⇨ The Tourist Trap: PROLOGUE

[ringleaders]

Who: Anyone, anywhere in Portland.
When: Any time before the start of the event.
Where: Portland area, in the new reality.
What: Once you've submitted your AU summary, you can use this post to do some CLOSED THREADING to play out some character interactions that happened before the event start. This means that memory regains will not be in play yet. Open top levels are not allowed - these threads are intended to sort out closed interactions between planned backstory connections, during the week leading up to the actual event start.
Warnings: Could be anything.

PORTLAND, AS YOU KNEW IT↴ The shift went unseen and unfelt. One moment you were one person, and the next, another. This before all that, though, in the new life that you remember living here in Portland. No memories of your true self have arisen yet, and at the time this was the only life you knew. Did these events truly happen at all? Or do they only exist in memory?

Comments

[dorkypantsuit]

He doesn't startle, but there's a definite flinch to his expression as he finds himself suddenly being spoken to be a human child. It's not as though he didn't notice the kid, but he he hadn't expected the boy to talk to him. He looks Steven up and down noting the pointed ears, and then he looks around the hallway noting the lack of other people. Hmmm....

"Are you talking to me?"

[starseedling]

Steven nods a little, and takes that as an invitation to approach. He looks him over curiously - this isn't the first time he's seen this man in the building, but it's the first time he's been able to get close.

"I like your tail," he says. "Are you a faerie?"

[dorkypantsuit]

Yeah, he should have expected that when he saw the pointed ears. He didn't though, so he looks startled again for just a moment. Then he smiles, his tail flicking mischievously behind him. Instead of answering he turns the question back on the asker.

"I like your ears. Are you a faerie?"

[starseedling]

At that question Steven looks a mixture of excited and shy - like he is enthusiastic to talk about it, but feels like it needs to be a secret. He puts his finger in his mouth, fidgeting bashfully.

"Yeah..." he says, and then more quietly. "My mom's a faerie queen! So, I'm a faerie princess."

[dorkypantsuit]

"A princess, huh?" Changeling then, for sure. He didn't know if the faerie queen part was true, but there wasn't any harm in playing along.

"But then where's your tiara?" he asks, still smiling and clearly joking around. "You haven't lost it, have you?"

[starseedling]

"I don't have one yet!" he says, without missing a beat. He lifts his hands to put his fingers through his hair. "I could make one though!"

He will show you, random guy, how cool of a tiara he could make.

[dorkypantsuit]

His eyebrows raise. He wonders if the kid means he can make one magically or if he's going to try making one out of tinfoil. Either way, this kid probably had somewhere he was supposed to be.

"I bet you could, but aren't the queen and king wondering where you are right now?"

[starseedling]

Steven pauses to consider that. He'd just slipped out of the house while he and his dad were hanging around, so he should really go back now... maybe this random guy has a point!

"Hmmm..." he says, rubbing his chin. Then he nods, and starts running away. "I'll show you later, okay!?" he calls back to him.

[dorkypantsuit]

He laughs quietly to himself as he watches the boy run off.

"See ya then Princess." He was a cute kid. Naive and uninformed as children tended to be, but cute. The boy would probably tell his parents about 'the guy with horns' and they'd know what he was immediately. If they were smart they'd tell their son to stay away because demons were dangerous. They wouldn't be wrong either.

The stranger pushes such thoughts aside before heading back towards the apartment exit. Whatever, he had a mocha to flirt someone out of. Of course getting coffee doesn't take too long so before more than an hour has passed he's back home in his apartment.