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The Attached Meme

Inspired by the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode of the same name.

Comment with your character, specifying name, canon, and gen/shipping/smut preferences, and/or tag someone else.
You and the other person now have two problems. One, you're aware of each other's surface thoughts regardless of either of your wishes, and two, if you try to distance yourselves from each other you're struck with nausea and vertigo until you manage to get close again.
Optionally, roll for or choose details:
1. You've been captured by some hostile force and had devices surgically implanted into the backs of your necks in order to facilitate interrogation. The mental link between you and dependency on proximity are just side-effects. Can you escape under these conditions?
2. You've been cursed by a spellcaster or supernatural being who wants you to "learn a lesson". Whether that's a real lesson about each other made possible by forced openness and time spent together or just the lesson of "don't mess with me" is an open question, and figuring it out may be key to having the curse broken...
3. One of you has suddenly awakened to latent paranormal powers, or your existing powers are suddenly misbehaving -- perhaps due to unforeseen interaction with the other person's abilities, if they have them. Maybe you could solve this, or at least the part about having to stay near each other, if you could only gain control over your power...
4. You were both willingly part of a scientific experiment, whether one of your own design or something you both volunteered for, and this... was not the result you signed up for. The mental link may or may not have been a known goal, but the involuntary aspect and the inability to separate aren't things either of you expected. Can science undo what it has done?
5. You both came into contact with an unknown substance, whether by accident or simply because of mutual curiosity, and this was the result. Now if you're going to be able to have privacy relative to each other again, you're going to have to figure out what it is and why it had the effect on you it did in order to find a way to counteract it.
6. Your choice, or something new!
Have fun!

Kaede's glad that he hasn't eaten much today. After getting some stares from an impromptu dive for the bushes (thank god he kept the bile down...) he shakily stands up. Maybe those weird words he heard are just his imagination?

(Maybe I've caught the flu?) he wonders. (I don't have a fever, though. And I know nothing I ate caused it.)

Sighing, he wanders down the sidewalk, only to pause as the feeling starts to abate, and he stops when he sees a strange person with an eye patch.

And the ill feelings are gone. He smiles very briefly in greeting. (He-llooooo, sexy!) "Ah. Hey there, and pardon me. Are you busy?"

(I feel better, anyway. Thank god. I'd have to miss work and classes....)

Flu? He blinks. Doesn't remember anyone saying that, never mind he doesn't recognize the voice...brains are odd. Even as the nausea lessens, his thoughts focus on that light. Not a picture flash or sun glare. Saigon rolls couldn't have hit that hard, poison wouldn't be that instant... 'Still, my life's not worth risking. I'll make it up to them.'

He clicks off his phone and pockets it, looks up as Kaede approaches.

"You're in luck - my whole day's open! Something you need?"

Onyx's smile is soft. What he's hearing in his head matches this guy...not enough to believe, but weird as this is, it's a minor inconvenience. Onyx's, ah, happy to assume he misheard that 'hello' comment and say nothing of it.

(What the hell. I keep hearing shit. I don't have anything to make up to anyone....)

"Not exactly." He tilts his head just slightly. (I should just say it already.)

"Forgive me for being forward? But I think you're adorable. Wanna hang out?"

(I wonder how he is in bed. With a body like that, I bet he's pretty great~)

'Adorable...that's a rare one.' But after a moment Onyx stands.

"Nothing to forgive, and thank you for the compliment besides. Chance you're hungry, we could snack - the saigon rolls are worth more than their price."

He supposes there're weirder circumstances to meet someone...and as Onyx talks, he looks towards the café, if in a shoddy attempt to turn any possible attention away from his small grimace.

'It is him, isn't it? ...Still. Could it have been planted, a trigger pulled? If it was someone, do they stay? Did they leave?'

Not in hang out mindset nope.

"No, thanks. I felt a little nauseated earlier. I don't think I could handle being in a cafe right now. But would you object to walking around with me?"

