Trash Squad Day 1 - SPEED DATING

[chinhotta]

Alright, kiddos!! Gather up in the cafeteria for your first event!

[ The cafeteria tables are arranged differently now, long tables pushed to the edges of the room and filled with finger foods and drinks, and the center of the room open except for a bunch of tall, small round tables which are empty except for a stack of cards, but about the right size and height for two people to put drinks on as they stand around.

Vanilla is also standing on one of the tables with a bullhorn. ]

We're starting with a classic! Speed dating! You'll have five minutes each round! When the horn goes off, that's your cue to switch it up and talk to someone else! If you need some conversation starters, try one of the questions on those cards!

...Or don't! You can do whatever you want, I'm not your mom. I'm going with 'uncle' for now!

( The structure here is pretty casual:
- Make a top level
- Tag some people! Optionally, start off with a question from the deck of suggestions!
- Thread! You can ask more questions if you want.
- Try to keep threads around 10 comments from you maximum. This isn’t a hard limit, but assume a bullhorn goes off around there to signal a switch.
- Pace yourself, kids, this runs until Thursday. )

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[artisticliberty]

Indeed. Until next time, then.

[artisticliberty]

Nonsense. There is an element of the artist in all works they produce, and I imagine the same is true of writers. There are long days of practice ahead of both of us.

[which is about when the buzzer goes off]

[counterfaith]

Until next time, Kitagawa-san.

[ getting up to go ]

[slice_of_life]

[nods]

I've... taken the opinion that perhaps it's more rewarding to think of questions to ask, without consulting the cards.

To start, uuum...

...What's your favorite... season?

[fightingoverdose]

Exactly! You want someone who's gonna be there at your side, not someone you've always gotta cover for, or someone who won't let you support 'em. A team!

[fightingoverdose]

A person like you? I mean, I imagine it gets pretty hot and crumbly in that mask, for one...

[fightingoverdose]

Honestly don't know which of the two is worse. Better avoid 'em both.

[fightingoverdose]

Why a port and not a mountain resort or desert or somethin'?

[fightingoverdose]

...That really somethin' you wanna be famous for?

[futurebullets]

[What about your friends, though? It's a quiet thought, so it's one he doesn't voice.]

Will you go back to Japan after? Or do you have somewhere else in mind?

[pecker]

[What a dumb cliche, she thinks.]

Umm... well, it wasn't anything that amazing, sorry to say. I was just, um, on a battlefield.

There's a song that says love is a battlefield, though!

[slice_of_life]

[she starts to reply, but that's when the horn goes off.]

Ah, that... that means we have to stop, doesn't it?

I-I'm sorry... it was just becoming interesting...

[slice_of_life]

I... um...

[she fidgets with her hands behind her back]

Aha. That's... a rather personal question. I... I hope nothing, actually.

[pecker]

[That is all well and good, but thinking for herself is not a thing she's supposed to do too much of, so thanks for taking the lead...!! And with a question she has a confident answer to, as well.]

Oh, that's... that's a good one! I like spring. The birds that migrate in the winter come back during the spring. Um, flowers are nice too.

[slice_of_life]

[nods] Yes, much better than... well, some of the questions they give us, at least.

Spring is a good choice. There's a lot of meaning in spring... of renewal, and rebirth after the long winter... t-that sort of thing...

Do you... have a favorite flower?

[artisticliberty]

It is no trouble. We will have many opportunities to speak again.

[pecker]

[Niwatori hums and thinks about that for a while.]

I guess I don't have a favorite. The garden at my place has cockscomb flowers and nasturtium, and those are good. Other than that, I like red columbines.... And um, narcissus, though they don't really go well with me.

[slice_of_life]

[she's sensitive to that, and she can't help but... stare]

Um...

[then she shies away, eyes downcast.]

I don't know... I d-don't think I'd have... the right...

...If it's just about myself... I... suppose I'd wish I was... b-better at talking to people.

[slice_of_life]

[She blinks... surprised at the depth of the answer.]

Wow... you must... really like nature.

[pause]

And... birds too, you said?

[slice_of_life]

That... that would be nice.

Until... then, Y-Yusuke.

[tsunderine]

Your name!

[ She says it as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. ]

You don't happen to know a man named Kotomine Kirei, would you?

[artisticliberty]

Until then.

[tsunderine]

Then I guess I'll have to ask you after the speed dating, now won't I?

[pecker]

I-It's probably more that I like talking. I've been told I ramble.

[Though she may or may not have extensive interests in 'things' supplementing the absence of 'people'.]

But I do like birds, yes. They're so intelligent. You could also say I have a way with them...

[counterfaith]

. . . My, yes. He happens to be my adoptive relative.