quaranmeme | MISTLEGLOW: a kissing meme

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MISTLEGLOW: a kissing meme

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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[Force help them. Could the floor just open up and swallow her whole? Why does she find herself in these situations? She should've known better than to not look where she was going, to check for anything hanging over her head. By now she should know what the colors mean.]

You are not using a blaster.

[Sternly because, if that blast bounces around, it'll go through both of them. They'll both be injured and dead, and how would that help the Resistance? Think....think she has to think of something.]

If that blaster doesn't destroy the plant and bounces back, we'll both be dead. Either we wait this out or...

[Please ignore how her cheeks are starting to turn pink. Normally, it wouldn't be a big deal, but this was her friend! Her best friend!]

We kiss.

[ Nobody wants to let him shoot things as a solution. Somewhere in the Force, Baze Malbus is surely feeling his pain. But it is a fair thing to turn down. A ricochet would be no joke for them in these close quarters. Finn hasn't been paying much mind to the colors as the day's gone on. In situations less... disconcerting, he'd have pinned the associations down hours ago, but he's been doing a lot more of either standing for an hour or gunning it until something works and he can power-walk to freedom without another word.

It takes a few seconds for her words to sink in, the color that rises in her face, which is so easy to see when they've only got about three feet of space to occupy together. It looks nice on her, he thinks. Not that she doesn't normally look nice.

Finn swallows. He takes on that entire air that he gets when he doesn't know what he's doing but wants to seem confident about it anyway. And I mean he brings an elbow up to lean against the invisible barrier and everything. ]

We could. You know, save the hour. If you wanted to.

[ And then, because it is still a point of high concern for him no matter how many invisible boxes he walks into today: ]

There isn't anything we have to do.

[If Finn ever breathes a word that Rey blushing looked 'nice,' she may hit his shoulder for it. She wasn't supposed to look nice. She wasn't supposed to be embarrassed about kissing her friend--she shouldn't have to be kissing her friend to begin with! Stupid mistletoe....stupid, stupid plant!]

What about you? Would you want to save the hour?

[Because there isn't anything they have to do. It's more of, if they wanted to. And she didn't want him to feel pressured into kissing her.

Or have him feel like he was pressuring her to kiss him. Kissing was...and should be something that was beneficial for both parties--and now she's thinking about kissing as some sort of trade agreement than something that's romantic or something else connected to love or feelings.]

If you want--and it's something I would be fine with, otherwise I wouldn't have brought it up--we could try, just to see if it'll allow us to move about freely.

[Because these things do require certain types of kisses....so fun times there.]

[ They can raise a lot of mutual agreements on why this mistletoe is, in fact, stupid and an abomination. ]

I don't have big plans or anything. But I am hungry.

[ He went his whole life not getting a chance to really think about things like this. The whole... romance. Thing. Kissing. This day is not the way he ever planned on getting a chance to think about or do them, let alone however many chances have cropped up.

If he spirals out thinking about how much choice anybody really does have when these plants turn up without any permission, though, he's pretty sure it's a long-term crash waiting to happen.

Finn brings an arm up, which takes a bit of doing in limited space, specifically to gesture back and forth between them before he drops it again. ]

So where-? If we did, do we just... pick somewhere? See what happens?

[Perhaps they could figure out a way to ban the entire plant once they're out of here.

Hearing that Finn is hungry has Rey moving to the small pack she has on her hip. One always has to be prepared, and while she does have the lightsaber in there, she does have a power bar. Wordlessly she takes it and hands it over to him, just in case he can't wait the hour.]

It's just an hour, it'll...go by quickly, I hope.

[As for where the kiss should happen..the pink on her cheeks stays, against her wishes.]

Depending upon the color determines where the kiss should be placed--it's happened once already. If it's green, I think that means it has to be a kiss to the forehead. Blue? [She looks back up to confirm that's the color she saw.] I have no clue.

We could randomly pick spots and see if anything works.

[Do they just try...kissing on the mouth? Or on the cheek? Whereas could you possibly kiss someone?!]

[ One would think a person carrying around a power bar just in case and offering it to a friend wouldn't be a big deal, but Finn is a maelstrom of fondness for his friends at literally any given moment in time. Every single day of Finn's life, Rey does something so Rey that he's left in awe. Which would be weird when it's something like how she rolls up socks or whatever, but he doesn't have a frame of reference.

He just has a lot of Feelings. He cannot handle this constant loop of appreciation for people existing as he orbits them. Finn accepts the bar and doesn't open it yet. ]

Makes me wish I'd been paying more attention. [ Mistletoe lesson learned: stop panicking. ] Cheek, maybe?

