OPEN | mistletoe? its august

[melocoton]

the mistletoe meme.
Congrats! You're stuck under the mistletoe with someone. Pucker up, buttercup. It could be forced, or it could be normal--it's your choice!

it's august and i'm sad, lets be self indulgent.

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[dotcom]

[ he is not quite... under the mistletoe, but he is just staring up at one very intently, his brows furrowed in annoyance. ]

It's... August?

[ he mumbles it to himself because why. did someone not take down their christmas decorations or did someone put them up too early. both are possible. ]

[shiftingwinds]

[sqx, who is in female form today because i don't have enough male form icons yet, gives a laugh upon coming across sasazuka mumbling about mistletoe.]

That's a good four months or so too early, isn't it? Or, I guess - eight months or so late.

[would she know this fresh from canon? no but a good chunk of psls i've done have been set in modern day earth so i'm letting her know this.]

[dotcom]

[ he hates both options because it means either someone is too excited for christmas (cringe) or that someone is too lazy to clean (also cringe)

well, that probably won't be their problem! he turns his back to it. ]

You would clean up after yourself, right?

[shiftingwinds]

Of course I would!

[as funny as it would be to see certain people get stuck under the mistletoe, shi qingxuan wouldn't just leave it up all year.]

The fact that you have to ask at all... [gives a little tsk] Just what sort of impression did I make on you?

[dotcom]

[ this is such a bad question to ask him because his default will always be to be rude even if he likes you a lot. ]

Yes.

[ so he just answers rudely ]

[shiftingwinds]

...you know, I'm not sure what else I expected.

[why did she even ask that, actually.]

At any rate! It's not my doing, I swear it.

[dotcom]

Right...

[ he sighs. ]

Well, let's just move away before anything weird happens.

[shiftingwinds]

[nods! away they go...



only, where they end up next has more mistletoe. shi qingxuan gives it a look.]

Wow, it's everywhere.

[dotcom]

[ he just scowls ]

Is this some kind of joke?

[ no. he knows what this is but it feels like losing to give in. ]

[shiftingwinds]

Whoever did the decorating out here really has a one-track mind, it seems...

[hmm. well. the easy way out of this is probably to just kiss and get it over with, but from the scowl on his face he would not appreciate that, so they'll just have to find some other solution.]

I suppose we could try to take it all down. That might aggravate whoever put it up enough to come out and confront us, and then we could teach them a lesson.

[dotcom]

And then they'll reveal whoever didn't kiss will have to murder each other.

[ stop turning every meme into a murdergame.

he sighs. ]

It's probably some unknowable entity, or something idiotic.

[shiftingwinds]

[he is probably just joking about "whoever didn't kiss will have to murder each other," but shi qingxuan's kneejerk reaction to that is still to shudder. thanks! terrible. no more murdergames, please.]

If that's the case then I suppose the simplest solution is to kiss and get it over with, although I really don't like the idea of just doing something like that "to get it over with"...

[dotcom]

[ ugh.

at the very least, they are from the horny murdergame, so kissing people isn't too out of the left field for them. he is also just anti being forced to do things against his will.

takeru stares at her, thinking. why is she so tall. ]

Lower your head.

[shiftingwinds]

[it could be worse! it could be much worse.

shi qingxuan raises an eyebrow, though.]

What, really? I thought you would have been more opposed to it than me.

[he really is the more stubborn of the two of them...

anyway, she lowers her head obligingly.]

[dotcom]

I know how these things work by now.

[ the answer is to either be stuck here a long time and THEN kiss, or to just get it over with. a kiss will happen either way.

actually now he is just mad that she is so much taller. he's bristling about it. despite that, he will cup the side of her face with a hand, and press his mouth against hers. at least he is a good kisser. ]

[shiftingwinds]

[well, that's fair enough, she supposes. he would probably hate being stuck here indefinitely more than he'd hate kissing her. there aren't even any desserts around for him to eat!

all this to say, she kisses him back, and at least she is also a good kisser even though she's taller than him.

when they do break the kiss she is left wondering why they didn't do that more on the station, but she does not actually say that out loud.]

[dotcom]

[ do you remember that one time they could have banged but then they got distracted by talking about sebastian and it killed the mood. because i do.

he glances upwards, and-- ah, yes, the plant is gone. a second passes, and he gives her another kiss, this one much shorter, before taking a step back. because he does like kissing. ]

There we go.

[shiftingwinds]

[i do too and it haunts me to this day.

anyway, she follows his gaze upwards when he looks up, and has to chuckle a little at the fact that kissing really did solve the problem here. she is then caught by surprise when he kisses her again - it's a shorter kiss, but she returns it, too, because yeah, that is really nice? well then.

shi qingxuan smiles when he steps back.]

That seems to have solved the problem easily enough. Will you be heading back to Shinjuku, then?

[dotcom]

Highly likely. I feel like if I stay here any longer I'm just going to get stuck under another one.

[ he can

see more plants in the distance

he hates it here ]

[shiftingwinds]

Whoever decorated this place really has a one-track mind...

[run, sasazuka, run]

Well... take care, all right? Say hello to Mineo for me!