speed dating 2.0

[idolpro]

WHO: More idols looking to have a good time
WHERE: Game Tower
WHEN: Day 120, morning

[ Hello, Idols! Are you ready for a game?

Some of you may have played this before! The area is familiar for sure: today's playing field is an expansive balcony with several mini-tables paired with two patio chairs each, garden umbrellas planted to keep the heat away. You can see the rest of the city from up here, too - it turns out you're pretty high up as you can even see the start of the Rainbow Bridge from here, though the railings are high so there's not a high likelihood of accidentally falling down.

There are a few pink lemonade pitchers scattered around with paper cups if you're thirsty, and some bite-sized chocolates if you're hungry. Cute snack food!

The instructions look familiar, too: it's a light game, with no enforced truth-telling even. No status effects! Just dates!

There are cards on the table, too! ]

INSTRUCTIONS | SIGN-UPS | TURN-IN | OVERFLOW

Comments

Ruby Sour

[wonderlandgirl]

Um... hello? Do you mind if I sit down?

Re: Ruby Sour

[notadrop]

Go ahead, go ahead! Everyone's welcome!

[wonderlandgirl]

Oh, thank you...

[Well, that was slightly more of a graceless slump than a dainty and careful perching but... she really just needs to sit down.]

Phew... sorry. I guess I'm not very good at things like this. U-um, how are you finding it?

[notadrop]

[ giggles, reaching for the cards ]

They're actually kinda too short for me! Haha, I think dating is something I'm like, super used to?

[wonderlandgirl]

Really? I wasn't supposed to do it at all, so... well, it's more like I wasn't allowed to, but I didn't really have time for it anyway. Sorry if I say anything strange.

[notadrop]

Oh. Are you like, an actual idol?

[wonderlandgirl]

Oh! Yes, actually... at home, I'm the lead singer of Pastel✽Palettes! I've always been terrible at things like this, though, I sort of got this memory of a meet-and-greet and I was just awful there too, and - sorry, I'm babbling, aren't I?

What about you? Were you an idol, too? A real one, I mean?

[notadrop]

Oh, no. Ummmm, I mean, I don't know? I guess I could've been, but I'm not really a good dancer so I'm not sure. I don't remember anything, but like...being on camera feels nice and natural? And like, performing a role and stuff? So I was thinking maybe I was an actor or something.

[wonderlandgirl]

It's hard to guess when you don't remember anything, isn't it? If it helps at all, I don't think I'd have thought I was an actual idol before I got a couple of my memories back. I knew they were important to me, but I'm not sure I'd have believed that I could...

[Wednesday?

[That probably did the precise polar opposite of help.]

So, um... it's not like you have to be bound by your own guesswork, I mean. You could still be anything at all. Most people here are a lot more interesting than me!

[notadrop]

I know! Did you know there's like, three assassins? And a pharaoh? And then there's another girl here who likes to play games a lot but she's like a mech pilot or something?

[wonderlandgirl]

Oh, you've met D.Va too? And here I am just going to high school and sort of liking to sing and dance... I'm sure you're something a lot more interesting than you think, and just don't realize it yet.

[notadrop]

...Well, I guess we'll see! Hahaha, I kinda doubt it though. I guess I have the whole Divine Dragon Sad Dog thing going on or whatever my profile says but that's probably just like, a metaphor.

[wonderlandgirl]

Oh, the profiles! They're always awful. There's a boy on my unit whose name is an emoji. That's it. Just... an emoji. And one of my friends has this sort of butterfly thing, it's completely unpronounceable, and I'm Wednesday's Child which isn't even that bad but isn't much of a name... I suppose they just think they're being funny.

[notadrop]

Yeah, most of BARiTONES is just descriptions? Like, mine is The Divine Dragon, Matriarch of the Moonlit Kingdom and that's not a name at all.

...An emoji for a name is cute, though.

[wonderlandgirl]

And it gives you a lot to work with when it comes to choosing a name, too...! Not that I was very good at that. It's probably good they didn't just do that with me. I'd probably still have been trying to pick something now...

[Wednesday has been fidgeting with her phone as she speaks: now she holds it out.]

Ah. Here's Kaguya's profile. It's so pretty, but... I don't know what they were thinking.

[notadrop]

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