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WINTER HOLIDAY ❤ 2023 CMO

WOW a whole year has gone by already and it's already time for another WINTER SEASON THEMED CMO!!!! obviously you can use this for other winter holidays from other cultures but i'm doing christmas and fantasy christmas because i morph into an elf on the shelf at exactly midnight on november 1st like a werewolf curse

As well as prompts, this post can also be used for IC gift giving! Feel free to just tap my toplevels for a gift-giving starter if that's what you want.

Feel free to also use this as a meme/mingle/CMO or whatever for your own characters! Include prompts or don't, I ain't the boss of you.

POTENTIALLY HANDY PROMPTS:

RP Scenario Generator | Mistletoe Meme | Seasonal Greetings Meme | Winter Wonderland Meme | Winter Festival Meme | Baby, It's Cold Outside Meme | Happy Holidays Meme | Rain Meme | Body Heat Meme | Family Meme

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foolaround

[liedol]

[ Even if there'd ever been a chance of Ai going to any high school, it would never have been a fancy place like Gekkoukan. Well, strictly speaking, she has no real frame of reference for how fancy or otherwise it might be but it's Kotone's school and Kotone's so much smarter than she is - so it stands to reason that it's not the kind of school that someone like Ai would be able to get into. So she has no reason to come by.

Except here she is on the last day of term before winter break just casually hanging around at the school gates as if she's not the least bit out of place. She's made a barely token effort to go incognito with cute braids and a heavy winter jacket but she seems to mostly be relying on the sheer plausible deniability and people dismissing the idea that B-Komachi's Ai would be hanging around a place like this. And bizarrely, it's working?!

She doesn't really draw a lot of attention to herself while she's waiting (though inevitably she does anyway - occupational hazard) but the instant she spots Kotone, Ai pops out from beside the gate and starts waving. With both arms. She's kind of making a scene?!?! ]

Over here! Surpriiiiiiise!

[foolaround]

[ it is a nice school. nicer than any kotone's attended previously. either way, if she heard ai voicing those thoughts, she would probably just put her hands on both sides of her face and tell her not to talk about herself like that. like she's one to talk, some days. but then, they see something in each other they can't always recognize in themselves, right?

she normally keeps busy, maintaining a couple of extracurriculars along with her music practice and everything at home, but with the holidays approaching, she's actually getting out at a normal time. kotone does a double take when ai just jumps out into view, expression going on a rapid journey between surprise, happiness, excitement, and girl what the fuck are you doing? either way, she can't quite shake the light feeling in her chest as she approaches, or the smile tugging at her lips. ]

Oh my God, hi! Sei-chan, it's been so loooong! [ her eyes briefly widen in a please be cool sort of way as she says the fake name, before she pulls ai into a hug, hopping with excitement despite herself. ]

[liedol]

[ Sei-chan? She can't stop a laugh from bubbling out of her (seriously, did Kotone just have that one on tap or something?) but it's a pretty giggly situation, so she gets away with it. She happily tosses her arms around Kotone in turn, squeezing her in a tight hug and enjoying the way her cheeks burn up when she does so. They're definitely being stared at by passing students but Ai doesn't care — in fact, letting everyone see this little reunion is ideal! ]

Right? Hasn't it? It's been forever! [ hours, even. how on earth did Ai even survive? ] My bad for not calling ahead but- I mean, it's your last day in school, right? I wanted to surprise you for winter break!

[ That's the truth, at least. ]

[foolaround]

[ if ai asked, she'd say she hadn't had it ready to go, of course. but—

sei. 星. not just her surname, but—

the way she lights up a room. the way kotone feels lit up and warmed every time ai's near, every time her eyes are only on her. it's all senseless, lovestruck rambling, best left in scribbled, halfbaked lyrics in notebooks that will never see the light of day.

she squeezes ai, laughter finally dying down as she pulls back to look at her. ]

You definitely did! Hope you didn't have to wait too long...? [ she laughs a little as she says it, but she's sure to feel guilty over it if that's the case. ] Soooo, where to? Since you went to all the trouble?

[ kotone grins sideways at her, adjusting one of the straps on her guitar's gig bag. ]

[liedol]

Nope! Actually, I got a little turned around on the way here so I took a bit longer than I wanted to, but I set out early just in case — so it kind of all balanced out?

[ She giggles, looking all sorts of proud of herself. It's not necessarily that her sense of direction is that bad but she's so used to being chauffeured around from job to job that actually making her way somewhere by herself without Miyako at the wheel is a bit of a challenge. But Kotone's happy! So that's the important part. Never mind the truly embarrassing amount of time she spent desperately squinting at train routes and her GPS app. ]

A-ny-way! ★ The surprise iiiiiis... [ She dips her hand into her pocket for a second and produces two bright and poppy tickets for... something that has an incomprehensibly cutesy logo font. ] Tah-dahhh! Tickets to a sweets buffet! Christmas is the best time of year for sweets, isn't it?

[foolaround]

[ oh, not to worry, kotone doesn't doubt for a second that ai got almost hopelessly lost on the way here. she's always been like that. but still, crossing tokyo alone isn't easy when you aren't used to it. ]

Yep, yep, great job. [ she reaches out with a sigh to give ai's hair a light ruffle, and the put-upon tone is undercut by just how fondly she's looking at her. when ai goes on to tell her where they're going, though? kotone beams. ]

No way! I've heard about this one, these tickets always sell out craaaaaaazy fast... [ she's... excited? genuinely? that's always fun, and it happens more and more lately. she shifts, briefly, looking more thoughtful as they start walking. she throws her a quick meaningful please read between the lines sort of look. ] Are you, uh, good to be out for this long in your offtime? The cats, and all...

[ just to be sure, miyako's watching the twins, right? ]

[liedol]

Sure I am! [ Ai gives her a very confident seeming wink, which is impressive considering how easily she just admitted to totally beefing it on her way here. ] She had some paperwork-y stuff to do at home, so I left it to her!

[ Which explains why Ai was left unattended to get here by herself, at least.

As they fall into step, she loops her arm cheerily through Kotone's, smiling one of her best butter-wouldn't-melt smiles, like she's just daring all the passersby still stealing glances at them to say something about it. ]

I figured sweets would be more fun than a regular buffet, anyway. Not that a regular buffet isn't good, but- jeez, doesn't it always turn out that somebody else grabbed the last piece of whatever you were looking at and they're not gonna put out any more for an hour or something? At least with a sweets buffet, if they run out of one kind of cake, there's like ten more you could try!