(((o(*゚▽゚*)o))) yes!! yes absolutely! founder's day has been busy, but would you like to do them after? I wouldn't want to mess them up in all the excitement
[ On the morning of the 13th, one day before Valentine's Day, a sudden text message appears from a Souji Seta. Perhaps you've talked to him before. Perhaps you haven't. Perhaps you're wondering why the hell you are receiving a text at six in the morning but look, let's not sweat the small details. Pay attention to the larger ones, like the contents of this very important message: ]
Hello.
Through the tides of fate, you have been chosen to participate in this year's Valentine's Day event: Blind Dating. It is believed that no one should be alone for such an important day and as such, you have been paired up with another lonely soul.
Your match is with Alse. Please contact them to plan out your date for tomorrow.
However, if you and your partner do not know what to do, there will be a booth in Recollé Square for the sole purpose of assisting unsure or confused participants of the event. There will be date suggestions, booklets of pick-up lines, and refreshments.
Happy Valentine's Day.
- Cupid
PS: As requested, Yuri is signed up with Iris Amicitia (coincidentally, she's also my cousin so please tell him to be nice)
[ DONT THINK YOU'RE FREE ANYA. on her way home, she'll discover a bag left out for her on the doorstep. inside the bag is a jar full of colorful candy, a necklace and a card. the latter is signed: ]
(・・。)ゞ I already explained... he was talking to me about weird things on valentine's day too I thought maybe it was an odd day thing so I mentioned what we were talking about before I went to the rink and he thought we were dating.... (≧∇≦*) funny! so I said no
but I guess yuri was right about talking about sex things with friends being normal? (。・ω・。)
[ It's been almost half a week since Valentine's Day so while this might be belated, Souji is still grateful for that long list of restaurants that Anya has suggested him. Plus, he's also thankful for the gifts that she left on his desk on the same day, so it's only natural that he had to return the favour. That's why when Anya walks to homeroom at the beginning of the school day, she will find a small gift basket on her desk. It contains little treats such as a box of Pocky, Hello Panda, Hi-Chews, and other Japanese snacks. Right in the middle of the basket however, surrounded by all these little goodies is a tiny cat plush, small enough to hold in one's hands. And right in front of that kitty cat is a tiny note. ]
[it's so cute. given that it's been some time since Valentine's Day, Anya's just a little bit shocked to find all these wonderful little treats and presents on her desk, but she's nonetheless delighted. she might've squealed a little bit.
when lunchtime rolls around, Souji will be getting two pictures
the first is of one end of a pocky stick being held to the little cat plush's mouth
the second picture is a selfie coming from anya, who also has a pocky stick in her mouth, holding up the little cat next to her and winking at the camera]
you remembered? mr. izunia you're a good man (*≧▽≦)
oh but I have something to admit first (๑•́ ω •̀๑) I didn't mean for it to happen but I was visiting a friend when you and auntie went to the ice skating rink but I didn't want her to get distracted or to ruin the mood so I hid I wanted to us to be on the same page before you told me anything about that part? it only seemed fair ヾ(。・ω・。)
Anya. You haven't bought anything for me lately, have you? Let's say, for example, something that could be a paper weight? A paper weight in the shape of a sickle? Anya you didn't send me a sickle in the mail right??
[ he has already sent yuuko a text asking the same question, but he wants to cover all his bases here and the two of them are the only ones who would send gifts to his apartment. so. ]
[Pop quiz, Anya. How much of "Working late tonight. Sorry. Don't wait for me for dinner. Do you need anything from the grocery store? I'll stop on my way home." can you actually read?]
[it's a pleasant surprise to say.... most of it? it's written a lot more casually than how she personally understands Japanese, but she will respond back! with all the proper -desus and -masus because that's just as far as her fluency goes at the moment]
Is this Mama? Did you have to borrow someone's phone? If it is, okay Mama! Have a good night shift. Let yourself rest, please.
[ In the morning, there will be a homemade booklet sitting on Anya's desk. The cover features a cutesy illustration of Волшебная девочка Аня (Magical Girl Anya), her black cat, and her colorful cast of friends, who are enthusiastically throwing her up toward the viewer.
Inside is a comic, with the dialogue in very elementary, sometimes awkward Russian. The drawings are a bit rough, clearly done with no time to spare.
The story starts with the titular Anya, a high school girl who lives a normal life with her mother... until one day, a scarfed cat being chased by masked wolves runs into her house. Anya saves the cat by throwing a bone out into traffic, which the wolves chase only to get collectively hit by a bus.
Anya and her mother take the cat in, and they live in peace for a time. But one day, a ghostly little girl wearing the same mask as the wolves' comes and takes away Anya's mother. The black cat reveals to Anya that he can talk, and tells her that they have to go on a journey to retrieve her mother. He bestows her with (unexplained) magical girl powers, and they set off.
