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2022 VALENTINE'S ❤ CALL ME OUT

Ryoko Shinonome
13 Sentinels

Yuri
DDLC

Bryn Pendragon
Original

Erina Estival
Original

Lambda
Original

Sophie Summerhelm
Original

Stella Roselaid
Original

Rin Asunaro
Shelter

A WHOLESOME CMO FOR ALL YOUR VALENTINE'S SCENARIO NEEDS!!

This can be any kind of Valentine's related nonsense you like, shippy or otherwise!! Just pop a comment down below shouting out one of the lovely ladies above and let's play out some wholesome mushy Valentine's nonsense.

Other characters are also available so feel free to ask after them! The characters listed above are just the ones I'm feelin the most right now.

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POTENTIALLY HANDY PROMPTS:
High School AU Meme | Shippy & Platonic Fluffy Scenarios Meme | Shameless Shipping Meme | Affectionate Physical Contact

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erina

[sarapphic]

[It's Valentine's Day at Estella, and you know what that means.

Bright and early in the morning, there is a knock on Erina's door. And when she answers, no one is there, but there's a heart-shaped box of chocolates set there. Labeled "from an admirer".

are you finally getting girls, erina.]

Re: erina

[zweihandler]

[ Despite the fact that the whole school has been buzzing about it, Erina has somehow managed to forget not just that Valentine's was coming up but also largely that it existed at all. So when she gets an early morning knock at the door, the last thing in her mind is chocolate. Which means that when Erina opens the door she's not looking down and when she takes a step forward to look around the corridor, she kicks the fucking thing halfway across the hallway. ]

Shit–

[ A few more choice fuckwords later and she's hastily retrieved the now slightly battered box from the floor. Her brows are creased in what can only be called suspicion and she gives it a cautious little shake before she pops it open. ]

The hell is this...?

[sarapphic]

[It is, of course, chocolates. Perfectly normal chocolates, apparently. A pretty good assortment!!

Of course, there's also a minor squeak down the hallway and the noise of someone hiding quickly behind a doorway as Erina kicks the thing, but. That's probably not important. Right?]

[zweihandler]

[ ... Huh. Okay. That's not suspicious at all.

Erina makes a show of casually shrugging to herself and sloooooowly turning around. Without a care in the world she ambles towards – and then past – the source of the sound without even glancing towards it. Just Erina heading out for her morning run with her chocolat–

SIKE, the instant she hears so much as a house settling noise, she whips back around at top speed. ]

Got your ass!

[sarapphic]

[CRAP

Sara bolts with the impressive reflexes of one who has been waiting for her prank to go horribly wrong, and she's running down the hall at a pace that would give Zuri a heart attack.]

You don't got me yet!

[zweihandler]

I WILL SOON, YOU LITTLE SHIT!

[ she really can't just say 'thanks' like a normal person, huh. Either way, Erina tears off after Sara with the practiced ease of someone who has chased Sara down to beat her ass many a time before. Yet another day ending in Y at Estrella. ]

[sarapphic]

NOT THIS TIME, ERINA!

[Their chases are familiar. Routine, perhaps. Surely she doesn't have anything new planned oh no wait she just jumped out a window and is using Buddy's recoil to slow her descent.]

ruubot ♥

[gioioso]

Haruna, Ha-ru-na~ ♫

[ It may have taken just a smidge of research to figure out what all of the fuss is about February 14th, but the gist of it comes pretty simply. It's a holiday where you give chocolate to someone you like! And if they're a special someone, the chocolate is home-made, rather than bought at the store...

Still, of course Ruu is special to her! All of her friends are -- it'd be silly to believe otherwise. But of all of them, Ruu is the person she imagines would be the happiest to get chocolate, and if home-made chocolates are the most special kind, then...

Well, what's a bit of time in front of a stove? What's a lot of time spent in front of a stove? She may have been going at it for so long last night that she barely had any time to recharge, but won't that all be worth it, when she sees Ruu's smiling face?

There's a spring in her step and a song in her heart, as she bounds down the hall with her hands full of goodies, wrapped in plastic and tied up with ribbons -- it looks like she's holding as many bags as she could feasibly carry, or just about close to it. One might think that she has quite a lot of giri-choco to disburse, but that would be naive! After all, the tag on each and every one of these chocolates, in lovely little penmanship, reads the same: Haruna. ]

Today's the day Haruna gets
Lots and lots of chocolates ♪

[schoollifecub]

[ Growing up as she has in a house that amounts to six different cultures put into a blender and then shaken not stirred, Ruu's holiday traditions aren't always a perfect match with her classmates'. Valentine's, though – that's the one day where she's on the exact same page as everyone else. She likes baking and making candies and Valentine's is the perfect excuse to do an excessive amount of it. So every year, she spends a good week or so leading up to the day itself making cookies and candies and all kinds of sweets to hand out.

