[OTA] Your Gamer Has Evolved!

[waitingforplayer2]

Who: Chiaki & YOU
What: A change of pace
Where: Carnival grounds
When: D34
Warnings: N/A

A: Closed to Yuugi

With all her friends back at home, Chiaki didn't figure that there would be much reason for her to go back into the Matrix. They'd already spent a week there, anyway; surely they would be moving on by now.

She didn't expect the Matrix to have another surprise in store for her, and so soon. So it was with some alarm that, after waking disorientedly from the couch where she'd accidentally spent the night and blearily slipping off it, she flumped immediately over onto the ground, her new legs not quite supporting her the way she expected them to.

B: OTA

Chiaki's moving slower than usual around the Carnival Grounds today. Turns out that rabbit legs aren't the easiest for walking, so on her way to breakfast she can be found slowly placing one huge furry foot in front of the other, waving her arms madly to keep her balance.

Find her at any other time in the day and she's moving... differently. Running - about three steps, and then falling flat on her face. Leaping - and stumbling when she reaches the end. Hopping - and this seems to go quite a bit better, even if it looks a bit sillier. By the end of the day, Chiaki's bouncy walk has fully adapted into a more natural two-legged hop.

C: Closed to Mitsuki & Tamaki

A little thing like transformation isn't going to stop Chiaki from a promised engagement, so as night falls she's hopping over to the idols' trailer and knocking on their door, a few scribbled-on pieces of paper under one arm and a pair of scissors in her other hand. If the Carnival has no board games, she'll just have to make her own.

Comments

[waitingforplayer2]

"I'm not hurt!" She wobbles as she stands, but once she's back on her feet, she's surprisingly sturdy. Her wide feet and springy joints give her plenty to balance on when she's not moving. "Just changed again, that's all."

[amusicaladventure]

"Oh!" Ash, having managed to avoid changing thus far -- and used to people looking odd -- had almost forgotten that was a thing. "Feet? Legs?"

[waitingforplayer2]

"Both!" She bounces lightly on her heels as she talks to Ash, her ears twitching. "I didn't start with the ears, either, but these are a little trickier to get the hang of."

[amusicaladventure]

"Aww," Ash said, looking down at Chaiki's legs with an amused grin, "and here I never even got to see the original models."

[waitingforplayer2]

"Oh... well, it wasn't really a big deal. I was just human, honestly. A little taller, I guess."

Quite a lot taller. Four feet, she's finding, is a pretty short height to be.

[amusicaladventure]

Considering Ash has two whole feet on her now? Yeah. Pretty short.

"Still bet they were worth seeing." Ash flashed her a wink, before turning back to the problem at hand with a thoughtful noise. "So what are you working with now then?"

[waitingforplayer2]

"They look like bunny legs." She holds up one to show Ash - it's furry, and bent the wrong way from a human's, and a bit shorter than a normal human leg, even for somebody her height. "I've been trying leaping and running. They're a little inefficient."

That's an understatement. They've been extremely awkward all day.

[amusicaladventure]

"Don't bunnies just hop?" Ash said, resisting the urge to poke. "Sounds like you just need to lean forward a little and let your center of gravity carry you on a landing into the next leap."

[waitingforplayer2]

"Like... unbroken?"

That sounds... interesting. Kind of fun? A little silly. If she can even get it to work.

She leans forward, and with her legs' surprising power, leaps forward several feet, but keeps herself leaning forward - and immediately leaps into the next one. "W-woah!"

And the next one, and the next one - hopping non-stop, now, and a bit out of control. Good thing this aisle of the Carnival is organized in a rather straight line??

[amusicaladventure]

"Whoa!" Just like that, Ash found herself running to catch up and keep up -- grateful for long legs and good constitution. "Lean back! Lean back! Or drop your hands down! Either way!"

[waitingforplayer2]

Still waving her arms madly, Chiaki attempted to course correct by leaning back. On her next landing, she goes tumbling, backwards - head over heels - until her somersault brings her back to right herself on her sturdy feet once more.

"W-wahhhh! That was..."

She looks excited. "That was just like a video game!!"

[amusicaladventure]

Ash was gonna ask if she was okay... but with a reaction like that, she clearly was. She stopped next to Chiaki with a sharp exhalation. "Okay. Yeah. I think that's pretty much the secret right there, huh?"

[waitingforplayer2]

"Now I just have to figure out how to steer. And... how to stop."

And how to do so many other things - maybe these would be useful after all.

[amusicaladventure]

"Well, practice makes perfect, huh? So long as you can get places." Somehow Ash kept herself from making a comment about what OTHER rabbit-like traits she might have picked up...

[waitingforplayer2]

"Yeah! I've been having trouble getting places all day... I'm gonna try going around that corner." She braces herself for another hopping session, getting ready to lean into it --

And off she goes!