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Finnick Odair | Victor of the 65th Hunger Games ([personal profile] fishermansweater) wrote in [community profile] sixthiterationlogs2017-08-02 02:01 am

ψ I knew you were trouble when you walked in | OPEN

WHO: Finnick Odair + his peacock
WHERE: The 6I park
WHEN: August 3
OPEN TO: EVERYONE
WARNINGS: Baby peacock being ridiculous. Probably mentions of mental health and anxiety later on.



he's a peacock, a total preener --> fountain park


There's been an escape.

There'd been another aftershock, and after he'd calmed Annie down, Finnick had gone outside to check on the birds, only to find another hole in the fence. He'd thought he'd patched it up before he'd gone back to Annie, but he's come out again to find that Star, the oldest of the peacocks, is on the other side of the fence, and making his determined way down the path towards the village.

Finnick curses and turns, rapidly, to pull open the door of the house and shout in to Annie.

"Star's gotten out, can you check the fence?"

He doesn't wait for an answer, only hopes she's heard him before he's off down the road after the blue and brown bird. Hearing Finnick behind him prompts the bird to take off, skimming low over the bushes at the side of the road and leaving Finnick to chase after him.

They're halfway to the village by the time Star lands again, and the bird doesn't seem inclined to let Finnick catch up. Every time he gets close enough to reach out to catch the bird, Star flutters away out of reach and continues on down the path. They've made it all the way to the park before Star finally stops trying to actually run away and starts contentedly pecking at the grass, looking for something to eat. Finnick gives up the pursuit, too, and sits down on the edge of the fountain.

Perhaps he should consider trying to make some sort of leash or harness for the bird so he can't get away. He always carries some of the nylon cable he'd acquired around with him, so he'd be able to, but he's not sure about whether it's even possible to leash a bird. The propaganda films at home about agriculture in District 10 had never said much about poultry.

While Finnick watches, Star stares at the fountain, then turns around, slowly, holding out its wings, tail held straight up in the air. His tail is quivering, displaying the stubs of feathers that haven't yet grown in.

"You've got a while before you'll make it in the Capitol," Finnick says, eyeing the bird.

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[personal profile] 3ofswords 2017-08-01 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Peacocks, even young ones, are something new in a canyon full of constantly evolving surprises. For a moment upon finding the animal in his path, Kira fears this is another instance of lose a friend, gain an animal, until the voice rising behind it affirms that it probably won't be following him home.

Aurora is thankfully absent, loaned--with a side of foisted--onto Ravi for the day, but Hoshi has his usual perch on Kira's shoulder, calling out to the birds in the trees and surveying his kingdom as he's carried through it. "Sorry," Kira tells the meager display, "I'm a little too old for you, and taken."

At his ear, Hoshi ruffles out and settles his dark wings, fluffing out the feathers of his neck. "Unless that's for him," he adds, steadying the bird with one hand lifting to its side, holding it in place when he leans to find Finnick behind the quivering feathers. "When did the peacocks arrive?"
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[personal profile] 3ofswords 2017-08-03 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"I hope he's meaner than the geese, then" he comments, braving closer despite the words. It isn't an endless summer day with no end in sight, but it's still hot, and it's been a long time since he had any fear of the fountain. It's just a body of water, a trick of their captors to make someone appear in it. As far as he can tell, only the spring south of his house has any extra properties. "Did he show up all on his own, out of them?"

He doesn't know enough about peacocks to know the point, but it's not like Hoshi is putting extra food on his table. Hoshi does very little at all but chase whatever glinting object has caught his eye.

