♠ Your name: Lepidopteran ♠ # of submission: 1 ♠ Title of submission: Colors Academy of Love: Scene 1 ♠ Characters: Tobi-han, Midorin ♠ Word count: 602 ♠ Theme used: Looking Ahead/Dating Sim (for Pot of Gold) ♠ Author notes: There's unlikely to ever be a scene 2, but this wouldn't leave my head until I wrote it down.
(I hope it's okay that I'm posting this in August? There doesn't seem to be a new post up, so…!) ♠ The body of the fic:
Colors Academy. Even the title rings with promise. These illustrious halls are filled with the best and the brightest, coming from all over to study art with the true masters. This is a place for a true adventurer. There are six dorms in use currently, but as you step into the office, it is with the determination that from today on there will be seven.
The young woman sitting at the desk is busy applying makeup as you step inside. She looks up, her luminous golden eyes examining you from head to toe. You put on your most charming smile, hoping that she'll return it, but she looks down at her desk again, instead. "Tobi-han?" she asks, sounding bored.
"That's right!" you say, "and I have a request about my dorm assignment--"
She holds up a gloved hand. "Look, if you don't like your roommate, you have to wait at least a week," she says. "And then you have to go through the dorm heads. I'm just a student worker."
"Oh, but that's not what--"
"And," she continues, narrowing her eyes at you, "you've just arrived! How can you even know you want to change rooms."
You wait, but she seems to be finished. Her glare, however, tells you that you'd better think twice before pushing the issue.
• Drop the issue altogether and ask for her name. • > A true adventurer never backs down! Explain what you really want.
You might not win any points with her this way, but this is what you really want from your time at Colors Academy, and you won't let go of your dream so easily. "I want to move into the haunted dorm," you say. The words ring with confidence and echo around the room as the young woman's expression changes into one of bafflement.
"The haunted dorms," she repeats slowly.
"Yes!" You beam at her.
She's silent for a while longer, but the expression on her face changes to a contemplative one. She props her chin in her palm and her elbow on the table. "Well, you've got guts," she says, and her voice is warm. "You're sure you don't mean the dorm Gin-sensei exploded a few years back? They're a little leaky, but they don't have ghosts."
"No." You shake your head. "I want the brown dorms. A true adventurer doesn't get scared away by ghosts!"
"You'd be all alone. Nobody would be around to hear you scream."
• She's right… Maybe this is a bad idea. • > You laugh in the face of danger!
You laugh. "I wouldn't have it any other way." You keep smiling at her, and eventually she grins back.
"Well, okay. I'm not supposed to do this, but maybe I'm curious about what you'll find in there." She opens a drawer and fumbles around in it before coming up with a key on a metal keyring with a brown plastic tag. She sets it on the desk in front of her and nods. "Don't die until you've told me what it's like in there, okay?"
"I won't die anyway," you assure her with confidence as you take the key. "But I can't tell you what it's like if I don't know who I'm looking for."
"Midori," she says, still smiling. "Ask for Midori. I'm in the green dorms."
You smile and salute her before leaving. You feel like you really made a connection there, and you'll be staying in that coveted haunted dorm, that lucky number seven dorm. What could possibly make this first day at Colors Academy better?
FIC
♠ # of submission: 1
♠ Title of submission: Colors Academy of Love: Scene 1
♠ Characters: Tobi-han, Midorin
♠ Word count: 602
♠ Theme used: Looking Ahead/Dating Sim (for Pot of Gold)
♠ Author notes: There's unlikely to ever be a scene 2, but this wouldn't leave my head until I wrote it down.
(I hope it's okay that I'm posting this in August? There doesn't seem to be a new post up, so…!)
♠ The body of the fic:
Colors Academy. Even the title rings with promise. These illustrious halls are filled with the best and the brightest, coming from all over to study art with the true masters. This is a place for a true adventurer. There are six dorms in use currently, but as you step into the office, it is with the determination that from today on there will be seven.
The young woman sitting at the desk is busy applying makeup as you step inside. She looks up, her luminous golden eyes examining you from head to toe. You put on your most charming smile, hoping that she'll return it, but she looks down at her desk again, instead. "Tobi-han?" she asks, sounding bored.
"That's right!" you say, "and I have a request about my dorm assignment--"
She holds up a gloved hand. "Look, if you don't like your roommate, you have to wait at least a week," she says. "And then you have to go through the dorm heads. I'm just a student worker."
"Oh, but that's not what--"
"And," she continues, narrowing her eyes at you, "you've just arrived! How can you even know you want to change rooms."
You wait, but she seems to be finished. Her glare, however, tells you that you'd better think twice before pushing the issue.
• Drop the issue altogether and ask for her name.
• > A true adventurer never backs down! Explain what you really want.
You might not win any points with her this way, but this is what you really want from your time at Colors Academy, and you won't let go of your dream so easily. "I want to move into the haunted dorm," you say. The words ring with confidence and echo around the room as the young woman's expression changes into one of bafflement.
"The haunted dorms," she repeats slowly.
"Yes!" You beam at her.
She's silent for a while longer, but the expression on her face changes to a contemplative one. She props her chin in her palm and her elbow on the table. "Well, you've got guts," she says, and her voice is warm. "You're sure you don't mean the dorm Gin-sensei exploded a few years back? They're a little leaky, but they don't have ghosts."
"No." You shake your head. "I want the brown dorms. A true adventurer doesn't get scared away by ghosts!"
"You'd be all alone. Nobody would be around to hear you scream."
• She's right… Maybe this is a bad idea.
• > You laugh in the face of danger!
You laugh. "I wouldn't have it any other way." You keep smiling at her, and eventually she grins back.
"Well, okay. I'm not supposed to do this, but maybe I'm curious about what you'll find in there." She opens a drawer and fumbles around in it before coming up with a key on a metal keyring with a brown plastic tag. She sets it on the desk in front of her and nods. "Don't die until you've told me what it's like in there, okay?"
"I won't die anyway," you assure her with confidence as you take the key. "But I can't tell you what it's like if I don't know who I'm looking for."
"Midori," she says, still smiling. "Ask for Midori. I'm in the green dorms."
You smile and salute her before leaving. You feel like you really made a connection there, and you'll be staying in that coveted haunted dorm, that lucky number seven dorm. What could possibly make this first day at Colors Academy better?