( open ) alone, i fight these animals

[rhapsodeity]

WHO: Jade Wolf & potentially you
WHERE: Out and about! There's a lot of locations.
WHEN: Saturday (4/8) and Sunday (4/9)!
WHAT: Jade finds out she can teleport. It doesn't go well.
WARNINGS: None at the moment and I doubt any will come up!


a, saturday morning, freshens: slow, slow me down

[ saturday mornings are usually reserved for cartoons and overly sugared cereal, but today, jade dresses herself (poorly - her shirt is backwards, her hair is a bigger disaster than usual with incredibly obvious knots showing. her skirts lopsided and her leg warmers are uneven: jade's seen better days, outfit-wise) and marches out the door of the wolf family's new abode, stomp all the way. she's only half way sure that her shoes (a pair of brown cowboy boots with a floral design) are on the opposite feet and she is stomping, stomping down the street, furiously determined to go to the market and get that half off ice cream. it's happening.

when jade gets to the market, it's probably obvious that something is wrong. for one, if you know jade wolf, you know she has her mother's blue eyes. they're a nice, cobalt blue, deeper than sky blue but still reminiscent of the clear blues.

the jade today has vibrant, lime green eyes, and they're staring down at a pint of pistachio ice cream. in her hand is a trio of coupons, gripped tightly, and she alternates between pulling the pint so close that her nose is touching it and then so far away that her arm strains.

finally, she groans and opens it to place the pint back in the freezer. ] I think I saw a P! I think... so... Pistachio? Jeeeez. Okay, maybe an eye doctor visit sooner than la--

[ there's a flash of green, or maybe there isn't, and then where jade wolf once stood, only three coupons for half off pints of ice cream float for a moment before gliding to the floor. ]

b, saturday afternoon, pizza port: let go, lay to rest

[ jade is having a terrible time navigating the town, but she's at least sort of good at it. she remembers that, at least, pizza port wasn't always pizza port, so when her legs lead her to the restaurant, she is... suitably surprised by the smell of food.

jade squints at the menu hanging over the counter and clenches her fists. ]

This... is not Home Depot?

[ a beat. ]

What street am I on??

[ SHIT ]

c, saturday evening, just outside the public library: get up, shake the rust

[ on the steps of the library is a girl with messy dark hair, and there are flowers sticking out of it, seemingly at random. she has arguably the most unnaturally green eyes anyone might ever seen, and she looks incredibly, incredibly lost.

she's also wrapped up in a feather boa and has a potted sunflower in her arms; it's just big enough to be obvious that she needs a bigger pot for it than the one she has, now, and jade looks around the block, wiggling in place a bit. ]

Hey!

[ the idiot in the feather boa notices you, or someone near you, and either she asks you a question: ]

Have you seen a little old lady with a hunchback?

[ or she squints at you, and asks: ] ...Ma'am, did you come back to get your sunflower?

[ you are probably not the old lady who left the potted flower with her, though. ]

d, sunday morning, hollingberry field: she follows me into the woods

[ early sunday mornings are jade's bread and butter, and she loves open fields and giant trees she can lay under. despite the forecast yesterday, the sun's shining and the blue skies are clear, completely devoid of clouds. ]

They don't look weird, right?

[ jade grips the lens of her glasses and winces as she smudges them. they're ridiculously large bifocals that take up almost half her face, thick black rims making it clear they're classic "coke bottle" glasses. they magnify her eyes, too, making them look even bigger, and the homestucks continue to blend in almost seamlessly with the animez thanks to how comically giant her eyes are and how brilliantly green they are, too.

no wonder she's so self conscious.

probably not too self conscious, though, because she's still sporting the cowboy boots. ]

Just, um. Well, I never thought I'd need glasses, so... it's a big change for me!