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Chronology: Ultimate
DR ALEXIS KUROKI
AETHER: 60%
PHYSICAL CONDITION: FineMENTAL CONDITION: Frustrated, At a Loss for Words
LOCATION: Atlesian Ship, On the way to Atlas
COLOR: #E1914F
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The group only managed to escape near certain death thanks to the actions of a figure that jumped from ship to ship, taking each of them out until there were no more threats. When they were finished, they commandeered a transport and landed just a few dozen feet away, revealing who they were. And the person behind this...was a rather tiny looking girl with pink and brown hair, pink and brown eyes, and a bowler hat. It wasn’t long before Nora introduced this girl as Neo...as in Neapolitan ice cream? That was the vibe Alexis was getting from the girl’s color palette of pink, brown, and white, matching the colors of strawberry, chocolate and vanilla ice cream.
As interesting as a girl who dressed like ice cream was, there were more important things to handle, like the injured Sage right in front of Alexis. Though he was far from okay, and he admitted it, like any wise man should, they had to get going. If not to get to Atlas, then to get Sage some medical attention. She gently helped the boy up and let him lean on her tails as he limped to the transport ship. Alexis would’ve been fine with carrying him, but judging by how down he looked, she decided otherwise. If she had grown to know him as well as she believed, then he would feel even more helpless if he couldn’t even walk by himself.
Along the path to the ship, Sage lost his composure, dropping to his knees and just crying. Alexis made no effort in convincing him to push through and just knelt beside him, drying his tears with her tail and putting out fires as Sage made them. At this point, the boy just needed time to let it out. No attempts to comfort him. No attempts to make him keep on going. He just needed a little time to process through it without interference.
It was a miracle that no one yelled at the two pyromancers while they took their sweet time, but they eventually managed to get onto the ship and get on their way towards the Kingdom of Atlas. While Sage secluded himself in the corner in his self imposed isolation, Alexis went off scrounging through the ship for anything to help with the boy’s injuries and maybe something to make him feel a little better. Her quest yielded little in return except...air. Alexis would just have to make do with her abilities.
When she returned to Sage, it seemed as if most of his wounds were healed with the help of many matches and there were several others already attending to him, most notably, Leo, Venus, and Megumin. Leo was doing a good job by all accounts, and maybe Venus was too, but all too true to the reputation of the name, Venus, the woman started things off a bit more forward than Alexis liked. There were a plethora of reasons why the kitsune was uncomfortable with the way this woman spoke. For one, it sounded almost predatory, given the visible age difference between Sage and Venus, and that was without taking into account any immortality that might be involved. A secondary reason was that Alexis felt socially threatened. It was like the feeling that any woman gets when a beautiful woman goes up to their significant other and begins to speak with a flirtatious tone, and it was similar to the feeling a mother gets when their son brings home a girl that doesn’t seem right for them. There were many other, more discreet reasons, but Alexis immediately became defensive over Sage, giving Venus a disapproving glare and flashing her elongated canines at the woman.
Now, as for Megumin, saying that she was comforting Sage would be a false statement. It was more like...commiserating. Though the two’s problems were on opposite sides of the spectrum of power, with Megumin lacking her power and Sage not knowing what to do with it, they were equally depressed. Throughout all that has happened, they’d lost their confidence in themselves and are now self deprecating. It was painful to witness from the outside, much less actually experience.
While the two children’s grieving, Jason was going off on a tirade on Lucky, Alexis knew that he wasn’t helping either. Eventually, the kitsune couldn’t take it anymore and stood up, placing a tail on Jason’s shoulder and squeezed firmly, "That’s enough, Jason. We’re all feeling like crud right now, please don’t add to it by picking on Lucky. From what I’m hearing, he’s been through a lot, just like all of us, but unlike most of us, he didn’t have anyone to help him through it." Alexis looked around at everyone else, especially at those chastising Lucky, and give them something between a glare warning them to not mess with the poor rabbit and a pleading look as she continued, "Maybe we have to consider treating Lucky like a person before we can expect him to treat others the same. What do you think you’re doing when you bring him down every time he does something wrong? Please… I’m not asking you forgive him for whatever he may have done, I’m just asking that you give him an ounce of dignity and consideration."
Whether anyone paid her any heed or not, she would eventually say, "That’s all I have," and take a seat on the floor to the left of Sage, using her tails as a cushion between her and the hard, metal flooring. With everyone else’s attention focusing around Megumin, there wasn’t much comfort diverted towards the poor boy. Of course, Megumin needed and deserved the support, Alexis just found that some people may need to help Sage out too. She picked up the torn up jacket that Sage set on his lap and examined the extensive damage on it. Compressing, solidifying, and molding the Aether in the air, Alexis formed a sewing needle and a long wispy string tailing it. As she did her best to repair any damages she could, she said, "Sage...you’ve been through so much...you’ve felt powerlessness, loneliness, rejection, despair… It’s a lot, more than anyone should ever have to face, and more than words can heal. I’m having trouble finding the right words, but I don’t think there are any right words. You just need someone there for you, someone who isn’t afraid, someone who won’t leave, someone who you can’t hurt...someone to treat you like a person. For now, do you want me to be that person?"