lostcarnival | ⇨ SHABONDAMASHII

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⇨ SHABONDAMASHII

Who: Everyone!
When: Day 92 - Day 99
Where: Shabondamashii Bathhouse
What: With the Silver Mirror claimed and the animals of Eden relocated, it's time for the carnival to kick back and enjoy an interdimensional bathhouse and the surrounding festival city. Meanwhile, the scattered shards of the Mirror have an unexpected effect.
Warnings: Dark/Light halves acting weird.

THE BIG CLEANSE↴

As the carnival recovers, the Ringmaster has brought it to the gates of a famous interdimensional bathhouse to rest. She won't be joining you for most of it, though she will be checking in frequently and available by radio. She's fixed a large portion of the Silver Mirror after it shattered, but it seems like pieces are missing. She doesn't want to rest until the missing shards are dealt with, and the Mirror itself is locked away safely.

► YOUR OTHER HALF: The shards missing from the Silver Mirror didn't just disappear - after breaking apart in Eden, fragments of the object embedded themselves in the spirits of those not already touched by its powers, and those that had been the most fae-touched. That means, your characters. The effect of this, explained in more detail on the plotting post, is that some characters will be splitting into two versions of themselves: the Light, and the Dark. This doesn't mean good and evil, of course, it's far more complicated than that.

Splits can start happening at any time after arriving in Shabon, and initially characters won't know how to rejoin with their twins. Later on, it will become apparent that they need to reconnect via the shard of the Mirror they share... of course, in order to rejoin, you have to have both halves, and not all twins will be as eager to go back to the way things were before. This plot point is optional.

► SPA DAY: When you're not engaging in metaphysical division, you are free to enjoy the many luxuries that Shabon offers. Things will mostly have an east-Asian bend, like what you would see in the movie Spirited Away, but as long as it doesn't affect the setting much, you can honestly have whatever spa-type services available that you want. Food is served both in restaurants and 'buffet' style. There are also well paid sex workers here, if that is your thing, but make sure to tip well.

► FESTIVAL TOWN: The city surrounding Shabondamashii is largely meant to catch the business of interdimensional tourists. There are frequent parades and other events held, and the architecture is very closely packed. It's easy to get lost if you leave the bathhouse, but it's definitely worth it if you like party. You can pick out a few outfits for yourself and some fun nick nacks, but nothing that would normally require mod approval.

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She sighs, brow furrowed. "Y'shouldn' be in 'ere by yourself when you're tired, 's dangerous."

It is Doll. ~~Maybe a little "darker", but it's her for all intents and purposes.~~ She straightens up and turns back to fetch her towel where she dropped it on her mad sprint to make sure Yuya didn't drown, and comes back to the bath. No polite angling, no attempts to cover herself, she is stark naked and okay with anybody seeing her with nothing on apparently.

"I'll stay here until ya get out. Wouldn' want ya drownin'," she mumbles as she slides into a corner of the bath.

Wow, yeah, that's Doll. Yuya's initially confused, shocked, because he doesn't remember the sign saying this was a mixed gender bath. And then she walks away, and Yuya's gaze follows her for a second.

And then he flushes, letting out a strangled shriek before turning his face away. Well, he's definitely away now. "W-what are you doing in here?! This isn't the girl's bath!"

Wow, such shrieking in a nice quiet place. Doll frowns and balls herself up a little under the water. She looks embarrassed-- odd time to be embarrassed after what just happened.

"Yeah, that bath's for ladies. But if I'm botherin' ya I c'n go..." The idea of bathing with pretty, perfect ladies made her throat close up, and she figured once she was under the water, none of the men would know the difference or even look twice at her. Seemed like an okay plan until now.

Yuya keeps his face politely turned away from his own embarrassment even when he hears her enter the water. Even if he doesn't see her face, though, he can hear her morose tone and then he's conflicted by the urge to assure her so she isn't upset.

"I-I mean, you're a girl, aren't you? So why would you bathe on the men's side?"

"I mean, if we're talkin' jus' the bits, then yeah." She continues to curl into herself. This had been a bad idea, she should go somewhere else, maybe back out into the festival where nobody would see her.

"But 'm not a lady-lady. Ladies are curvy, 'n got perfect skin, 'n soft long hair, aren't all wirey 'n skinny like me. They'd just stare at me. Wonder what I was doin' there. Thought it'd be better here, nobody'd look twice once I was in. 'Least none 'a th'men in the circus looked twice at me."

Yuya wants to point out that no, the 'bits' are the entire points of the separated baths. It's the only qualification.

"I don't think that's what would happen." Joker told him once about how he worked at the circus before the carnival, so he assumes that's the one she's talking about. Granted, it could probably apply to the carnival too, but the carnival isn't that physically close with each other where it would even come up, he's pretty sure. "You don't have to be a lady to be a girl."

