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our bond is as strong as igneous rocks!

Another day, another fun time of hanging out with her bestest friend Rorichaux! Babycorn always had a good time whenever she got the rare chance to stay over at his apartment. Which was usually a result of her asking to come in and tiring herself out enough to the point of passing out on Rorichaux's floor. Of course Rorichaux would be tired too. Of hearing Babycorn talk at the speed of light about whatever popped into her mind at that very second. He was always relieved whenever she fell asleep. All Rori would have to do next is call someone to come pick her up and he would be able to pass out himself. At least until he would be woken up in the middle of the night by Babycorn calling his phone.

with @ windupiceheart 's rorichaux

lalapril 23: collect

while digging through his awesome rock collection cherrypit finds something really neat and cool!!!

One of the most prominent parts of Babycorn and Cherrypit’s room had to be the shelf full of rocks and gemstones that Cherrypit had been collecting over the years.

Each and every one of them had a story behind them, some of them more exciting than others but they still meant the world to him.

Today he decided he would spend his playtime moving his rocks around and giving names to the ones that didn’t have names yet.

Cherrypit picked up a speckled rock he remembered picking up somewhere in the Azim Steppe. That was a really weird visit, there was a wyvern and a talking cat too! But it was really fun! Especially because he got to chew on the wyvern’s tail.

“One…two…tree…” Cherrypit started to count all of the spots on the rock. He wanted to know how many it had before naming it. Unfortunately there were so many that he quickly lost count, over and over and over.

Until he decided that the rock only had about ten or so spots.

(he couldn’t count that high anyway)

“Ten!” Cherrypit triumphantly exclaimed. Which was both how many spots the rock had and also their new name!

With that rock out of the way Cherrypit dug through his pile for another rock that stood out to him. “Where a-youuu? Rock! Rockee!” He sang his little song to himself as he pondered over whether Ten would mind if Cherrypit took a little bite out of them. It was like a little kissy.

As Cherrypit dug around in his little box full of rocks and various other assorted things, something suddenly stood out to him. “Point!” He could feel something really sharp poking his hand. He concentrated and moved his hand just enough so he could grab it.

He thought back to all those times he had seen his sister play Moogle’s Paw. Babycorn almost never was able to grab a prize and instead let Cherrypit maneuver the machine.

Needless to say he was a natural at it. SO of course he was going to grab his prize no matter what.

After moving his head back and forth just for a bit of fun, Cherrypit let out a cheer and pulled out his hand from the pile. “Got ya!” There in his little fist was his prize, a bright cerulean crystal attached to a grey rock.

Cherrypit looked at the gem in his hands. It was shining so brightly that for a second he was worried he had taken something important from somewhere.

Until he remembered where he had actually found this. Cherrypit had actually taken it from a much bigger rock the day that they first arrived in Garlemald.

It had fallen and bounced off of Babycorn’s head right into his hands. Almost like it was destiny or something! Not like him to look at horses inside someone’s mouth. Or whoever that saying went.

As Cherrypit looked closer he quickly came to the realization of what he wanted to do. There was no time to give any other names today because he needed to go tell his sister something really important!

Just before he skedaddled away he turned back to the rest of his rocks, “Wai' you turn!” he repeated to them.

Cherrypit quickly ran over to where Babycorn was hard at work trying to practice her reading. So far her favorite stories to read were romantic fairy tales. “Then…the…princess…said…Um…”

Her reading was soon interrupted by Cherrypit phasing his head through her book. “Bebe!” He smiled. Babycorn knew what this meant, she closed her book and picked her little brother up from the ground. “What’s up sweetie? You want something? Is it lunch time already?” Maybe she was absorbed in her reading for longer than she thought?

Cherrypit shook his head. “No. No.” He explained, he held up the rock towards Babycorn to show her. Babycorn also thought it was really pretty and completely understood what Cherrypit was trying to tell her. It was practically second nature to her now.

“You wanna give it to someone?”

Cherrypit nodded. “Wanna give-! Gifft!”

Because if there was anything Cherrypit liked more than collecting rocks, it was giving them to all his friends! Babycorn was well aware of this and so were the rest of her friends. At this point she wouldn’t be surprised to learn if any of them had a rock collection of their own now.

“Who do you wanna give it to today?” Last time Cherrypit gave Viggo a rock with a patch of moss on it that he didn’t decide to eat. Hopefully it wouldn’t be one of their friends who was busy today, otherwise that would be a little harder than usual.

Cherrypit giggled to himself and scooted closer to Babycorn’s ear. He whispered something to her as quietly as he could. It must have been something really great because Babycorn started smiling as soon as she heard it.

“Ooooooooh-! Theeeem?” In that case this was gonna be real easy! Babycorn visited them all the time! In fact it had been a while since her last visit so this would be perfect to catch up with them.

