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  • [Draft] A Lote of questions

    [Draft] A Lote of questions

    A FreeBoot (Treboot Universe) story

    CW: This story contains language that can be seen as bigoted/transphobic, used to show a character’s ignorance and is to show them not understanding rather than being hateful

    Leia more info

    Currently without their main soul, Leia is on an adventure to find the soul that’s meant to be in their body, tagging along with Lote and Mapel to get the help of the new land of the unicorns

    While the duo look into eachother’s eyes, getting completely lost in the future they could share, walking side by side, throwing silly comments, and more formal and less silly comments back and forth… not too different from the present, something stirs from the nearby bushes, a violet aura surrounding a beaten and bloody body that has just collapsed in full view of the not lovers.

    “Leia?!” Mapel is first to get up, running towards the brunette with multiple large scratches through the back of her leather armour and flesh. Mapel looks her over, rapid blood loss, must have been attacked by multiple large animals or something the group does not want to cross again.

    A golden aura surrounds Mapel, a spell crossing her lips as a matching aura surrounds Leia. The wounds quickly close, the blood loss stops, Leia jumps back to life and onto her feet. “Good news, I’m alive and with intel. Bad news, there’s a LOT a bears around and they do not like humans putting up campsites” Leia pauses to take a breath, “I swear there were something like 8 bears trying to take chunks out of me, I’m good but I’ve got limits!”

    Lote takes a look at the healing handy work, a small smile on their face, “Have you considered that they simply don’t care for a quarter of the nonbinary flag that you constantly emit?” they wave their hand in Leia’s aura, disrupting it as the hand moves through it, if only for a moment. Mapel gives a little giggle at the rather deadpan joke.

    Leia looks between them, looking for some glimmer of an inside joke but sees nothing of the sort, they’re fully expecting her to get it, but instead of that, she tries to make some kind of joke back, “I’m plenty binary, I was a robot brain in a past life” she’s either way too proud of that or simply deflecting not understanding… again.

    Mapel sighs with a facepalm, full slap of hand to forehead, it probably hurt, “You go by she/they, how do you not know what non-binary is? I thought you spent years travelling someone that goes by it” both her and Lote give a look, the old look of that weird woman is speaking nonsense again

    Leia gives a dismissive “Pssh” as she quickly thinks up a reply, “Well I guess the obvious is that the they is from me and Haloes being kinda…” She punches her fists together a couple of times, “together in one body, literally two of us so yeah. As for my fur friend, I thought it was because he like is completely out of place here? Like there’s no other furs that look like him at all, are we sure it didn’t skip through some weird crack in reality like I did?” She finally takes a glance towards the rather horrified looks of the rest of the group, “Wait wait wait, you don’t see it? Like if I appeared with my old body, I’d totally think the same way about myself, designed outside of the sight of that God Above All you liked to like. Like seriously, it looks nothing like any other fur I’ve seen1, less towards the human of humanoid than even it’s bestie” she gives a quick nervous chuckle, “Seriously, I can’t be the only one seeing this, I’m not thinking this to other it! It’s like when we found that sign about nonexistent mobile phones, just really out of place and I can’t explain why… Not like I can ask about it’s history, guy probably thinks it’s only lived in this world” her eyes grow more tired as she looks towards the floor, her tone losing its usual energy, “Hard to find someone that understands, ya know?” Her eyes dart up to look between the duo, “You both look like you know, I assume the chat went well”

    Lote offers a soft chuckle, “Let’s not start changing the subject here, but yes, just so you do know, the chat did go well, thank you for taking over tent duty” they look to Mapel, a gentle smile on their face, before it suddenly drops and the attention is back on Leia, “As a quick summery, a non binary person is someone that does not identify with a binary gender so male or female. It covers many identities, for reference, I’d refer to myself as a demiwoman, I don’t feel discomfort being a woman but I don’t feel like I connect with it at all. Jeder ist anders2, so how I feel may not apply to your fur friend and, as far as I am aware, does not apply to yourself” they hold a teacher like composure during the explanation with Mapel nodding and thumbs upping along with it.

