morphitudinous: (Engineering: Guns)
Billy Cranston ([personal profile] morphitudinous) wrote in [community profile] concoursec2012-08-12 04:02 pm

Instant Fun, Just Add Shark

Characters: Billy and anyone!
Location: Garden's pool, fairly early one morning.
Rating: PG (nothing more saucy than people in swimsuits)
Open/Closed/Finished: Open!
Summary: Bubbles. Heart pounding. It's a shark---no, just Billy out for a swim.

When swimming, Billy prefers to keep his head below the water. It's not to show off his ability to hold his breath for a lap or two---that's a good side benefit, but it developed after his preference for staying underwater. He stays below because it's an easy way to drown out the world. With his head submerged, he can't hear any disapproval of offworlders. There's no commentary on his scarred body. And, perhaps most importantly, he can be aware of any lingering threats if his eyes are open.

So Billy spends as much time underwater during his laps as possible, prescription goggles firmly attached. He's a stream of bubbles and a peach and blue shape sliding the surface, only surfacing for air for a few brief seconds. This swimming is entirely serious business, you see. No time for chat. Just time to...run. Or swim, in this case.

His concentration is quite suddenly interrupted by the bean bags that some clown has decided to throw in. He scowls, surfacing for just long enough to toss one to the deck. You'd almost think some people have fun when they go swimming!
sublimelymagnificentblitz: (uwah?!)

[personal profile] sublimelymagnificentblitz 2012-09-10 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh, more of a personal thing for me."

There was no really polite way to say that being on Spira meant being a giant monster that brought death and destruction to the world, and even if there was, he wasn't about to mention it anyway.
sublimelymagnificentblitz: (big grin)

[personal profile] sublimelymagnificentblitz 2012-09-12 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"An' I'll owe you one. 'Course I'm not sure what I could do to repay ya," he admittedly frankly. He didn't exactly have a lot of relevant skills...