Trooper Station | Saturday

[knife_bender]

Diego didn't know why there were cartoon birds flying around the station and Diego didn't care there were cartoon birds flying around the station. Sure, it had been funny to watch some of the troopers make asses of themselves by trying to catch said birds at first, but eventually he had enough of that nonsense and put his airpods in. (Yes, he had joined the 21st century.)

It was at least distracting enough that Diego wasn't tempted to throw a knife at one of the birds. That probably would have been a smidge too far.

[Pls hold for some weird weekend OCD Open]

Comments

Talk to Diego

[knife_bender]

You might have to wave to get his attention at first. Or be obnoxious enough that he caught you out of the corner of his eye.

Re: Talk to Diego

[chef_chocobro]

When Ignis entered the trooper station, dressed in fine livery and with a very decorative satin pillow with but a single glass shoe balanced carefully upon it, he had his reservations, but he had been assigned a very important task indeed, and would not leave any stone unturned.

His reservations only grew when he came in to see the place in a bit of chaos with all those birds, but it didn't take him long to locate a man not engaged with such...frivolity, and he focused his attention in and approached.

"Salutations," he greeted with a stiff bow, the pillow balanced perfectly still and unperturbed by the motion. "I know this may be a long shot, but..."

And he continued with a long explanatory preamble that would no doubt be missed because even if he knew what airpods were, he would not have realized that Diego might be wearing them.

Re: Talk to Diego

[knife_bender]

Diego paused ABBA for a moment and looked at what was clearly more nonsense.

"...what is your problem?"

Re: Talk to Diego

[chef_chocobro]

Ignis blinked for a moment, and then started over again, repeating what he'd just said in pretty much the exact same way.

"Salutations," he greeted, doing the bow again as well. "As I was saying, I know this may be a long shot, but are there any eligible maidens here? I have been tasked by Hos Royal Highness, Prince Noctis Caelum Lucis, of the kingdom of Lucis, to find the mysterious owner of this glass shoe, left abandoned at the Royal Ball. He wishes to make whomever the shoe fits his bride."

Re: Talk to Diego

[knife_bender]

"Last I checked there are no eligible maidens here," Diego said. "It's just me and the troopers and I can already tell you that my feet are too big for that shoe."

Re: Talk to Diego

[chef_chocobro]

"Hmmm." There was a narrowing of Ignis's eyes that might have almost suggested that he was considering possibly giving it a try, anyway, but he was rather expressly looking for a maiden, and, well...

"Yes," he decided. "I see. THen I shall not waste any more of your time and shall continue diligently on my search. But if you do happen across any eligible maidens, do let them know."

Re: Talk to Diego

[defenderofdesmoines]

Annie...did not look all that different today. Sure, she had swapped her usual uniform of jeans and a hoodie for a swishy, knee-length dress (because that and a ball gown were the only things in her closet this morning), and her hair was brushed and shiny and held back with a headband (because a chipmunk had styled her hair for her, of course), but otherwise...kind of almost normal Annie was making her way into the trooper station today.

Though maybe it was mildly surprising when the cartoon birds flew over and started chirping around her. And like, what could Annie do but lift a hand so one could perch on her finger and she could talk directly to it? "Oh, that's terrible," she assured the bird, after a series of tweets. "And then what happened?"

Re: Talk to Diego

[knife_bender]

Yeah, that was enough to get Diego's attention. "Uh, Annie?"

Re: Talk to Diego

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Oh, hello!" Annie trilled over at him, fluttering the fingertips of her free hand in a wave. "Did you know that these little birds are in distress?"

She leaned in towards the bird again as it cheeped at her, then tsked. "The big mean man in the armor tried to catch you, you say?" Oh, horrors.

Re: Talk to Diego

[knife_bender]

"To be fair, this is the troopers' territory," Diego said. "Nice dress."

Man was she going to be embarrassed on Monday.

Re: Talk to Diego

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Thank you!" The little bird lifted up off Annie's finger almost as if it knew she was going to twirl, because what could you do in response to a compliment about your dress except twirl so it fanned out?

And then once she was done twirling, a couple of the birds came over to settle her skirt for her with their beaks, another one helpfully replacing a lock of hair as it chirped at her that had come loose from her headband. "Yes, I agree, Pierre the Chipmunk did do a marvelous job with my hair this morning!"

Apparently the chipmunk hair stylist had had a name. 'Embarrassed' did not begin to touch how Annie was going to feel on Monday, honestly.

Re: Talk to Diego

[knife_bender]

Diego snorted. "Pierre the Chipmunk? That's amazing."

Re: Talk to Diego

[apocalypsehow]

First a boy shaped shadow appeared in the trooper station, followed by a boy shaped grumpy old man who looked absolutely livid about what was going on.

Also, he was in a weird, leaf covered tunic.

"What is happening here?" Five hissed.

The shadow mimicked his movements a few feet behind him. Because Disney.

Re: Talk to Diego

[knife_bender]

Diego burst out laughing. A lot. Just when you thought he was about to stop laughing he threw his head back and laughed some more.

Re: Talk to Diego

[apocalypsehow]

"Stop laughing you nincompoop," Five said, unable to use harsher language than that and just hating it even more.

Re: Talk to Diego

[knife_bender]

"What are you wearing?" And then he was laughing again.

Re: Talk to Diego

[apocalypsehow]

"I don't know. I woke up like this." #wokeuplikethis

Re: Talk to Diego

[knife_bender]

"It's an island thing," Diego said, lifting up his phone for no reason whatsoever. "Annie's got it too. I've never seen you look so adorable."

Re: Talk to Diego

[firstofitskind]

That Liam was stopping by the Station on a Saturday wasn't too unusual.

The pair of mice he had riding on his shoulders (dressed, it should be noted, in scraps of fabric, beads, and feathers) was slightly more unusual but also not entirely unheard of.

"Hey," he greeted Diego. "Have you, uh. Gotten any unusual calls today?"

Re: Talk to Diego

[knife_bender]

"Unusual calls? No," he said. "People stopping by out of their damn minds? Yes."

Re: Talk to Diego

[firstofitskind]

"When you say 'out of their minds...?'" Liam asked. Because he'd kind of gotten a feeling things were weird, as the day progressed, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

Re: Talk to Diego

[knife_bender]

"I mean my girlfriend came in here talking to birds," he said. "Not to mention the cartoon birds in the station."

Re: Talk to Diego

[firstofitskind]

Liam glanced up, and sure enough, there were the cartoon birds Diego had mentioned.

"No," he told the mice on his shoulders. "Don't even think about it."

"Think about what?" the mouse on his left shoulder said, blinking her little ink-drop eyes (you could tell she was a girl mouse because she had eyelashes).

"They look like they would make great friends!" Piped up the mouse on his right shoulder.

Yeah, there was absolutely something weird going on. For one, not enough capital letters in those sentences. And two? The mice were vicious little things typically, more inclined to kill and eat something like a bird than make friends with it.

Other Trooper Station Business

[knife_bender]

If you want to rifle through Danny's desk or something idk Diego won't stop you.

OOC

[knife_bender]