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MAY TEST DRIVE The city of Recollé... ...well. Good luck! I. You might've noticed by now that some things in this dear city of yours are a little...weird. Most of the buildings and landmarks around you are only partially visible and the world appears to be covered in all kinds of strange colors. As you step out the door today, you can't quite shake off the feeling that you're being followed. Every time you turn your head, nothing appears to be in your line of vision but the creeping sensation won't go away. However, with one final well-timed turn you catch it out of the corner of your eye: a large paintbrush dripping in your favorite color, floating in mid-air. The brush doesn't seem to go away no matter how long you look at it, but one of two things happens here. For those of you who grab the brush, you'll find yourself suddenly yanked forward as the brush guides you to a nearby building, bush, or busy sidewalk, the colored paint splattering everywhere but leaving behind a black finish instead of the original color. The brush has a mind of its own as it brings you right next to a friend or a stranger to get to work. They must have a brush, too. For those of you who ignore the brush, however...well...it doesn't like being ignored. As you turn away the brush zips forward and begins to paint your face. And your arms. And your clothes? Hopefully someone will come by and try to help soon! II. With that exciting chain of events out of the way, it's time to get to work! It's not hard to notice what it is you're supposed to do now. Certain members of the city have paintbrushes similar to yours and only those with brushes can restore the city as it was. Individually painting the area will highlight all items in black, but pairing up with someone else's color will allow for a bit of color to attach. Blending the brushes together will generate new, bright colors that will stick! Two reds can paint an object red while a red and a blue can change an object to purple. Of course, you're free to go at it alone. There's nothing stopping you from embarking on this journey with your own two hands. On the other hand the longer you work by yourself, the higher your risks become of unearthing something you may not want. One minute you might be painting a garden bench back into existence when suddenly a sound alerts you that something's wrong. The object seems to warp right in front of you, sprouting teeth, eyes, and even sometimes limbs. Non-stationary objects such as vehicles, animals, postal boxes and more will begin to chase painters around all five districts of the city. Stationary objects will do anything to grab you in their grasp and stop your hard work. The only way to soothe these objects is to mix up a new color and douse them with paint, but that just might be a little harder than it looks while you're on the move. III. The strange thing is that even with a large portion of the city invisible to the naked eye, by now everyone around you has accepted that this is just how things will go. If you talk to your family or friends or teachers or co-workers who are without a paintbrush, they'll simply tell you that even though it started a few weeks ago there are other things in the city to worry about. They'll tell tales of people with powers and weird physical changes that shouldn't be possible and they'll point out the thinning monsters that are roaming the city and cleaning up the stray paint. Despite this, life is expected to go on as normal. Classes are still in session and your employers expect you to be at work on time. Grocery stores are up and running and if you can find them several of your favorite businesses are still open as well. Maybe today you're in class procrastinating on a school project, or perhaps you're staring out the window at your boring job waiting for the next time you can catch a break. If you're brave enough, you might be one of those who wanders the half-missing aisles of Freshens because your family still insists on their cookout this weekend. This appears to be the new norm...so what are you doing today in the lovely "city" of Recollé? IV. Several citizens have been using their brushes to expand their horizons and paint beyond the limits of the city, working to recreate the roads to go back to other regions. While this will require far more work and dedication, some of the paths are outlined and cleared. Granted, with the revival of the roads comes the revival of a few other creatures including monsters of varying breeds. Have you ever fought a monster before? No? Well now's your chance! Some of these monsters are easy to take down but others will hunt and attack. While the paint brushes won't do much to deter the creatures themselves, they're useful to paint new hiding spots until you come up with a plan of attack. That counts, doesn't it? Good luck out there. BONUS. Perhaps the strangest thing of all is that your phone works. It's fully functional, colored and solid without having to repaint it into existence. Being able to send texts and check maps are vital tools in the restructure of the city, but at the same time it comes with something you may not want. The Retrospec app appears on your phone and even without setting up a profile you'll find yourself receiving a message from a Retrospec user named Zee Carlisle. Bad timing, this was really bad timing! Hey newbies, sorry, we are a little swamped with the stabilization process right now but let me kick you to some people who can help out. It's all the text says before you find yourself redirected to a private chat with another Retrospec user. Don't be shy now! Say hi and ask all of the questions you need! Welcome to the recolle test drive meme! All characters will be begin in-game AU'd as Recollé residents. You may use any of the above prompts for ideas or make up your own depicting your Recollé AU! Prompts do not have to be set in the districts listed above. You can review our list of locations for what's available. Please note that TDM threads can be used as samples, can be kept as game canon, and can also be used for bonus points for future item regains. Share a few minor details of your AU, tag around, and have fun!
