Day 309 [Open]

[dontyoujustwish]

Who: Anya, Ibuki, Patchouli, and anyone else!
Open: Open! Mostly.
When: Day 309
Where: All over the Bastion
What: SNOW!
Format: I'll match
Warnings: It's Anya.

[For Ibuki and Patchouli]
[Sometime after lunch, Anya takes off to look for two of her best lady friends with a spellbook under her arm and some key ingredients in her pockets.

She's quite cheerful about it, a little oblivious to whatever else might have been going on lately. Cheerful, and insistent. She will track you down.]


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[Later in the day, Bastionites may be surprised to look up and notice that... it's snowing. Not only that, but the temperature has dropped.

At least in the more southerly parts of the Bastion. The farmlands might get a few sporadic flurries, but it isn't cold enough there to stick.

So if you've been missing snowmen or snowball fights or any of those activities that require winter to happen, now's your chance. It's probably not going to last very long.]

((OOC: And feel free to just use this post for mingling!]

Comments

[scary_music]

Yesssssss, we both had a hand in making your new name!

So, soso, which one is your name of surs??

[/2]

[darkshooter]

Name of...

[darkshooter]

...what...?

[WHOOPS YOU CONFUSED HER]

[scary_music]

Surname!

[darkshooter]

S-Sur...sur-name...

[For whatever reason she's not grasping this, must be that literal Old World mentality at work]

[ON THE POSITIVE SIDE YOU GET TO SEE HER BEWILDERED, GOOD JOB]

[scary_music]

Weeeeeeeell, since Ibuki gave you Ikubi-chan, that's your first name! Because it's the given name! And Kotori-chan can be your surname!!

[darkshooter]

[what]

Ikuri.


[there, she compromised.]

[scary_music]

[B-but she already compromised earlier...]

Sure! Ikuri-chan, then! It's settled!

[She doesn't mind, though]

[/3]

[darkshooter]

Ikuri.

[Shooter we already established that]

[darkshooter]

Iku...ri...

[And then it dawns on her just what happened here.]

[3/3] and keywords appropriate, it turns out!

[darkshooter]

[...and what happens next is something she didn't anticipate. We don't even have an icon for it. Her face - it's as though some part of her just became alive, awake, and she only realized now.]

[You just gave her the feelings, Ibuki.]

[scary_music]

Whoa!

Something deep within has awakened in Ikuri-chan! An amazing revelation!

will chop if wanted. :3

[darkshooter]

[AN AMAZING REVELATION THAT RESULTS IN HER COMING FORWARD FOR A HUG!]

[you're okay with hugs right]

[scary_music]

Yessssssss, Ibuki made a new friend this day!

[She hugs her back]

[darkshooter]

[it's heartfelt and meaningful and even her voice is thick with emotion that she rarely feels...]

You named me...


[THIS IS A BIG DEAL TO HER OKAY]

[such a big deal, in fact, that in the back of her mind bubbles that certain personal history related thing she's kinda afraid of at the moment: oh gods don't let this be a lie]

[scary_music]

She did, she did! Does that make Ibuki your mama?

...

So this is what it feels like to squeeze out the baby and have no clue who the father is...

[Ibuki no...]

[darkshooter]

[SHE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THAT EITHER but truth be told she's ignoring it to pull back from the hug and tell you what she does understand right now.]

You are my friend.

[wait just like that OH MY GOODNESS SHE'S EVEN SMILING! It's small and slight, but look, it's there! She actually looks happy!]

[scary_music]

That's right, that's right!

Totally friends!

[/3?]

[darkshooter]

[darkshooter]

[...but then she abruptly bends down and to the side, if necessary to...make another snowball? Why yes. A good one, at that, in what for her counts as record speed.]

[Her face is neutral again when she stands back up, but...]

[3/3]

[darkshooter]

[She nods when looking at you; there is enthusiasm in it, despite her face. Though communication is again nonverbal, the meaning shouldn't be hard to guess.]

[Let's continue. Let's keep playing.]

[scary_music]

Yahooooooooo!

The snowball wars continue!

[And she backs away a few steps to get her own snowball]

Thread-wrap?

[darkshooter]

[oh. well.]

[She was actually thinking more along the lines of co-op, though she didn't communicate it, but-- if you wish for competition, she won't argue. And you needn't worry; there's no reversion to the old mindset here. She saw enough snowball fights before now to grasp that while you aim to win, you don't aim to kill - or to hurt. You've got her firmly in a position, now, where she wouldn't want to hurt you anyway. Good job.]

[For once, she doesn't mind that a contest doesn't involve beating down or slaying your opponent. She can give herself to the pursuit without causing you harm.]

[That's okay and she's glad for it, but there's a reason we're using this face. Competition is competition, and at this interval she's of a mind to take it seriously.]

[Hope you're ready.]