“Let’s go then! We can take my shortcut!”

In the middle of Ishgard, in a lone apartment building, lived an elezen named Rorichaux.

This elezen in question decided that it was getting a little too chilly in the apartment and walked over to close the window that had mysteriously flown open. “Brrr…” Rori shivered to himself.

Maybe the wind had been strong enough to make it fly open?

As Rori innocently walked closer to the window to close it, he started to feel like someone was watching him. Which would kind of scary because he was on the second floor. It wouldn’t be totally out of the question but it would still be scaryyyyyyyy.

Once he finally approached the window close enough, he noticed something wiggling at the top of the window. “What the…” He tried to look as close as he could to see what it was. As far as he knew this wasn’t here the last time he checked the windows.

Whatever it was it was very yellow and it looked sort of…pom-ish.

“Oh no.”

Rori knew exactly who this was.

He tried to run away from the window as fast as he could but it was far too late.

Out from the top of the window Babycorn maneuvered herself and flipped right into Rori’s apartment. “Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!! Mister RORI!!” She shouted loudly as she clung onto one of his arms in a tight hug.

The sudden presence and impact of Babycorn Corn was too much for poor Rorichaux, as he shortly tumbled down onto the floor. “Woah! You fell over!” Babycorn exclaimed, she sat down on his back and kicked her feet back and forth. “You’re like way too funny, Mister Rori!”

By all accounts this was a completely normal encounter with her. “...Hello. Babycorn.” Rori’s voice was muffled against the ground. “Could you please get off of me?” He asked.

Boy could she! “Yeah totally!” Babycorn hopped off of Rori’s back and ran back to the window herself to close it. She knew that Mister Rori didn’t like the cold a lot so she didn’t want to make him too cold.

Even if it was her idea of coming in through the window instead of the front door.

Rori managed to pick himself up and was all set up to grab his emergency piece of cheese that he often used to lure Babycorn out of his apartment. Until he noticed something strange about her. Something that he knew for sure hadn’t been there last time she’d seen her.

For some reason there was a baby sitting right on top of Babycorn’s head. God, she didn’t steal a baby while Rori wasn’t looking did she? “What do you got there?” Rori asked. Even if he was afraid to hear the answer. Very afraid. Considering who he was talking to.

Babycorn looked around, moving her head left and right. Trying to see what Mister Rori was talking about. It took a second but she figured it out.

Eventually.

“Oh!” Oh wait! She knew who Mister Rori was talking about! She put her arms up and on cue Cherrypit raised his arms up to let his sister grab him. “Tada! This is my baby brother! Cherrypit!” Babycorn carried him in his arms and watched him do a little wave.

“I remembered that when we met that Cherry was still asleep so you couldn’t meet him!” Specifically they happened to meet one Valentiones day a few months after the end of days happened. It was right after Babycorn chewed her way out of the yearly maze.

Babycorn held her brother up in the air as high as she could. “So here he is!”

That was very weird. Babycorn never mentioned having any family so Rori just assumed that she sprouted out of the ground somewhere. Which he wouldn’t put it past being the truth.

Aside from the clear white eyes Babycorn’s brother looked perfectly normal and not scary.

Rori watched as Cherrypit sputtered out spit bubbles from his mouth. He looked up at Rori with his pair of big adorable eyes and wiggled his arms toward him. “Woowi!” Cherrypit babbled out with a giggle.

Rori’s eyes started sparkling. Cherrypit was actually kind of really cute.

“He likes it when you pet his head!”

Rori decided to take a chance and listen to Babycorn. Maybe her brother wasn’t as scary as Babycorn was? There was always the chance. After all, while siblings could share a lot of similarities they weren’t always exact copies of each other. Rorichaux knew this.

Slowly he reached out his hand towards Cherrypit’s head, so as to not accidentally scare him. “Hello Cherrypit. My name is Rorichaux. Like row-re-show.” He remembered Babycorn having a lot of trouble pronouncing his name at first, so maybe it would be good to try and teach him ahead of time.

Cherrypit opened his mouth to reveal a set of razor sharp teeth.

“a.”

Rori was able to pull his hand away in the nick of time, right before Cherrypit snapped at where his hand used to be. After all, he had already gotten so much practice avoiding getting bitten with Babycorn already he was practically an expert.

“Awww! Isn’t he friendly?”

Friendly wasn’t the first word that Rorichaux thought of. “Was that friendly?” He asked.

“Yeah!” Babycorn nuzzled her little brother closer to her face. “Cherry is such a little sweetie pie~ He likes showing people he looooooves them by giving them a little bitey❤ ️” Sometimes Cherrypit was so excited to see her he would jump up and bite her pom.

