🏝️ dulces sueños group excursion! 🏝️

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🏝️ who: intrepid adventurers (vacationers?) and more!
🏝️ what: ori organized (origanized?) a group trip to the resort! mass memshare ensues.
🏝️ when: fall 9-10
🏝️ where: dulces sueños resort
🏝️ warnings: threads will be marked as needed for memshares.

[ Hopefully everyone had fun on the Arco Lunar! The morning after the boat departs from the docks, a letter arrives to your mailbox: ]

Hello, intrepid adventurer!

I am excited to have you along for a group excursion to the mysterious new island! In two days' time, let us gather in the town square and set off from there! Please be prepared to stay the night. It will be so fulfilling and memorable for everyone to spend a night on an adventure together!

If you have any questions or concerns, please come find me at my flower shop in town or at the forest farm where I live!

Sincerely,
Oriphi

[ If she accidentally delivered it to a few wrong mailboxes, then... Oops!

On the promised day, once everyone (and likely a few surprise tag-alongs) has gathered or been gathered, Ori distributes little paper bags of snacks to everyone. Inside are cookies, oat snacks, and a freshly-picked apple from her and M-21's orchard. Do with them as you please... Just don't let her catch you throwing it into the sea or something. 🥺 ]

Alright. I think we should head out, then! Thanks for coming along, everyone! I hope it'll be a great time. Oh, and please don't forget to drink plenty of water and use this incredible ointment I discovered on this island! It's called "sunscreen!" Tieflings don't really get sunburnt, but you should use it!

[ And with that our intrepid adventurers set off to the mysterious, dangerous, unknowable... resort island! ]

( This is the ill-fated mass extinction memshare event. Please refer to the event for details on the resort and the plotting post for any specific details for characters' memshares! There are toplevels for each area of the resort (and for the memshare). Enjoy! )

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[associative]

[ He leans back in his chair, a smug look on his face. ]

Are you sure I wasn't just embarrassed?

[framestory]

[ Ellis squints at Gaku while eating his breakfast.

...

He sees how it is. ]

"I'm cute. So, yes."

[associative]

Yeah, you are.

[ He leans forward again, resting an elbow on the table. ]

But I liked Tsumugi. It made no difference to me.

[ After all, when Gaku said Ellis was cute, he seemed pretty detached and even likened him to an idol. ]

[framestory]

[ He nods. It's a fair assessment. Ellis knows how Gaku gets tunnel-visioned sometimes, but...

Hm.

Mm.

Ellis doesn't like this feeling welling up in his chest again: that obsessiveness and over the top possessiveness despite how they're dating already. Gaku is his significant other right now. There is no reason to have those feelings.

He shoves the rest of the breakfast bowl into his mouth to push it down. ]

[associative]

[ Yeah, the way Ellis is suddenly shoveling all that food into his mouth speaks volumes. Gaku watches him, a mildly concerned look on his face. ]

Hey. What's wrong? Are you bothered?

[framestory]

[ Ellis was about to say no, but then he remembers what they talked about yesterday, so. Fine. He'll talk. ]

"I keep feeling a destructive sort of jealousy, even though it doesn't make sense as to why I should. I don't like this feeling. It reminds me when you rejected me for the first time."

[associative]

[ The first time...? Wasn't that when Ellis was in love with him? The thought of what that means makes him a little bit nervous, and he idly drums his fingers on the table. ]

I only have eyes for you, you know. That was the past.

[ It's probably obvious, but he feels like he could do with a bit of reiterating that point.

He knows that Ellis likes him, but beyond that, Gaku really isn't sure where he stands. ]

How much do you like me?

[framestory]

[ Ellis narrows his eyes a bit, but it's from trying to think how to answer Gaku's question. ]

"I don't know how to quantify that."

[associative]

[ That makes sense, honestly. So he'll try to help Ellis quantify it a little bit better. ]

...I didn't think you liked me enough to get jealous over what was in my memories.

[ It isn't out of a lack of confidence or believing that Ellis likes him. He knows that Ellis struggles forming attachments and feeling anything at all for someone else is a big deal to him, so he kind of figured that their relationship was uneven in that sense, that Gaku liked him more. ]

[framestory]

[ In all honesty, Gaku might like Ellis more, but it isn't as if he's a desert regarding his feelings for Gaku. That said, he still hates being clingy and being the one clung onto, so his love language may seem different than most people's. He can't have devotion nor passion. Even if cream puffs were very much the closest things for Ellis to strongly like right off the bat, he can't go past that boundary. His reasoning will come before cream puffs, and so on. ]

"I like you enough that if you were to get seriously injured, I might want to exact vengeance on the person or thing that caused harm to you right away."

[ But he doesn't know if that's a normal people thing. Of course if a friend gets hurt, you'd hate it and want to protect them and all, but Gaku probably understands the weight of those signed words, because Ellis normally wouldn't even bother. ]

"I like you enough..." [ He pauses, before resuming his signing. ] "...that I would fight against my survival instinct for you."

[ ... ]

"Does that help quantify it?"

[associative]

Yeah, it does.

[ He knows the way Ellis is, and how hard he has to fight against his survival instincts just to do normal, simple things. So... he's well aware that this is a big deal. Or at least, it feels like a big deal to Gaku.

Certainly big enough for him to return the favor in kind. ]

I could fall in love with you.

[framestory]

[ Ellis feels slight panic creep up his entire body. Love? The thing that makes him feel obsessed with someone? ]

"The way everyone expresses their love is different, so I will assume yours are the good kind."

[ He hasn't realized it, but... huh. He's actually terrified. ]

[associative]

I don't think it'll be all that different, honestly.

[ Only with more meaning behind what he does. At this point, he'd absolutely beat someone up for Ellis. ]

But I figured I should tell you where I stand right now.

[framestory]

[ Not much different than it is now? Ellis thinks he can handle that. It's not like Gaku has been overbearing and they're still free to do whatever it is that they want to do without much question nor obstacles.

So Ellis nods and smiles a little. He's a little embarrassed, so he averts his line of sight pretty quickly. ]

[associative]

[ He taps Ellis' ankle with his foot. ]

Tell me if I'm ever too much.

[ Gaku knows he can be intense, so he might as well give Ellis permission to tell him to knock it off. ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis nods. Time to start running away from problems a lot less. He looks down at his hands, since he's done with his breakfast, before looking back up at Gaku. ]

"Do you want to take a walk around the island after this?"

[associative]

Sure. Haven’t had much of a chance to explore, huh?

[ He raises an eyebrow as he takes a sip from his mimosa. After all, he knows how much Ellis likes exploring. ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis nods and then grows a little sheepish. ]

"I think it would be fun to do that with you."

[ Since he usually explores solo and that he did a lot of that with Ten. It's just a memory that Ellis had pushed to the back of his mind as much as possible, but it still stings a little when he remembers it, but it isn't because of the "betrayal". It was the amount of investment he put in that was thwarted. What a waste of time. That's partly why he's bitter about it.

But he won't let that grow right now. He has a date with Gaku, and they're going to look around for anything and everything. ]

[associative]

I think so too.

[ So Gaku finishes up his food quickly and gets up, holding out a hand. He’s admittedly a little anxious now that he’s shown his hand to Ellis in terms of his feelings, but he thinks things will be fine. ]

Come on.

[framestory]

[ Ellis takes Gaku's hand and gets up, feeling pretty excited to go explore.

The couple walks out happily... ]