Meet and Greet [Intro #2]

[utopiamods]

You are brought to your campus and shown to your dorm rooms before you are given permission to wander the campus and the town. Meaning Fortitude students can mingle with Conquest students, they can go visit the shop (shop post will be up later today), or speak to the headmistresses and mayor. Each student now has the Exaclan manuals, a uniform, a school bag with either a shield or a sword on it, and the glove used to pull weapons.

But make sure to come to the battle area later to see the exhibition match! 

Take advantage of the free day, the freedom won't last long. Sooner rather than the later the round will start, Players will be named, Weapons will lose their privileges, and the battles will begin. So you might as well go out and make friend or start rivalries, anything to help you along later in the round.

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[dreamcandies]

"Come with me!" Road says, making a charge to take her hand. And from there she goes about tugging her in the direction of the dorms. "You're not from Fortitude, are you? Oh, it doesn't matter."

[untraditional]

Ruka lets herself be dragged along-- the girl seems friendly enough. "I'm in Conquest..." Her voice is a little bit anxious. "W-where are we going? What do you need help with?"

[dreamcandies]

"I'm Road Kamelot." She says, continuing to tug Ruka along by the hand.

"I'm in Conquest too. Red something." She says dismissively, for she wasn't quite paying too much attention. "You're going to help me make a decision."

[untraditional]

"Oh, I'm in red as well... maybe we're room mates." Ruka runs along, not dragging her feet in the slightest. "I'm not the best at decisions, but I hope I can help..."

[dreamcandies]

Road doesn't say much at all after that aside from a faint "mmhmm", busy navigating the way back to the dorms. Once they're in, she does find her way to 2-A again. It's then, by the side of an empty bed that she releases Ruka's hand and tosses her bag down.

"Ruka." What a nice name. Rooting through her bag, she pulls out the skirt and shorts. "Which do you think would look better on me?"

[untraditional]

"Eh? That's what you brought me here for...?"

She doesn't say it like she's displeased-- she's just surprised.

[dreamcandies]

"Hold this." She says, tossing the skirt Ruka's way.

Without even pausing, Road shimmies out of her short pleated skirt to try on the uniform's shorts. Her black knee-high stockings need replacing, but she leaves them on for the moment. She looks up while fastening them up. "What do you think? Cute?"

[untraditional]

Ruka's eyes go wide at that, and she quickly turns away. Her face is red and she's clutching the skirt to herself anxiously. She's so startled she doesn't know what to do, and so flustered she's unable to speak. So she turns towards her after peeking over her shoulder and nods once.

[dreamcandies]

Road is completely unabashed by her own indecent exposure. And if she notices Ruka's discomfort, she doesn't show it. "But would the skirt look better?"

Road looks down at the shorts for a moment, playing her finger into the pocket. Slowly her eyes draw up to Ruka. "Put it on for me."

[untraditional]

"E-eh?" Ruka finally manages to speak. "Wh... what do you mean?"

[dreamcandies]

"Put the skirt on, I want to see how it looks."

[untraditional]

"But..." She shakes her head. In a voice so quiet it might be hard to hear, Ruka anxiously tries to explain. "I can't. I'm... it's girls' clothing..."

[dreamcandies]

"Didn't you hear me? I said put it on. Pretty please." Road's voice has gained a little bit of an edge.

[untraditional]

"I can't..." She holds out the skirt for Road to take. "I-it'd look much better on you... I can't wear it..."

[dreamcandies]

She makes no motion to take it.

She's actually become quite stiff, low lidded eyes shooting a cold stare at Ruka as she sits down on the edge of the bed. You see, Road really likes to get her way.

"Put it on."

[untraditional]

"I'm... I'm a boy, so I can't wear anything like this... it's really embarrassing... I'm sorry."

She slowly lowers her arms and looks away from Road. She feels threatened and embarrassed as well as ashamed. Before she knows it, tears are gathering at the corner of her eyes.

[dreamcandies]

Well, that is unexpected but Road's expression doesn't change. In fact she only rolls her eyes harder, tossing her skirt from home to the foot of the bed. When she looks back to Ruka, the stare is duller but still very annoyed.

"And what part of that stops you from putting on that skirt so I can see how it looks?" She sucks her teeth, tsk. "Do you want to hurt my feelings, Ruka?"

[untraditional]

Ruka looks at Road in shock. She was expecting some sort of rejection after that, but it doesn't come. Road is still pouting and being annoyed, but she doesn't seem to hate her now. Like all the other people who found out like this did. So Ruka is grateful in a way.

"I don't want to offend you," she says quietly, and a tear rolls down her face. "I'm sorry... I'm sorry. I just can't get myself to wear girls' clothes. Guys aren't supposed to wear girls' clothing... I don't want to fool anyone..."

[dreamcandies]

When you've got a sister who shape shifts to men and the like all the time, and lived for as long as she has, you really don't care about these things. They're little drops of rain water in the much larger barrel.

"If you don't want to wear it, that's one thing." Which would annoy Road the most, and she won't relent if that's simply the case. "But if you honestly think you can't wear something for a stupid reason like that, then you must really be dumb."

"It doesn't matter if you're male or female, it's a bloody skirt." She huffs.

[untraditional]

Again, Ruka looks to Road a bit stunned. She's a bit rough and scary, but her message is clear. It's something-- in her memories, anyways-- that no one has ever said to her before. "... R-really? Do you really mean that?"

[dreamcandies]

"I could wear pants if I fancy, but I don't prefer them." She says, and being a supposed child of the 19th century, that is indeed still a bit taboo in theory.

"Now, if you're just putting it on for me it doesn't matter, does it? Nobody's around to see." She fluffs up her bangs with one hand. "But Ruka, tell me, do you really fancy what you think you have to wear?"

[untraditional]

"E-eh... I don't know..." Ruka looks to her feet, and blushes. "I don't think much of what I have to wear... it's embarrassing to put on girl things because I'm not supposed to wear it... not because I hate it."

[dreamcandies]

"Not supposed to, not supposed to, not supposed to." Road imitates sarcastically, flopping onto her back on the bed. She stretches one leg upright into the air, before parting it from the other to look between her thighs at Ruka.

"Who said that? And why are you listening to them?"

[untraditional]

"I..." Road has a point. Ruka still feels intimidated, but it's reassuring to hear something like that. It means maybe she's not wrong. Though Road does it the way she does, it's something new. With a little confidence, Ruka quietly says: "I'll... go change. I'll be right back... so don't go anywhere."

[dreamcandies]

"I won't." Road says with both feet now up in the air, swaying left to right as she points her toes up at the ceiling. Ruka's modesty is rather cute, and she doesn't really think she has the nerve to run away on her -- so she waits.