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thechurbyboxmod ([personal profile] thechurbyboxmod) wrote in [community profile] thechurbymusebox2023-08-30 09:29 pm

It's For Your Own Good

Blind Date Meme




Let's face it, sometimes it's difficult finding someone to share your time, and your heart (or maybe just your body), with. Luckily for you, you have well meaning friends. Unfortunately for you, you have well meaning friends who didn't tell you this was coming. That's right. They have taken it upon themselves (and no doubt friends of friends or family members or someone else who clearly doesn't know you) to arrange a date. Without telling you.

That's right. The dreaded blind date. Which means now you've got to get through at least a reasonable amount of time with a total stranger (or maybe not a stranger if you're particularly, well, we can't say if it's lucky or not) before you can reasonably escape. Maybe it will go well. Maybe this will be the start of the rest of your lives. Maybe you'll get laid. Maybe you'll have a horror story for the ages.

No matter what plays out, though, you're here. Might as well see just how your luck is going to play out.

How to Play
1. Post your character and canon below along with any preferences. Then go back and edit your comment with the next number in order (i.e. first TL is 1, second is 2, etc)
2. Tag other TLs. If a character isn't in normal preferences, ask if they might want a date that goes poorly instead!
3. Optionally, get yourself a truly blind experience by going here and randomly generating a number. Then find the matching TL (numbered back in step one) and enjoy your blind date.
4. For more fun, use the list in the first comment for randomized date locations!
ask_whydunit: (Encouraging smile)

[personal profile] ask_whydunit 2024-02-28 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Determination and grit, both good qualities if they wanted to attend and last at the clock tower. Waver let Terra describe and discuss the idea further, offering a small nod of agreement now and again as he took another few bites of his sandwich. The professor used the time to put a small mental list together of things to gather to give to Terra to deliver to his friend. Well, Waver thought a bit wryly; at least even if Terra decided that the date didn’t work out, something good might come of it.

“I’d be glad to meet her, then. At least if she does decide she’s interested.” He agreed with a small nod and continued as he picked up his drink. “I can have a small packet for you to give to her by the end of day tomorrow, if you don’t mind stopping by my department to pick them up to give to her.” Probably the easiest, he thinks, given he isn’t sure where else might be an easy to find place. “I’ll include the schedule for my open lectures as well as my office hours for reference.”

Waver kept rather late hours compared to the other instructors, between the lordship and being the head of the department he had a fair bit of work… Plus it was a habit, given how often his studies took him down a rabbit hole of one subject or another. It was not strange to his apprentice to find him there in the morning, instead of his apartment, and to need to worry over his rumpled appearance before class from sleeping in a chair.

Ven, of course, would be welcome to sit in as well if he knew about the thought. For now, though, Waver took a sip of his drink and pushed the remains of his plate aside to focus on Terra again when he realized the man had finished his burger. He’s pretty sure it’s… polite to ask your date if they enjoyed their meal, and if they wanted anything else, right? “How was it? Did you want anything else?”
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[personal profile] ask_whydunit 2024-02-28 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ Waver glances over at Nida as they walk, forgetting his prior annoyance and offering a pleased grin. ]

Oh, right! So you shouldn’t have trouble with entering the tower, especially with me, but technically only approved students and staff are allowed to explore certain areas without like… Written permission and recommendation from someone that works there. That said, there are certain loopholes that exist that we can exploit.

[ And Waver is not above exploiting loopholes, not now and not ever. Sometimes you have to work with what you’ve got! ]

Students are allowed to bring someone along as an ‘apprentice’ of sorts. Someone who isn’t necessarily a mage, but knows about magic and might have the capabilities. [ Students with way more potential than Waver, and with more influence… But that’s not important! ] Generally the thought behind it is that person is going to attend lectures and study with the intent of enrolling if the Tower approves, but not everyone does. So if anyone stops and asks, you tell them you’re here at my recommendation because you’re thinking of enrolling but haven’t decided yet.

As long as we don’t bump into my classmates or someone who actually knows me, it shouldn’t be questioned. The school is big enough that the chances are pretty slim, especially on the weekend, so we only really have to be sneaky if I see someone familiar nearby.
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[personal profile] seed_pilot 2024-02-29 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Why should it matter whether they know you or not?

[Because that's a very strange thing to have come up. In fact, so is the point about others. Nida's starting to get suspicious.]

You're not treated well there, are you?
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[personal profile] atypical_echo 2024-02-29 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh let's not put musicals and magic together. Except for the ones about magic.

