IC Contact/Voicemail

[fatalissimo]

[VOICE/TEXT/VIDEO; OPEN TO ALL]

Leave a message and I'll get right back to you! Ah, but be quick about it - after all, there's probably a good reason why I'm not around right now!

[Please state in the subject line if OOC planning is preferred and we can handwave like the wind, but otherwise IC will be assumed!]

Comments

[fatalissimo]

...Yeah, but now you have me curious about that. Both about whether chocolate sandwiches are something people actually do and...if they aren't, why the hell not, that sounds really good.

[NONON, FOR GOD'S SAKE.]

But yeah, my patience only goes so far back home; it's really only here that I've started kind of slowing down a bit? But when you've got all the time in the world, making stuff is a pretty good way to spend it. It kept me from going stir-crazy for a while, anyway - Violet City is a sinkhole, I spent practically forever there, but that's where I learned how to do a lot of stuff.

I really do appreciate the chocolate, though, Princess, it's great.

[...]

...I mean, now I'm not really sure if I'm supposed to give you something today or for White Day, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

[this human disaster, anna]

[loveisanopendoor]

Right?! I don't think they're a thing, because I've never heard of them, but, if they're not, we should make it one! I'm sure we could make it a hit if we tried to!

[ Must be a Japanese thing, because she's never heard of it before... ]

You're not the first person I've heard that from, about Violet...I was there for a while, too! But that's just because it was pretty nice in that area and I figured I'd stick around to see everything...man, come to think of it though, there hasn't been a place I've been to yet that I don't like. Maybe Azalea? Even there, though, it's really nice, it's just kinda woodsy!

I'm really happy you like it, though...

[ Hope you don't mind getting a huge hug, because that's exactly what you're getting! ...But wait... ]

...What the heck is White Day?

[ it's fine but what is this and why has she never heard of it ]

[fatalissimo]

[Hugs are fine! She likes hugs and yours are warm and - ...also White Day, apparently, hang on.]

Oh, that. It's a thing we do in Japan? Basically the girls give the guys they like chocolate on Valentine's, and a month later we have White Day where the guys give the girls stuff.

It's pretty great to capitalize on if you're the sort of person to do that, because the guys are supposed to give you something worth three times what you gave them; you can get lots of candy that way if you have a lot of guy friends, and I made sure to have a lot of guy friends.

[...Holy shit, Nonon, really.]

[loveisanopendoor]

[ Oh my goodness that's savage ]

Three times back...so it's like, you're making an investment?

[ Strange way to think about a day that's supposed to be super-romantic, but still, all that candy though, she can't even blame her...even if she only had 5 guy friends, and she gave them one piece of candy each, that's 15 pieces of candy-- ]

That's crazy...but like, do you go on dates and stuff still? Or is it just a day where you get your candy back?

[ It doesn't sound particularly like a holiday for couples like Christmas Eve. ]

Either way, that's genius.

[fatalissimo]

Sure, you go on dates and stuff - if anything, it's kind of a confessing thing? We've got two kinds of chocolate that we can give the guys, the cheap stuff and the good stuff. Giving them cheap stuff is more of a social obligation - acknowledging they exist and maybe they're your friends but you're not really into them, you know? And the good stuff is like saying that you like somebody and might want to date them if they're into you.

White Day happens a month later because it gives the guys time to think about it and how they want to respond to it - if they give you something that's more obligation-ish then that's a sign they're not into you, if they give you nice stuff they are and maybe they want to date. If you gave them nice stuff and they give you obligation stuff, that's a way for them to be nice about letting you down and lets you both save face. Or something.

...I mean, either way you get candy so you don't really lose here.

[...She has this down to an art form.]

Either way, though - yeah, you can go on dates and stuff on Valentine's, why not. Especially if you're already with somebody and it's not a whole love-confession thing.

[loveisanopendoor]

Ohh, I get you! That sounds like an interesting way to take it, but I don't think that I'd be able to take waiting the month, if I had to give confession chocolates to someone. I'd probably end up caving after a week and begging them to just tell me whether they want to date me or not.

[ The anticipation sounds like a lot to go through, and giving good stuff just to get cheap stuff a month later sounds like...well, a total let-down, even if you are getting 3 times as much. And the whole thing just seems so formal...the way she describes it, it sounds like she's made it into, like, a business. You put in a deposit and get a return with interest... ]

I mean, where I come from, it's mostly like a mutual thing. But to be honest, I've never actually, y'know, seen it celebrated anywhere but here? Blame it on me being super-sheltered, but I've only read about it in books and things like that...just a day where you pamper the person you're in love with, basically! So like a date night, but, you know, a super date.

[fatalissimo]

[...She's bad at dating.

That said, though - ]

So I'm guessing we're going on a super date, then?

[ANNA WHY ARE YOU SO CUTE]

[loveisanopendoor]

[ HUSH SHE'S NOT THAT CUTE... ]

Well, duh, I thought that'd be obvious! I mean, I wanted to keep it open to do whatever you wanted, but, obviously, that's what we're doing! I'm pampering you today, so for now, I get to call you Princess.