Selphie Tilmitt

[She should know better by now than to get her hopes up.

Selphie's left Luceti time and time again, never truly considering the impact she'd leave on those she left behind. She's been filled with nothing but dread the past few weeks at the notion of Ikki leaving. She's been checking to make sure his things were still there on a daily basis. He'd lost more than she had but she's still been hoping that he'd come back.

Selphie should've known what's coming. She woke up this morning and by hanging onto that one shining beacon of hope, she thought that he'd be back today. He never gave up on her so why should she do that to him? Regardless, Selphie pads through the apartment toward his room and just like how she'd found Smoker's room, Ikki's room was devoid of his presence.

With the exception of the things that she'd snagged from his room a few days ago, everything that made the room his was gone. She's alone in a great big apartment with no one to share it with. She's been through this more times than she wishes to count since she first came to Luceti all those years ago. She's lost her family and the strongest pillars of support she had left in the village.

She's only been delaying the inevitable as she comes to sit at the kitchen table. There's no use crying about it and it's not what he'd want her to do. She won't be able to pick up the pieces right away but for now, she has to let Luceti know. she's not showing her face to the world at the moment, but she's brave enough to use her voice to say these words that she hates saying.]

For those that knew him, Phoenix Ikki has left Luceti. He didn't --

[There's the sound of glass breaking in the background as she spins around around and sees the droids have come to pay her visit. She's in a bad mood already but she's unarmed as she dives for the stove and pulls out a cast iron frying pan. She can take on two droids by herself. Knowing that they can be beaten now, gives her all the incentive she needs to fight. She does manage to hold them off for a bit but the apartment is getting destroyed. Eventually, the droids corner the perky brunette before they manage to grab the teen and start hauling her off.

She's not going quietly or calmly as she shouts and struggles to break free. There might just be a couple of curses directed at the Malnosso in there but the droids don't seem very interested in conversing with her. They do however seem to become very forceful in getting her to stay still. She's decided that she's not going with them willingly as it causes her to struggle harder. A choice comment about the droids being nothing more than overgrown scrap heaps earns Selphie a swift crack in the back of the head. With stars dancing in her vision, it gives the droids enough time to whisk the girl from the village.]

[Hopefully those who know Selphie will understand her sudden silence over the journals in the past few weeks. She's not quite sure how it happened but she started feeling like she was living in a freezer no matter how many layers of clothing she wore. This just so happened to happen a few days before they were all whisked away to Malnosso World when her immune system had had enough abuse and left her with a wonderful case of the Flu. She'd spent most of her time at Malnosso World in bed with the family pet to keep her company. Having only enough energy to focus on sleeping and forcing herself to eat and drink was enough for the perky brunette during that time.

She'd finally gotten most of her energy back by the middle of last week but wasn't really feeling up to leaving the apartment. Besides, everything seemed to have changed around in the apartment and she was still in the process of rearranging everything to her liking. Maybe her rearranging has gone further into the living area of the apartment? The way that everything was arranged just gave her the feeling that they'd never lived there in the first place. A little artistic flair took care of that as she stands in the kitchen glaring at the top shelf of the cupboard where all the tea is being kept.]

Can we please put things on the lower shelves in the cupboard? It's either that or somebody's gonna start playing human footstool. Not all of us were born to be giants y'know!

[A little later on, Selphie takes to writing something down in the journal before switching over to voice.]

Welcome to Luceti Newbies!

Don't mind me there, it just felt right to say that to everybody who's been showing up this month! Hopefully everybody's found a place to stay by now and won't be caught out in the cold.

It looks like it could start snowing any day now though! No more mud, just loooooooots of snowmen to make!

And hey, anybody have any ideas on how to make these new apartments feel like a home again? I've spent the better part of this weekend just moving things around and discovering that being short seriously, super mega seriously sucks. A footstool or something would've been nice.

[She huffs before continuing.]

It's not all bad though.

Alrighty Luceti, tell me what's new and exciting!

[To be frank, Selphie didn’t know what to feel. She feels like this has happened before but with different circumstances she can’t quite recall but the feeling of déjà vu is weighing heavily upon her shoulders. After the fighting and the fleeting feelings of panic were done running their course, Selphie merely sat down on the ground in the shadow of the rec centre. She knew that Ikki would find her sooner or later but for now, she needed to sort out her head.

She sat there for quite some time lost in thought. Having a family was amazing and she wouldn’t change a thing in the world for the time she got to spend with the people in her make-believe family. There was one little issue however that was churning inside her belly for quite some time. It was bringing up repressed memories of another time that she doesn’t want to think about. She went still as a statue, her eyes going wide in shock before her hands started to shake.