    Leia thinks for a moment, full hand to chin, looking to the sky, “I think I get it? Like you don’t feel much of connection to being a woman but don’t feel like a guy, like just neither” her tone completely lacking confidence but a nod from Lote seems to help a bit, “I mean, I really only use they because there’s usually a guy here too, dunno if that counts if I myself uses she… I mean, I guess that’s my choice” she simply sighs and gives an over the top shrug, “Come on you two… Whatever your relationship is now, we should probably reclaim our camp site and supplies, you might wanna explain that too so I don’t mess anything up”

    Mapel whips out her electro pistol, “For the record, we’re together, we still gotta figure out what that really means, you know what I’m like” the pistol buzzes with a sharp buzz. Lote rolls their eyes, pulling pulling duel knives from their leather armour, “Yes, we will need to find out what that means, do not worry about being das fünfte Rad am Wagen3, we are always great together” they flash a casual smile, twirling the knives before walking into the bush. The rest of the group follow along, ready to fight for their tents!

    1. The character referred to here was not created by me and 100% doesn’t look like my fur characters ↩︎
    2. This (should) mean “Each to their own” ↩︎
    3. This (should) mean “Be the fifth wheel on the wagon” ↩︎
  • [Draft] A Lote to work with

    [Draft] A Lote to work with

    A Freeboot (Treboot universe) story
    Mapel more info

    Mapel is a cleric that turned against her god to help Lote and develop a plan to rid the world of gods and fix some outstanding issues she noticed over the past 7 years. In this new world, she travels with Lote, enjoying a casual time while it lasts

    Lote more info

    Lote has succeeded in her mission to rid the world of gods and has offered to take Mapel to their homeland, currently travelling to a newly created land which has the best port to depart from. They owe Mapel a great deal as her assistance on guiding the changes to the world have made things a lot better than if she was to go it alone.

    The Sun slowly decended below the rainbow filled sea, Unicornucopia marking the land’s edge before reaching a port to new lands unknown. It’s a day’s travel at this point, not too far but it will be a long day to get there and hope there’s a people sized bed, how big are the unicorns or equine or whatever creatures live there? That’s the problem with casually reality warping a new territory into existance, no one knows what to expect!

    A tall figure sat on the edge of a cliff overlooking everything, cozy green jumper keeping her warm, though a bit tattered from bandit encounters and just falling on her face when her legs decide they hate her. Her brunette flowing hair catching the breeze as her eyes scanned the scene in front of her, something new, something different, something she’s never seen before. She sat, hunched up with her head reading on her pulled in knees, enjoying the calm and the wind. She isn’t truly alone, her companions are simply preparing a camp for the night, not her area of things to do, she knows her pals can handle putting up a few tents.

    From the nearby bushes, a shorter figure appears, “Mapel, you doing alright?” the voice is lightly gruff and raspy, a voice Mapel knows very well. The smaller figure wore light roguewear, simple leather armour with underclothes, not much for fighting but they make do, their expression typically extremely chilled out has a twinge of nerviousness to it. The larger figure looks over, offering a soft smile and a nod, patting the space next to her. The smaller figure gives her own smile and puts their butt on the previously patted ground.

    Mapel looks out to the sea below, the waves crashing with colours below, “You sure you can leave Leia alone with the tents? She might try stabbing them into place” her tone is playful and teasing, as if messing with a sibling. The smaller figure offers a soft chuckle, “She was insistant that I go and relax with you, she was like ‘You better have a nice relaxing time while I beat up these tents!’ and I’m not going to argue with that, she’s a lot you know” they sit with their legs hanging off the edge, swinging their stick legs above the sea below. Mapel giggles, “I thought you were a Lote” Lote’s face changes to one trying to fight bursting out loud and wanting to sigh so loud she’d alert every animal nearby to their location.

    Ultimately, no noise is made, much to Lote’s relief, they just smile in that casual cool way they always do, “I did have something, I wanted to ask you” their voice suddenly not as calm and casual as usual, a small tense pull on their words, “If that’s alright” they’re not sure why they would even say that, of course a question would be alright, a question is always alright, They really don’t know what is happening in their mind, is this an internal conflict of what to do next?

