Love on an Adventure

[ladys_night]

LOVE ON AN ADVENTURE meme Lucky you. For a while, you get to eschew a normal life and see life past your door; you're going on a quest! It could be for personal reasons, for fun, for profit, or to save the world as you know it. In all likelihood, it's the latter, given the natural order of things, but hopefully it's not. Whatever the case may be, you won't be going it alone, however. Whether it's just you and a partner or a true fellowship, you've got people to back you up. You may not all start out as the best of friends, that's true - still, the fires of potential life or death scenarios or the threat of losing your booty draw you closer together, and a friendship forms. With one member of your party, more than friendship grows between you. But wait, you have to defeat the dark lord, find the oldest wand, fight evil by moonlight, create a giant robot, or any other number of tasks. There's no time for this sort of nonsense! Actually, you may push them away because of the mission or due to past wounds that tie into said mission. Maybe, though, you can steal moments to get closer, let a romance blossom...or more. HOW to PLAY Comment with your character, preferences, and any other info - ie, keep it PG, etc. Even though I used a fantasy picture, don't feel constrained! In Harry Potter, they have to find a wand, in Supernatural, the Colt, in Avatar, they have to fight the Fire Lord, etc. Feel free to AU your character or include information about them. Reply to others.

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[marksofdeath]

[Hisoka's eyes go over the books, and his guard drops a bit more. He really did enjoy reading, in getting himself lost in the books while subsequently gaining knowledge, getting smarter. His looks meant he had a lot of ground to gain to be taken seriously.

He gives off another name and waits for it to come up. He could spend hours like that, lost in the virtual pages of a virtual book. He does miss the physical copy, but this much would do.

Admittedly, if Tsuzuki did this, Hisoka would accuse him of slacking off but if he had to wait, it couldn't be helped, could it?]

[blacked_out]

[However short or long the hours pass, they do, one by one. Fuzzy only gently urges Hisoka to get up once every couple of hours to rest his eyes for a few minutes between reading.

[Fatigued, but fine, Mizuki eventually returns to his apartment after finishing his shift.]

Uugh, so tired....

[Not all of his strength has come back yet, but he still can't help but feel disappointed. Noticing the bedroom door wide open, he heads in there.]

"Mizuki, welcome back."

Aaah, thanks.

[Looking around, and seeing nothing out of place, he puts on a tired, but friendly smile. It's not fake.]

Ah, you like the selection? Some of them are so old that they've become public domain.

[marksofdeath]

[He could get lost in that dark room with the books at his call. Maybe he did. He doesn't notice the shift in emotions right away, he doesn't hear the footsteps that let him know someone was coming. Normally, he was better guarded than that, but there were so many books, and they were all at his fingertips.

The speech does alert him, and he silently cursing himself for letting his guard down. Brought out of the world of fiction, he can feel the shift in emotions he had missed before.

He smoothly stands, bringing himself up to full height.] My family only had physical books. We had a lot, but not even we had this many.

My apologies for the wait! I've been eyes-deep in a Fire Emblem: RD challenge run.

[blacked_out]

I've never had this many in person before, but it's a lot nicer than an electronic version. Where you can hear the sound of pages turning.

It's nostalgic. We mostly had paper books in school in this town. Before Toue came and introduced allmates.

[While Mizuki talks, Fuzzy puts in a virtual bookmark and creates a visible folder titled "Hisoka" and puts it in the folder.

[As for Mizuki, other than fatigue, he's a lot calmer now that he's not talking about himself in relation to his problems. There's only fatigue and the desire to sleep. Just regular sleeping.]

...I know that I wanted to introduce you and show you the territories, but do you mind if I nap for a bit first? You can keep reading if you want. Even here, if you want.

[He isn't sure who Hisoka reminds him of, but... it's not a bad feeling, that he's getting about him. He actually feels pretty calm. They say that someone shows their most vulnerable sides when eating, and when sleeping. And that he doesn't mind that Hisoka stays is kind of weird but not in a bad way.]