OPEN RP POST

[sparklemagpie.livejournal.com]

The sun in shining!

The waves are crashing!
The seagulls are taking your hotdogs like the cocky b*tches they are!



IT'S BEACH PARTY TIME!

There's volleyball, fire pits, surfing and sandcastles!

GO HAVE FUN ON YOUR SHORE LEAVE MEATSHIP DENZIENS! STACY LOVES YOU EXTRA TODAY!

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[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

On the beach appears a beacon of shining light there to guide ships to shore. Oh, no, that's just the sun reflecting off of Slobo's gray/white skin. He stands calmly, staring into the waves. Probably trying to remember if he can swim.

[got-a-bad-habit.livejournal.com]

"Hey. Mind moving off my beer?"

Rose arched a brow and gave a single eye'd stare down to the booted feet which stood above her sand covered six pack.

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

Actually, Rose, Slo's in swimtrunks. He didn't want to get sand in his boots.

He looked down at the six pack, grabbed one, and placed the rest next to her as he popped the top.

"Thanks fer offerin'." He said with a wry smile as he took a gulp.

[got-a-bad-habit.livejournal.com]

Ohhh someone has balls. Taking Rose's beer? Ok, so she liked that in a guy, she let him off easy this time, snagging the rest of her brews and popping one open for her own gulp, and reaching for a cig.

"You always take before asking?"

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"Yep. Easier ta ask forgiveness than permission." Another swig triggered a Lobo memory, cold brew on warm beaches, a general pleasant feeling. "Ya always bring things without havin' enough ta share with the class?" He grinned back at her.

[got-a-bad-habit.livejournal.com]

"Let's just say I'm not the type who plays well with others so it's usually not a problem."

She tipped the beer back and gulped down half of it in a long swallow. Sitting down on the sand and leaning back on her elbows. Eying the pale guy with that lone sparkling blue eye.

"You need sunblock?"

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"Nah, I don't think I got melanin in my skin to begin with." He shrugged. "So, not the type that plays well with others? Me neither. Least you ain't got some high-and-mighty-amazon-wannabe-bimbo or annoying-kow-it-all-in-red-tights tellin' ya that that's wrong." Do not blame him, Lord, he does not know the furious vengeance he is unleashing upon the world.

and profanity ensues

[got-a-bad-habit.livejournal.com]

"Lucky you."

She smiled broadly as he seemed to share her sentiments, a smile that turned quickly to a frown, and that to something less socially acceptable.

"Who the fuck are you?" She hurled the half empty beer at him. "I don't need another fucking lecture from the morality squad ok? I do just fine on m y own so you can just job on back to Cassie and Conner and play happy fucking family with them. Because I don't need their approval. I don't need anyone's."

Re: and profanity ensues

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

Slobo caught the beer and offered it back calmly.

"Chill, lady. Me and Kon were tight, but I ain't blondie's biggest fan ever, and I ain't got no sense o' morality. Didn't realize you had run-ins with Birdboy or Amazon Barbie. That's the reaction they get a lot." He takes another swig from his own beer, while still offering hers back. "They got on my bad side because they disagreed with my hobbies. Break ONE guy outta death row fer a friend and yer the BADGUY." He shook his head.

"Seriously, I ain't against ya. And yer beer is gettin' warm."

[worm-dancer.livejournal.com]

Sheeana is not really all that much better off. She's doing the same thing from slightly farther away, but with a look that says holy shit.

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

Slobo walked up to Sheeana non-chalantly, abusing the lack of time/space constriction that the crack thread allows.

"Whassamatter, bright eyes? Never seen an ocean before?" Seriously. The poor bastard doesn't know.

[worm-dancer.livejournal.com]

With a still astonished tone: "No. Never." You got it right, grey boy!

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"Oh..." And here he thought he had been making a joke. "Well, allow me ta give ya the gist; The ocean is a large body of completely undrinkable water. You can swim in it, boat on it, fish in it, and, of course, dump bodies in it. Most people prefer swimming. I'm trying to remember if I can." He stopped, a realization hitting him for a moment.

