04. [video] Fortune

[mech_and_mutt]

[When the video begins, Red's already slumped back into the pilot's seat of his airship, his weary posture and tired limbs looking like they'd already long-since given out on him. He's breathless and panting- and not even in a particularly dog-like way- while sweat somehow manages to run off of his fur. Or is that just water? It'd explain why he was in his blitzball outfit. And all those bruises.

And yet, somehow, his face is the biggest, toothiest smile most people would ever have seen from him.]

..I... did it.

[He pauses, reaching beside him to grab a hold of a metallic water bottle with an oddly familiar logo on it, and ravenously gulps from it a few times between heaving breaths before using the rest to douse himself.

A few seconds of a more familiar canine head-shaking, water-flinging dryoff later- and a quiet ugh from the offscreen moogle- he catches his breath enough to continue.]

Starting lineup. Dragons. Cloud City.

[...and then, as if he suddenly remembered he was actually broadcasting this--]

Uh-- I'm Red. I play Blitzball. For the Cloud City Dragons. It's a great sport. Come watch me sometime. ...cause I just got promoted!!

[He manages a fistbump for a few seconds before his fist quivers, and with a weak groan his arm soon goes limp. Yup. That muscle was probably pulled.]

...So yeah. Tryin' to think of how I should celebrate. Any ideas?

...Y'know, after I get some rest.

Comments

[mythmaker]

The rest was hard work. At our next big concert, I was so ill that someone had to cover for me. Ufufu, but I think that was for the best...I got to see something wonderful.

[mech_and_mutt]

Really? What'd'ja see?

[Something worth getting sick and missing a concert over...?]

[mythmaker]

They couldn't cancel the event, you see, so instead of my purple waves we had an entire sea of green~.

[But she knows that makes absolutely no sense.]

My manager, Ritsuko...she used to be an idol. She performed in my place. All of her old fans showed up, waving her color in the audience. When I watched the playback, it was beautiful.

[mech_and_mutt]

[So... green hair. Got it. Probably.]

Wow. All of her fans were still stickin' by her and going strong, huh? How long had it been?