MISTLEGLOW: a kissing meme

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mistleglow: a kissing meme

Some residents may remember that back in September, a love-drunk and confusion-spell-addled newlywed mage from Gramarye Magic Research let loose some pretty little fairy lights that trapped people in the city in little invisible bubbles until they kissed (and any kind of kiss would do). Well, the same slightly-less-newlywed but no less romantically-inclined mage happens to really, really enjoy the winter season, and thinks it's totally romantic. That particular sentiment is pretty common in the Quarantine - while Hygge is the celebration of familial love, the residents of the Quarantine all agree that that family often includes partners and lovers. Besides that, the folklore of mistletoe as being representative of love and friendship is something that the Quarantine has in common with the universes many residents inhabit.

So, as the last week and a half of December rolls around, residents around the Quarantine will see the result of the resident romantic trying to share a bit of Hygge love - small, glowing sprigs of mistletoe will be floating around the Quarantine, ready to trap people up and make them share a bit of affection.

how it works

● Two or more characters walking under one of these glowing, floating sprigs will get stuck for one hour, trapped inside an invisible enclosure with an approximate three foot radius. The only options are to either wait out the hour, or to kiss! Characters will know they're meant to kiss, because part of the magic spell is the sudden and intense knowledge that they should kiss in order to break free. There is no compulsion to kiss, just the knowledge that that's how to get free. This time, instead of any kind of kiss working, there will be different types of kisses that will work to release the trapped residents depending on the color of mistleglow:

RED: MOUTH ● ORANGE: NECK ● YELLOW: CHEEK
GREEN: FOREHEAD ● BLUE: HAND ● VIOLET: BUTTERFLY

Trapped residents will not know what kind of kiss will work for each color and may have to experiment before finding the right one.

● Post up a top-level for your character with the types of kisses you're interested in threading out, and then go forth and have your character kiss (or refuse to kiss) others!
● This meme is for characters already accepted into the game to play with the mistleglow prompt from this month's test drive meme. If your character is not yet accepted into the game, please use the TDM post!
● This meme is GAME CANON, so any threads played out in this meme can be carried through into the actual canon of the game.
● Much like the TDM, threads on this meme can count for Activity Points, but not the monthly Activity Check.

header image is from santa's factory by Clement Danveau

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Thor Odinson | ota

[worldsaway]

[I don't know if I need to write a starter or anything but hey: Thor is here, under the glowing thing!!]

orange

[inlaid]

[Bryn needs to have her eyes checked. For all of her skill and training, she's failed to notice the glowing fairy lights as they travel throughout the city, instead staring down at a series of pamphlets full of the details of various houses for sale.

And then she runs into an invisible wall, and bounces back, only to run into Thor.]

What the blight--

taako ☂ ota

[spellslots]

[He's out and about a lot, there's plenty of reasonable excuses for him to bump into someone while the mistleglow is overhead]

[volitaunt]

[ Is one of those reasons that the other person hasn't noticed the mistletoe is a thing yet. ]

rin | ota

[imperceptus]

[ For extra drama, these will all likely happen at night, as that's when this goth elf tends to emerge and slink through the streets. ]

rng says green :-)

[scholiast]

(Rin's so goth in fact that Lucretia almost doesn't notice him slinking past her on the sidewalk until the sprig of mistletoe lurking above them kicks in and pulls her about face to face with him.)

Woah– (She stumbles, and almost falls, but something prevents her from doing that. An invisible barrier of some kind? She's leaning against it, and rights herself with a soft curse.)

What are you doing?

Poe Dameron | ota

[volitaunt]

[ It's a good thing that droids don't apparently count with the whole spell thing because Poe's got BB-8 with him like he do.

cheek/forehead/hand for characters under age 21 pls ]

Forehead

[talentedscavenger]

[Rey was coming back to the apartment, cutting through the park when she saw Poe was up and around.]

Hey!

{Concern came over her features as she moved closer to him.]

Shouldn't you be at home? [Out of the corner of her eyes she sees something flickering, and ....Sith spit. There's floating lights above them.]

...Damnit.

Rey || OTA

[talentedscavenger]

[.....she will hate this. Hate this so much.

COME AT HER!]

