realityshifted | Artifact 03: Brooch of Love

[ Angela had been absent from the Plane for a bit before the whole Octopese fiasco (which is now over for her, thank you!), and is now going back to using the Plane to her advantage. She's currently going through a bag of strange objects, anyone who has spoken to her at length before can probably assume they're all artifacts. At one point she's having trouble keeping track of them all, and thus takes one of the smaller of the group-- a simple ornamental pin-- and attaches it to her clothes before going about reorganizing her bag-o-magic-stuff.

She really needs to learn not to go pinning things that she doesn't understand to her clothing. ]

((OOC: Okay, extensive OOC note for this artifact. Considering the name, you'd think it'd be the jewelry version of Alien Sex Pollen-- and it can be! But that's not all it does. The Brooch of Love alters emotional reactions to the wearer. This means your character can see her as a sibling they never had, a mentor, a pupil, a mother, a rival, an enemy, a best friend, a girlfriend... Or it can simply not affect your character at all. It's an imperfect artifact after all. And because it's imperfect, it will also affect her in the same way. So if your character views her as a little sister, she will view your character like an older sibling. It does not, however, alter memories. So while they'll feel like family, they won't have memories of growing up together. Characters may clue into the emotions being "wrong" while still in her presense or they may not, but regardless, once they're a good ten feet away from her, the feelings will go away.

Basically, use this however you want to. If you've been itching to have your character be in a fight, she can be the enemy. If you think your character needs some cuddles, she can be a snuggle buddy, no strings attached. Need some torment? Angst! She'll have no choice but to indulge, since she won't know any better. I'm cool with everything short of character death, so have as much fun as you want to at her expense. And if someone manages to get the brooch off of her, it'll impact whomever wears it. ♥

TL;DR - Pin thingie affects the emotions felt for the wearer. Pick a relationship, treat her as such, I'll roll with it. \o/ ))

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[He crouches beside her. If he's invading her space, he doesn't notice.] Do they do anything?

[ She doesn't seem to mind space invasion, either. ] Some of them do. Well, all of them do, but I haven't figured it all out yet. [ One of them is a small mirror on a stand. She peers at it for a few moments before setting it down. ] None of them have been particularly useful.

And you're trying to find all of them, right?

[He hesitantly reaches out, brushes her fingers and -- pulls his arm back.]

Ah! I'm sorry!

[ She blushes and pulls her own hand back, glancing at him shyly. ] I-it's okay.

I'm... trying to find one that will help my kingdom.

[ Why is her heart pounding? She bites her lip and busies herself with rearranging the artifacts. ]

[That's an interesting reaction. He swallows thickly.]

A-anything I can do to help?

P-probably not, unless you can think of a way to trigger them. [ She holds up what looks like a piece of coral with small lamps attached to the ends of each branch. ] If you want to try, though...

[He reaches for it, but loses himself in her eyes along the way.]

I can... try...

[ She laughs a little nervously and tucks her hair behind her ear. Breaking eye-contact is almost painful, but she's got to find a way to get her heart to stop pounding and her face from turning bright red and... where is this all coming from? She's always thought Emil was cute, but now she's all flustered! ]

I, um.

[Emil always thought Angela was beautiful but kept those kind of remarks to himself unless prompted. Or simply failed to put them into words, as Marta so often found out. His reaction is similar-- he ducks his gaze, smiles shyly.]

R... right. The artifact. [He takes it, glad for a distraction.]

I think it's something to do with these... [ She leans over and taps one of the lanterns on the branches of the coral. Unfortunately this places her in even closer proximity to him, though she's yet to clue in to that. ]

Let's try it, then.

[He smiles lightly and taps the other lantern to see if it does anything.]

[ The lanterns on the coral start to glow softly, and Angela looks like she's about to say something happy, then.

Splash!

She's soaked. Apparently this artifact can conjure up water.

Angela looks mortified.]

[Emil looks shocked at first, then he starts ... giggling. He can't help it. It's so ridiculous.]

I-I'm sorry--!

[ Angela turns a vibrant shade of red and folds her arms over herself. Once he starts giggling, though, she holds the coral over his head and gives it a good shake.

Hope you don't mind getting a little wet, Emil! ]

[Emil blinks... then cracks up more.]

H-hey! I'm so-- so-- [fshdfhsfds] I'm sorry, Angela, I--

[ She's started giggling too, now that the score is a little more even. ] Hee hee, you're soaked!

[Emil shakes out his hair. His little antenna sticks up again, and his clothes... appear to be unaffected. SUPER CLOTHES OF DARKNESS FTW.]

Huh. Tenebrae was right. This stuff really can stand anything.

[ She giggles and shields herself from the water he sprays by shaking out his hair. Then she leans over and adjusts his hairtenna affectionately, then catches herself and blushes. ]

I should dry us off.

[ Suddenly a little blue genie (http://seikens.com/gallery/dawn-of-mana/spirits/3d_jinn.jpg.php) appears briefly over her shoulder, and she cups her hands, wind swirling up around them. ]

[He blushes at that. fhdshfjdsf affection.

... Now his hair is all poofy. Yay!]

Heh heh... guess we know what that one does.

Yeah. It'll come in handy when Koren and I reach the desert. [ She carefully puts the coral back in the bag. ] If I can figure out how to bottle it.

I'm sure you'll figure something out. [He smiles lightly.]

[ She blushes again and fiddles with her gloves. ]

[He looks away, too.]

Hey, um... nevermind.

[ She looks up anxiously. ] Hmm?

Oh. [ Is that disappointment at the "nevermind?" Maaaaaybe. ]

[He picks at his scarf. After a minute, he tries again.]

I was wondering if... maybe I could... have... dinner with you sometime. If that's okay. I mean-- y-you're probably a little more settled in now than you were before, so maybe you can eat here now, and I could... make it, I guess, and...

[He trails off.]

... forget it.

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