EVENT: The Great BREW Malfunction Pt 1 [OPEN]

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Characters: Everyone and anyone
Location: Anywhere in Death City!
Rating: PG-13
Time: Starting July 14 after 11am to July 15
Description: ...something strange is going on here.

At some point, something strange begins to happen. People start randomly disappearing. Sometimes they reappear immediately after and they may not even notice, but sometimes there's a noticeable lag between their disappearance and their reappearance.

Sometimes, they don't even reappear in the same place!

At least it doesn't seem to be dangerous. Unless you disappeared from your kitchen and reappeared at the other end of the city. In which case, you might want to start running.

Either everything sort of points at this being BREW related (after all, if it were Witches, there would be a lot more danger).

((OOC: Create your own threads! Remember to put [ Character | Location | Date/Time | OPEN/CLOSED ] in your subject! This log will cover July 14th to July 15th!]

Open Threads
Lily
Josuke
Psii
Mello
Karkat
Hiro
Valentine
Akiha
Chika
Sugata
Hamel
Hyoubu
Fujino
Trucy
L
Auron
Alucard
Near
Minako
Light
Sephiroth and Cloud
Karina
Duo
Bakura
Johan
Clopin
Sheena
Amaterasu
Asuka
Shinji

Comments

[unbreakably]

[ Oh god, I thought we finally freed ourselves from that... ]

Hey, sometimes the protags get way overshadowed in some manga. Then they're even beaten in the popularity polls by some side character.. I don't want that to happen to me too!

[evokes]

[we will never escape it]

Hmm, so you think I'd be that much of a threat to your popularity, is that it? [JOKINGLY SMUG ABOUT THIS smh so hard but after all who can deny #PROTAGSWAG]

[unbreakably]

Why wouldn't you be?! You're a cute girl, they always vote for those! I can already hear Okayasu sayin' all the way from over there "sorry, dude, but I've got to follow my heart!!"

[ What a sad life story. ]

[evokes]

[She laughs JOSUKE YOU'RE FUNNY... even if his potential lack of popularity probably shouldn't be funny.]

I guess it's reassuring to know that I'd have your friend's vote at least! If it makes you feel any better though, I'm sure I'd vote for you instead of a cute girl if you were really in a manga. [it may help that part 4 has no actual cute girls though.............]

[unbreakably]

[ Yeah I mean who would vote for Yukako over Josuke..... ]

.. So at least you'll have my back, huh.. Okuyasu could learn a lot from that! Means I at least have one reliable partner! [ Although he does know Minako and that dork are.. pre.. tty.. different.. BUT STILL. ]

[evokes]

[Someone into yanderes I guess....]

That's right! You can always count on me, whether it's for missions or for popularity contests! [She even flashes a peace sign SHE'S TOTALLY RELIABLE MAN TOTALLY.]

[unbreakably]

[ EVEN THOUGH SHE DOESN'T HAVE A DILIGENCE STAT..!!

But since she's normal and all again now, he moves his arm around her shoulder (although completely not meant in a romantic way actually since he's a loser) and grins at her. ]

Glad that you're there to have my back, Minako.

[evokes]

[SHHHHH let's just pretend she has something like that. And yeah, there are definite perks of being human again like for real being a Weapon seems kind of sucky... But also because this lets Minako press a friendly (FRIENDLY!!) peck on Josuke's cheek.]

And I'm glad to know that you've got mine.

[unbreakably]

[ .. AH?! Even though he was holding her like that he didn't exactly see this coming. And as thick and oblivious as Josuke might be, it still flusters him all the same since it's not like that happens to him every day.. he rubs his cheek a little embarassed and self-consciously after she pulls away again, his face growing a little red. ]

Oh.. y-you are, huh. [ You're so great at hiding your emotions, Josuke. Perfect failure. ]

[evokes]

[While she could've guessed that his reaction would've been something like this, actually seeing it is a whole different thing. Her smile can't help but turn a bit more teasing, playful.]

Aw, c'mon Josuke, you can't tell me you've never been kissed on the cheek before!

[unbreakably]

Hey! What's wrong with that, huh?! Ain't like I had female friends back home! [ Yukako doesn't count, he'd feel sort of weird calling her a fr.. iend.. by now.. And yes, he's getting oddly defensive since he at least wants to seem a little cool here. ]

So who was I s'posed to get 'em from?!

