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yumemigaoka2023-06-02 06:14 pm
darcangel) wrote in yumemigaoka2023-06-02 06:14 pm
open 🕊️ june of arc
⭐ Who: Jeannette/Dreamer La Pucelle, possibly her little brother, and YOU!
⭐ When: First week or so of June + 2 backdated Dream Sphere jaunts
⭐ Where: Matsuba and the Dream Sphere
⭐ What: The Lives of the Saints. Okay it's just Jeannette, joansing.
⭐ Warnings: None right now, but there will be fight scenes, so who knows!
[ OPEN - First week of June ]
[ Jeannette d'Arc does not exactly truck with Literature. She has nothing against it, she supposes, it is marvelous that people's minds can think up such things, but she frankly has never quite understood the point. All the daring, incredible stories she's ever needed, she has found in the Lord's word and tales of Dreamers, real accounts of those striving to improve the world.
But her cousin has come, and her cousin is always in a foul mood, and Jeannette wishes to improve their relations. So she has gone to a bookstore, in hopes of finding something her cousin might like that they can read together. Angel-sama says that she and one of her comrades bonded over studying the same texts, so this strategy MUST be sound. Perhaps she will even select something Angel-sama has read, for Angel-sama seems to have read everything - ah, but that is not the objective!
Her cousin likes....."manga" and "light novels"....she believes. Those are over here...? My, how many of them, and their titles are so long---
A cover featuring a picture of a cross wreathed in lilies, however, seizes her attention. What is...Ah, it's a novel, and it looks to have a manga adaptation, as well. ]
"Saint Catherine's School for Girls....."
[ Delighted gasp, when she opens the book and sees a statue of a woman next to a wheel. ]
It is! It is the Saint Catherine!
[ HER BELOVED AND MOST FAVORITE SAINT! Jeannette begins to read, swept up in the story of refined young ladies learning to sort out their differences and draw closer to their bosom sisters within the confines of a private Catholic school. She does not remember the last time a work of fiction excited her so. These girls - they're like her, their concerns, their worries! And the older girls who look after them....oh, they are so noble, so elegant....!
Before she knows it, she's being That Person who's sitting in the middle of the manga aisle blocking everybody else's path. Please call her out, she has no idea.
Just as soon as she's done nearly swooning over this illustration of a tall girl straightening a shorter girl's tie. With a hand lightly, unconsciously placed against her own collarbone. ]
[ OPEN - Matsuba World Market, during the Big Sale ]
Pierre!
[ Jeannette has her head up and her shoulders back, striding through the market. She cuts quite an....interesting....figure, between the bag with French baguettes sticking out of it in one hand and the basket of...plastic bottles and other trash?....in the other. ]
Pierre, where did you go? In God's name!
[ She turns to you. ] I beg your pardon. Have you seen a thirteen-year-old boy? He is in a gray shirt.
[ Or maybe you're on the other side of the market and you round this potted plant to find, surprise, a thirteen-year-old boy in a gray shirt huddled behind it with earbuds in and his cell phone out. He's got it turned sideways like he's playing a game, and when he notices he's been discovered he scowls, blue eyes sharp beneath his mop of brown curls.
"Ssh!" ]
[ CLOSED to Dreamer Rhodonite - Backdated to finals week ]
Ah - aaa aaahh...
[ So "La Pucelle" means "The Maiden" in French. The Dream Sphere is a place formed by the collective human unconscious. The collective human unconscious asserts that a certain mythical animal is instinctively drawn to maidens.
In short, La Pucelle and Rhodonite have arrived in an ~enchanted forest~ area of the Dream Sphere, and every time La Pucelle turns around, she's being approached by Yet Another Unicorn.
They come in all shapes, sizes, and, frankly, materials. (Thanks to the Internet for that robot unicorn over there.) Rather than beings with wills of their own, they're set dressing - but this set dressing knows what it's about. It's about the NAME PUN.
She throws a somewhat sheepish glance at Rhodonite - she is so sorry about this - before returning her attention to HORNHOMMSE CENTRAL. ]
Everyone, take your turn.....!!
[ She keeps almost reaching out to pet, and then stopping. This is - this is temptation! She is here to help Rhodonite gain confidence, and to determine if they are well-suited to being in a Unit together!
SHE CANNOT STOP TO PET THE HORSSSSSE. ]
[ CLOSED to Dreamer Chaosbringer - Backdated to Golden Week ]
[ La Pucelle's heels click against the glossy stone of the Reverie Necropolis. She's frowning into the darkness as they explore. This is a test, she knows, of her ability to command an army - she has to show Dreamer Chaosbringer that she is capable of what her angel claims. She has to give the right orders, and also do her best. These are the two requirements for any victory. ]
The Torments here prefer ambush. Let us prevent that.
