[open] Things~!

[yokeye]

A wildcard-ish Toki catch-all for the rest of November, so bonuses don't pile up... tag whatever, or I'll write starters. Time is fake if something overlaps with things I've already written somewhere.


1. 11/19-11/21 (bonuses) / wildcard
Exaggerated emotions for 3 days.


2. 11/22-11/24 (bonuses)
Animal for 3 days.

[Sometime on the 22nd, if one were to enter the school auditorium, they would find a pink jellyfish among the congregation of cats. Its tendrils twitch as the cats paw at it.]


3. 11/26-11/30 (canon update/wildcard)

[Toki was sick for a couple days and then took a turn for the worse to canon update. He'd returned to Daybreak Academy in France for another four months, or that's how it seemed to him, even if no time had passed in Hirajiro since he was last here. There aren't many obvious physical changes in such a short time span, but he's a bit taller and his hair is black instead of brown. His right ear is pierced, as well as his tongue. Running into him around town, he'll appear less confused for the most part, and speak slower and more deliberately at times. Yuya is a zombie, and so Toki has no cash flow. He's using whatever Yuya had left while he looks for a job.]


4. 11/28-11/29 (body swap/wildcard)
Toki has Terry's body for two days. Do with that what you will.

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2, 11/22

[defragment]

[ 45 takes the time to walk to the school auditorium because she heard there was cat food here that she could steal for the Velvet Room cats. It's early morning and Souji must have been worried over Minato, so in order to ease his mind off things, she's going to feed some of his cats. However, when she walks down, she sees something pink.

It's at that moment, she knew... there's something wrong with the whole picture. ]

... I thought there was no ocean.

[ She's staring at the jellyfish after getting the cats away from it. ]

[yokeye]

[Its a jellyfish, so it does nothing but make feeble attempts to crawl across the floor with tiny stingy tendrils.]

[defragment]

[ She'll assume that this is one of the unfortunate Persona users, because there's literally no way a jellyfish would be here otherwise, so 45 leaves for a moment and comes back with a small plastic basin with water in it. She has no idea how to handle jellyfish, so she just picks it up by the head(?) and plops it into the water. ]

[yokeye]

[Upon hitting the water, the tendrils splay out and wiggle around. One of them might be approximating a wave.]

[defragment]

[ All the tendrils just wave in the water from what 45 thinks, so she doesn't think of it as a particular wave directed at her. She continues to peer down at the jellyfish. ]

Hello, mister jellyfish~ do you eat cat food? I don't have any krill or anything, so you're out of luck.

[ How to Jellyfish 101 ]

11/28

[reveilation]

[ I guess if Toki and Terry swapped in the morning, there's a good chance Kido was sharing Terry's bed, so she's sitting next to him shaking him awake now. It's like 6:30 in the morning. ]

Get up. You're going to be late for work.

[yokeye]

[Work, no. Toki tries to burrow further. He's been sleeping on the floor in the school and this is... not there. But it's nice.] No work...

[reveilation]

[ It's a nice bed. Stupidly fancy and expensive, but nice. She also doesn't want to get out of bed, but it'll be worse if he's late and has to rush, so she ignores his whining and tries to shake him awake again, placing the back of her other hand on his forehead but it doesn't feel like he's sick. ]

Are you not feeling well or what? Though I guess it's butler week, so they're not as pressed...

[yokeye]

[He finally opens his eyes, and there's Kido... talking about... butlers? Toki doesn't know Terry works at the maid cafe.] Hana-chan!? Is this a dream?

[reveilation]

...Yeah. It'd better be a dream, otherwise, what, you're cheating on me?

[ What the hell, Terry. Kido reaches over and squashes Toki's face between the palms of her hands. ]

I'll take care of breakfast, so you go get ready. What do you want to eat?

11/29

[overstrain]

[ Getting around with Toki's body has been hard, because Terry has never experienced anything like this before. This is why he took an entire day in an attempt to find his own body that Toki's been controlling. ] Toki! Are you here-- [ He coughs. Terry needs water... ]

[yokeye]

Terry! [Toki wasn't sure where Terry would be or what to do, but now he doesn't have to find him.] Are you okay!? I didn't do this! [It's important to note that.]