"Ya ain't seen an ocean... Have ya seen a lake? Pool? Anything waterwise larger than a bathtub?"

[worm-dancer.livejournal.com]

"I know what one is. I've just never seen one, outside of Other Memory. Never anything larger than a shower and that only while I was an acolyte on Chapterhouse." She searched his features for clues. He didn't seem waterfat, but he seemed to know enough about this...ocean. "I doubt sights such as these are common where you come from either...I would hazard that your seas are much more of the raging and cold type that Norsemen would sail into."

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"I... I ain't entirely sure. Lived on Earth for a while, that place is lousy with oceans. Ain't ever seen Czarnia in person, and the memories I got from my..." He paused for a moment, as if finding the right words. "... Pops... they get fuzzy a lot." He shrugged.

"An' Rhode Island, where I spent my time on Earth? Not exactly this kinda tropical climate. Cold enough that once I kicked my team apparently moved to Cali."

[worm-dancer.livejournal.com]

Memories? Sheeana made a note to pursue that line of inquiry. Sometime when i'm not in a crack log.

"So do you know how to swim?"

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

While the earlier incident involving lack of clothing was a little abrupt, Katara saw it as little reason to not enjoy herself on this shore leave. She spied Slobo down a little ways awaay, and decided to drop in and see him.

"Hey Slobo," she said, smiling. "Enjoying yourself?"

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"I guess." He looked at his bare torso reflecting the light. "Yanno, in my primary duty o' makin' sure everyone else gets a good tan." He smiled.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"I can see that," Katara said, grinning. "Actually, I kinda got on trouble for that earlier. But full body tans require nudity, and as luck would have it, everyone I'd want to not see me that way did. It was a little mortifying, but funny too."

Katara pulled a wave from the ocean and started to move it around in the air a little bit. "So," she said, "anyone you miss back home?"

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"Nope." He said without pause."I'm dead there. Kinda. People seem ta have moved on just fine." There's a hint of bitterness in his voice at that last sentence.

"What about you?" He says, changing the subject. "You seem to have brought yer whole crew here with ya. Anyone left where yer from?"

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"I don't know if I believe that," Katara said. "But I know someone who thought like you once, who lost about a hundred years of his life. But for him, it was the people passed that he missed most. I'm sure there are people in your world that miss you too, that need you now."

Katara looked down a moment. "I miss my group a lot. Right now you've probably met Sokka and Zuko by now: they're part of the group. But there's also Toph, one of my best friends. We're both different and sometimes she can be really crude, but she was like a sister. There's no one I trust as much as her."

Katara had a slight change in her eyes, as if they got slightly bluer. "And then there's Aang, the avatar. A part of our group, the master of four elements. I was the one who found him after he woke up."

And there was SO much more, but that was only if he asked. It was becoming a rather tender subject lately.

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

Slobo was a lot of things. Crude, disobedient, quick-tempered. But he also was fairly empathetic and pretty observant.

"Huh. Sounds like ya miss this Aang guy most of all." As he pointed out the obvious, his own mind drifted. "I got someone like that back home... Someone I, yanno, really miss. It can hurt." Another pause. "Especially when ya wish ya had said things before you were gone." His mood seemed to sink as he described the feeling.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara looked down. "Yeah, I do. You could say that every time I sleep, or every time I feel a strong draft, I look and expect to see him there, grinning in only the way he can. You could also say that there are a lot of things that we really didn't get to say to each other either: I got pulled here before we really could."

And then that blissful look changed to a more hardened look, as if all the optimism Katara had was only a passing thing. "And he's somewhere on this ship, being kept away."

[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

"Staring at the water won't make it any more swimmable."

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure it won't. But then again, not bein' sure if ya know how ta swim won't make ya able ta breathe underwater either." He replied without looking at the girl. "I can survive in a vacuum, but I think water's the exact opposite o' that..."