It was through sheer force of will that she managed to get them to stop. There was a turbulent storm brewing in her and she didn’t have much desire to be around a lot of people but knew that there were others who suffering far more than she was at that time. Childhood trauma aside, Selphie finally stands up and strides out into the light of the plaza with a look of resolution on her face. There were people she needed to find, others she needed to demand answers from and two particular grumps that she wanted to hug more than anything. She could lie down in the dark and have a pity party later on.

Right now. Right there and now, she knew she had to do something as she goes back into the daylight to help where she can. She’s not a recent High School grad working as a receptionist but a SeeD who has been neglecting her training a bit. There’s also the issue of her memories and something that she can’t shake no matter how much she tries to think that it’s all just a trick.

Still, there’s someone in particular that she needs to seek out. She’d borrowed Ikki’s journal for a couple days and had spent a fair amount of time listening to past entries hoping to jog her memory more than talking to people could ever do. All the friends she’d made and lost and some things she’d rather forget despite the shaky details on some of them. A couple of distinct things stand out to her though after going through Ikki’s journal.
It’s with these thoughts in mind that she takes to the journal. However, she keeps the volume down but cheerful none the less.]

Good morning Luceti!

It’s a nice day out don’t ya think?

[Or maybe not because nobody likes having their memories tampered with is what she’s thinking.]

Looks like a lot of things have happened since I was here last, huh? Sorry if I didn’t recognize anybody when I first got here but I think I’ll be all right now. Or… if I was too loud and clumsy.

You know how it is.

Anyway, a certain shameless flirt who knows who he is owes me ice cream. Good thing you work at a convenience store that used to be a pizza shop, right?

And yeah!

[Filtered to Frey.]

We need to talk. As soon as possible.

[/filter]

[Everybody loves being dumped in strange places right?

Well, okay, maybe not but the Malnosso sure do enjoy dumping people in strange places. Alternatively, to bring a familiar face back into the enclosure, they're going to dump her in the fountain. A fountain that seems to be full of cool water as a small person appears in the air before belly flopping into it with a painful splash.

Selphie flounders in the shallow water before emerging from the water with her hair sticking to her head. Sorry if she got you wet, whoever you are, but she's going to look at her surroundings curiously. She wipes her bangs out of her eyes as she slumps over the ledge and frowns. She wasn't fond of aches from taking an unwilling belly flop, and she definitely wasn't fond of the pain radiating from her shoulders and neck.

She remains sitting in the water as she watches the people she doesn't know pass her by without so much as a glance. One would think that people in Luceti would be used to people being unceremoniously dropped in the fountain.

Quite some time later, Selphie has finally crawled out of the fountain and is sitting on the ledge with the journal she'd discovered nearby. She'd been pushing the buttons to figure out how everything in it worked before she finally gave the journal a whirl. Her dress was drying in the summer sun, and she had a bemused look on her face. The details of this situation she's found herself involved in being clear, but she'll take it in stride just like she has with every other major event in her life.

No big deal as she presses the button that will give her entry a voice.]

Hello? Hey, is this thing on? Testing, testing! ONE TWO THREE!

So... I know that there are people here and that it's warm and everything, but um... is there any chance I could borrow a towel and a change of clothes?

I definitely made a splash coming into wherever I am and um... can somebody tell me what's going on?

[The message is bright and cheery as the person on the other end of the line hears the following:]

Hey hey! You've reached Selphie! Leave a message and I'll get back to you!

Thanks~!

[It's been about a month since Selphie had been returned to Luceti. Things had been confusing at first but thanks to talking with friends, her memories have returned to her completely. She'd also spent quite a bit of time wandering around the village and getting reacquainted with the place. A lot of things have helped her in more ways than words can really express. She's settled back into her daily routine in Luceti.

Then the Amnesia struck the village, leaving her oddly unaffected. Maybe the Malnosso were just being particularly cruel but there wasn't a lot she could do about that now. She just accepted the fact that the Malnosso were assholes and left it at that. She'd spent much of that time watching the people and helping out where she could. It was a part of her nature after all and she wasn't about to change that.

This current morning brings Selphie to the village plaza and a session of digging through the item shop for any pieces of home that might have turned up. There isn't much for her find however, as she frowns at the objects underneath her hands. It's disconcerting, but expected that things from home would turn up so soon. She does lay claim to a multicoloured pair of mittens for the upcoming winter and tucks them into the bag she'd brought with her.

The days were getting cooler as the fallen leaves fluttered past on the breeze. The trees were starting to turn and the smells of fall were in the air as Selphie eventually winds up settling down in the library with her journal and a pen in tow.]

