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the springtime meme

Spring is here, spring is here; it’s the most wonderful—ACHOO! Well, at least we can put away the heavy winter coats and not have to worry about being snowed in anymore! The sun is shining, lovely showers are washing away winter muck and bring rainbows, flowers are blooming, and birds are waking you up before your alarm. So, what will spring have in store for you this year?

directions

1. Comment with your character, series, preferences, etc. in the subject.
2. Roll a number between 1-20 with the RGN for a role.
3. Reply to other comments and play the scenario out!
4. Don't open any locked doors, okay?



1. SPRING CLEANING ✿ Do we have to? I know, spring cleaning is a dreaded time of the year, but think about how lovely your home will be once it’s rid of all that dust and all the things you’ve acuminated since last year! Breath in that fresh pine scent!

2. FLY A KITE ✿ One of the best things to do when it’s windy outside is to go fly a kite! Just be sure not to loose the poor thing in a tree!

3. START A GARDEN ✿ Though a lot of flowers are supposed to be planted before winter, you can still go to the local nursery and get tons of plants just waiting for a new home! Get dirt under your fingers and enjoy the process of landscaping.

4. JUMP IN PUDDLES ✿ Okay, so it’s a little silly, but what else are you supposed to do during spring showers? Sit inside like you did all winter? No!

5. NEW CLASS ✿ With everyone coming out of hibernation, now is the time to try something new! Have you always wanted to learn how to cook or paint? Maybe take a martial arts class or learn a new language. There is so much to do!

6. SPORTS ✿ With warm weather coming, a lot of outdoor sports like baseball and basketball are staring up again. Are you going to root for the home team? Join one and get killed during the training process?

7. PICNICS ✿ Sunshine, yummy food, all of your friends… who could ask for anything more? Picnics are a wonderful way to enjoy the weather and catch up.

8. HIKING ✿ Some of us hate winter because we’re cooped up inside all the time and going outside would risk out necks. So with warm weather and the lack of ice, go and enjoy the newly opened mountain trails.

9. FARMER’S MARKET ✿ Now that everything is in bloom and waking up from the winter, it’s the perfect time to go to an outdoor market of any sort and see what is on sale.

10. CAMPING ✿ Better yet, why not make it a whole weekend trip? Enjoy roasted marshmallows again, stargazing, bird watching, fishing, and more.

11. FLOWER VIEWING ✿ A popular event, especially if a city has an area dedicated to such trees, watching flowers bloom has been a tradition in some countries for years. It’s especially fun to keep an eye out for when different trees will bloom.

12. HUNT FOR CLOVERS ✿ A certain holiday is coming up, and what better way to commemorate it than have some extra good luck? Just don’t try to catch any leprechauns.

13. SPRING BREAK ✿ Whoohoo! Time to grab some bathing suits, sun tan lotion, and hit the beach! It’s party time! With no school for a week and people flocking to tropical locations, how can someone not have fun?

14. ALLERGIES ✿ A not-so-fun part of spring is the sneezing and watery eyes that come from it. Better stock up on tea and medicine!

15. ART IN BLOOM ✿ A term used by a lot of museums, many new exhibits are hitting the art and history scenes. Is there a favorite painter coming around again? Is there a new collection a museum has been keeping a secret? Buy a ticket and go find out!

16. PAINTBALL ✿ Who doesn’t love to get dirty and beat someone though sheer determination and tactical superiority without hurting them too badly? Make sure to wear the armor, or you’ll have more than just some minor bruises.

17. SPRING FESTIVAL ✿ Who doesn’t love a little tradition? Ranging from the May Day celebrations to the Chinese New Year and International Astrology Day, there are all sorts of events going on all over the place. With music, dancing, food, and a plethora of traditions, some of them going back centuries, there’s a lot to do!

18. OUTDOOR CONCERTS ✿ And of course, how can one ignore all the new concerts going on? While indoor concerts are nice, warm weather makes it easier to travel, and hearing music outside where voices can really carry is especially fun. Maybe make a party out of it and light a few bonfires and have some barbeques.

19. SPRING FASHION ✿ Some say that this is the best part of the season: putting away all of those coats and gloves and scarves in favor for everything that is brand new, light, breezy, and full of fresh colors, bold prints, and more! Do you hate shopping and are dragged into it, or are you on of the residential experts ready to hit the runways?

20. WILDCARD ✿ Is there an activity we forgot? Did you want to roll again or maybe combine some ideas? Go for it!

Comments

[carcinogenetics]

[ Looks like they're hunting for clovers - and it looks like Karkat is in a pretty foul mood about it. It's one thing to suddenly land in 90s Japan, it's another to be forced to do something so utterly alien to him that he can't make head nor tails of it. Humans were weird. ]

Why are we looking for a four leaf one? That's so stupid. There are lots of perfectly serviceable three leaf ones!

