The Lawn Outside the Dorms, Tuesday Afternoon

[raspberryturk]

There was a very large black bird outside of the dorms today, looking a little bit proud and a little bit cranky as he stomped his way back and forth across the lawn, looking for all the world as though he wanted to go inside the building

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[inthereflexes]

Normally, Jack would be highly aware of his surroundings. Today? He was distracted. He didn't notice the giant chickenthing until the door closed behind him.

Oh.

Great.

[raspberryturk]

It was so very fortunate that Jack was possessive of opposable thumbs with which to open doors again, wasn't it?

Reno, for the most part, was perfectly content to just eat his cereal. If nobody bothered him, he wouldn't bother them either.

[inthereflexes]

Jack backed up to the door, trying to find the knob without looking at it.

Oh. There it was. Right in the kidney. Now...if he could turn the knob without being noticed...

[raspberryturk]

Mmmm, Lucky Charms. A little dry, but who was Reno to complain?

He tilted his head back to swallow, noticing who was in the doorway as he did so. And then he levelled a look on Jack that said quite clearly, 'if you come near me, I will claw out your spleen and then cover it in bird shit.'

Who knew chocobo could be so expressive?

[withoutverona]

Romeo was on a walk after class, genuinely cheerful for the first time in weeks.

At least, he was cheerful until he spotted the giant bird ... thing. It looked a bit like smaller bird ... things he'd seen before, but he failed to make that connection. Possibly because of the GIANT FREAKING BIRD.

It didn't seem to have noticed him; maybe he could sidle past it. Just in case, he picked up a rock and held it close to his body, ready to throw it at the bird if it attacked.

[raspberryturk]

Reno was just tilting his head back to swallow another mouthful of cereal when he noticed a certain someone walking by, holding a... rock?

Reno straightened up and tilted his head some at Romeo, letting loose with a mighty WARK that was intended to be a greeting, but possibly didn't come out so much as one.

Dammit.

[withoutverona]

Not so much, no. Romeo didn't speak chocobo. He tossed the rock hard, aiming for the bird's side.

"Foul creature, get thee gone."

Someday, Reno would kill him for this.

[raspberryturk]

Oh yes. He would kill him in his sleep.

Reno ruffled his feathers, hunkered down, and glowered at Romeo for that one, looking every bit the disgruntled best friend-turned-bird who had just had a large stone heaved at him.

And then, because this was Reno and he was going to have to get even somehow, he rushed at Romeo with the full intention of bowling him over onto the flat of his back and pinning him there.

[future_sandworm]

On his way to the town, Leto noticed a big, black bird on the lawn. He stopped, curious. It looked very much like the Chocobos that Reno had told him about, and he approached cautiously.

[raspberryturk]

Oh, hey! Familiar face!

Reno stood, watching Leto almost warily as he approached. The guy had wanted to learn about the birds. And this seemed a little easier than a trip to Gaia at the moment.

And so he gave his head a bit of a nod in greeting. Learning experiences all around couldn't hurt, right?

[future_sandworm]

The bird nodded at him. Leto was uncertain how to communicate with this animal, but he hoped that was a friendly gesture.

Slowly, he nodded back.

[raspberryturk]

Okay. There was talking happening. Kind of. Reno would view this as some sort of good sign, then. And then he'd take a seat on the ground. It was hard for a seven-foot tall chicken to look anything but imposing while standing up, after all.

And then, while he was sitting there, he warbled out a noise that was intended to sound like friendly conversation. But a parrot, he was not. So it was mostly just variants on the typical Chocobo phrases, "Wark, kweh," and "Roo-kii-roo."

Good job, Reno.

[hotceltogoth]

Ronan was on his way out to rehearsal when he saw... the giant black bird.

"Dai stihó," he ventured, greeting it in the Speech. He'd not yet come across a creature at Fandom that wouldn't speak it, as much as he constantly worried that he would. Sure, everything was supposed to understand it, but that didn't mean that everything from other universes would.

He continued, a long string of words that boiled down (roughly) to, "Be thou friend or foe?"

[raspberryturk]

There were attempts at communication that didn't involve running and hiding, or throwing of rocks. Reno would live with that.

And so he straightened up, looking down at Ronan in bemusement, and then he attempted to answer. Hopefully the guy spoke Chocobo?

"Kweh."

Student, yo.

[hotceltogoth]

"What, we're turning into giant turkeys now?" Ronan asked, vaguely disturbed. "That sucks."

[raspberryturk]

"Wark, kweeeh."

Chocobo. Class assignment.

Weren't chocobo sounds so very expressive?

[the_merriest]

It was like she had a homing beacon. Because no way could Rikku miss the enormous chocobo out on the lawn.

"Chocho!" she squeed, bouncing up to it. She had to have greens somewhere in her leg pouch. She had everything else in there, after all, right?

[raspberryturk]

Rikku! Reno couldn't think of any one person on the island he would be happier to see, just then. She knew what he was! She was Rikku! She was...

Digging for... greens?

"Kweh."

Reno was thrilled.

[the_merriest]

"Who's so pretty?" she cooed, reaching up to scritch under his chin. Awwwww, chocho. "Do you want some greens? Greeeeeeeeeeens? Who's such a pretty chocho out on the lawn?"

She hadn't realized they had black ones. Had Reno mentioned that? He must have. Blue, she remembered, and green.

Awwww. Why was there a chocho on the lawn, anyway?

[raspberryturk]

Dammit. It was difficult to be a proud, indignant beast when there were such pleasant under-the-chin scritchings going on. Reno half-shut his eyes and let out a pleased little warble without thinking too hard on the matter.

He was a pretty chocho out on the lawn. Oooh, yes he waaaaaas. Hiiiii.