I gotta balance out Taako and Merle most of the time."

[okteiviakom]

Octavia wanted to ask about Julia.

But she wasn't going to, not right now. She could figure out enough from the context. Instead, she asked, "And Taako and Merle are...? Your friends?"

[magnusrushesin]

"Yep! But Taako might say otherwise, but that's just because he's got trust issues."

Well, he did. He really did.

[okteiviakom]

Octavia took a long, loong sip from her coffee at that bit.

"Well, that could be smart of him."

Not in relation to Magnus, probably, but just in general.

[magnusrushesin]

"Yeah, but he's still my buddy." Grudgingly.

[okteiviakom]

"It doesn't sound like he has much of a choice."

[magnusrushesin]

"Nope!" He rolled nat 20s in friendship so Taako was shit out of luck.

[okteiviakom]

Octavia rolled her eyes. Friendship was a pretty novel concept for her, just in general, and she had a few reasons to be cynical about it.

"So, are we going to fight or not?"

[magnusrushesin]

"Yep! Want me to fight with the ax, the sword, the spear, the rapier, or some good ol' fisticuffs?" A beat. "You get to keep your sword either way."

[okteiviakom]

Octavia sort of squinted at that a little, like she took offense to the idea that she'd want - need - her sword for even that last one. But she didn't say anything, which was probably for the best.

"Sword against sword," she said, instead.

Even though hers was most closely related to a repurposed machete rather than anything he was likely to have in his arsenal.

[magnusrushesin]

He had magic gloves! Magic fighting gloves!

"Cool!" he said brightly, removing the other items from his inventory to set to the side. That included the shield because it was only fair.

[okteiviakom]

Sure, it was fair.

But Octavia was a little more preoccupied with how she was fairly certain that what he set aside seemed to maybe be more than he should've been carrying.

She was tilting her head, for sure.

[magnusrushesin]

At least he hadn't brought his robot arm collection? "Hey, do you have armor?"

[okteiviakom]

Octavia gestured to her clothes. She was wearing her leathers, though the jacket was currently hanging open, revealing a wholly unremarkable (and probably stolen from Bellamy) t-shirt underneath.

"Just this."

But it had served her well in the past.

[magnusrushesin]

Magnus hemmed and hawed for a moment before tugging off the festher-weight cuirass so they'd be even. "Alright, let's go!"