[ A flash of her sword, she draws a little circle in the air, and - pop! She's got a little glowing halo that now floats over above her head. So long as it's a "holy" motif, La Pucelle's "Redemption Coup" can take any shape! It's meant to be an attack, so she'll have to fire this sooner or later, but hopefully that can wait until they find a target... ]
Stay close, please.
⭐ When: First week or so of June + 2 backdated Dream Sphere jaunts
⭐ Where: Matsuba and the Dream Sphere
⭐ What: The Lives of the Saints. Okay it's just Jeannette, joansing.
⭐ Warnings: None right now, but there will be fight scenes, so who knows!
[ OPEN - First week of June ]
[ Jeannette d'Arc does not exactly truck with Literature. She has nothing against it, she supposes, it is marvelous that people's minds can think up such things, but she frankly has never quite understood the point. All the daring, incredible stories she's ever needed, she has found in the Lord's word and tales of Dreamers, real accounts of those striving to improve the world.
But her cousin has come, and her cousin is always in a foul mood, and Jeannette wishes to improve their relations. So she has gone to a bookstore, in hopes of finding something her cousin might like that they can read together. Angel-sama says that she and one of her comrades bonded over studying the same texts, so this strategy MUST be sound. Perhaps she will even select something Angel-sama has read, for Angel-sama seems to have read everything - ah, but that is not the objective!
Her cousin likes....."manga" and "light novels"....she believes. Those are over here...? My, how many of them, and their titles are so long---
A cover featuring a picture of a cross wreathed in lilies, however, seizes her attention. What is...Ah, it's a novel, and it looks to have a manga adaptation, as well. ]
"Saint Catherine's School for Girls....."
[ Delighted gasp, when she opens the book and sees a statue of a woman next to a wheel. ]
It is! It is the Saint Catherine!
[ HER BELOVED AND MOST FAVORITE SAINT! Jeannette begins to read, swept up in the story of refined young ladies learning to sort out their differences and draw closer to their bosom sisters within the confines of a private Catholic school. She does not remember the last time a work of fiction excited her so. These girls - they're like her, their concerns, their worries! And the older girls who look after them....oh, they are so noble, so elegant....!
Before she knows it, she's being That Person who's sitting in the middle of the manga aisle blocking everybody else's path. Please call her out, she has no idea.
Just as soon as she's done nearly swooning over this illustration of a tall girl straightening a shorter girl's tie. With a hand lightly, unconsciously placed against her own collarbone. ]
[ OPEN - Matsuba World Market, during the Big Sale ]
Pierre!
[ Jeannette has her head up and her shoulders back, striding through the market. She cuts quite an....interesting....figure, between the bag with French baguettes sticking out of it in one hand and the basket of...plastic bottles and other trash?....in the other. ]
Pierre, where did you go? In God's name!
[ She turns to you. ] I beg your pardon. Have you seen a thirteen-year-old boy? He is in a gray shirt.
[ Or maybe you're on the other side of the market and you round this potted plant to find, surprise, a thirteen-year-old boy in a gray shirt huddled behind it with earbuds in and his cell phone out. He's got it turned sideways like he's playing a game, and when he notices he's been discovered he scowls, blue eyes sharp beneath his mop of brown curls.
"Ssh!" ]
[ CLOSED to Dreamer Rhodonite - Backdated to finals week ]
Ah - aaa aaahh...
[ So "La Pucelle" means "The Maiden" in French. The Dream Sphere is a place formed by the collective human unconscious. The collective human unconscious asserts that a certain mythical animal is instinctively drawn to maidens.
In short, La Pucelle and Rhodonite have arrived in an ~enchanted forest~ area of the Dream Sphere, and every time La Pucelle turns around, she's being approached by Yet Another Unicorn.
They come in all shapes, sizes, and, frankly, materials. (Thanks to the Internet for that robot unicorn over there.) Rather than beings with wills of their own, they're set dressing - but this set dressing knows what it's about. It's about the NAME PUN.
She throws a somewhat sheepish glance at Rhodonite - she is so sorry about this - before returning her attention to HORNHOMMSE CENTRAL. ]
Everyone, take your turn.....!!
[ She keeps almost reaching out to pet, and then stopping. This is - this is temptation! She is here to help Rhodonite gain confidence, and to determine if they are well-suited to being in a Unit together!
SHE CANNOT STOP TO PET THE HORSSSSSE. ]
[ CLOSED to Dreamer Chaosbringer - Backdated to Golden Week ]
[ La Pucelle's heels click against the glossy stone of the Reverie Necropolis. She's frowning into the darkness as they explore. This is a test, she knows, of her ability to command an army - she has to show Dreamer Chaosbringer that she is capable of what her angel claims. She has to give the right orders, and also do her best. These are the two requirements for any victory. ]
The Torments here prefer ambush. Let us prevent that.