Gives me flashbacks.
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[personal profile] ask_whydunit 2024-03-01 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He was really hoping Nida wouldn’t bring that up. Shoving his hands into his jacket pocket, he shrugged. ]

It’s complicated, that’s all. As I mentioned before, mage society tends to put a higher value on people with the right backgrounds and lineages. My family only just got into magic when my grandmother learned from someone, so we’re like… Really new to it. So, if the current thoughts on it are to be believed, I’m not going to amount to much. I’m kind of a waste of space in my class according to some people.

[ Amleth and a few other students in particular liked to suggest he was wasting Kayneth’s time more often than not. It was just stupid teenage bullying, though, as far as Waver was concerned. ]

But it’s bullshit, and I’m working on proving that. [ Stubborn, very stubborn. ] Anyway, the point is… Anyone who knows me would heavily doubt I’d have someone to recommend that’s worth recommending, and they’d give us a hard time and probably tell someone like my professor. So we should just… avoid it.

[ And the petty, snooty teens who would probably make the experience frustratingly unpleasant. ]
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[personal profile] bornofwords 2024-03-01 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Sigma tries to decide if that was a joke or not… No, he doesn’t realize that actual magic is real, if that’s what Mark is suggesting. Which is funny, considering how he was created. ]

Oh, sorry about that. I’ll keep the two separate, then?
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[personal profile] atypical_echo 2024-03-01 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[No, not actual magic, but... Other things.]

That is preferable. Thanks.
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[personal profile] seed_pilot 2024-03-01 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh boy.

[Nida wants to laugh at this, because it's so ridiculous.]

I want to watch any of them take on Selphie then. She's only been doing our form of magic for two years, clearly no one else was doing it before her in her family, and she could probably explode them without much effort. I've seen this one spell she does...

[He shudders to think of it.]
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[personal profile] ask_whydunit 2024-03-01 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ When it came to his classmates? Most of the ones who liked to pick fights with him were not talented in those ways. Waver expected Selphie or Nida would probably handle them easily. ]

That would probably break their minds to even think about, let alone figure out how to deal with. Their best attempts at intimidating me into leaving have been cornering me and shoving me into things while telling me what a waste of our professor’s time I am, like that’s going to scare me into leaving.

[ He rolled his eyes, effective they were not. ]

Would be kind of interesting to see how my professor figures out how to keep insisting the same shit about what makes a powerful mage, though.
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[personal profile] bornofwords 2024-03-01 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Other things would be both less of a surprise but also a surprise, perhaps. But he’s happier to avoid something that caused discomfort on some level for the guy. Poking at such things is unpleasant in his own experience. ]

Of course, Mark, you have my word. Besides, there are plenty of other things we can talk about and I’d rather not put a damper on the musical idea. I’m looking forward to it.
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[personal profile] seed_pilot 2024-03-01 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nida? Hardly. He's not that powerful of a mage himself, not with paramagic. Granted he had a skill for enchanting his weapons with magic, so maybe if that was allowed.]

Sounds like you need some self-defense lessons. Just to make sure they don't really do this to you anymore. Like, hurting you. That's not okay.

[Because trying to protect the other guy is... well, it feels important.]
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[personal profile] orangewayfinder 2024-03-04 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Terra's mouth opened to protest. He had no idea how many times Aqua had insisted that he pay for a date. So his mind just worked and only one question came out.

"Are you sure?"
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[personal profile] heartofalion 2024-03-04 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
{He shook his head.]

Fixing things I mean, getting everything sorted out.
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[personal profile] heavenlyhonour 2024-03-04 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
As that was decreed, a waitperson came over to the table, and Angeal nodded. "My friend and I are wondering what you have on your secret menu."
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[personal profile] forsanbreque 2024-03-04 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
"I see." Dion reflected thoughtfully. Perhaps he'd been in error at their acquaintance level then. Well that put him off of the hunt tomorrow. Plus there was a certain face he didn't wish to see so that might well prove to be fortunate after all.


The prince nodded. "Fighters are certainly needed on the ground while the dragoons ply their trade with aerial combat. Combined they are quite formidable."
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[personal profile] phoenixawakened 2024-03-04 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Joshua smiled. It was a good strategy and he nodded. He had more than enough gil on him to pay the bill, that was from years of Jote having dome so or her resorting to using her cooking skills to get them through when an Inn wasn't available.

"That is a most agreeable arrangement."
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[personal profile] faithfulsupport 2024-03-04 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
"I find that I'm rather fond of seeing the looks on the faces of the people that I cook for." Ignis replied. "It's been a necessity on the road at times, so the knowledge has come in rather handy."
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[personal profile] fatedsacrifice 2024-03-04 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
He smiled shyly. "No they're great. I'm just..not used to them."

