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Elda Marker ([personal profile] matchbreaker) wrote in [community profile] recolle2017-06-08 12:21 pm

[OPEN] Well, that's a problem

WHO: Elda Marker and YOU
WHERE: Garden Gate Farmer's Market, in and around the Marker manor, Towers (and most of Tisse by extension), the residential streets at night?
WHEN: Mid-June, as she gets a special gift
WHAT: Elda's received a new pair of eyes from Retrospec, and that's incredibly disturbing. Her various adventures in trying to get used to this and deal with the result of having red night-vision eyes.
WARNINGS: None worth noting, I think? Cranky 40 year old?

A) The Curious Incident of the Farmers Marker in the Morning

[ Our story begins one fateful day when, like any proper person who doesn't currently have a non-volunteer job but excess money, Elda Marker goes to the Farmers Market bright and early. Picking up a lot of fruits, some vegetables, hot peppers, and what else she can find (and what she can discern what with the lack of green here, it's kind of fucked up and she might be looking for some insights on that). She actually is getting a few flowers too! With two bags under her arms, the woman is humming a little as she's making her way back to the car to get back to the manor-

Until it happens.

Elda blinks, and once she opens her eyes again her previously dark brown eyes are now red. The burgandy orbs look widely around the area for a moment until - she shuts them as fast as possible and screams in pain. The light hurts? It's blinding, actually! The morning sun is- She drops all of her bags, and there's no way she's going to be able to drive. She's making a scene right now, her hands clutched over her face to try to block out the light - it's hurting even through her eyelids, causing her to tear up. ]


Arrgh... What the devil- Agh.

B) Home Is Where The ... Cats Are. Or something.

[ Somehow, someway, Elda will make it home even if she needed to walk there. It wasn't that far from the Farmers Marker to the manor. Once at her house, Elda... turns off all the lights. It's a bright summer day, and people who have known the woman knows that she lights to be outside on days like this but it's scaring her right now how much it hurts her eyes. Her house guests/son or anyone visiting the house will notice that the woman has turned off all the lights in the house and closed many of the curtains. The light even of the bulbs hurts her eyes a little... Man.

That said, later in the day you might find her outside of her house, on the front lawn. She is defiantly sunbathing in a light dress and wearing sunglasses and not a swimsuit (this is the front lawn, she's not a barbarian) but rather a loose summer dress. Her brown hair's tied back as well.

... Ugh, she should have gone on a run. This sucks, she feels so lazy. It's even hard to read. ]


C) Operation Classy Glassy

[ ... Also her only sunglasses are okay, but if they are going to be a regular fashion thing for her, as seems to be the case, she needs better ones. Or at least - no, actually definitely more than one pair. Still not trusting herself to drive on a Summers Day even with the sunglasses on, the woman instead calls a cab and takes it over to Tisse, where she's going to a variety of places to shop, but mostly focuses on the accessory section of Towers. Here, she's trying on all hella style. She's doing this and examining herself in the mirror, sometimes taking them off to lower the distortion, but wincing every time her new red eyes catch the light of the store. You know what, eventually she resorts to- ]

You there! I need some insight, come on over!

[ Conscripting outside help. ]

D) Gotta keep up the exercise somehow or another!

[ Something else Elda soon enough notices: ... She can see in the dark now. She has no idea how (it must be the eyes... did Retrospec give her night vision eyes or something?) and she has a great visual range than before, she's pretty sure. And you know what that means?

... It means that if she can't get her morning runs in, she's going to give herself some night runs.

Hopefully no one will find it strange to see a small 5' 40 year old woman jogging in the middle of the night, her red eyes wide to look around her. ... Hopefully none of you catch the moonlight or a street light reflecting off those eyes, it might look like the glow of a predator. But either way, she's sure.

Doing that. It's okay, she's learned a lot of self-defense. ]

[ Also if any of you want to do something else or a weirder prompt / have questions / just want to add me I guess feel free to talk to me at [plurk.com profile] bigdamnhero. Yep! ]
thesettingsun: mad (I won't walk to you)

[personal profile] thesettingsun 2017-06-10 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
That's why you asked someone who's good at fashion for advice!

