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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! ]
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] What the...)

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[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2017-06-08 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Émilie is here, dressed more plainly than usual - for the simple reason people won't look twice at her while she's busy trying to get some nice fresh organic fruit. But who does she see but Elda... suddenly screaming in pain and clutching her face.

Causing a bit of a scene... enough so a crowd of concerned citizens begins to form, some getting phones out already. Émi is one of the first on the scene. ]


Elda...! What's wrong?
vitis: (b)

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[personal profile] vitis 2017-06-08 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ congrats, elda, for mistakenly(?) hailing probably one of the least fashion-conscious people in the towers. john can't even place why he's here; he'd come by perhaps to window shop, only to become lost in the tower's innumerable, overpriced (subjectively, anyway) wares. at being presumably addressed, john glances over, his rich older lady!senses already firing off. ]

Me?

[ he points to himself, taking a tentative step in her direction. ]

... I don't work here, y'know. [ not that he's dressed in uniform, either... ]
thesettingsun: mad (you don't care where they land)

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[personal profile] thesettingsun 2017-06-08 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shuji has fashion sense! Or at the very least he has more than Steinbeck, though that's a low bar.

Anyway, when he's yelled at he turns away from the set of ties he was looking at to see that Elda's yelling at him. Oh, that's Silver's ex-foster-mom (ex-mom?), he's seen her before.

Not that he'd turn down a change to give fashion advice anyway, even to complete strangers. He heads over.]


Sunglasses today, Ms. Marker?
scythegun: (RELAXED ⇝ hahaha wow)

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[personal profile] scythegun 2017-06-08 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jaeger's just getting home from work when he spies Elda out running. That's... weird. Huh. He'll lock his car and then raise his voice to call out to her. Don't think he didn't notice you, Elda!!!]

Well, well, this is a surprise! Why are you out so late, Elda?
scythegun: (OKAY ⇝ "regaey" is yeager backwards)

[personal profile] scythegun 2017-06-09 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
[. . .]

What in the world happened to your eyes?

[THAT'S A LITTLE CREEPY, ELDA]
vitis: (god i'm sorry he's gross and weird)

[personal profile] vitis 2017-06-09 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ john misconstrues the groan to be at him rather than the light. when he catches on, though... ]

Honestly, ma'am, none of 'em are gonna look bad on you...

[ seriously, some people just pull off sunglasses well. john glances from the one she places back on her face to the selection. he pulls the one on the bottom right from its holder as he is stupidly biased for flower life. ]

Try this one—? Maybe.
scythegun: (WHAT ⇝ but i'm very rich)

[personal profile] scythegun 2017-06-09 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
I... How...

[No, you know what, it's better if he doesn't know. Jaeger shakes his head and sighs.]

Never mind. You have red eyes now, this is fine.

[This is absolutely Not Fine.]
scythegun: (OKAY ⇝ "regaey" is yeager backwards)

[personal profile] scythegun 2017-06-09 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Taaaaaaking a step back now and holding up his hands, holy shit.]

Now, now, Elda! There's no need to do... whatever it is you're doing with your eyes right now!

[WHY ARE YOUR EYES LIKE THIS THAT'S SO CREEPY]
vitis: (the great fitzgerald)

[personal profile] vitis 2017-06-09 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, that's true.

[ the deliberateness of the gestures have him curious, eliciting a raise of an eyebrow from him. but then she supplies a potential explanation, and... rip blue and green, after all. ]

Anyway, those are nice, but not the best, y'know? Try these! [ as while he likes that one, they're also kind of ostentatious. thus, selecting another pair for her to try, he'll hold out his hand for the floral pattern one to be replaced.

it can't look bad on her, after all?!
]
scythegun: (REALIZE ⇝ estelle's the princess?)

[personal profile] scythegun 2017-06-09 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Ja, you didn't notice? They went cat-like for a moment there! It was a bit alarming!

[just a bit.........]

They're fine now. Well, as fine as they can be while they're red.
scythegun: (OKAY ⇝ "regaey" is yeager backwards)

[personal profile] scythegun 2017-06-09 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Do you really think I'd joke about something like this?

[...well, it is jaeger...]

I'm not joking, I swear.
vitis: (wake up n smell the sociopathy)

[personal profile] vitis 2017-06-09 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ ah, here he was hopeful she might give them a shot. her reaction gets a laugh out of him (not nearly as loud of a laugh if she'd tried them). ] Not a fan of reindeer? Though, if there's anyone that could, thought you might be able to pull 'em off.

[ he taps its frame with a nail. ]

See? They even got minimal greens and blues— probably.
scythegun: (GREETING ⇝ guten tag motherfuckers)

[personal profile] scythegun 2017-06-09 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
I'm absolutely not surprised to hear that this was their doing. Shame about your eyes, but at least now you can intimidate people easily!

[FIND SOME POSITIVES... MAYBE....]

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