TO HAVE AND TO HOLD [modplot]

[letsgolegion]

Who| Anyone who wants in
What| "To Have and to Hold" plot
Where| The planet Olum, Matihara Temple
When| Set vaguely the same time as "Gods Among Us" and "Other Mother"
Warnings/Notes| N/A

The planet Olum is a genuinely welcoming place. While the clothes they have to wear for the rituals are a bit...odd (provided they don't opt for coverups), they are comfortable, especially with such a balmy climate. Despite the Olumites allowing outsiders into their ceremonies, there's a distinct lack of tourist-ey elements; no gift shops, no merchants selling anything, just a spirit of genuine unity and celebration. The Olumite marriage guides seem to genuinely care about helping people with their relationships, and seem happy to share their cultural traditions with other species.

As far as missions go, it's definitely a nice vacation from the usual life or death struggles.

It means the Legionnaires have no distractions. They have to settle in and try to navigate this while faking sincerity as best as they can.

[ooc: All information about the setting can be found on the infopost.]

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Videl

[saltsweet]

Videl has opted for a simple holographic disguise, making her hair long again, like she had it in school before she met Gohan, but worn in a single long braid rather than pigtails. Really, not much else is necessary. She knows she’s pretty common looking for a human.

Open: Beaches - Nude or clothed option available

Nude beach? Hah. Videl does not fear your nude beach.

....But as comfortable as she is, Videl won't be at the nude beach the entire time. Her husband is too much of a shy prude to join her over there (except maybe after dark when he thinks no one is around /wink, nudge), so she's also spending part of her time at the clothed beach.

On either beach, Videl can sometimes be found lounging under a tremendous umbrella, either reading a magazine or falling asleep with it on her face. Other times, she's out swimming, lazing about in the water or diving down to touch the frella rays.

She’s more likely to be found on the clothed beach during the daytime and the nude one during the nighttime. Even at the clothed beach, she’s not making much effort to be modest. Videl specifically packed for this mission a red two-piece swimsuit to show off her fantastic abs; she’s worked very hard to lose all her baby weight and wants people to appreciate it.

Open: Spa

Spa treatments hadn’t appealed to Videl much as a teenager, but that was before she had ever been invited to a spa getaway with Bulma Briefs and her close female friends. The absurd level of luxury and pampering had weirded Videl out the first time, but once she managed to relax, she found the decadence actually enjoyable. So she’s eagerly trying out the Olumite spa, relaxing in the heated pools and mud baths, partaking in a massage, or checking out all the different oils and lotions to see which ones she likes the best. She’s happy to engage with other spa-goers, since socializing is an important part of the spa experience as far as Videl is concerned.

Open: Anywhere else

There’s a lot to see in this part of Olum and Videl is determined to see all of it in the first two days before the pilgrimage to Mount Letifa. She’s spending plenty of time inside and out, snapping picture after picture with her omnicomm. This is the couples’ vacation she’s been craving ever since her daughter was born; a few days away in a beautiful, romantic locale to relax, to deepen her bond with her husband, and to socialize with other couples. For now, just for a bit, the mission can wait.

Ritual Areas - Closed to Gohan

After the intensity of the relationship review, Videl was relieved to find that the other two rituals were more low key. They opted for the searching questions, which Videl was confident could never be more difficult to answer than the questions she got from her mother in law as a teenager. Unlike the other rituals, which required stone arrays, this one took place in an outdoor sitting area. Seating was grown out of tremendous, brightly colored flowers, each petal curled into a comfortable chair or sofa. The pistil and each of the stamen grew high above their heads, the anthers and stigma covered with phosphorescent pollen that gave off a warm, calming glow in a rainbow of colors.

Videl settled herself on a petal that was large enough for two people and patted the spot next to her, inviting Gohan to sit beside her. “Ready to be grilled about our relationship again?” she teased.

Clothed beach

[grumpylady]

2B has walked out into the ocean. Not exceedingly far, but enough so that the water's reaching her waist. She's fully clothed, as well, as she doesn't even know that one is supposed to change clothing when dealing with bodies of water. It doesn't matter much to her, really. Her YoRHa uniform can get wet and it'll be fine. What really stops her from venturing out further is the fact that she actually weighs over three hundred pounds and would sink rather quickly.

Wouldn't be much use to anyone, then.

She continued to stand where she was, until watching someone else floating on by.

Humans sure were light if they could float on the water like that.

[saltsweet]

Videl was languidly floating on her back in the shallows, close enough in that the rolling surf was more likely to push her onto the sandy beach than pull her out to sea. She allowed the waves to guide her for the most part, employing a few backstrokes here or there to correct her trajectory as needed.

Turning her head to the side, she caught sight of a fully clothed young woman standing waist deep in the water a few feet away. From Videl's perspective, it looked like the woman was contemplating going for a swim.

"Forget your bathing suit?" she asked as she floated into hearing range.

[grumpylady]

"I don't know what that is. I'm only here to observe since swimming is impossible for me." She was far too heavy to even make the attempt. All that would happen would be that she would sink, and what good to anyone would she be then?

"My current clothes are fine." They'd gotten wet before and why would she need to switch clothes to be in the water to begin with?

[saltsweet]

"It's only impossible if you never try," Videl replied. She pushed herself upright to face 2B. If Videl hadn't studied the mission roster before leaving Legion World, she wouldn't have recognized 2B as a fellow Legionnaire; it seemed like a number of new displacees had appeared while she wasn't paying attention.

"Have you ever tried to learn?"

[grumpylady]

"It's impossible because of all the different parts that were used in my body's construction. I'm an android, not a human." Despite the way she looked, she was merely shaped in their image.

"So that's why."

[saltsweet]

"Really?" Videl looked at 2B thoughtfully, unfazed by the revelation.

"What are you made out of? Are you sensitive to water?" She didn't stop to consider if her searching questions were too invasive. "I know another android where I'm from --well, a cyborg, actually-- and I don't know of her having any problems with water."