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Beast Boy ([personal profile] thebeastwithout) wrote in [community profile] recolle2018-03-16 08:00 pm

[open] 003 - It's Not Easy Being Green

WHO: Beast Boy & Everyone
WHERE: Around town
WHEN: March 12 - March 20
WHAT: Gar has mysteriously vanished for the last week! He's probably dead or something.
WARNINGS: First part is an open message leading to action, later parts are action

[retrospec text, 3/16]
hey this is gar
i'm uh
super sick or something
yeah let's just go with that
definitely dying of the plague

can someone get me my homework for the week and leave it in my mailbox? XXXX huntington ave. thx.


[action prompt 1, 3/16]
[On the night of Monday, March 12th, Gar drops off the face of the earth. He misses school all week without any legitimate reason that his teachers know of, his phone redirects to a busy tone whenever it's called, and he doesn't respond to any text, call, or Retrospec message he receives in the intervening time.

When he finally breaks his silence on Friday night, it's been four days since he's talked to anyone at all.

If anyone feels the need to check up on him, he's just texted his address to the public... Not the brightest thing to do, but then, he's never claimed to be bright.]


[action prompt 2, 3/17]
[On Saturday, he finally goes stir crazy.

Late at night around 1AM, a shadowy figure hops out of Gar's window and slips onto the streets, keeping to the darkness as much as possible. He moves quickly - in about 10 minutes, he reaches a nearby convenience store, hovering awkwardly outside for a few moments before he finally takes a breath and steps forward. In the harsh fluorescent lighting of the store interior, he is revealed to be covered head to toe in a thick winter outfit, complete with thick gloves and a balaclava.

He kinda looks like a (very small) bank robber.

For the next several minutes, he quickly piles as much snack food into his arms as possible, forgetting the basket in his haste. Eight bags of potato chips, a lot of frozen treats, piles of pudding - whatever works as long as it's unhealthy and filled with sugar.

This is a great plan up until he rounds a corner too quick and crashes into someone, sending his snacks flying.]


Aw crap!

Uhh, sorry, dude. ...I thought I was the only one in here this late.

[action prompt 3, 3/20]
[After a week of missing school, Gar reappears the following Tuesday, his parents having put their foot down in regards to his... condition. Despite his begging, he is, for some reason, not allowed to wear a balaclava to school, either.

The open stares begin the minute he steps off the school bus.]


...Hey, take a picture. It will last longer. ...Also you can spread it around Snapchat quicker so you can make fun of me on like, a global scale instead of just local.

[The newly leaf-green Gar runs in the opposite direction from anyone he knows, and spends most of his time sitting in a back corner staring at a wall, stone silent. The day passes miserably slowly.

Gar spends most of his time Googling 'train tickets to Antarctica' on his phone.]
fiddlestick: (so unsure)

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[personal profile] fiddlestick 2018-03-17 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no...
I hope you feel better soon!
Do you want me to bring you some soup?
fiddlestick: (elliot094)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2018-03-17 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Ouch laryngitis
That's not a fun one.
Do you have tea with honey?
I find that helps a lot.
fiddlestick: (ok but before murder how bout talk?)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2018-03-17 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Haha, you're not going to die Gar.
I used to get laryngitis all the time when I was younger.
And I turned out okay!

And not hearing from you again wouldn't be for the best
I'd miss you.
fiddlestick: (....)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2018-03-17 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[You mean like Yukine getting killed last week? Yeah...there's a delay in his response]

Yes, I know that can happen.

Still, you shouldn't go into every illness thinking you'll die.
Laryngitis really is pretty mild.
All things considered.
fiddlestick: (elliot096)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2018-03-17 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Haha, I know.
I hated it when I got it.

How did it happen?
Did you overuse your voice?
fiddlestick: (hmmmmm)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2018-03-17 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
That does sound pretty boring...

But see what? I didn't think there was anything to see with Laryngitis.
fiddlestick: (MAKE UP YOUR OWN CAPTION)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2018-03-17 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Big blotchy spots?
Oh doesn't sound good.

Have you been to see a doctor??
fiddlestick: (dot dot dot)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2018-03-17 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[...]

Is something wrong?
You're acting a bit strange.
fiddlestick: (oh no)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2018-03-17 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
You have a fever too?

What did the doctor say you have?
Edited 2018-03-17 03:05 (UTC)
fiddlestick: (elliot090)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2018-03-17 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Elliot meanwhile DOES google it and read through because Gar really does seem off]


....You mean the infection only babies get?
fiddlestick: (run save yourselves its too late for me)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2018-03-17 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh my god Gar]

No Gar
I mean only actual babies really get roseola
Like below the age of 2.
frostythehitman: (THE DARKEST SIDE OF ME)

action prompt 3

[personal profile] frostythehitman 2018-03-17 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ They don't share any classes together, being as they are a grade apart. But James does spot him--let's say at lunchtime, for parallel threading purposes. Gar didn't let him sit and mope alone with his weird new arm and weirder jacket, so James isn't letting him pull that now either.

James almost feels lucky by now that he's so innured to all this Retrospec nonsense that seeing someone turn green isn't that big of a shock anymore. It always is, of course, just a little--the Russian roulette aspect makes it just random enough that he's never really prepared for it--but it's made him pretty good at keeping his cool when he sees it happen to someone else, at least.

He sits opposite Gar in a way that blocks him from view in the lunchroom as much as possible. ]


So...would the neon jacket help here, or just make it worse?
fiddlestick: (elliot094)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2018-03-17 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a pause. ]

Is it...Retrospec?

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