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Rise ♡aggressively friendships♡ Kujikawa ([personal profile] pseudonyms) wrote in [community profile] estoria2016-06-06 12:54 pm

[open] And as you know I have a gigantic heart

Who: Rise Kujikawa and OPEN!
When: 7/19-7/23 (IC) aka event-time!
Where: Various prompts
What: It started with a goat. Then it all just went downhill from there. AKA Rise Kujikawa and the mysterious memories event.
Rating/Warning: N/A for now, will update if needed



[It started with a goat. Honestly, at first she thought that she'd dreamed it, that maybe it was just an extension of the white feathers she saw in her dreams recently but no. She wakes up and there sure is a wispy little goat at the foot of her bed. She stares…and the goat bleats flatly at her. It's a sad-looking thing, but as she tries to get closer it seems to disappear immediately.

Wow. That's weird.]


A.) is for Academy

[It's a normal school day. With everyone back from the dead and her worries a little more at ease, she can concentrate a little easier. It's quiet in the Study Hall period of the day and she's working on some homework when she spots the goat out of the corner of her eye…approaching a wastebasket. She hasn't realized it can't change much of the world around them, but she'll get that memo as soon as she gets up and stealthily tries to approach the animal.

Of course, the goat suddenly moves and it startles her and her arms suddenly pinwheel as she yells, trying to balance on her high heels so she doesn't bite the dust. Are you going to catch her? Let her fall? Fall with her? Sorry about all of that.]


B.) is for Bad Places Rise Shouldn't Wander

[This goat is seriously way more trouble than it's worth. She's not sure where it came from or why it's in such poor condition, but she's taken to following it around the colony to make sure it doesn't get too far out of her sight. It's for that reason she doesn't even realize she winds up right in the middle of the Pleasure District. The goat's paused, and if it's possible it gives her a knowing look despite its lack of real expression.

(Is it possible that this goat knows about her dungeon?)

She ends up in a staring contest with the goat, narrowing her eyes when she realizes she's standing in front of a love hotel.]


Don't even think about it. [She sure was talking to the goat, but it's not that hard to overhear her.]

C.) is for Cafe

[Everything is exhausting. She's sprawled over a chair almost ungracefully and that goat hovers around near her feet, but at least its not moving. On occasion, she'll be writing neat lines in a notebook and sipping her tea, though she frowning in concentration. There's an extra chair at her table though. Feel free to ask if you can join her or even be nosy about what she's doing, she won't mind.

On the other hand, if you're a friend or even someone she recognizes, she'll look up and smile brightly before pushing the chair out with her foot.]


Hey, over here!

D.) is for Dancing Games

[Sometimes Rise likes to play games. Sometimes Rise likes to use the game station to practice and when she gets bored of dancing in her room this is the next best thing. However, she's found at the game center today in front of one of the dancing games, and as she watches the colorful arrows fall across the screen she's continually missing and whines in frustration.]

Ugh, come on! This should be really easy! [And it would be…if she actually remembered how to dance. It's like all memories and coordination have left her and she's left trying really hard to fix that. Help her? Challenge her? Question her?]

E.) is for Everything Else!

[If you want to run into her while she's out shopping, at work as a model/karaoke star/tofu connoisseur, or if housemates want to do apartment shenanigans here you go!]

[ooc: ALSO if you have a preference on your type of memory please let me know! Otherwise I will be randomizing. Thank you!]
pinsky: (by turning that switch)

[personal profile] pinsky 2016-06-14 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah... I want to fix him! I want to fix the little guy. [She sighs, almost defeated.] But if they don't show a physical form, I don't know.

Persona. [The name rings a bell... Sulla doesn't know much about psychology, but there's some necessary when you're working with AIs and prototypes of synthetic minds. It's enough that she can call forth:] --You mean, like the psychological concept of 'persona', like the face you show to everyone else as opposed to your real self?

[But then, why couldn't others see them??]
pinsky: (we'll help you hack into that)

[personal profile] pinsky 2016-06-18 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Sulla's about to ask more, but she sees it before she can. The room is dark, with pink velvet and lights and a pole--]

[Ohgeez is that seriously a strip club. Ohgod this girl's in a bikini right there. Well, Sulla knows what she's not mentioning.]

[But besides that, the whole thing is interesting. That other Rise, and the process of accepting it - something about the experience resonates with Sulla. If she had a shadow like this, it might be about being synthetic: about not being able to accept that she is in two worlds partially, and not fully in either. The memory doesn't give her any idea of Rise's struggles, but...]

[It's nice to know not everyone has it figured out. It's nice to know she's not alone in having to undergo that journey.]

[Instead of directly mentioning hey, so I got one of your memories, and now I know what that power is and also I saw you in a swimsuit and??, though maybe some of that shows in the red in her face, she starts:]
You know, I never thought any of this was real before I came here. Ghosts, or 'Personas,' or the . And I'd thought once that maybe we were all in some huge simulation, but the thought of it actually being true never... You know? It's like, once you step in and find out about that side of the world, you can never go back.
pinsky: (from every tower a million watts of love)

sorry for the wait!!

[personal profile] pinsky 2016-06-25 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
At home? Never. [Sulla sighs; she both loves and hates not knowing. It's a mystery, but she's impatient to solve it.] I mean, I was mostly homeschooled, so I spent a lot of time reading, so I read a lot about the occult and stuff, but... There were always explanations for it. Explanations that made sense.

This doesn't make sense.
pinsky: (by turning that switch)

[personal profile] pinsky 2016-06-30 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. Nothing. [As many fairy tales as a young girl reads, it doesn't prepare the psyche for seeing them played out.]

[An idea occurs to her, though, and she puts a finger to her lips before she says:]
Maybe they're testing us. Like... Remember that ViViD level we had to go through when we came in? At least, I did. It was like a test, right? When I was younger, my... dad [the word feels so weird, even though she's used it as a lie before] had me do a lot of aptitude tests, too. So maybe this whole place is just testing us to use us for something else, or just to make sure we're up to snuff. --I don't like the idea, but it makes sense if they're just letting us figure it out ourselves, and not doing anything on their end.