vatheon | having the strangest sense of deja vu rn...

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having the strangest sense of deja vu rn...

Who: John Egbert, Rose Lalonde, and YOU.
Where: Starting in the plaza, feel free to pick any other location inside the bubble if you want
When: September 25th, afternoon-ish
Status: Open

[A young man and woman stand next to the Lamufao. It just so happens that today, the 25th of September, is their first d-- no it's not. Don't let those drenched clothes and the boy's somewhat vacant expression fool you, this is not their first undersea rodeo. Judging by the fact that they've been carrying on a conversation for a few minutes now, it's safe to assume they know each other.]

[Also they're both wearing some really bizarre pajamas. There's no way you can miss the girl in that traffic cone get-up and you really just have to wonder how the boy doesn't trip over that hood.]

Man, that doesn't get any less disconcerting the second time around. Or third...whatever. Point is, you won't hear me complaining if I just stay put this time.

[He takes off his glasses for a second, closing his eyes and pinching at the bridge of his nose. The girl, meanwhile, looks mildly disgruntled as she wrings out her dress.]

You wouldn't hear me complaining either. I really hate getting wet like this.

Oh, sorry! Here let me help with that Hold still for a sec.

I believe I have it, Joh--

[Ignoring the fact that she 'has it,' the boy surrounds them both with a minature cyclone, effectively drying them off but cutting the girl off midsentence and nearly knocking her over to boot. Once the wind dies down, she raises a brow in his direction, sure she's as equally disheveled as he is now thanks to his assistance. With a sigh she combs through her hair with her fingers as the boy gives a nervous chuckle. He is, indeed, just as disheveled as she is though he's not really making an attempt to do anything about his fly-away hair at the moment.]

Eheh...whoops! Sorry about that, Rose.

It's okay John. I appreciate it.

[She straightens her headband and smooths her dress before pulling her SFC from seemingly nowhere and beginning to type out a message.]

Hm? What are you doing? Wouldn't it just be faster to head over to the villa and let Maka and Soul know we're back? They're probably the only ones who noticed we were gone anyway since it probably hasn't been more than a few days.

While it would be easier normally, yes, we're not dealing with the most normal circumstances. Do me a favor and try not to let on that we know where we are, will you?

Huh? Why not?

I have a few theories I would like to confirm, and doing so semi-anonymously would be the easiest way to do so.

Riiiiight. Okay. So I take it we're not going home straight away then?

That's right. [With that, a text is sent and her communicator is returned to her sylladex.] Would you like to take a walk with me?

Of course! [The boy beams and offers her his arm. Linking her own through it, the two begin wandering the dome, John occasionally stopping to look at something and Rose occasionally typing out a response to her network post.]

((ooc: Long story short: John has no idea how long they've been gone, and is judging this based on a canon update he had last time he was here. Rose isn't exactly sure how long its been either because her Seer powers have been dampened but she knows it's been quite a while so she's trolling the network because she does what she wants. We will both be responding to both posts, though Rose will likely be responding to the network one moreso than John.))

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[ It's a normal day. I mean. Relatively speaking. As normal as a day when you're caught in a bubble in the middle of an ocean or whatever can be. At least she's back home in her own body and it's new arrival time and it's always so fun seeing who shows up (and she may or may not be waiting for specific someones but they never seem to appear...).

But, that doesn't mean today's a total wash.

She notices the mini tornado first, because really, it's sort of hard not to.

But then she sees who's in the tornado and oh.

Oh. ]

Holy shit it's teen mom.

[ Yep just gonna... casually say that loud enough to be heard. ]

[Roxy's outburst earns her a very baffled look from John. Despite having made Roxy along with all the other ectobabies and despite having seen Rose's mom both in person and as a corpse, John apparently has no idea who this girl is. ~~Seriously, what the hell canon?]~~

Teen...mom?

[He turns his baffled look onto his companion now. Rose what? What? This girl is older than you what is this? WHAT AREN'T YOU TELLING HIM?]

[[That catches her ears as well and she glances at Roxy, then at John because she knows he's looking at her funny. She smiles, but that's the only answer he's getting.]]

Hello to you too, teenaged mother of mine.

[ HOLD ON OKAY JUST.

HOLD ON.

Roxy's gotta take a minute, looking for the nearest reflective surface to make sure her hair isn't a mess before she stands up and actually moves closer. ]

It's like really you for reals then huh. This is trippy as hell. I mean, there was that one time in the void or whatever that was but this is different.

[ Sorry John who are you? ]

And that's like some god tier shit you got on isn't it.

[Wow rude, Roxy. Can't you recognize the ectobiological offspring of your bffsie and her crush when you see him? Gosh! ~~Pot, kettle, black.~~]

[Whatever he guesses he'll just stand here. And wait for someone to clue him in on wtf is going on here.]

It is indeed, and yes this is certainly different. A good different, I think. [[Glancing down at the orange get up, she nods.]]

Exactly right. For both of us, in fact. Speaking of, this is John Egbert.

[ Oh right there's someone else here REFOCUS YOUR FANGIRLING ROXY okay.

--hey wait. ]

Oh my god you're Janey's grand-whatsit. 'm gonna guess son from your side huh.

[ Aaaand... well. You wanted attention, here you go, John. You're being enveloped in a crushing Rolal embrace. ]

[Oh god the attention. The hugs. The agony of it all when will it end?!]

[And yet he still knows jack dick about what's going on here. From within the unyielding prison that are Roxy's arms, John gives Rose a look that very clearly says 'dear god, help me.']

Wh-what are you talking about? Who's Janey?

If the sessions work as I am guessing they do, he is her grandson in our time, grand...father in yours?