[ A flash of her sword, she draws a little circle in the air, and - pop! She's got a little glowing halo that now floats over above her head. So long as it's a "holy" motif, La Pucelle's "Redemption Coup" can take any shape! It's meant to be an attack, so she'll have to fire this sooner or later, but hopefully that can wait until they find a target... ]
Stay close, please.
Matsuba World Market
Maybe Mrs. Yugi thought she was doing the boys a favor, getting them out of the house and having them tag along for what was inevitably going to be bargain item hunting, but... no one ever accounted for Tsukasa and his attention span. So instead of a boring yet peaceful shopping trip, Amane's scouring through the store instead, trying to find his twin brother before he inevitably knocked over a display or jumped into a clothing bin or something. And while he did come across another boy in his travels, one who looked somewhat familiar-- maybe he was in Tsukasa's class? though he certainly wasn't with him-- he didn't bother to pry further, his mind more on finding his brother than anything else.
So when he's approached by the other girl with her own search inquiry, he frowns for just a moment, debating on whether to answer. Tsukasa was his priority, but...]
... depends. Have you seen one around here in a white Frankenstein shirt?
[One who looks almost exactly like him, for that matter, but he figured the simpler description was the better one to lead with.]
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A boy of the same age? I have not....Is he missing, as well?
[ She is immediately as concerned for this kid she doesn't know as she is for Pierre. ]
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[More like set lose upon this unsuspecting store and primed to make every retail worker's life a living hell, but...
The look of concern on this girl's face is enough to give him a small pang of guilt for his earlier answer, though, and he reconsiders. Maybe if they backtrack to where he saw that other boy, they might run into Tsukasa along the way... and the extra set of eyes couldn't hurt.]
Um... I did see someone over near the bedding section, though. [He gestures towards the way he came, and then adds:] He was playing a game, I think?
[SORRY FOR NARCING ON YOU PIERRE, but if this minimizes property damage, so be it]
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[ Either way, their course of action is, to Jeannette, clear. ]
Do you mind returning that way? If we are both searching, doing so together makes good sense.
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[... wait, WHOOPS, maybe that wasn't the best thing to say in this situation, especially if he wanted her assistance in finding his sibling. Hopefully the boy he spotted earlier was the one she was looking for, because if he wasn't... well. He wasn't so sure he wanted to be roped into missing child duty with somebody he just met.]
I mean-- yeah, I don't mind. I was just thinking the same thing, actually. The boy I saw earlier is in the same class as my brother, so...
[And then he realizes he never quite clarified things earlier, so:]
Um, that's who I'm looking for, by the way. He's my twin, so he's kind of hard to miss.
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[ That will make looking quite simple! Jeannette smiles, but then out of the corner of her eye - ]
Excuse me.
[ Dipping down, she picks up a napkin someone had dropped, tucks it into where she's got the rest of the empty bottles etc in her basket. Now she's back to looking at him with interest, like nothing happened.
I Wonder Why Pierre Deserted His Big Sister. ]
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... and then Jeannette goes and does that, and it's only THEN he takes notice of that pile of debris she has under her arm. WELP. His eyes linger on the trash basket, before darting back to her, not even trying to hide the disbelief written upon his face this time.]
You... do know they have staff for that, right?
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[ The way she says it, she isn't trying to be a goody-two-shoes. She isn't parsimonious or lecturing. She is stating an immutable fact of the universe.
Yeah, one hundred percent absolutely definitely no reason a thirteen-year-old kid wouldn't want to be seen in her company. ]
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... that all said, even he had a limit to what he wanted to do for others, and Jeannette just casually bounded right over it. He wasn't even sure what Pierre's relation was to her-- they must have been family, or at least close acquaintances, if she knew him by name-- but in that moment, he suddenly realized he was going to have to do this other kid a solid.]
... uh-huh.
[A look of surprise crosses his face just then, so genuine it's hard to tell it's feigned, and he taps his head as if he just remembered something.]
Oh-- actually, on second thought-- I think that boy I spotted over in bedding was wearing a green shirt, not a gray one? But... there was another one over in home appliances [WAY in the opposite direction] that had one on, I believe.
[YOU'LL NEVER KNOW THE SACRIFICE HE JUST MADE FOR YOU, PIERRE]
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[ She trusts her little brother to not do anything foolish, but well, her parents had also asked her to look after him! She must honor that commitment. Back the other way we go!
...though she must also help this young man, who is being so helpful, succeed in his own aim. Jeannette's cousin is a twin, and they do not seem close; but she knows that is merely a cover for the siblings' bond. It must be a dreadful feeling, to be without one's twin. ]
What might your brother want to shop for?