She's got a system, too – the cupcakes and donuts go to family, the cookies go to classmates and the actual chocolates go out to her friends. Definitely just her friends. Not a piece of honmei to be found in her bag of treats today. No, sir.

She's just finished handing out white chocolate and pecan cookies to her clubmates and now she's heading out from the clubroom and onto the most important part of today's errand – chocolates! She's got plenty to hand out, but as she peers into her bag, she's got a complicated smile on her face. ]

... she'd like anything I gave her for today, right...?

[ Usually chocolates are the most fun part of Valentine's day but this year, Ruu feels unusually anxious about it. ]

[gioioso]

[ It's a wonder that Shion manages to navigate through the halls without spilling anything, despite her bundle, but she seems to make her way around smiling students and giggling girls with no trouble at all, looking for the familiar bounce of light, long hair like she's on an important mission. She has an idea of Ruu's schedule by this point, given her habits: any second now, she should be stepping out of the clubroom, and...

A-ha! Shion beams at her from across the hall, her smile bright and wide over the pile of plastic in her hands. ]

Haruna!

[ She walks so briskly, she almost drops a goodie bag or two...but thankfully, they all stay very much intact, even as she juts them out forward, in all their glory. ]

Haruna, I made these for you! It's Valentine's Day!

[ It certainly is. ]

[schoollifecub]

[ That means she's in good company! Because when Ruu hears Shion's voice she also comes close to dropping her bag. She just barely manages to keep her grip on it as she whips around, unaccountably red in the face. ]

Shion-chan! I–

[ Whatever she was about to say just sort of dies in her mouth when she takes in the absolute mountain of chocolates in Shion's hands. She blinks once. Twice. ]

... All of those? Wait, for real, all of them?!

[gioioso]

Yeah! Every last one!

[ It's not exactly the face of someone who's playing a practical joke; though, really, that sort of thing is probably beyond Shion to begin with. The smile she wears is earnest and sincere: she really doesn't see anything particularly wrong with this picture. It's a holiday, and chocolate makes people happy, so a lot of chocolate will make you very happy.

Nothing wrong with that logic, is there? ]

I made them myself! I followed the recipe all on my own, and decorated them!

[ There are little candied sugar bits on top, stars in all different colors. She shakes the bundle up and down a little, just for emphasis. ]

Well? Are you happy now?

[schoollifecub]

[ Ruu really doesn't know what to say. She half-expects Shion to suddenly titter at her and say oh, of course they're not all for Ruu, but... that's really not Shion's style. And sure enough, as she leans in... that's her name on every single one of them. Seriously, how long would something like this have taken? Just one chocolate like this must have been some effort so a whole heap of them like this...

Her grip on her own bag tightens a little as she considers the box still sitting in there and then swallows hard. She gives Shion a grin that's pleased, flustered, awed and a little rueful (yes, really) all at once. ]

I'm... yeah! I'm super happy! Jeez, you really made all these just for me... I dunno what to say!

[gioioso]

But you just said the perfect thing! Haruna, you're so silly!

[ Whether Shion is just too straightforward, too oblivious, or too single-minded, she doesn't seem to take in any of the more complex emotions behind Ruu's smile. What's important is that she's indeed smiling: she says that she's happy, and she wouldn't lie to her -- Ruu is way too nice to tell lies. All in all, a resounding success! ]

As long as you're happy, that's what's most important. It's what today's all about!

[ Not that it's too different from any other day for Shion, by that rationale. ]

Erina

[in4apounding]

[So, uh. Whoever left this gift for Erina in her dorm may have gone a bit overboard. Because that is one (1) very large stuffed bear with both a bouquet of flowers and what will, upon being unwrapped, prove to be some kind of unholy nerf gunblade molded from chocolate.]

[So have fun with that.]

[zweihandler]

... Huh.

[ As all that mess ^ up there ^ might tell you, Erina's used to getting hardcore punked on Valentine's and less used to getting sincerely gifted anything on Valentine's. The giant chocolate gunblade is about the coolest thing she's ever seen and therefore, she's deeply suspicious of it.

There's gotta be a note or something with this to indicate whether or not Sara's hell hands were involved in its creation, right? ]

[in4apounding]

[There is indeed a note attached! But it's unsigned.]

Salutations and Happy St. Valentine's Day, Erina!

I hope this traditional gift is sufficient to express my feelings of both a platonic and romantic nature and how important you are to me. I would have made their delivery in person, but I'm told that maintaining secrecy is also traditional today.

