VALENTINE'S DAY EVENT - BLIND DATING [OPEN]

[tarotcards]

WHO: Anyone and everyone! Even those who didn't sign up for the event!
WHERE: Anywhere in Recolle
WHEN: Valentine’s Day - Feb 14
WHAT: The log for the blind dates event! Awkward dates and disasters within.
WARNINGS: None!

It’s finally the fated day: Valentine’s.

Some of Recolle’s citizens might be going out, spending the day with their loved ones, while others might be sitting in bars, crying into their drinks. For a number of “lucky” ones, they might have gotten dragged into a blind date!

The Narukami twins have done their jobs. All the matches have been released. Partners have been assigned. Messages have been sent out. Now all that needs to happen are the actual dates. So, run free, everyone. The entire city is there to be their playground. They can go on their own respective dates, join up with other couples, spy on others, sabotage some, anything is fair game. After all, it’s not really fun if someone’s not crashing on another person’s party, right?

( ooc: As promised in the OOC sign-up post, here is the IC post for all the blind dates and related events to occur. This is an open mingle post, so multiple threads can happen anywhere and everywhere. Indicate if the thread is closed if you’d like to keep it private, however! Feel free to use the post as a general mingle as well. Anything is free game here! For any questions, please direct them over here and we’ll try to get back to you ASAP. Have fun! )

Comments

i did thank you! i saw a karkat, actually

[youraffection]

You make it sound so easy...

[ Sigh!! If only it were, he'd already have a girlfriend. ]

If it was, how come I've never seen you with a girl--er--...S.O.?

i cant believe there are hs cosplayers in 2017

[alienates]

[ he snorts at yosuke's correction. at least... yosuke is trying...... ]

There would have to be someone I'm even remotely interested in first.

[ WHICH ISN'T A LIE? shut up yosuke don't call him out on his lack of love life ]

they were so young too. i cant imagine they were reading it back when it first came out...

[youraffection]

[ He is trying. He's trying very hard. ]

...Oh, c'mon, there are definitely some cute people at school.

that's really cute??

[alienates]

And I am interested in none of them.

[ he can appreciate them from afar?? karkat knows himself, and he knows that if he were to pursue a crush he'd just end up being really goddamn embarrassing so it's best to avoid that altogether. ]

the next generation

[youraffection]

Oh?

[ Here we go. Yes, yes, this is the kind of answer Yosuke was hoping for! A distraction from his own abysmal love life. ]

Yeeaaaaah? So, c'mon, who is it!

[alienates]

No one! I'm just saying that, yes, there are plenty of attractive people at school, but I'm not going to embarrass myself in front of any of them.

[ karkat knows what he's like when he has a crush and it's awful and embarrassing and he refuses to make a fool out of himself?? ]

[youraffection]

[ He's pretty sure there's got to be at least ONE person, and Karkat's just trying to wave it off...or maybe he just thinks that, you know, since Yosuke thinks there are some cute people worth pursuing Karkat has to see it too. Either way... ]

Fine, fine! [ No, he doesn't believe him. Karkat's just being sneaky, but that's okay. Yosuke respects privacy when he wants to. ]

Guess I'm not keeping you from sharing ice cream with someone else, at least.

[alienates]

Trust me, if I had a definite person I liked then the person who signed me up for this would have instead been attempting very hard to get me on a date with whoever the fuck that would be.

[ karkat truly loves anya and she is the greatest best friend anyone could ask for, but god, she was more invested in karkat's love life than karkat is and that's saying a lot?? ]

I probably would choose a fancier ice cream place.

[youraffection]

[ Yosuke...can't actually argue with that. He opens his mouth like he's about to, but then just kind of nods and accepts it. At least the second part. ]

...Yeah, I don't think "What's the Scoop?" is going to impress most people.

[alienates]

Unless your date is its number one customer.

[ karkat thinks you can probably mkae the simplest idea into something super romantic, but that takes more work than just going somewhere nice to begin with. ]

Their mint ice cream is really good though so don't knock them too hard.

[youraffection]

Is...that you, in this scenario?

[ Just checking, since Karkat did seem pretty intent on going to this specific store for the valentine's day deal. ]

[alienates]

No!

[ yes. ]

I just don't want this to go to waste.

[youraffection]

[ Who is a worse liar here, Yosuke or Karkat? ]

Uh-huh.

[ He's got a sinking suspicion that's total bullshit. But, you know, like what you like and all that. Ice cream is hardly the worst vice he's heard of. ]

I'm all for a good deal...and, hey, I think that's it up ahead, right?

[alienates]

[ tbh they are both terrible. ]

Yeah, that's it-- oh goddammit.

[ there is a bit of a line. not long enough for it to be a horrible wait, but still a decent size that means other people had the same idea. ]

If they run out of the mint I am rioting...

[youraffection]

[ Yosuke raises his brows--he honestly wasn't sure what he expected in regards to popularity, but the line honestly doesn't look that bad. ]

I wouldn't worry about it. [ He says as if he's some sort of ice cream expert, which he isn't. ] Mint isn't really a romantic-y flavor.

[alienates]

[ the last comment earns a raised eyebrow from karkat. ]

What do you consider a romantic flavor then?

[youraffection]

Uhh...

[ Actually, what would be romantic? He thinks for a second. ]

Chocolate is supposed to be an aphrodisiac or something, right? So chocolate. Or cherry. Chocolate cherry?

[alienates]

[ that actually makes karkat pause and he has to just... give yosuke a Look. ]

You could have worded that way differently, dude.

[youraffection]

What?

[ Don't look at him like that. ]

Don't look at me like that!

[ It makes him feel like he said something stupid. ]

It's not like I'm sharing it with you or anything!

[alienates]

I'm just saying that it makes it sounds like your intentions are bad! Like you're just some horny teenager, and--

Hm. Actually that's probably accurate.

[ since, you know. teens. ]

[youraffection]

Wh--hey!

[ ...Look, just because Karkat is correct doesn't mean Yosuke can't be properly offended by it. ]

Ugh, whatever! Just pick out your ice cream!

[ Which means they'll actually have to wait through this line, but still. It sounded appropriately dramatic. ]

[alienates]

[ his lip twitches, like he almost wants to smile but that goes against his aesthetic so it does not happen. ]

You didn't deny it. [ he then immediately moves on ] They have this birthday cake flavor that's good.

[youraffection]

[ Karkat is 2edgy for this. ]

That's--!

[ Let it go, Yosuke. Like Elsa, you should let it go... ]

Birthday cake? [ Wait a second. ] Isn't birthday cake whatever flavor of cake you want it to be?

[alienates]

[ karkat is fake edgy and one day someone will call him out on this. ]

I. Guess? Look it's just called birthday cake, and it... tastes like it? I think it has cake batter or something in it.

[ he actually has no idea and didn't think about it that way until yosuke just brought it up. hm. ]

[youraffection]

[ That sounds like witchcraft, but he's not an expert on ice cream or magic. ]

So that's your idea of a romantic flavor? Birthday cake. For a second I thought I was the guy who was off mark.