[And definitely not just whoever happened to be nearby in a completely open prompt!!]
huxceptional: (Get out Ren :|)

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[personal profile] huxceptional 2017-06-10 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[...That's some reaction to looking at the sun.]

And I thought I detested the sun. [Hux looks at her with mild concern, despite his words. She really does seem to be in pain from it.]
vitis: (( roots pulse attractively))

[personal profile] vitis 2017-06-10 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Harassed, in that you both get some annoying, weirdo gifts?

[ because all retrospec users eventually get the hallucinations? he thinks. in the same vein, he doesn't want to be too nosy, so he'll aim for keeping any questions of his on the vaguer side... that is, if he hasn't already been labeled as such.

but what do bats and light sensitivity have in common? well.
]

Tryin' to turn you nocturnal, it sounds like.
toushiro: (tumblr_inline_nhxsi1Px741qmbx44)

[personal profile] toushiro 2017-06-11 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ there's a nod as he wraps elda's arm around his shoulders, carrying her inside of the house. it's unlocked, thankfully, so he doesn't have to scramble for the key--once inside he goes to set her down gently on the couch. toushiro kneels down, getting a little lower than eye-level with his mother. ]

Do you need to go to the hospital?
thesettingsun: mad (I'm not a toy)

[personal profile] thesettingsun 2017-06-11 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Elda is mean. Why is she so mean? Shuji is visibly deflating over here.]

I was thinking these...

[He picks out a set of cat eye style frames and holds them out to her.]
toushiro: (tumblr_inline_n59w57R5g91rl6jx6)

[personal profile] toushiro 2017-06-11 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ retrospec? no, there's no time for that, she needs urgent care--

...that gives him an idea, though. one he doesn't particularly like. ]


You think this is related to the app, right?
vitis: (god i'm sorry he's gross and weird)

[personal profile] vitis 2017-06-11 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh, that sort of harassment. ... it had been a bit skeezy, he'll admit. ]

[ but yeah, who has... heard of a nocturnal person...! john's smile becomes a bit thin, somewhat bemused at the reaction. (it hadn't been that serious of a suggestion!!) ]

Well... Suppose so. If that's the one with bats, then yeah, bats usually come out at night... [ remarkable. that's all he's got rn, sorry. ]
huxceptional: (Orders)

[personal profile] huxceptional 2017-06-12 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[He's tempted to remark about not being obligated to do anything she says, but for once, Hux decides to be useful and picks her bags up.]

...I can assist you to the closest hospital or drug store if you don't wish to rack up hospital bills.
feistytrader: (okay then)

[personal profile] feistytrader 2017-06-12 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
[It's super dark. Does it really take this level of darkness for her eyes to stop hurting? Jeez...]

Yeah. Other than your eyes hurting, does anything else seem different?

[Maybe they're just sensitive because they're new. Maybe it's going to be okay.]
feistytrader: (listening in)

[personal profile] feistytrader 2017-06-12 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I might be able to see a little more when my eyes adjust, but it's pretty dark in here.

[Who the hell could see in this besides a cat?]
feistytrader: (6)

[personal profile] feistytrader 2017-06-12 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[...He pauses for a moment to try to make out where the bookshelf even is- he's not quite looking in the right spot- and then he realizes that it doesn't really matter, because what Elda just said is insane.]

What, do you have night vision now? Is that it?

[At the expense of sunlight being painful? What kind of bullshit is that?]

Have you remembered anything about this?
feistytrader: (okay then)

[personal profile] feistytrader 2017-06-12 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's concerning. If that's the case, will Elda just have to go full nocturnal? No, he doesn't really want to think about that.]

Maybe if you get some really dark sunglasses...

[Then she can match god damn Wesker on isolation hill over there.]

It might be good to just rest for now. This is the brightest part of the day.

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