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Ring a Bell

🧙 WHO: Colette Brunel & Open
⚔️️ WHAT: Test drive prompts/birthday log
🕒 WHEN: June? (Def end of June for her birthday)
🗺️ WHERE: Around?
⚠️ WARNINGS: Uh. Inevitable likely sacrifice talk because of Colette being the Chosen back home?

Beach Party:

[Colette is just relieved things worked out in everyone figuring various items from the shipwreck below and is happy to celebrate and relax with everyone. Which of course includes her getting in there in enjoying some snacks and games. Though she is rather clumsy so maybe. Not in obtaining a bat for the watermelon but offering it to someone else. And probably tripping into someone else if she tries to play with the beach balls. Or possibly still figuring that concept of aiming in not being used to guns at all if someone gives her a water gun to try. She may soak someone else other than her intended target?]

Kidnapped:

[Just because Colette can fight? Doesn't mean she necessarily wants to. Not if she can help it. So she certainly wouldn't be the one throwing the first punch or kick, as it were. If necessary, if this is what it takes to get them out, she'd let her opponent win. But she isn't sure if that would get them back home. Isn't sure what to do. There's so many others, after all. She can't just leave them here.]

What should we do? I don't want to fight. I don't want to leave everyone here like this. There has to be some way to get out of this.

[Look if you spend enough time with Lloyd, being stubbornly optimistic pays off somehow? Right?]

Birthday:

[She's turning seventeen at the end of the month. And.....hasn't had a party before. Short of that one time she turned twelve and Lloyd made her that pendant, Genis making her that cake they shared together with the three of them. So this concept is new to her at least in the sense of it being a celebration on her birthday that isn't the church. That's about her as Colette and not celebrating being another year closer to her Journey as the Chosen. She'd mentioned it, but still wasn't necessarily sure on what to expect for it, what she wanted since she hasn't done this before.

But even so. Since she was here and made friends and all. It might at least distract her from Lloyd being absent in particular. But she will certainly enjoy some cake and thank anyone that joins her for celebrating, with Emerald in tow and licking most anyone present as her gratitude in everyone caring for Colette as they enjoy a day at the park outside.]

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Ah, Ochako, you made it!

[Colette's. Still not really used to this. All the fuss. All the attention for her. For her as Colette. Not just as the Chosen. But it's.....nice? At least, in having a gathering with friends and all. She waves, thanking the other for coming and blinking when she takes the offered bag, looking inside to find the dress.]

It's so pretty! Thank you! I'll try it on later and let you know if it fits.

[Ochako's not exactly privy to what Colette is thinking or feeling, just expecting this yet another birthday the girl had and is celebrating with friends. Maybe a bit overwhelmed because of the turnout, but it makes sense to Ochako - Colette is kind, and sweet, and a nice person. Of course people here would want to celebrate with her and gift her things, and be together. That's what having a party is all about, after all - being together with people who car about each other, having fun and enjoying spending time together.

She beams, clapping her hand together with a little giggle.]

I'm so glad you like it!! I really hope it all fits, I saw the outfit and thought it'd look really cute on you! I would have made something to eat, but I didn't know what you liked, I'm sorry... Maybe next time, right? Ehehe.

I think it should. I'll let you know if it doesn't though. But ah, that's alright! I just hope you like what we have here so far.

[Next time. She wonders then. Exactly how long she might be here. How long they all might be here. Would she turn eighteen here? She's still unsure on this in how if this is similar timing to back home, if this really counts or not exactly. But a year is still a year. Even if it feels shorter on her end because of timing with her ending up here not that long after her birthday back home with her Journey and all.]

I hope it all turns out okay. I wasn't expecting it and this is my first birthday party aside from that one time when I was twelve with Lloyd and Genis back home.

[A careless statement - next time. Ochako doesn't want to spend that much time here really, and the time that's been ticking on and on, time away from her family, time away from her friends left behind, time that is halted for everyone back home but still present for her... It's terrifying. What if, time ages her? What if, when they're all ready to go home again, she's the same age as her teachers? Her parents? What if they don't even...recognize her?

Careless. Lost in the swell of this happy moment, so...perhaps it should be. The time now is a happy moment, a joyous one, so best not to fear time for the here and now.]

Eeh? Your first? Colette-chan, did you not celebrate your birthdays back home?

[She knows there are, like...certain beliefs and customs of other places and religions that just don't do that, and Ochako wants to be respectful but. Man. That is kind of really, really depressing, isn't it?]

Ah, well...as the Chosen, my birthday was more celebrating we were a year closer to me going on my Journey. So that's why. Why I haven't really had one like this before.

[So. Not so much about Colette herself. More the fact they were that much closer to waiting for her to leave and hopefully succeed in her Journey to restore the crops and Mana supply, in dealing with the Desians. It was not really about celebrating Colette herself as a person the way this was.