(All those smells are bound to drive me crazy - tasty or not.)

...

(What the hell I keep hearing things!? "Him"? "Planted"?! LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR A THING LALALALA SOMEONE MAKE IT STOP AM I GOING CRAZYYYYYY???! WHAT THE HELL!)

All the while, Kaede's expression is very calm. As if nothing's happening on the inside. "My name is Ueda, Kaede, by the way. Pleased to meet you."

Welp, that mental ear-plugging snares Onyx's attention and he just...kinda slowly looks back at him, eyebrows raised a bit. 'He hasn't figured it out yet? He's been listening, hasn't he?' And with the contrast of thoughts and face...Kaede reminds Onyx of himself. That is never a good thing. He laughs.

"First and last already? Ken - pleasure's mine. And given your aversion, we'd best go left - never mind it's only appropriate, but the beach's that way. Mostly sea to smell then..."

Aaand he walks. 'Let it sink in...hope it will, that is.'

"Huh?! I didn't..."

Ohhh. It dawns on him, and he huffs, hunching his shoulders as he follows.

"The sea doesn't always smell like roses by comparison." He stuffs his hands into his pockets, huffing a little. But just as quickly, his tone turns a little more gentle. "But, thanks."

Onyx laughs again. "Not a fan, then? I only suggested it to see if you'd pick up on what I actually said. You're welcome, though. And I...hope you don't correlate a fine body with a finer experience - helpful as it is, there's no substitute for skill."

He's still worried, though. Has a semblance of a plan imagined in images - get the footage, hopefully a face, call the man whose life is locating...Onyx smiles to himself, slows so Kaede can walk beside him instead of behind. 'Never thought I'd want security to function...'

Yeah, kinda forgot for a moment they can hear each other's basic thoughts.

"Hmm, so it goes both ways? Neat. Ah. So that means you heard my thoughts."

He wonders if it can convey pictures, but since he doesn't see any of the pictures in Onyx's, Onyx probably can't see the very lewd depiction of Kaede being very forthcoming with his skillful tongue.

...Wait.

"Security? Do you mean like financial stuff or something?"

It's good he doesn't - he'd consider putting out his other eye and becoming a wise master of martial arts.

"Cameras."

Onyx stops walking and withdraws one of his phones, dials and waits, careful to keep his thoughts on elevator music because...precaution, like the pictures had been.

"Yes, Sir Gent? Open the windows of Sunrise Café - we're in need of the owner of a green flash." A pause, and Onyx's small smile twists, his patience moments from break. "Would you like to meet his sister?"

A silence, he sighs, content, and thanks whomever he's on the line with and cuts connection. Onyx, uh, doesn't say anything because how Kaede reacts will determine part of how he treats him here on out. All his stupid little tests annoy the hell out of his coworkers, for sure.

...What.

(...What. A green flash? ...Sister? ....????) Utterly confused, Kaede forgets for a moment that his thoughts are audible to Onyx. Well, "Ken".

But he was trying not to pay attention to the phone call. It would be rude to. He doesn't even recognize that it's probably a code.

"...You say confusing stuff." Not that he minds.

'Well. Disappointing.' Good job being weird, Onyx. He looks at Kaede, a brief confusion, then scratches his nose because...because.

"Just before the nausea, there was a green flash. As it's unlikely to be something the cafe routinely inflicts upon its customers, I say the source is someone. They're reviewing footage from the security cameras - I'll get a call back with the - pardon - flasher's location and name, whom we'll meet and...persuade to change us back to normal. Sound like a date?"

Plan, Onyx. Plan.

The Attached Meme

Understood. Kaede may think some weird thoughts, though.

Weird thoughts are A-OK.

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Oh hi again!

<3 I hadn't forgotten. c:

\o/ Also, I don't actually have much of a plot in mind, so you can throw in anything you want.

Plotless shenanigans can be fun, too.

True.