A skipped beat of Awakining

[chicklet]

 Kyoko had Woken a few days before, but she had hardly met anyone and still had very little clue what was going on. The person she had met first had been more interested in teaching her this Bending stuff than explaining how she could get home, and before she knew it she was alone in a room in something called a Welcome House. With nothing better to do, she might have spent the night making curse dolls....

But when she woke up to find someone had left something in her room the sight was a mix of relief and dread. Relief because she Woke in Setsu's clothing, and that... was not ideal. The clothing that arrived for her... her gift... she had worn it before. It was comfortable in some ways. In other ways, it was armor. 

But...

She reached out and picked up the bright bright pink jumpsuit, so pink that once you see it the colour is forever burned into your retinas. What was the point of being a Love Me member if she was here alone and there was no auditions or studios or work or anything?

She winced, just imagining the president's reaction to that question. Dramatic tears, a long monologue about how she should want to work as a Love Me member to get people to love her, not just to move up in the business. She sighed and looked between the black leather of the pants she was wearing and the toxic pink material she was holding. 

Setsu or Kyoko?

Well... Setsu's soul had kind of fled her the moment she had arrived here so... Kyoko. She started to stand and realized there were things in the pockets of the jump suit. As well as undergarments and a shirt and shorts to wear under, thankfully. She reached into the pocket, holding the suit with one hand and...


Pink material so bright that once you see it you nearly go blind fell to the floor as she looked at what had been in the large pockets. Her heart shaped stamp book and stamp set, of course. Corn. CORN! And.... PRINCESS ROSA!

She sat back down, in perfect hostess style and set everything in her lap. Corn first. She opened the small change pouch and pulled out the blue-ish purple stone and held it to the light. "Corn... I think I'm trapped somewhere weird," she told the stone. Then blinked. And blinked again, starting to grin. Corn, the original owner of this stone... he wasn't from Earth. Maybe this was his world! MAYBE!!!!! MAYBE THIS WAS THE WORLD OF FARIES!!!!! 

Joy sang through her at that thought and she held the stone to her heart, feeling its warmth. Maybe Corn would be here! She put the stone into the pouch, eager to change now, when the small baggie with Princess Rosa touched her hand. She lifted it. The stone had been from Corn, but the jewel set inside the hand made setting on the necklace in the bag was Princess Rosa, born from the Queen Rose that Mr. Tsuruga had given her for her birthday. Natsu's necklace. 

So... she was in the world of Faries, with a powerful talisman from Corn, a necklace that could transform her into Natsu and outfit that could summon Setsu's soul. Her face was going to break if she didn't stop smiling, and she didn't care. She quickly changed into that shockingly pink uniform, with the logo elegantly displayed on the back and to one side of the chest. She put everything but Corn back in her pockets, and grabbed her cellphone from beside the bed, tossing that in too. She wouldn't wear Princess Rosa, not with the Love Me uniform. But Corn... she wanted his stone in hand so he'd recognize her now that she changed. 

She stood and looked in the mirror, then winced and took off Setsu's wig and jewelry. She looked like Kyoko again. But it had been a long time since Corn had seen her, and she'd dyed her hair. So the stone might be how he'd recognize her.

Thrilled with the world and all that was in it, she bounded outside, and headed for the woods, singing, dancing, and making a general spectacle of her self. Once she got to the woods, she threw her arms wide, and yelled to the tree tops. "FARIES! I AM HERE! I'M CORN'S FRIEND! AND I AM HERE TO BECOME A FAIRY AND STAY WITH YOU ALWAYS!!!!!" She looked about 16, she was acting about 6. 

Comments

[younghero]

"Nah, here, people can do whatever they like? I mean, if you have a play you wanna put on, just ask the rest of the city if they're interested. I think you'd get lots of people wanting to help!"

[chicklet]

"A... play? I've never done live theater. Well, except that one acting test, but that was really more for Maria than anything else..."

[younghero]

"Well, sure? What other kind of acting is there?"

Her Bo costume is a giant chicken in clothes...

[chicklet]

"Television and movies..." obviously. "Where we do take after take to get the scene perfect." Live had to be perfect every scene every time. It was a little terrifying, really.

And now she was wondering if Mr. Tsuruga had ever done any live work.... As she thought about it, she realized she sort of had, since Bridge Rock had a live audience for the tapings, but she was Bo then... and got in trouble often for messing things up... so that hardly counted, and if it did, would count against her.

rofl

[younghero]

"Oh. Those things." Weird Earth things, again. "I don't think anyone has ever made a movie or a Tee-vee show in Nautilus."

Pic inside

[chicklet]

(BoBetter Bo for Link)

She sunk to the ground, looking utterly depressed and broken, the air behind her purpling slightly. How... how was she ever going to remember how to be human..if she couldn't act and live new roles?

that is priceless, rofl

[younghero]

"Hey--it's not that bad. I mean, you can always start something new? There isn't any reason you can't be the first to do something here in Nautilus."

Re: that is priceless, rofl

[chicklet]

"But... I'm no good at that side of things. I don't know any of it. I'm just some snot nosed newcomer who is lucky because I got a few good roles...." someone might let the words of bullies root in her a little too well, even if she hides it most of the time.

