may catchall

[nmc0204]

⭐ Who: Ryoko and y'all
⭐ When: All through May, with prompts specifically during Golden Week and her first day of school at Promised Morning
⭐ Where: Primarily Yumemigaoka tho I might add a Dream Sphere prompt or two down the line
⭐ What: Ryoko's life has flip turned upside down and now she's getting used to it. Between starting as a new student at Promised Morning and suddenly having another Dreamer to feel responsible for, she's got a busy month ahead. I'll also put closed starters here if requested!
⭐ Warnings: Keepin this to edit them in if it comes up

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Golden Week

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[ It's Ryoko's last few days of relative freedom before she transfers into Promised Morning and she intends to take advantage of every moment of it. Transferring had been her choice and while she certainly doesn't regret it, she can't pretend her stomach isn't rolling with nerves or that she isn't dreading it just a little bit. Apparently, you're never too old for first-day nerves. Maybe it's the transfer student of it all. So Ryoko deals with it all the way she knows how: overthink about how to prepare for the situation and then overprepare for the situation. Just trust the process.

On April 30th, if you're passing through the train station then you might see a girl milling around in a way that looks at once purposeful and a little lost. She's checking the names of a few lines, the timetables and such and checking them against something on her phone, all while looking a little uncertain. If she catches someone looking, she briefly wears the look of a girl who's been caught doing something deeply embarrassing (you know, like being caught in a moment of slight confusion) before finally huffing a sigh and saying like she's surrendering somehow: ]

You don't know which of these is the best route from here to Promised Morning, do you?

[ On May 4th, Ryoko takes advantage of all the Greenery Day sales to do a little last minute shopping. She's technically prepped already for everything she'd need for a new school – she was, until last month, already in a different high school after all – but a fresh start makes her feel a little itchy for refreshing all her stationary as well, so off she goes. She stops by Tsubaki Department Store first for the basics and for those sales that are definitely a loss leader in terms of profit, but it seems she uh, underestimated how enthused everyone else would be about saving money, too. ]

– !!!

[ That's short king Ryoko getting swept up in a crowd of stampeding shoppers... save her...

Thankfully, her day ends off on a slightly less stressful note at Moon Bunny Market, where she recovers from the horrors of capitalism with some delicious crunchy street food and then makes a beeline for the cute stationary store and all its cute, pastely goods. She ends up with a pretty stacked basket and finishes the trip at the storefront, intensely scrutinizing two slightly different but equally cute pencil cases... maybe a little too intensely. Girl, it's been ten minutes. Just buy both! ]

Promised Morning (Starting May 8th -> Through the month)

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[ It would be just like Ryoko's luck to be starting a new school life the day before midterms, but she's trying her best to look on the bright side. The storm has blown out most of the cloudy weather and even though everything is still soaked, the bright sun catches on all the water in a way that sparkles and makes things look freshly washed and new. She takes deep breaths on her way to the station, trying to scoop up some of that energy in the air and let it fill her as well.

The trip, thankfully, is painless. She gets a little turned around at her second stop but figures pretty quickly that she can just follow the tide of students in the Promised Morning uniform and falls into step with them with the slightly clueless expression of a newbie. It's a little easier once she actually gets to the campus – one of the teachers meets her at the gate and shows her around her little corner of the campus and after that, Ryoko's left to fend for herself.

The worst part is her class introduction. She knows it can't be an uncommon occurrence in Promised Morning, but she still feels particularly put on display stood at the front of the class. She keeps it brief, trying to not let the anxiety rolling in her stomach show on her face as she goes for it; ]

... I'm Ryoko Shinonome. I've been a Dreamer for a few months, but I'm just transferring now. [ a very audible Dot Dot Dot as Ryoko scrambles for something else to say then very visible gives up. ] It's good to be here.

[ And that's that. Quite understandably, she spends the rest of the morning in a Introvert Recovery Haze and spends much of that first day keeping to herself and just... trying to adjust. Thankfully, midterms are a weirdly blessed escape from having to Do Regular High Schooler things but once they wrap, she's at a loss.

She generally spends a lot of time hovering around in the library, or camping out in quiet spots around campus with her phone and while she's clearly a little withdrawn and a little awkward about settling in... she won't exactly turn away anyone who approaches. ]

Dreamer Union

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[ Ryoko's not really one of the usual faces at the DU – she was here a fair amount when she first Awakened and everyone was trying to make sure she was... well, functional is the nicest way to put it. Then she vanished, only to show her face once again when it came time to transfer her over to Promised Morning. Ever since then, she's dodged all attempts to get her to return or worse, to assign her a Mentor – every single time, she insists she's fine by herself and doesn't need the fuss.

Today though, Ryoko's showed up after school has wrapped at Promised Morning and made her way up to the second floor lounge. She's hovering outside rather than going in, peering at the noticeboard outside. There's a number of things pinned up but what Ryoko's peering at is one of a handful of notices about the Mentorship program.

C... could it be that the problem child has finally come home to roost??? ... Probably not, given the way she's scowling but surely she must have some kind of bee up her bonnet to be here... ]