Oh the weather outside is frightful...

[imperialsun]

It's close to the holidays! And what do you know, that parasitic plant is back to wreck havoc on everyone's timeline.

> Pick someone from my Muselist
> Pick the time and setting
> You are now stuck under a plant with them and must kiss before leaving
> Kissing does not have to be on the mouth
> Sometimes Hot Makeouts?!

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[calmdown]

Oh yeah, mistletoe. That was the name.

[Hmm. Okay, it's always important to remember whether a plant is edible, but now he's racking his brain for anything else and still coming up short. Still, he can't see anything else obviously out of place around here, and the fact remains that he's stuck. They're stuck.

Experimentally, he looks down and tries to make a more deliberate movement with one of his feet (nope, no joy after a couple of seconds, not even a tiny bit of give), but his double interrupts the effort, and he looks back up again.]

I just walked in. We were supposed to meet up at the food court this morning...

[His expression is characteristically unruffled, but if you watch his eyes, he's clearly sizing up the other him - not necessarily in a suspicious way, just as a point of reference. Not a Shadow, unless he's hiding it incredibly well, and Yu wouldn't count that out completely these days... But lacking the headphone-looking things he's come to expect from the only realistically human robots he's ever seen, and far too perfect a copy to be just a long-lost twin.

He shakes his head.] The plant's the key, I'm sure of it. Do you think it's another illusion?

[izanyagi]

Could be.

[The question is how. And most importantly why.]

I was going to meet the others at the food court too...

[So there's a point of semblance to this madness, which doesn't answer much, but at least he knows there's a situation there...and suddenly he had a strange idea. It's probably stupid to ask, but part of him things that just assuming that this person is a doppelganger might be going in the wrong direction. Naoto would be proud of him for that one...]

What's your name?

[Despite the absurdity of the question, he stays perfectly emotionless.]

[calmdown]

[Yu quirks an eyebrow at him, which probably means most people would by now be screaming and flailing in abject confusion.] Oh, sorry. Yu Narukami. [He dips into a very slight bow, because that's about all he has room for in this doorway unless he desperately wants to headbutt the other guy in the chest.] It's nice to meet you.

[He wonders what the rationale is in asking. Clearly there is one, but...]

fucking reteconning the only time I wrote it in previous tags

[izanyagi]

[Hearing his double's name has confirmed what he had suspected, although he has no idea what the changes. Could a name difference really mean anything?]

Nice to meet you, Yu. [When it's his turn to take a small bow, although he seems to be flinching slightly for some reason.] Y-yeah my name is...[he rubs the back of his neck, eyes darting to the ground.]

...it's Thor Thunderballs.

[Yeaaaah, that was a riot when he introduced himself in school last year. Thanks mom, dad.]

I am printing out and framing this tag

[calmdown]

[This, on the other hand? This is an absolutely flawless and unmoving protagonist face.]

That's an unusual name. Are you an overseas transfer student? [Because the accent could have fooled him!]

pics or it didn't happen

[izanyagi]

Japanese.

[Sigh. He was born here, and he speaks Japanese. Granted it's not always enough for everyone but it is his native country.]

My parents are both entertainers. They left me with my uncle to go preform overseas so I wouldn't have to learn a new school system.

[The life of Thor Thunderballs, son of James and Domino Thunderball]

http://i.imgur.com/TsDKPTI.jpg

[calmdown]

I... see. [All right, not quite flawless. After a second, though, he manages a small but genuinely sympathetic smile.] That must be tough.

[Besides, even if he made a big deal of it, he'd still be stuck here. Speaking of which... as he glances up at the innocuous little plant again, an idea begins to form...

He rubs the back of his neck.] Well, I hate to be the one to broach the subject, but we both have places to go, and I think we both know there's only one way out of this...

[And something loud and metallic scrapes behind the back of his neck, as his hand clamps down on a familiar handle.]

We'll have to cut it down.

[(You didn't see it before? Well, he is in his uniform.)]

[izanyagi]

Good idea.

[Oh no,no, he saw it before, he just didn't ask why exactly it was there. He figured his (alternate?) other self had his reasons. For his part, he takes out...a....cane...from out of his right sleeve.

Okay what.]

[calmdown]

[Yu's expression has gone back to not flickering in the slightest.] That doesn't look very sharp.

[Then again, he also has a bass guitar, a reindeer outfit and three large fish hidden under his uniform, all of which he's saving for an emergency, so maybe it's along those lines. In any case, it's not important.]

But if we're going to do it together... Let's do it on the count of three.

[What do you mean, not enough room to swing a cat in this doorway? What kind of heartless soul would go around swinging cats? This is a sword.]

One, two... three!