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recolle2017-04-07 10:40 pm
rhapsodeity) wrote in recolle2017-04-07 10:40 pm
( open ) alone, i fight these animals
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
b, saturday afternoon, pizza port: let go, lay to rest
c, saturday evening, just outside the public library: get up, shake the rust
d, sunday morning, hollingberry field: she follows me into the woods
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!
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He scrambles to position himself in front/below her, because JADE DON'T JUMP ]
It's a six— seven feet drop? But it's hard tile, Jade, can't you see?
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jade stares down at what she thinks is ryoji, lips pulled tight, eyes squinting and her body language just slightly!!! annoyed.
and decides that she is superman apparently because she drops down, pushing herself over the freezers. does ryoji catch her or is she going to die ]
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But no, Ryoji's a bit tired of having people die around him, and heck if this death is going to be his fault, so he rushes forward to catch Jade as best he can. Meaning open arms and uneven footing and when he does catch her, it's not without stumbling back into the freezer door behind him, thankful for the inch of plastic to break the impact. ]
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jade seemed ready for impact, whether that was with the floor or ryoji so when she lands square in his arms, her eyes are squeezed shut and her body pulled tight in on herself. she's a small girl, too, so it's probably not a surprise that she's light. little victories, ryoji, like jade not crushing you.
when jade doesn't collide with the ground, she thinks that's weird, and then half expects to open her eyes and see yato again. it's another blobby mess of dark colors, but this one probably isn't yato. jade blinks up at ryoji with startling green eyes.
somehow none of freshens is staring ]
Holy shit! Are you okay?
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her eyes. ]
Your eyes.
[ They weren't green before. Yuuko's eyes weren't red before. Yu's eyes weren't grey, and when Yu texted him about his eyes, Ryoji had done some looking into it and ]
Are you okay? Do you feel ill? Pain, or blurry vision?
[ and what he found to be a common cause of eye color abnormalities is ocular cancer and he's so sorry jade ]
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Noooooooo pain... I don't feel sick, um. Everything is really blurry, though.
[ hence why she kept trying to read that pint of ice cream to no avail; she couldn't read it. ]
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You said Superman ice cream is your favorite, right? I'll buy it, and we can share a pint.
[ Ugh, he needs those hands to hold and assure himself; why is Jade not like Anya and doesn't do the hand holding thing? ]
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it's just homestuck eye colors ]
What??? No! Jeez, are you worried about something or do you think I'm helpless? [ jade puts her hands on his shoulders and moves to. steady herself enough to fold her arms and look betrayed is this what her friendship means to you ryoji ]
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That looks just causes Ryoji to wither even further; helpless isn't a word he would ever use to describe Jade Wolf. This is the girl who leaps off grocery store freezers and calmly gives apples the Glasgow. So strong, so brave. The world sure is going to miss her. ]
Blurry vision is always a cause to worry, but right now? I think I'm the one that needs help, and ice cream will help.
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is the world going to miss jade as much as ryoji is going to miss her? no one is really sure. all we know is that ryoji is apparently sad. that gets jade to wrinkle her nose in concern, and purse her lips. it's like she's tasting the sour truth of truthiness. ]
Okay. You can't get Superman ice cream in tubs though, it's at the shops. [ there's a beat, and then she tilts her head. ] My other favorite is sherbert, what about you?
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...Hmm. I like moose tracks, and strawberry cheesecake, [ specialty flavors, that are sometimes stocked and sometimes not, so he has to turn his eyes back to the freezers to check ] and plain vanilla with rainbow sprinkles!
[ On the other hand, Ryoji's favorites are ones with something to chew on in between licks, even if it's chalky sprinkles ]
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Rainbow sprinkles are the best kind of sprinkles. Well, I like chocolate too, but I think that rainbow is a lot prettier! When it melts and it's all different colors, I love that. It's soooo pretty.
[ but as she says that, jade places a hand back on his shoulder. not to steady herself, and it's obvious from confident but curious quirk to her smile. ] Are you really... okay, Ryoji?
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[ He just wants to talk about melted rainbows in ice cream!!! not his feelings of weakness and helplessness. ]
I'm just surprised, I suppose, of how you're so okay. You do know that your eyes are now green, and that you literally disappeared from the middle of a grocery store for a second? It's... [ really actually concerning ] ...admirable.