mingle & date

[idolpro]

Who: anyone
Where: date locations?
When: Day 229, lunchtime on

It's turning into a pretty nice day outside! Nice for a walk through the park or the zoo or Tokyo DismaySea. Are you meeting up for some dates? Still making plans with your matches? Helping your friends prep for a super romantic evening?

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[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[As he sees X pass him for perhaps the third time, he calls out to him from his spot on a park bench]

Something on your mind?

[liftoft]

[ Looks over, startled out of his single-minded focus, and then brightens up considerably ]

Ah, hey! Nah, nah, don't worry about it. Hey, hey-- are you in the game? If you are, you gotta hang out with me!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Don't worry about it, he says. Huffs]

Is there a game going on...?

[That should answer his question]

[liftoft]

[ don't! worry about it! the subject has clearly changed!! He doesn't seem discouraged at all by the negative, either ]

Yeah! It's probably not your speed, but you wanna help me out anyway? I'll owe you a favor, how about it?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Holds out his hand for X's phone]

Show me the rules first.

[liftoft]

Come on man, I'm not gonna get you in trouble here.

[ but hands over his phone cheerfully ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That's not what I'm concerned about. As if you could get me into any trouble I couldn't handle.

[But as he reads the rules...]

What's the problem? Didn't match with anyone?

[liftoft]

Hey! Of course I did, I'm super popular, actually. That means I can do whatever I want! And I wanna hang out with you!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Just has that tell-tale smirk.]

Oh really?

So who are you super popular with? Inquiring minds want to know.

[liftoft]

Well, I mean, it's not like I memorized 'em all! They're all listed there on my phone, though if you really gotta know.

[ gestures to his phone, still in Intensity's hand ]

You can't really care about that though, can you?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Looking up the matches then]

No. But you should.

I bet your profile was outrageous. So the list is a potential set of people who work well with outrageous.

[liftoft]

Right... but you get I'm tryin' to hang out with you, yeah?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Waves a hand at X. Yes, he knows.]

Yes, yes.

But there's no reason to not use this opportunity to be a little forward-thinking.

[So. Who DID he match with?]

[liftoft]

[ his profile is about what you'd expect, probably, and a very apt image. His matches are a little all over the place - Todoroki, Man Eater, Scythe, Lucifel, Hurricane, Ryuji, Hardcore, D.VA, Paloma, Dante, Nahri, Nemesis, Glacies and... Glory ]

Forward thinking?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes. Forward thinking for your---

[Hand motions. You know, your audience things]

Do you know Lucifel and Paloma? Might be worth going on a date with them later if you don't.

[liftoft]

Oh! Hey, great idea!

[ Intensity so smart!! Wow!!! ]

Euh...I dunno about tryna go on a date with Lucifel. First he's got some growing to do.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

What makes you say that?

[He looks quite genuinely curious about this response from X of all people. Self-sacrifing!Lucifel seems like a shoe-in]

1/

[liftoft]

[ excuse you, X is a live-at-all-costs, 'every life is equally valuable and don't you dare say otherwise or I'll punch you' type ]

Right, so... first time I met him was after that game where we had to be like 100% our unit traits-- where at the last second Sensitiv ripped everybody open. Were you there for that one?

2/

[liftoft]

Anyway, Sensitiv can heal themselves too, so... when I came across him wandering around with a set of bleeding wounds, I got pissed off! He tried saying something about how he deserved it, 'cause of what he did to all of us or whatever, but to hell with that! Seeing a guy who can heal himself walking around not doing it just 'cause he feels guilty is just annoying! It doesn't undo any of the hurt he did, it just makes him feel like he's bein' punished for it. If he's really sorry, then he should apologize and not do it again!

I tried tellin' him that, but I dunno how much he really got me.

3/

[liftoft]

...Don't get me wrong! I think he's a good guy, and I wanna spend a lot of time talkin' to him. I think he could really use somebody like me to talk to, y'know? If I could rub off on him a little. Maybe average him out to zero?

/4

[liftoft]

...Anyway, that's how it is.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[A slow steady blink as he absorbs this]

So how is that not a date?

I mean in the context of this game, and because he is useful. Useful in both directions. He'd probably enjoy assisting you and feel good about it in a non bleeding-all-over-the-floor way. And you don't have a re-occurrence of that "problem".

[liftoft]

Yeah, maybe! We'll see. You mighta noticed, I'm not really playin' this game to win!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

This isn't about the game, X.

This is about your continued survival.

[liftoft]

Yeah, of course!

[ that's not really how you respond to a statement like that but whatever, don't think about it, conversation continues! ]

...You know, I really appreciate you caring so much about that stuff. But you don't gotta make it your problem to solve, 'cause if I'm gonna get fixed I'm gonna have to be the one that makes it happen.