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

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ sorry if that was too much honesty gold. ]

Distraction huh?

[ picking up a card that reads "what is your biggest ambition" ]

That sounds nice. These cards seem a little bit boring, though. Should we do something more fun instead?

[calmthefoxdown]

Sure... what've you got in mind?

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ all they have

are these thin plastic cups and these cards.... ]

Do you think we could build something out of these?

[calmthefoxdown]

A card pyramid, at least? Maybe a castle if we combine it with the cups.

[dragonheartedgirl]

Let's be ambitious, Gold. Let's make a castle.

[calmthefoxdown]

I've never made a castle before, as a warning.

[dragonheartedgirl]

And you think I have?

[ Gold. plz. she's the most sheltered princess---and they didn't have plastic cups where she's from. ]

Are we really going to let what we have or haven't done before define us, Gold?

[calmthefoxdown]

I'm just setting the lowered expectations.

[ Taking a stack of cards to begin pyramiding them. ]

It'll make what we do accomplish better.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ She's going to start trying to balance some cards together herself, occasionally looking at him from over the top of them. Is it just her, or does he seem.... decidedly not okay? ]

.... I'm not really sure what sorts of expectations you think I'd have of you, but.... you've always struck me as a reliable kind of person. Raijuu only ever had good things to say about you. So I don't think you'd be disappointing.

[calmthefoxdown]

[ He pauses in placing his next card, glancing up at her for a moment in surprise before looking down again. ]

... I didn't think he talked about me. He always seemed to have a lot on his plate as is.

[dragonheartedgirl]

Raijuu... is the kind of person who keeps a lot of things very close to his chest. He's not very good about talking about the things that matter to him. But if you ask me, he felt for you the same kind of affection he felt for his brothers back home.

[calmthefoxdown]

Ah... I didn't know he had brothers.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ See case in point. Tell your fam about your fam, raijuu!! you're getting a lecture when you come home. ]

Well, not by blood. Raijuu was adopted by the wind tribe. But I think they were like brothers to him. ... In a similar way, Raijuu was adopted by Avante. So it's really not at all a stretch to think you're much the same.

[calmthefoxdown]

[ ... Gold has doubts that Avante was as close as Raijuu's tribe but will keep that bit to himself. ]

I see... Guess that explains why he felt like an older brother.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ It's not about how close they were as a family, it's about how feels about you Gold!!! but anyway close or not you were non-blood relatives forced to function together as a group. so not that different. ]

I think it would have made him happy to know you feel that way. Having people that love you and will stand with you.... he gave that all up for me back home, but I know it mattered to him.

[calmthefoxdown]

Well, he loved you, right? So he wanted to be there for you.

[dragonheartedgirl]

Yes. ... It doesn't change the fact that I owe him a very large debt. Losing your family and your home--is horrible. ... Someday, I'd like to be able to give it back to him, somehow.

[calmthefoxdown]

[ Leaning forward, voice dropped a bit to tease. ]

You could step on him a little.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ SHE WASN'T EXPECTING THAT!! AND JERKS BACK

accidentally breaking the few standing cards she's made. ]

Wh--Who--Wha--

[ how does gold know ]

[calmthefoxdown]

I saw the fanmail.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ oh my god gold ]

You never said anything...!!


[ RAIJUU!!! HOW COULD YOU HAVE LET YOUR LITTLE BROTHER SEE THAT MAIL! SHE'S GONNA

well let's be real she's going to kiss your stupid face when you come back first, BUT THEN SHE'S GOING TO PUNCH YOU!!! ]

[calmthefoxdown]

I'm pretty sure Raijuu didn't want me to see it either.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ gold. how could you.... ]

Your betrayal cuts us both very deeply, Gold.

...

I'm going to have to bully you for the both of us in his absence.

[calmthefoxdown]

I'm just an innocent observer.

[dragonheartedgirl]

Your use of that information just now was anything but innocent.

[ advancing?? menacingly??? for a tiny girl her size ]

I think it's time I used my special move on you.