If love is red

[ineptus]

Who: All the good people participating in the Blind Date Event
When: February 5th and 6th
Where: All around the city!
What: Blind dates galore!
Warnings/Rating: Pg-13 for at least language, I'm sure, and also bars/nightclubs are involved. Will be changed/updated as necessary. Please let me know if anything needs to be added here!

[You've got a location, you've got a time, you've got a mission: Date. It's as simple as that! Sure you have no idea who you're about to meet, but there is definitely no harm in trusting the expert skills of a 12 year old girl! You're going to have the time of your life, woo that date of yours and spend Valentine's Day with someone special, no doubt about it! So get out there and enjoy yourself!]

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Below in this handy dandy table is a link to all top levels. Top levels are posted in chronological order! If you have questions or need anything, you can PM this account, reach me on aim at breedslilacs or hit me up with a PP therapeuticGuns and I will be there to help asap! I should have gotten all the proper tags in there, but please make sure you're included! I may have missed a name or two!

Kagemitsu and Mia	Ryouga and Akashi	Ai Thao and Edgeworth	Taroutachi and Turkey
Tadashi and Milla	Nonon and Cyrus	Butch and Katsura	Kashuu and Atem
Roxy and Jaune	Jade and Manfred	Dotanuki and Masamune	Yogi and Shishou
Trucy and Leon	Hawke and Larry	Aura and Oona	Sousei and Kevin
Peko and Soramaru	Myriam and Shiho	Lapis and Phoenix	Gongenzaka and Ruca
Zara and Gintoki	Jungo and Haru	Rasu and Labrador	England and Chibi
Fuyuhiko and Veronica	Jaco and Nagasone	IV and Pearl	Vector and Yuto
Rio and Leia	Cain and Gundam	Weiss and Trunks	Integra and Ricther
Mizael and Patchouli	Rock Lee and Maya	Kousetsu and Souji	Levi and Wolfwood

Comments

[cardboard_journalism]

Hm... now I'm just wondering if the cafe owners paid the matchmaker kickbacks.

[it was a little difficult to squeeze in a comfy chair in a box, but Scuttlebutt managed it somehow]

[good_ideas]

[Shiho wonders why Myriam doesn't just wear a bag over her head...it's practically a box?]

We can ask?

[While Shiho shook the cafe owner's hand so they could figure out if they were lying.

Or maybe not right now because someone is coming by to welcome them with a smile and asking them what they want.]

Have you decided yet?

[Because Shiho's probably going to have their chocolate tea.]

[cardboard_journalism]

Might be worth considering!

[oops, time to speak with the server then]

Kahk... just water's fine.

[good_ideas]

Then I'll have a chocolate tea. Oh, and this cake over here, too.

[Shiho pauses before smiling.]

You're sure that you're fine with just water?

[Shiho's going to leave the interview with the owner for later because if there was a dubious cover-up that could make someone incredibly uncomfortable and worried, Shiho wanted to be part of it.]

[cardboard_journalism]

Y-yeah... just water.

[she'd wait for the server to leave before saying more]

I don't... y'know, eat or drink anything while wearing this box, except water, because it won't stain.

[good_ideas]

[.....Shiho had been hanging around that quack doctor for too long, because she finds herself frowning and wondering if she should reach out and make sure this girl is actually okay. Health-wise, that is.]

How long do you wear that box for each day?

[cardboard_journalism]

...that question's kinda personal, isn't it? Sss.

[still, she wasn't upset]

Pretty much all the time. Except for meals, sleeping, and in the bathroom.

[good_ideas]

[She frowns at hearing that because she hadn't thought of it as a personal question. (Or maybe it was just that she had too many weird people back home who would ask even more uncomfortable questions about that box.)]

Not really.

I just wanted to make sure you were actually putting time aside each day to eat.

[She's going to remember to be tsundere in a moment.]

[cardboard_journalism]

Oh... yeah, of course! I mean, I'm not some robot that runs on journalism, y'know?

[at least, not yet...]

[good_ideas]

Well, yeah. I know that.

[Because she kind of used psychometry to see what's under the box....]

As long as you're sure then. [Because she wasn't worried or anything.]

How messy of an eater are you though that you can't even have a smoothie or something? You could have them give you a straw...

[cardboard_journalism]

Kahk kahk kahk... Uh... well I have to sorta lean back to get the straw through the slat here...

[no mouth-hole in the box, of course]

...anyway, I'm fine with water.

[good_ideas]

Can't you just....make a hole for a straw?

[Not that there was anything wrong with drinking only water. It's just that Shiho can't imagine why someone would choose water over chocolate cake.]

[cardboard_journalism]

No way! I'd look like some kinda weirdo or something...

1/2

[good_ideas]

[She's got some bad news for you, Myriam.]

2/2

[good_ideas]

And you're not a weirdo for wearing a box all the time?

[cardboard_journalism]

Sss, sss, sss! It's one thing to be a person who wears a box all the time... it's another to be a person who wears a box with a weird hole punched where the mouth should be!

[good_ideas]

But didn't you already punch out some arm holes? One more tiny hole isn't going to make a difference.

[cardboard_journalism]

That's different!

[for reasons that will... dawn on her eventually]

... Can we talk about something besides my box?

[good_ideas]

[She's pretty sure it's not different so she shrugs with a smile.]

Okay.

What do you want to talk about?

[cardboard_journalism]

Let's talk about...

...

[something she couldn't think of]

Um... how's your... detective-ing going?

[good_ideas]

[She's planning to do some detective-ing on Bellona Recreare herself.

But she's not going to talk about that because it could potentially be dangerous for Myriam if they messed up.]

Pretty good. I found evidence of someone's husband cheating and some lost pets too. Too bad there aren't as many cold cases and murders here.

[cardboard_journalism]

Hmm... cold cases, huh...

[she leaned in, conspiratorially]

What if I told you I had a lead on the coldest case there was?

[good_ideas]

[A person wearing a box leaning in to talk to her is something she'd never thought she'd experience.]

I'd say that I was listening very carefully.

[cardboard_journalism]

All right... [she lowered her voice] But this is between you and me...

[and all the other people she had already told]

Somewhere, among the people relocated, is a hacker of nefarious purposes... I was contacted indirectly and told if I kept publishing a story, they would endanger my friend's life.

--Of course I couldn't go to any authority without proof, but if it happened to me, it can happen to anyone.

[good_ideas]

Which story?

And if you said you were contacted indirectly, how did they do it?