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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Jan 21, 2018 16:26:04 GMT -8
Yellow eyes flickered from one display to the next. The oceanography museum was… something else, wasn’t it? Not what I was expecting— but what exactly had he been expecting? An aquarium. They had been to one of the aquariums in town the last weekend. Another aquarium— This was specifically titled an oceanography museum. Another aquarium— Brain fucking damn would you stop that? No? Apparently not?
A low hum escaped from Orion before his gaze flickered to Nik instead. “It’s… different…” he commented before looking back at a large map of the ocean floor. He probably should have been more excited about this??? C’mon, brain you can at least put on a smile. His lips twitched, and a weird look came onto his features instead. Well, well then.
Nikolai Laska
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Jan 21, 2018 21:58:24 GMT -8
Gray eyes shifted between exhibits much more leisurely. Nik wasn't super into ocean things, but the information was all interesting enough, and visiting was something neither of them had done yet, so just the change of pace was nice. Or.. it would have been, but as Nik finally glanced back to Orion, he didn't actually look like he was having fun?
It's different. ...Yeah? That was the point, wasn't it? Getting out of the house not that the house wasn't amazing or that Nik wasn't still kind of giddy about it even nearly 2 months later and doing something different. "You all right, babe...?" Nik's hand, already in Orion's from walking around together, squeezed a little tighter.
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Jan 22, 2018 13:32:55 GMT -8
Ah, that hand squeeze did have him smiling a lot easier than he had before. “Yeah,” he answered reaching up to ruffle the curls of his own green hair for a few seconds. “Guess I just … kind of expected it to have fish ‘n stuff.” Of course, it made sense that it wouldn’t, but… Argh why was he getting to this weird illogical side of his brain and why could he not get back to something reasonable?
A small, forced laugh escaped from him, and he shook his head again. “Guess I just haven’t seen anything that really catches my eye in the same way,” he went on muttering more to himself than not. Though as his gaze dropped to his other more recently tattooed arm, he smirked a little. “Though it’s a little hard now with the bar raised.” Yeah, heh…. Heh.
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Jan 22, 2018 19:34:52 GMT -8
Fish? Pfff. You big dork~ Nik's shoulders shook slightly with a mostly-suppressed laugh. Though perhaps if they kept looking there would--
SNORT. Brain no, do you really have to-- "I know a hard bar you can raise." Apparently yes. That joke was grasping at best but Nik couldn't resist so oh well.
Ahhh but, right, right, the actual conversation. "They might have a few somewhere, though. Maybe like, a couple tanks demonstrating different ocean ecosystems or something? Though some of this stuff is still pretty neat." Like... Oh! "Did you see this?" Nik nodded toward-- and then tugged Orion a bit over toward-- a small interactive display with some large buttons that had a few different affects on three containers of water with different salinity. It wasn't fish, but it was interesting, right?
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Jan 22, 2018 20:26:48 GMT -8
PFFFFF NIK. Orion snickered entirely unnecessarily at that comment. That was…. the stupidest joke he had heard in a while, but that was what made it 100% better. He couldn’t find an adequate comeback and sort of just let it go instead, heh. Did you see this? Yellow eyes flickered in the direction Nik was tugging him and—
Oooh? A hand raised and pressed several of the buttons watching the colored ‘salt’ float up and down and shift on the bottom. Push it several more times, all the times— Arceus, he needed some impulse control today, but at least this was harmless. “You’d think the ocean would stop being so salty, it’s been hundreds of millions of years.” Ah man that joke did not fall as nicely as Nik’s and was about a quarter as funny but oh fucking well. “Though did you know it’s not water that can conduct electricity on its own but the salt and ions in it?” Yes, he remembered high school Chemistry among other things. Having it rather aesthetically imprinted on his back helped that too.
He…..needed to stop pressing this button already, but apparently it was too much work to tell his hand to stop.
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Post by Hiroto Kaimana on Jan 26, 2018 21:53:33 GMT -8
While Orion kept pressing the salt button, Nik found another that dropped three objects (attached by strings) into each of the tubes, sinking to different levels in each and lingering there for a bit before the strings slowly wound and pulled them all back up. Neat.
Orion's joke, as bad as it was, did get a snicker. The trivia, though, gave Nik a moment's pause before eliciting a nod. "Ah. Yeah, I think I've read that. ...Makes you wonder about Water-type reactions to electricity, though, eh?"
