revivalproject | delivery

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delivery

WHO: Tony Stark, Cloud Strife, technically open if you want to hang
WHERE: The forge? I don't know the structure of this post eludes me, it might be just network, I might just be setting up a bunch of interactions for Cloud to have with everyone else like a benevolent god
WHAT: Tony's been making things and has packages for Reeve, Tommy, Sansa and Jon, and he's not doing all of that walking himself.
WARNINGS: It is genuinely not my fault that all of Tony's posts are horny and you should just expect it now.

a text to Cloud

hey

where are you?

you want a job, right?

Come to the forge.

Outside of the forge, sitting in front of the closed door very pointedly, were five lumpy bundles, the wrapping of these clearly not Tony's strong suit. One of them seemed to be just in a big leaf. They were all labled with thin tags of impressed aluminum tied or just placed on top for Cloud to figure out where they were supposed to go with just a name-- the rest, like who any of these people were and where to find them, was Cloud's job to figure out, apparently.

At least one of them should have been pretty easy.

C L O U D
It was...a chocobo? Or how Tony remembered a chocobo looking from the glance at it in Reeve's memory. Small, grey and surprisingly heavy, it wound up to go bouncing away on weirdly articulated legs. Did Tony think he was paying Cloud?

R E E V E
It's a head.
This might be what Tony thought a cat skull looked like. It wasn't much like the design he had left for Mini-C's skeletal structure in Reeve's sketchbook, he obviously had some time, and the obsessive insomnia turned to 11 after the sleep glut and nowhere to pour his creative energy, to take a more detailed turn, and he would have used the energy to make more of the structure but they were still tight on materials. What he did make was a few servos, dangling from the skull shape like a disembodied nerve system, and a prototype pair of hands tucked safely into the dome, too delicate to be very useful to Mini, but responding to their programming housed in the skull. The systems were done, was the point.

T O M M Y
Was this what he meant by hydroponics? It wasn't like Tony had managed to miss that bit of drama on the network. It wasn't assembled, a bunch of disparate pieces that didn't come with instructions, but a note that only read 'you need a tube'.

S A N S A
This bundle had a pair of brass combs in it, stamped, much like the labels on the packages, with roses. If Sansa hadn't figured out how to keep her hair from being a mess, maybe this would be a reminder.

J O N
A very tiny little knot of a rag, about as big as the label that sat under it, and felt light enough to be empty.
It seemed to only contain a gold chain.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Of course we have solar cycles. But I can't fathom a further way to perceive or experience the flow of time differently. While our technology is impressive in some regards, I fear we're not up on the sort of thing you're talking about. The very concept that a second could have variable flow is... It's amazing. Because if a second is not a constant, then what is? All we understand is subjective, which means there is always something new to learn.

[And that makes him smile.]

It means there is always potential progress. That there is always something new and amazing to find or to make.

[But now Tony's talking about Asgard and other places, and Reeve's attention is on him fully.]

An ecosystem of existence. Interesting. So what happens in one could affect another, yes? Like how a serious enough mountain system results in a rain shadow on the other side. Do things that happen in Asgard have repercussions in your world? Does that mean then, if true, that things that happen here ripple out to both of ours?

[That smile is infectious and Tony wants to be able to trade with Reeve all of the things their respective dimensions have built independently of each other, sure that he has something that Tony's entire reality hadn't considered yet like he hadn't been thinking about the nature of a second. Tony doesn't even have something to show Reeve for that, though-- interdimensional interaction was almost entirely theoretical, despite being constant.]

I guess so?

[That's a good question. If Tony thought 'ecosystem' was a logical way to explain the relationship, it logically followed.]

That's where we get to multiversal fractures. The theory is, that each universe is just a point of diversion from another one. So, how different would your whole universe be if you never got the job at Shinra? There's another universe where that happened. Most of them are unsustainable, so this isn't an infinity-- that universe was probably wiped out by whatever crazy shit it is that you helped stop.

[Well, if he wants to trade EVERYTHING, Reeve might have to talk about Airships, and then they can discuss how fucking WEIRD airship tech is and how it might not fit the physics of Tony's world. Literally there were things that regularly happened in Reeve's world that might make one wonder if the laws of physics weren't entirely the same.

Still, he's smiling until Tony mentions a universe where Reeve didn't work for Shinra getting wiped out.]

Or that universe is better for lack of my influence. One cannot say without seeing it. Which I cannot. So I'd rather think of your world, where there are things like 'solar power' and charming gentlemen who wear red and gold masks to balls.

