There's no way Roland would have been able to predict what could have happened in that moment. No way for him to swim to safety, no time left. In retrospect, maybe asking to gently warm up the water like a sauna was a terrible idea. But he wasn't about to force them up by their neck or hair!! All things have a price, it seems. This is the cost and he's being asked to pay up.
Though whether or not he survives this encounter is an entirely different narrative altogether. The spell is quick to react to the hot springs, the water gurgling underneath his back and bottom to the point where he does cringe at the feeling. At some point, it almost feels like a jet stream in one of those fancy hot tubs back home...But that is a feeling that does not last. Without warning, the force propels him straight into the sky, the pressure of the water keeping him suspended like some ragdoll that fell into a geiser. He's trying his best not to flail, but how could he not?! Roland is trying his best not to die!!
"G-GAH! URGH! WHOA!"
What feels like an eternity is objectively not, but Roland is none the wiser. The drop back into the water is just as comedic and slapstick as the launch; the young-looking President feels his heart launch right into his throat when gravity does the rest. And it's not a terribly long fall back down into the water, but it's enough to cast some waves, some splash as his body returns back to its rightful space. THANKFULLY it's a deep enough hot spring that there's some give in the deep, his back barely hitting the bottom of the assumedly man-made pool.
Roland sputters back into life, reemerging as a wet cat would after it's been drenched from head to toe. Hair so meticulously taken care of earlier, now a slopping mess against his face that he may resemble more hair monster than human. He coughs, one hand to his mouth, but his eyes find Tidus's immediately and he's in so much shock he isn't even sure what his tongue is trying to do or say. Incredulous, a finger accusingly pointed back and forth between the two boys - !!
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Though whether or not he survives this encounter is an entirely different narrative altogether. The spell is quick to react to the hot springs, the water gurgling underneath his back and bottom to the point where he does cringe at the feeling. At some point, it almost feels like a jet stream in one of those fancy hot tubs back home...But that is a feeling that does not last. Without warning, the force propels him straight into the sky, the pressure of the water keeping him suspended like some ragdoll that fell into a geiser. He's trying his best not to flail, but how could he not?! Roland is trying his best not to die!!
"G-GAH! URGH! WHOA!"
What feels like an eternity is objectively not, but Roland is none the wiser. The drop back into the water is just as comedic and slapstick as the launch; the young-looking President feels his heart launch right into his throat when gravity does the rest. And it's not a terribly long fall back down into the water, but it's enough to cast some waves, some splash as his body returns back to its rightful space. THANKFULLY it's a deep enough hot spring that there's some give in the deep, his back barely hitting the bottom of the assumedly man-made pool.
Roland sputters back into life, reemerging as a wet cat would after it's been drenched from head to toe. Hair so meticulously taken care of earlier, now a slopping mess against his face that he may resemble more hair monster than human. He coughs, one hand to his mouth, but his eyes find Tidus's immediately and he's in so much shock he isn't even sure what his tongue is trying to do or say. Incredulous, a finger accusingly pointed back and forth between the two boys - !!
"W-What...You...! I could've...!"