For now he's content to perch on Kira, as Kira perches on the edge of the fountain, tilting his head this way and that in examination of another bird. His feathers have all come in, downy and deep black, but he can do little more than glide down to the ground if Kira leaves him on a low enough surface. "This one," he says, indicating Hoshi with a jerk of his thumb, "he fell out of his nest during the hail storm, broke a wing."
thenewways: Kira in civilian clothes, looking wary (Default)

[personal profile] thenewways 2017-08-01 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Every time Nerys is pretty certain she's gotten a grip on all of the Earth-type animals around here, something comes up to surprise her. In this case, it's at least not something like the bear that came after her and Moana in the forest a few weeks ago. This looks...like a bird, sort of like a small verdanis, but with what looks to be a massive tail--or will, once the feathers grow in, it's clear that they aren't yet all there.

It's weird enough, really, for Nerys to be shaken out of the reverie of fear and sadness that's descended on her since Veronica disappeared. It's an anxiety that hasn't been ameliorated by the seismic events that have been shaking the village and environs, including one earlier today.

She can't help but stare at Finnick, who's talking to the animal, and give him a very skeptical look. "The Capitol?"
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[personal profile] thenewways 2017-08-05 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Nerys' memory is catching up with her, now, with the bits of detail that she'd had from Finnick about where he'd come from. His world, if she's remembering right, makes the Occupation sound almost provincial in outlook. Or maybe it's just that the Cardassians, for all their faults, don't tend towards showy when it comes to their subjugation, even internally.

She knows what it's like to have everything you can't have shoved in your face...but she can't fathom how it must be to have a giant song-and-dance production made out of it all. Finnick would be more than allowed some bitterness, there, in her mind.

"So this bird is going to be...uh...a bit of a spectacle, once he's grown up?" she asks. "Forgive me, I've never seen one before, but he's already pretty shiny. It's hard to picture more..." She gestures vaguely in big circles, to indicate 'floof' or perhaps pomp.

If so, maybe that's why Finnick's been made this animal's caretaker. Some salt in the wound.
thenewways: Kira in civilian clothes, looking wary (Default)

[personal profile] thenewways 2017-08-17 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"Peacocks," Nerys repeats, and silently forms the word with her mouth a couple of times before shrugging one shoulder. She's having a hard time picturing the bird being all over shiny--and in all honesty, what she's imagining doesn't look much like how the peacock will actually appear as an adult. Probably because there's not really anything quite like it on Bajor, partially because she's picturing the bird as completely metallic.

"Huh. So this is just practice for the big show later on, I get it," she says, and sits carefully on the edge of the fountain, making sure to give Finnick and the bird enough personal space. Not that the peacock really gives much of a damn about that. "Still, happy to watch the rehearsal--come on, show me what you've got."

This last is directed at the bird.
thenewways: Kira in civilian clothes, looking wary (Default)

[personal profile] thenewways 2017-08-30 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Nerys can't help but laugh herself, because the bird is just small enough to be ludicrous, like a child puffing themself up to feign adulthood. She notices that Star responds to her straightening up, so she tries to sit a little taller. Unfortunately the process causes her to overcompensate, and she just barely catches herself from falling backwards into the fountain like a diver.

She's tickled, though, and keeps laughing, shaking her head.

"I don't know if I'm the kind of female he's looking for," she points out. "I bet they think we're pretty strange-looking, in all honesty. From what I know of sentients who're avian-descended, they tend to be unimpressed by our lack of wingspan."
thenewways: Kira in civilian clothes, looking wary (Default)

[personal profile] thenewways 2017-09-04 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Managing to stay upright, Nerys' grip tightens on the edge of the fountain, which is oddly cool despite the heat of the day. Maybe it's the proximity of the water, or maybe it's just something damn weird about the already-creepy place to begin with. She wobbles slightly for a moment, anyway, but then relaxes. Relaxing actually helps the balance problem.

"Probably other birds," she says, "strange, flightless, and decidedly lacking in plumage."

Because of her issues in getting a steady perch, Nerys doesn't quite notice the expression change on Finnick's face, save out of the corner of her eye. She doesn't consciously process it, anyway. "There are plenty of different sentient species in the galaxy," she explains somewhat blithely. "Human ancestry is from primate type animals, but dominant intelligences on other worlds often stem from a variety of different taxonomic orders, and sometimes not even animal life, though we don't run into them much."