[That makes Tony laugh, glad to be among the technological marvels of his world, and more glad still that Reeve seems to remember the details of that encounter and it wasn't just a particularly weird dream Tony had.]

Hey, Mini, focus up, are you listening? You missed this, so I bet you didn't know, but your dad is a marvelous dancer.

[He's jostling Mini to get his attention, then taking his little hand to spin away from Reeve with Mini much too far away from the ground to mount any protest to Tony's dancing.]

[Oh, it was absolutely a weird dream. But a lovely one. As for Mini, the doll looks to Reeve and crosses his arms over his chest like he doesn't even REMOTELY believe it. But then the doll is being danced away and Reeve laughs.]

If I might translate? He is saying 'wheeeee'.

[Reeve is content to just stand there and watch the other man.]

Your grace continues to impress.

[The pair of them are far too easy to impress, but Tony chuckles anyway, nodding at Mini to confirm, you like that?, and sure his prancing around in the dirt with a stuffed cat hanging from his shoulder is far from graceful.]

I don't get that one a lot.

[In any sense of the word, Tony does not get accused of grace.]

My team--my friends, back home, they're all superhuman, beautiful, powerful, I always feel like a turtle lumbering along with them. You'd adore them.

[Reeve might get that, a little bit. His friends all seem to be extraordinary, too. But he has his magic.]

[Well, the people who have failed to accuse Tony of grace clearly haven't danced with them like Reeve has.]

I've met powerful, super-human people who were beautiful. I mean, you've seen Vincent, have you not? That doesn't mean that there is not something amazing when faced with a man like you. Something more amazing. I mean, I once met a man who claimed he was a god, and yet I think I'd sooner remain in your company than his. Even if he was unfairly pretty for a man.

[And even Reeve would admit that Sephiroth had been stunning. But evil.]

I haven't seen much of him...

[Both in terms of time spent and the general capey experience Tony did have with Vincent, but he's not really that interested in discussing Vincent's finer points when Reeve goes on to generously flatter him. He's stopped his prancing, but he's still holding Mini's hand while he watches Reeve with a suspicious grin.]

What is it that you want?

[He is still smiling, and approached to take Reeve around the shoulders again, slouching easily.]

I'm not saying you have to stop, by all means, I'm all ears, but you know I'm not going to say no to you.

Honestly, no one really does.

[And he means it in all possible interpretations of the words. Still, he raises an eyebrow at Tony's question, even as Mini tries pushing against Tony's shoulder, mostly because he wants the dancing to start again. Until the doll suddenly goes silent as it processes the question and then looks to Reeve too. Gestures for his master to speak.]

He didn't ask you, little one.

[Reeve absolutely doesn't mind chiding Mini as he finds himself back in Tony's arms. This... is careful territory to be trod upon, isn't it? To say the right thing and be properly understood.]

I want anything you'll give me, Tony. Or that you'll ask from me. You captivate me. Your looks, your mind, your smart mouth. I want to bask in all of them. I also want a cup of coffee, but that's a whole different desire.

[With the way Reeve was buttering him up, Tony expected him to ask for his own car, or maybe a sword for Cloud, something that is just outside of Tony's immediate capability or willingness to give. So he's a little caught off guard, still looking suspicious, like this is still Reeve working up to a very outlandish request indeed until he's laughing again at 'smart mouth'. That's fair, that one is too honest for Reeve trying to get something out of him.]

Let's get you that coffee, and we'll see what we can do.

[He's glad he didn't put his glasses down anywhere so he can tip them back onto his nose after nudging Reeve on.]

[Why would he want a car? He's content walking. And he isn't certain that Tony could even do a sword to Cloud's needs. Blacksmiths back home that could do swords like that were few and far between. But what, was Tony expecting items? He could list some. Quite a few.]

And here I thought I was getting you the coffee.

[He smiles as he slips from Tony's arms to start walking again.]

I also want you to wear those glasses more. They look good. As for myself... engineering and drafting tools. You have no idea how much I need a good straight edge, and mine did not come with me from the Village.

That's it?

[All that for a ruler?]

I'll get you set up, you're going to be drowning in compasses or whatever. Where are you guys getting paper?

You... actually want to know what I need?

[Reeve glances back at him and looks shocked.]

I thought you meant... It doesn't matter what I thought you meant. Uh. Yes. I can probably create a list of needful tools and the like. As for paper, I spent much of my budget on Risa on paper and writing impliments.

