(CLOSED) VIVID & CHILL
Who: Rapunzel (
luminarie) & Jaune Arc (
beaconed)
When: IC: 6/8
Where: One of those weird ViViD arenas modelled after TheHunger Thirsty Games
What: Two idiots with a thing for flirting and violence start a fight club. Because it's always the nice ones.
Rating/Warning: Upgraded yet again to P for PERFECTLY PURE (warning for handsy teenagers, blood, action, and 100% sexual tension. )
[ There's something about being held at gunpoint that gets her blood pumping and cheeks flushing like nothing else. It's freezing but she's barefoot, of course, because beneath her is a beach with black sand that feels more like hot water. Her senses are heightened and every sensation is sharp. Even when she's about to die, Rapunzel feels alive with him.
They're in Iceland, by the way. The arena is in Iceland. Just in case you were thinking it might be Iceland, you were right: it's Iceland. Yes. That's right. It's like that snow level in Inception only it's a glacier in the middle of the Atlantic in Iceland. Because apparently Iceland is pretty cool.
Anyway. She's relatively familiar with firearms by this point, though she still knows next to nothing about how to shoot most kinds. All she knows is that the gun in her face right now is, frankly, a lot like its owner: crazy, impractical, good-looking, and probably deadly despite being so pathetic.
Nice choice, Shiho! ]
Put it down, Arc. [ Rapunzel presses the blade of her spear against her teammate's throat, firm, but not so firm as to draw blood yet. ] Remember that thing I said when we met? About how I promised to never hit you?
[ She smiles and takes a step closer. ]
Please don't make me break my promise on the first level, Jaune. [ Time to draw blood? She never promised anything about blood so... maybe! ] Put the gun down.
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When: IC: 6/8
Where: One of those weird ViViD arenas modelled after The
What: Two idiots with a thing for flirting and violence start a fight club. Because it's always the nice ones.
Rating/Warning: Upgraded yet again to P for PERFECTLY PURE (warning for handsy teenagers, blood, action, and 100% sexual tension. )
[ There's something about being held at gunpoint that gets her blood pumping and cheeks flushing like nothing else. It's freezing but she's barefoot, of course, because beneath her is a beach with black sand that feels more like hot water. Her senses are heightened and every sensation is sharp. Even when she's about to die, Rapunzel feels alive with him.
They're in Iceland, by the way. The arena is in Iceland. Just in case you were thinking it might be Iceland, you were right: it's Iceland. Yes. That's right. It's like that snow level in Inception only it's a glacier in the middle of the Atlantic in Iceland. Because apparently Iceland is pretty cool.
Anyway. She's relatively familiar with firearms by this point, though she still knows next to nothing about how to shoot most kinds. All she knows is that the gun in her face right now is, frankly, a lot like its owner: crazy, impractical, good-looking, and probably deadly despite being so pathetic.
Nice choice, Shiho! ]
Put it down, Arc. [ Rapunzel presses the blade of her spear against her teammate's throat, firm, but not so firm as to draw blood yet. ] Remember that thing I said when we met? About how I promised to never hit you?
[ She smiles and takes a step closer. ]
Please don't make me break my promise on the first level, Jaune. [ Time to draw blood? She never promised anything about blood so... maybe! ] Put the gun down.
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[ Naturally she would never, ever hurt him any more or faster than his Aura could keep up with, but she's been playing the role of villain and "enemy" lot more since the whole mask incident, so that's kinda strange!! ]
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A-Alright, fine! You wanna play it that way? You leave me no choice, Rapunzel.
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SMULDERSPRUCE WILLIS.Which is... just an attempt at a sexy face. In reality, it looks really awkward and weird and nobody would blame Rapunzel if she just drove that spear through his throat without a second thought. ]
...Hey. Trust me.
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Do you have gas?
[ The edge of her blade scrapes further along Jaune's neck before she turns her shoulder slightly in order to pull it away, folding the weapon neatly at her side, though she doesn't move away. Instead, it's time for her signature hand-on-forehead move! Now, far from looking the part of the enemy, Rapunzel is all concern. ]
I was just joking about trusting you. We're a team, Jaune, I trust you with my life. This was just an exercise. You know, in... in case something happens next time we have to all fight each other? [ OR SOMETHING.
She's like a more intense version of Pyrrha. This is training! See? Training in Iceland!!
Or maybe she just wanted an excuse to get up in his face. ]
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[ He does lower his weapon, however, just as she's feeling his face. If this is her disarming tactic, then he's falling for it hook, line and sinker. ]
I mean, we're not really supposed to be a team in here...