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He begins heading in the direction of the home appliance section, keeping a surreptitious eye out for any upended items, though he does glance over towards Jeannette when she asks that question.]
I don't think he went off shopping, exactly... at least, not for anything here. [Candy would have been an option, but Ai supplied the two with enough souvenir sweets from her trip that they were set for a good while.] I think he probably got bored and just wanted to entertain himself. It's... kinda something he does a lot.
[But even more so ever since Tsukasa had returned from the Dream Sphere all those years ago, which was definitely strange. As annoying as it was to try to track down his brother during one of his flights of fancy, though, Amane would rather do that a hundred times than go through the pain of losing his sibling to that realm again. A scatter-brained twin was better than no twin at all, anyway.]
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Then we must seek him around the most interesting activities. Let us see. There are free samples at the food market, and objects from around the world at many vendor stalls....
[ It is the World Market, after all. ]
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But! Her ideas weren't without merit-- so far, Amane's had zero luck tracking his sibling down, so maybe going the unexpected route might pay off after all.]
He does like snacks... let's try the food market, then.
[He pauses for a moment, a thought nagging at the back of his mind, and he muses on it briefly before finally deciding to ask:]
Um... this other boy you're looking for, though. Is he a relative of yours, too?
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[ Jeannette does not appear to have gone through a rebellious preadolescence. ]
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...not that Amane could relate, of course.
It was a bit of a relief to know that Pierre was, indeed, her brother and not just some person she was babysitting, because boy, it would be pretty messed up if he got her into trouble for losing somebody else's kid!! Siblings, on the other hand... well, that was a whole other story, and if the glimpse Amane got of him was any indication, he didn't seem particularly torn up about their separation. (And frankly, he didn't blame him, either) Still, he feigns a look of concern at her words, not wanting to look too unsympathetic when she was genuinely worried herself.]
Well... maybe he's making his way back to you? If we're lucky, we might meet half-way.
[A likely tale if THEY WEREN'T HEADING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION]
So... you guys are French? Your Japanese is really good.
[Much better than his English, anyway!]
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[ She thinks, then decides to add: ] We have an elder brother, and his first name is Japanese; but it confused his classmates and troubled him, so our names are both fully French....
Ah, but I have not told you mine! I am Jeanne. You?
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Oh-- okay then. Sorry, I-- I didn't mean to assume. There's just a lot of foreigners who live in Yumemigaoka, so I thought...
[Maybe he should just... stop there, before he digs himself into this hole any further. When she asks for his name, though, he grabs onto it like a lifeline, relieved for a change in subject.]
I'm Amane! Amane Yugi. [Yes, with the exact same kanji for the word "normal" too, and because he's so used to people commenting on it, he adds:] It's... a weird name, I know.
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[ She bobs her head in greeting. ]
Good to meet you, Amane!
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T... Thanks.
Um, but it's nice to meet you too, Jeanne-san!
[Before he can get any further into the conversation, though, his eyes spot... something upon the floor. At first glance, it looks like an innocuous crumpled up sample cup, left by maybe a careless shopper... but then there was another one a little ways away, and yet another one further than that. If Tsukasa was nearby, he was about to wind up in some serious hot water.]
... I have a feeling we might be getting close.
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[ She sees the cups, and a little huff escapes her unintentionally. ]
In God's name! Refusing to litter is not difficult....
[ Bending down to pick the first one up, then head to the second. ]
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Er-- no, wait, I'll take care of that, don't worry...!! This is kinda my mess to pick up, anyway, and you've already, uh... collected enough as it is.
[And the last thing he wants is someone cleaning up after his brother's disasters, especially when he was technically the one who was responsible for him.]
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Ah. She turns to look at him, bent halfway over to a piece of litter. ]
You think this was your brother?
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... I'm fairly positive, yeah.
My brother... he isn't what you call neat.
[Nor mindful... nor considerate... it's made sharing a room with him a nightmare at times.]
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But, fear not! There is a silver lining to this habit: ] That shall prove his undoing.
[ She is now actively seeking litter, like following a trail of the world's most inconsiderate breadcrumbs....if they pick up their pace, perhaps they can catch the boy in the act....! ]
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[He tries to double task in picking up the trash while also keeping up with Jeannette's faster pace, hastening to scoop up whatever bits and bobs were on the ground before she could get to them first. He didn't intend to throw his brother under the bus like that, but at the same time... it would be a legit miracle if she could get Tsukasa to actually listen to her.
And lo and behold, those metaphoric breadcrumbs pay off, as a short distance away, tucked behind one of the displays is... a boy! There's no doubt he's the one they're searching for, even without the Frankenstein shirt Amane mentioned, as he's practically a carbon copy of the boy trailing behind her. He seems to be blissfully unaware of their approach, happily munching through... is that a whole sample tray of cheese? Oh my god, Tsukasa.]
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