[ if there's one thing i know about finn, it's that he will definitely make some effort to dance around the mouth kiss because it feels like the most awkward one to suggest outright. ]

[Rey would have a lot of feelings too if Finn had given her a power bar, or any food. When she first arrived here, she hadn't expected anyone to be kind or share food. When Cisco offered her a gummy bear she was hesitant to take it. Nothing was ever given freely, there was always a catch...but more importantly, food was scarce. To have it be given so easily...it was touching.]

Cheek?

[She gives a moment to think it over. Would....would it be okay to just exchange a kiss? A quick one. Just to get them out of this mess and get more food in Finn.]

..We could do that. Do you...or should I?

[Who gets to be the lucky one to be kissed?]

[ He's fine to give her whatever thinking time she needs to take. Not like they're going anywhere, after all. And if the worst they do is wait around for an hour, they've both definitely gone longer standing in one spot. Probably. ]

I can. [ This could be vaguely construed as an "acting as a team unit" situation, and his instinct is often to take that initiative in a team unit situation. Finn smiles just a little, trying for levity. Full effort or nothing, that's the key. ] Then you don't have to lean up.

[ He's only like two inches taller than her and he knows it.

Finn leans down and to the side to kinda go ahead and Do It, but he keeps the movement slow and telegraphed, just in case Rey changes her mind. ]

You're not much taller than me.

[That's what Rey choose to focus on. That Finn isn't much taller than her, and that he doesn't need to lower himself too much to her height. He wasn't as tall as Ren...the man was a tree more than anything. Just tall.

But they're going to do it. They're going to kiss, and honestly she hasn't felt this nervous before. She wasn't nervous when she kissed him on his forehead when she had to leave for Ahch-To, but then again, he was sleeping...he probably doesn't remember that.

Still...she'll stay as still as possible and just...ignore how soft his lips are on her skin and simply wait.]

....did it work?

[ They can be nervous together. One of those little bits of common ground that they find sometimes. Close proximity is a given in this force field thing, but the act of leaning in, even just for a kiss on the cheek, makes it all the easier to realize how warm she is.

Of course, it probably doesn't help on that count that her cheeks are still a little pink.

Finn pulls back to a respectable distance, glancing up. He reaches behind him to feel for that invisible wall, for good measure. ]

No. It didn't. [ It's just getting rude. ] Why would something be that simple, right?

[Thank goodness Finn doesn't comment on the color of Rey's cheeks. That would...that would only make her feel more embarrassed. And possibly make her cheeks pinker.

Well, she should've known something that easy wouldn't have worked. Nothing in this place was ever easy--not that life ever was, but still. This was entirely stupid.]

Yeah, of course it wouldn't be that easy.

[She looks away for a moment, trying to figure out what other kisses they could try...and how awkward they would be.]

Have you ever kissed anyone? [Maybe Finn would know more about kissing than she would.]

[ He absolutely can't help a quick laugh. Nothing long or loud, maybe even only barely a laugh by definition. It's like a two-second chuckle that's all air and no sound. ]

Definitely not. [ Wouldn't be much point lying about it. Maybe cadets somewhere managed sometimes, somehow, but he doubts it. And he wasn't among them if they did. ] What about you?

[ Look, she never did answer his question about having a cute boyfriend. ]

[The laughter from Finn is welcomed, it gives her something else to focus on. Okay, so he hadn't kissed anyone...

And now it's her turn to share. She looks at him with a raised eyebrow and slight laugh.]

No, never. Do you think there was anyone on Jakku I was interested in?

[Rhetorical question there because...Finn's opinion of Jakku is as low as dirt itself.]

[ Look, the only good thing he's ever seen come out of Jakku is Rey, he doesn't make the rules. Or, well, the Falcon is... technically a good thing, too. Did more than enough for them. BB-8 was pretty good. He guesses Poe got off of Jakku, so that must count for something.

The only undeniably good thing he's ever seen come out of Jakku that had been there for years is Rey, and all the rest can go to the back burner. ]

Seemed fair to ask. Did you think there was someone on a Star Destroyer I was interested in?

[The Falcon is an amazing find, and don't say otherwise Finn.

There was a shrug of her shoulders there.]

You've had more social interaction with people than I've had. I mean, I wouldn't have ruled it out...

[Oh gosh, were they really talking about this?]

So...if a kiss on the cheek didn't work...then what?

[ Shoutout to Rey for giving him the benefit of the doubt on it, really. It's nice, sometimes, not having someone assume one way or the other. ]

I mean, there can't be that many options, right?

[ There can't be like. An elbow kiss mistletoe, surely. There's got to be a real limit on how many kisses there can feasibly even be in the world. ]

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