132... chocobos

[atouchofstrife]

You know, I've talked to a lot of people in this city and a third of them seem to know what a chocobo is and how to take care of one. They talk about how useful they are, and how fast and how to groom one and how to breed them, yet I haven't seen any except the ones in the zoo. Maybe it's me, but that just seems odd that there's none in the wild. None in the forest, none underground, not even a couple in that old farm. And I don't know about other people, but the ones in the zoo really need to get out of the zoo. They look pretty scrawny.

I really miss racing them. A bike's good, but racing a chocobo has it's own appeal.

...Maybe I can get a stable going? That reminds me. Reno, are you up yet?

Comments

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

Most people claim my hair is a pretty good impression of what a chocobo's crest looks like.

They're large birds, used mainly for riding and carrying supplies by those that can't afford other transportation - which is about everyone. They're also very useful in war, and can actually run over water if bred for it.

[starchilde_lost]

So they're big like ostriches?

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

Umm... I'm actually shorter than a full grown male Gold. Females are a little larger depending on the breed. I don't know what an ostrich is...

[starchilde_lost]

Holy crap, that, um sounds like maybe it's a little bigger than an ostrich. But that sounds pretty cool - can they be violent?

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

They can be. The Wutai were famous for riding them into battle. But most chocobos only attack when threaten, unless they are train for guarding as well as riding.

[starchilde_lost]

That sounds very interesting. When you get some, can I see?

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

Sure. Bring your friends as well.

[starchilde_lost]

Sounds like fun.

How are you doing?

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

A little worried about Anita, but otherwise keeping busy.

How are you?

[starchilde_lost]

The same more or less.

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

Sometimes... I'm not sure if this place is good for forming any kind of relationship outside ones with people you already know.

[starchilde_lost]

Yeah, and it's sure as hell great a dredging up past relationships.

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

Mm. It can be rather hard in both cases, but I'm not allowed to go hide away from everyone.

[starchilde_lost]

And if we tried, we'd get dragged back, wouldn't we?

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

By the ear. With constant sighing and scolding.

[starchilde_lost]

Friends, can't kill 'em, can't make 'em shut up.

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

But where would we be without them, right?

[starchilde_lost]

I know where I'd be. Dead.

And now we're completely morbid. I need to stop doing that to people.

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

Same here.

Okay then, not so morbid subject: Are people like you common where you come from?

[starchilde_lost]

Yes and no. Technically, we're the next step in human evolution, more of us are born every day and sooner of later we'll outnumber the non-mutants.

Except. Sometime after I left a mutant with some serious power went insane and decided there shouldn't be any more mutants and overnight we went from numbering in the tens of thousands, to barely the hundreds. People just lost their powers, stopped being mutants.

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

Huh. Sort of a familiar story, expect we're not really that common back home - that is SOLDIERs. Basically we're enhanced to the point of not being really human, and we were part of an army made to protect the interests of the electric company.

Then one day, one of the elites found out how he was made and decided to destroy everything. He was stopped, but the world is still recovering.

[starchilde_lost]

That's probably the best argument against any kind of super-soldier program. Sooner or later one of them decides that they don't want to take orders anymore and Bam! Instant massacre.

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

He decided he was a god and pretty much felt that the rest of us weren't the kind of subjects he wanted.

I still got bruises from when he threw me through a bulding and then impaled me.

[starchilde_lost]

Ohhh, ouch.

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

I guess that's sort of his thing, or something. He did that the first time I fought him.

And the second time.

And the third time.

I'm surprised this place hasn't brought him over yet. He can't stay dead back home, he should have no problem showing up here.