For current players, please remember that TDM threads can only be used for bonus points, not regains. Please note: you will need a reserve to apply, and current characters must have full AC posted at the time of their reservation. Finally, please remember that this will be the last application month until September! Your May TDM directory is here, and your AU workshop is here! Our mod questions thread for this TDM is over here! |
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but then the weird flower lunges, and while miai doesn't flinch, tsukasa does. he's all the more inclined, too, to be dragged, stumbling after his company with a soft wheeze. lunch? is he being asked out? no, that's stupid. ]
That's— very good, thank you, I'll happily accept the opportunity?! [ he's become exceptionally formal without even having to switch to japanese.... he glances back to watch the creature; it isn't very fast, or maybe it just choose not to, which is good, so? ] Any friend of Leonii's is a friend of mine, too, I think, so, um— if you don't mind, I mean?
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( there's really no difference between miai asking someone out for lunch and miai asking someone out on a date, but there is, at the very least, a line drawn in the sand in his brain that reads " ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ᴀ ᴍᴏᴠᴇ ᴏɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴇx's ʙʀᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʙsᴏʟᴜᴛᴇ sᴏʀʀʏ ᴇxᴄᴜsᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴀ ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴜʀᴇ-sᴇᴇᴋɪɴɢ ᴡᴀʟɴᴜᴛ ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴅᴏ ɪᴛ " and miai is, at the very least, literate.
without warning he jerks tsukasa into an alley and pulls them up an emergency escape, at least one or two flights of stairs (short as they are) up. the beast nearly skids past the alleyway but makes a sharp turn in- and stops.
miai presses a finger to his lips, an unvoiced shhhh, as the beast prowls about several paces, looking this way and that ... until, eventually, it seems to give up, exiting the alley with emanating frustration.
it's not even more than a few moments after it's gone than miai starts to laugh. )
That's my favorite thing about animals, actually ... If you're out of their line of sight, even if they can smell you, sometimes they might really not know what to do.
How are you feeling?
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I want to go hang out with the horses... [ ...they're calming, miai wouldn't know that he finds them very relaxing and anxiety reducing, and tsukasa's not going to elaborate. also, horses are largely invisible right now, or they're really weird colors because of painting, it's terrible. ] Um, I'm fine, though. I think. Thank you...
[ ......ahaha, oh, he's. he realized, he has no idea what this guy's name is, um. ]
...Leonii hasn't really talked about everyone he met in Japan, um... Well, he mentioned that sometimes he and friends would go waste time on the swings, but he never said any names... [ tsukasa twists the hem of his shirt between his fingers idly, studying miai. really,really pretty, actually... ] It isn't very fair that you know mine and I don't know yours, is it...?
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Me? ( he leans back against the railing with both elbows, casual. ) Well, we were out of contact for awhile, since I was on tour for some time. I don't imagine I'd be the first he'd mention to his brother.
( that's not the only reason why he imagines he wouldn't come up, but, now that he thinks about it, how old is this kid, anyway? has he had sex ed? does he even know what dating is? do they even hold hands at his age or is he still afraid of cooties ????
setting that dilemma aside, he smiles warm at his new friend. )
When you put it like that, you make me want to tease you. Maybe I should have you guess...?
( he laughs, but concedes )
I'm Miai ... Garyuu Miai, but I'd like if you just called me Miai. Is just Tsukasa all right, by the way? Ah, or Mochi would be cute, too... ♪
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he smiles slightly, face heating up a little at the nickname— ]
Ts-Tsukasa's fine! [ mochi... he could never handle that, that's way too embarrassing. ] Um... It's very to meet you... Miai...
