the one year anniversary is a perfect excuse to wrestle chocobos

[stayb100ponyboy]

[The video feeds turns on just in time to catch a loud crash and for the camera to be completely covered in black material. Then the darkness lifts, showing a view of a backyard, complete with a splintered, broken wooden fence and Equius, stalking a blue chocobo.]

[Does anyone remember when Darkleer was a chick and was small enough to ride around on Equius' shoulder? Those days are long past, and it's an almost fully grown, towering feathery asshole that is ducking and weaving, all while warking joyously, as Equius chases him around the yard with a saddle.]

Aha, you think I'll give up that easily? You're wearing this saddle whether you like it or not!

[Equius lunges, Darkleer kicks him in the chest, Equius flies backwards and crashes into the fence, sending more splinters into the air. It's hard to tell who is having a better time here.]

[OOC: it's my Vatheon one year anniversary today! Thank you, everyone, for a year's worth of amazing RP!]

Comments

[video]

[stayb100ponyboy]

Oh, no!

[Equius tilts his SFC so it's pointed at another chocobo, this one green instead of blue, standing patiently and peacefully by the fence, wearing a saddle and bridle.]

My other bird, Pounce, took to it right away.

[Darkleer is kind of a douche an exception, okay?]

[video]

[bountyofthesun]

Oh! Right, yes, that's a lot more like it. Except I hope that they don't all come in blue and green. [That's just no proper color for a chicken, seriously.]

Say, do they... [he's tentative about asking, because if the answer is no it'll be a huge disappointment] ... fly?

[video]

[stayb100ponyboy]

They come in all sorts of different colors, and what color they are determines what they can do. Darkleer [camera swivel to show the blue bird] can swim, and Pounce [swivel back to the green one] can climb really well. I've seen brown, red, and white ones as well, but most of them are yellow.

I... don't know about flying. You'll have to ask Lea about that. I know that my two don't.

[video]

[bountyofthesun]

... you named a giant ridable chicken Darkleer?

[Yeah everything else just kind of went right over his head after that.]

[video]

[stayb100ponyboy]

I named him after my ancestor!

[Who is also in Vatheon, but the chocobo came before the ancestor, and Equius didn't realize how confusing things would get.]

[video]

[bountyofthesun]

You have an ancestor named Darkleer? [EQUIUS THIS IS NOT HELPING]

Whew! Family dinners must've been interesting!

[video]

[stayb100ponyboy]

The chocobo eats out in the backyard.

[Because that is clearly the source of confusion here. Clearly.]

[video]

[bountyofthesun]

[... you know maybe it's better not to know.]

What do they eat, anyway?

[video]

[stayb100ponyboy]

Chocobo greens.

[The camera shifts again, showing a patch of green plants, growing lush and thick but surrounded by a chocobo-proof fence.]

You can buy them in the Nostalgia Quarter, but you can also grow your own.