haruhi suzumiya → catch-all (season of budding)

[uncommonsense]

Who: Haruhi Suzumiya and her pals!
When: Season of Budding, throughout March and April.
Where: Around the kingdom, a prompt localized in the Forget-Me-Not barracks and another in the Greenhouse.
What: She's got herself a quest! A couple quests, although one's more personal than advisory. Also, ~the melancholy~
Warnings: Shouldn't be any. Will update if so.

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[goldship]

[ This? This is the kind of thing she misses about Spica and the Stego Clan. This easy closeness, mutual support, and readiness to do comedic violence on each other's behalf. (Welcome to The Squad I guess, Haruhi. )

She mirrors Yayoi's grin and pats her head, she even resists the urge to playfully tussle her hair! ]

Heh. You got that right Azukichin! When gals like us three get together there ain't anything or anyone that can slow us down.

[uncommonsense]

That's right! We're unstoppable!

[ a fun proclamation as they're standing around taking up space wearing clothes they haven't paid for yet. ]

[nightwild]

Right. We're-!

[. . .]

We should probably pay for these and ask for the modifications instead of standing around yelling.

1/

[goldship]

[ Oh that's... a good point actually. Golshi is... ]

2/

[goldship]

[ Still wearing something not made with an unamusume in mind. She uh...

It doesn't hurt though...? Huh.

Wait ]

3/

[goldship]

[ Crap. ]

4/4

[goldship]

[ She takes a very hesitant, shakey step towards the changing room she was using, wincing the second she lifts her leg, and stumbling off balance when she puts it down. ]

My tail went numb...

[ SIGH, ear droop. She proceeds to do the stumble of shame back to the room so she can change and free her tail. ]

[uncommonsense]

[ ...oh. right. ]

Uh... need help getting in, or...

[ she's watching and just kinda mutters to herself. ]

Jeez... that sounds like a huge pain in the ass.

[nightwild]

That can happen?

[... sorry gold ship. She's just... watching. She'd offer help, but Haruhi beat her to it!]

[goldship]

Y-yup, sure can. It's a limb like anythin' else on me and these pants ain't exactly loose....

[ Stumble, stumble. She waves off Haruhi, her ears twitching. She. heard. That. ]

M'fine, m'fine. Y'all worry about gettin' changed yourself, it'll take more than a lack of balance to take down Red Hot Golshi-YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAACK?!

[ She stumbles forward, trips over her own two feet, and hurtles ass over tea kettle into the door to the dressing room she was using, which of course swings open for her since it's not locked, and impacts the wall with a Thud.

The owner? Entirely unbothered, just glances up and goes back to their work. Golshi is a known quantity for much of Rosavelle at this point.

Gold Ship? Flat on her back, upside down, staring at the ceiling. There are little blue birds and stars floating above her head thanks to involuntary meramancy. ]

Owwww.....

[uncommonsense]

[ good grief. you're turning haruhi into kyon here, buddy. ]

Let's grab her.

[ you too, yayoi. gotta make sure she didn't break anything. ]

[nightwild]

Yeah...

[Yayoi waves her hands at the birds and stars, trying to shoo them off! And then. Grabs Gold Ship under the arm.

once haruhi has the other arm, just. helping hoist her back up!]

[goldship]

[ The birds and stars actually react! Flying off as Yayoi shoos them and... exploding into confetti. Why do all of Golshi's illusions have to do that???

Gold Ship herself winces but offers no resistance to her friends helping her up. ]

Dang. Never thought I'd get two cute girls in a dressing room at the same time. Golshi-sama's really got i-oooowwwww

[ She rubs at a spot on her forehead. It is bruised. She's going to have a bump there for the rest of the day, probably. ]

Ow, ow, oooow. [ and shes whining. Amazing. ] m'not sure if my head or my pride hurts more right now...

[uncommonsense]

Right right, lucky you.

[ she sighs, letting go and letting yayoi take on the rest of golshi's weight. ]

Once we get changed over, we'll find a place to take a break until the concussion passes.

[nightwild]

Yeah, let's get the tail out right away. Is your balance okay?

[thank god she's reined in her impulsiveness enough to not just tear gold ship's pants off to free her tail.]

[goldship]

Oi, oi. Umas don't get concussions. I'm just a little rocked is all.

[ She shakes her head and to her credit, doing that has her looking a lot more alert and focused. Enough so that with their combined efforts she's able to sit on the bench and start undying her shoes. ]

I'll be fine, girls. But thanks. [ She smiles. ] I really can depend on you two. It means a lot.

[uncommonsense]

Of course. What are friends for anyway?

[ alright, time to head on out of the dressing room then. ]

And... yeah. I'm hoping I can ask the same of you two.

[nightwild]

Of course you can. I'll help you out, always. You're my friends.