This is all elementary science for Nerys, after all.
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[personal profile] thenewways 2017-09-17 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Nerys' grip on the edge of the fountain eases a little as she finds some equilibrium, and she lifts an eyebrow at Finnick's first statement. It strikes her as odd, until she remembers human avian evolution didn't go down the same paths as that on Bajor. Lizards and birds didn't deviate quite as quickly, and their traits are pretty closely linked. "There are some birds back home that do change color," she says, "but definitely not like people change clothes. More just camouflage, I think you have amphibians that do that?"

She watches her new bird friend do a bit of a strut across the grass in front of the fountain. His gait is not entirely smooth yet, a little gawky, like he doesn't know where exactly his limbs are at any given time; basically, a bird teenager.

"There are people out there," she echoes, "who come from pretty much everything organic you can picture, and some inorganic structures, too. Our frames of reference are usually pretty different though, it can be kind of hard to bridge the cultural gaps the further you get away from beings with four limbs and a spine." There's probably some scientific term for that, but Nerys can't think of it off the top of her head. "You end up looking at the universe pretty differently."

[personal profile] ex_assertiveness90 2017-08-02 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
Stella remembers the birds, from her impromptu visit to Annie last month after the earthquake. It's rare she's seen peacocks outside a zoo, and this one's just a baby, not yet old enough for the long tail feathers it's trying in vain to display.

She is not normally one for animals. Stella never had pets as a girl — her grandparents had a pair of English sheepdogs, but by the age she'd been living with them after her father's death, she'd been off at boarding school half the year. As a university student she'd been too busy with her degrees to care for a pet, and certainly after she'd started her career, all her time had been slowly consumed by police work. She'd decided against it for one of the same reasons she'd never had children: it's hardly right or fair to have a pet when you're barely home to care for it.

Still, she supposes it is... cute, in that awkward half-grown bird way. Stella's mouth twitches for a second, a shadow of a smile, and then she looks up to see the man sitting on the fountain rim and the smile falls right off, leaving her expression still and reserved. Not cold, not the way she's sometimes looked at Finnick, but carefully held back.

With their last conversation, she isn't entirely sure what to make of him anymore. Not that she doesn't still feel he's a bit of an arrogant dick, but his story about his world had left her feeling shaken and a little raw afterwards, and in light of that, perhaps he deserves her reconsideration. He's lucky, really. Stella doesn't often give second chances.

She doesn't sit next to him, stops a few feet from the fountain instead. "He'll be pretty when he's grown," she comments. "Yours or Annie's?"

For some reason she doesn't think of him as the type to keep animals, either, but he might surprise her.
Edited (when u write tags in the middle of the night u forget your character's arm is broken derp) 2017-08-02 13:11 (UTC)
lastofthekellys: (still merry)

[personal profile] lastofthekellys 2017-08-02 11:12 am (UTC)(link)
Kate has known about the birds at the house shared by Odair and Miss Cresta, of course. They were loud, even though young, and the young peacocks had always struck as charmingly young with their delicate little head decorations and those fan-stumps of tails. She had not ventured that far away from the centre of the village often, the sight of the young gentleman practising his display isn't that strange once she gets over the initial shock.

Then, she laughs. Quietly, trying not to offend the creature, for she knows that they can pick up on mockery more than people might think, but it's a soft, chuckling laugh that rings out.

"Oh, bravo, young sir," Kate says, dimpling at the bird. "You'll do us all proud one day."

She knows Finnick is there, which is why she isn't trying to shoo the bird back to its owners, but the moment, her attention is caught on the peacock.
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[personal profile] lastofthekellys 2017-08-22 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
She curtseys, spreading her skirts out with an elegant little flourish as benefiting the situation. After all, the bird looks so earnest it wouldn't do to mock him or laugh at him. Animals can pick up on that sort of carry on, in her opinion.

