CAMPUS WIDE EVENT: UNFASHIONABLY LATE

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[Late into the afternoon, the early risers will find themselves waking up, and the sleep-in types will find themselves sleeping in even longer. All sense of urgency and time has vanished, leaving residents sloth-like or simply too inept to realize how much time is passing. Even when they do realize, well...it's too late now, right?

On top of that, for some reason all the clothing in the building has been replaced with horrible 90s fashion.]

((ooc: The event begins! It will last through the 19th. Feel free to mingle or make your own posts, and you're encouraged to link images of whatever outfit you stick your character in. That's part of the fun!))

Comments

[onethirdthesoul]

It's not like that... [Now he feels guilty and terrible, he wasn't that selfish! He didn't just want the Ring because it was expensive, or pretty...]

My father gave it to me... [Ryou sniffles, leaving out the rest of his reasoning--like the fact it had good memories tied to it, even amongst all the bad. He was attached to it, but in more ways than he can really put into words. Something made it impossible for him to just let it go.]

I want to keep it. [He wrings it in his hands.] And I really would like to just be friends with you, but all you do is try to make me feel bad, or put you on. You're always trying to get something out of me.

[twothirdsthesoul]

I already said... it's fine if you don't put me on. Didn't I? And then you said such a hurtful thing.

Don't cry... I'm sorry. It just hurt to hear that, so I lost my temper a little. After all, I really am trying... I really have turned over a new leaf, you know?

But you know, now I feel kind of guilty... should we start over?

[onethirdthesoul]

[Maybe he'd been too mean, jumping to conclusions... The spirit had just been joking, right?

Ryou nods after a moment.]

Yeah, let's start over...

[twothirdsthesoul]

[Dealing with his little host was tiresome sometimes... ah, well. It was still an amusement in his empty, empty world.]

This sudden tiredness is worrying. Maybe you didn't sleep well last night? Have you been stressing out too much again?

[onethirdthesoul]

I thought I slept fine, I even slept more than usual. I woke up really late... [He trails off and yawns.]

[twothirdsthesoul]

Hm... then maybe that's why. Unless you're coming down with something, you probably overslept and made yourself tireder.

[onethirdthesoul]

Ahhh, that's the worst...! I wish somebody else could just do my chores for me. [He whines and flops back against the wall, looking drowsy as ever.]

[twothirdsthesoul]

...

[Well, he did offer. So no sympathy here, bro.]

That's too bad... but at least you don't have much to do, right? It's not like your robot friend makes that much of a mess.

[onethirdthesoul]

Yeah, and it's nothing I'm not used to. Although I don't really remember the last time I felt this tired...

[twothirdsthesoul]

I can't remember it either... you've always had plenty of energy. Maybe you're sick?

[onethirdthesoul]

I-I hope not! I hate being sick! [Ryou frets a little, feeling his own head.]

I don't feel sick...

[twothirdsthesoul]

Get someone else to check you over, perhaps? Or maybe you just need to rest...

[onethirdthesoul]

Oh, I know. I'll go to the nurse!

[He doesn't move, though...]

[twothirdsthesoul]

...

So. Are you going?

[onethirdthesoul]

Yeah. Eventually.

[So not right now.]

[twothirdsthesoul]

...you're not afraid of her, are you?

[onethirdthesoul]

Who, the nurse? Oh no, no no... I'm just really lazy right now.

[twothirdsthesoul]

...

[Is that really okay, to just admit that?]

Right. Well, whatever works for you, I guess! Maybe you should just take a nap right here, then?

[onethirdthesoul]

Maybe... [Ryou yawns again.] That sounds nice...

[He slumps a little, as if he might actually do it.]

[twothirdsthesoul]

...honestly, you must be sick... you'd never consider that normally.

[onethirdthesoul]

Maybe you can take my temperature... [He gives in, laying on the floor now and curling up, bringing the Ring to his chest.]

[twothirdsthesoul]

Haha... I'll take that as consent, then...

[You know what they say about a good DM... you never let an opportunity slip by. The Ring glows, the spirit taking over without hesitation. Flexing Ryou's fingers - his fingers - he loops the rope of the Ring around his neck casually.

It's good to have a body again... And this time, he isn't letting the Ring get taken away.

Oh, but his little master asked him to check his temperature, didn't he? Well, no temperature here. Nothing he can figure out that points to the exhaustion, either. Poor thing. It must just be another side-effect of this place. Well, no worries.

When Ryou wakes up, he'll find himself tucked up in bed. No telling how long he's been out though. Or just what the spirit's been doing in his body.]

[onethirdthesoul]

[Ryou wakes up quietly, yawning and stretching his arms. As he sits up, a familiar weight settles on the back of his neck and against his chest. At first, he doesn't even think twice of it, but then a glimpse of cold has him freezing with a horrified look.]

W-when did I...? [Quickly, he goes to rip the Ring off--]

[twothirdsthesoul]

[His hands draw away suddenly as the spirit takes over, letting it clunk to his chest again.]

Now, now, Ryou... why are you so afraid? I'm not going to hurt you.

[onethirdthesoul]

I--I didn't put you on! How did you take over?!

[Ryou's helpless with the spirit in control, so he can only protest inside the other's mind while he's allowed.]