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Who: Kakyoin & OPEN!
When: IC 7/19 - 7/23 (event time)
Where: School, park, marketplace, apartments.
What: Ayyy it's the event bandwagon.
Rating/Warning: Probably some talk of violence, whoops.

A. all that's missing is toast in mouth

[ he feels like he's losing his mind.

he's so sure he's seeing familiar faces -- faces of people that he knows aren't here, faces that he misses dearly -- but the moment he tries to chase them down, they vanish. the first time, he dismisses it as a trick his eyes are playing on him. so the second time, he ignores it. but as it happens a third, a fourth time, it grows harder and harder to pretend nothing's happening.

as he's making his way through the school's hallways, kakyoin's footsteps are steady and clipped. but they stop abruptly when he spots a flicker of movement out of the corner of his eyes -- the trailing length of a long, black coat, or the shape of a built figure in a conspicuous hat -- and this time, he chases after it without thinking.

if someone's playing tricks on him, he's determined to hunt them down, and he sprints full-tilt down the hallway towards where he's so sure he saw that familiar figure, rounding the corner without losing any speed.

so it'll probably be a pretty hard impact if he runs into anyone! ]

B. don't mind the mess

[ so when brute-force sprinting after those hallucinations proves to be fruitless, kakyoin goes for a different tactic.

around the school campus or the park, kakyoin can be found quietly standing in a clearing, staring very intensely at nothing in particular.

maybe it'd be best to ignore the weirdo staring at the trees? or you could talk to him and see what's so interesting about that patch of grass over there?

but people with any sort of supernatural or spiritual ability will be able to see that kakyoin's not just staring at the ground. all around him, strange, green tendrils spread out like a cobweb, covering the ground around him in a fifty, sixty-meter radius. the tendrils shift against the ground, translucent and glowing faintly, and touch lightly at the shoes of anyone who wanders too close to them. linger too long, and they might gently loop around your ankle.

so, yeah. feel free to call him out on that creepy little detail. ]

C. no context theater time

[ he eventually gives up on trying to chase those hallucinations but that still leaves him with the matter of the weird, injured dove that's been following him around. it's a little distressing, being followed by such a battered-looking animal, but he hadn't been able to pick it up or carry it, and helping it out in any way didn't seem possible.

which means he just has to let it totter after him while he tries to go about his daily life.

periodically, he stops and sits down somewhere to let the bird catch up to him. and when he thinks no one's looking, he sometimes makes another attempt to pick it up, even if he knows it probably won't work -- quickly though, so no one can see him trying to pick up a handful of empty air. (he can totally be seen making this embarrassing attempt.)

kakyoin can be found around the school, park, marketplace and apartments, and anyone unfortunate enough to walk near him -- deliberately or not -- will probably end up bumping into the sad, injured spirit-dove hobbling after him. whoops.

C1. please choose this option to get a bizarre memory! it might still be kinda violent and/or horrific, but it'll come with little context and probably be kind of strange. please feel free to request anything specific from his canon, but otherwise these will be chosen randomly!

C2. please choose this option to get a more distressing and/or serious memory! may or may not be violent, may or may not be sad. it's a mystery! please feel free to request anything specific from his canon, but otherwise these will be chosen randomly!

D. wild card

[ please feel free to start with anything else! ]

Threaded | Flat

[Chibi's not paying as much attention to where he and his little goat are walking as he should be. His head is buried in his notebook, scanning a poem he's written (a love poem, actually) to see if it's up to snuff; the goat is limping behind him as pitifully as ever. (His little AI buddy Stook is sleeping in his hat.)]

[When he comes up a little too close behind Kakyoin and slips his foot against one of that sad little dove's tail-feathers, being flung into a memory that is not his again, he is still remarkably good at balancing those bags. He might stumble forward a few steps, though, and bump into Kakyoin's back. Hope you're not too nauseous, dude!]

[For the past couple of days, Mabel felt like she was forgetting something but she couldn't quite put her finger on it. Ever since a couple of days ago, she was sure everything was fine but nope! Whatever was going on, it sure was weird. But then again, this was probably the least weirdest thing going on compared to the stuff she already seen!

Although, it was just a tiny bit strange to just be randomly living in other people's memory. And this was one of them!

As Mabel just went about her day like usual, she didn't happen to see where she was going. Hope you like a tiny girl bumping into you, Kakyoin, because she already did!]

[Shopping, shopping~

Felicia bustled through the crowded market, a paper bag of goods precariously balanced in her hands as she rushed down the stone sidewalks wth her dangerous looking heels. She wanted to have dinner ready at a proper time this time, and she had more cookies to bake so she could thank some people for their help in recent days. Singularly focused as she was, she didn't even notice the slender young man she brushed passed on her way home-- at least, until her shoe clipped the curb and she went tumbling down on the sidewalk, into the hobbling little bird that she couldn't even see.]

[Leon was just looking for Lili so he could return one of her science books!!! That's all he wanted...... and instead he gets barreled into by a teenager who is a great deal larger than him.

Being the 5'2" tiny, flimsy teen that he is, Leon's really not prepared for Kakyoin coming around that corner at full speed--and he hits the ground hard, science book tumbling elsewhere.

He's...going to need a moment, that probably took a chunk off of his HP, he has nothing in the way of defense.]

[ It's just a nice normal day at the park-- but Mary wasn't expecting to see glowing green tentacles (tendrils) everywhere. Understandably, she's noticing this before she's spotting Kakyoin, and she flinches when one curls around her ankle before she realizes...

Wait, she knows these tentacles (tendrils). ]

Hierophant...?

[Why in the HELL did this place give him two of these creatures?

Bad enough it felt like he was going through some vicious sort of bug (odd bouts of dizziness and nausea, random flashbacks to things he was fairly sure didn't happen), but chasing down a fat blue penguin who was chasing down an injured fox for no good reason? That was just ridiculous. Maybe he should have just let them be (it'd be more peace for himself), but something felt like he had a responsibility for this thing somehow.

So intent on catching this mysterious blue beast, he misses Kakyoin coming in the opposite direction and slams into him, foot accidentally kicking the invisble dove ~~that monster!!~~, before stumbling back again. This wasn't shaping up to be his day, was it?]

[He's led Slow Dancer to a cool spot to rest while he does his shopping for essentials. Though he's been here for a short time, it's hard not to feel like he's going through the motions and pretending everything is alright. Every time he lets his eyes linger for a moment too long on those figures, he feels like tearing down the street after them or hiding away in the darkest corner he can find.

Instead, he wheels slowly and rhythmically down the paved street, counting off the list of things he still needs to buy. Dry goods. Some fresh vegetables, things that would be easy to cook, preferably. It's not until he's rather close that he recognizes Kakyoin- that boy from the beach- sitting on one of the street benches. Was he waiting for someone? Might as well see if he'd heard anything new since they last spoke. Johnny was fairly desperate for the distraction.]

Hey. It was... Kakyoin, yeah?

[As he pulls up to talk, he reaches to set the brake on his chair, and his fingers lightly brush the incorporeal bird.]

[Where she found him being weird as hell, it was at the marketplace. It happened all too fast that she couldn't even call out for him in time to apologise for bumping into him.

LET'S GO WITH A SERIOUS MEMORY.]

c1. gimme that bizarre. confuse this old man

C1 - Bizarre is Mabel's middle name

C1. Her life is already pretty bizarre-- I think she can take it!

a;

b; we can finagle memories if you want but HIEROPHAAANT

c2 LET'S GET SOME SRS UP IN HERE

C2?

c-2!!