Timeskip Information - Work in progress.

[chaoticwhimsy]

Lumina COURT Unseelie TITLE The Impling OCCUPATION Chocobo Breeder! ABLE TO FAST-TRAVEL Lumina can teleport to all of the major cities at this point, and about half of the minor ones. She is slowly collecting smaller ones when she gets bored. RESIDENCE IN 2,701 A small chocobo ranch on the outsiders of Mair, and her room at Caer Scima. RESIDENCE IN 2,702 A somewhat more developed ranch, and also still her room at Caer Scima! MAJOR EVENTS HIGHLIGHT Description [ ✖ ] HIGHLIGHT Description [ ✖ ] HIGHLIGHT Description [ ✖ ]

PLANS Large plans for development or activities for the timeskip, etc. SUMMARY OF KNOWN DETAILS Lumina will be working on developing her Chocobo ranch into an actual ranch and not the three-birds-and-a-little-girl that it is right now. With the death of the Jabberwhelp and her attitude being shaken somewhat, she'll also be turning more towards learning how to actually fight, and not just be a little pest. Somewhat. When it amuses her. Her seelie friends may find she isn't speaking to them much, because she's going to finally be pretty pissed at the other side of the war, instead of just not caring. Anyone who is friends with her on the unseelie side can expect to have her drop by at least once a week just to check in and say hi and be a pest. She's not exactly good at being by herself, and the loss of the lockets is going to hit her hard. TIMELINE OF EVENTS SPRING IN 2,701 (Mar, Apr, May) MARCH - During the cold spell, Lumina and Lemina will be working to get magical heating set up in Lumina's chocobo ranch. The second round of eggs will be born as well, numbers and colors not yet determined. APRIL - Lumina won't really mind the harp, her emotions are already pretty chaotic. That said, she is going to have a breakdown towards the end of the month that will result in her smashing the harp. Need someone to be around while she breaks down. May - Lumina will be hunting the swans for the cash money! Also people may find her training young chocobos in their magic while she does it! The third set of chocobo eggs will be born this month, numbers and colors not yet determined.. SUMMER IN 2,701 (Jun, Jul, Aug) June - As people prepare to clean up the Jabberwock stuff, Lumina will basically run away to a boat adventure with the Outsider in order to avoid thinking about it and getting sad again. She will be heading to the tournament in Treun to watch the excitement but won't be fighting! July - Lumina will return from sea adventures! The fourth clutch of chocobo eggs will be born here, numbers and colors to be determined. As the ranch becomes more crowded, Lumina's focus will be mostly on it for the next few months until she adjusts. August - Forest golems in the trees surrounding Lumina's ranch will do some small damage to the ranch and buildings there before being driven off by the chocobos and Lumina and whomever happens to be around. Lumina will be at the festival of light in Leathann! FALL IN 2,701 (Sept, Oct, Nov) September - Lumina will be at the harvest festival, and probably watching the bread riots with great amusement. The language problems won't change how she speaks (FFXIII doesn't really have languages as a concept) but she won't be able to understand anyone who is not speaking 'English', for the sake of convenience! October SAMHEIN! Lumina may try to talk to the Black Shuck. The Fifth clutch of chocobo eggs will be born this month, however owing to the nature of the month, all eggs will be Black Chocobos. November - Lumina will have some run ins with the escaped prisoners, probably helping to catch them or letting them go depending on her whim, really. WINTER IN 2,701/2,702 (Dec, Jan, Feb) December - Yule! Lumina will be getting gifts for all of her friends! She will also attempt to talk to the white hart, rather than hunt it, which may result in an animal transformation? January - Reclaiming her room in the rebuilt Caer Scima, being happy to see the city in one piece again. Shard training with Ganondorf/the shade in exchange for chocobos for his soldiers? February - Lumina will be at the feast, oblivious to the violence towards the elves! The first chocobo clutch of spring will be born, the largest yet as the various chocobos from last year begin to come of age. SPRING IN 2,702 (Mar, Apr) March - Lumina will spend a chunk of the month protecting her ranch from the skeletons, until she's managed to teach her chocobos to kick the creature's skulls off. Several chocobos will be killed, which will have her pretty angry. April - Three of Lumina's imps will go missing! Along with many she is friends with in the court. She will be exceedingly upset and begin searching for them everywhere she can.

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Spring 2071: March, April, May.

