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yumemigaoka2025-04-08 07:03 pm
traceofeffort) wrote in yumemigaoka2025-04-08 07:03 pm
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April catch-all ♫
⭐ Who: Lisa and you! Yeah, you, I see you on your phone over there, come on, sing along! Junna will be along for at least one of these, I expect, You'll Know.
⭐ When: All through April! Especially earlier in the month, though.
⭐ Where: Asagi Public Library, DU HQ, Tsubaki Department Store, the park, and probably other places too
⭐ What: After last month's roller coaster of emotions, Lisa's doing her best to keep her head and embrace her vision for the future, with everything preparing for adult life entails. She's also got some slightly esoteric shopping to do.
⭐ Warnings: Early in the month, nothing, for once! Tooth-rotting fluff, perhaps. Later in the month, Lisa will be somewhat less cheery for Obvious Reasons.
⭐ When: All through April! Especially earlier in the month, though.
⭐ Where: Asagi Public Library, DU HQ, Tsubaki Department Store, the park, and probably other places too
⭐ What: After last month's roller coaster of emotions, Lisa's doing her best to keep her head and embrace her vision for the future, with everything preparing for adult life entails. She's also got some slightly esoteric shopping to do.
⭐ Warnings: Early in the month, nothing, for once! Tooth-rotting fluff, perhaps. Later in the month, Lisa will be somewhat less cheery for Obvious Reasons.
always there, always ready (to scream) | Dreamer Union: lounge, as needed [wildcard]
On the 10th, Lisa comes in still dressed in the clothes she'd been wearing to the job fair to inquire about an Excursion to search for Ai's Disturbance, given the Dreamer Union already knows one exists, and given they've confirmed it is hers. But given the last one, she's also intimately aware she is probably not the key to finding it. Harmonic Blend was not where Ai's time went. If her kids really do exist, it's them, and she'd be serving as backup. So she's not going to list the request if it isn't already made. That leaves her to again make the rounds and check on people, but this time morale isn't going to keep her away. She'll be here until someone drags her away, but she's less desperate than she was at this phase of the last Disturbance. She has backup. She has someone to brainstorm ideas with. She... has a lifeline.
Once the Disturbance opens, Lisa isn't here a lot, but she does still stop by, eyes burning with purpose. Rhodonite and Sage are a combat force in and of themselves, but they aren't as strong as a proper Unit, or even a pick-up group with more hands to watch each other's backs. So she's looking for anyone that might need extra Sandglasses for their own search party. Sometimes she's by herself, sometimes she isn't, but she needs to be here to check on things. To check on people. She's... learned her lesson from Junna's Disturbance, not to live in the Dream and put her life on hold to try and save the person trapped inside, but her anxiety still drives her to come and check for news. She's careful to file her reports, too; if someone needs information, she needs to make sure it exists to be had, and Lisa will occasionally be found on her tablet here, typing out a report to hand in, because she could handwrite it but better to digitize it for easier searching. If you're looking for her in a relatively secure location that isn't her apartment, this is it, and if you do need her for something, she's a text away.]
closed: Illya | April 4th
From her tote, she pulls out a bag of cookies - more sakura cookies, deftly and intricately decorated and perfectly baked; it seems she overcompensated for the last batch and made enough to feed an army, oops - and a tray with her name in Sharpie on the bottom, and sets them on a table in the lounge, with a little note card to enjoy one and have a good day in her flowing handwriting. She's turning to walk away from them and sit in the lounge for a bit to mingle, when she sees a familiar shock of white hair. She hesitates a moment; Lisa was super awkward with her in Junna's Disturbance, but... hmm. Now might be a good time to clear the air? A little? Hopefully?]
Illya-chan? Is that you?
[Lisa looks a little worn, stress starting to creep onto her face again, though it's not nearly as bad as early or late last month or especially the month before. More worried than actively fretting. She seems... healthier, for all that. So whatever she's been doing this last month, it's helped.]
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Lisa-san.
[ After calling out the other's name, Illya moves over in Lisa's direction, stopping a step or two away from her.
Close up Lisa's condition is a little more apparent, making the surprise in the girl's eyes turn into something a little closer to worry. ]
.. are you alright..?
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[She lets out a soft sigh. She's... trying to be better about hiding things from people. Not to go full emotion-dump, but Illya doesn't need to be protected from her. She's in high school now! That'd just be insulting.]
I'm better than I could be, but... all this stuff with Senpai is stressing me out and making me second-guess myself. Then Junna and I are apartment-hunting but I don't have any money to get a place, and I've gotta get back to the Dream Sphere pretty soon - I had a nice break, but Torments don't hunt themselves. I just have a lot going on, you know?
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Maybe that's why her mind instead lingers on the first part of what the older girl says, asking her: ]
Senpai.. You mean everything that's going on with Ai-san?
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Mm, yeah. I just... I know she is what she is, and the idol industry attracts the wrong kind of attention sometimes, but she's also a powerful, successful woman who's earned our respect. She's not someone we're meant to keep in a box and never let change. It makes me really mad, but there's nothing I can do about it, so I just have to... sit on it. If the rumors are true, I'd like to meet her children one day, but I'm not entitled to that, even if I'd like to offer them help while things are, well.
[Lisa gestures outside, where there are still one or two idiots camped out to see if they can get information for some sleazy tabloid or another. She glances in that direction, and the look on her face suggests she'd love nothing more than to manifest her Sandglass bass on this side and do something ill-advised. But she shakes her head, and her slightly-stressed, pasted-on smile returns.]
But all this also means I can't try to help Senpai right now, no matter how much she may or may not need it. I don't know where she lives. I couldn't try to defend her even if I did. And I can't even offer her sweets or something as a token "please try to take it easy" gift because she's not coming here to see it. So I'm angry for my Unit leader, and those feelings are just... sitting there. It means Hibiki and I can't really go off adventuring in the Dream Sphere either, since, well, no Ai-Doll-senpai, and the two of us can only make so much music without our lead vocalist.
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[ For a moment she's quiet.
She does turn her head to look when Lisa looks off too, even though Illya wouldn't even really need to see those people here to already know what the other girl was looking at. It sucks. Even though anger isn't the main emotion this entire situation inspires in Illya, she still gets it, really..
After that moment she turns her head back to Lisa. ]
I think.. Knowing Ai-san, she wouldn't want you to worry about her. [ Not that Illya isn't also worrying about Ai, but.. l-look, she's trying to focus on Lisa right now, that's the important part! Forget about anything Illya is thinking or feeling! ] She'd probably just feel bad knowing that any of us are feeling bad about it..