applebough | pc w/ sidon

Ah... Hello, Sidon.

[ Yuri smiles a little and ohhh man, he's still tall as ever. ]

Is the ocean like your home? Or territory?

[ They're different things. ]

[ one day he shows up and he's just human-sized to jumpscare everybody

he nods, smiling out into the waves, a sort of peace there. ]

A bit of both, I suppose? I don't live within the ocean, but I do consider it part of my home and domain.

[ he's never really thought of them as separate things. ]

Are those different concepts to you?

[ She would think someone would be trying to impersonate him... jumpscare, indeed. But in response to the question, she nods. ]

A territory is much easier to define, because someone else will agree with the boundaries you set and it's something that's coveted. However, a home is something you decide yourself and only has sentimental value for you, and I think it's difficult for some people to choose a place from the lack of options, if any at all.

[ gloomy... Sidon sure can feel that. ]

[ a cloud of gloom at the beach... it catches him off-guard, contagious before his feelings level back out, sympathetic in a moment of mellow emotion, soft and wistful but not quite sad. ]

I see... Our territory reaches from the great spring, to mountains, and to the ocean beyond. My home...

[ he thinks on it for a moment. ]

Do you believe a home defined by a place?

Isn't it?

[ Yuri doesn't seem aware of the sentimental home quote. ]

It's a welcoming place that you can return to.

That is true.

But a place is an empty shell. Home, to me, is amongst my people—my family. [ his thoughts are with someone else right now. ] I should hope, even if a place is lost, that anyone can find a home wherever there is someone to welcome them.

[ She seems to consider that for a moment, but the gloominess doesn't stop. ]

What if you don't have any of those?

[ he thinks on it seriously, not matching her gloom but with feelings that are less tempestuously energetic than usual. ]

You share a world with some of the people here, no? Are you not close?

Oh, I... worked with them as a hired help. They're good people. I admire them for what they can do and dealt with. I just feel that it isn't meant to be, despite all that. We... go on our separate ways.

[ aww, yuri. ]

I see. [ he studies the water a moment. ] My own dearest friend is someone who will continue on in his own adventure. But even if we weren't to see each other for some time, even forever—he can always have a place at my side.

You can still treasure someone quite a lot, even after you've parted. [ home doesn't have to be a single place, a single person. ]

Is your "home" with that friend as well?

[ Talking about friends like that... her gaze is downcast at the encroaching ocean water. Feels like the emotion of missing someone. ]

[ missing someone... there is a beat of sympathy, of something, but it's also followed by a BIG wave of fondness, a very open and unmitigated affection that crashes in like the tide. ]

Oh—it could be! I do feel at ease in his presence. Like everything will work out. That is a homey thing, isn't it!?

[ he seems delighted to realize this. but then he looks from the sea to her, raising a hand to his heart. ]

It seems as though you have someone you care for as well.

[ Oh... Sidon is so wholesome. Yuri feels like gloomy incarnate next to him, but she hopes that some of that energy will rub off on her. ]

Yes, I did... she was very nice to me, cheerful, and a little eccentric. She was my good friend for a while.

... I miss her.

[ his feelings are hopefully bright and warm enough to be of some comfort—it's almost instinct, a call and answer to the darker shroud around her. there's nothing really wrong with the quieter, sadder range of emotion, but it's hard for anyone to bear constantly on their own. ]

Is that so? She sounds wonderful.

[ the sort of presence you could bundle into and build a nest out of—a home. ]

Does this place remind you of her?

[ She looks up at Sidon and smiles a little. He is very successful with helping the mood. ]

It feels refreshing here, and she was like a breath of fresh air.

[ he grins back, sharp-toothed. sorry that all the vibes are going to go off a cliff now, but for this pc it's all good. ]

Then even if she isn't here, I'm glad you have the sea.

[ he doesn't know the circumstances of what keeps them apart—death or distance or otherwise—but still. ]

Have you been speaking with the people among the ship? There's quite a lot of decent folk here as well. [ cheerful, nice, eccentric, etc. ]

Yes. They're kind... I didn't expect so many people to be so nice here.

[ Like. Really surprising. Her bar is in hell with Dahut, Luke, and Scien now. ]

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