[evokes]

Hmm... Your mom, maybe? [Thinking back her mom would do stuff like kiss her on the cheek way back then, so maybe it's the same for other people?!?!]

[unbreakably]

Huh? [ .. There's a pause and then he awkwardly rubs the back of his neck, looking away from her. He's frowning a little, but it seems more embarassed than anything else.. ]

Well.. that's different! I mean, that's that, and this is.. [ .. looking for the right word to use for it here, but in the end he can't quite find anything, so he just ends up repeating himself. ] .. different.

[evokes]

Different, huh? [She has half a mind to ask him different how, but he looked like he had a hard enough time just settling on that. Maybe she should give him a break.] Well, I guess it should be different all things considered. It'd probably be weirder if it wasn't!

[unbreakably]

[ WHY DIDN'T YOU ASK HIM HOW, MINAKO.

WHY DIDN'T YOU..!! ]

Nah, that's not the only thing that's different! It's just.. I dunno. [ He pulls his shoulders up into a shrug awkwardly. ] Even if another girl did it, that'd be embarassing enough, but it'd still be different. They wouldn't be my partner, after all.

[evokes]

[SHE CAN'T ALWAYS BE THE ONE TO MAKE THE MOVE OKAY!!]

So it's okay since I'm your partner? [look this is close enough to asking how]

[unbreakably]

[ Since she's his partner, huh.. he thinks about it. Sure, it's since she's his partner, but it goes a little beyond that, right? It's not as if it's the only reason, he could just simply have asked anyone to be his partner and be done with it. But Minako's.. well, she's cute and they went through quite some shit together already, not to mention he promised himself he'd never let her get hurt anymore.. ]

.. You're not just my partner, y'know. You're special to me.

[ Is that a declaration of love...

Well, who am I kidding, we're talking about Josuke here so he probably just literally means it the way he says it without anything more implied. ]

[evokes]

[Jeez Josuke if she was talking to anyone else she'd think that might mean something!! But this is Josuke so the chances of that are... not particularly high... Even so, it does still mean something nice, and she can't help but widen her smile, her gaze a touch warmer.]

You're special to me too, y'know. [But it might mean something a little different from her. Actually--] Although, you might wanna be careful with saying things like that.

[unbreakably]

Careful?

[ Yeah, the way he blinks after repeating that word says enough about him not meaning anything extra with what he said just now. He doesn't even get this much since he wasn't thinking in that direction.. ]

.. What, you're not.. gonna hurt me or whatever, right? [ AW.. KWARD... HE REMEMBERS YUKAKO, OKAY!! Is getting close to girls just really that much of a liability oh god oh man. ]

[evokes]

What? No, of course not! [JESUS JOSUKE what traumatized you enough to immediately start thinking in that direction.......... It's almost enough to be concerned but she should probably explain what she meant.] It's just that a phrase like that could easily be misinterpreted.

[unbreakably]

I dunno what's so weird 'bout it that it could be misinterpreted.. it's pretty straightforward, isn't it? [ Only to you, Josuke.. only to you. ]

It's not like "special" has any.. well, special kinda meaning. It just means you're not just like everyone else to me.

[evokes]

[FOR REAL JOSUKE, ONLY TO YOU... Now she can't help but look a bit incredulous.]

Oh come on, you can't tell me that you've never seen something where they say words like "special" or "important" for a confession! [SO BLUNT but if that's what it takes to get the point across then so be it...] Y'know, like something where the protagonist would be all, "Sakura-san, the truth is... You've always been very special to me!!"

[unbreakably]

Well-- [ ARE YOU IMPLYING HE READS SHOUJO MANGA, MINAKO.. then again, his mother is probably into those really corny romance tv series, so Josuke does know a thing or two about that sort of stuff. It's why the look on his face says he's slowly starting to realise all of this too.. ]

That's.. f-fine, I'll watch out with it in the future! But you knew what I meant either way, yeah?!

[ Blushing furiously as he rubs his neck with one hand.. ]

[evokes]

[mfw telling someone they're ~*SPECIAL*~ sounds more like a shounen protag who's too chickenshit to give a real confession though!! BUT ANYWAYS, finally Josuke is starting to see what she means...! She laughs a little behind her hand, but hey it's better to be a little embarrassed now then deal with someone actually misunderstanding, right?]

Don't worry, I got what you meant. Now you know for the future!