Re: that is priceless, rofl

[younghero]

Link's bullies told him he wasn't even a full person for the first ten years of his life. He could sympathize.

"Do you really believe that? Cause, whoever told you that stuff isn't here. And if it's just the fact you've never done it before, how do you know you're no good at it?"

[chicklet]

Oh, if Link ever found out what idiot # 1 had done to her.....

"I haven't been trained. I wouldn't even know where to begin."

[younghero]

"Do you wanna try?"

[chicklet]

"How...?"

[younghero]

"I guess put a post on the Network and ask for help. Or...maybe the library would have books about it, you could read?"

Ugh. Library.

[chicklet]

"I'm not sure anyone on the network would care...." she'd only looked at the network a little, so far. It mostly seemed to be apologizing for weather and something about cats and butterflies and someone talking...to himself? She wasn't sure, honestly. "The library might have books... I haven't found it yet."

[younghero]

"Aw, no way! People would care. People are super nice here! There's only a few people who are super adulty or jerks."

Link made an overly dramatic face at the prospect of going to the library. "It's in a giant tree in the North. I can show you where it is, but, if I step inside I'll burst into flames. Like...uh one of those redeads from Earth if they go into a tem---church."

Pleased with that one, he made a mental note to use it on Clef the next time he was only feeling lazy and not miserable with the prospect of reading.

Now I kind of want to try my hand at Maria, the 12 year old from her series

[chicklet]

"Kid... people aren't generally super nice. They only act that way." Maybe things were different because he was a fae, though. That could be it. Of course. Her mood brightened. "Of course! People are nice to you because you're not human!" In her mind that made perfect sense, and with the world making sense again, she was at peace. She could accept people hating her. That was just life.

She stared at him wide eyed as he said he'd burst into flame. And clearly bought it, hook line and sinker. Her eyes filled with tears and if he didn't stop her, she'd swoop him up into a hug and hold him protectively. "I'll keep you safe, we won't go anywhere near the library."

Re: Now I kind of want to try my hand at Maria, the 12 year old from her series

[younghero]

"I'm pretty sure it's because most of the people who Wake are nice...."

He got along with most people in Nautlius. Except for Rose, whom he kept butting heads with. She worried him on some level Link couldn't describe, and was fairly certain the woman just didn't like him.

Then his air supply was cut off and he realized that his hyperbole for his hatred of the library might have been taken literally.

"Sorry--no, I was just---kidding---"

[chicklet]

She put him down, confused. "Kidding....?"

[younghero]

"I'm not any good at reading. Or writing. I used to think I was okay, but, then....I got showed that I wasn't even a little good at it."

Link chewed his lip. "So, I don't like libraries. They're stuffy, boring, and lonely."

[chicklet]

She sat on the ground, hesitated, then said softly. "I... used to study a lot." From the way she said it, it sounded like he might have a like minded soul. Especially from the hollow dead look in her eyes. "But at least libraries tend to be quiet, not many other girls around..."

[younghero]

"Didjya have bullies? If you can get them down to the ground, all you have to do is sit on them and then you can bend their legs and arms back until they cry 'uncle'."

That would be assault in most societies, but, the Kokiri were a unique little tribe.

"Unless they're dirty-rotten-cheaters like Mido was."

[chicklet]

She blinked a bit. Fairies had bullies too? Poor Corn! "I would have gotten in trouble and upset everyone," she pointed out. "Besides, it wasn't their fault. That idiot made them stupid," that last was growled.

Not that even Sho could take the blame for her mom, however...

She shook her head to banish the gloomy thoughts. "Besides, curse dolls work best."

[younghero]

"What's a curse doll?"

Link wasn't sure that sounded particularly....safe.

[chicklet]

She blinked then grinned and pulled out a doll from one of the deep coverall pockets. It was about the size of a barbie, though it was soft. It was very well made, and the clothing for it fit perfectly. Whoever this was a doll of, he was quite handsome, with long legs and a lean form, in clothes tailored to make him more handsome. "This is my Ren Tsuruga curse doll. You're supposed to bind a bit of the target's blood into the doll, or their hair, and then they feel whatever you do to them so you can beat up the doll to have your revenge. But I've never managed to get any of Mr. Tsuruga's hair, so I mostly use this to cheer up Maria. And yell at myself..." that last bit she hadn't meant to say out loud....

To distract him, she reached up and pulled off the face, showing another face with a different expression underneath. "See, this one," the one she pulled off, "is his lying gentlemanly face. The one on him now is his "Oh! So you actually ARE a moron cheerful face."

[younghero]

"If you can make someone bleed, you probably don't need a doll to beat 'em up."

He was going to....not think about the more disturbing aspects of this for the moment. That was some troubling magic, right there. With the Gothdonald plushies being a thing, that was one skill Link didn't really want to see pop up in Nautilus anytime soon. He made a mental note to tell Irene about it, and to warn his family.

Just in case.

His expression became slightly softer, however, as he listened to the rest. "Why do you let him treat you bad?"