OPEN POST: Basilio Lupus Magnus - Metaphor: ReFantazio

[baserker]

Please mark for spoilers in subject lines as needed! 100% done with the game so I can play from late/post-canon scenarios as you prefer.

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tis the season (spring equinox)

[baserker]

[In Euchronia, the main draw of December is Idlesweek: on the last week of the year, people take time off work to spend with their friends and family, or in prayer and reflection, for the more Sanctist-inclined. Basilio is certainly not the latter, but even Louis knows when to set his ambitions aside for a time to give his followers rest, so Basilio was able to meet with Evangeline on this particular chilly Brilehaven morning, hands shoved in his pockets to stave off the bite from the sea breeze.]

Heya, Lady Evangeline! Happy Idlesweek! [He looks to the packages she's carrying in confusion.] What you got there?

it's always the season for fluff

[abnormalizes]

Where I'm from, the tradition around this time of year is to give your friends and family presents? I don't know if they do that here - but either way, I got you some gifts.

[She hands him the small wrapped package first - it's a little bit bigger than a pen.]

Open this one first.

[baserker]

Damn, really? Thanks!

[He takes and opens his package, using his claws to make quick work of the wrapping while careful not to damage whatever's inside.]

[abnormalizes]

[It's a reading pen! Not that she expects them to have them in Euchronia, so she hastens to explain.]

It's a reading pen - you run it over a word in a book or whatever and it reads the word aloud to you. I altered it to be solar-powered for you - whenever it stops working, just leave it in the sun for a few hours and it'll charge right back up.

[baserker]

Whoa, that's amazin'! It'll help me learn my letters even faster all by meself.

[He takes the pen out of the box, turning it over in fascination, his tail wagging happily.]

This some kinda special igniter? Or did you bring it from home?

[abnormalizes]

[Oh, he likes it! She looks visibly relieved.]

It's from home! I figured you wouldn't be able to get anything similar like this here.

Now this one.

[She holds out the second wrapped present, which is pretty obviously a book based on shape and weight. Opening it up will reveal a cookbook with recipes from the City - what an outside observer might recognize as Korean cuisine, though Evangeline wouldn't know it by that name.]