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Yagami Hikari ([personal profile] givesalittlewhistle) wrote in [community profile] estoria2016-02-05 02:56 pm

Days Go By [OPEN]

Who: Hikari Yagami ([personal profile] givesalittlewhistle) & OPEN || Iris Hawthorne/Fey ([personal profile] shroudedinsecrecy) & OPEN
When: IC, Mid to late May / OOC, February
Where: Various Locations, specified in Starters
What: Catch-All for Hikari and Iris as they go to school, work, around the city...and each come across their respective masks.
Rating/Warning: None to Start. Will update if necessary




I. - Morning Walk to School (Hikari)

[Careful not to wake the slumbering Tailmon on her pillow, Hikari bade those still at the apartment a courteous goodbye as she headed out for the day.]

[The walk to the local school wasn't that bad. Not much further than her elementary school back home. She'd spent several days memorizing the path, and was pleasantly surprised to learn that it even allowed her to pass by a small cafe. When she was a little early, she could stop and buy an extra baked good for breakfast. And a second one to wrap up and save for Tailmon for later, of course.]

[Otherwise, the eight-year-old child can be found quietly strolling along, her footsteps barely audible against the ground, nearly full backpack slung over both shoulders. Quiet, but with a faint smile on her lips as she tried to think of what she might want to learn that particular day in class.]



II. - Lunchtime! (Hikari)

[Thanks to those ViViD games, on top of her small allowance for attending school (who would have thought?), Hikari had enough left over to spend on a nice lunch for herself. Normally, she would just eat in the classroom...but it was such a nice day outside that day! She wanted to enjoy it!]

[So she found a comfortable area along the grass and placed her things down. Sitting on a small blanket, she reached inside her pack and pulled out what looked like a plastic box. Inside, containing all sorts of delicious treats and a pair of disposable chopsticks for her to eat them with.]

[But not before she pressed her hands together and bowed her head in a habitual show of respect for the food she was about to consume.]


Itadakimasu!


III. - The Park (Hikari)

[Tailmon was usually up by the time she returned home. And eager for a little exercise.]

[Or all the things, they'd found a soccer ball in one of the local stores. Hikari wasn't quite as good or even enthusiastic about the sport as her brother, but there was something about the idea of getting to kick it around for a while--with Tailmon chasing after it in the strangest came of catball and mouse one would se that day--that lifted her spirits immensely. She let out several bouts of laughter as the silver whistle around her neck shone in the afternoon sunlight, not even caring that she was getting a little sweaty or dirty from all the exercise.]


All right, Tailmon, I'm gonna kick it to you! Ready?

[She waited until the feline digimon looked ready to pounce...and kicked.]


IV - The Mask (Hikari)

[She noticed it from Day One.]

[Hikari had always been a rather observant child, even when she was very small. For the blank, white mask to appear within her line of vision no less than...well...every time she looked? Even if it was just out of the corner of her peripheral vision?]

[At first, she thought someone was playing a joke on her. It wasn't funny. Then she wondered if the mask was alive. She tried talking to it. It didn't talk back. She picked it up. No response. She put it back down, and went along her usual way. It followed.]

[That would have been more than strange enough for her, the girl who had a talking cat for a companion and sometimes glowed when she got upset. But then...the mask started to grow feathers. Little by little. Day by day.]

[She was officially confused.]


...does this sort of thing happen a lot?

[She stare down at the mask on the sidewalk in front of her in all its featherly glory, wondering if--perhaps--she needed an adult.]




V. - Shopping! (Iris)

[Dressed in her full priestess garb once more, Iris was on a very important mission that day, which was what led her to any shop she could find that looked like it sold a variety of tea blends. Always with a very specific request in mind:]

No, forgive me. I should have been more specific. I'm...looking for the herbs themselves. Not teabags.

I...like to mix my own blends.


VI. - Work! (Iris)

[And not just for home; once she found what sh was looking for, Iris brought her prizes straight to the Cerea gym, where she had already procured a small tea set. It wasn't quite the equipment she'd had at the Temple, but it was sufficient enough to suit her needs.]

[In between customers, she would sit on one of the floor mats and serenely ground at the herbs little by little, placing the finished products all in separate jars. Labeling them accordingly and testing both their smell and a small dab on her tongue for taste to determine which ones might be best suited for one another.]

[A highly relaxing ritual, but not one that would distract her enough not to notice whenever someone entered the room.]


Hello. Is there something I can help you with today?


VII. - Mask (Iris)

[...was this another game? A non-ViViD game? Because she was fairly certain she had not entered the virtual reality for quite some time. Not that she could recall.]

[Iris stared at the strange, white mask that had been...for lack of a better word, following her, for several days now. It seemed everywhere she looked, there it was. That same, blank expression.]

[Except, today, there was a noticeable change. It had started to...crack. Little tiny fissures breaking through its otherwise smooth surface. And, though she possessed no spiritual powers of her own, and had no explanation for their appearance...she felt a small chill travel down her spin each time she realized the cracks were getting bigger. And deeper.]


Whoever's doing this... [She finally whispered into the air when she saw it sitting on the park bench beside her. Even more cracked than before.] ...please stop. I beg of you.


