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valentione's day (2018)
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lovey-dovey Valentione's Day has come and gone, but that doesn't mean we can't have a good old-fashioned chocolate exchange! For whatever reason, your character is compelled to give out chocolate to your thread partners. Choose a scenario below, roll one randomly, or write your own. Shipping isn't necessary, but announce your preferences if you'd like!1. JUST AS PLANNED! You know exactly who's getting chocolate this holiday. In fact, this is something you've been planning a long time in advance. The chocolate's already been gifted to them, either in a locker or on a doorstep of some sort — and all you have to do now is wait for their response. 2. WRONG LOCKER. Switched addresses lately? Moogle mix-up or incompetent deliveryman? Whatever. The point is, your chocolate just went to someone else entirely. Will this be awkward? Or is it horrible cupidic fate? 3. TRADITION SCHMADITION... Chocolate is overrated, and your loved one deserves something a little better than that. Or maybe they're just diabetic. In any case, your gift isn't chocolate, but it's something unique and special to show how much you care. 4. EVERYTHING IS RUINED!!! Just as you were ready to gift someone with your chocolate, you saw them making out with someone else instead. What a heartbreak! Do you eat the chocolate by yourself? Or do you pass it on to the first person you come across? 5. ONE CHOCOLATE TO RULE THEM ALL. Oh-ho, so the person you like already has a ton of chocolate gifts. How do you make yours stand out? By throwing the competition chocolate into the garbage. Bwahaha! Now your chocolate stands alone! All's fair in love and war. 6. EVIL CHOCOLATE. You want to make sure you have the best Valentione's ever, so you miiiight have put a little bit (or a lot) of aphrodisiac into that box of truffles. Or maybe you just bought the wrong box on accident? Either way, that chocolate is up to no good... 7. OBLIGATION CHOCOLATE. There's no one in particular you're crushing on, so you just gave chocolate to everyone to make sure no one feels lonely or left out. Will they accept it for the good deed you intended it to be, or will they read more deeply into the gesture than you realized? 8. I HATE THIS! Arabelle de Valentione can kiss your cold, loveless arse. Valentione's Day is just a corporate attempt to bleed the masses of their hard-earned coin! Death to all chocolate! 9. PRANK CHOCOLATE. "Why does this chocolate taste like fish guts...?" Because that's what you wanted it to taste like! Ha ha ha, suckers! This Valentione's, you're out to spread a little mischief (or revenge). 10. REGIFT. You got more chocolate than you know what to do with. So why not redistribute some of it and spread the love? You may unintentionally (or not-so-unintentionally) wind up playing cupid as a result, if you left the old card attached. 11. YOINK! No one got you any chocolate, so you're going to play Robin Hood and give chocolate to yourself at the expense of someone who has more than enough. Hopefully you won't get caught. (Which means you probably will.) 12. UNDELIVERED. You thought you were ready. You have the perfect gift, the perfect note, and a heart fit to burst with love and admiration. But when the moment came, your spine crumbled. And you failed. So what are you going to do now, sad sack? Mope on a bench and hope someone comes along to lift your spirits, or try again? 13. WILDCARD/YOUR CHOICE. Whatever you want! bonus round! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ There's no reason the chocolate can't be normal chocolate, but if you want to give it an extra kick, here's a list of side effects that the chocolates can inflict upon whoever eats it! 1. COCONUT will make you desperate for attention from the first person you talk to. 2. VANILLA initiates a traditional "I'm suddenly in love with you" scenario. 3. HAZELNUT causes physical attraction only. Feelings of lust. 4. MAPLE NUT makes you want to stalk someone... 5. ROLANBERRY has you crushin' hard on a person, but you'll keep it a secret as much as you can! 6. CARAMEL has you decide to ask someone out on a casual date. Nothing too intense. 7. MINT causes you to decide a person is your best friend ever! To what degree is up to you. 8. LEMON inspires bitter, hateful feelings. Oops. 9. ALMOND inspires you to kiss the first person you see. 10. DOUBLE UP! Roll twice to determine which two you eat. If you roll a 10 again, add a third chocolate, a fourth, etc. Two of the same chocolate doubles the intensity. This meme comes from the Valentine's Day Meme on bakerstreet. |
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francel de haillenarte; ishgardian noble
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adelphel de chevraudan; heavens' ward
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you didn't have special chocolate?
nothing special for your ever and always brother????? ]
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...sulking ]
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...... slaves over more chocolate, this is fine, this is his true calling ]
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alfeoux blackwater; elezen adventurer
ramza bas lexentale; garlean historian
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predictably, ramza beoulve has been inundated with chocolate, of all sorts, from boys and girls alike. most were meant as gestures of friendship from good friends, between friends, but more than a few were meant as actual romantic proclamations that... have completely gone over the blond boy's head.
ramza has, one way or another (most probably due to the timely intervention of the ever-responsible agrias oaks), acquired two large shopping bags to hold all of his chocolate, and he is struggling to carry them across the school courtyard when he spots ramza bas lexentale, and waves.]
Ah, Ramza. Happy Valentione's Day!
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anyway, it's just weird. ramza beoulve could easily just call him something else, invent some sort of nickname to use between them, like — like lex. lex would be a perfectly acceptable and understandable nickname.
instead, he always just says ramza — easily, as elegantly as if it were not his own name.
it bothers ramza bas lexentale.
at any rate, ramza two — ramza the second, the lesser, the afterthought — has not received any chocolate today. oh, he got chocolate from alma — that is, his sister, not ramza's sister — but he did not receive chocolate from anyone who was not blood-related to him.
lex doesn't mind. not really. it's not his aim to be popular around school, and he's always been unfriendly, prone to keeping his nose in a book rather than pointed toward the people around him. startled from the park bench where he's been reading about twelfth-century ordallian military strategy, he nods at ramza beoulve, and lifts his hand in return greeting.]
