April Fools

[tickingheart]

[FAIL!FILTERED TO AOKO AND KUROBA]

Aoko? Kuroba? Tell me you're both back to normal.

[END FAIL!FILTER]

So, did the town just bring a bunch of new people in at once, or is something else going on?

Comments

[tickingheart]

[A pause.]

He and Aoko are gone. But that doesn't mean he managed to leave. The town pulls people back in some times.

[pandorabox]

[ohgeez, Aoko was there too? He decides not to comment]

Gone? What do you mean gone? That means they left, right?

[tickingheart]

Mentally, yeah. Their bodies are still here, wandering around, proclaiming the wonders of this amazing town of Mayfield.

[pandorabox]

... [silence as he absorbs this information]

[tickingheart]

[It's kind of a lot to take in, isn't it?]

[pandorabox]

[just a bit]

What happened?

[tickingheart]

The town brainwashes people for fun.

[pandorabox]

[sharply]

Great.

[tickingheart]

And sometimes it kills people.

[pandorabox]

[sounds all too familiar]

It doesn't turn them into women when they're really guys, does it?

[tickingheart]

No, and don't give them any ideas.

[pandorabox]

It's something the community does.

[tickingheart]

You were in love with me on Valen-whatever Day.



Creepy love.

[pandorabox]

.............................






What.

[tickingheart]

It went something like this.

You ate the magical candy hearts, and then you insisted that I marry you. Or you were going to stalk me. With a kitchen knife.

[pandorabox]

...

That sounds like exactly something the stupid community would do.

[tickingheart]

It's usually holiday-specific here. Val-whatever and the candy, Christmas past and future, November had voting for the new mayor...