That was the truth and there was no point in lying to this gorgeous man.
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[personal profile] orangewayfinder 2024-03-05 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Terra was enthusiastic about Aqua's joining, although she had the ultimate say of course. He was more than confident that she would pass any test, probably without trying too hard as well. He himself thought about signing up but wasn't sure if that would come off as creepy or anything else that might be perceived as negative. Those were things that he definitely didn't want. Terra had a big heart and noble intentions and there were definitely times that his motives were definitely misconstrued and truth be told he had gone off the path.

Picking up a small packet was an extra chance to see Waver so he nodded in agreement at the other's terms. "I don't mind stopping by at all. I'll just get directions and be there whenever you're ready." It was just a small thing, but he hoped he didnt sound overeager. Aqua had gone over a lot of lessons with Terra for this date and she definitely nitpicked everything to the point of Terra not even wanting to go if he couldn't act like himself. Still, her words echoed in his ears as to how to properly behave.

It would be nice if the three friends could find something else to do with their time, as a team. That had been cut short at times and it was hard whenever Aqua had anything to do using her Master rank. Ven was still wanting to get his Mark of Mastery test in as well, to see if he could attain that high and respected rank. But the trio were waiting on current events as well as making sure that Master Yen Sid had the time since it had been a long time ago that he doffed that title of Master.

Thinking on that, his blue eyes lifted to Waver's face when he asked his question. "I was thinking about getting dessert, but since you paid for dinner it's only fair that I get to buy you something this time."
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[personal profile] ask_whydunit 2024-03-06 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Waver could definitely stand to learn some self-defence, not that he was particularly coordinated. He shrugged a little at the idea that they wouldn’t single him out anymore if he did learn. ]

I mean, maybe…? It’s not like they actually do any damage, though. And we’re not allowed to use magecraft to fight outside of a class. Damages to school property generally come out of the pockets of the one who did the damaging, so they won’t risk that much.

[ He wasn’t saying no to the idea, though. It might be nice to learn from someone who won’t focus on what he lacks for once. Supporting each other with their own strengths was a nice thought. ]
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[personal profile] ask_whydunit 2024-03-06 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
“Alright, then I can probably have something ready for you in the next few days.” Waver truthfully could probably have it done the next day, but he knew his schedule could be a bit… packed, depending on the day. His hours were often divided by the school and casework when Reines sent him off to deal with situations at another family’s request and otherwise there was tutoring he did on the side and managing the responsibilities of the lordship that Reines wasn’t ready to handle yet…

Admittedly, his schedule was one of the reasons he was a bit unsure of trying to date in the first place. He knows that busy people are often less desirable and he couldn’t really help that. In this case, he at least hoped it wouldn’t be a bad thing. Practically speaking, it gave Terra a little time to speak with Aqua about it as well, which was probably reasonable enough.

“We can figure out a time between our schedules if that works.” The Norwich buildings where Modern Magecraft Theories resided were a little out of the way, though, making them a little less convenient to get to as the larger departments. So he continued with a small tilt of his head. “I’ll send you directions to the school later, and once we have a meeting time worked out, I can have someone waiting to show you to the buildings where my department is.” Better than getting lost, given the Clock Tower was a rather large place and Terra could be wandering for a while otherwise.

Oh… Now that was a valid point and Waver knows it would be rude to counter that. The thing was, he didn’t really do desserts that often. He didn’t have the biggest sweet tooth, and preferred fresh fruit if he was going to have something at all. That said, he could almost hear Reines not only disparaging his poor manners for denying the date a dessert but also teasing him for the boring decision to not have dessert. Little sugar fiend, that’s what his sister was. “Ah, well, that sounds fair. Did you have something in mind for dessert?” He is hoping that would be the case. He can’t imagine figuring out what to choose.
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[personal profile] disarming_prince 2024-03-09 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yet there is much to be respected in those who are capable of such aerial grace. I only served with the one, and her own unit were ground based."

But luckily such military focus was not his own in these days. He was a leader now, not a fighter.

"These days I find myself more thoughtful as to the less military applications of such abilities."
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[personal profile] looking_sharp 2024-03-09 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. Yes. It is inherently necessary in my line of work.

[So much more than Leon could know. In a way Rude's job description could be 'professional problem fixer'.]
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[personal profile] wisecracking_shot 2024-03-09 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
The server just... stares. Like they don't know how to process this question.

"The menus are right there," they observe.

"No, like, the secret stuff. That you have to know about to order."

Which clearly they don't know about so failing at it, but whatever, They can try.
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[personal profile] seed_pilot 2024-03-09 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Self defense techniques aren't magecraft.

[Because Nida's already thinking of options. Just basic stuff. The sorts of things to show people not to mess with him. Sure he might seem like a 'brute' for the whole use of physical force, but does it matter if they aren't hurting him?]

IF you ever want, I can show you.

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