[reloves]

That's the whole idea!

[ Minako lets out a sound that might have sounded like a long-suffering sigh if it was anyone else at all who made the sound, but since it's Minako all it sounds like is maybe a tad overdramatic. ]

Since they're so hard to find, they're much more desirable than three leaf ones! [ She stands upright from where she was trying to find a four leaf clover, proudly putting her hands on her hips and puffing out her chest. ]

Just like me, right? Sure, there's a lot of girls out there, but none of them are as cute as I am! People always want the best they can find!

[carcinogenetics]

Did you just equate yourself to an annoying, useless weed?

[ He huffs and rolls his eyes at her, peeling off the leaves from the one he'd plucked. ]

If we find this it better make us find one of those green monstrosities of myth and legend. Y'know, they shit gold, or something?

[reloves]

[ Wow, Karkat!! Even if she's an annoying, useless weed, she's your annoying and useless weed, okay.. but at least Minako does keep the thought to herself for now and shrug off what he's saying while she's going back to bending over to look among the plants. ]

Wasn't that a goose with golden eggs or something like that? I mean-- I'm not going to touch some guy's poop just because it's gold! I'm not that desperate! [ .. she thinks. ]

[carcinogenetics]

You mean a hissing devil creature, don't you? [ He's pretty sure that 'goose' is the human word for 'hissing devil creature'. They always gave things weird names. ] I wouldn't want any eggs that came from one of those. They'd hatch into more, and be made of gold, and be a gigantic fuck you to everyone who thought they could scare off flesh and blood creatures.

[ He picks another three-leafer. ]

[reloves]

[ Suddenly Minako laughs. It's hard not to with the way Karkat puts things into words, really. There's a wide smile on her face when she glances over at where Karkat is standing. ]

Don't tell me you're afraid of a few of those things. [ Not that it would be weird if he was, they're pretty vicious.. ] What if a group of them attacked me? [ Are you just fishing for some dramatic romantic action, Minako.. ]

[carcinogenetics]

[ He opens his mouth to say that any idiot in their right mind would be scared of those things - but then she presents that stupid scenario and he clacks his teeth shut. He roots through the shamrocks, a blush high on his cheeks. ]

What kind of a shithead do you take me for?! Of course I'd try to help you out then - or maybe I'd need to help them out, since I've seen what you can be like!

[reloves]

[ Okay, okay, Minako seriously can't deny that she really likes teasing Karkat. But it's only since his reactions are always the best - and she does try to not push it too far. Even if that's hard for Minako "no limits whatsoever" Aino. ]

You think I'm scarier than those things..? [ Unfortunately that limit hasn't been reached yet, so she makes fake tears actually well up in her eyes. ] S-so you're saying I'm hideous like them too?!

[carcinogenetics]

[ OH SHIT.

Karkat feels panic rise in him like bile. He's going to spew words of frantic reassurance like vomit if he isn't careful. He has to keep cool, think of a way to say this calmly and smoothly. ]

Of course you're pretty than a fucking goose, you idiot! I wouldn't make out with a goose, would I?!

[ Nailed it. ]

[reloves]

[ Completely nailed it.

At least it does seem to reassure her-- although she was faking those tears to begin with, but still, she brightens up considerably when she hears that. And she can't help but let out a few giggles at it. It's all so very much like Karkat, after all. ]

Well, I'm glad to hear that from you. [ And she fully well means it, even with those giggles before it. ] When it comes from you, it's only the highest of compliments, huh? You wouldn't say anything you don't mean!

[carcinogenetics]

I'm an absolute bastion of integrity. Don't forget it! [ But he's still pretty flustered, and he only mumbles it as he plucks up another shamrock and twiddles it between his claws. ]

[reloves]

[ Minako isn't about to let him off easily. Apparently, at least not today, since she's already moving over to where he is, practically standing directly behind him with a smile on her face. ]

So, did you find me a four leaf yet?

[carcinogenetics]

[ He flusters, turning around to look up at her and snapping. ] Who said I was looking for you?!

[ You did, Karkat. Probably. ]

Get down here and help me!

[reloves]

Huh? [ At first she just sounds surprised - even though it's fake surprise, considering that Minako - despite her apparent ditziness - is actually very good at telling what people are like. And she knows Karkat so well by now that most of the time she can exactly predict his reactions. Like now, for instance. But that's also why she knows how to counter it. ]

Karkat, you're not going to be like some handsome prince who brings the beautiful goddess the gift she desires..?

