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[Mingle Post] Holidays

Who: Everyone! Open to All
What: Holiday Mingle Log
When: the holiday season
Where: Locations in comments, or add your own.

Tonight, dreams take the form of the winter holidays. Everything is imagined in grand scale, from a winter wonderlandscape to a glorious feast, to gifts under the tree and the inevitable mistletoe. All of everyone's favorite things have made their way into the dreams. And it feels so vivid and real.

(ooc: This is a post to keep threads together for winter holiday antics. Separate posts are also fine, and this one is optional. Feel free to use the location subthreads as prompts, or to add something entirely different. These include hints of the dreams crossing into waking life; those are small and entirely optional as well.)
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fridgeninja: (question?)

[personal profile] fridgeninja 2012-12-17 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"I've been wondering that myself," Souji replied. "When you try to walk away, you're unable to?"
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[personal profile] braidstobows 2012-12-18 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
She never would have turned around otherwise.

A witch wouldn't take such a human form, or be this coherent and cohesive. A magical girl would be, well, a girl. There were few other options for something like this. Homura decided to believe it was possible Souji was indeed another victim.

"You are correct," she spoke aloud. "If you are having the same difficulty, we would do well to discover the source before more people become trapped." This was less noble, and more practical.
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[personal profile] fridgeninja 2012-12-22 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
"I've been wondering about that," he said, seriously. "I'm not sure why it would make a difference, but there is one thing different about this tree. None of the trees around it have anything like that."

He pointed up above them, to the shaggy green clump of mistletoe haloing the branch directly overhead, with clusters of white berries plainly visible.


"I'm not sure why it would be keeping us here, though."
braidstobows: (arms folded)

[personal profile] braidstobows 2012-12-22 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
Homura looked upwards, half expecting to see some witch's mark. No- just a plant. A plant hung on a tree branch? Definitely out of place, and she eyed it warily.

"If it is that plant, then we will simply have to remove it." This, of course, did not prove nearly as easy as it sounded, and no amount of tugging seemed to bring it down.
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[personal profile] fridgeninja 2012-12-22 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
When she pulled on it, seeing a single sprig pulled out from the rest of the mass, Souji realized that he'd seen something like it before.

"Ah.

Mistletoe."
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[personal profile] braidstobows 2012-12-22 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
Homura had very vaguely heard of it, but somehow right now, she knew what it was supposed to mean. She looked at the mistletoe, and back at Souji.

He was attractive, and nice enough for someone she'd just met, she supposed, but she really had no desire to kiss him.

"I hope you won't take it the wrong way if I say this line of thought is not encouraging." The real question, she supposed, was whether they were both willing to do it anyway, for the sake of escape.

She had somewhere else to be, after all.
Edited 2012-12-22 06:34 (UTC)
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[personal profile] fridgeninja 2012-12-22 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Souji nodded. "It's an awkward possibility," he said, acknowledging it. "Even if the situation could be worse, I definitely understand."

He glanced up at the mistletoe speculatively.

"I suppose it might be a coincidence."
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[personal profile] braidstobows 2012-12-23 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Let's treat it as coincidence until we've determined otherwise." Kissing a strange guy was not on her list of 'first things to try to solve a problem'.

"Do you have a lighter?" If not, she probably had matches or a lighter on her somewhere. After a bit of searching.
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[personal profile] fridgeninja 2012-12-23 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
A brief search of his pockets turned up a dark blue matchbook, like the ones handed out at bars, with THE VELVET ROOM printed on the front. He frowned at it for a moment before handing it over.

"looks like this is the best I can do."
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[personal profile] braidstobows 2012-12-23 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Please give those to me." Homura took the matches as Souji offered them. She struck one and held it by the mistletoe. If they burned that away, perhaps the spell would not linger anymore, either.

She made sure a snowy branch was handy, to put out the fire if need be.
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[personal profile] fridgeninja 2012-12-26 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately, the mistletoe refused to catch. Souji found himself mentally shuffling through Personae, wondering if Pyro Jack would do him any good, before reluctantly devoting his attention to the current situation again.

"It looks like we're down to two options," he said. "And setting ourselves on fire is probably a bad idea."
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[personal profile] braidstobows 2012-12-27 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
The other option was really just about as unacceptable. At least, the option she assumed he meant.

"You believe we should kiss." It's a rather flat statement.
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[personal profile] fridgeninja 2012-12-27 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"I think... it's better than frostbite. But we can wait and try something else, if you'd like."

Souji's not one to push. Especially not when he's the senpai in this kind of situation.
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[personal profile] braidstobows 2012-12-28 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
As matter-of-fact as she tended to be about her situation, Homura was not sure someone would want to kiss her. Not if they understood what they were kissing, at least.

But as he said, it was better than frostbite, and he seemed willing.

"Then this is fine," she said, and she turned her cheek towards Souji.
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[personal profile] fridgeninja 2013-01-02 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"If you're sure," he said, waiting a moment, and then bending down to plant his lips chastely against her cheek.

Would that be enough?
braidstobows: (puella magi ♐ hairflip)

of course NOW i see i fail at formatting. oops. also, shall we let them? XD

[personal profile] braidstobows 2013-01-03 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Homura closed her eyes, no more than very slightly, but enough to bring her to the very threshold of recognizing she wanted this - oh, not him; she barely knew him and this situation would have mortified her into collapse a month (well, many one months) ago. But the feeling of kindness. A gentle touch. It brings Madoka to mind, as so many things do, the only one to treat her with that casual affection.

She let herself dwell on that for no more than a heartbeat's longing for her one and only friend, before she glanced up - and tried to move away.
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[personal profile] fridgeninja 2013-01-04 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
After a moment, it became obvious that nothing was stopping her now, and Souji stepped out from under the tree as well with alacrity -- accidentally crowding back into Homura's space for a moment before he could step away again.
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[personal profile] braidstobows 2013-01-04 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
There was a definite sense of relief, notable only in the way Homura turned away from Souji just a bit too quickly.

"I offer my apologies for this unseemly first meeting." The courtesy, as always with her, is bland and lacks the depth of sincerity. Going through the motions by rote.
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[personal profile] fridgeninja 2013-01-04 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"It wasn't your fault. In fact, thanks for rescuing me."

Souji, on the other hand, was the soul of sincerity itself, something that shone through no matter what the circumstances. But something about his smile said that even if he'd noticed the same wasn't true of her, he didn't mind.
braidstobows: (puella magi ♐ we don't work together)

[personal profile] braidstobows 2013-01-05 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
"I was also trapped," Homura pointed out. It hadn't been so much an act of kindness as practical, and not worth making a scene over in the larger picture of things.
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[personal profile] fridgeninja 2013-01-05 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Still." Souji smiled and shook his head. He didn't really feel the need to convince her of anything.

"Let's head back inside."

The lights looked warm and inviting.
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[personal profile] braidstobows 2013-01-06 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
There weren't many people who'd seek out her company. Or even make that simple offer to warm up. She had to admit it was gratifying.

"Very well. I have a little time." There was no particular reason to refuse, she supposed. "It will be better to warm up before we return to our homes."
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