OPEN | ❝And Danny says we're living in a simulation❞

[ephemerios]

WHO: ephemerios & open
WHERE: Temba
WHAT: Various things that need more friendly cheerleader around
WHEN: Any time between the latter half of April
WARNINGS: None, aside from the default 'assume Stranger Things spoilers live here'.


rain

Chrissy likes the rain, honestly. So, it's not odd to find her out in these short bursts of rain sprinkles lying on the ground and letting the rain fall on her face and the rest of her (she can change into dry clothes later, after all), or even just walking in it, or if she's feeling extra silly — trying to catch raindrops on her tongue the way people do with snowflakes. Despite the damp ground, she also stretches out her limbs with a few cheerleading moves on occasion too.

Overall, it feels oddly refreshing, but she chalks that up to the fact they've been away from here for a while. So, you know, feel free to join in on her fun out here, or ask her what the hell she's doing.

hotel

Spending most of the last few months in ships or on spaceports and the like, Chrissy has missed the room she'd claimed in the hotel when she arrived here. And, while they were on the spaceport, she'd bought (among other things) some cute things for her room that she's slowly putting where it needs to go. Fairy lights get hung up, wall stickers that look like ivy vines get stuck on, an inflatable chair that is both very pink and very glittery gets set up in a corner.

She's doing all this with her door open and a playlist of her favorite 80's music playing (not loud enough to be a real disturbance to people, though). Anyone is welcome to stop in and chat, or wonder about her decoration tastes.

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( put a random starter down and I'll roll with it, or hit me up via PM or discord — since plurk is being awful about notifs as of late — to hash a thing out. )

Comments

[ephemerios]

All the cool kids (and not-kids) love rain, this is a fact.

This is the kind of comment she can easily roll with without missing a beat. So, she jokes back with a quick, “I am secretly a plant. Who doesn't want water, sunshine, and other people commenting that you're interesting and-or pretty?”

[faceguy]

Leo can’t help but laugh at that.

“When you put it like that, I want to be a plant, too!”

So saying, he’ll flop down next to her, though since it’s awkward to lay on his shell he lays on his stomach instead, head pillowed on his arms.

“Personally, I think I’m one of the pretty ones.”

[ephemerios]

"No rule says you can't be both." She laughs lightly in response, and nods her head (as it brushes against the ground, yes).

"How's things in the life of a coolest, fastest, strongest, best looking turtle, so far?" That's him, right? A reference to his quote from his first post after showing up.

[faceguy]

Oh wow, she remembered that! He laughs at it.

“Less cool than they could be,” he admits. He turns his head so he can better look at her. “You must be Chrissy the cheerleader! Nice to meet you for real.”

And, you know, lay on the ground together.

[ephemerios]

“That's me! And, good to meet you in person too, now we can really start plotting shenanigans. Or something.” They can brainstorm this later, probably. “Anyway, how do you mean less cool than they could be?” She assumes, maybe wrongly, that it was just because of all the Stuff recently.

[faceguy]

“Hah, nice. Happy to have a partner in crime.”

He’d shake her hand, but that’s awkward from their current position.

“Ah, you know… It’s just been crazy, that’s all.” Leo shrugs. “Since we made it back to the ship, things have been…” He blows a raspberry and gives a thumbs down.

“But no reason to mope about it, right?”

[ephemerios]

“That sucks, I'm sorry. Let me know if you need someone to vent to or anything like that.” She may not be able to help with much else with stuff, but she can certainly listen. “It really does feel a little weird too, like we're finally back and I feel like I missed stuff but I didn't? That makes no sense, made more sense in my head.”

[faceguy]

"Thanks. I'm pretty cheered up just by the rain, though."

Leo hates negative emotions, so just letting them go and focusing on happier things is his preferred route than venting.

"Nah, I think it makes sense. Like, stuff should have been happening here. But we're the only people sooo... I guess it didn't." Yeah, that made sense.

[ephemerios]

"Good, I'm glad." And she is. She is also pretty cheered up by the rain.

"Right?? it kind of feels like we came back to a ghost town or something weird. I guess it was a ghost town while we were gone, but like .. time is fake, I guess, I don't know." She laughs. "Time to go ghost hunting." That's what they do in ghost towns, right?

[faceguy]

"Eh, ghosts aren't real," says Leo dismissively. Even though... ghosts are basically real in his world, but this is still a hill he's willing to die on! "But yeah, it's pretty weird we came back to a town all empty and nothing had happened to it... other than gathering a bunch of dust."

Which he and Donnie still haven't really cleaned, because they have never been the neatest family.