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.]

Comments

[awakeningwill]

It was honestly surreal hearing Hajime say sorry to him - not simply because of his views, but because he'd never heard anyone bother to. Zero didn't know what to make of it. After all, he'd understood and accepted the reasons behind it. Not being the type to dwell on the past, his first instinct was to brush off the apology as unnecessary. After all, it changed nothing about what happened - all he could do was continue forward in his new life.

But if being sealed away was a mistake to be regretted... If X hadn't been alone in the coming years, during the founding of Neo Arcadia and the struggles of post-war conflict, how different would the world have become? It was a possibility he'd never spared time to think about before. X had helped give Zero meaning, but Zero had always helped X stay focused.

Would X's heart have become so numb and sorrowful if Zero was there to support him? Would Neo Arcadia still have replaced him with a callous dictator who oppressed reploids in the name of necessity? The more Zero thought about the state of the future, the more uncomfortable he felt about his sentence.

With a heavier heart, the reploid frowned and told Hajime, "You're the first to say so. ...Thanks."

[inspirethefire]

From what had been said so far, being the first didn't come as a surprise. An awkward silence fell, as he tried to think of a suitable response. Nothing came to him; he was getting overly sentimental, he realized. He'd meant what he said, but that was all there was to say.

"I've things to attend to." He pushed up his glasses and turned away. "Thank you, for your help."

[awakeningwill]

As Hajime turned his back, Zero couldn't help but be filled with a small mote of hope for the cheerleader. That's right... if he didn't have faith in people being able to change, then it would've meant that Zero's trust in X was waning as well. He'd already seen humans go from outright disgust at robotkind to begrudging acceptance - they could go far, if their hearts were in the right place.

It was often easier to forget when there wasn't something world-ending about to crash upon him to test his fortitude. Being frustrated, cynical, even resentful was an understandable reaction, but at the end of the day he had to remember what it was that held him together.

Hajime wasn't a bad person. And he could become better with time.

With a nod, Zero told him, "Be careful out there," before he turned to leave as well.