A voice nearby answered, semi-deep but bright and clear. "Ah~ That's because Pokemon types don't directly reflect their elements; they simply have properties of them."
Nik turned to see a young man, nearly Orion's height but a good deal thinner, wearing casual clothes but an employee clearance badge. "That's the same reason Fire-types aren't harmed in the same way by plain water as they are Water-type moves. It's the unique energy signature that gets them~"
Ah yeahhh. Nik did know that on some level, but apparently hadn't thought of it in terms of this particular type combination before so it didn't click right away. "Yeah, true."
The man flashed them a grin. "Speaking of ions, did you all know fully purified water can be lethal to ingest? It's such a fierce solvent that it will suck all the minerals right out of you~" He sounded just a bit too chipper saying that but..
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Jan 27, 2018 17:15:35 GMT -8
Huh, that was actually kind of weird- maybe something with Water Pokemon still having ions or- The voice nearby pulled Orion from whatever guesxplanation he had been about to make instead. Oh? Well someone was very confident in that wasn't he? The employee badge or whatever it was gave some credentials at least, though. That and it sounded about right in the Fire Pokemon perspective.
And oh what was that? Suck all the minerals right out of you? "Sounds like a suck way to die," he answered combining his morbid humor into a rather nasty pun. He snorted softly, laughing to himself before rolling both shoulders. "I don't suppose you're here to give us a tour are you?" Orion was… very much kidding, and his tone made it obvious, but maybe just maybe there was something in his eyes that was legitimately asking.
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Post by Hiroto Kaimana on Jan 27, 2018 20:52:04 GMT -8
Oh damn? Water really was scary, huh? ... At Orion's response, though, a hand flew to Nik's mouth to help stifle the snort-laugh that followed. "You'd have to liquidate all your assets..." Ehehe~
Hiro wasn't laughing aloud, but he was grinning wickedly. Oh, he was going to like these two if they kept up the puns like this. Hmm... not bad on the eyes, either, eh~? "I was actually just leaving, but I didn't have anything time sensitive planned." He gave them both a sly look. "I could probably be convinced to play tour guide for a bit... unless you'd rather discuss creative methods of wetwork~? But that might not end very whale." Haha they were gonna hate him in five minutes tops but it would be worth it. "But nah, seriously, a tour could be fin~"
Nik... was almost vaguely offput by this guy's energy and enthusiasm, but at the same time there was a starry-eyed part mentally shout-whispering friiiieeeeend.
The man extended a hand. "The name's Hiro, by the way~" ...... Fffff now Nik was debating what introduction to go with. Maybe Orion would just take care of it for both of them haha.
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Jan 27, 2018 21:55:48 GMT -8
Orion shot Nik a wild grin before letting his gaze flick back to Hiro. Oh though? He- Hah? Heh. Damn he could really keep up with those puns couldn't he? As the hand was extended, Orion took it easily giving a simple shake in return. "A pleasure to meet you, Hiro. I think we'll get along swimmingly~" He grinned briefly before going on. "Name's Orion, and this is my beautiful girlfriend Nikki<3" Was… that verbal heart really necessary? Was that vocal inflection necessary? Entirely not, but here we go anyways, apparently. "So do tell~ What's the best exhibit in the museum?" Because he had stopped pressing that button at some point and was vaguely curious to move on to more fishy things, maybe.
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Post by Hiroto Kaimana on Jan 27, 2018 22:24:09 GMT -8
EEEEEEEEEEY~! Good response, yes! (Even if he now had a particular catchy tune from a children's fish-related movie stuck in his head, ehehe.) "A treasure to meet you both~" he replied, shaking Nikki's hand as well.
Nik was... conflicted. Some part of... her... still felt hesitant and awkward to be referred to as female in front of anyone but Orion, though she was still sticking with having him do so a lot to help her get used to the idea and was glad he was so consistent and supportive about it. ...but then, ah...
The other part was just.. vaguely flustered, in a mostly positive way? At the thought of uh.. a charismatic guy with a penchant for puns looking at her and just seeing a cute girl, heh?? (Not that Nik had any inclinations beyond 'wow pun friend' and maybe 'damn I wish I could have pulled off that hair?'. She guessed once she thought about it he was pretty cute, but had nothing on the gorgeous stud whose arm she held<3 And, ehehe, to be fair the compliment and verbal heart probably did not detract from the flustered reaction or anything, hehe~)
"Suppose that depends what you're into. I really like geology, but from what I've seen the exhibits demonstrating underwater terraforming and various rock striations just don't tend to draw the crowds." He half-feigned a sigh, legitimately a bit disappointed but also playing up how much for effect. Hiro did look around briefly before tilting his head for them to follow regardless, though. "I need to drop my badge off whatever the case, but that gives you a minute to decide what you--"
"Fish," Nik cut in.
