heroic_jawline: (x fall break 2019)
Steve Rogers ([personal profile] heroic_jawline) wrote in [community profile] fh_trips2019-10-14 08:03 am

Quito, Ecuador, Monday, October 14, 2019 [daytime]

With the altitude--Quito is 9,350 (2,850) feet in the air--the morning dawned clear, crisp and cool. We'd recommend packing a sweatshirt for the city bus tour, which will leave at 9 in the morning. You have plenty of time to grab breakfast and a trip to the gym before then.

Up and at 'em, Fandom! Ecuador awaits!
hashtag_chocobro: (Default)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] hashtag_chocobro 2019-10-15 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
To that, Prompto had to snort. "After all the shit we've been through?" he asked, trying a faint smile, almost apologetic, because he was determined now, to get this mood to lighten at least a little. "I don't think I could stop even if I tried."

"...which I'm not going to!" he added in quickly. "Ever! Whether you like it or not, you're stuck with me."

Emotionally and legally now, too!
bookbeltof_love: (fake smile)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-15 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
But it was good that they'd gotten the emotional bit sorted first.

"You're super stuck with me too," she said, wondering if she should try telling him that—but, no, Nina didn't think he'd believe it, not right now, and that would hurt if he didn't. "Super, super, super stuck with me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The paperwork didn't lie!
hashtag_chocobro: (eyes closed head tilt)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] hashtag_chocobro 2019-10-15 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Prompto was very, very proud of himself for not pointing out that Nina would probably get herself killed long before forever even had a chance.

Or that, apparently, he was only super, super, super stuck with her when it was convenient for her.

He wanted to, but then again, he also didn't, because he just wanted to stop arguing over it and the important thing was that she was safe and...some understanding had been reached. So all he said was, "Good," and went to pull her into another big, squeezing, protective sort of hug again.
bookbeltof_love: (thinking hard)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-15 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Rude and… not untrue in about equal measures there…

But Nina snuggled into that hug, letting herself, for the moment, believe that she could trust that protection.

"Did you want to get dinner with me later oh so handwavily?????????????" she asked. "Because, like, Wayne says today's a holiday for families so I……………….."

So she'd gone looking for him.
hashtag_chocobro: (headturn)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] hashtag_chocobro 2019-10-15 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"For families, huh?" asked Prompto, who may have sort of set his chin on the top of Nina's head a little there, as he grinned a bit. Yeah, that sounded just about right, but he was pretty sure Gladio never had nearly half as much trouble with Iris as Prompto did with Nina!

"Yeah, I could go for some food," he decided. "Were you in the mood for anything in partiular? I think I heard something about guinea pigs on a stick around here..."

He was joking.

There was no way he was eating that, he had to work with guinea pigs! How would he ever look those cute little jerks in the eyes ever again??
bookbeltof_love: (WE'RE DOOMED)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-15 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, but Prompto himself was at least twice the amount of trouble compared to Gladio! It worked out!

Nina squawked in horror.

"Guinea pigs??!?!??!?!???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
hashtag_chocobro: (hopeful look up)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] hashtag_chocobro 2019-10-15 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Right," said Prompto, chuckling, and honestly extremely relieved to hear that squawk that matched how he felt about it deep in his soul, "so no guinea pigs. But, yeah, apparently, it's a national delicacy or something."
bookbeltof_love: (huh???)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-15 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"It is a national horror that I will not be trying," she said, with a dramatic shudder. "I mean, like, it's one thing if it's necessity but to make it a delicacy....................."

Nope. Nope. Nina was not going to do that.
hashtag_chocobro: (head turn snarky)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] hashtag_chocobro 2019-10-15 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"How about we just sort of wander a few streets and see if there's anything that catches our eye?" Prompto asked, especially into this idea because, hey, he was a city boy, doing a little urban crawling for food sounded like jsut the thing. "Or, I guess, in this case, our stomachs? And then I can show you some of my selfies from when I was a girl last week."

Which, sure, he vowed he'd never show her because she decided to go running off without a trace, but that just made it seem like even more of an effective peace offering.
bookbeltof_love: (thinking hard)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-15 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
She'd told him she was leaving! That was hardly running off without a trace!

"I love that idea," Nina said because, really, wandering through streets of an unknown city gave her life. "Let's do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And ohmygosh you were not really a girl last week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't even....................."
hashtag_chocobro: (happy to listen)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] hashtag_chocobro 2019-10-15 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Prompto took a moment to look around, get a good feel for where some of the best food might be hidden, and then quirked his head in a direction before heading that way. "I so totally was really a girl last week!" he informed her, almost loftily. "I have the pictures to prove it and Vette and literally everyone else can vouch for me. It was a whole thing, a bunch of people woke up one day as girls, and a few days later, the reverse happened. See what you miss when running off all the time?"
bookbeltof_love: (Default)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-15 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Nina hurried after him, still clutching her poor, nearly forgotten drink.

"It's too bad I missed you being a girl but like, I'm glad I missed being a boy," Nina said honestly, making a face at the very thought. "I'd never get married then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Nina's priorities were, uh.

...

Yeah.
hashtag_chocobro: (duh whu?)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] hashtag_chocobro 2019-10-15 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Nina would have no problems catching up, because that inspired such a pause out of Prompto that he actually had to stop and look at her so she could see his confusion.

"What does that have anything to do with any of it? Obviously, you would have changed back, and even then..."

Why was he getting the distinct feeling this was just the beginning of his boggling, if Nina could bring herself to even discuss such a sordid topic as apparently this was.
bookbeltof_love: (WE'RE DOOMED)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-15 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Nina blushed, even as she flapped a hand at him.

"Like, Prompto, oh my gooooooooooosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

She flailed for words to try to explain something that just made sense to her.

"I mean, like, I'd have failed as a wife," she said, eyes big. "I'd have seen another guy naked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

It would be terrible.
hashtag_chocobro: (headtilt listening)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] hashtag_chocobro 2019-10-15 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Prompto opened his mouth to say something in response, closed it, furrowed his brow, tried again, stopped, frowned a little deeper, and then ultimately shook his head. There was so much to unpack there that he didn't even know where to begin.

"I think," he finally decided, "there can be exceptions if the naked guy is yourself."
bookbeltof_love: (WE'RE DOOMED)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-15 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"But I'm not a guy," she said, "and being in a guy's body would just make me feel like it definitely wasn't my body, so I wouldn't be seeing my body and----------"

She shuddered.

"I'm so glad I missed that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
hashtag_chocobro: (ears)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] hashtag_chocobro 2019-10-16 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
If Prompto was a dumber man, he might have actually felt compelled to point out that, technically speaking, Nina had already seen another guy naked, because she knew Sidon and that dude didn't even wear clothes, but then she was going into this whole unfamiliar body thing, which he could definitely get, anyway, and it just would not be worth getting into.

"Maybe it is for the best, then," he concluded. "Still. It would have kind of been fun to go cute girl-clothes shopping and have you, like, do my hair or something. It was long, Nina, and I did not have a clue what to do with it."
bookbeltof_love: (Default)

Re: Middle of the World City

[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-16 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
She perked up, glad to be off of that embarrassing topic (thank you for not being dumb in this case, Prompto) and thought of the possibilities.

"I mean, like, yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you were totally cool with being a girl, then that would have been super fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How long was it??????????????????? Was it as blonde as your hair is now????????????????"