Finetales

Moon's Tale (DrivingPark x HylianRose)

Lucas didn't really have an insightful response to Claire's insightful response, and sort of floundered in the return. "Carpe diem, or something, right?" he responded, pondering. "Seems like...a good plan," he admitted. That sucked, dude, he thought to himself. This girl was making him happy just by talking to him, and he didn't want to mess it up. Even if it was just a chat, so far.

Lucas smiled at Claire's question. "It's not lame...not everything can be really deep and thought-provoking, you know," he responded with a grin. "I don't have any pets...never have. My parents aren't animal people. It would be kinda cool to have one though, maybe," he finished, basically thinking out loud at this point.

He happily sat down next to her in the sand. Alright, this is pretty amazing, he thought to himself as untapped annals of emotions returned to him like an old friend. "I mean...lots of people depend on animals. I think my complete lack of them is weirder, honestly," he replied as he absentmindedly drew little designs in the sand with his fingers. You're so boring, dude, he thought to himself.

As he wracked his brain to invent another question to ask Claire, he just looked around, admiring the beach. "I never get bored of this place," he remarked. "It's so...perfect." He thought for a moment. [b]"And you fit right in," he said, instinctively looking away from her almost ashamed as soon as he delivered the thinly veiled compliment. He was not what you'd call experienced.

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Carmen

Carmen couldn't help but laugh at Lily's comment. "Lily," she started. "The only thing that was going on for me was getting to shoot a gun. Which...was fun by the way. But there's really nothing going on, so...you're fine." As soon as she finished, she mentally slapped herself for saying more than just "you're fine". That was very inefficient of you, she thought to herself.

Lily brought them to her cabin, standing outside of the door. As Carmen turned to look at the cabin, she was barely able to contain her surprise and delight to find that Lily's cabin...was also hers. She wanted to visibly freak out, but managed to hold it in as she walked in. Carmen sat down on the foot of her bed, pleased to see all of her things were still there.

"Wow... My uh... roommate must like clothes..." said Lily.

Carmen could contain herself no more.

"Yes, I do," she said, smiling up at Lily.

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Carmen

As the two started walking, Carmen glanced back at the unfamiliar male. He looked absolutely crushed, dejected and confused, and it made Carmen feel sympathetic, despite knowing nothing about the situation. She wasn't about to take sides, and he was clearly struggling to cope as well. She gave him a longer look back with a look of apology as sincere as she could muster.

Lily pointed out her cabin, and as they walked Carmen realized they were also walking towards her own cabin. She brushed it off as a coincidence and that it would be a different cabin close to hers. Except...I still haven't met my roommate yet, she thought cautiously to herself.

She was a little unnerved when Lily started chuckling. She certainly wasn't expecting that after the interaction that had just taken place. She must be a strong soul, Carmen thought. She attempted to respond in a similarly lighthearted vain. "It certainly seems like you tend to cause confusion for me," she said with the same soft smile as before. "...and yes...I am quite confused," she admitted.

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Carmen

Carmen was wide eyed with concern and confusion as Lily bawled her eyes out. She was about to yell at the unfamiliar male again as he came hurrying over to Lily, but his words made her reconsider. "I didn't... Lily... Don't cry, baby..."

Baby? Were they...together? Why is she crying if...did he leave her? Her confusion only mounted, almost reaching the level she had when Lily blushingly spirited her and Matt away to the gun range. Speaking of Matt...aren't they friends or something? Why is she asking me to help her and not him? I've barely talked to her... The whole situation seemed really odd to her for whatever reason...hopefully Lily would be able to clear some of her confusion when she was feeling better.

At this point the only thing she could do both out of concern for Lily and her current mental state was comply with Lily's request. "Sure, Lily. Come on," she said with a soft smile that she was able to manage, and took her hand to lead her in the direction of the houses.

"Which house is yours?" she asked.

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Happy birthday, Silver! :D

Party on, dude(s). Excellent.

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Animelover_princess said
Omg Evil Andromeda!?!?!XDi want to do this nowwait, would that make Alistair a good guy?since he's on the fence between good and bad?

If he's in the middle of the morality spectrum, there wouldn't be much change. If he leans evil now he'd lean good.

My new character, Mizuki, frequently travels all over the morality spectrum, so she actually wouldn't change at all.

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Carmen

What happened next was pure distilled drama. And confusion.

After Carmen had looked to see what the problem was - the girl hugging Matt - she had looked away again, inspecting her gun. And then her dress. And then her hat (yes, she took it off to inspect, but only briefly). Her safety gear had long been taken off, as nobody was cleared to fire on the shooting range and all the guns were on safety. Hopefully.

It was a frankly awkward situation for her, as she was just hanging out a little separated from everyone else, waiting to be given the clearance to fire her lethal weapon. From what she could hear, it was a light commotion as Lily attempted to right the situation.

But then, it fell silent, except for footsteps. Carmen was now giving a full...50% of her attention to the situation. She preferred not to get involved. But then, she heard Lily say "What... What happened to you?" The situation now had 100% of Carmen's attention...much to her dismay. She really just wanted to shoot. That had been fun. But hearing Lily's voice almost afraid arrested her full attention.

