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[personal profile] wontreadthemanual
As I wake, I realize I've been sleeping.

It's a funny sort of reverse order, the way that that works, and a pleasant half-awareness as I take my time bringing my thoughts into orderliness. The dream I'm waking from was vague, but warm, cosy, and the kind of happy that has to snap your heart open wide so there's room for all of the emotion to fit inside.

Well, of course it would have been. Because I dreamed of Gotou-chan.

I sleepily catalogue the feelings from the whole of my body as I roll onto my back, stretching half-heartedly. My hip's sore, must have slept stiffly on that; my toes are tingly, so maybe the new socks I have are doing a better job of keeping my toes toasty warm. My shoulders, surprisingly, are utterly lovely-feeling. That's definitely new! Surely a beautiful dream wasn't enough to relax and warm me enough that the knots all across my shoulderblades might have untangled themselves?

I roll my right shoulder in a little circle, testing its motion. It slides smoothly, and I'm about to be giddy with happiness that the knots I've been dealing with for three weeks have finally abated somewhat when--

My upper arm has come to rest against something warm. SomeONE warm, as it breathes and shifts against my arm. I can feel breath softly blowing over my skin.

Gotou-chan.

I am abruptly quite awake. Rolling my head to the side, I see the proof as my memory slowly catches up with my situation.

Gotou-chan, confessing to him, drinking, the evening here. Distressed, I went for a run...he was here after...he kissed me. Again.

Oh, Gotou-chan.

My breath is caught in my throat, I can't breathe, I don't much care. He's laying beside me, sleeping or perhaps just waking, beside me.

He's here beside me. It's a struggle to not gather him up in my arms right now and squeeze. But he'd wake up in some state of alarm, I fear.

I think my whole soul is burning as bright as an Olympic torch right now.

Oh, my Gotou-chan.
wontreadthemanual: (Derp!)
[personal profile] wontreadthemanual
"It's a team-building exercise, Gotou-chan!" I told you, beaming broadly.

Of course, this was directly after locking us into one of the unused office spaces in the Kougami Foundation building, opening the window, and dropping the key out the window, thirteen floors to the ground. And then turning around and seeing that face you always give me when I've just done something of this caliber of stupid.

But I've been trying to get up the courage to talk to you for months now. It just never happens. And it's got to. I can't go on like this for much longer.

So, here we are.

"Team-building?" I say again, with a hopeful beaming smile. "Team Birth needs bonding exercises!"
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[personal profile] gibken
→ Post with your character [and preferences, if you like]
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Congratulations! You're both trapped!
→ ???
→ PROFIT!!!

Scenarios (You can use RNG to choose for you, or pick yourself)

1. Trapped outside your house: Maybe that super-duper, ultra-fancy security system with the ridiculously long passcode that can only be opened from the inside wasn't such a good idea, was it? And does that look like rain to you? Oh yeah, you're right. It looks more like hail.

2. Trapped in your house: You've locked yourself in, you're on house arrest, or you don't want to lock yourself out by leaving. Maybe you're not even at your house. Maybe you're trapped in someone else's house, at a party, or by a bet, or a robbery gone wrong. Just find a way out before you start shooting the walls out of boredom.

3. Lost: You're not trapped, you're more... lost. Yeah, if you could find that object of your desire you could get out of this hellhole. Unfortunately, the powers that be won't allow that. So continues the quest for the holy grail. Though, it doesn't help that you have to go to the bathroom, your friend's goldfish is dying, and that big screen Plasma TV is getting heavier by the second.

4. Waiting: Whether it be a long line, a car ride, or god forbid, the dreaded doctor's waiting room, ain't no getting out of this one.

5. Self-imposed lockdown: Before you can rejoin society, you have to get all that demon blood out of your system or get over that addiction. Or perhaps it's more crack-worthy. WE'RE NOT LEAVING UNTIL THAT FLY IS DEAD/THAT PEN IS FOUND/OUR DIRTY SECRETS ARE OUT IN THE OPEN. AND IF WE CAN'T DO IT, OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDEN WILL DO IT!

6. You're literally trapped: Maybe your head is stuck between two bars or you're stuck in a window. Point is, you're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Metaphorically, of course. Or maybe you actually are, I don't know.

7. Oh, here's the metaphorical one: You just go through the motions everyday, you watch everyone else live their lives, and that rut just gets bigger and deeper. What to do?

8. Trapped in an elevator: We just couldn't take the stairs, could we?

9. Trapped in a crowd: Maybe you're on a packed train or just a hallway where everyone has stopped walking and created a bottle neck. Or maybe you ended up in the middle of a mosh pit. Hope the person next to you is wearing deodorant.

10. Choose your own hellhole!
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[personal profile] hotshotlightning
It's summertime! Out with the snow and the dark, here come the sun and sea, watermelons and slushies, long lazy days, and all the things that make summer wonderful.

Along with a few other things.

Honestly, your character loves summer. How can they not? They don't mean to spoil the fun. They could've been having a grand old time right now, if it weren't for...

1. The heat! No kidding, hot in summer? Who would've thought. The AC broke and the fan just can't keep up. What to do? Why, complain, of course.

2. The bugs! EEK! It's cockroach season! Or possibly the invasion of the bloodsucking horde. Pick up a shoe and join the defending army.

3. Allergies! You know what's nice about the bare trees in winter? They're bare. Is it September yet?

4. Those meddling kids! Some of us don't get summer vacation no more, you little bastards. Stop partying at all hours!

5. The crowds! The beach was a lot nicer when you didn't have to share it with approximately twenty two billion other people. Some of them in wildly unflattering swimsuits.

6. That one unbearably cheerful friend who thinks summer is really just the best thing and they will prove it to you if they must shove a gallon of ice cream down your screaming mouth.

7. Or something else equally annoying and horrid, because fuck summer.
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[personal profile] hinooo
I'm cheerfully pulling on clothes when I get my foot stuck in my pants and hop backwards past the mirror. I catch myself on the wall with a flail and a yelp, then stop to look at the mirror.

There's a scar running down my chest. But it's so much better than it was. It's barely visible, really. The doctors did a good job.

I grin, just a little. Life goes on.

"Ankh!" I holler, zipping up my pants. Better find a shirt next. "Are you ready?"

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