The rest of the comic is a series of humorous encounters with oddly familiar characters whose lives are plagued by masked pests. Like an apple farmer who looks a lot like Mikoto, who can't go outside because there's a masked bee constantly sitting on the doorknob leading outside. Or a peasant boy who looks a lot like Yuri, who likes to skate on a frozen lake but can't because aggressive masked penguins won't stop bullying him off the ice. And so on, and so forth.
One by one, Anya solves their problems by transforming into a magical girl. Except she looks exactly the same before and after, and solves the problems with her own ingenuity or a gently confused, very stunted in vocabulary, but somehow undeniably moving pep talk. With each crisis averted, Anya's new friends all help her toward the foreboding castle of the evil masked girl with directions, rumors, and supplies.
When Anya and the black cat finally reach the castle and make their way to the boss room, the masked girl reveals that she only wanted the cat all along. A masked eagle swoops in and grabs the black cat from Anya's shoulder. The cat is delivered to the girl, who puts a mask on him -- which then turns him into a handsome, tragically sparkling young man who also happens to look a lot like Yato. He is her brother, the girl reveals, and she has been very lonely without him.
With the young man unconscious on the floor, the girl thanks Anya and releases Anya's mother. Anya and her mother are free to go, but Anya is still gently confused. Feeling sorry for the masked girl, Anya gives her a warm hug and tells her that it will be okay. Moved, the young girl begins to cry. She thanks Anya again, this time with sparkly sincerity effects, and then moves on to the afterlife. The masks all disappear and the young man turns back into a cat.
Together, Anya, her mother, and the black cat all go back home. The final page is a more detailed sketch of the three of them happily having dinner together, in what appears to be Anya's actual dining room. Finally, there's a message, still written in slightly awkward Russian: ]
You are already a magical girl. ❤
-- Yato
[ Followed by a date, signature, and little drawing of a winking Yato.
Aaand once he's snuck the booklet into her room, Yato steals away to pass out under a big shady tree somewhere. ]
However, for someone who had no knowledge of Russian even a day before, she can't imagine it was even half as easy to write.
Still, Anya finds herself enthralled by the book as she goes through it, flipping through the page and letting her fingers touch over the sketches with almost reverent caution, as if she wouldn't be able to forgive herself if she smudged even a single line. The stories make her laugh, make her smile even in the earliness of the morning before she even gets ready for school. She might be late. But she's never late - so it'll be okay just this once, right?
Since she doesn't think she can pull herself away from this. Especially as she spends a long minute looking at the last detailed picture of the warmth of her home, of what Yato thinks of their little makeshift family, and -
It doesn't hit her that she's crying until teardrops fall on her own wrists - and then she's scrambling to make sure she doesn't cry onto the storybook, holding it further out from her with one hand as the other touches her face in confusion as she blinks through the tears. It only confuses her when more come, when her fingers tremble and her nose sniffs as she frets in soft, confused Russian over the state of her own emotions.
Who knew feeling so loved could make her cry?
It's only when she's walking to school that she sees him - and to be honest, it takes less than a second for Anya to make the decision that she'll just miss her first class entirely - because then she's exclaiming:]
Yato!
[Please wake up.
Please wake up and don't be mad when she throws herself at him for a hug that almost makes her tear up all over again.]
( Strange. Haven't people been talking about getting these? You'll find a delivery from Retrospec at your home, or at some place you often frequent. Thank you, says Retrospec. For all you do.
Inside the box there is a single feline plushie. Tied around its neck is a bit of ribbon with a note: ♥ From Yuri's Angels. There is nothing else. The box from Retrospec, the plush kitty, and that note.
Congratulations. You are the lucky mistaken recipient of a Yuri's Angel Cat Plush. What a wonderful day this must be!!! )
the doctor in me says we're mutating into a new species but otoh we might be lesbian vampire lovers doomed to watch our friends die for the rest of eternity thoughts?
i'm literally just bad advice mixed with motivational sentences you're welcome
now will you unlock the bathroom door there's a damn line forming to use emily's kitchen sink and i don't feel like smelling piss the rest of the night because some moron doesn't know how to aim
Ok so Anya. I am going to hit you up with a completely hypothetical situation here. Just ride this one out with me here. You know all of those visions people are getting? Or hallucinamemorwhateverthefuck I can't keep up with these code names for it. ANYWAY. Like how you suddenly know Russian? How crazy would it be if someone started to get some that like, implied that they were not human? Would you consider that just Saturday morning anime levels of crazy or guy who wears trench coats to school crazy? Or somewhere in between?
karkat thinks he might not be human? is that right? is this a furry joke if it is not then i do not think it is crazy and i will love you just as much as i love rom and com
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