[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

[moderndaydragon]

This thing caused a blackout then made the building disappear. I'm not taking chances.

[fluffydeathdealer]

Hahahahahaha! Come on! Those weren't personal attacks!

[moderndaydragon]

I wouldn't put it past this place, though!

[fluffydeathdealer]

If it comes to that, it could at least give that guy with my name some goddamn trousers.

[moderndaydragon]

Ug... no kidding. I know Egyptians weren't that big on modesty but come on!

[fluffydeathdealer]

Is he really that bad? You only saw it by accident that time, right?

[moderndaydragon]

And when he decided to have a fit in my room then took a shower. He didn't bother actually drying off or anything.

[fluffydeathdealer]

...

Jeez, even I put my pants back on.

[moderndaydragon]

Right? I'll admit, he's not bad looking, but when everything else is the problem, I'm not exactly at a spot to enjoy the view.

[fluffydeathdealer]

[Dammit, it's so hard not to just laugh.]

I can't comment on the looks. Dumb muscle isn't my type. But maybe you should just make a "no trousers no service" sign and hang it on your door or something.

[moderndaydragon]

But then he'd know where I live! Again. I already had to move for that.

[fluffydeathdealer]

Carry it around, like one of those sandwich boards.

Where'd you move to?

[moderndaydragon]

[She gives him the directions, in the complete opposite dorm.]

I might start doing that... wear clothes if you want food!

[fluffydeathdealer]

What? Is he hanging around you for the sake of modern food?

[moderndaydragon]

I wish that was all it was.

[fluffydeathdealer]

...ah. Those lessons of his?

[moderndaydragon]

The favors. He wants me to sing to put some kid to sleep so he can rob him, for one thing...

I don't feel right about that at all.

[fluffydeathdealer]

Some kid...?

[It couldn't be... Yugi? He was planning on using her against Yugi? But that put her at risk of the other Yugi...]

Tch! What an asshole! Robbing a little kid is the lowest of the low...

[moderndaydragon]

I know. Some king of thieves he is, resorting to that! I didn't understand the point... something about the "dead of Kul Elna around his neck" or something close to that?

[...She knew the kid he was talking about. That golden puzzle... was it like the Ring, if what the other Bakura had said was true? Was there something...?

...No. No, don't think about that. Don't...]

[fluffydeathdealer]

You're serious...? [Tch. That asshole...] Kul Elna is the place I was telling you about. The 'gate to the other world'. That can only mean that boy has one of the Items...

If that guy's after one of the seven keys, that can only mean trouble.

[moderndaydragon]

He seemed like a nice kid... if you need it to pass on, couldn't you just ask if he'd lend it to you for a little bit once you got the rest? For you, I mean.

[Trouble... she bites her lip, exhaling. This is going to bother her forever unless she gets it hammered out...]

Hey, Bakura-kun. The Ring... is your spirit inside of it?

[fluffydeathdealer]

...eh? Who told you that old story?

[He knows who. That guy... what has he been telling her? Lifting his hands in an idle shrug, he shakes his head, a truly confused look on his face. My, my, the tangled webs we weave.]

It's said that there is a spirit inside this thing, but I've never met him. I can feel his presence within it, but he's never woken up once. I guess he's waiting for something.

[moderndaydragon]

That thief king... he said that you were his "akh." The... true part of his soul, I think.

[Was he lying again? She couldn't blame him if he was. After she's already complained about him, and the kind of person he is...]

Bakura-kun... I'm not going to think any different of you if that's true. It doesn't matter if it is -- you're still the Bakura-kun I made that promise with, the one I want to be friends with for as long as I can. You're still you! And it won't change how I treat him or feel about him, either.

But... I want to know if it is true. Because if I don't, it's going to drive me crazy.

[fluffydeathdealer]

...

Truthfully, I don't know.

[He sinks down to sit on the ground against the wall, sighing. His head rests back against it as he looks up at her, meeting her eyes with his own warm brown ones.]

I don't remember anything from before that time. I don't know who I am or how I died, or how old I am. I don't even remember my own face. I've been looking for so long for some clue to my past... And all I know is that these seven Items and Kul Elna will show me the answer, and give me the chance to rest. The only guy who knows who I am is another spirit, named Shadi, and he won't tell me jack shit.

That thief guy says we're the same, and maybe we are, but I don't have a clue either way. Hell, 'Bakura' isn't even my name. It's Ryou's surname. Most people just call me by it anyway, so I just went along with it.

If I'm him... then I apologize on his behalf. I was an asshole.

[moderndaydragon]

...It probably is true. There's a lot of similarities between you.

[She goes over to sit next to him, trying to settle in a way that the dress doesn't fluff up too much. She hasn't checked if she's wearing lacy panties to match, but she doesn't want to flash Bakura if that's the case.]

Well, his name is Bakura too, so that's probably your name. Coincidence, huh?

[...She's not helping, is she. Sigh. She leans forward on her arms a little.]

It's all right, Bakura-kun. You're still you, and someone better than he is! So you don't have anything to be sorry for.