From
P
Your hot bodygu
A Friend : )

[Really, it could be anyone.]

[zweihandler]

... [ In a considerably warmer tone this time: ] Huh.

[ Yeah, sure this could be from anyone. But it just to happens to be from an anyone that Erina has a considerably hard time being rude or abrasive or any of her usual responses to. It's Penny and Penny's so sweet and sincere that it makes Erina unwillingly sincere in response and on today of all days, that might just kill her.

So after a moment of mulling, she whips out her phone, snaps a photo and whizzes off a message. ]

damn i'm more popular than i thought

ATTACHED IMAGE: valentines.png

[in4apounding]

[There is exactly the length of a pause one might expect from someone trying very hard not to look like they were waiting to hear something.]

Of course you are!! And happy Valentine Day.




Did you like it? A lot of effort went into that. I think

probably

since I don't know for sure

[can't hiccup over texts]

[zweihandler]

for sure it's a real mystery

i was thinking of getting a private investigator in on it. you know any people.

Sophie

[heofon]

[ Cattleya separated from Sophie for over a week to get ready for a series of trials that she's been fretting over for over a month. It's a test that would earn her a title of Knight with all the magical abilities and legal powers exclusive to the order and their social status. It's an infamously difficult exam and most are known to flunk it. Today is the day Cattleya is supposed to return with the news... And she's making an entrance.

A distant, echoing neigh of a horse called everyone's attention in the town plaza as the approaching sound of hooved steps grows louder and louder. It's Cattleya riding on top of a iron-clad steed. She slows and stops next to where Sophie stood with her steed rearing triumphantly. With a bright smile and misty eyes, she extends a hand for Sophie ]

Come, quickly. I have someplace to show you.

[summerbloom]

[ Sophie doesn't usually spend this much time in one place. She's been travelling alone long enough that she gets antsy if she's not on the road – and with all the people who need help, it's better for them if she can get there sooner. But things have been busy since they arrived in this town and... well, if she's going to be honest with herself, Sophie wants to be here only because she wants to make sure she sees how things have gone for Cattleya, however the result.

She's all in a fluster by the time Cattleya gets back to town and she comes hurrying over, sleeves rolled up, hair tied back and all in disarray – whatever had her looking so busy now forgotten in the urgency of making sure that– ]

Miss Cattleya...! How did it go? You must have succeeded, right?!

[heofon]

Your eyes don't deceive you, Sophie. You're looking at Sir Cattleya now.

[ She put her hand on her hip and pushes her chest out. The horse and the new outfit are not exclusive to the knight class, so Cattleya flaunts a golden badge on her arm, with the symbol of the knightly order proudly emblazoned on it. She blushes as a soft smile etches on her lips, all of her hard work and determination got her this prestige, and letting Sophie know about it felt like the final necessary step to make it all feel complete.

But that bravado is short-lived, as her triumphant pose softens as the pink on her cheeks brighten. The certainty in her eyes turned to a shifty mess, unable to look at Sophie for longer than a second as she utters: ]

W-Well? How do I look?

[summerbloom]

[ Though she knows Cattleya's worked so hard to achieve this, believes in her with all her heart, there's still a tiny part of Sophie that'd been convinced something would go terribly wrong – and of course, the more she'd had that thought, the more she'd been convinced that having it would somehow jinx Cattleya's chances and if she failed, it would be all Sophie's fault.

So when the relief of knowing that after all that work Cattleya really did succeed washes over her, it's enough to bring a shine of tears to Sophie's eyes. ]

I knew you'd be able to do it, but... I'm so glad... I'm so glad...!

[ She has to wipe her eyes – they're shimmering with tears enough to cloud her vision and she wants to make sure she sees Cattleya in her full splendour. She sniffs and passes her arm over her eyes before giving Cattleya a smile that can only be called radiant. ]

You look wonderful! It's exactly what you deserve after all your work!

[heofon]

[ Sophie's joy at the news is enough to make Cattleya feel tears swell up within her eyes. Seeing her friend's support and faith in her was moving, but she has an image to maintain. Cattleya's always been a little guarded with her emotions. She smiles, gulping her feelings down and chuckles shyly. The sight of a knight on her iron steed is drawing looks of awe from the citizens.

But what's most important here is that she gets to see Sophie's radiant smile. It made the shyness from being seen by the public feel irrelevant. She blushes and glances aside before speaking: ]

Would you like to... go for a ride? On my horse. I... wish to speak with you alone. About something.

[ It's totally fine - to Cattleya - that Sophie's a bit disheveled. Even with her rolled up sleeves and messy hair, she stills looks beautiful. ]