The more things change, the more they stay the same. A lot of the faces are different but Luceti as a whole hasn't changed.

So, consider this your roll call, Luceti. Who's still here? Who's new? Who am I not entirely acquainted with yet? Come say hi or something! And, mass amnesia and comatose pirate chef's aside, how's everybody doing?

Speaking of Comatose Pirate Chef's, is he up yet? :) [Be afraid Sanji. BE VERY AFRAID.] Also, you owe me cookies for a month.

[Selphie isn't one to write study notes down very often but with the Britannia setting sail on the sixteenth, she has a lot of information to commit to memory. Add into the fact that she's run out of notebook paper and the journal is really the only source of paper she has without leaving the house in search of supplies. There have been worse things drawn in the journal in the past so this shouldn't be so bad.

In fact, it may even be familiar to some so if they feel the need, they are more than welcome to make any corrections as a couple of images are drawn.

( a cut that doesn't really exist! )

It's slowly coloured in over time before several lines of text join the images.

Bells!

1 bell = half hour
2 bells = 1 hour
2 bells, pause, 1 bell = 1 hour, 30 minutes
2 bells, pause, 2 bells = 2 hours
2 bells, pause, 2 bells, pause, 1 bell = 2 hours, 30 minutes
2 bells, pause, 2 bells, pause, 2 bells = 3 hours
2 bells, pause, 2 bells, pause, 2 bells, pause, 1 bell = 3 hours, 30 minutes
2 bells, pause, 2 bells, pause, 2 bells, pause, 2 bells = 4 hours and end of watch.

Watches

First Watch = 8 pm until Midnight
Middle Watch = Midnight until 4 am
Morning Watch = 4 am until 8 am
Forenoon Watch = 8 am until Noon
Afternoon Watch = Noon until 4 pm
First Dog Watch = 4 pm until 6 pm and first dinner break
Second Dog Watch = 6 pm until 8 pm and second dinner break

Just a few more days until the Britannia sets sail. Should I bring a compass just in case? I probably won't need it because I'm just relaying orders and I can do that but would it be a good idea to have an extra one just in case?

[Selphie draws in a worried face at the bottom of her notes. She's not feeling particularly confident in remembering all that information. It's her first time on board a vessel since the last mission and most of that was a blur. It all went by so quickly for her back then and the drafts are times she'd sooner not think about.]

Anybody wants me, I'll be at the Battle Dome on the boat simulator.

I've done this before... why am I so nervous?

[ooc: Selphie's permanent effect will be complete memory loss of Ceodore Harvey.

First chronological post goes to Helios. After that, open action for House 11! ^^]

[May 12 Midday

Something's not right.

A week ago, Selphie engaged the Malnosso droids before she'd been kidnapped. They knew their test subject well enough by now to restrain her from trying to fight off the Scientists off. She'd screamed every time they'd shocked her. The constant treatments have left Selphie weak as they'd deposited her in the forest outside of the village. Her clothes were replaced by a gown soaked through by the rain and earth as her eyes finally opened.

There was more done though. Her hair that she'd let grow out over the past two years was sheared back with bits of dried glue stuck into it. She's not fully aware of what they'd done but the downward spiral of confusion has already begun.

Where is she? What's going on? Why does her body hurt so much? There's so many jumbled and confusing thoughts running through her mind as her eyes finally focus. The brunette lies there for quite some time trying to focus on any one thought before she even attempts to sit up.]

W-where...?

[It's not long after she manages to rasp out that one word that Selphie finds herself slumping back over and staring out at the distance. It's taking everything she has just to stay awake until someone finds her. Even then, there's no knowing how long she'll even manage that.

May 13

Wherever Selphie's been taken, the chances of her waking up are slim to none at this point in time. It's going to be better to just let her sleep off the drugs.

May 14

Wherever Selphie finds herself, it's warm, comfortable and familiar. She'll be more alert but still confused and fuzzy on details about Luceti. She'll be in confused but good spirits as she looks down at the blankets tucked around her. She sits up gingerly as the blankets pool around her waist. She looks around the room at its cheery decor and is only left wondering where and what in the world is going on. She swings her feet over the side of the bed and let's them settle on the floor.

She notices the healing bruises for the first time and wonders what happened to her. There's thoughts running through her head but nothing seems to make any sense. Little patches of memories are all that she's gathering as she makes her way to the door. She moves with caution as she opens the door. Her head peeks out to get a look at where she is.]

Hello?