[chaoticwhimsy]

The Chocobo Ranch is abuzz with new activity as Lumina and her workers recover from actually receiving twenty chocobos overnight. New buildings are being built to house birds, people and imps, and the Chaos Child herself can often be found flitting amongst the workers, trying to help but generally getting in the way.

Lumina will be taking trips to various places throughout the Drabworld, and will even be leading clusters of her chocobos against the swans in May.

Around the Start of the Third Week of April - Arrival

[raavashing]

Wan's travel south from the Station was one he'd taken before, during the second half of February, when he'd been escorting refugees from Caer Scima south to a village outside the Pool of Souls. It wasn't a completely familiar path - the snow was starting to melt and the land looked very different with the new spring growth - but it was one he could say he'd traveled before. During that trip he hadn't taken much time to explore outside the road. This time, he could do so at his leisure. He'd made no promises to anyone on being anywhere specific in the next few weeks, after all.

When he spotted the birds, he paused and stared for a bit, wondering if they were just particularly colorful ostrichhorses. Another moment and his feet left the road to wander to the fence that did little to actually hold the bird in and seemed to be more of general boundary marker than anything else. When he got to the fence, he jumped it so he could walk right up to the large bird and say hello.

It was only after he'd managed to charm it that he noticed the building and a few more birds gathered nearby. Out of curiosity, he headed over, looking for another human or at least a person that could talk. He'd take a talking giant bird just as easily as he would a fellow human.

"Hello?"

[chaoticwhimsy]

The big blue bird wasn't hard to charm, after it had decided that Wan wasn't a threat at least, and she happily followed after him as he moved further into the ranch. There were more of them scattered about, and a few babies fluttering in the air, landing on their parents or on fences. It was a rainbow of big birds!

Lumina was perched on one of the fence gates, tossing feed to several little baby birds, and she looked up and grinned at the shouted greeting.

"Hey!" She was friendly, if perhaps a tad suspicious. "You need something?"

Lemina: March - It's coooooooold.

[chaoticwhimsy]

The mystical cold brought by the new King of Birds hadn't quite settled in yet, but it was cold enough that Lumina was in the stables when Lemina arrived, helping to put blankets on all the chocobos. Well, she was putting a blanket on Chaos, her personal chocobo, who still got far more attention from her than the other ones did.

She was bundled up in a heavy black coat and a bright pink hat, too. So that's funny.

[fliesbynight]

Somehow the bright and dark colours suited Lumina well. She had come so they could talk business but seeing the shivering chocobos derailed her attention somewhere else. She frowns as she approaches.

"Do you need help getting everything warmed up around here?" she asked, already looking around for more blankets to use.

Grell: Late March - Baby Chocobo!

[chaoticwhimsy]

Lumina had called Grell to make sure she knew where she was, and then wherever that was there was suddenly a swirl of chaotic energy sparkled with crystalline light, and then Lumina was there in a heavy black winter coat. She had a bundle something under her arms, and...was it squirming a little bit?

Also she had the biggest smile on her face. "Grell! Hey Grell!"

[erythristic]

Luckily for them both, the call had arrived when Grell had already returned to Mair. There was work to be done, there always would be, but she saw no problem in reuniting with those that knew her at the same time. Lumina's arrival was sudden, but at this point, Grell thought she should have expected it.

"Lumina. It's wonderful to see you again."

The bundle gets a raised eyebrow, but perhaps she only imagined it moving.

Late March: Alice - Chocobos!

[chaoticwhimsy]

It had been tricky hiding the chocobo chick from Alice while she was visiting, but Lumina had pulled it off, and now that it was finally a few weeks old, she had it wrapped up in a blanket and tucked under her arm, bright and early in the morning, as she knocked on Alice's door.

"Hey Alice, are you awake?"

[digophelia]

She'd only been awake for thirty minutes, but refused to move out of her bed just yet. It was cold and being that she was in a new place - regardless of being in the company of a friend - it had been a struggle to sleep in a new bed that wasn't her own after the incident with Reynard. Subconsciously, she was aware of how ridiculous it was, but Alice was wedged there in her blankets, curled up in a ball lost in some of her thoughts.

Usually, Alice lost in her thoughts was a bad thing, but not today. After hearing the knock, Alice decided ther wasn't really a point with sleeping in bed like that, so she slowly lumbers out, with an appropriate shawl around her shoulders. "I am," Alice called out before opening the door to Lumina.

"Good morning, Lumina."

Maybe the first week of May?