“...Are you sure it’s just a ‘little’ bitey?” Judging from the teeth he saw on Cherrypit that looked like it was going to be everything but little.

“Of course!” Cherrypit would never hurt anyone he considered a friend. At least, not on purpose.

Just as Rori was about to try and pet Cherrypit’s head again, without any warning Cherrypit jumped out of Babycorn’s arms and right onto Rori’s face. Grabbing onto it like he was some sort of parasite. Which was a lot closer to the truth than it wasn’t.

“H. Hello.” Was about the only thing Rori could think to say.

“Omg!” Babycorn squealed out loud. “This means he really really likes you!”

“D-Does it?”

If he was being honest, this made a little more sense in the feeling that Cherrypit liked him. At least he wasn’t trying to bite his hair off or anything. But also this was still very scary. “Can you uh…? Can you get him off me?” Rori hoped he was pointing at the two-year-old currently attached to his face.

“Alriiiiiight!” Babycorn clapped her hands together and held out her arms. Right on cue Cherrypit pushed himself off of Rori’s face and fell backwards into Babycorn’s arms.

It was about the most coordinated thing he had ever seen Babycorn do besides the time she caught an entire baked ham in her mouth and ran away with it.

On instinct Rorichaux went ahead and gave his nose a tap just to see if it was still there. There had been many a times where there had been way too many close calls with Babycorn.

While he was sure that was the only thing Babycorn wanted to show him, little did he know there was something else. Babycorn set Cherrypit on the ground and watched him as he discreetly took something out of his pocket.

“Okay Cherry, go on and give Mister Rori what you wanted to give him!”

Rorichaux took a step back, a very worried look on his face. “It’s not a finger again is it…?”

How could he even ever think that?! “Nooo!! Of course not!” Honestly, Babycorn only gave him that one time and it felt like Mister Rori would never stop mentioning it. “Go ahead Cherry!” She nudged him forward with a smile.

Cherrypit walked a little closer, hiding something in his hands. “For you! Mistar Roowee!”

He opened his hands up slowly and revealed a bright cerulean gem. “For Mistar Roowee! For Roowee!” He happily cheered. His happiness was so intense that the magic in his body was making the crystal shine brighter than it normally did.

Rori’s eyes went wide, “Woah…!” That was about the brightest gem he’d ever seen. There was something a little unnatural about it (obviously) but it didn’t feel like it was scary. It felt oddly comforting actually. “Are you really giving this to me?” Rorichaux asked. If this was his gem he would probably never want to part with it.

Cherrypit nodded and held it closer to Rorichaux.

“He says he wants to give it to you cause it matches your hair!” Babycorn happily explained. "Kinda!"

Ignoring the sort of frightening fact that there was no way Cherrypit could have known his hair colors ahead of time, Rorichaux felt flattered.

Not only was he experiencing the joy of receiving a cool rock. He was experiencing the joy of getting a handpicked gift from a toddler. The most notorious non-sharers in the world.

Rorichaux smiled and held out his hand. “Thank you. I’ll take good care of it.”

Cherrypit returned the smile right back to him, “Mista Rowee!” He let out another flurry of giggles as he pushed his head into Rori’s hand. “Pet! Pet!” Now it was safe to pet his head. While Babycorn had not been lying when she said Cherrypit bit those he liked, he always made sure to let the people he loved pet his head.

Rorichaux kept his mouth shut but was making a noise that sounded much like a teapot with steam coming out of it. ‘Cute…’ He gave Cherrypit one last little pat and let him drop the glowing gem into his hands.

“Tada!” Cherrypit raised his hand in the air and the next time Rorichaux blinked he was back in his sister’s arms. He looked right at Rorichaux and bared his sharp teeth at him, of course it was in a very friendly way.

Though you wouldn’t really have to really know Cherrypit when he meant it otherwise. He would just kill you where you stood.

Right.

Anyway…

“Okay! We gotta go now Mister Rori!” Babycorn twirled his way past him and towards the door to his apartment. For some reason he was kind of disappointed she wasn’t exiting through the window again or god forbid the ceiling or something.

‘Guess I’m getting used to it…’ Rori thought to himself.

“We’re gonna go get lunch now! So we’ll both see you later Mister Rori!”

They both had an all-you-can-eat buffet reservation with their names on it. That place had no idea what was coming.

“Uh, bye.” Rori waved goodbye with his free hand. This was always how it went with Babycorn’s visits. She was here one moment and then gone the next.

If only this was how short her visits during Valentiones were..

Cherrypit put his head over his sister’s shoulder and waved one last goodbye to his good friend Mister Rorichaux.

“Okay Mista Roowee! I love you! Byebye!”

#omg they're so cute also terrifying watch out Rorichaux

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