"Oh? That was awfully--"
"He likes fish."
Hiro snickered slightly. "Were you looking for the Pahala Aquarium?"
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Jan 28, 2018 15:15:22 GMT -8
This was… so very amusing, and as much as Orion wanted to hold back on the puns, Hiro just kept pressing his 'make more puns' meter, so here they were, he guessed. Geology huh? That was vaguely interesting even if Orion wasn't too sure it could hold his attention. He'd slowly follow after Hiro anyways, though.
As Nik cut in, though, Orion blinked and glanced sideways. Fish, heh. "I do like fish," came a much more subtle reply. Quite a bit. "Been to the Aquarium a couple times now though~" And had been just the week before or so? Somewhere in there. Not that… he would pass up the opportunity to go and see more fish and Water Pokemon if given the chance anyways, heh. "Trying to shake things up a bit…" Maybe, sort of. Ish. …with an F in front of it was still Fish heh.
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Post by Hiroto Kaimana on Jan 28, 2018 16:47:33 GMT -8
Hiro continued to snicker a bit to himself. "You were certainly shaking up the salt in that display at least~ That's a start I'd say." Nik rolled her eyes lightly. True enough lol. "We've got a few tanks in the ecosystem area, though. Give me just a finute." That one wasn't actually intentional, nor did he realize he'd said it.
He broke away from them to head into an employee area, and Nik looked up to Orion with a smirk. "Wow, we're even socializing. This really is a change of pace." Of course that was much more at her own expense than his, ehehe. "He seems nice, if a bit..." Nik didn't have a word, but it clearly wasn't too bad whatever it was.
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Jan 28, 2018 17:21:53 GMT -8
Orion snickered softly before looking back towards Nik. Hm? Oh- he guessed, yeah. This did count as socializing on their outing of sorts. Reaching up and ruffling his own hair, he hummed softly at that. "He's peppy for sure," he answered with a small nod. "Kinda resonates though, I think." At least until it became annoying which who knew when that would be exactly, so who cared right then.
Yellow eyes raised up and rolled around finding a couple pictures of different sea Pokemon and supposed ancient lore of sea beasts. "It's… kind of neat how many legends they have just drawn out everywhere…" he commented briefly. Wait was that a Kraken? Heh, that was… not a legendary Pokemon was it, lol.
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Post by Hiroto Kaimana on Feb 20, 2018 13:15:00 GMT -8
Nik looked around at all the images as well. "Ooh.. Makes you wonder how many are accurate." Like... There was a common idea of what Arceus was supposed to look like, but some ancient legends spoke of its thousand arms, so clearly one of the two was wrong or else Arceus had some very underrepresented form changing power. Some of these were things Nik didn't recognize as Pokemon, too, but were they obscure legends? Pokemon less common in Veria? Ultra Beasts, even? Or perhaps a clever ploy to get patrons to ask such deep questions over something the artist totally made up on the spot? Ha.
It would be a minute or two before Hiro came back, sans the badge. "Heya~ Sorry about that, one of the employees caught me about a thing." He smiled at them both, though, straightening up and locking his hands behind his head, elbows outstretched. "Did you wanna head straight to the ecosystems, or take in some of the exhibits along the way~?"
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Feb 22, 2018 21:45:41 GMT -8
Orion squinted half-heartedly wondering something along Nik's line of thought as he looked up at the picture. How old were these pictures anyways, he had to wonder, heh. He swapped a few more words with Nik about possible interpretations of some of the obscurer images before Hiro came back again.
Turning as the man spoke, Orion smirked a little. "I wouldn't mind seeing a few interesting exhibits along the way." Emphasis on interesting. Orion smiled and shrugged a bit. He swore he could be good natured about all of this and try and show some interest even if his brain was clearly not cooperating with this idea at all. At least for the moment, it had stopped insisting that he just leave and go to an aquarium, hah.
That actually made him vaguely realize: "So are you like a museum intern or?" Given the badge turn in and whatever else there was, he had to wonder his exact placement in the scheme here. It wasn't like the name Hiro was going to ring any bells right then, apparently.
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