Vist to Ranka's (For nyan_nyan)

[kittysdragon]

The little dragon was happy after so long to finally be having a nice evening with the girl he'd met and become interested in, Ranka Lee, who was one of the few women he'd met outside the X-Men who was taken with him, despite his little appearance. With her address to hand it had been a simple case to fly over to her neighbourhood in the fading night. Tentively Lockheed peered into a nerby window, just to check he had the right place. The last thing he wanted to do was scare an unknown person by mistake.

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[kittysdragon]

The dragon would understand, in fact oddly enough his boss in SWORD, Abigail Brand, also happened to have green hair and some unknown alien species as her father. But just because your relatives might be skrulls or kree didn't make you a bad person.

Lockheed was looking forwards to the evening, having some nice food and spending time with a pretty (almost) human girl. He looked slightly abashed at scaring her slightly, but he had doubted his taps would have worked well on a big door. With the window open he flew inside and perched himself on a counter besides her. "Thanks, I figured it was the best way to get yeh attention. I brought yeh this by the way..." He handed her a single flower, since he knew humans valued them. It was an especially colourful or giant display but it was the thought which counted.

[nyan_nyan]

"Yeah, it sure seems easier..." Ranka blinked a few times, just a little surprised, but the way her smile grew said enough about it. She took the flower, looking around for...

"Ah, just a sec!" Ranka filled a glass partway with water and stuck the flower in it, setting it in the middle of her kitchen table. "There! Thank you, it's really beautiful." She turned back to Lockheed, hands behind her back. "Sorry, but I'm gonna be a little distracted finishing up getting ready for dinner for a little longer, so just make yourself comfortable. If you need something, just ask."

[kittysdragon]

He was glad she liked the gesture, and it gave him a happy smile that she was pleased with it. At her words he nodded. "Ok, should Lockheed go anywhere in particular or just look about for a bit if that's ok?" He was interested to see her place and where she lived a little, and if she needed some space to finish that was ok.

[nyan_nyan]

"You can just look around if you want, there's nothing that I'm really hiding." That he can get to without being pretty damn rude, at least, and that isn't his style.

Her home was, otherwise, fairly normal, if a little expensively furnished in the front. Ranka's bedroom was a bit of a mess of stuffed animals and posters, on the other hand, quite a few of them of a tall, curvy blond pop star named Sheryl.

[kittysdragon]

"Wouldn't think yeh were." The dragon smiled kindly at her before flying about to various rooms. He of course only inspected things on display, not opening drawers since he respected her privacy. He wondered whether she was on her own since the place was fancy for a young girl like herself. He found her colourful bedroom interesting and sat on her bed for a little time to admire her animals and posters of pop stars.

[nyan_nyan]

Who knows what girls have to hide, huh? No, really though, she had her own place - a little young for it at seventeen, but capable - which meant she had a few things. Little things that polite company shouldn't see.

It took a few minutes for Ranka to finish prepping, and then to clean things up, and eventually she washed up and poked her head into her room to see Lockheed. "It's almost cliche how girly my room is, huh?"

[kittysdragon]

Lockheed would be impressed that she had got her own place at seventeen, and a nice place at that. Perhaps once she trusted him enough she could let him see some of those things, if she was comfortable with doing so.

He glanced up at her when she entered her room and shook his head. "It's ok, yeh allowed to have a nice room like this. Heed mean Kitty, my best friend... she had a quite pink and lotta teddies room too. Yeh have a nice collection anyhoo."

[nyan_nyan]

The perks of something else she hadn't mentioned - he didn't seem to recognize her as a minor pop star, so far, although she was on a brief hiatus while sorting out her education anyways. 'Hiatus' was so very negotiable when she wanted to perform, though.

Ranka smiled, and sat down next to him. "Oh yeah? Thanks, I should meet this best friend of yours sometime too, I think. She must be pretty nice."

[kittysdragon]

That would certainly impress him, especially if she had managed that at her age. Katherine had had a major interest in the mutant pop star Dazzler when she was younger and had first met her dragon friend, but he wasn't likely to recognise her as one himself.

He smiled at her when he sat down next to him on her bed, nodding happily. "No problem, and Heed would like that, Kitty is really nice, she taught Heed to speak English after all."

[nyan_nyan]

That would be all the more reason for them to meet - for all she knew Kitty liked her music, although she obviously wasn't a huge enough fan for Lockheed to know. Ranka knew what it was like being on the other side of that anyways, if the posters were any indication.

"Yeah? She sure did a good job of it, huh?" Although he must be pretty smart as well, anyways.

[kittysdragon]

Kitty was a good music expert and fond of Japan so she might well know of her, though she was typically too busy now being a headmistress of a school for mutants to always keep up with current trends.

