Love Springs Eternal (??)

[bright_and_blue]

Who: ERRYBODY
What: It's Valentine's Day, and there are matchmaking notices everywhere. Here's an open log for one and all to post their shenanigans, meet ups, freak outs, and whatever else they're going to do about this.
When: forward dated to Feb. 14
Where: All over Aqures Ixen
Warnings: Ridiculousness.

[Plastering the city are notices matching up all of the Heroes of Light with one another, both the best and the worst. Moogles are having a grand old time handing them out and hanging them up, and are encouraging Heroes to speak with their top matches.

Naturally, reactions to this are mixed. Some Heroes are intrigued, some annoyed, some offended. Despite their feelings or misgivings, the rest of the city is still celebrating Valentine's Day as well, and now the thoughts of love are everywhere.

OOC: This is an open log for everyone to use for Valentine's Day stuff! Feel free to make your own prompts.]

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[zodiac_brave]

The blond shrugged at Ace's question. "It is...different...than the reports I was taught to compile when I was a lad in Academy, but Simon has been helping me. It has not been bad so far."

Ramza got the feeling that Sparks Nevada would not approve of one's moogle writing the brunt of said paperwork, so Ramza was making the effort to do it himself. Simon was just...better at it, and liked making sure his Hero was turning in the best reports possible.

"I do wonder what they do with it all. Who reads them?" If it was Biggs, it was no wonder the man was so grumpy, with the sheer volume of pages they sent him.

[confidentia]

"Archivisation purposes, I assume, though considering the trivial nature of most of the offences it does make you wonder whether there has actually been any point to all of the hours spent." Not that he would ever instigate his colleagues to rebel against the system that, being a major part of their responsibilities, had to be obeyed, even if at the cost of simple logic.

Ace thought for a little longer before returning to something else that had caught his attention before. "... I did not meet many others who have received formal military education." Was he wrong to assume it was the case here? Still, something about Ramza's tone sounded oddly familiar.

[zodiac_brave]

Ramza looked down at the road. "I left before graduating, but I spent a year enrolled at the Royal Akademy in Magic City Gariland, and a few years of tutoring in preparation before then."

He shrugged a shoulder and turned his gaze back to the road before him. "It sounds like the military agreed with you more than it did with me."

[confidentia]

Thrown a bit off-track by his companion's negativity, Ace looked at Ramza for a longer moment. "And yet, we're both following the same path."

Though there had once been a myriad of doubts in his mind, he had long since forsaken the thought of officially entering the ranks of the local forces. Especially now, with the region of the Empire struggling with the grave issues of their own, it seemed even more important to cast one's eyes toward their home, rather than conflicts of sometimes unclear nature. Though he often found himself recalling the thrill only a mission could deliver, Law Enforcement provided something more valuable, a chance to protect their city from within, should such a need arise.

Like cleaning it from treacherous posters, for example, such as the ones on this particular notice board ahead-....

"Ten months." The cadet added. "I had only been enrolled for ten months before coming here, though I'd trained for many years prior to that. That would... make us equal, wouldn't it? I suppose you had your reasons."

[zodiac_brave]

Ramza shrugged. "I do not know if we would be 'equals'. I left, and was branded a traitor when I did so." He did not have any particular regrets about doing so. It had been the right choice. But he did not want to give Ace the wrong impression about him and his experience.

"I was...asked to follow orders that were clearly wrong, and to turn a blind eye when innocents suffered for the nobility's gain. I would not have joined the force here if I thought it would be the same."

[confidentia]

The reply hit close to home, but ultimately, Ace decided to keep his words of disagreement to himself, respecting his companion's willingness to share his story with him as it was, given it also seemed to be a delicate subject. Maybe one day, he would have an opportunity to explain himself better. "... I see." His answer was short and quietly spoken, and for a while he didn't say anything else, focusing on the first batch of crookedly pinned posters.

"In that case, it's good to have you on the team, Ramza." He offered a small smile of encouragement. "Even though it's been my field of work for a while now, I haven't had the chance to get to know others too well. I'd like to fix that."

[zodiac_brave]

Ramza nodded. "Agreed." He started pulling down the fliers on the far side of the board from where Ace was working, so they could meet in the middle and finish the work in half the time.

"I have been here for nearly a year and a half, and I still do not know all the Heroes that were called here. I only hope I will not meet any when making arrests.." There were more than a few trouble-maker Heroes, after all.

[confidentia]

Though some of them had been glued onto the surface by the more persistent Moogles, the monotone job hardly required any effort, and there was some satisfaction to be found in seeing the board slowly being freed of all the unfortunate reminders.

"I don't think this has gotten me on anybody's bad side as of yet, because I think I'd have known by now." His mognet mailbox had never seen written threats, at the very least. "Besides, it's never anything personal, so better learn not to consider it as such. These are responsibilities like any others."

[zodiac_brave]

"That is a logical way to look upon it. But not everyone is logical when they feel they are being wronged." He shrugged. He'd been hated during the short time he'd been a cadet doing guard duty.

"I am glad no one has blamed you for performing your duties." Indeed, most everyone respected the police force, minor teasing of Sparks Nevada's love life aside.