She tries not to think on the possibility of being here long enough to turn eighteen. Instead focusing on the question and even that is....perhaps a little awkward to explain in answer. Her gaze lowers briefly, a slight shake of her head in an almost resigned smile before she raises her head again properly, all but beaming.]

But that's why all this is so amazing!

[Chosen? Journey? Had Colette explained this to Ochako before? M-Maybe, a little bit, but the poor girl can't quite remember all of it. Even so, it clearly seems like Colette's birthday really wasn't so much a celebration of her life and more her...title. Her status. She can see the lowering of her friend's gaze, the brief hint of hurt in her voice, and Ochako knows that her birthdays before weren't at all special.

She takes a deep breath, wondering just how much about her friend she really knows, but...now's not the time. Not the time to bring up something that may ruin Colette's special day. Because by god, now Ochako is more determined than ever to make it one that Colette can remember always.]

Well!! Then let's make sure you have an amazing time, Colette-chan!! We can play games, dance, have fun...anything you want!!! I'm sure I can find a cool playlist on my phone to play some music, too! [Did someone order a ~~very mediocre~~ DJ? No?? Well, you got one anyway! Ochako fingerguns, doing her very best Present Mic impression, trying to mimic his voice and, uh...not doing too great.] PUT YO' HANDS UP~!

Playlist?

[There are still some things she is getting used to with the more modern technology. So Colette doesn't necessarily get it. Something to do with music though? From what Ochako says? She's oblivious to Ochako's internal wonderings on Colette's upbringing and all prior to her ending up here, as she simply does as Ochako says with that Present Mic impression, raising her arms in the air.]

[Oh, right...some people aren't from as technologically advanced places as she is. Ochako, uhh...kind of keeps forgetting that sort of thing - that some worlds out there just aren't as modernized as hers is. She turns a bit pink around the cheeks (moreso than usual), and rubs the back of her head, giggling at Colette's just...sheer confusion but willingness to do as she's told. Ah...this is almost like the UA Entrance Exam, when poor Present Mic just got totally shunted by the audience.

She feels that deep ravine in her "MC soul" expanding...]

Ah, eh...ehehe. I-It's a list of songs that are made by a program, l-listing them by their genre, the artist of the song, alphabetically...stuff like that! It's easier to play songs that way instead of going through and trying to find them all individually.

Oh? I guess we didn't have that sort of thing back home. It sounds useful though!

[She does agree, in trying to reassure and encourage the other? Colette's just still learning even after months of being here on this technology. It's a work in progress. Or something like that. She's trying to understand and learn, to join in and do her part where she can.]

Yeah, I'm still kind of getting used to people not being as, um...ehh...modernized as what I'm used to. S-Sorry, Colette-chan. But it really is useful! Let's see...

[She's going to peruse her phone's music app and look up some party songs, then pokes at one of the lists. Oh, this looks promising, it's a decently sized one indeed.]

How about something like this? [And with a tap of her finger, a song starts to play loudly from her phone's speakers.]

It's okay. I'm sure I'll figure it all eventually. The phone and everything. But ah! It's a song about a party! This is a party! I haven't heard this one before.

[Colette seems enthusiastic if new to this music at least. She listens, giggling and clapping her hands together. It was new and different to the music she is probably more used to back home but that isn't necessarily a bad thing? It seems relevant in being about a party at least.]

[Ochako laughs at the song as well, starting to sort of sway and bop her head to the beat before placing her phone down so it can just sit and play the music while she has her hands free.]

Mm!! That's why I thought it'd be a good one! Ehehe, it's such a fun beat, too! Colette-chan, can you dance? [Probably not like Ochako can. She was taught a few hip-hop and freestyle moves by Mina, whose hobby is dancing, and Ochako kept up with it. It really works out her body, and gives her some flexibility, too! Ochako is definitely a bit stiff when it comes to fighting, so this sort of helps. Light on her feet! Just like floating!!]

Uh, well. A little? I'm pretty clumsy though even just walking....

[Let alone dancing. She has done so very rarely. It's just that she trips up enough say, helping clean with sweeping the classroom back home for example. Dancing would be that much more a risk to both herself and others. So that might be why she is a little hesitant on actually dancing, even if she is eager enough on the music.]

I can show you how! You can't be nearly as bad as Deku-kun was!!

[N-No offense to Izuku in any regard, but...w-well. He was pretty damn stiff and mechanical before Mina got to him and taught him how to do a few steps for the Cultural Festival. He may still not be the best of the best, but with work and practice, he could be! Ochako really just kept up with it because it was a ton of fun (and a super good workout).]

Eh? Um, Izuku was....?