[She pauses.]

... But I don't think that's right. That umamusume can't get concussions. You're still human enough, right?

[goldship]

Hey, just cause you haven't been put in The Sack doesn't mean you're not in the gang, Haruhi. Of course we're gonna have your back.

[ As she talks she starts to take off the belt keeping the trousers up. This isn't even a teasing seduction thing, Gold Ship has rapidly stopped caring about modesty since January. Also, you know, she's used to changing and showering around other umamusume so...]

I mean, we're a lot sturdier than humans. Some gals have bone or muscle issues but... well I've never had a concussion, and I get knocked in the skull all the time!

[ She's built different. ]

[uncommonsense]

Wait, does that mean you put Yayoi in the sack?

[ ...she seems so straightforward that she'd have probably done some damage to gold ship! it's actually hard to imagine.

haruhi should avert her eyes, but. shrug? she's used to a girl's form... ]

That makes sense, considering you said a lot about potential leg issues. If that happened, it'd be hard to keep running, right?

[nightwild]

[Yeah, Yayoi doesn't care in this case. She'll be embarrassed later, but right now, she's WAY more focused on making sure Gold Ship's okay. Nothing is more important than the immediate health and survival.]

Yeah... It's probably just that you're tougher, not that you can't have one. After all, it's...

...

What is a concussion, anyway? I just know you can't focus right after a hit to the head.

[goldship]

Pfft, you kidding? Yoyo-chan woulda kicked me into orbit if I tried to Sack her. She gets to skip it.

[ All said fondly. And then Golshi is pulling the pants down and kicking them off, freeing her tail with a relieved sigh. ]

Goddesses, m'never tail-tucking that long again...

[ Muttered. Her underwear? Simple black panties, nothing fancy. She keeps things practical, usually.

She begins to undo the buttons of the suit jacket. ]

A concussion's a brain injury. Your head gets hit or shaken too hard and your brain bounces around in your skull. [ Gold Ship raps a fist on the top of her head to emphasize, careful of the bruised spot she earned. ] Gotta wait it out and let your brain heal. Never really seen an uma at Tracen get one though.

[ A pause as she shrugs off the jacket, just in a drss shirt now. She stares down at her legs thoughtfully. ]

S'like I've told Haruhi, leg injuries are more common for us. Some gals are just unlucky, ya know? End up taking an injury, or born with a condition that makes them suspectible to it. Most of umas won't let it slow em down though, that's part of why Trainers are so important.

[ She folds her hands behind her head and sighs, looking up at the ceiling. ]

We're fast, ya know, and that's... well, ya end up stumbling and falling while burning up the track at 70 kilometers an hour, average? It ain't pretty. [ She winces. ] Broken bones, open fractures, that's if you're lucky. The unlucky girls... they don't make it. Never seen a concussion, but I've read about more than one broken neck or split skull.

[ Yeesh... ]

Buuuut! That'll never happen to your pal Golshi. I'm Unsinkable after all!

[ Wow the energy does uh. Not match her dour expression. ]

[uncommonsense]

[ as she'd heard and figured. it was dangerous, sounded dangerous anyway. haruhi listens intently, folding her arms.

that last comment doesn't inspire confidence. in fact, there are a couple things in that long description that pings haruhi as something to keep in mind. ]

...you know, I'm only technically acting as a trainer for Taiki right now, but... I don't want you overdoing it either. The Titanic was unsinkable too, and that didn't matter in the end. So...

[ she shakes her head. ]

You don't have to slow down, just... be careful. Don't hurt yourself.

[nightwild]

Oh, yeah, I'd have destroyed the sack.

[She's listening, and... She understands, getting too into something. But...]

I agree. I want you to be safe, and okay, too, remember? Don't get hurt... and I want you to be happy, too.

[goldship]

Tch. Titanic doesn't have a dang thing on me!

[ Aaaaaaaand that's the dress shirt coming off and being nearly folded, leaving Gold Ship in just a sports bra and allowing her to flex her arms and show off the full range of muscle.

It's... actually gotten more defined since being here, a weight routine with a callous disregard for her own safety has that effect. ]

I'm Gold Ship. I'll out last any coal powered vessel. I run on pure umazing internal awesomeness!

[ She doesn't actually believe that. She knows shes grinding herself into nothing slowly and surely, knows shes spiraling... but there's as of now no stopping it. All she can do is stall it with her friends' support and pay them back for that by being Useful.

She's not bare for long. She retrieved the top she came in and starts to redress herself. ]

Ain't gonna lie to you two, slowing down or focusing on my own stuff? Ain't my style. [ She shrugs but smiles. ] But I'm working on it. Honest. Just bare with me a bit, kay?

[ GASP, honest semi-vulnerablity from Gold Ship! It's a miracle!!! ]