[Open] Moondance

[be_my_servant]

Who: Everyone welcome!
What: The full moon is out on the planet! Out enjoying a nightly stroll? Have an affinity with the moon? Passing by? Go build CR!
When: Tonight
Where: Down on the planet, in an open space between cities.
Warnings: ...None? Crazies?

Comments

[curiousgenius]

[She's grateful that they can go to the planet so often, the Thor isn't bad, but she would go crazy if she had to stay there the whole time. Still, normally at night she would stay there. Normally.

A full moon isn't a normal night. It has been ages since she was able to look at the moon, specially a full moon without feeling fear. Without having to worry about if Goku or Gohan would see it, about if they would turn into monsters or not. Vegeta is there but he has no tail anymore so it's okay, right? This is a harmless moon, one she can observe without having it exploding in pieces suddenly like that night years ago. No one knew what happened, but it wasn't the first time it happened and Bulma could easily guess that it had been related to Gohan. What other reason would there be for the moon to be destroyed without anything else happening to the Earth

[onabluemoon]

[No, a full moon most certainly isn't normal. It's a rare thing, and even given that he's used to crossing into new worlds it seems that fewer worlds here have moons than he'd like. Finding a full one, is something of miracle, then.

It's really only the last dregs of curiosity that get him coming out to where she is, quiet but for the sound of footfalls.]

[curiousgenius]

[Curiosity is a very basic instinct after all and one that can drive one really far if they let it take control of the ride. Bulma's curious too, even if the moon isn't unlike the one she remembers from Earth, her mind drifts and she comes to wonder how it was in Vegeta's planet. How it is possible for it to transform a human-sized being into a primitive monster.

No matter how much she stares at it, trying to not to blink, just as she saw Goku doing before he became a monster, it stirs nothing in her. No power, no magic, just endless curiosity and maybe a bit of loneliness on being admiring such a beautiful sight alone. But she's mostly curious.

And it's curiosity again what makes her turn her head upon noticing the footfalls.]

[onabluemoon]

[The blue hair probably isn't out of the ordinary for her. But there's something strange about him all the same. It might be his coat, or maybe just something inherent to what he is. A reflection of the world not having a proper category to stick him.

Or it might be the way the moon is almost reflected in his eyes, makes him look more than a little feral.]

[curiousgenius]

[Certainly the Earth she's from is one where DNA combination is far richer in variety than in other ones. What for other worlds would be an unusual hair color is as common for her as people having two eyes -with honorable exceptions like Tien Shinhan-. The coat is something that could be criticized regarding how little fashionable it is and argued over how there are other coats that would do the same job and be a far better match for his form and features

[onabluemoon]

Yes. It is.

[He could hardly answer any other way, with the moon singing to him as it is. And for now, he's willing to hold what it awakens in him in check. It's a fragile thing, but the night is young and he's still newly arrived. He can afford to wait a little.]

[curiousgenius]

[Well, he can talk. And has yet to jump at her or do anything dangerous. Those things are a plus, really, from experience and what she has heard most of the dangerous people tend to not waste time with making themselves obviously dangerous. Though she has seen a few that were deceiving too.]

It has been so long since I saw a full moon like this! Makes me wish this night wouldn't end.

[Her attention returns to the moon, but not as fully as before, she's still aware of the other presence.]

[onabluemoon]

[He won't deny it's tempting, with the moon egging him on. But for now, he'll leave it to settle as a sort of feral edge to everything he does. Tonight he'll let the moon show him the world in another light.]

A world with no light, then? Is that what you wish for?

[curiousgenius]

That's a bit extreme, isn't it? And there's light, the moon reflects it, and the stars, it would be different if it was a new moon rather than a full one.

[onabluemoon]

The stars afford little light. Certainly not enough to call true light.

[curiousgenius]

That's true, but it's still enough to not be called plain darkness either.

[onabluemoon]

They are mere pinpricks of light. No more.

[curiousgenius]

So picky. But sometimes just this is enough, constant brilliant light the whole time would end burning. And we can't stare at the sky for long in the sun's direction when it's there.

[onabluemoon]

[It probably comes from living where he does, not that he's about to address that comment in the first place.]

What reason would one have to stare at the sun in the first place?

[curiousgenius]

What reason do we have to stare at the moon?

[The returned question comes with a smile.]

It's probably just me, but I like to look up at the sky and see the moon and the stars, or even the sun. See that there's more to life than just what we have on hand even if I never reach for that.

[onabluemoon]

For answers.

[What, it's the reason he looks to the moon most often.]