seasonality | WEEK 0: MINGLE

week zero: mingle

remaining students: forty-two.

Hey, wake up! Before you're late for school!

The first thing you'll receive when you wake up is a notification: Updated Dorm Wars Standings.

🦋 SPRING: 0
☀️ SUMMER: 0
🍁 FALL: 0
❄️ WINTER: 0

Fall has truly swept over the campus, and the colorful leaves will crunch underneath your feet as you walk through the school. In fact, your adventures might bring you to some new locations where construction has concluded. Take a look around!

On every building bulletin board, as well as on your phone, there's a new posting for this week's Dorm Wars tasks. Check out which answer resonates with you the most, and then get those points for your team! Speaking of your team, it seems like Office Hours are open for all Dorm Heads if you'd like to chat with them. Maybe see if there's anything you'd like to redeem a voucher for?

Once again, a now familiar ringtone plays from every student's phone. The screen will automatically open to the Student Directory. Everyone's ID Cards with their wonderfully flattering and fitting pictures are now out there for the world to see. How do you feel about yours?

A few classes in particular have been highlighted with open enrollment and can be joined for the week:

Finally, there also appears to be a hay ride attraction for everyone to enjoy. Yes, you can ride the tractor. No, you can't cause property damage. In fact, it seems like as you enjoy your hay ride or tractor joy ride, you may hear the occasional growl of a bear.... And just in case you need a nice cozy place to have all these deep, important conversations, a bonfire is located at the central campus lawn with blankets and wooden logs available for everyone to sit on - plus supplies for s'mores! Yay!

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When you're reading for it...

[she flips the page. and nods, reddening a little.]

It's hard not to see it.

Ah, on the page, you mean.

Yes, I thought it was undeniable as well. Tragically overshadowed, though perhaps that was the intention?

[?

of course on the page?

hello?

lux is just talking as if she hadn't just said "OH ON THE PAGE YOU MEAN"?

...

there's a slight delay after lux finishes speaking before byleth nods, still staring.]

[ it's. it's fine. we will just move on because lux is also ??? ]

I have to say, I'm not used to reading a story with intention of brushing aside the primary plot being told. But I've never really read fiction for lessons, before.

[...

...]

Me, neither. It's a first for both.

[she didn't even know who shakespeare was before this?]

In a way, it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, though, isn't it? To read writings of someone from another world - then discuss them with others from even more worlds?

...It feels like a waste to do it like this, though...

We just have to find our own value from it, more than what's assigned to us.

[oh, that's nice. that's a good way of phrasing it. she shuffles her notes, and nods warmly.]

If two people saw us talking in a fictional story, they might say... "gay".

[she's learned so much.]

[ lux's expression falters. ]

I... Suppose they might? Though they'd have little basis for such a theory...

[yeah. byleth nods pointedly. yeah.

yeah.]

I think we're meant to find apt situations to make such assumptions.

Hypothetically, anything could be made apt...

Luxanna, your hair is beautiful today.

[ hmm. ]

My hair is nothing special - not nearly as striking in color as yours, for the way it brings out your eyes.

[byleth fans her hands out in front of her in a see? gesture.]

Your blue eyes sparkle with every beam of light that touches you.

[ lux just wonders if this counts as doing homework or studying or what. ]

Yet the source of that radiant light is you.

[byleth claps.]

It sounds romantic, doesn't it? To tell someone that.

[byleth gasps, a hand to her chest, mock-offended.]

Was what we shared not real?

Gay, question mark?

Though my words were true, we have different ideas of what it was to be shared between us.

[ lux doesn't quite manage to keep a straight face, giggly a little bit. ]

Betrayal. Period!

[byleth poses somewhat dramatically. this is all set off a bit by the monotone voice she's been using for much of this act.]

Betrayal, exclamation mark.

I'll never gay again, fictionally or otherwise.

It's probably for the best. Now that you know the pain of betrayal, best not to risk inviting it again.

[she shakes her head.]

Now I've been inoculated to the pain.

[ oh - for like a split second lux looks genuinely surprised. then returns to her playful smile. ]

Very impressive. I underestimated you.

My power level is growing even now, thanks to laying eyes upon your beauteous form, Luxanna.

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