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 Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 5:23 pm
Quote: The line for Santa is miles long and doesn’t seem to be moving. At the front, it appears there isn’t enough help to keep everything running smoothly. Suddenly you are tapped on the shoulder and turn around to find a woman dressed as an elf looking at you with panic in her eyes. “There you are! Where have you been? Why aren’t you dressed? Hurry up! We need more hands up there!” It appears she has mistaken you for one of the missing elves. Do you go along with it? Set her straight? While he wasn't actually in line, Cassian had been waiting for his brother and mom to go through the line for what had been at least 20 minutes. While he understood that they couldn't just hire a second Santa (Santa in two places? At once? Kids everywhere would revolt!), it still felt like a much longer wait than anybody should have been subjected to ever. His two cookies he'd picked up from The Sugar Cube (okay, so they were one's he'd made for them) were long gone, and now it was simply waiting. This particular rendition of 'Last Christmas' was yet another Whammagedon contender, but still not the original, so perhaps he was still in the running. But he was rather sick of it - they'd played the song at least twice since he'd finished his last cookie too. Cassian had pulled out his phone to browse it idly when someone tapped his shoulder, looking at him accusingly. "Why aren't you dressed in your costume?" asked a girl dressed as an elf and Cassian looked up at her blankly as she reeled around on another kid not too far from him as well with the same accusing question. "I...don't have a costume?" Cassian stated, but apparently that was the wrong answer.
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Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 6:08 pm
Jordan wasn't in line for Santa, as far as they knew, and hadn't intended to be in line - the trouble with this particular mall Santa was, they reflected, that it seemed to be understaffed enough the line was crossing over with other lines. Like, for example, the line to the table with a raffle for a free gift basket going on. That had been their line. At some point, though, it seemed like it'd accidentally merged with the Santa line and Jordan had gone in the wrong direction. So maybe they were in the Santa line. Accidents happened. If they hadn't been so rudely intruded on by a local elf, they would have fixed that accident, and everything would have been absolutely completely fine and they would have gotten their tickets in for the raffle. Apparently, however, just raising their eyebrows and staring at her in disbelief didn't seem to mean anything - and they could understand that, maybe. Jordan dressed pretty generically. Who knew how many girls there were in Destiny City with short, curly purple hair and yellow eyes? It wasn't completely a stretch to assume one of their many theoretical doppelgangers might have completely flaked on this. Hell, if they'd signed up for it they would have flaked on it. They hated kids enough to know they should keep quiet about it. They looked at Cassian over the beleaguered elf's shoulder and gave him the look of the long-suffering. "Okay, what do you think my name is? Because I'm pretty sure you have me mixed up with someone else, there's a lot of people with purple hair my height in this city." [wc this thread: 275]
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 7:57 am
Jordan's look was answered with as shrug from Cassian, who frankly had absolutely 0 idea what the elf's problem was. Outside of the fact that 'apparently' they were 'supposed' to be in costume. Cassian was sure he wasn't the most unique looking individual, but the actual confirmation of that fact did make him frown a little. His doppleganger apparently lived in Destiny City along with him (kill your double). The elf girl, with her hands on her hips, tapped a finger impatiently. " Jordona, duh," she sounded snottier than Cassian would have appreciated and he frowned a bit. "Well I'm not Jordona, and I'm definitely not an elf," he said in the most amicable tone he could manage. Apparently it was the tone that meant 'yes, turn on me and get angry', because that was exactly what she did; "Not in that outfit you're not!" she spoke loudly enough that Cassian passed a glance back at the kids in the line to Santa that were now looking at the exchange with some concern. Talk about ruining the spirit of Christmas for kids. "Well you're going to be on the naughty list if you keep talking like that. Seriously. I'm just waiting for my brother to go through the line. I don't work at the mall."
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 5:11 pm
Jordan opened their mouth, raised one finger, and then closed their mouth again with a look of utter befuddlement. What were they even supposed to say to that? It sounded like someone running their name through Google Translate or trying to properly 'feminize' it - point one, no thanks, and point two: who??? Who had a name that close to theirs and was running around doing stupid things like being an elf. If Jordan ever found her, they'd - well. They'd do something. Mostly for making them have this experience in the first place, mainly because it was an experience they would have been happy without ever having. At least the other guy was in this with them. If they were going to suffer like this he was too. That was the rule of misery: two makes it better. "Like he said. I was in line for that booth, actually?" They pointed a finger over their shoulder to vaguely indicate the raffle. "But at some point the lines intersected and I got dragged in here. And that's not my name, so wrong on both counts." Giving her their actual name seemed like a foolish idea. Too close for comfort. "Also, you're ruining the spiiiirit of Christmas for the kids watching, and since I'm not an employee I'm hardly going to make them feel any better even if you did start manhandling me into a costume." [wc: 233 this post, 508 this thread]
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Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 3:53 pm
Cassian nodded along in agreement as Jordan emphasized the spiiiiiiiiiiiirit, though the girl couldn't see it behind her. Instead, she just seemed to grow angrier. At least until another girl - also dressed as an elf - came running over, pausing to pant as she rested a hand on the first's shoulder. "h-Hannah.....j-Jordona and Megan just showed up. They got stuck in traffic," she explained and a flurry of emotions came over Hannah's face as she looked at Jordan....then at Cassian. The cogs seemed to slowly turn in her head before she opened and closed her mouth repeatedly. Then, she simply huffed off back towards the front of the line again. The second girl just waved apologetically and skipped along after her. Cassian stood in confused silence, then looked at Jordan and shrugged. "I can safely say that's the first time I've been mistaken for someone who works pretending to be an elf for Santa pictures...."
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Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2017 6:04 pm
Jordan's face contorted like they were trying to smile but couldn't quite muster up the physical capability to pretend they wanted to do it, emotionally. That lasted for a few seconds before they shuddered, rolled their eyes, and schooled their face back to an exasperated smile. "First time for me too, but not the first time I've been mistaken for that girl. Last time I walked into the Gamestop downstairs I got asked if I wanted to pick up my preorder. Our names are actually close, so." They shrugged. "Hopefully she'll move away eventually? Or grow her hair out."
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 3:49 pm
Cassian laughed, though it was a little unfortunate that this kid had gotten so many mix ups. Maybe they were long lost siblings? Cousins? It was a mystery. Probably a cosmic coincidence, at the most. "Or you'll have to get a shirt that has 'I am not Jordona' ironed onto it," he offered as an alternative. Looking back at the lines - or the alpha line of convergence and chaos that had barely moved 4 feet, Cassian put his hands on his hips, humming under his breath thoughtfully as he looked it over. "Want me to help you find where your other line ended up?"
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 11:37 am
"At this point I think it's a lost cause," Jordan grimaced, shoving their hands in their pockets. "Day's already spoiled and the longer I stick around the more likely it is I'm going to get caught up in something I don't enjoy, so." A shrug. "I think I'm heading out. And you? Saving yourself from the lines or going deeper in?" demon_pachabel fin on yrs? i need this for crown token tbh
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2017 9:06 am
Well that was a shame, but if Jordan was cutting their losses, Cassian wasn't going to blame them for it. "I guess that's fair. I have to wait for my family to finish standing through the line," even if Dean wasn't exactly as excited about pictures with Santa at age 11 as his mother seemed to be about said pictures happening. "But I hope the rest of your day treats you better, not-Jordona." Daekie Yep, I'm fine with this being a wrap smile
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