[The glasses are doing their job and hiding Tony's expression, but he raises he eyebrows enough to peek over them at Reeve's shock. What did he think Tony was for?]

Barbaric. You'll get the computer soon enough, you can use my design programs, you're quick.

[Paper is, arguably, easier to make. Tony isn't volunteering to start pulping, though, he'd rather burn his fingers off.]

[Tony was for... a lot more than item requests.]

I'll try and learn them. But a computer would be more than sufficient for now. I should be able to wire a compatible power crystal system for anything you make.

Replicator first.

[If Reeve's making power system. There's a hierarchy to be observed here, and those coffee beans are going to run out eventually.]

You'd like Asgard. Magic and technology, barely distinguishable.

[Replicator first. He has to agree there. Reeve curves their path past the fountain. They're close now.]

Wait... magic and technology, I've heard of that together before. Maybe I have heard of Asgard. There was a man in the last place I was who might well have fit that description.

[Tony starts to laugh, yeah, where could Reeve have heard that before?, with a questioning look down at Mini, only Reeve doesn't seem to be joking.]

You do get around. Did you swap tips?

[Listen, that world had so many people in it.]

It was at speed dating, in the village before this. But I can't place the name of the man. Oh well, it's not important.

[He turns left at the hotel and there it is, they're moving to the door of a building that Reeve pushes open. The space is cluttered with tables and chairs, and scattered about them are papers of all sorts, pieces of rubble and building material for him to figure out the composition of, and many other sundry items. There's impressively a table with space clear on it, but Reeve ignores even that, heading right for the door into another room]

Make yourself at home. This is a public space.

[Which of course means his sketch books aren't here.]

Speed dating...?

[Tony's understanding of what exactly Reeve had been doing in this other place is clearly skewed, but he doesn't really pursue it, glancing around quickly to take in the esteemed offices of the Something Rebuilding Reuse Recycle Project Department. He had been under the impression they were moving to a more private space, which he has to assume that door Reeve is beelining for is, so Tony is fast to slip Mini to the floor and push his glasses back up onto his head.]

Go play in traffic.

[It's said with as much love as possible for Mini to make himself scarce as Tony follows Reeve to catch him in the doorway, semi-private, not outside anyway, to press a kiss to his lips for the compliments. He leans back against the doorframe then, inviting Reeve to carry on with a wry smile.]

[Well, mini doesn't need told twice. He runs back outside to go explore. And Reeve, more thinking about how he needed to head out to the fountain to get water, stops when Tony's there, catching him up. Oh. His eyes flutter shut for a moment over the kiss. After a moment he has to stop, take a deep breath, he opens his mouth and smiles back at Tony.]

I was going to get my pitcher to get water to heat for coffee, but if you'd prefer I could... show you my press first.

[Which clearly means more than that, given Reeve's reaching out to curl his fingers into Tony's shirt, pulling him forward into another kiss. Mentally he's trying to remember if there is anything scattered about his space that he could trip over if he tried to drag Tony with him through the more public room of his residence, and through to the bedroom.]

Yeah...?

[He's laughing, but he's glad to be saved from trying to come up with what 'show you my press' could mean for them by Reeve's interruption, bracing him gently around the waist and parting his lips with an inviting flick--]

Show you my grind, that would have been good, you missed the shot.

I don't do terrible pick up lines normally.

[Hadn't Tony seen how horrible he was at that? But Reeve smirks and instead of taking that inviting flick of an open mouth, he pulls Tony backwards with him.]

Come in here, I keep the press away from the public spaces.

[Or he'll have to keep Tony's mouth far too busy making other noises to sass him.]

[Tony happily follows as though enchanted, plucking one of Reeve hands from his shirt to draw around him and bring them closer so Tony can steal kisses across his smooth cheek, appreciating some fine handiwork.]

This place does seem like a real hotspot, can't be too careful. Is that the plan, regular team meetings, do I get a desk out there?

[Definite find handiwork. Could rub that smooth cheek over all sorts of things and give no beard burn. They'll have to test.]

If people want to meet here, then I'm okay with that. You can have a desk too. For whatever purpose you want. But I keep mine in my bedroom.

[Of course he put a table in his bedroom as a desk. The room has four things. A bed, a table, a chair, and a stand to put his clothes in. It's utilitarian. But it's far away, and Reeve's just busy reaching past Tony to push the door closed.]

You're not thirsty for coffee, are you?

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