be my romeo, please be my voice in this world

[boomvox]

Who: Jae and various people.
What: Various activities.
Where: Various places.
When: ... Various times.
Notes: Thread starters for a couple of characters! Otherwise feel free to fling anybody at Jae, I am easy. If you want to work out something specific vs meandering, ping me and I shall work something out for you. :>
Warnings: Various threads have simulated drug use + references to real drug use, and TMI discussions.

Jae is not, in any kind of traditional sense, a celebrity in Baedal - he'd even hesitate to call himself particularly well-known, though since the crisis and his work on the radio, the general public would have to disagree. Percentage-wise he's more famous here than he was back home (D-list radio host and DJ, a cult following and niche celebrity at best), and while it's working out fine in terms of career opportunities, he can't shake the melancholy of being primarily known for something quite so dire. When people recognize him, more often than not it's polite appreciation masking the horror of memory that he triggers.

A girl at the coffee shop he frequents offers him a wasabi and chocolate candy cane. It's horrible, but he eats it anyway, the curled end of the bright green candy sticking out of his mouth as he descends off the train, laptop bag slung over his shoulder, leaf of fliers in his arms, heading off to a printer shop. And then - the world! it's a day for running errands.

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[rhinemaid]

“Exactly how carried away is a little?” That sounds like it's going somewhere absolutely fascinating, and Ilde sounds like she's trying not to start laughing preemptively - everything seems potentially hilarious when you've made yourselves the center of a tiny universe.

(A sun starts lazily orbiting her head, off that thought.)

[boomvox]

"I thought I might do Heath and Safety a favor and replicate ecstasy with my own head," he says, watching the orbit of their making. "It went pretty well, honestly."

[rhinemaid]

“Oh, that-- that sounds great, actually.” Rolling over onto her belly, she rests her chin in her hands - her eyes close when the sun passes too close on its lazy orbit, burning yellow bright enough to startle if not blind her, and the warmer light of it softens her. It's the level of detail (the way her imaginary stars give off light, for instance) that marks her skill here, and it's telling of the choices she makes in the illusion she uses day to day.

'Flawed'; but if she wanted people to believe she's human, it would be so easy.

“Can you show me?”

[boomvox]

He follows her movement, settling on his forearms, not quite close enough to be nose-to-nose, but their position is whimsical despite it. The way she manipulates the illusion is more than he can do, by far - he's been able to cast little ones, or reality-mirror ones in moments of terror, but this is a level of specificity and creativity that's beyond his reach. (Supposedly.)

"Showing's a funny way of saying it," he tells her, eyes on hers, and then he's quiet for a moment, eyes falling half shut and gaze going unfocused, before Ilde should feel a sort of warm elated feeling bubbling through her.

[rhinemaid]

Ilde's illusions interact with the space around them in, real-time responses that she's mastered through refining the illusions on her own skin; she can usually sustain them easily that way without a lot of active concentration once she's solidified the concept. Her sun, though, is something she's still toying with and altering as it circles her head and Jae's enchantment-ecstasy takes her slightly by surprise, distracts her, and this is not the first time her altered mood has altered her magic--

The sun explodes, rippling out like liquid in the cadence of her gurgling laugh.