[ ... ]
I-I'm not trying to change your mind, though! Forget I said that. Teammate! Team... soul... ma--friend! Soul friend! Yeeeah! Please don't stab me.
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Her hand drops from his forehead and follows the line of skin along his neck that her spear's just grazed. When she pulls her fingers away they are... covered with blood. ]
Heh. Who would I talk to at work if I stabbed you? [ Guess who's putting that blood on her nose? ] Who else but you do I count on to come up with ridiculous team attack names? Or... [ One step closer couldn't hurt, right? He'll never see her blood-on-nose art if she doesn't get as close as possible!!! ]
Children's names? Rainbow, right?
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[ --immediately, jaune's gun fires off into the distance.
That was not a euphemism. ]
A-Ahahahaaha!! Wow. H-Hey, y'know this is just a game, right? I wouldn't... really die. I hope. I kinda took out someone-- I-I mean, okay, for some reason I can still really bleed. Isn't that weird? B-By the way, you have some on, uh... your...
[ don't touch it, don't-- ah, he's touching her nose... what a nice nose... even with all the bloodpaint... but why is it getting larger, as if it's zooming in or something? Oh, right, it's because he catches himself leaning forward like a weirdo, then quickly clears his throat. TIME AND PLACE, GUYS. ]
--n-nose.
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I know.
[ Rapunzel recovers like the emotional acrobat she apparently is, spinning away from Jaune with a laugh and landing so that she's facing away from him. He'll notice now that she's wearing full riot gear, just as you'll notice I've linked more things now than I've actually described in the prose.
Right. Fourth wall shattering commentary from the author ends now. ]
I put it there. [ And, in the most commanding yet friendly tone she's capable of, over her shoulder: ] Please don't shoot me. ...Who exactly did you take out, by the way? Another player?
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Y-Yeah, I, ah... erm... I fired off a warning shot, heh. Y'know, like, like they do in movies to scare the other person away. Except, like... my aim was really good, in a morbid kinda way, and... y-yeah. I think they got the message. I should apologize when we log out.
I got their loot, though! Half glass full, right? Check it out! [ Jaune shows her the monocular he looted from the other person. In fact, he demonstrates by looking at her through the item, but gets awkward when all he sees are her zoomed in lips. Uh.
Maybe he should low.....er... it...
Oh, no that's worse. Nope. Back up. Literally up! He's looking at the sky! ]
They make the clouds so realistic!
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GRAVE ROBBING: SO PRACTICAL! ]
That was smart. [ Because it was and he is! ] How... have you survived this long if you're that willing to put your gun down for just anyone, though? [ Hey, wouldn't it be cool to walk along the weird, sizzling Icelandic beach towards the snow now? Hell yeah it would!!!
There's no blood or guts anywhere either, so it's even pretty romantic for the time being. Peaceful, even. ]
Are you always this trusting?
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People, unlike monsters, have the strength to do the right thing. I like to believe that anyway...
[ He hands her the monocular/TELESCOPE THING to try out as he follows along beside her. ]
But I know that this is just a game. It's fun, in a weird way? Like a tournament! Just... it's really graphic. I wouldn't mind turning down the blood, heh.
Sssooo, who did you have to stab to make it this far? [ This would be a completely weird question outside of ViViD. ]
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And potential combat aside, Jaune's words don't quite land their mark, though not unlike steel arrows and other, cruder projectiles she's seen, they come close enough to wound and make her flinch. Rapunzel falters for just a moment as she reviews what he's just said about people doing the right thing, wondering if it's the same for her or if she's... broken somehow. Her fingers twitch towards her hair, a constant companion even when Pascal is absent.
Turns out fiddling with the spyglass and watching the smoke is a better use of her hands than fiddling with her ponytail! ]
...Wow. Have you seen this? It's beautiful... [ Through the tiny lens she can see trails of aquamarine light as they streak across the sky: the aurora borealis. Or something. ] We can see everything with this. There's a fortress further up on the glacier that I think we're supposed to infiltrate... [ Aren't you missing the point!? ]
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[ Wow, maybe he chose the right outfit for this after all. Also wasn't this some kind of Hunger Games game?!? Whatever, he's game! He's been meaning to practice teamwork in ViViD with her anyway, but that was before all the mask shenanigans happened, and then there's that letter that he's never allowed to bring up with her. But if he doesn't bring it up then he'll look like a jerk who has never read it. Or maybe a dyslexic. SIGH.
