merry merry christmas, and I want you to know

[mansionstaff]

Who: YOU
What: KISSLETOES
When: December 14th - January 1st
Where: Everywhere
Warnings: Sloppy makeouts.

SUDDENLY, AND WITHOUT WARNING...



The entire school has become covered in mistletoe overnight. It grows out of the walls! The ceilings! Everywhere you least expect it? HOW CAN THIS BE??

It's probably best not to think about it. Attempts to uproot the plants or burn them away only makes the plants grow back faster. For the time being, it seems the school must live with it.

[OOC INSTRUCTIONS:
+ Post dudes, get kisses!
+ Some (NOT ALL) plants are cursed. If you manage to step under a cursed plant, you will exchange a memory when or if you exchange a kiss. The memories will be first-person and very vivid, and characters will feel like they are experiencing the memory in real time, though in reality the transfer is instantaneous. Memories can be as short, long, happy, sad, or traumatic as you like.
+ If you'd like to participate, we highly suggest making a list of a few memories (with accompanying links/descriptions) that are up for grabs, and linking or posting the list in your top-level comment. Memory exchange is COMPLETELY OPTIONAL. When in doubt, OOC communication!
+ PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TAG YOUR CHARACTERS
+ That's it, we love you.]

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[raw_angel_power]

It was as though Ike's voice snapped him out of a lucid daydream. Based on past experiences, though, Pit understood that it must be a memory that belonged to Ike. He really was a good person, wasn't he?

"Oh... You saw one of my memories, didn't you?" he replied with a small smile that tried to mask the nerves crackling beneath. Whatever Ike had seen could be anything, and based on his reaction, it was either that Ike didn't know about the memory-swapping, or it was something heavy or strange- OR both. "I don't know what it was. I couldn't see it. All I saw was yours."

[welikeike]

He could care less about the memory Pit saw at the moment. If it was a memory of his, he probably already knew it, after all. He wanted to address what he saw from Pit's head.

"You were running through some destroyed world. It looked like a palace in the clouds, but it was dark and there were lots of strange creatures," he began, his brow furrowing while he recalled what he saw. More than that, he couldn't shake the contempt he felt at the way the goddesses treated his friend. That added to his expression.

"I think you called it Skyworld. All of these... goddesses kept running their mouth at you." Such bitterness with that word. Way to start cultivating the divinity hate early on, Pit. "Some goddess called Palutena... The one you've mentioned before, I think. You wanted to save her, but she was the worst of them all. You said she wasn't acting like herself, but... How could you stand that treatment?!" There were plenty of hot buttons in what she said for Ike: her belief that she had any right to decide the fate of humankind, her poor treatment of Pit, and her obvious, deceptive guise in getting Pit to trust her before showing her "true colors". That's how Ike saw it, anyway: he never learned anything about the Chaos Kin. "Goddesses or not, they were all ignorant and horrible. What was going on there?"

[raw_angel_power]

Pit was quick to jump to his goddess's defense. "Lady Palutena really wasn't herself!" he insisted with a new air of desperation. "I know what memory you saw, and her soul was being possessed by the Chaos Kin. It's a mindless creature that wants nothing more than chaos and destruction. It has the power to control souls, and Lady Palutena was its victim. She would never do any of the things she did."

[welikeike]

Ike had to take a moment not only to cool down, but to absorb the information Pit supplied him with. The other goddesses talked to him as though they treated Pit like garbage every day of the week, though...

"So... If she had the Chaos Kin inside of her then, what's she truly like?" he asked, his expression drawn into a thoughtful face as though he weren't entirely convinced. It was hard to shake the impression that memory had on him. "The other goddesses were still rotten in their own right. I don't like seeing people treat my friends with such disrespect. She's not like them, is she?"

[raw_angel_power]

"No way!" he protested. "She really cares about the humans! In times of trouble, she's always been their guiding light. I'll admit she does like to tease me a lot, but that's all it is: harmless teasing." Okay, so maybe her teasing wasn't always that 'harmless', but if anything bad really did happen to Pit, she would most likely try and rectify it. "I swear she's a lot different than what you saw. Here, maybe if we kiss again, you'll see another memory of her to prove it! I've got plenty!"

Pit rose up on tiptoes, tilted his chin up, closed his eyes, and drew his lips out, waiting to be kissed.

[welikeike]

Ike pulled a long face and lifted his hand up in denial. He dropped his fingers against Pit's lips.

"No, that's not necessary," he assured him. "I'll just have to meet her for myself someday."

[raw_angel_power]

Except that was still a kiss

and triggered another one of Pit's memories. (Ends at 11:14.)

[welikeike]

Aaaand the exchange would go both ways.

A man cloaked in green squats in the grass by the river, his red hair cascading over his tilted head. Ike gets the feeling that whatever happens next isn't gonna be pretty. He weighs his options: he could either sneak away with almost no risk of being noticed, or he could break the silence and talk to Shinon.

For some reason, he chooses the latter.

"...Shinon?" His voice makes it clear that this memory was one not too far in the past. He's a teenager.

"H-Hic! Huh...?" Shinon tries to turn around and nearly loses his footing at the ledge of the stream. Luckily, he doesn't. But when he spots Ike, his face screws up into an angry, unchecked glare. "HEY!! Whooo gave YOU the right to approach ME like that?"

"I was just checking up on you. You were groaning. Loudly."

Shinon spits. "SHADDUP! Didn't ask you nothin' about me, boy!" He seems to get it in his drunken mind that he might want to stand up or something, Ike's not sure. Because what he sees next is more of a pathetic stumbling roll, where he ended up in another sitting position. "Nothin' addall... Can't do nothin' right..."

Ike sighs. He's about to leave, but Shinon suddenly takes a turn for the worst - in two senses. He looks sicker than hell, but on top of that, he's teetering into the stream. It's spring, and the water's high and moves fast. A drunken man might not fare well against the current, Ike thinks, and he feebly lifts a hand while he wonders what he should do.

"Guh- D-don't feel so... Oooogh..." Shinon turns toward the stream and just about tips forward.

That's when Ike runs forward and grabs him by the first thing he can: his ponytail. It was at this convenient moment that Shinon vomits into the river while Ike tries to stabilize him by the shoulder, keeping his hair in one hand. Shinon vomits once more.

"Uuughhh... Nghh..." Shinon's groans are back, but Ike knows why this time. At least he finally got it out of his system, but it was a moment he could have lived without being a part of.

"Shinon... Maybe you should get some rest."

Pit's memory wasn't very friendly, and the adrenaline pumped wildly through Ike's system in response to the attack from the Hewdraw's head. It was so strange how real these memories felt... Shaken, he stumbled back from the angel.

"Was--" He stopped and tried to collect his thoughts. "Pit, if that was supposed to convince me that Palutena is good to you, I'm not convinced." He stared sternly at Pit. Palutena was insufferable... Even by living through two memories, he was sick of her. "Do goddesses just do whatever they like to you? Like bathe you in pheromones with no concern for your safety? It's maddening!"

[raw_angel_power]

Pit's nose was wrinkled right after the memory exchange took place. Then he had to deal with Ike accusing his goddess of being horrible again. He shot a hand up to his mouth to keep himself from letting his sudden bout of queasiness get the best of him, dropped it, and took a breath.

"Okay, look. Those aren't her best moments. But those two memories of her don't really do her complete personality justice! I swear it's just a coincidence!" he insisted. "Can we have a redo?"