Once I ran to you, now I run from you! Cupid Bots 2014!

[iamtheeggman]

Who: Everyone
What: Revenge of the Return of the Cupid Bots!
Where: Everywhere
When: February 14th
Warnings: H for Heartbreak

Every year this happened like clockwork. Those horrific little robot cherubs armed with hormone altering arrows were starting to appear on campus, carrying with them their 24 hour curse. Senior students and faculty knew these things all too well, and knew well enough to stay away from them. Newer students may have been warned about them. But would everyone be able to avoid these horrid little pranksters?

Anyone struck by their arrow would find themselves irresistibly attracted to the first person they saw. The effect was temporary, thankfully, lasting only 24 hours. But still, a lot can happen in 24 hours...

(Feel free to start your own threads for happenings! To random sign-ups: The crusher should probably start their threads, and the crushees should join them, but you're free to do it the other way. Have fun!)

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for Eirika

[welikeike]

It was already apparent that there was something off about the day. After a run-in with a girl he'd never met before, Ike found himself overwhelmed with a feeling he couldn't define. If that wasn't enough to set this day apart from others, he wasn't sure what would be. Especially because he couldn't stop thinking of her.

Ike slowed to a stop in the common room and sank into a chair, trying to pull himself together. It wasn't like him to be so preoccupied with thoughts for a person like this. There wasn't anything suspicious about that girl or anything for him to be bothered about. Just... fascination, he supposed. Lost in his thoughts, the commander was oblivious to the arrival of another blue-haired student.

[heartofarapier]

Funny, how things had a way of working out. Or not working out as the case could sometimes be. She'd hardly had the knowledge of how things worked in the academy around this time of year. No knowledge at all, in fact, which to some might have made the gesture all the sweeter. But likely not for either Ike or Eirika.

She wasn't even particularly sure of how it had happened. It'd seemed one moment was perfectly fine. And some moments later, whatever she'd been thinking about, likely something not at all to do with the symbolism of the day, her eyes had fallen onto an innocent Ike in the common room. And for a good deal of time, she said nothing.

But she smiled and sometimes a smile could say everything. "...Ike?" she finally addressed him, leaning against the door frame as she eyed him with a softer, and more gentle look about herself. "Are you busy?"

[welikeike]

Ike looked up after staring down at the floor for a good amount of time. Once he saw Eirika, however, he shoved away his thoughts and locked them up to the best of his ability. She was one of his friends, and that meant that he wanted to give her his respect.

The mercenary shook his head. "No, not at all. What's on your mind?"

He knew what was on his mind. But it was a bit too confusing for him to want to talk about with anybody.

[heartofarapier]

He seemed preoccupied and no part of her could resist from wanting to know what it was that plagued him so. Yet she didn't ask, for no amount of brazen behaviour could be justified in prying into his personal life. If he trusted her, he would tell her-- she was sure of it.

"Oh..." she began somewhat bashfully. "I... was simply hoping you might spend the day with me. If that wouldn't be too much trouble. I have neglected you many times and I had hope that I might rectify that."

Her hands unlaced. Her posture straightened, and she wore her confidence a little more. After all, in most things she wanted to be confident and she wanted him to see it.