Ah, er... yes. Happy Valentione's to you.
[he should probably... say something else?]
You... seem to have had a successful one?
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[coming from any other, this question might sound like a rebuke, but ramza beoulve makes it sound like genuine wonderment. he brings his bags of chocolate over to ramza bas lexentale's park bench, and sits.]
What are you reading?
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It is quite fascinating, if I do say so myself. I grant you the text is somewhat dense, but the author hides his insight behind the thickness of his prose.
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[at least as familiar as one can be with the country that your father went to war against. awkward! not that ramza holds ordallia any weird grudges. it's just... awkward!
clearing his throat, he sorts through his chocolates, hoping to find a likely-looking storebought parcel beyond all the loose, handmade ones. it would be strange to regift someone's handmade chocolate, after all, and so ramza is looking for something less personal.]
Truth be told, I am not at all certain of what to do with all this... Zalbaag has a secret sweet tooth, yes, but even he might put on weight and develop cavities if he conquers all of this. Would you be so kind as to take some off my hands?
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[this is news. lex is strangely fond of discussing ramza's half-brothers — they remind him that some aspects of their lives, at least, are very different. moreover, imagining ramza's musclebound, prickly older brother scarfing down chocolate truffle after chocolate truffle makes an oddly humorous image.]
I suppose I could bring something home for Alma. [ramza bas lexentale says, trying to pretend that his sister will be the one eating the chocolates, and not him.] Otherwise, she's like to try and "cheer me up" for not having received anything, and we all know I don't need that. Her cooking leaves much to be desired.
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[it's excellent. divine. alma beoulve is an angel on this good earth. but it's not polite to brag, not even about one's most adorable, precious little sister.]
My sister's cooking is quite good. But then, she attends a ladies' school for such things. And, yes, Zalbaag loves sweets — though I'm afraid Dycedarg does not.
[which is how you know dycedarg is a cold-blooded sociopath, but anyway... in time, ramza resurfaces from the pool of his chocolate gifts with a box of assorted, ornamental fine chocolates. it... looks as though it must have been expensive.]
Ah, here. Might we share a bit of this? Let me see now... what flavor do you like?
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[trying to affect a cool, disinterested air, ramza bas lexentale serenely returns his book to his lap and turns the page.]
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[so ramza says, reading the complementary card that explains all the chocolate flavors. they all sound appetizing! although... perhaps not this one that bills itself as "almond crunch."]
Do you mind almonds, Ramza? I can eat them, but I believe myself very slightly allergic — my throat tends to feel somewhat heated after I eat almond-encrusted chocolate.
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I don't mind — I can eat them. Give it here.
[assuming his usual brusque, rather authoritative manner, ramza bas lexentale holds out his hand for the sweet.]
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swiftly presses it to the other ramza's lips. enjoy!]
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vaguely, lex again thinks of alma beoulve, and he wonders if her older brother dotes on her like this as well. pulling a wry face, he slowly crunches down on the almond crunch, allowing it to melt in his mouth before he swallows.]
...Was that necessary, Ramza?
[two can play at this game of ramzas.]
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[he was most certainly not, but at any rate, the deed is done, and ramza bas lexentale has been fed chocolate this valentione's day. ramza beoulve smiles. he does not seem at all bothered to be called by their shared name.]
How was it?
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[as ramza bas lexentale turns once more to his similary-named friend — he feels an odd stirring in his chest. something rises from his chest to his throat once they make eye contact, once blue eyes lock upon gold irises. it is a well-known fact — fact, not even an opinion — that ramza beoulve is uncommonly pretty; if he were not, he would have never garnered so much attention from their peers this valentione's day. as much as he seems unaware of it at times, ramza beoulve is quite nearly as beautiful as his sister.
ramza bas lexentale has always considered himself immune to it.
until now.
seized by the bizarre compulsion to lean in and kiss ramza one, ramza two does so at once, pulling the other boy in by his shirt, kissing him fiercely, though chastely — nothing beyond a mere pressing of the lips. then he lets go.]
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oh my god i finally got to use this iconseemingly unruffled, ramza beoulve allows himself to be pulled in by the collar, then allows himself to fall back into his seat. he isn't... especially bothered. what's a kiss or two between friends? excepting delita (it'd be weird), or argath (it'd be awful), ramza would kiss most anybody, if it was necessary. mustadio, for instance... agrias, certainly...]
...That good?
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[ramza bas lexentale says this with such seeming urgency that one might assume the kiss was entirely against his will. which... it sort of was... and it sort of wasn't. it was only slightly against his will.]
I — I know not what foul spell came over me, but you have my deepest, deepest apologies. If there is any way I might make this up to you, I —
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[calmly, ramza beoulve puts the lid on the open box of chocolates once more, and hands it to ramza bas lexentale.]
I ought to be on my way home — but Happy Valentione's, both to you and to yours.
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R-Right... and a pleasant Valentione's Day to you as well...
...Give Zalbaag and Alma my regards...
k'pandolu tohka | miqo'te adventurer
Zephirin de Valhourdin
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look at all the chocolate that Ser Adelphel's fangirls sent him
No More Chocolate ]
Aurora Rora | Lalafell Sultansworn
Piñara Conada | Lalafellin WoL