[ ...that's such a pretty name for a pretty person, hm-hm~. the sentiment's probably written all over his face as he slowly relaxes. very slowly. at heart, he's still a rather shy, polite kid, particularly when it comes to his elders; no amount of spending time with people far more outgoing that him is going to really change that. it just makes him quicker to go along with stupid shit. if he's learned anything, it's that. ]
...Do you have a favorite kind of food...? I know a few nice places we can get something to eat, if you wanted to make good on your, um, lunch offer.
[ tsukasa he offered to treat you not the other way around please, ]
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It's too bad. You're so cute and round, I've really taken to thinking of you as such ... but, if you insist, Tsukasa it is.
( don't worry ... no matter where they go, miai is stealing the check to pay it on his own no matter what. he may be a catastrophe, but he at least isn't indecent. besides, he can tell plain as a cloudless day that tsukasa is a good kid. he's offering miai some level of respect, too, which miai knows for certain he hasn't really earned. he's jealous leo has such a cute little brother...!! )
Why don't you show me your favorite place to eat? It'd help me get to know you, after all.
Ah . . . unless you wanted to visit your horses, first? I don't mind that, either.
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...Um, it's probably for the best that we don't visit them, actually... For now, anyway. They're a little spooked by not being able to see each other, but then they're spooked when they do see each other, so... This whole month's been a little stressful for them~. [ THE POOR THINGS. HE WANTS TO PROTECT THEM. ] Hopefully things'll be better next month...~? We can go then! Everyone I've brought to the stables has really, really loved the horses... Ah, and the chocobos, too.
[ sena is surprisingly fond of both. ]
An-anyway, mm... [ a place to eat... oh. ] There's a place with really good hotpot nearby, if you don't mind that kind of thing~. Ah, but maybe it's getting too warm for that... But it'd be really nice to be able to actually taste it this time...
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( is he just calling him cute now to tease him? well, yes, he is, but listen- if tsukasa didn't want to be called cute, he shouldn't look so cute when he's embarrassed. he understands very well why leo just can't stop gushing about him.
he pushes himself off the railing, straightening himself up. he's ready to jet when tsukasa is...!! )
I have no objections to hot pot, myself. I think it'd be a nice change of pace, doing something just a bit unexpected like that ♪
Still... Did something happen the last time you tried to go?
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...You could say that... [ the second dark ages of retrospec, during the dark ages of retrospec ] Um... There was a time when we lost our sense of taste completely due to something on Retrospec's end, or something like that, and that was the same month I offered to treat one of my very best friends to hotpot. It just sucked, because we couldn't taste anything, even if all the textures were there... We still had a good time, at least.
[ he sounds very fond of this friend, at least, and of that time. threading his fingers behind his back too, shoulders hunching slightly. ]
If it wasn't getting so hot, I'd really like to try treating him again... ♪ I guess we've gone out since taste came back though, so that's good enough, sort of. Not to mention he's made me a lot of really sweet things. [ ♪~♪ ] But that's pretty much it. We've been worried about what else we might lose even for a little while, so I think losing color or... whatever's happened now, is preferable to something sense-wise.
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If you're going to lose it, it'll be lost. There's no sense in worrying about it before it happens; not if you can't prevent it. What you have now is this moment, and what you can do now is enjoy yourselves as you can.
( he smiles, looking at how all together warm tsukasa seems to be. not in terms of temperature, but, you know. )
It sounds like you're quite fond ... And he feels the same. Even with the city half-painted as it is, you might as well ask him out as soon as you like; maybe even tonight? The state of all the colors might even make for fun conversation, I think.
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he hums softly, scratching his cheek with a sheepish smile. ]
...Maybe I will. He's off the app right now, but I don't think that's going to make too much of a difference... [ not with people noticing how weird stuff sort of is, and all. besides, bff is bff with or without retrospec. ] Mmm, no, I definitely will~. Tonight's gonna be nice, and it's not like I haven't completed all my homework anyway. My parents can't complain.
[ ♪ ]
Ah, but... Ahaha, sorry for talking so, um... So much... [ :sweats: ] It's been kind of weird not being able to go around and fix the city like this without him? And I mean, I still see him at work and at school but, um...
[ ........... ]
Never mind...~ [ he clears his throat a little, focusing on the road. ] I talked a little about this with an older, er, fr...friend? I think we're friends— maybe—? Anyway, I already talked a little about this with him, so I really shouldn't be dumping any of this on a stranger...~ Even if you know Leonii.