[Colette can't blame him. But her being so uncoordinated she trips over nothing is kind of well known enough that most anyone wouldn't be surprised she probably isn't the best at something like dancing as a result. Given how much she trips over in general otherwise.]

[There's a slight pause from Ochako upon hearing her friend referred to by his given name by someone else like that, and she regards Colette for a second before clearing her throat a bit. R-Right...different cultures. Different customs. Names probably don't that level of significance and familiarity in Colette's world as they do in hers. Ochako herself even has to get used to people referring to her by her given name without the honorific.

B-Besides!! It's not like she...y-you know--um. Nevermind. ffffff--]

Ah, eh--um! Y-Yeah, ehehe. Deku-kun was stiff as a board and really like a robot moving around at first. [She mimics this, doing a few jerky robot moves with a flat expression.]

[Sylvarant, while there were some titles and such, didn't use honorifics. Colette isn't familiar with the different customs in naming from Japan to be aware how one might take her using his first name. How casual that might sound to others. She can't help but to giggle though at that demonstration.]

A robot? So robots move all stiff? We didn't have them back home. But I'm sure he would get better if he practiced!

[Indeed - something of a bit of culture shock, too. With so many Japanese and general Asian-influenced people from ~~animu~~ other worlds, it's been hard to break the habit. But she will break it, eventually, just going to take some more time and learning different things.]

Mm!! Well, at least in shows and movies they do sometimes, ehehe, when things want to be all funny! My friend Iida-kun moves like that a lot normally, he tends to wave his arms a lot - it's really funny!! [And kind of endearing, too. A quirk that has nothing to do with superpowers at all. Ochako giggles at the fond memory of her bespectacled friend, sighing softly. She misses him... She, Izuku, and Iida were so close at the start of the school year.]

He does well now, but still not as fluid. I think Deku-kun just gets nervous a lot, and tends to overthink almost everything he does...until he kind of spirals and trips over himself, ehehe. In this case, literally.

Wave his arms? But ah, I trip over all the time. At least here it hasn't been too bad in my tripping into walls and making holes....

[Colette shaped imprints inside or outside buildings on the walls. That end up as tourist attractions because look the Chosen was here!! At the least, Colette doesn't have to deal with everyone treating her differently here. That people only know she is the Chosen if she tells them or they hear or see her mention it. She can just be herself. Clumsy, oblivious Colette. Without worrying about her status and all. It's almost freeing as much as it is unnerving.]

[Tr-Tripping into walls and...causing holes... How--]

Eh, those must be really flimsy walls.

I-I mean--!!

[AHEM. Moving on!! Ochako waves her hands a little bit and shakes her head, instantly dodging the subject matter and hustling toward another. Yeah, that sort of sounded a bit rude there, didn't it? Ochako just...has the bad habit of speaking her mind any time a thought passes, oftentimes shoving her foot wholesale into her gosh-darn gullet.]

You should show me how you dance, Colette-chan!! There's no walls out here, and if you trip, I'll catch you!

[Because it is how Colette rolls. It's what she does. She trips. Sometimes into walls. Unfortunately for her classroom for example.....

Still, she does both brighten and get a little flustered at the suggestion that she try.]

You would? Ah, um. Okay? We can try....? I can try?

[She isn't going to promise she would be much if any good. Because she probably won't be. But she can at least give it a go. ]

Mmhm, 'course I would!!

[Or at least try. Ochako's got the right kind of skills to make sure people don't trip and fall. It was actually how she first met Izuku at the entrance exam to UA and talked to him - she kept him from tripping and falling with her quirk. It's a fond and funny memory to her, actually.]

Just go slow and do your best, Colette-chan! You don't have to be good at it to have fun!! [Honestly, sometimes being purposely bad at something makes it more fun. Ochako puts on a different song on the playlist and sets her phone down, starting to shake and move her arms and hips a bit.] Yeaah!!

To have fun. Okay.....!

[She might initially be a little more awkward about it but she does try to copy in imitating Ochako's movements. Moving her arms and hips as the other does. Her movements might not be as natural or smooth as the other's but she makes an attempt at least. Since Ochako says it is more about having fun than being good at it. As long as you enjoy it and get moving? Right?]

[Exactly right!! It's Colette's birthday and she can ~~cry~~ dance badly if she wants to! No one will judge her and, to be perfectly honest, probably are bad dancers themselves. Ochako just knows a few moves herself because she was taught them by someone who can, that's all.

Laughing and moving, Ochako will, however, show Colette a few very easy step to do, repeating them with her slowly so that she can get it. It's going to take some repetition and memorization, but it's not a difficult move at all - the basic of basics.]

Just like that!! You're doing really good!

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wow nostalgia have not heard Vengaboys in Forever

hehehe, me neither, so i went right for it.

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