[video] [Both Courts] Everybody loves eggs right?

[chaoticwhimsy]

[Lumina is skipping along ahead of the image feed when it clicks on, so one of her imps is probably filming her again. People familiar with the area might recognizing the rolling hills outside of Mair, but now nestled between a number of them is what looks like a large, sprawling ranch. Lumina comes to a stop beneath a hand-painted sign that says 'Gran Pulse Chocobo Ranch', with a painting of a bright yellow chocobo standing in front of a giant green and blue planet, with a smaller gray planet hanging in the background.]

[She twists around once she's under the sign and grins at the locket. Chaos the black chocobo is standing just inside the gate, sans his usual armor and saddle, and he peers at his mistress and the imp with a 'why me' kind of expression, then warks quietly.]

Look, they gave me a whole ranch! I had to make the sign myself though. [Lumina can find fault in anything.]

But it's a chocobo ranch! I mean, it will be. Once I have more than three of them. I mean, who gives you a ranch but not any extra animals?

[She huffs because she can't exactly breed their glorious chicken-mount overlords without more chicken-mounts, can she? But then the cheerful grin is back and she jumps forward to snatch the locket away from the imp.]

But look!

[There's a flare of light and darkness that obscures everything, and when it fades, Lumina is inside somewhere. There are two yellow chocobos, smaller than the black one seen earlier but ride-able, standing over a little wooden box, and Lumina runs over to it. She spins the locket around to her face again, and she is clearly more excited than she can contain.]

There'll be more of them soon!

[And again the locket goes spinning around, pointing inside the box. There's hey, and five eggs about the size of melons, each speckled a different color. She reaches out to tap one of them, which earns her an annoyed little wark from one of the parent chocobos, and then she giggles.]

Sooorry.

[And then back to pointing the screen at herself.]

See Steve, that's a chocobo egg. No you can't eat one. [A beat and a smirk.] I'd say people can come see them but there's that whole war thing going on, huh?

[Another little pause.]

But uh...on a related thing, dooooooes anyone know anything about hatching eggs? Or taking care of eggs? Or...really...anything about eggs? Except the eating part. Anything useful.

[Because she doesn't have a clue whoops.]

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[boutant]

You have to keep them warm so they'll hatch. That's... about all I know, really.

Still- congratulations!

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[chaoticwhimsy]

Thanks! I never thought they'd say yes. [Lumina is used to not getting what she wants, really. Even if the royals have been nice to her.]

So. ...Blankets?

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[boutant]

Well, I'm glad they did.

I think straw is fine, as long as they're out of the wind. Straw and their mother and maybe like... a heat lamp, or whatever the magic equivalent is.

[ She misses you, electricity. ]

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[debts]

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chocobo = chicken?

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[chaoticwhimsy]

[There's a delay because she knew someone was going to make that comparison but it doesn't make it any less frustrating!]

If you mean they're better than chickens in every way, then sure?

[Sorry Natasha, slightly sore subject.]

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[extramural]

Will their parents not take care of them?

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[chaoticwhimsy]

I... [Lumina hesitates, then looks back at the two yellow chocobos. One of them warks at her unhappily.]

...Maybe?

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[hiddeninfidelity]

Is there a use for these ridiculous animals beyond being food?

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[chaoticwhimsy]

[Oh you did not.]

They aren't food! You ride them!

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[starspangled]

Looks like the chocobos are getting a second chance after all. Are those speckles on the shells what color they'll be when they hatch?

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[chaoticwhimsy]

...Maybe! [Lumina laughs.] I have no idea, the book didn't actually say.

I mean, I guess. Unless they're not?

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[arla]

[ She has no idea what a chocobo is but eggs. New life. That's...astounding. ]

Ah, you'll-- You'll need to keep them warm somehow. Is there a parent, one who laid the eggs? Typically, they should be the ones caring for them...

[ Excitement colors her voice. She can't help it. ]

Where did you get them all?

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[chaoticwhimsy]

Yeah, that's what Lev said. I need to get a bigger box and then I guess the mom will take care of them?

[She points at one of the two yellow chocobos standing next to all the eggs.]

Oh, uh. I got Chaos as a boon, then I got the two younger ones as another boon. Then those two laid eggs.

[fliesbynight]

Oh my gosh another similarity! We have something just like those, too! You can ride them or they can pull wagons. They're mega cute!

[chaoticwhimsy]

...You have chocobos?

[What.]

[digophelia]

[ BABY ANIMALS. Also, Alice is in a frighteningly good mood. ]

They're darling, I wonder if they're babies are even more precious.

[chaoticwhimsy]

[Woah. Happy Alice. That's...disconcerting.]

The babies are really cute. They're like little fluffy featherballs.

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[tacticalturtleneck]

So uh....where can I get one of those? I will totally hatch an egg if it's some kind of requirement.

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[chaoticwhimsy]

[Lumina can honestly say she was not expecting Archer to want anything to do with chocobos, so it takes her a second to come up with an answer.]

I don't know. It's a lot of work, Archer. Are you sure you want that responsibility?

[Lumina does great fake parent.]

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[dragmire]

I was told that there was someone raising giant 'chickens' near the city. I had not expected it to be you.

[They didn't look like chickens though. But then, they didn't look like anything he recognized.]

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[chaoticwhimsy]

They're not... [She sucks in a breath to cut herself off. Was everyone going to do this?]

Yeah, it's me. [This is said frustratingly, but then she forces herself back to cheerful.] Who else would be raising such majestic creatures?

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[zerotohiro]

You're...raising overgrown chickens. [Lumina what the actual--]

You should build them an incubator to keep them warm. That'll help them hatch.

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[chaoticwhimsy]

Chocobos! [Grumble grumble grumble.]

Great idea, Hero. Except that incubators are machines, which don't work here.

[She might be a tad snippy, the chicken comments are starting to get to her.]

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[liven]

I think you have to keep them warm. I could ask your birds for you. Surely they know something about it.

[ it's a brief remark, and shijima seems to be idling outside somewhere once again. back around mair. ]

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[chaoticwhimsy]

Everybody is saying to just let the birds sit on the eggs.

[Which is weird but okay.]

Oh yeah you can talk to them can't you? That could work.