bamfing: (Oh really?)
Kurt Wagner (Nightcrawler) ([personal profile] bamfing) wrote2012-02-04 03:20 pm

Zweiundzwanzig - [Action/Voice]

[When Kurt steps out of the tunnel today, he's relieved. It's kind of like being back home, if home was a place where you were at the mercy of scientists and bureaucrats and the subject of weird experiments. But it's got friends and family, so he's still relieved to be here. Not to mention having a sky over him again. It's kind of refreshing to actually be chilly! Although a little sore from two weeks of teleporting, he's content to make his way back home.

... where he'll find out Jubilee is gone. Not to mention that Melanie is still away. It's kind of a bummer on both count. But he keeps his chin high and remembers that he still has friends. Jubilee went back to the X-Men she belongs with, he's with the X-Men he belongs with, and he'll be ready the moment Melanie comes back.

After spending some time getting settled back into the X-House again, he goes out for the evening, looking for some fun to stimulate a Kurt who spent two weeks of fighting and boredom (and people staring at him like a freak). Good Spirits, Cloud Nine, and the Rec Center are all stops this evening for him. A successful mission completed deserves a little celebration, after all.

At some point, he pops open his journal to ask something he's been thinking about. From what he knows of Kotetsu and Pao-Lin's world, it almost seems to have 'mutants' like him. But unlike his world, they seem to have a better lot than mutants in his world do. After two weeks of being stared at like a freak, his own mutation is pretty heavy on his mind. Maybe other worlds are like this too?]


So a lot of us have powers, yeah? How many people were born with them... but only by accident? I don't mean like some kind of magical powers, but something totally random.

And... what do the people of your world think of that?
alabastajewel: (at peace)

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[personal profile] alabastajewel 2012-03-09 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, of course. [She cups her hands loosely around her mug, letting the warmth soak into her fingers, and tries to decide how to start. Since Kurt's not from her world, it's probably best to cover the basics first?]

I've told you we're a desert kingdom, haven't I? And a summer island on the Grand Line, so it's hot all year round. [She pauses, smiling fondly.] But we're also known as "The Land of Oases."
alabastajewel: (serene)

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[personal profile] alabastajewel 2012-03-11 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[She smiles at the joke before taking a sip of hot chocolate.]

Rather large, actually. [Compared to most islands in her world, anyway.] There are about ten million people living in Alabasta--mostly in the larger cities, though there are a lot of smaller villages, too. Generally, where there's a water source, you'll find people.

[With her fingertip, she traces a rough outline of the island on the tabletop, then bisects it right down the middle.] The Sandora River cuts through the center of the country, so you'll find a lot of settlements and farms on either bank.
alabastajewel: (sheepish)

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[personal profile] alabastajewel 2012-03-13 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not really in charge of anything. [Yet.] I've been helping to oversee the rebuilding measures, and I've done a lot of traveling around the country to speak to the people after the rebellion was quelled, but my father is the one who rules.
alabastajewel: (hesitant)

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[personal profile] alabastajewel 2012-03-15 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Well... Yes. One day. [Hopefully a day that's still quite a long way off.]

...what about your island, Kurt-san? What's it like? [Subject change? What subject change?]
alabastajewel: (lean)

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[personal profile] alabastajewel 2012-03-15 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh. Continents, right. Other places have more of those.]

There's only one continent where I come from--the Red Line. The rest is all islands.

Your continent, then; it's called New York?
alabastajewel: (listening)

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[personal profile] alabastajewel 2012-03-15 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah. That's what she gets for assuming. It makes sense, though; a larger land mass being divided up into more sections like that.]

What's your city, then?
alabastajewel: (serene)

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[personal profile] alabastajewel 2012-03-24 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice and straightforward. What's it like there?