synflux | ( open; ) summer episode part 2?

WHO: Any Outsider is more than welcome!
WHAT: Dating shows... I was bullied.
WHERE: Between Okinawa & Neo Tokyo.
WHEN: Throughout the remainder of July (listen, it's a production)!
WARNINGS: Partial nudity, alcohol, potential suggestive topics, and will update 'em as I see 'em!

Throughout the city of Neo Tokyo and even Okinawa, there will be advertisements posted by the hundreds (and spam mail to your oculars by an equal number), desiring candidates for a show. While the aftermath of vegas and other bleak instances might have led way for people practicing some semblance of moderation— opposite to that, the people also need their entertainment, don't they?

Fortunately, there will be an influx of dating shows looking for people to appear. They are offering a fairly decent amount of money and are even offering luxury experiences for free for participants. In this economy and food shortage??? Okay, the food may be lacking, but they do make up for it in various activities they have planned, where people can kick back, relax, and romance?

While there will be any number of shows looking for interested parties, these are the main shows/premises:

SPEED DATING

As the label suggests. People will be expected to sit down and switch through several partners. In their hands will be a card labeling who they encounter and a place to leave a check mark. They will also be given a list of questions that can be answered.

PARTNER SWAP

People can be on a show and swap partners. This doesn't necessarily need to be romantic, either. Have a friend you want to show up with, cool. The only rules are that the pairs who enter together cannot stay together during the duration of the show.

SINGLES INFERNO

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be trapped on a deserted island with other hot singles? Well, now you no longer have to wonder. They will need to cook and fend for themselves here with minimal activities or distraction— but, isn't that the point? All you need to focus on is each other! (* They will be ferried to an outer island by Okinawa). While on the island, which they label as inferno, it's also a rule that one cannot speak about their age, occupation, or any such personal details. All of this will be reserved for "paradise." To go to paradise, two individuals will need to pick one another, and if they do — they are able to go on to completed various luxury experiences together.

For those who would rather find paradise in inferno together, you can presume there are tents that act as shared dormitory quarters where contestants will stay together.

DATE ME

People are free to use this for just general dates. Maybe, you just want to finesse the system and enjoy a fun all-expense-paid for date in which you get to eat like relative kings and enjoy various experiences. Feel free to use anything in the setting to your desire.

SKINSHIP STARTER

... a show where you get paid the more skinship you do. Don't do anything you wouldn't do in a Wendy's though. (That's not how the saying actually goes).

COMMENTARY PANEL

Every good dating show needs those who simply sit and commentate, right?

* It can be assumed any of this is just open to general CR you want to spend time with, too. This is just supposed to be a silly log for chances for characters to get to know one another! Characters are more than welcome to assume they stumble upon this by accident, think it's just a basic job and can't leave, film or unfilmed (minus the commentary prompt), and whatever else! Feel free to tag freely, threadjack, etc!

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[ There's a short pause. ]

Malkuth is energetic. Yesod is fussy. Netzach is laidback.

[ Things she can say about them, then and now. ]

[ Yesod...

...

(Wait.) ]

The metal guy?

[ Well, that could be or the other--

So Siffrin's already met one of them, huh? Probably not that surprising. ]

Yeah.

[ Siffrin leans forward, staring hard at her, then back into the seat. ]

You aren't Crafted like him, since you can eat. But his humor is better than yours.

... I'll live. [ So dry. ]

It's a long story, but I had a form like his once.

[ She won't even hear out the wordplay he got told...! ]

Was it as tall as you are now?

[ The important questions, here. ]

No.

[ Definitely not. ]

I was probably just a little taller than you, like that. The way I am now was more how I looked before I died.

[ Scars aside, obviously. ]

[ With scars, got it. But with two "gold" eyes. ]

It doesn't sound like any kind of Craft I've heard of... but there's a lot of places that have their own kind, or so Odile says. So maybe there's a Body Craft that can do what your... technology? [ They think. ] Can do too.

[ (Just like how, when you were young, you read...

...

What was it again?) ]

It's probably possible, but even though I'm not sure exactly how it worked, I wouldn't recommend it.

[ She glances down at one scar-laced hand, flexing her fingers. ]

That part was Hell. But as it stands, Malkuth and I are from further in the future than the other two.

[ Kind of like how they can loop ahead in the day, maybe. But on a bigger scale? It isn't that different, it's just not something Siffrin can put their head to.

So they won't. Sounds like it was hard being metal though, so that's one question answered. He doesn't seem too affected by the new knowledge, like it's about on the same level as learning someone's favorite shade. ]

It must be hard knowing things they don't. At least you have one person that understands where you're at.

Mostly. I'm from further than she is, but at the least, she knows the basic points.

[ Gebura doesn't technically have to watch what she says to the other two, because it doesn't really come up that often as a topic. Though she's sure Yesod will approach her about it sooner or later. ]

They're all friendlier than I am, and you've met at least one of them, so you can get to know the others if you feel like it.

[ He wouldn't call her unfriendly, but that's because he hasn't given her reason to be... That's how this has been working. It's nice to have predictable companions. ]

I'll keep it in mind if I hear their names around.

[ (As long as you remember them. Which you will. Definitely.

... Speaking of those you remember, and how you remember them--) ]

Mira is shy and kind. Isa is loud and brave, and Odile is curious and perceptive. Bonnie's young and angry. Those are my family members.

Family members, huh.

[ Family... ]

They all sound completely different. But maybe that's what makes a good family.

[ She has no idea. ]

I guess so. They're the only ones I have now.

[ ... Remembered, or otherwise.

He has no idea if that makes them a good family either. But at the very least, Siffrin will never leave them behind. ]

Would you want them to be here?

[ well, he'd asked her something along the same lines. ]

No.

[ Their eye looks back at the spot on the horizon it had before. A far too quick answer maybe, and one that may not be expected for all the questioning he'd put to her about her own, but...

(No, because then they might figure it out. Odile would. She's always been smart, always been too perceptive. If she had the time, and the lack of a loop to stop her, then she definitely would.

Could you hide it for long when faced with Mira's worried questioning of your well-being? Against Isa's desire to understand you? With Bonnie's expectation of your honesty?

...

You don't know.)

Siffrin's eye closes and they smile. ]

They'd all worry too much about what was going on in Vaugarde, even if it'll be fine. I'd rather spare them that.

[ (It's fine if the only one that it affects is you, after all.

That goes for this too.) ]

[ She thinks for a moment about saying something. About how taking everything on yourself, to keep others from worrying, to spare them from their suffering and your own by enduring it on your own, leads more often than not to a place you can't come back from.

But it isn't her business. She still hardly knows anything about Siffrin and their family. So Gebura doesn't comment on it, only sighs under her breath. ]

I guess you could call that nice of you. I'd call it something else.

[ (You aren't nice.) ]

What?

Selfish.

[ And she'll start walking towards the ocean. ]

[ (... Selfish?

It isn't selfish. You're doing it for them. For their sake. It's all for their sake, actually -- there's nothing selfish about it. What's selfish about sparing those you love from pain? And worry? And sadness? Doing everything right again and again and again to make sure they're happy and smiling and

it isn't selfish. it isn't selfish.)

Gebura's back catches their eye, being in the same direction. She's done with talking, maybe? (it isn't) Or sitting? They can talk again later.

Yeah. They can talk later. About not this. Or not talk at all. That's fine too, probably. Siffrin slips out of the seat and pauses, staring at the gradient of fruits, before shuffling in the opposite direction away from the sea.

(you know you're right. there's no point in arguing it.) ]

( open; ) summer episode part 2?

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