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[heaaarts]

[ The more things change, the more they stay the same, and things are changing. It's a bit like falling into Wonderland. For those from a universe where 'Ansem' destroyed entire worlds, they might it find familiar, reminiscent of the dark outskirts of the worlds leftover. Soras, especially, will find the way they scatter and melt into nothing familiar. The entire dressing room is shrinking. As the worlds unmerge and become their own, disconnected from the makeshift world around them, things are reverting back to how they were. The outermost walls of the apartment building are expanding, the actual apartments themselves shifting around like a Rubik's Cube, down one, to the side, turning in place. Some go tumbling like a box kicked down a flight of stairs. Houses are sliding closer, squashed together, yards shrinking to fit a uniform length.

When things stop and the dust settles, most people will find the result just as familiar. Anyone who's been here longer than a year surely will. We're back to the original layout of the dressing room; the endless apartments. There's no end in sight, but there's also no roof, and the hallways aren't pristine. Most of them look the same, or similar enough, but they still seem outdoors. Concrete sidewalks and round stone walkways in dirt roads, desert passages made of sand and stone, grassy halls lined with vines and flowers up doorframes, or wet, murky swamps with steps leading up to rooms. There are halls for where people live, but they're virtually indistinguishable from the other halls. The rooms where nothing is predictable. The houses are all along the same 'hall', winding in a large curve back to the main room, which is where all of the halls can be accessed, the main kitchen, and special doors to go to each and every World. All that remains from before is the river, winding through the halls.

Trams still run along the outskirts, because no matter how cluttered and tight things are again, the place really is endless.

And everywhere, everywhere there are colorful bubbles floating through the air, across water, even stuck in trees. Some are clear, some filled with colored smoke, and some dripping. They crackle like glass and burst into nothing when touched, hitting the one responsible for popping them with a spell. It's the New Year, after all. Has to start off with a bang. ]

{ ooc ; Happy New Year, DR! It was voted on a while back on LJ, and now it's happening. Maybe this fresh start (in more ways than one!) will stir in a little more life. As with tradition, spells are recycled during the New Year, so! The available spells to hit your character with are:

- age character up or down
- character speaks only the truth
- character becomes an animal or has animal traits
- fear spell (character undergoes their worst fears)
- love arrows (causes the character to fall in love with the first person they see)
- aphrodisiac (character becomes unbearably aroused, and stays that way without the help of another person)
- alignment swap (good becomes bad, bad becomes good, grey areas are up to you)
- power swap (element changes to opposite, or switches abilities with another character)
- body swap (two characters swap bodies)
- sex swap (physical sex changes)

Expect more spells soon! }

Comments

[dawnrise]

[She jerks back when he does that, turning a rather startling shade of pink, and looking pretty startled herself.]

[lightyin]

[Eyebrow raise. He was expecting her to snap at him or push his hand away, possibly both, but that reaction was neither. What kind of spell bubble was that one?]

Sorry. Are you okay?

[dawnrise]

[Startled is quickly making way for horrified.]

No.

[lightyin]

[Hey, that's kinda how he reacts to most of the spells he's hit with. Internally, anyway.]

What kind of spell did that bubble have?

[dawnrise]

[She puts a hand over her mouth, looking away from him in a kind of sick horror. It's not the worst thing that could ever happen, but she definitely was not expecting this, of all spells. He probably couldn't understand the mumbled answer she gave.]

[lightyin]

[Nope, he didn't catch that.]

Hm?

[dawnrise]

I said it's a love spell.

[Fuck her life.]

[lightyin]

[And now he feels vaguely guilty for pushing her into the bubble. Oops.]

Oh. You mumbled it the first time.

[dawnrise]

I wonder why.

[Heavy on the sarcasm, light on the bite. Apparently being in love with people makes Riku a little nicer.]

[lightyin]

[He's wounded by her sarcasm. Only not really.]

Because you didn't want to admit it. At least the spell probably isn't permanent.

[dawnrise]

It's not. I've dealt with it before. Doesn't make it any easier.

[lightyin]

Of course.

[dawnrise]

I'm just... I'm going to walk away before I do something stupid.

[lightyin]

Whatever you want to do.

[He's going to go explore by himself then if she's going away.]

[dawnrise]

[She stares at him.]

You're not familiar with this spell, are you?

[lightyin]

Nope. Similar ones, but not this one.

[dawnrise]

I figured. If you knew, you'd think twice about telling me to do what I want to do.

[She gives him a pointed look. What do you think, Riku?]

[lightyin]

What if I'm curious?

[He likely knows the answer; he's messing with her now.]

[dawnrise]

[She scowls.]

Then you're taking advantage of a spell, aren't you?

[lightyin]

It wouldn't be the first time.

[dawnrise]

Fair enough. I can do that, too.

[He is, after all, affected by the truth spell.]

[lightyin]

[Which she is thankfully not taking advantage of.]

Guess we're somewhat even.

[A short pause.]

Should we go check out more of the halls?

[dawnrise]

[...damn you, she can't not leap on the chance for that. Also she is totally going to take advantage of it. Soon. Next tag soon.]

Sure.

[lightyin]

[That means he's going to head for the nearest hallway that they haven't been in yet.]

Let's go this way.

[dawnrise]

[She follows beside him, probably too close for comfort. Closer than a Riku should, anyway.]

Would you stop me if I tried to kiss you?