[WORLD ONE] SPEED DATING EXTRAVAGANZA

[spellbindmods]

Who: Participating coven members
Where: The Palai marketplace
When: Day 49
Open/Closed: OTA

[ Any and all who are in the marketplace will find that there is suddenly a mysterious barrier around the marketplace (that may be eerily familiar to some) -- specifically one large portion of the marketplace with a large number of tables and chairs, perhaps purposefully set out for nefarious reasons.

A few Palai are ushering coven members to chairs, and everything seems about normal. As normal as the Palai can be when they're putting on a show anyway. It's not until a sizable portion of the coven members are seated (and also supplied with breadsticks and small shrimp), that things get a bit more bizarre.

Thanks to the power of the Eltos, a small band of energy keeps coven members stuck to the chair (magic can interfere, of course), but that's not the end of it. On each table, next to those delicious smelling breadsticks and shrimp, is a bowl of scraps of papers. Every five minutes, a strip of paper will pop out from the bowl.

If you ask the Palai, they'll be inclined to explain speed dating to you. Asking questions, getting to know a person, then being shimmied off to the next potential mate -- this is made possible by Elto magic yet again, through flying chairs that transport their holder to a new table at standard intervals.

The Palai are extremely invested in this exercise? Will you let them down? ]

[ OOC: In the spirit of speed dating, each character will have a top level. All who want to respond to this top level can with questions from this post, but the threads have to end at 10 comments from each character. After this last tag, the characters can be assumed to have been whisked to a different potential match. You're free to have characters make up their own questions, interact with Palai serving food, etc. ]

Comments

[lalliho]

[Lalli sits up hissing and slapping, but he's immediately pushed back into his seat and cheerfully reprimanded for fighting against this lovely activity he of course wants to participate in! Love is great!

Love is horrendous if this is a requirement, and he knows there's a lot of pain that comes with it in general, so he tries to get up once more. This time, just after being put in place, he's whisked up by magic and...decides to stop trying to escape before the metaphorical pain is replaced by a physical one. These weird lizards might just break his neck, they're so insistent...

Well. He's snatching up a breadstick and grumpily chewing on it. Good luck.]

I'm not dating you.

[wingfic]

[They are breadstick twins. Crabbily eating breadsticks.]

No one wanted to date you.

[lalliho]

[wow??? what's with this sassy...lost child? He may not want to date anyone here or back home, but that doesn't mean he won't be offended when someone says he's the cause.

Which, uh. Is pretty true. Cough.]

Pfh. You're small, you don't even know anything.

[wingfic]

[She narrows her eyes. Excuse you.]

Is that the best insult you can come up with?

[lalliho]

I'm not insulting you, I'm telling you you're stupid and wrong.

[o...kay...]

[wingfic]

So if I'm wrong, who exactly wants to date you?

[lalliho]

[um???]

That's none of your business?

[The list short... Possibly nonexistent... After all, any of the other teens growing up alongside him would have very quickly discovered that their crush was going absolutely nowhere, and that was if their feelings managed to survived a conversation with him.

It...didn't happen often -- a fact that had relieved Lalli up until this weird girl started questioning him.]

[actus]

That's fine.

[ his lips quirk up in utter amusement at lalli's answer. ]

I don't think anyone's taking this seriously, anyway. [ a beat. ] Why not, though?

[ out of morbid curiosity. not that he's particularly interested, either. ]

[lalliho]

[Good. This one understands. They can sit here and eat in respectful silence -- okay, nope. This one is asking questions.]

...Because I don't want to. And it's better if I'm alone anyway.

[actus]

[ it was going so well, too. ]

... Why are you better off alone?

[ oh no, worried protagonist mode has been activated, and he's less concerned with the dating rather than the idea of someone wanting to be alone. god if it doesn't give him war flashbacks. ]

You might think you are, but it's usually always better with other people around. Even if they're not always there. ... But that's just my opinion.

[lalliho]

[Lalli angrily chews, but the rest of the breadstick is now suffering the fate of being picked apart my fidgeting fingers. When he's done with both his bite and turning the rest into crumbs, he moves on the shredding the napkin.]

Your opinion is wrong. Maybe that's okay for other people, but you don't know anything about me. Or my life.

[sorry your date went to shit so quickly, Akira.]

[actus]

[ it's strangely reminiscent of dealing with futaba before she left her bedroom. ]

Ah. Of course I don't. [ he agrees easily enough, head slightly canted to the side. ]

...Do you really think you're better off alone? Or do you think it's just necessary. I can't imagine it'd make you happy.

[lalliho]

[...Heck. Now that's a question, isn't it? Mhmn. Sure is indeed quite a question.

He sets down the napkin and flicks the pieces of bread off the side of the table.]

How much do people say things they don't really think?

[let's just not actually answer things mmm]

[splinten]

Agreed.

[FIRMLY AGREED.]

What's the update on reliable sleeping?

[lalliho]

[ -- hey. It's good you agree, but you don't have to agree so much. That hurts. Why are these children so fuckin rude...]

Um.

[ha ha HA right

that whole thing]

...I don't need to sleep anymore. It doesn't work. ...The thing I wanted to do.

[splinten]

What was the thing?

[He's being annoying for a very specific reason: Lalli had three-part sous, and then he was in a coma with only two parts, and now there are three again. It seems to be related, and Soul things feel like they're automatically his business.]

[lalliho]

[mmmmm is he staring it's so hard to tell because of that stupid eye shield]

It's none of your business?

[Apparently Lalli disagrees, without context.]

[splinten]

[Hm.]

It also probably isn't my business that your soul is, to put it in technical terms, exceptionally out of the ordinary as fuck, but I can't stop myself from knowing it is anyway.

[lalliho]

[MMMMM maybe if he holds his hands over his heart, it will hide his soul

that's totally how it works despite all evidence and teachings pointing otherwise yep]

Yes, that isn't your business. And my soul is normal. You don't know anything. Weird foreign mage...

[cadventuretime]

[She sits and just grins widely.]

Are you a virgin?

[lalliho]

[WOW THANKS FOR MAKING HIM CHOKE ON THE BREADSTICK]

I -- what? You're not supposed to ask that.

[PEOPLE DON'T JUST ASK THESE THONGS, HE'S PRETTY SURE IT'S A WEIRD RULE OF SOCIETY]

[cadventuretime]

[She reaches over to steal a bread stick. :9]

Why not? It's on the card. And you've plainly made it known that we're not dating, so I have nothing to lose.

[lalliho]

[He just. Watches her steal the breadstick. Why..........]

...Yes?

[Since it's okay that she asks, it's probably okay that he answers? Also he has no fucking clue what to do anymore.]

[cadventuretime]

[See Lalli? She's just an innocent girl that has a healthy curiosity. There's absolutely nothing malicious about her whatsoev-]

That's a shame. Why not? You're cute.

[WELP]

[lalliho]

[um she's dead, that's pretty malicious by default in his book. it was a good thing the mist was around during their meeting to keep him from trying to kill her on instinct.]

Ew. I'm not cute.

[This girl's not only inappropriate and dead, she's gross...]

If you're asking, you know. [It's not a mystery...! Person + no sex = virgin, very simple equation.]