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FIRST CRUSH

the first crush meme

Love and shipping memes are nice, but sometimes, they take themselves waaaay too seriously. You know what's just as fun? Playing first loves and first silly, silly crushes. Usually relegated to the young, but not always (after all, there are plenty of people who are young at heart or stunted), these little affairs may not last forever yet nothing beats them in enthusiasm. It's cute, it's exciting, it's hormonal -

It's probably embarrassing! But really super cute, okay.

How to Play
[ Comment with your character and preferences. There are no age limits on this, but if you want to age your character down, that's fine. ]
[ Reply to others, using the RNG to determine your fate. ]
[ Feel free to be as serious or as self-aware as you'd like. ]

Prompts

1. Love at First Sight...or, at least, Interest.
Hey little mama, let me holla at you.
2. Gradual.
Your interest in this person is growing after getting to know them.
3. Excitement and FREAKING OUT.
Oh my gosh, there's absolutely nothing you'd rather do than spend time with this person you want everything to be perfect oh gosh oh gosh.
3. Hormonal.
Girls are so weird but they look so nice.
4. BFF to BF
Your friendship is becoming/has become more than that.
5. Secret Crush
You can't let you liking the head cheerleader or the king's daughter get out. It would be a disaster.
6. What is this...Love Thing?
I don't understand love. What is love, baby don't hurt me ---
7. Unacceptable
Your brain is betraying you and making you have gross emotions towards that person.
8. You Totally Like [blank].
Everybody knows your little secret. Guess it's not a secret, then.
9. MY LIFE IS OVER.
You embarrassed yourself, so clearly no one will ever love you ever again.
10. Grouchy. Or Stunted.
Remember how I said not just silly kids can get crushes? This is for all the adults who are finally feeling that fluttery feeling in their chest.
11. Dumb Shows of Affection.
You want to show how much you care. These thoughtful gestures can range from not-so-dumb (she likes cookies, I'll buy her one!) to really dumb (I'LL BUY HER A LIFETIME SUPPLY OF COOKIES).
12. Forbidden Attraction.
Everyone knows exes are off-limits. It's, like, the first rule of feminism. Also included are siblings of best friends, best friends, and cute people in general.
13. Ridiculously Over the Top.
SHMOOPY POOPY CUDDLE BEAR! All sorts of pet names and inappropriate PDA here.
14. Fluffy Moments.
Not necessarily dates, but just hanging out and having fun together.
15. Confession.
I REALLY LIKE YOU PLEASE GO OUT WITH ME I carved this rock with my bare hands for you. Or maybe something more subtle.
16. Unwitting Object of Affection.
Usually an older party or someone completely uninvolved with this malarky, but crushes know no bounds.
17. Adorable Kisses.
Please don't let me miss, please don't bump noses...
18. Sloppy Makeouts.
Put on "Stairway to Heaven" and go to town.
19. Arguments.
You jerk! Look what you've done! I never want to see you again.
20.First Time
Obligatory smut option, touch a boob, etc.
21. ANYTHING ELSE

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{He's hanging upside down in front of you in the air, just casually.}

Ishida-kun, you're my first love.

[ A combination of suppressed reiatsu and not having seen this particular guy in a couple of years results in total surprise to find him hanging right there.

So he's already jumping when those

words. ]

Wh-

[ He shifts from defensive to flabbergasted in .0005. ]

Wait, what?

[ and from flabbergasted to flushed indignation. ]

Is that some kind of joke?! It's a bad one! What are you doing up there? Why are you even talking to me? Shouldn't you be annoying Kurosaki?

Yare, yare, you'll hurt my feelings, Ishida-kun. I never joke about love.

{Except for when he does. Let's see if he can remember and answer this string of questions properly.}

I'm just taking a walk, Soul Society gets a bit boring after a century in the human world, you know? I'm talking to you because I feel like it and I'm not annoying Ichigo-kun because I don't feel like it. Did I forget any questions?

Edited (wrong contraction) 2015-04-23 18:02 (UTC)

[ Hurt his feelings. Love.

