001 To Take A Deep Breath

[fashionfairy]

Characters: Kanaya and everyone! (You are included in that!)
Setting: Various, starting outside room 1-07
Format: I'll follow you
Summary: Kanaya attempts to explore the tower and make friends. Or at least not make any enemies right off.
Warnings: None unless she's attacked. She may look meek and gentle but she's quite proficient with that chainsaw. Also, a secondary warning: she tends to ramble when nervous.



The first thing Kanaya was aware of was the inability to move. That was hardly unusual as the viscosity of the sopor slime in the recuperacoons made it difficult to thrash about in but that gave it a sense of comfort. She was not in her recuperacoon however. She was lying on some soft surface, like a cushion but raised and with blankets. Panic began to rise in her throat as she realized that she was not even on the flying chunk of rock she and her friends now called home. As the paralysis wore off she was able to take in her surroundings....and the rather hideous bodysuit and collar some clearly style challenged being had put on her.

She spotted the letter, read it quickly, and then went to the indicated chest to change into something more familiar. At least the collar was similar to her blood color so it didn't clash too terribly. A small wave of relief washed over her to see the matriorb safely nestled among various lengths of fabric. Even if she had failed everything else at least that was still safe and there was still hope.

Next, however, came a more pressing matter. She turned toward the door, placed her hand on the handle...and hesitated. Who knew what lay outside. She steeled herself, made sure the bottle of lipstick was in her pocket, and walked out to meet whatever lay beyond the threshold.

Comments

[geometry]

Thank god, or else this thread would have really gone off the rails. Equius looks over at her, looking duly horrified.

"K-kanaya."

Again.

[fashionfairy]

"Why...why are you wearing yellow?" And more importantly, why does he not reek of sweat and milk and why was every bone in her body not broken by simply running into him?

[geometry]

Equius sighed. Here we go again.

"...I'm wearing yellow because I'm not the Equius you're familiar with, and this is the actual colour of my blood."

[fashionfairy]

She eyed him thoughtfully. The Equius she knew would never wear a hue below his own class so the only remaining solution was that he was indeed telling the truth and it was yet another oddity of this strange place. He seemed perturbed by her outburst, as if it happened frequently and he took no joy in being compared to the other so she quickly shifted topics to their present situation.

"I sincerely apologize if I offended you and apologize for knocking you down. Are you injured?"

[geometry]

He really did not. Even before one of the previous Kanayas had filled him in on the less-than-savoury aspects of his blueblooded character, Equius generally tried to stay as far away from that topic as possible. It just ended up making uncomfortable comparisons between the two. (Of course, because he liked to avoid it, the topic of Blueblood Equius tended to come up much more often than not when talking to newbies.)

"Um... no. I'm fine." Honest. He's more than used to being knocked down and the damage gained from immunities is now next to none! (Yeah that made absolutely no sense.) "And I'm... not offended, really. Sorry." Just annoyed that conversations with other people from the alternate universe always tend to go the same way. He should really stop getting so riled up about things.