⇨ 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 frowns thinking that over. He thought Ginko would say something dumb, maybe about nudity being gross or something like that. Instead the changeling had actually said something sort of legitimate. It's not like he hadn't used magic to sway humans before, but he still knew involving people in sexual acts against there will was wrong.

"It's not like they have to look..." Not to mention nudity in and of itself wasn't inherently sexual. Public nudity wasn't even illegal in this state, not as long as it wasn't sexual in nature, which probably says something for what he had been doing before he was arrested. They even had an annual naked bike race.

[dontpokethat]

"They don't have to be actively looking; just seeing you could be enough to upset someone, and they can't really help that."

He glances briefly over at Psi. At least it sounds like he's sort of getting through to him, so that's something. On the other hand, he kind of hates seeing him potentially bothered by something, even if it's sort of necessary. "...Should be there in a few minutes."

[dorkypantsuit]

He huffs, crossing his arms in front of him.

"Human morality is way too confusing." The demons main moral code consisted of not physically harming people, but for humans he guessed that just wasn't complicated enough.

"How do you even remember all this stuff?"

[dontpokethat]

That gets a shrug. "Being human probably helps." Or... partly human, anyway. He likes to think of himself as human, even if he knows there are those who would disagree.

"It was definitely a lot to memorize when I first escaped, though."

[dorkypantsuit]

He frowns, thinking back and wondering just what that must have been like for Ginko. At least the demon had a chance to observe humans before jumping in and pretending to be one.

"You're smart though. So I'm sure you figured it out."

[dontpokethat]

Ginko huffs quietly, amused. "Well, thanks. I... guess I did get to be alright at it."

Frankly, he does still have some trouble acting like other humans sometimes - but he's not totally sure how much of that is because of his fae upbringing and how much is just... him. But at least he can mostly get by now.