Uryuu wrestles with the urge to physically force him to shut up what is even happening. ]

That about covers it.

[ Stiffly. ]

Look, no offense to... me, but why do you feel like talking to me? And get down! Someone's going to notice me talking to someone hanging upside down from thin air.

{ He flips around right side up with a face that says Ishida's an idiot if he thought Shinji would get caught by anyone not in the know already. Of course, the face is completely offset by the fact that he lands lightly and ever so slightly inside the realm of Uryuu's personal space. }

You just looked so lonesome out here all by yourself. I thought it'd be a good time to confess.

[ He doesn't appreciate that face!!

Or how close he is because ever so slightly inside is still inside and--

No.

No way. ]

[ yeah seriously no, this is a bad joke and he's turning away. ]

Because you're a Shinigami, I'll be blunt:

Shut up and go away.

I'm a little disappointed in you. I thought your memory was better than that.

{He might have decided to clean up the shitstorm Aizen left his people in the Fifth with, but ...}

I'm no Shinigami.

Edited 2015-04-23 22:57 (UTC)

{Don't worry, Ishida-kun. He'll turn and walk with you. On the ground even. You should be grateful.}

[ Ah.

Perhaps he misspoke, and perhaps it's sore, or close to. Really -- he'd noticed the different reiatsu. Its similarity to Kurosaki's. He's never spoken to the vizards, never had any interaction with them beyond noticing Hirako-san's presence and disappearance from the classroom.

He was there when Kurosaki rose up from the dead, a transformed beast, without humanity, with only a horrible carnage, he was there and knew Kurosaki wouldn't forgive himself --

But then, Kurosaki still calls himself a Shinigami.

Uryuu's silent for a moment, the only indication of consideration (and maybe a degree of shame) that he doesn't complain about the unwelcome company.

After a minute, he shrugs. ]

You work for them and answer to captain, don't you? That's enough for my purposes.

[ As if he's still an enemy because he totally is ~~please ignore the current arc uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh too much unknown still good god~~

Idly, he wonders what color his reiraku is. It would probably be rude to check. ]

{Shinji waits it out. He learned to be good at that even before Souske fucked them over the first time. He feels a bit like a creep when Ishida's words reveal how little he's been informed of the divide between the vizards and the current Soul Society. It highlights the human's age compared to Shinji's own, but if he's honest with himself (and he tries to be since no one else is honest with him) feeling like a creep is almost a default at this point.

He's pretty sure Souske started setting up his reputation as less than trustworthy before the little shit even left the Academy and then once Shijin promoted him to fukutaicho it only go easier to do so.

Well, that was his own fault for having a seat ready for him at graduation and only afterwards realizing what a monster he'd brought into his home.

His reputation was perhaps the smallest price he'd paid for his mistakes, and certainly it was one he could live with in comparison.}

I answer to 'Captain' because it's something my division can understand and grasp at now that their command support system and entire ideological frameworks have been stripped from them. I went back out of loyalty to them, to the people of the Fifth Division, and as an apology for my mistakes, but I won't be staying when one of those upstarts with bankai has the experience to take over.

{He scratches the back of his head idly and looks across the street unwilling to face whatever disbelief Ishida probably has of his good intentions. He hadn't meant to give such a truthful answer, but it wasn't something anyone actually in the know was willing to discuss at length. It hit too close to home, and none of them wanted to rehash the first exile decade of blame and shame.

soooob the current arc is going to kill me. Also they never say what color a vizard soul ribbon is hmm...so I'm gonna go anime/fanfic style and say it's that mustard yellow he's always wearing because thematic coloring

He did just confess to Ishida's poor unwitting self. A bit of rudeness like that is never going to deter Shinji, or even offend him.}

Maybe your reincarnation will like me better once I don't have a division. Or maybe you'll end up a Shinigami in the afterlife.

{He might try to take the moral high ground when it came to fights, but he never claimed not to be petty when it comes to returning verbal slights.}

Of course, I probably won't care about your reincarnation so the point will be mute.