[zerotohiro]

Depending on where she is, Lumina might not have to look far to see a certain boy genius occasionally wandering off from a path and into the center of the ranch. It's not entirely clear what it is he's doing other than dragging pieces of lumber with him to drop in the path along with various tools. The pile continues to grow and grow and he's making several trips before he finally stops.

Despite what he told Lumina months ago about coming out to the ranch and staying with her sometime, this is the first time he's actually come to visit. He doesn't even seem to be bothered by the chocobos wandering the property but instead he's focused on plopping right on the ground and drawing a piece of wood into his lap. Pulling a tape measurer out of his pocket, he's measuring out inches and drawing lines in the wood with a pencil. Occasionally a chocobo comes by and warks at him, causing him to jump in surprise every time but it's not enough to stop him.

Sorry Lumina, your ranch has become the new base of operations for his latest project. He'll be there for quite a while and steadily focused until someone interrupts.

[chaoticwhimsy]

Lumina could be quiet when the situation called for it, and this certainly seemed to call for it. Which was why Hiro might not even realize she was standing behind him, peering over his shoulder at what he was working on. Watching everything carefully, even.

Eventually though, she let out a breath.

"Whatcha building?"

Surprise!

Saber: Early April - Emotional Chaos.

[chaoticwhimsy]

There would clearly be something a bit off as soon as Saber arrived at the Gran Pulse ranch. For one thing, all her stable hands were sitting out on the road instead of being on the ranch working. If addressed, they would just shake their heads, clearly not sure how to explain, and wave their hands at the ranch as if to say 'go look for yourself.'

The ranch itself was almost peaceful, though the chocobos (the few adults and a swarm of babies) seemed a bit agitated, warking unhappily at Saber when she came close enough.

And it would be obvious why, as a loud cracking noise split the air. Lumina could be found off to the side of her manse, with only her personal chocobo, Chaos, and a two month old yellow chocobo with her. She had brought a massive rock from somewhere, and was standing near it looking, well, upset. Or angry. Or crying.

Or all of them.

The source of the sound would be evident after a moment, as she pointed at the rock and creepy red lightning shot from her finger, racing along the crack into the poor boulder. Rather than shock it though, the blast was almost physical, cracking the stone in spiderweb patterns and sending a few shards raining into the ground nearby.

She was huffing after the action, but it didn't seem to have helped at all.

[scorchedchivalry]

It was a bit worrying to find the workers outside the ranch, but even more worrying to find Lumina zapping a boulder while looking about to snap. Saber wasn't sure what kind of snapping would happen, but the king couldn't just walk away. No, Lumina needed her. Perhaps, she needed her as a better target than that boulder, or she needed someone to cry on, but Saber crossed over to where the girl was.

A hand brushed lightly over the chocobo's feathers in greeting, much like she would a horse, before coming to stand behind Lumina. A hand came down gently upon the girl's shoulder.

"Now what has that rock ever done to you?"

Lia: Bird hunting! - May.

[chaoticwhimsy]

The first sign that something strange was up was a swirl of chaotic black energy and crystalline white light that resulted in a child appearing with a large black riding bird. After a second, she vanished, leaving the bird there, only to reappear with another one a few moments later. And again, and again, each time a swirl of energy and another bird, until there were five total, black, red, blue, yellow and silver, all standing there with the kid.

"Alright," Lumina addressed the birds, as if she expected them to understand her. "We've practiced this, you guys are ready!"

The birds warked back at her, though it was hard to tell if they understood her, or just liked her enthusiasm.

"So lets hunt these swan things, right? Right!"

She clapped her hands and twisted around, pointing, and four of the birds charged towards where she knew some of the swans were. The black one waited, and Lumina scrambled up onto his back before following after them.

[psalmed]

Golden swans that were possibly demonic. That was new. Lia had heard about them from the natives, heard they were dangerous, but surely she could kill birds. She killed grown men with her sword, what was a flock of swans?

She knows they can be mean. She remembers D'Eon getting bitten by one as a child, remembers how she had laughed until she saw his maimed fingers.

Her attention is drawn by her horse nickering, looking up, and there appears to be a girl giving a rallying cry to...a bunch of giant birds? What on God's earth?

Lia digs her heels into her mount a little bit, trying to catch up. "Wait!" She calls out, as softly as she can manage and still be heard. "What are you riding?"

