[ The fish don't seem to notice them at all. Even when they get close, they just swim around the two of them with as little care as they'd swim around a piece of rock. It's incredibly peaceful, isn't it? ]
But one of the first things I saw when I got here was the fish tank in the Lounge, and I couldn't stop staring at it! Really, [ he adds as a winking aside ] I wanted to climb inside! So I made this giant fish tank that I could climb into!
[ Vash nods to Ekko's first question -- yup, every square foot! At least, everywhere he'd been, and he'd walked that world for more than a century. It's possible that there were pockets here and there of foliage and water, but if they did exist, they were well hidden. ]
And they're friendly, too!
[ With a kick Vash bounces up into the water (where far, far above there's a gleam of a distant sun. It's high noon, wherever they are, but there's enough water between them and the surface that the light is diffused and soft. It's a gentle, calming place, and it's that way by intent. ]
I didn't want them to be scared of me, and I didn't really want me to be scared of them either, see?
[ Gravity is merely a suggestion in here, apparently, as Vash is able to drift up a few feet and then stop, reaching out to run his hand alongside a tremendous (and silly looking) fish, petting the car-sized sunfish as it drifts by. It doesn't seem to take any notice of him. ]
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Date: 2025-10-23 06:07 pm (UTC)Apparently literally, it would seem.]
Woah...
[Wildlife was pretty limited as it was in the Undercity. This? This is unlike anything he'd seen before.]
Is this all from your world?
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Date: 2025-10-23 06:18 pm (UTC)No, my world's a desert.
[ The fish don't seem to notice them at all. Even when they get close, they just swim around the two of them with as little care as they'd swim around a piece of rock. It's incredibly peaceful, isn't it? ]
But one of the first things I saw when I got here was the fish tank in the Lounge, and I couldn't stop staring at it! Really, [ he adds as a winking aside ] I wanted to climb inside! So I made this giant fish tank that I could climb into!
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Date: 2025-10-23 06:34 pm (UTC)[He wonders if something happened to it, but he doesn't want to pry. That seems like it could be a touchy topic.
Instead, he drifts around, gaze flitting slowly, appreciating each detail there was to take in.]
I can't blame you there. [Quiet, in awe.] This is... unlike anything I've ever known.
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Date: 2025-10-23 06:54 pm (UTC)And they're friendly, too!
[ With a kick Vash bounces up into the water (where far, far above there's a gleam of a distant sun. It's high noon, wherever they are, but there's enough water between them and the surface that the light is diffused and soft. It's a gentle, calming place, and it's that way by intent. ]
I didn't want them to be scared of me, and I didn't really want me to be scared of them either, see?
[ Gravity is merely a suggestion in here, apparently, as Vash is able to drift up a few feet and then stop, reaching out to run his hand alongside a tremendous (and silly looking) fish, petting the car-sized sunfish as it drifts by. It doesn't seem to take any notice of him. ]
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Date: 2025-11-05 06:55 am (UTC)His hand comes up to greet an especially friendly pufferfish, and he gives a little giggle as it floats right in place as he pets it.]
You like that?
[As he looks at it, he responds to Vash.]
We have bodies water, but it's so polluted that nothing stays in it for too long. I never knew water could be so...
Full of life.