[ Really, he should not be surprised, because that'd mean he'd formed expectations of behavior for Hirako-san, which was stupid. He doesn't know him. Limited classroom exposure from the fringes and likewise a peripheral awareness after the battle with Aizen, with secondhand information of the shift in command in Soul Society.

He'd had the sense of something slightly more complicated at work, given he and his had been in the human world before and possessed odd reiatsu, but whatever his curiosity, it wasn't his business. What he could surmise as to power (some conglomeration of Shinigami and Hollow, like but also utterly unlike the Arrancar) he did, making Kurosaki specific inquiries of Urahara-san, and left the rest alone. It wasn't his business and he wasn't bound to get any answers if he tried to make it.

So, from that angle, maybe his expectations are legitimate, in that he expects Hirako-san to be reticent about it, to not so freely offer an explanation.

So, maybe it had been a pretty big slight, to judge him a Shinigami.

Hirako-san's clearly weird, but no less clearly has good intentions of the actually productive sort. Uryuu has no reason to doubt that -- it is less disbelief on his face, and more a soft surprise at Hirasko-san choosing to explain, as well as being such a... well, such a nice guy.

Taking advantage of his attention seemingly elsewhere, Uryuu blinks and schools his features, then able to offer a cool, short reply. ]

Kind of you.

[ ...cool because he sounds disinterested when he says it.

~~omg i know and not just because it's the last... HIYORI'S FACE KILLED ME THO when she put on the uniform... mustard yellow is perfect ahaha~~

He'd just about forgotten about the nonsensical confession when Hirako-san starts in on reincarnations, and Uryuu blanches.

Worse at the Shinigami dig. Maybe he deserved that, but then for once, Uryuu wasn't intending -- well, OK, he wanted to be rude to a Shinigami by implying that it was acceptable to dismiss one, insert enemy blah blah blah. He hadn't intended to strike a real nerve.

But, thinking about the after life for a Quincy reminds him forcibly and unhappily of a certain mad scientist. For a brief moment, his mouth shapes a grim line. ]

I doubt any of that will happen. Or... if reincarnation is a given, it isn't immediate, right? I'll just hang around Rukongai and starve for a few millenia.

[ What else was there for a soul with spirit power yet no love for Soul Society?

Maybe he could get by with Kuukaku-san. ]

Anyway. Please stop saying stupid things. You don't even know me.

Guilty of me is probably more accurate.

{Honestly, apart from suddenly mistrusting the very ground beneath their feet and everything else around, the division still ran smoothly. Sou-chan certainly showed him up administratively. His real concerns were rebuilding camaraderie and trust between himself, his officers, and perhaps most difficultly, his fukutaichou. He really wasn't looking forward to the discussion they would eventually have to have about Sakanade's disruption of perception.

But he's please by Ishida's quiet accepting response, even if it's been delivered with all the warmth of Antarctica.

~~Jeeezus yeah. All my Vizard feelings.~~}

Who knows, Ishida-kun? We might have a red string tied between our fingers?

{Shinji wiggles his as though it's going to appear before their eyes hanging in the air.}

Hmm, well if you starve you won't last a century, let alone a millenia, and if you're hungry, well you're likely to get killed fighting someone for food, or get shuffled along to the Academy. Without memories being a Shinigami might not seem like the distasteful thing it actually is.

{He means distasteful to the both of them, not just Ishida as a Quincy. Shinji's witnessed and been victim of so much corruption within that system he'll never be able to trust in it again.}

I know enough about you from observation and Ichigo-kun's stories to want to get to know you.

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FIRST CRUSH

So..uh..I couldn't resist.

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I'm trying to decide how serious this 15/16 with a side of 12 should be

my god i can't even decide every part of the spectrum is gold

Just annoying Uryuu is great but what if he's serious? Can he convince him of his love?!

GOOD LUCK BUDDY 1/4

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And done

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tl;dr sorry this crack just got feelings.

never apologize... it's gorgeous... sorry for the delay!!

Ahaha me too;; I worked all weekend.