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[r_a_m_1982]

Characters: Zelos and Ram
Location: Shopping District, Holocaust Mall
Rating: PG?
Time: December 7th, afternoon
Description:  Apparently wearing a form fitting white and blue suit is not fashionable this days, so it's time to buy new clothes.

Comments

sorry for the wait, I was finishing up some of Luke's tags

[cuzamybestbud]

Zelos spotted Ram, not that it was a difficult task, and sauntered up with his usual swagger. He smiled kindly to the program turned human as he approached.

"Hope I didn't keep you waiting on me." He said once he was close enough that he wouldn't have to shout at Ram over the ever present sound of people in the mall.

No rush bb~ I'm ever in a hurry ♥

[r_a_m_1982]

Ram smiled at him and shock his head.

"No, not really. I found ways to distract myself, don't worry."

He had taken off his helmet, it was something not necessary now that he wasn't fighting for his life. His hair was sandy blond and somewhat curly and now that he was human it looked lighter. Just like his eyes, that were a grayish on the Grid and now looked like a pale shade of blue.

"Is all this normal?" He gestured to the Christmas ornaments around them.

<3<3<3

[cuzamybestbud]

Zelos looked Ram over, eying the once programs hair and eyes especially, since he would need to take those into account for what colors would go well on him.

"This stuff? Sounds like it. In my world we don't really have these holidays, I mean we have some holidays but not the same ones, but from what I have seen and heard it seems pretty common." He looked around the decorations, some of the colors weren't far off of the ones that were used for the festival celebrating the Chosen.

のωの *smooches*

[r_a_m_1982]

He could add very pale skin to his list, the Grid never had a sun.

"The stuff and the music, yes. People seems happy too." So many colors in this new world. He never saw them so bright before ant it was fascinating. Ram opened to say something else, but he sneezed instead, and then his eyes widened nearly comically. "W..what..."

/)///(\ Oh no, not where otherrs can see bb~!

[cuzamybestbud]

Oh yes, pale skin was also on the list, as was some sun screen, since someone like Ram might burn even without the sun being to bright or hot.

"Goddess bless you." Zelos said after the sneeze, chuckling slightly at Ram's expression. "I'm guessing you don't sneeze back home either?"

(ﾟ∀ﾟ) /drags to a private place?

[r_a_m_1982]

That's probably the only thing he won't like about the sun. At least Rinzler goes around with his face covered while Ram does not.

"I..thanks?" he had no idea who God was or why he had to bless him, but it seemed appropriate. "Sneeze? No...what is it?A Glitch? It's a virus?" He sounded slightly panicked at that.

/goes along willingly >]

[cuzamybestbud]

"Well it is something your body does from time to time, though if you are doing it often, and coughing, you may be sick. You don't sound sick to me, so I don't think there is anything to be worried about." he explained. "Also, at least in my world, people say 'Goddess bless you' because it was though when you sneezed you could have died but the Goddess decided to let you continue living."

のωの yay~ loves on

[r_a_m_1982]

"Sick? You mean that there are really virus here as well? I don't feel like my programing is being messed with but my body feels really weird now that I'm not in the Grid."

Ram stares at the circuits in his hands and arms. They're still a healthy blue color instead of the infected yellow-green one from the infected programs. "I can die from sneezing!?"

/giggles and loves on back

[cuzamybestbud]

"I don't know if it being sick here is the same as your world. Being sick just means that you are not in good health and need to rest and be taken care of properly to recover." He explained.

"You can't really die from it." he said, with a soft, kind chuckle. "At least, I've never heard of that happening. It was just something people used to believe in my world, and even once they knew better the idea of saying that when someone sneezed was just there, so people still said it."

♥

[r_a_m_1982]

Just that? It doesn't sounds so bad, Ram could deal with that. "In my world it basically means that we are screwed. virus aren't easy to defend, and when a program gets infected it's nearly impossible to fix."

User don't die from virus, Ram shouldn't be surprised. This world was certainly amazing. "Ah, I understand."

[cuzamybestbud]

"In a world like this you aren't at the end of your line til you are actually dying." Zelos said, trying not to imagine a world like that, where there is almost no way to fix a problem. "So long as you are alive... there will be someone willing and trying to fix you, and a lot of the time they will be able to."

"So, should we get moving?" Zelos asked, hoping to redirect things and keep everything positive.

[r_a_m_1982]

He lets the wiords sink into his mind, really trying to believe a world like that. It must be true, he ponders, or Zelos wouldn't tell him that. And yet, that's hard to believe for someone that lived in a world where a small wound was a fatal one.

He nods, obediently, but says nothing else.

[cuzamybestbud]

Zelos noticed the sudden quite, since up until now Ram had always had some kind of question about something he had said. "Hey, are you alright? Is something bothering you?" He asked, his face showing his worry.

[r_a_m_1982]

Ram blinked quickly for a moment and then bowed his head.

"No, no it's okay. I was just thinking how different all this world is to me. In my world a strong hit is enough to destroy you...That's how I got derezzed, I got hit by a light tank when we where running away from the game grid."

[cuzamybestbud]

"Derezzed?" Zelos asked in a curious, though still worried voice. From what Ram had said it seemed to Zelos like it meant dying, but he wanted to make sure. "Do you mean you were dying, just before you came here?" The idea of Ram hiding something like that behind his smiles made Zelos feel a kind of kinship with the other, he himself hiding a less then pleasant past behind a smile.

[r_a_m_1982]

Another nod. "I died before I arrived here, but it took me a bit to derezz complete. My code got damaged and Flynn couldn't do anything to repair it." it wasn't quick, or painless, he remembers that very well. He doesn't want to bother Zelos with his problems, that was in the past even if the memory still hurt.

"But it's okay I..I am here now, after all." he gives him a weak smile.