RNG says Blue

[threatenwithcuteness]

*Lola bumps into another of those barriers, looks up and sees the light floating over them. And starts swearing in Spanish. Let her just get that out of her system.*

...Hi. Can we meet next time without some stupid kiss bubble?

marco ø animorphs ø ota

[brightline]

[Here for all kinds of kisses.]

Neck

[ragnarsson]

[Alright, so statistically, there had to be at least a few people that Ivar would be happy to get stuck under the mistletoe with. Right about now, Ivar is pretty pleased with ending up here with Marco. He's got a very happy grin on his face. He leans up and drags Marco closer to him.]

Remind me to thank whoever set all these little plants up.

loki | ota

[dothelokimotion]

[ he's around and he won't stab you. ]

any preference on colour? 👀

[spellslots]

[Taako's been trying to keep an eye out for the mistletoe to avoid it; unlike last time with the fairy lights, he's not a single dude.

But he's not infalliable; he's joining Loki for a coffee when one of the sprigs flits overhead, and all Taako can do is sigh.]

Can we kill the person who did this? I think like, once was enough.

sam wilson | ota

[wingedman]

[oh, jeez, not these things again]

[buildsomething]

You know, you could just ask me to come over or something. No reason to get fancy.

[Because yep, that is definitely a glowing plant hanging overhead. What is his life.]

Alex Reagan | OTA.

[11calls]

[Alex is basically out wandering, so feel free to run into her anywhere. Open if they know one another or not.]

????

[deploy]

Hey. Time travel girl.

[John's just leaving a local coffee shop near the Perimeter Guard HQ when he spots her, walking in just as he's going. Since he's not a damn animal, he stops to hold the door open. And is promptly punished/rewarded for his kindness by a floating sprig, floating lazily down from the canopy to hang over them. Typical.]

Well this is awkward.

Lola Pacini | OTA

[threatenwithcuteness]

*Literally all of these will start with Lola angrily yelling at the lights, often in Spanish, occasionally there will be cursing.*

All of them? You pick the color!

[tempredmental]

[Keith managed a mildly annoyed look.]

Really? Cheap mistletoe tricks? I'm kind of disappointed.

hana song | ota

[bunnyhopped]

[ Hana came out to have a good time after getting over the flu and is honestly feeling so attacked right now?? ]

you choose the colour, I'm open to any.

[brightline]

[See, despite the whole glowing mistletoe thing, Marco's actually not really bothering to watch where he steps to try to avoid getting caught. In the end, it's just a kiss or two, what's the harm?

Or at least, that's what he's thinking until he finds himself trapped with probably the cutest girl he's literally ever seen.]

Whoa, sorry. Um. Hi. Hello.

[Tilting his head back, he looks upward, chanting silently - 'please be red, please be red, please be red...']

Ragnar Lothbrok | ota

[storradr]

[You know you wanna get trapped in a magic box with a Viking. Any kisses :> forehead, hand or cheek only for any underage characters, please.]

[smokedout]

--Well, shit.

[Look at that. Stop looking where he's going and he's ended up trapped in another god damn magic kissing booth. Dodger stops walking immediately when that flush of knowledge comes, and takes stock of the man who's gotten trapped with him. Well, not bad looking. Actually, he's really not complaining that much.

There's a pause where his eyes scan the area, seeing if anyone is watching, before he speaks.]

You're new around here, huh. How long've you been here?

alex fierro

[garotted]

[ she may be like an angry stray cat at first, fair warning. ]

colour is up to you, I'm open to anything.

[brightline]

[Obviously, Marco doesn't recognize the person he's bumped into because the last time they spoke, Alex was definitely a cat. Still, he has a moment of mild panic when he runs into the barrier, then he orders himself to find some chill, and then he takes a look at the person he's in the bubble with.

He's not sure if the person he's bumped into is a boy or a girl, but either way, definitely attractive. Licking his lips, he exhales a bit.]

Heeeyyy, so this is awkward, right?

Undertaker

[somakemelaugh]

RNG says Ciel and Blue

[sweetlies]

[Ciel remembers September and how he'd managed to avoid that mischief. Whether because of his age or sheer luck, he never found out but whatever it was, it doesn't carry on to this moment.