But hey, she wrote it, right? That means she wants to be more than that, right?? Which is why Jaune will... awkwardly....... put his arm around her as she spies... for like two seconds before drawing back again asopashfklhgas ]
--Infiltrate! Of course, yeah. That... that's why we're here! Gotta infiltrate the... smokey fortress in the middle of snowy nowhere. Snowhere. [ He snorts at his own joke!! ] Haaa...
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–is more or less along the lines of what Rapunzel is thinking when, blinded by the monocular from the rest of the world outside her circular slice of wintry sky, she feels an unexpected warmth and brush of fabric where there shouldn't be any such thing. The warm sand is supposed to be below her, right!? ]
Jaune, wha–
[ And just like that, he's back to not touching her and being a moron.
Rapunzel stares. ]
Did... you just– [ Uh oh, her lips are turning upwards, beginning a dangerous, mischievous smirk. ] ...try to hug me?
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[ Oh no, he was moving in too soon, wasn't he? One declaration of love from her and he suddenly thinks it's okay to hug the person whose feelings he's reciprocating. What a moron! ]
...body heat! Yeah. It's kinda cold, and... y'know, people just do that kinda thing. To keep warm. It's all... scientific. Legit. Survival. Biological. What... I'm just saying random words now-- Yeah, so. Yeah. That's... --hey, let me look through that.
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In fact, Rapunzel goes as far as doubling back and abruptly reaching up to wind an arm - the same one attached to the hand attatched to her sharp ass spear - daringly around Jaune's neck, using her free hand to take his so she can ~smoooothly~ press the monocular into his palm.
Not for the first time she's grateful to Past Rapunzel for doing that crazy kiss thing. Now that it's out of her system she definitely doesn't want to do it again and has no trouble at all being this close to him! None whatsoever!
...Fucking none!! :) ]
Hey. [ Lowering her voice. ] So... did you learn about body heat from another player too?
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[ --jaune's gun fires off into the ground again. Which is amazing because it's fucking holstered. ]
What? H-Hey, c'mon, I'm trying to... get a view of, uh... strategy, th-- I, uh, heh. You smell nice-- a-alright, wait, stop! We gotta focus! And I think there's something wrong with my gun!
[ He almost shot himself in the foot?!? ]
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[ Unfortunately (fortunately?) this time what he says not only gets her to stop and pay attention, it gets her to completely disentangle herself.
Frowning, she peers at his weapon a second time, though she doesn't go quite as far as actually reaching out and touching it herself. Even she respects some boundaries of personal space. ]
Hm. [ Weird. ] Where'd you get this gun thing anyway? Are... you sure it's - safe? I mean it shoots really fast and hard, so that's good, A-And it's beautiful, don't get me wrong! Just...
[ He almost shot himself in the foot?!?
And right when they were really ratcheting up that UST quotient. ]
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[ And he will do so by demonstrating. By pointing the gun at his face and pulling the trigger. ]
See? Safe! [ He pulls the trigger again for emphasis. ] Boom! Aaah, I'm bleeding outta my face! Pssshhhhhh! [ He mimes blood spraying out of his face at Rapunzel via vague hand gestures. ] Heeeallll meeeee, aaaahh! --hahaha! "Is it safe", hahah, oh you...
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Nah. Maybe he's just demonstrating– ]
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[ Hard to tell if she's furious, amused, or something else entirely, but whatever she is, it's loud. ]
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Only, as I said, she never gets the chance to do that, because someone else at a much more advantageous location than they're currently at fires off a round of something that hits Rapunzel in the arm. ]
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D FOR DICK AND DONE
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done
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1/:)
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fin
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done bro
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done mate
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ddddone
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LMAO YOU DUMBASS I TAGGED YOU YESTERDAY!
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done -- and CONGRATUFUCKINGLATIONS
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2/3 JK
done
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d o n e
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(1/drumroll i set even for "yes" on rng SHH)
(2/still rolling..........)
(3/still rolling..................)
(4/this is literally a fanfic)
(5/that drabble i wrote was shorter than this lmfao)
(6/okay first roll is a 64)
(7/idk why i split these tbh)
(8/8)
(9/lol jk WHO CARES WHITE GOLD IS HAPPENING SECOND ROLL WAS: 32)
(10/10 aka the worst thing that could happen and the best thing ever)
1/??? -- i've seen some AC submissions that are shorter than your spam
2/comment #100 goes to...
3/what DOES come after three...
4/get your mind out of the gutter
5/5!
sorry still 10/10 (actually 1/?)
Done actually!
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