Summer 2071: June, July, August

[chaoticwhimsy]

Things at the ranch have settled down to the pleasant buzz of busyness that comes with everything working as well as it should. Lumina will be absent for parts of June and July, off on a whale watching trip with the Outsider. (Though how absent a teleporter ever is might be hard to say...)

In August, Lumina and her chocobos can be found trying to keep the rampaging forest golems from the nearby woods from doing too much damage, and will mostly succeed.

mid/late august!

[survivra]

There's no better way to spend a mostly quiet summer than exploring the lands of the Drabwurld to which one has never been, scouting the new land and learning one's way around the areas beyond the spires and La Llorona. This is how Katsa finds herself near the chocobo ranch when the forest golems wake and smash their way through whatever's in their path.

She'd ignore them if it weren't obvious they were headed to create more destruction on places for which it probably wouldn't be very convenient. Not far from sight of the ranch Katsa is trying to climb on top of a golem, almost trying to ride it, persistent and scowling and yelling with anger and surprise when a frightened chocobo streaks by her and distracts both her and the golem into her tumblr to the ground.

"Surely you don't want to die too, bird," she snaps at it, and spits out dirt and tries to stand.

June and July, 2071: A Shrine.

[chaoticwhimsy]

It was a few days after Grell had informed her of the grave outside of the ruins of Caer Scima where the baby Jabberwock had been buried that Lumina finally visited. After she'd been told, part of her had wanted to immediately, but the rest of her just...couldn't. Even after speaking with Morla, after the queen had told her to go find the baby's father, coming here had felt too hard. Too unpleasant.

But she couldn't put it off forever, which was why she came picking her way through the ruins until she found it, marked by the distinct purple flowers Grell had told her about. It was simple enough, really, a quiet little spot away from most things. Peaceful, in a way, that was almost ironic given the chaos of the jabberwhelp's short life.

She stayed there for a while, longer than she meant to, walking around the little clearing and eventually just sitting on the grass, looking at the flowers. Flowers that marked a dead child, a dead child she'd tried to save and failed. It was...

Well, it just was. And she couldn't do anything about it.

Helplessness was not one of the things Lumina handled well. Oh, she could fake it, sure, but that's all it was...an act. She was rarely ever truly helpless. Except for now. Now there wasn't really anything she could do to fix this.

But maybe she could at least make it nicer...

It was hours later when she returned in a swirl of chaos, and this time there were two men with her, architects from Mair. Neither of them looked particularly happy to be there, most people didn't want to go near the ruins and Lumina's teleport hadn't helped anything.

But now they were stuck there with her, and had to listen as she laid out the general idea of what she wanted, walking in a wide circle around the flower grave, pointing things out, kicking stones out of the way, generally being far more flamboyant than would really be possible.

But the general idea was sound, and work started immediately. Over the next two months, the two men and others would be shuffled there by Lumina. They borrowed materials from the shattered nearby city, cleared out the weeds and set down the stones, building up pillars and benches and then planting new plants.

When they were finished, there was a simple black-stone pavilion that circled the flowers that marked the Jabberwhelp's grave. They rose up ten feet to meet a circular ceiling with a large hole in the center for the light to fade in. Benches were placed at the four directions, and plants of lavender were scattered all around, inside and out. Lumina wasn't sure how she'd get them to not die in the winter, but...she'd figure something out.

It looked almost like a little, gothic garden.

It still wasn't enough, but it made Lumina feel a little better, and that was something, right?

When it was all finished, the workers gone, the quiet returned, Lumina sat cross-legged on the ground in front of the now much larger flower bush. What had Grell said? If she ever wanted to talk to the baby...

Talking to the dead was something she knew all about, though back home they'd answered. They'd protected her, all those years she'd been in her own. But death was so different there, it wasn't so...final. Not like here.

So what was she supposed to say?

"I'm gonna find your dad," she decided, reaching out to run her fingers over the edges of the flower. No answer, of course, but she waited a little while anyway before she left...

Fall 2071: September, October, November

[chaoticwhimsy]

Repair work from the golem attacks will proceed through September, and the ranch is now absolutely abuzz with chocobos in various stages of life, from proud parents to gangling younglings to hatchlings, all flying around curious and excited about the world.

The prisoner escape has Lumina again out in the world with some of her chocobos, teach them to use their magic as they recapture the escaped cons.

In October, perhaps owing to the Black Shuck, all chocobos born will be black chocobos.

November, Hiro: We're off to see the...printer? The wonderful printer of Drabworld...

