[EFFECT ROOM] Dresses for the Dressing Room!

[noisycircus]

[Welcome to Lapin Angelique! Everyone who enters this room will suddenly find themselves wearing a Gothic Lolita Dress. They may also have other gothic accessories such as tiny little hats, frilly parasols, vampire capes, or spooky plushies.

Bizarre things will happen if you try to take off the clothes. Maybe it will just be downright impossible, they're stuck to your body. Maybe you'll start to FEEL GOTH and the BLACKNESS OF YOUR HEART compels you to put the clothes back on. Maybe you start taking off the clothes, only to find that doing so causes you to slowly morph into a bunny until you put them back on (or until you're a bunny. But was that REALLY worth it?) It's all up to fate!

Either way, these dresses are probably staying on, at least until the effect wears off. Which could be anything from a couple hours to the rest of the day.]

Comments

[obeytherod]

[So Malik is in sweet lolita more than gothic, but the embarrassment level is the same, really. White and lavender with bows, hearts, and childish umbrella print?!

He barely has a second to register the horror of it all before he's smacked in the face with a bunny and falls on his behind, his whole dress fluffing up with him.]

[whiterosefoes]

[Feeling her bunny smack into someone or something, she cries out] Sorry!! [and then turns around and sees who it is.

Is this real life.]

Dear GOD. What on earth is that?

[obeytherod]

What--?!

[Sorry he's...A LITTLE...DISTRACTED AT THE MOMENT.

Malik jumps to his feet, not even caring that he'd just been smacked in the face. He grabs the hem of his dress, pulling it up in a handful as he gets a better look at it.]

Where did this come from?!

[whiterosefoes]

I have no bloody idea. Whatever it was, it got me as well... [she's letting the bunny hang at her side, also rather distracted.]

...I don't even think my porcelain dolls wore anything quite that fluffy.

[obeytherod]

People don't really wear things like this, do they?! It's just for dolls...and those comic books.

[Malik was one to talk here, what with his arm and neckbands. He was more shocked than anything.

And now he's attempting to reach back and unzip it so he can take it off.]

[whiterosefoes]

[Harriet is unfamiliar with Tokyo fashions, and she has no idea what comic books have to do with anything. She hesitantly considers, but after a moment just laughs shortly]

- They can't possibly. It must be a costume! Halloween's almost here.

[although she blinks at Malik's attempt to take it off right now]

Err, are you wearing anything under that?

[obeytherod]

...Halloween?

[Not ringing any bells there, Harriet. He's caught the zipper now, but it's not budging...]

I don't know. Maybe? I don't care, I'm taking it off!

[whiterosefoes]

It's a holiday... Huh, as you like.

[If he prefers to streak through the Campus, there's nothing she can do about it... she'll go back to trying to get the bunny out of her hand.]

I think they're stuck on though. Just look at this! [flailflail]

[obeytherod]

... [Malik grabbed her hand mid-flail, giving the bunny a harsh look of skepticism before reaching over with his other hand to easily pull it off.

He tossed it aside.]

I think you just weren't trying hard enough, keh keh!

[whiterosefoes]

What- that doesn't even make sense! I was letting go, gravity should have done the work!

[flexing her hand in disbelief. With how stuck it had seemed, she's surprised that didn't feel like a bandaid coming off. Instead it was more like it was never stuck at all and he'd just grabbed it from her as normal.]

It was stuck... [she repeats again, bewildered.]

[obeytherod]

Sure it was. [He's not buying it.]

[Malik goes back to tugging at the zipper of his dress, being met with little (no) success.]

Rrgh...this, on the other hand, really is stuck!

[whiterosefoes]

[Hmph. Well if he's not gonna believe her, see if she helps him!]

That's too bad. I suppose you could pass for a girl for a while.

[obeytherod]

What? [He shoot her an annoyed look.] Just because I'm wearing a dress doesn't mean I'm going to be fooling anybody.

[To be fair, his voice is unmistakably masculine, but with his arms and chest completely covered, it's not as if you can see his toned physique.

He kept trying the zipper, only growing more frustrated.]

[whiterosefoes]

[Harriet snorts, amused by his reaction.] I hate to tell you this, Malik, but your voice is the only thing that gives it away. You're quite pretty actually!

[now she's just being mean...]

[obeytherod]

Keh keh, you think I'm "pretty"? I guess I should thank you for the compliment... Even if I think you could have found a better way to say it.

[Malik hardly feels insulted, it was just his charisma at work! Now really wasn't the time though, and that irked him, but not much more.

He vaguely waved a hand.]

But "fooled" or not, I'm not going out dressed like this. Hm...

[He rifled around in the petticoat of his dress, trying to find something. He'd left his Rod on his belt, so maybe...]

[whiterosefoes]

What- no! [Harriet grimaces. That egomaniac, she should have guessed he'd take it as a compliment.]

I don't think you're pretty, I'm just saying ... on an objective level... that you wouldn't be an ugly girl, that's all. [huff]

What are you doing?

[obeytherod]

I'd hope not to be a girl at all. [He said it totally casually. It was as if his confidence was directly proportionate to how flustered Harriet was.]

And I'm trying to find the Rod...I know I had it on me! [Ruffle, ruffle... Whoops, there goes a panty shot. RUFFLE RUFFLE.]

[whiterosefoes]

[what are you talking about, she is not flustered at all! Harriet crosses her arms, just watching idly.]

...There's a room that does that, you know. I ran into what's-his-face after it got him.

[And then panty shot. Harriet only makes a confused face at it - the costume change extended to underwear?? Then is she also-

No, she doesn't want to know.]

If it was in your clothes, I reckon it's gone with them.

[obeytherod]

...Are you kidding me? Kh. [It's not clear if he's replying to genderbending room or the fact his Rod is missing.]

It came back after the building disappeared, so... [He sucks in a breathe, just barely containing his frustration through gritted teeth.] It should come back with my original clothes, if this place has any consistency in its rules.

[whiterosefoes]

A school must have some rules after all. Where do you suppose our clothes are now?

[Harriet's got as much reason to want hers back as Malik does- before she started messing with the bunny, she noticed she was missing her deck. Even when they keep all their valuables on their person, there's no guarantee of security. It's certainly frustrating.]

[obeytherod]

Well I know where they aren't... [He says irritably, tugging at one of the bows at the front of his dress. He was fond of the shade of purple, not so much the everything else.]

Maybe they'll be back in our rooms.

[whiterosefoes]

That wouldn't be too bad, I suppose. Worth a check.

[Of course, Harriet wouldn't have to do much explaining to her roommates if she showed up in a cute dress. Malik, on the other hand...]

[obeytherod]

[Malik takes his hands off his dress, glancing sourly down the hall.]

I'm going then. The hall's empty, so now's a good time. I don't feel like answering anybody's questions.