[overstrain]

[ The first thing he feels is relief of finally finding Toki in his body. It's so sad how he's used to seeing multiple versions of himself for the past month. But... damn... now that he's in Toki's body, he finally smells the identifier. Jesus christ; it's strong. No wonder people always complain about it. Good thing Toki in Terry's body won't be able to smell that at least. ] I know you didn't do it. It's fine. I know... [ He feels like he's going to have another splitting headache. ] You... How do you live like this? I spent half of yesterday passing out so many times.

[yokeye]

What!? What did you to my body!? [He hasn't had a vision in Hirajiro yet, so that's not his immediate thought. It comes quickly though.] Did you see things!?

[overstrain]

I didn't do anything! Your body just acted on its own! I feel like I ate psychedelic mushrooms the entire day and I had something like seizures... holy shit, I thought I was gonna die. I... saw a bunch of stuff? I dunno what I was seeing... [ ... ] Do you take medicine or something? I didn't know it was this bad, and Joroko kinda scorned me once about it before...

11/28

[defragment]

[ 45 has been walking in the Market Street to buy a small cake from the cafe and due to meta, she and Terry never really interacted, but she's definitely heard of him and what he does, so-- ]

Oh, if it isn't Mister "I decimate everything with my bare hands". Aren't you supposed to be selling your body to the masses right now?

[yokeye]

Itsuki~! Hello~! [Toki's not going to work even if it's Terry's body.] How much are you offering?

[defragment]

[ Who the fuck-- ]

Nice try, but I'm worth way more than your price. But, what? Is your girlfriend not enough for you?

[yokeye]

[Toki's instantly crying. Jolyne is back in France, in that other world. They'd only just consummated their love a few days before Toki had returned to Hirajiro. It hurts to think about her.] She's... n-not here...

[defragment]

Huh...?

[ She looks around. 45 doesn't see Kido anywhere. That's weird. It's not like she turned into a zombie already, right?! ]

Don't you live with her or something?

11/29

[infiltrationtools]

[As part of his ongoing quest to find additional moneymaking schemes that don't involve the dungeons, Akira finds himself once again temporarily in the employ of the school. He's lugging what appears to be a container of raw fish over to the cafeteria kitchens, and through the auditorium is the quickest way he knows to get there — but no one informed him that there were cats here!]

[So naturally, all five of them are surrounding his legs now and meowing so desperately you'd think they were being starved. So naturally, in his attempts to navigate the center aisle with a giant box limiting his vision, Akira trips over one of their tails and eats shit. There's a loud crash, more meowing, and a couple muffled curses.]

Come on! Leave!

[Anyone nearby will find him trying to recover the goods and pushing all the cats away. This fish can still be skinned and used... if none of the cats get their teeth into it.]

[yokeye]

[Toki comes out of the back room to see what happened. The cats are a hazard. Oh no. Fish. Akira is doomed. Toki makes an attempt to herd the cats away from the fish, while picking up a few pieces.] Are you okay?

[infiltrationtools]

Terry?

[What is he doing here? But Akira will accept the help either way as he pushes himself back onto his knees, holding the box high enough that the cats can't reach. By sacrificing the smallest, shittiest fish for the animals to fight over, the two of them are able to recover most of the others.]

Ugh... I'm okay. Thanks.

[Then and only then does he get back to his feet.]

Are these cats yours? I don't recognize them.

[yokeye]

I'm not Terry, I'm Toki. Something weird happened. [He looks down at the cats. They're not his, but sometimes he thinks of them that way. He'll miss them when he moves into Terry's house.] No, they're not mine. Well, that one. [He points to a nondescript black cat.]

[infiltrationtools]

Toki, huh.

[He thinks he would know pretty quickly if he was talking to Toki, but there's also no reason he could think of that Terry would lie about something like this. And it's not like switching bodies is necessarily out of the ordinary for a place that really delights in transforming its residents. So for now, fine, he will tentatively accept that he is talking to... Toki.]

[He goes over to the black cat now that the icebox has been totally sealed again, and offers a hand to the black cat. Instantly, all five of them start licking his hand for the taste of fish. Akira realizes that he should have seen this coming, and accepts their little sandpaper tongues.]

And the other four... what, just live in the auditorium? Where students come on a regular basis?