And then Lily was right next to her, in tears. Carmen's head immediately snapped up and towards where Lily had been. Her eyes were full of fury. While she didn't know Lily that well, Lily had never done anything to hurt anyone, at least so far. At this point in her time an Athalia, she wouldn't have cared who it was that was crying. It was unacceptable. Especially during a vacation. I mean...what kind of person do you have to be to hurt someone while on vacation? Carmen didn't know. But she assumed she'd find out.

"WHAT'S GOING O- ...who are you?" Her authoritative query was cut short by the sight of someone she hadn't seen before. Her eyes narrowed at him. She was fairly certain Matt or the clingy girl hadn't caused the just previously authoritative Lily to shed tears. "Did you-"

"C-Carmen?"

She was interrupted by Lily's tearful cry for help. And for help from her, of all people. Was she really the most qualified person to help? Her thoughts were strung together in a largely nonsensical stream of consciousness, but she clearly needed to help Lily. Nobody else was even moving.

She hadn't taken her eyes off of the unrecognizable man that had presumably caused all this. "What did you do?" she asked with still narrowed eyes. She did not wait for an answer or even an attempt, turning on her heel at once to aid Lily. Catching up to her, Carmen attempted to console her. "Lily, what's wrong?! Who was that?" she asked in a worried yet still annoyed (at the guy) tone. "Do you need to get away from him?" she finished, having already sprouted her gaseous skylark wings in case she was in danger.

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SHARADA YASSSS. Also, Nike is killin'.

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Dude. That post was amazing.

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2 Plot Sheets OMG

Carmen

Title: Carmen's Journey to the Underworld (...or whatever.)
Villains: Anyone in Hell, really.
Arc: NK was involved in this one's conception. Basically one of Hell's villains (doesn't matter who) discovers how important Carmen's trumpet is to her and not only finds a way to steal it so that she can't telekinetically bring it back to her hand, but actually destroys the apparently indestructable instrument in Hellfire. Motivation? Fun, a particular hatred (or...liking...) for Carmen, or whatever. Doesn't matter. The horn is toast, and Carmen is enraged, to the point where she goes down to Hell to exact revenge. It is for this reason that it would probably be best not to use someone like Apophis unless Carmen's rage mode is apparently potentially powerful enough to stand a chance. While down there she uses what limited powers she has without the trumpet to forge a new instrument from scratch, one that's larger, more beautiful and more deadly than the one before it. With the new instrument she tracks down the thief and (hopefully) defeats him. The primary purpose of the arc, besides the forging of a new instrument and revenge and all that, is to bring out how ruthless and downright evil Carmen can be to those who wrong her, specifically evil ones. Fighting fire with fire; evil with evil.

There are plenty of things up in the air and open for change in this one. My thought is that because this is a personal vendetta and she will be absolutely livid with rage until it is resolved, she would strive to go completely alone. However, if there was a character willing to deal with that and go to Hell with her (and hats off to that character, man...), it would be a way to include more people in the arc, as this is primarily a lone wolf mission. Another way of including more people is as soon as Carmen finds the culprit, she is almost defeated and the rest of the Academy saves the day. That would be pretty cool. Carmen could wake up and watch her friends dominating, realizing that a) they're awesome and b) she needed them all along. That's so cliche it's Disney, but I'd be willing.

In my ideal world the way it would play out would be like this. However it happens, Carmen's trumpet gets stolen and subsequently destroyed. She reels and follows the culprit to the underworld, I'd imagine at the dead of night when everyone else is asleep. Everyone else wakes up, goes about their daily lives and eventually notices that Carmen is missing. She probably wrote a note or something on her bed (or sliding it under Lily's door) saying why she left. Those who are actually concerned (and believe me, I do not expect every character to be concerned...let alone most of them) try to find a way to get to her. For maximum drama, they miraculously find her in Hell and try to get her to leave with them and she refuses. Etc.

Honestly it could even not be in Hell. Just anywhere there's a villain and supernatural forging is possible. Lol.

Involved: Carmen, mainly.
When: Can be whenever.

Nightmare World

Title: The Nightmare World
Villains: Ourselves.
Arc: This arc was invented by...a lot of people together, one day on the Etherpad. I don't remember who originally had the idea. The idea is that some villain, or even just a weird paradox or something, creates a world the students and maybe teachers get stuck in where the morality is flipped. We all fangirled hardcore over the possibilities. Evil Carmen would be ruthless and terrifying. Evil Lily would be super BA and also terrifying. Evil Ryuu would be super deadly...and terrifying. Etc. However, we never really figured out the who or the why. Like if we just flipped the morality completely and had evil us fighting good Hell, that wouldn't be much fun because it would be the same sides. It would be better if like the most evil prone people were turned evil or something and attacked the good students. Or whatever. Either way, everyone basically just wants an excuse for our characters to be evil for a bit.

Involved: Everyone.
When: Can be whenever.