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VII

[personal profile] cresthopes 2016-02-06 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[That mask sure looked a lot like the one that Rise threw the other day. Whatever was going on, Takeru wasn't sure what to think of it! Although, when he looked at the mask today? He noticed that there were feathers coming out.

Now that was just weird but when he saw a familiar looking person nearby?]


Iris-san...? Are you okay?
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[personal profile] shroudedinsecrecy 2016-02-06 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Takeru's voice was enough of a surprise to momentarily halt the threatening quiver of her lower lip; she looked over to him with wide eyes and a soft gasp before remembering herself.]

Oh! Takeru!

I didn't...see you there. Forgive me.
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iv!

[personal profile] trueend 2016-02-06 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
... Think so. Someone told me weird stuff happens a lot.

[Pipping up from a couple of steps away, their own mask held to their chest with the side that's reflecting the effects hidden. Probably a bit weird, considering they're staring at her mask, but. Hey. Her mask looks pretty, at least.]
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[personal profile] trueend 2016-02-07 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[That's... a very good question. And not one they have a good answer for? They think about it, and then end up shrugging.]

Dunno. I heard bad stuff happens a lot, too, but... This doesn't feel dangerous. [A beat.] ... I think.

[Ignoring the fact that their mask is freaking them out, anyway.]
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[personal profile] trueend 2016-02-07 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
A little. Mine kept following me around, too. Until I picked it up? Tried putting it in a backpack at first. Didn't work. Kept showing up in front of me after a while, like yours. It stopped doing that after I held it like this.

[Which was a really distressing learning experience, considering what's displayed on the front of their mask, but they seem pretty calm while explaining this. It's easy to seem calm about a lot of things when your other option is to yell.]

I think... they want to be with us. And don't mind were you put them as long as they're really, really visible.
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[personal profile] cresthopes 2016-02-07 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
It's okay, I didn't see you either until you said something!

[But as he walked closer, he simply titled his head and gave her a curious look]

But is everything okay? You look really sad there!
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[personal profile] shroudedinsecrecy 2016-02-07 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sad. Just...confused.

[Alright, maybe a little upset, but it was the kind of upset that stemmed from the aforementioned confusion. Combined with frustration and a lack of understanding.]

This thing... [She motioned to the mask] ...it keeps following me. And now it's breaking, even though I haven't touched it.
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[personal profile] trueend 2016-02-07 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[They think about that, just for a second. Decide it makes the whole thing even creepier.]

... Maybe? They move on their own. Alive things do that.
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[personal profile] trueend 2016-02-07 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah. Yes. Good example. They nod in agreement.]

They could be alive... like robots.

[... Scratch that. This would be a good example if they didn't know any sentient robots.]
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[personal profile] trueend 2016-02-09 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe it's... shy?

[It's, uh. Not very shy about displaying very bad things, though. They shift a little, changing the position of their mask so it doesn't decide to pop up somewhere else, and she might get a small glimpse at some very bloody, very non-human fingerprints on it.]

Not sure if it's able to talk, though. S'possible moving's all it does.
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[personal profile] cresthopes 2016-02-09 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Well that just weird, I wonder why!

[He said before taking a closer look. While he wasn't sure what was going on, he might have an idea of what happened!]

But it sure looks a lot like the mask that a friend of mine had! Maybe the fortune teller gave you a really bad mask! But it's still not a very nice thing to give someone though.

[And especially when his was filled with feathers too!]
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[personal profile] shroudedinsecrecy 2016-02-09 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
I don't remember...speaking with any fortune teller.

[She would have noticed. No, this mask hadn't been given to her. It just appeared.]

Which friend of yours is it?
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[personal profile] cresthopes 2016-02-10 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Really? Then I wonder why they decided to give us all these masks. Maybe she just wanted to celebrate that holiday? Where you dress up as other people?

[What is Halloween in Japan??]

Oh! Her name is Rise-san! She said that she got a mask that kept coming back to her for some odd reason!
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[personal profile] shroudedinsecrecy 2016-02-11 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Of course, for Iris, dressing up as other people brought about a...different memory. And not of any one specific holiday, but rather a series of less than fortunate events over the span of several years.]

The carnival...there seemed to be a lot of focus on appearance. The way they called all of us the Ugliest Person.

I wonder if it has to do something with that? Maybe they really don't like the way we look.
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[personal profile] trueend 2016-02-11 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[That makes two of them. Kind of. They frown, thinking about something, before looking down at their own mask.]

Could be that they're waiting... Won't want to tell us how to help until the right moment.
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[personal profile] cresthopes 2016-02-12 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
But why? I remember them saying something about the way we look but I wonder what was that for!

[He said before digging out his mask and showing it to Iris. With all the white feathers running about, it was amazing that most of them didn't fall out!

But he was tempting to give it to her though...]
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[personal profile] trueend 2016-02-14 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
... I dunno.

[They wish they had a better answer, but:]

Got here a couple weeks ago. Know most stuff because the grownups told me.
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[personal profile] shroudedinsecrecy 2016-02-15 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[She didn't reach for the mask. She didn't even move to touch it; as far as she knew right then, Takeru had only taken it out to show her. So she took a look.]

[It was different than hers. Uncracked, and with feathers everywhere. She wondered if they felt as soft as they appeared. And why Takeru's mask was so different than hers. Almost...beautiful.]


What do the feathers mean?

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