It's hard to convince Doll to care about bits when she's used to communal bathing all the time, but Tamaki was very concerned about it before so she knows it makes other people uncomfortable. She hadn't meant to do it, maybe she should get out and run.

"You haven' been 'round many ladies, then," she says with a dour frown. "They've been lookin' at me all day." That's the self-conscious, borderline-paranoia talking. Nobody has been looking at her, she's just convinced they're silently judging her clothes, her body, her face...

She frowns, confused. "What d'ya mean?"

"Not in the baths," he mumbles, rubbing the back of his neck. "And I mean--people all look different, right? You're a still a girl even if you don't look, uh. Curvy. And you're not the one girl who's not, so--it's probably not that bad?"

He doesn't know if what he's saying is even helping, being largely unconcerned with his own appearance and not making ogling other people a habit.

"...what would you know? You're not me."

Doll is managing to look quietly angry while still hugging herself and being small in a corner. Even if Yuya won't look at her, she's staring down the back of his head. "'Prob'ly not that bad', ya'have no idea what you're talkin' about. But I bet you'll say jus' about anythin' ta get me gone, so--"

She starts climbing out of the bath.

Yuya winces, and starts to turn back around--but he stops halfway, remembering, and when he hears the water splash he turns back the other way.

"It's the guy's bath, anyway," he grumbles sullenly. He doesn't know, but he's not about to ask her to sty and explain right now.

Doll stops with her towel wrapped around her shoulders, a flare of annoyance and frustration rising up fast in her. But she doesn't say anything-- what's the point? Nobody ever listens to what she says. She stalks back through the showers and pulls her basket of clothes out to get dressed--

--and given they were the only two in the bath, spotting Yuya's clothing isn't too hard. Doll isn't usually one for pranks, especially not cruel ones. Her jokes are tempered by her empathy.

This part of her has none, though. And so it seems like a very fitting thing to take his clothes and stash them in the women's changing room before she leaves.

Yuya doesn't catch on to the full of her ire with his back turned to her. He knows she was upset with what he said, and he didn't really understand it, but it's so awkward that he doesn't want to broach the topic while he's stubbornly turned away.

So he lets her go, silently, thinking to himself that maybe he'll find her later and ask.

... Maybe not immediately, though, because in half an hour he's going to find himself stranded in the bath without his clothes, no idea where they are, and having to make the hard decision if he's going to actually go look for them or bunker down in the bath until someone else shows up and he can ask to borrow a robe.

This is the worst.

However he decides to get out, when he does, finding Doll proves to be pretty easy. She's at the center of a gaggle of girls, all looking refreshed after a bath and having a grand time laughing about something. It looks like Doll's telling some kind of story, entertaining the group while she fidgets with a cute pink barrette.

Sometime during the story, she meets Yuya's eyes-- and smiles. It's the kind of smile that acknowledges the person, but nothing else. No evidence of the terse exchange they'd just had, or the theft of clothing. Just a Nice to See You smile.

Yuya has an awkward, uncomfortable search around that particular bath with nothing but a towel. He's only spared the social embarrassment of walking into the women's changing side (thank god she didn't take them out into the hallway) by the fact that no one else is currently in there to catch him. He gets dressed immediately.

When he sees Doll again, he's reluctant to approach. Because she's talking to people, and because he's pretty sure she's the one who moved his clothes. And when she makes eye contact, Yuya flusters and looks away as he shuffles on by. Awkward.

Well that's... odd. Doll frowns and tilts her head, wondering why he looked at her so strangely. After a moment, she figures it's best to just ask, so she excuses herself from the conversation and trots after him.

"Hey, Yuya!" Doll bounces up to him, her hair looking like somebody blow dried and curled the ends-- and is that lip gloss?? "Something wrong? What's with the look, hm?"

Yuya cringes a little, stalling before he turns to face her. Her appearance is kind of--odd, given the argument they just had not too long ago. But... maybe what he said actually did do some good? Embrace the girl she wants to be or whatever.

He's also not sure if she's messing with him by playing dumb, so he hunches his shoulders a little defensively. "What look? You're not mad?"

"Mad? About what?" Doll frowns a little, looking genuinely confused about what he's talking about. As far as this one's concerned, they only just ran into each other outside of the baths. She's been in there with her new girlfriends for hours.

Yuya squints suspiciously. "About what I said in the bath... you don't remember that?"

If it happened to Ignatius... something weird is going on here. It's a little exasperating.

"In the... why wouldja be in the ladies' bath?" She squints at him and raises a very suspicious eyebrow back.

Yuya sputters, leaning back as he flusters. "I wasn't!" Just the changing room, briefly. "You came into the men's bath!"

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⇨ SHABONDAMASHII

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LET ME KNOW IF THIS ISN'T COOL AND I'LL FIX.... 8D;

LMAOOO DOLL

HAD A THOUGHT OVER THE WEEKEND, but let me know if you want to just end it at the last. 83b

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