[Selphie had somehow managed to survive the attack from the Malnosso's superbot by the skin of her teeth and she paying for it now. Adrenaline had gotten her through the attack but now, she felt like she'd been run over by a bus. Her visible lack of armor had just about had her done in as she'd been put to bed in House 11 and hadn't left it since. Her energy was drained and she was feeling lifeless after discovering the full joys of Luceti's power cap and the after affect of using her stronger limit break. All the sugar in the world couldn't perk her up at the moment as she dozes in her room.

She dreams of the Weapon's back home before they transform into the bot that'd just about killed her and Adell. She sees those swords flying straight for her in the dream and she wakes up with a start. There's a brief cry of pain before she sinks back into the pillows and ponders what she's going to do with herself until this current round of injuries heals itself up. She glances over at the small bottle of pills they'd given her for the pain but they made her ill and she didn't like taking them unless she absolutely had to. Selphie's a stubborn girl but even then there's really only so much that she can take.

It left her with a lot of time to think about everything.

She'd been in Luceti for almost two years. She'd loved and lost for the first time and even now it still left her feeling empty inside. Just thinking about Ceodore was enough to bring her to tears but she hadn't cried since he'd left. There wasn't anything to feel sad about anymore. She'd lost more friends to Luceti than she'd ever lost in Trabia.

Selphie keeps moving forward. She's not really sure herself what keeps driving her forward these days but it's there. A little piece at the back of her mind that keeps telling her keep going the only way she knew how. Granted, Selphie's twisted sense of logic usually ends up getting into her fair share of trouble as she eventually pulls her journal and begins flipping through it. She was a bit out of the loop and wanted to check up on news.

The New Feather season was basically over with so what else was there to do?]

Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow... okay, that hurt...

So... to the lovely people in the armour shop and I do believe you know who you are... I need some armor but I kinda feel like a giant bruise at the moment so that might have to wait.

[The shuffle of fabric can be heard along with a slightly more than muttered string of expletives.]

Will kill for an X-Potion by the way... Or any type of potion really. I've got more important things to do than stay in bed all day. We gotta find out about those droids that attacked the Battle Dome --

[A sharp intake of breath can be heard before Selphie sinks back into the pillows with a frustrated growl. She moved a bit too fast and is currently reaping the rewards of pulled muscles singing a chorus of agony.

Really now. Whichever Doctor was looking after Selphie might want to tell her to lay back down.]

Okay. Lying back down now.

[Filtered to Adell]
Hey... how ya doing?

[Selphie was gone for two weeks and she left the village on a mission for a week without so much as a word. She'd worried about someone trying to stop her from going when all she wanted was a distraction from thoughts that were looming in her mind about the experiment that was going to happen on Valentine's Day. Ceodore Harvey were in a lot of those thoughts and she wanted nothing more than to escape them.

So she'd volunteered for the Malnosso's missions.

A little combat testing without magic was nothing to Selphie and was a great tool for venting frustration. At least that time, she knew she'd be up against some sort of nonsense. There might be some stiches and other minor, mostly healed up wounds that she's hiding under the sweater she'd left the village in. Her jeans were torn and stained with mud but she was coming back to Luceti from the tunnels to see all the lovey-dovey nonsense afflicting everyone and prays to Hyne above that this experiment is going to be over soon.

The research assistance she'd given on the second week wasn't anything to cry home to Mom about. She'd learned a thing or two some other worlds but she didn't have any intentions of speaking about these little factoids. If those people wanted to tell everyone about their worlds, than they were more than welcome to do so. It just left Selphie wishing that she could have at least taken a computer back with into the village.

She'd earned a reward or two and had requested appropriately. What those items were? Well... she'll keep that a surprise from everybody.

The little presents don't make her like Luceti, but it's just nice to get something back for her blood, sweat and tears. The lack of sleep would be remedied easily enough as she starts making her way back to House 15. She wanted a shower, clean clothes, warm food in her belly and sleep. The house is in sight and... it's quiet. Eerily quiet and Selphie rushes inside to find that the house is empty. Where the hell is everybody? Did they just up and move? She heads for the room she shares with Yellow and finds it empty and shouts out loud about what the hell was going on? Thankfully, nobody can hear her but it's a damn annoying notion. Now she's tired and cranky and stalking her way to the item shop to procure herself a journal.]

Alright, where is everybody? You guys could've left a note or somethin' you know! Seriously... a girl goes away on a mission and everybody ups and leaves. More importantly... where's my stuff?

And please tell me that the current experiment is almost over with? seriously guys, keep all the making out inside will ya? Sheesh!

[Not that she can really talk considering her frequent PDA violations.]

Now then. What's going on around the village and if anybody can bring a gal a burger, I'd appreciate it!

C'mon! Seriously... House 15, you guys all suck!