The dragon shrugged slightly at her question. "Pretty much, though as yeh notice Heed tends to find talking about Heed in first person tough." His native language had different ways of approaching the subject, and in fact was immensely complicated. "So maybe tell Heed a little more about yehself?"

[nyan_nyan]

Headmistress was probably a bit of a rough job.

"Yeah, but I can tell what you're talking about. That's what really matters here after all, Lockheed." She leaned closer, looking down at him.

"So about me?" She looked thoughtful for a moment. "I'm seventeen years old, I'm a professional singer..." Ranka looked around. "I used to be a waitress at a Chinese restaurant, and I learned to cook there. I'm taking a break right now to work on my studies so I can actually graduate school, though, which is pretty important to me."

[kittysdragon]

Certainly, especially when you had unruly mutants and regular attacks on the school by giant purple robots and angry aliens to contend with.

He smiled a little bashfully as she leaned down closer. "Yep, well if you can that's ok. Doubt yeh would understand Heed's native speak." To demonstrate he babbled a few words in a strange alien language.

He was certainly impressed at her resume, especially for one so young. "That's amazing, maybe yeh can sing for Heed later. And sure yeh cooking will be just as good. But study is important. Even in the Flock we had to learn stuff if we were gonna fight the Brood."

[nyan_nyan]

Giant purple robots were not Ranka's area of expertise. Maybe her brother could fight them in his less-giant transforming robot or something, but she was very much a civvie, without any relevant powers.

Yeah she sort of just... stared for a moment at the alien language. Really not something she could understand. "Yeah, I'll be happy to sing for you, and cook for you and all that. It's fun." School isn't. "I need to be well-rounded too, of course."

[kittysdragon]

To be fair Sentinels were tough to destroy even for mutants depending on the model. But Lockheed wouldn't judge her just because she didn't have powers of her own, in fact if she could sing that was a power in his opinion.

"Heed's glad yeh think it's fun, Lockheed likes hanging about with yeh, Ranka, yeh interesting, and pretty too." He'd respect that school could be boring, but it was important to learn things if they'd be important later.

[nyan_nyan]

Going by her canon it was pretty damn powerful indeed...

But Sentinels aren't Macross characters. Still, singing could move hearts and change minds, and that was something people often underestimated, but Ranka had seen it in action plenty of times. "Aww, thanks. You're a handsome little guy yourself you know," by dragon standards? "So, are you hungry yet?"

Because Ranka kinda was.

[kittysdragon]

Dazzler had proven time and time over much the same thin in Lockheed's neck of the words, and her light based powers certainly didn't hurt either. In any case Lockheed blushed at being called handsome and rubbed the back of his head with a paw.

"Thanks. And yeah, Heed can always eat! I'm sure it'll be yummy too."

[nyan_nyan]

"I promise it'll be good." For her own sake as well as his, and she'd been cooking when she lived with her brother for years on top of that. "I already did all the time consuming stuff so it'll come along pretty quickly now, and then we can figure out a movie or show or something to watch after we eat."

[kittysdragon]

Lockheed flew up to perch on her shoulder once more, if she had done waitress work he was sure she would be able to craft some nasty meals. "Good, it's smart to plan ahead huh? Lockheed ain't that picky about what he watches so if yeh have suggestions yeh can let me know."

[nyan_nyan]

"Oh, I'm sure we'll find something anyways... it's hard to decide when there are so many options, though." Netflix, a blessing and a curse - she might have to limit herself to physical copies just to come to a decision.

"You can watch me cook from up there if you want, just make sure you don't fall off or anything." Ranka reached up and patted him softly on the head.

[kittysdragon]

"Maybe if we find something we both like that'll be ok?" Yes Kitty had Netflix and often had the same issues with picking stuff to see.

He let out a slight coo as she patted his head. "Don't worry, yeh shoulder's very comfy, but Heed won't slip off, promise, yeh food smells very nice!"

[nyan_nyan]

"There'll be something, I'm sure," she reassured, heading back to the kitchen.

"Anyways... lemme get started here." Lots of pre-prepped chicken, chopped up vegetables - rice already done. A quick meal at this point.

[kittysdragon]

Lockheed smiled and elected to remain quiet for the most part whilst Ranka worked, figuring that she might need the concentration. Even so he watched her cooking skills with great interest.

[nyan_nyan]

It took just minutes to actually cook the small pieces of food, then to plate it all up, set the tables - although she wasn't sure if she needed to set any kinds of utensils.

He'd ask, probably. "What do you like to drink, and... uh, how should I serve it?"

[kittysdragon]

Lockheed varied in how he approached food, though his little paws weren't really designed for human sized utensils, so generally he opted to use his hands. He was more debating on whether a chair would suit him on not - she wouldn't exactly see him and he'd likely be best perched on the table and cross his stumpy legs.

"Erm, water or soft drink is best, Heed tends to not agree with yeh alcohol. And a bowl is best, glasses ain't built for Heed."