[chaoticwhimsy]

Lumina had been making sure she had all the books she needed to make copies of in order while Hiro finished that quest he was on before she came to bother him about her plan to get a printing press. There were rumors that someone had one, but she hadn't had much luck tracking it down.

Hiro was more connected to that part of society, hopefully he had figured it out! Which was why she appeared outside of his door in Ariadne's spire, dressed in a long, red winter coat. She would've appeared inside, but after the altercation with Nico and him at Samhain she was still a tad bit skittish around him.

So she knocked. Rap rap rap! "Hey Hiro you in there?"

October: Jabberwock Quest.

[chaoticwhimsy]

[It had been months of searching, on her own and recruiting others, poking into all the little holes in the world (well, mostly big holes) in search of the elder Jabberwock. The Papawock.]

[In the end though, it was the Outsider that had called her to say he found something. Or something in the ocean found something, she wasn't entirely sure. Which did make sense, it would be much easier to hide in the sea than on land, for something this big. Since he didn't have another set of hills to live under. Probably.]

[When she appeared on the deck of his ship, she was dressed in a long, red winter coat, her hands stuffed into the pockets, her expression a mixture of excitement and just a little bit of wariness. This wasn't the first time she'd gone somewhere on a 'sighting' this year, though none came from anynoe as reliable as him.]

You found him? [She asked immediately, too eager to bother with her usual pleasantries.]

Are you sure? Please be sure.

Winter 2071-72: December, January, February.

[chaoticwhimsy]

Lumina can be found all over the Drabworld, passing out gifts to friends. These may be everything from homemade trinkets to store bought actual gifts to the occasional baby chocobo!

The rebuild Caer Scima will add a bounce to the child's step, and she'll spend a large portion of January back in the city, picking a room for herself and just enjoying having so many people in one place again.

The largest chocobo hatching in the Drabworld Ever wil happen just before spring!

Just before Yule 2701

[raavashing]

[Wan hadn't been by the ranch in a couple months, but he'd just been to Azure and saw no reason not to take the long way down to the coast when the only plans he had for the winter months were to stay in the south where it was marginally warmer than in Dorchadas. Rin was doing business out of the top floor of the Barrel, in Aghmhor and Wan wanted to spend some time there with her and her son. The trip between there and Azure easily let him stop by to see Lumina.

This time around, Wan had a travel companion. His snakedog, Qing lin, who had been given to him back in July by Zuko as a pup and was now big enough to accompany Wan on long trips. Most of the snakedog's training had happened during short visits back to Azure and by the people of the town when Wan wasn't around. But that discrepancy didn't seem to effect Qing lin's willingness to do what Wan wanted when he wanted her to.

Which was a good thing because as they approached the ranch, Wan had to reign her in with some chiding so she didn't slide under the fence and chase after the chocobo that gathered against it to say hello to him.]

Qing lin, no. They're friends. Not playmates. The small ones can't handle the kind of play Druk can.

[It was highly debatable if she could understand him beyond 'no', but Wan was never one to treat animals like they were stupid. Once he'd made sure she wasn't going to pounce, he greeted the chocobo.]

And hello to you, too. Is Lumina around, or are you watching the homestead for her?

Spring 2072: March, April

[chaoticwhimsy]

The skeletons attacking her ranch are going to have Lumina in a foul mood, though anyone who comes to visit will find her in higher spirits as she teaches her birds to use skeleton heads like soccer balls.

The end of the timeskip will bring panic as three of her loyal imps disappear! She will be all over the Drabworld trying to find them and bring them home. The longer they're gone, the most frustrated and upset she may become!

March-At the Chocobo Ranch

[oathshackledbird]

[As Diarmuid nears Lumina's chocobo ranch, he realizes that it was a good idea he found its location last month before things started to get...well, so undead. He almost decided against coming, but Aengus has just started showing signs of magical ability. It is best for the chocobo to visit the Chocobo Queen so she can help with her knowledge.

The skeletons had not been so thick in the area around Cu Chulainn's castle, but here they seem so much thicker...almost as if they are being drawn to it. It's not good. Not good at all...]

It looks like some of your fellows could use some help.

[When Diarmuid stops speaking, Aengus warks in agreement and then, suddenly, takes off in the direction of a set of loud cries.]

Looks like we start here!

[And then Diarmuid takes off after his chocobo. He's not sure where Lumina herself is, but he's not just going to stand around and let these undead creatures kill animals that cannot fight back.]