[ She even works up a melodramatic sniffle. Who cares if it even works or not, Minako just has to do this since it's just the way she is.. ]

[carcinogenetics]

[ Predictably, he bristles. How can she just - just say something like that! Dammit, he needs to up his game. ]

Just - just get down here, all right?!

[ Gonna smooch. Gonna be SO SMOOTH. She won't even see it coming. YEAH!! ]

[reloves]

[ To his credit, she at least doesn't see it coming. She thinks Karkat is just being Karkat, so after a melodramatic sigh to continue her little act over here she does squat down again to be on the same level as he is while he's trying to look through the field of tiny plants. ]

What, do you think you'd be able to be a better prince down here?

[carcinogenetics]

[ He bumps his jaw against hers in an aggressive attempt at a kiss. ]

[reloves]

[ Sure, it might not be a perfect kiss - few of her kisses with Karkat have ever been, really - but that doesn't stop Minako from enjoying it all the same. In fact, he can probably feel the way her lips curl up a little as they kiss before she moves to kiss him in return. Not as aggressively, maybe, but there's some definite force in it as well, claiming his lips as her own and not even caring who might see them out here together. Minako's never had a particular amount of shame, especially not about this stuff. ]

[carcinogenetics]

[ He's surprised at her vehemence, but it definitely pushes him to kiss her a bit better than he had been. He isn't a bad kisser exactly, just often kind of brash when he initiates. It gets better under her lead, and he puts his hands on her shoulders as he tilts his head and opens his mouth for her. ]

[reloves]

[ It's little things like this that are what she loves about him. He might be brash and he might try and fail sometimes, but Karkat is the type who always keeps trying all the same until he gets it right, even if it might take a while.

So it's easy for her to melt into the kiss when he touches her like that, moves his head-- and she's the one to initiate this time, moving her tongue out of her own mouth (although not too quickly, Minako's not actually as extremely rash as she seems) and instead into his. ]

[carcinogenetics]

[ He puffs up a bit in pride that she's enjoying the kiss. He meets her tongue with his and slips his lips against hers, trying to ignore the slight sound of suction as he properly fits to her. His hands slide up to her shoulders, then into her hair. He even scoots a little closer to her.

She's so... he feels like he can get to know how she really is when they're being intimate like this. She's so loud and brash and bulldozing (much like him, in a way, but with exuberance rather than irritability) but it's not how she really is, not deep down. She's thoughtful and sweet and maybe a little insecure and the gentleness of it comes through in times like these.

That's why he takes one hand from her hair and laces his fingers with hers. ]

[reloves]

[ It's at moments like this that she feels like she can just lose herself for a moment. Minako might not seem like it on the outside, but she's so concerned with keeping up appearances and making sure she's silly in the right company and serious in the other right company that it takes more of a strain on her than she'd ever like to admit.

But she doesn't have to do that when she's just with Karkat. Then she can just be silly or serious or even show that she's not feeling incredibly great or admit she's worrying about something. Because for all his yelling, Karkat would never judge her. And he'd probably yell at other people who'd dare to say something about her just as easily as he'd yell at her. So when he grabs her hand and moves into his hair, she knows she doesn't have to hide for a moment. She doesn't even have to be strong like she's always so used to being. It's okay even if for a moment she just wants to hide in him as she plays with his tongue.

Her free hand slips to his hips, lingering there on the sides. ]

[carcinogenetics]

[ He shifts a little to accommodate her touch. Really, he'd like it if she climbed onto his lap and they continued those kisses, but he's aware that this is a public space. Still, he lingers on that kiss, not letting it end quickly. When he finally has to break off to breathe, he presses on of the clovers to her nose. It's meant to be a sweet gesture, and in his head it was much more romantic than it looked in reality. He flushes again, but tries to keep his composure. ]

[reloves]

[ She lets out a breathless lag at his little half-succeeded romantic gesture, still trying to catch her breath from that kiss just now. But after a few deep breaths and brushing some of her long hair back behind her ear, she mostly seems alright again. ]

Ah, I could go on like that all day.. [ Clearly one half of this duo certainly wasn't embarassed by any of that, nor that it was in public. In fact, Minako is so relaxed that she stretches out her arms and just lets herself drop backwards so she's lying on the clovers, not even caring she's squishing half of them this way. ]

[carcinogenetics]

[ It seemed to have worked. Karkat lets out a breath of relief before throwing himself back down on the clovers too. It's a much bigger gesture than Minako's was, and he lays with his arms outspread at shoulder-level, the elbow of his right arm just a little above Minako's head where she lays. If she crushed some, he crushed lots. ]

Do you want to find a stinking four leafed weed still?