It's one of the first times he's really venturing out since having his brand removed and he finds himself stuck under a blue-glowing sprig with Undertaker.]

Ah... [This is awkward.]

bryn zethir | ota

[inlaid]

[welp. no red or orange for anyone underage please ♥]

kara styrdottir | ota

[valr]

[tread with caution]

pick any colour you'd like

[fiercestwarrior]

[ Here's the thing, kissing under mistletoe isn't something that happened on Asgard. Kissing for numerous other reasons, yes, but Sif has no reason to believe that these glowing little plants are going to do anything in particular, which is why she is just casually standing underneath one to study it. ]

shigeru miyata | ota

[mysophobic]

[ Shigeru is usually out and about looking for gifts or just drawing. So, you know, he's easy to run into! ]

Yellow

[ragnarsson]

[This is one of the better people Ivar's ended up trapped in one of these bubbles with. He looks up at Shigeru with a bit of a resigned expression on his face.]

So...this is interesting.

Makoto Yuuki | OTA

[fatedcontract]

[What's a few kisses, Makoto isn't worried. Plus it's mistletoe, who takes that seriously?]

let's say....orange!

[brightline]

[Marco's not really all that bothered by the whole kissing thing. After all, he'd been a celebrity back at home, and an actor, so it's not like he's lacking in kissing experiences or anything. Still, he'd also rather choose who he was going to kiss, so he's been keeping an eye out for the glowing mistletoes.

Or at least, he's been keeping an eye out for them most of the time. Trust him to bump into someone he's never met before the moment his eyes flick down to the ground.]

Oh man. Seriously, I am getting really tired of these kissing glowy things.

Aeacinos Ixocia | OTA!

[illusionistic]

[ For anyone who wants to kiss a giant snake man I guess?! ]

Sailor Galaxia | OTA

[superstring]

[Galaxia is not going to be happy with any of this at all no matter who it is with.]

Butterfly

[ragnarsson]

[Ivar doesn't say a word. He just eyes Galaxia the way he might a dog he's afraid might bite him.]

Ciel Phantomhive | OTA

[sweetlies]

[He's not big on affection and will most likely refuse to kiss but he might cave to hand kisses. Like a proper Victorian gentleman.]

Osomatsu Matsuno || ota

[relieable]

[he's thirsty enough, and so am i. all kisses welcome, but please no underage characters. he's an adult and not interested in children!]

green!!

[ichimyatsu]

[Why the hell did he keep getting caught in these weird kiss bubbles with his brothers. Sure, there was a narrow degree of affection among them, and maybe this was preferable to a stranger, but... Ichimatsu grumbled as he ricocheted gently off the invisible barrier of the mistleglow, bumping into Osomatsu.]

...you know, you'd think this shit wouldn't apply because we're siblings.

finn | ota

[bythehand]

[ this week, as the world turns, finn probably walks right into an invisible barrier face-first about 75% of the time, because he's so busy trying to avoid one magic kissing plant that he activates another's trap card.

this is.... the worst. ]

U CHOOSE

[volitaunt]

[ Poe had been trying to catch up with you sorry about that Finn. He was like. Right within shoulder-grab-and-greeting distance when The Mistletoe happened.

He was trying to escape someone who was trying really really hard to get him under another sprig.

And now he is capable of knocking on the air around them and there's a very annoyed looking man being forced to go about his business. ]

Uh.

[ Kriff. ]

It goes away after an hour.

[ He's had to kiss a lot of people today, Finn. ]

adam parrish | ota

[antietam]

[ get ready for some hour-long awkwardness due to this guy's refusal to kiss. ]

ahahaha RNG says red.....it know.....

[ragnarsson]

[Ivar sort of looks like he's considering shanking Adam where he stands. Then again, he always kind of looks like that, so there's no real way of telling how he feels about this situation. One hand rests idly on the rather large knife at his side.]

Out of all the people in this damn city, I have to get stuck with you.

Ivar "The Boneless" Ragnarsson | OTA

[ragnarsson]

[He'll kiss you, but there might be some threatening to stab you that occurs beforehand depending on if he likes you or not.]

best worst idea ever? RNG 4 = Green/Forehead

[tempredmental]

[Oh quiznak... not him. Anyone but him.]