    Mapel’s eyes jump to look at her sitting partner, “Sure thing, of course!” she offers a soft and gentle smile, it’s been a good while since they got to know eachother, she outright betrayed her own god in the hope that Lote was true to their word, which turned out to be the right call in her eyes. So the long and short is there is a lot of trust between the two, would be kind of awkward if they hated eachother and sat like this.

    Lote’s eyes divert away to their destination in the distance, “We’ve known eachother for a while and it’s been great, I mean, you’re not a kissass like the followers were and you’re not… quite so gung ho like Leia is, you’re…” they pause, a rare struggle to find the wording, “…different, in a good way” she runs her hand through her hair, her bangs flopping back to join the rest of her hair. “I just think, and worry that, once this is all said and done and we have some fun in my homeland, we’d end up going our seperate ways”

    Mapel looks to them with a mix of concern and confusion, confusion…. those words are too easy to fuse together, even have the word fusion in there. Anyway, she lets out a small sigh, “I’m not going to say that hasn’t happened before” she fidgets her hands, aimlessly squishing them together, “But, that was a mutual split, the others had their lives to get back to and I had my work to do. Besides, until recently I would have called them family, we were that close and continued to be” her tone gave away that she was confused by the topic but her words are of reassurance.

    Lote’s expression changed, completely, their messed up hair mixed with a borderline distraught expression is a fresh look, not a good one, but a fresh look nontheless! “Well, I don’t want to be like family” is this how anxity feels? The hitched breath, the swear on their brow, the beating in their heart. For once, they aren’t sure of the outcome, not sure of what could come of what they want to say and the outcome really does matter. “Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright. Well now I’m sounding like you” she goes to give a chuckle but gives a short burst of laughter before cutting herself off, “I was thinking that maybe we could get together, like I don’t know about dating or anything like that I ju-” Mapel’s hand snuck up and landed on her shoulder with a shockingly firm grip.

    Mapel stares deep into Lote’s eyes, while the stare is firm, there is a small glint of reassurance, “Breath, focus on your breathing and take a second to get your thoughts together” she offers a soft smile, “And, if it helps, from what you’ve said so far, if it was a hard no in that direction at all, I would have said already, but I gotta hear the whole thing” she slowly removes her hand from Lote, like releasing a reset button and letting them start back up.

    Taking the friendly advice, they relax their breath and close their eyes, for a few moments, just existing. Their hair flops back down into bangs and the shakiness in their body starts to subside, not completely but the improvement is great. When they eventually open their eyes and lay their eyes upon their sitting partner, the shine of the setting sun on her face, the crashing rainbow waves as a backdrop, it’s now or never. “Mapel, I have loved travelling with you, you’ve been the best and I believe you will continue to be. I don’t believe I… can like people like other’s can, I don’t want to go on romantic dates, I don’t want to have big acts of love or anything of the sort. I’m happy as we are, I don’t want to have to see you go. Ich hab dich lieb1” she felt like she was going to die having it in the open, like her heart was going to explode.

    “I sure hope you didn’t just put a curse on me or something at the end there” Mapel giggles softly, “I think I understand how you feel about love and relationships, and I accept your feelings, I don’t want to flake on you, I want to be close to you. So of course, I wanna be with you, not like lovers but like… together” she gently takes one of Lote’s hands with both of hers, “I don’t know what we’d call this but I’m thankful for meeting you. And we can be… a bit closer than friends if you want, if only to save inn fees”

    The silly comments, always with the silly comments, Lote smiles warm, “Of course, I didn’t want to pull you into anything more than how we’ve been but being a bit closer sounds nice. I presume we will just see where we end up and how we express our relationship” they chuckle softly, “The worry feels silly now, I suppose you feel like this a lot, like a final trial to understand you better, I swear I’ll stop talking like you once I’ve calmed down”

    1. German is not a known language in lore, also I cannot speak it so I made sure to research to ensure the right phrasing is used, this is not meant to be a romantic romantic line but of love nonetheless ↩︎