[[Rose is just too amused. She is of no help.]]

Yep! That'd be it.

[ Nope still hugging him. ]

Janey is only my bff-for life. You'd know her better as your grandma and she's only basically the best there could ever be.

[ Pause. ]

'm Roxy, be tee dubs. S'up.

It's...nice to meet you?

[There is just so much to take in right now. Too much, I tell ya!]

Though I still feel like I am missing a few pieces to the puzzle here, so Rose you are going to have to fill me in later since you're a Know-it-all McSeerpants now.

I can fill you in now. At the end of our three year trip, we'll be entering a new session. This new session is populated by four players that we will be joining. These players are the teenage versions of our parents and grandparents.

Roxy here is my mom. In her time, however, I'm her mom.

It's a clearly not complicated at all relationship I mean hello.

[ Come on John get with the times here. ]

You got any questions 'bout your grams, you just ask me. No one knows her better.

Uh, alright. Can I ask you a question that has nothing to do with her first though?

Yeah, sure, ya cutie. Ask Rolal what's on your mind.

Can you please let go of me?

[He has only just met you, and while you are kind of cool and all...this hug has gone on for a little too long, he thinks.]

[ Has it? She and Dirk hugged for at least 10 minutes when they first arrived. ]

Oh. Right, yeah, sure. Totes letting go now.

[ She even takes a step back to put some distance between the two of them. ]

[Yeah, Maka just...ignored the network post. She could recognize that text anywhere, and it panged at her heart, but it was plainly evident that Rose didn't remember her time spent in Vatheon. Or John for that matter, considering Rose said "we" and Maka automatically associated the two with each other.

So instead of replying with the usual "how do you do" Maka just ignored it, same as the last (sadly brief, at least to her) time that John and Rose were present in the bubble. Whichever version of John and Rose this was, it hurt to approach people that you're so close to only to have them question who you are. She has errands to run, anyway; with their new resident in the Villa more supplies were needed.

She would have to walk past them sooner or later. She knew she would. So when it happens she just holds her head high and walks past as though she doesn't recognize the two at all.]

[[Rose watches the girl pass, biting her lip a moment. She wants to kind of keep the whole 'we've been here before' thing under wraps for a little while, but well...it's Maka. She can't really ignore her. So, instead of letting the woman pass, she grabs John and chases after her.]]

Hey! Excuse me!

[Woah what the shit where are we going? What's going on? He's being dragged away and oh it's Maka.]

[And since Rose said she didn't want anybody to know that they remembered (for reasons he still can't fathom) that must mean...]

[oh noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!]

[Oh crap they're approaching why why why--

She stops and forces a smile, still keeping up the benign "do I know you?" facade.]

Yes? Are you new here?

You can say that. You're Maka Albarn, correct? [[John stop acting cray-cray. Calm down. It's just Maka gosh.]]

[He can be cray cray if he wants, gosh you are not the boss of him Rose!!!]

[Though wait, what happened to the whole secret keeping thing? Rose that is kind of the exact opposite of what you're doing by saying her name aren't you?]

[...There's a crack, and the facade drops. She brings her hand up to rub at the back of her head, regarding the younger.]

Well, geez, I didn't know I had a reputation with people that haven't even been here before. Unless you're playing another Lalonde trick.

Again, you could say that we're new. Relatively speaking. We've both been here before, you see, it's just been...quite some time. [[Sorry John, she can't keep a secret from Maka.]]

I'm just playing a Lalonde trick to gather my bearings on who here might be from when we were here before.

[Oh good! Because he doesn't want to keep a secret from Maka either. Or Soul, for that matter. It's hard enough not blabbing to Karkat and Jade as it is...]

Wait...quite some time? Rose what are you talking about? It's only been like two or three days, right? Just like when the dinosaurs were here and I went home for a bit, remember?

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[...Oh, awkward.]

Um...try a year? Or at least it was a year last month, it's September now. I'm still here and the trolls are still here, but Dave's gone, I think Jade came back not remembering anything again and Soul...has been gone for about as long as you have.

That's what I thought. [[Her smile falls when it's said that Soul is gone.]]

Is...our villa still there?

A whole...year?

[Hold on he needs a moment to come to grips with this. That is an absolutely preposterous amount of time.]

[Yepperooni, time to play the role of big sis and pretend it doesn't bother her.]

Things happened and I moved out of there for a while, then it gradually just emptied out. But...recently I moved back in with some new friends I've made! I think your room is still there, although I stashed your things in your world's Nostalgia Nook...sorry.

Man, there's so much to tell you guys about what's been happening.

[[She just shakes her head.]] No need to apologize. We understand. We can go get them later.

I can't wait to hear what all has happened.

Neither can I. Man I can only imagine what kinds of crazy shenanigans have happened while we were gone. But yeah, don't worry about it! At least it's all still here!

Yeah...shenanigans...[among other things.] I can't wait for you to meet some of the friends I've made, either. Does this mean you're coming back to the villa?

I think it's a very good possibility. That is, if you would have us again.

Yeah, what Rose said! We would love to come back! The villa is home, after all.

[He says that, yet part of him is not so sure. Because on the one hand, it is the Villa and it is TOTALLY home. They built it with Soul and it's the only real home they've ever known in Vatheon. The park bench and Souls's first apartment totally do not count. But on the other hand...is it still home if Maka is the only person still around? Home is the people in addition to the walls, right?]

[He's thinking about this too much.]

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having the strangest sense of deja vu rn...

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tagging order will be roxy > john > rose c:

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DOOT DO DO NOT LATE

what is this "late" you speak of?

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Order's going to be Maka>Rose>John! :3

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