"A pleasure to meet you, Master Star," Kate says. Then pauses, her hazel eyes glancing over at Odair's face. He hadn't liked being called 'Mister', but with a trace of distaste rather than most people's uncomfortable awkwardness. She isn't sure if her teasing title of his bird is all right.

"Does he do this often?"
lastofthekellys: (still merry)

[personal profile] lastofthekellys 2017-09-25 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
Well, he seems not to mind her calling the bird 'master, so that's all right. That's good. She hadn't been sure, and yet it'd fit the tease so well...

It's all well enough. And it's good to see the man grin like this, all happy and pleased and enjoying life.

"He might not have any competition, but no girl likes being taken for granted. A bit of courtin' sets all at ease," Kate quips back with an answering smile. "If he shows some effort, I'm sure the ladies will be charmed rather than resigned to his suit."
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[personal profile] 71st_victor 2017-08-02 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Johanna's been working on her suntan in the middle of town, mainly because she enjoys putting people off guard and not enough people wander by her house to see her in her nearly nothing glory, but also because lying there with her eyes half-shut give her an excuse to watch people under the guise of doing nothing at all. Of course, when all of a sudden a peacock comes stumbling towards her, she huffs a sigh of irritation.

And there's a bird there, too, ruining her day, along with that very shiny peacock.

"You know," she drawls, sitting up and adjusting the strap of her bra as she points her toe in that direction, wiggling it at the bird presenting itself, "if it's trying to woo me over, it's definitely got to work on that."
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[personal profile] 71st_victor 2017-09-01 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
Johanna snorts at that, imagining that anyone would dare get close enough to her to even allow their hearts to be on the line. That would be their first, biggest mistake. Then again, not everyone learns the Panem's lessons when they should, herself included. If she had, maybe she would have figured out how to let them take what they wanted from her without losing all her stubborn pride.

She wouldn't have lost her family, then.

"Why?" she replies, faux-breathy. "You don't think I'd be a good stepmother? Finnick, it's like you're just trying to insult me," she says with a smirk rather than a pout, stretching back again. "Are you really going to run around all day and work? The weather's great, you should relax!"
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[personal profile] fightsinheels 2017-08-03 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Isabelle's light on her feet, all but hopping down the front steps of the Inn. A skip in her step, so to speak, though there's hardly ever anything to be happy about in this pitiful little village. And truthfully, she isn't exactly happy that Clary's here — if Clary's here, it means she isn't out there finding a way to break Isabelle out — but she'd be lying if she said she wasn't relieved to not be alone anymore.

Social creatures like her don't do well feeling isolated, and while she's branched out for friendships as much as possible, it's never the same as having a friendly face from home around.

She's pulling her hair back, trying to tie it into a high pony-tail with a strip of cloth. She's getting ready to do a bit of a run, wearing her usual sports bra and yoga shorts, still finding it too uncomfortably warm to wear anything more. She stops short when she sees the baby peacock near the fountain, almost not recognizing it at first. She's hardly ever even seen a peacock, let alone a baby one.

"Look at you," she says to it, dropping her hands from her hair. It spills back over her shoulders, framing her face once more. She crouches several feet back from it, getting on its level. "Are you showing off?"
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[personal profile] fightsinheels 2017-08-16 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Her gaze darts past the peacock to who she presumes to be the owner, lounging on the edge of the fountain. She's seen him around before, and she has the same thought now that she did before — he's devastatingly cute. Cute in a way that he knows about, too, which provides the confidence that he seems to radiate. That, at least, is nothing she's unused to. After all, she owns the same sort of confidence, and she grew up with Jace as a big brother.

Jace is the cockiest person she knows. Worse than her, and probably worse than this guy, too.

"He's very good at it." She stands up again, giving the bird a wide birth as she moves towards the fountain. She doesn't want to startle it, and it probably helps that she moves almost silently, light on her feet and graceful to boot. She pauses at the edge of the fountain, and she gives the good-looking man his space, too, just out of politeness. "I never thought I'd meet someone who liked showing off more than my brother does."