@Nani Want to get the glomp on the way to school? If you give me an opening I can write it into my post. It'll be a little while though - flu went through my family last week and is still hanging around, so I'm having to catch up with work first.

@Nani Want to get the glomp on the way to school? If you give me an opening I can write it into my post. It'll be a little while though - flu went through my family last week and is still hanging around, so I'm having to catch up with work first.

Absolutely. I was planning on him stopping right before the school so he could interact with anyone who wanted to talk before they headed to class.

Also Hope y'all are feeling better!

@Lemons Lol For sure when they're babysitting and thought. Maybe they both meet at the park frequently or specifically make plans to go there so they can also catch up when Haru's not playing with his sisters?

Where we landing with class assignments? I'm sort of leaning towards separate classes since Junko and Ryuu will be by themselves in different grades, so I think splitting up the 2nd years might be good too. Could do three and three (which would put Haru with Takaya and Koharu) but I'm also fine with Olive's suggestion of those four together. I mean I'm also fine with every 2nd year in the same class but it feels like a lot hahaha.

I don't think it's the hugest deal since Fey said up front that we're not actually going to be spending much time in class and things will mostly be outside of it (excluding Junko and Ryuu would feel bad too). But three and three sounds fine with me (though the Eikichi post did mention Haru being in the same class, so four and two would also be possible).

Happy to retcon if need be but yeah, hopefully the flow of the rp won’t make class assignments a big deal - gotta keep everyone involved, after all.

True, true. Sometimes I get bogged down in details haha.

Yeah, it probably shouldn't matter too much in the long term, since I'm gonna try to avoid bogging things down with long classroom scenes, but who's in who's class does lend some opportunities for classic shoujo moments on the side, like the traditional Person A asking for Person B who's in another class and causing the whole "Are they dating?" rumors to fly around.

I guess it would make a difference if we do things like a sports festival or cultural festival arc, though, since that would determine who's on who's team or who's running what events, respectively.

D'awww Haru's family is so cute, I love him.

Aaand thar.

I actually didn't realize that Fey was also doing the Click-Clack thing, but it's neat how things turned out.

Wow, did my post just kill this RP?

I think Vertigo is just really busy right now, so it's gonna be a bit until we get Ryuu, but I'm confident it's coming.

@Kensai No, sorry work's been chaotic and I was drained for a couple days. I plan on responding by tomorrow, though I don't know how to get it close to the length of my first post when I'm conversing with another person so do forgive me for that

@Nani, I can’t speak for everyone else, but my intro posts tend to be super long since it’s the first introduction to my character and my chance to really set the scene. I know I couldn’t keep up that length for every post, especially ones with a lot of back and forth dialogue.

In short, I wouldn’t worry too much about post length as long as you’re giving enough detail for others to work off of. Writing should be fun, not laborious.

I'd like to second that, my normal posts tend to be much shorter than intro posts. There are exceptions here and there, of course, but by and large it's like half as long, especially since I went super hard into Mikako's siblings since they're going to play a more major role than Haru's, I think.

There’s literally no one who goes around policing who can post in which sections of the Guild. Honestly, I didn’t even recognize that we were in Advanced until just now.

In any case, if you’re concerned about word count, just add a couple pictures.

@Kensai No, sorry work's been chaotic and I was drained for a couple days. I plan on responding by tomorrow, though I don't know how to get it close to the length of my first post when I'm conversing with another person so do forgive me for that

Ayy, no worries, real life comes first and all that. I've actually been catching up with work cause I was sick most of last week. And length doesn't matter what's important is the interaction between the characters! Looking forward to your post, but no rush at all.

Weekend be comnin' so will endeavour to finally catch up tomorrow!

@VertigoOooookay, now that my brain is functional again, allow me to reiterate: I love that, it's adorable. I would also like to add an additional possible layer of cute: if he found it more difficult to approach her after she got more popular, then as a kiddo she could've seen that and wondered why he wouldn't talk to her much anymore, did she do something to make him mad and he didn't like her now? Him just kinda casually getting roped into helping her and it still having an effect on his life even now just drives it home even further. She was probably sad when he stopped showing up for summers, she always looked forward to him being there.

The one thing I'd like to mention is that you mention 'once she got to elementary school,' as though she would've been putting up the laundry by herself, outside, at five years old tops. She would've wanted to help and stuff, but she just wasn't coordinated or tall enough, yknow? I think it would make more sense if they met in like, third year or so, when she was eight and starting to actually function like a human being. And we could still keep the whole 'he found it harder to approach her' thing, since he could've met her during her summer break, it's like a month and a half with no school, which is plenty of time for them to get acquainted before school and stuff. Though if he was spending time with Mikako during summer, he definitely would've been introduced to Suzuka and Eikichi too, since she used to play with them a lot.

@Vertigo If Ryuu was visiting in the summers and hanging out with Mikako, he most definitely hung out with Suzu and Eikichi too, but idk if you want them to be more than childhood playmates. Eikichi doesn't like trouble if he's not the one causing it, but since it's likely that Suzu and Ryuu will become close, he'll definitely be keeping an eye on the resident delinquent to make sure nothing funny happens with his best friend...

Haha, yeah, my bad, I forgot they start elementary earlier in Japan than here in Europe. Then yeah, let's make it during elementary school! He was only on the island during summers, so I imagine there would've been both moments when Mikako was alone and moments when she was with her friends - so yeah, the avoiding approaching her when she was surrounded with others still works really well B)

As for Suzuka and Eikichi, I feel like he would've definitely tried to avoid hanging out with her when they were around, especially since it was around the time he was 8+ years old, because by then he already had a bad reputation and was likely told not to cause trouble. He might've interacted them with in passing but not enough to really befriend them, at least from his side. So he'd only really get to know them in current day, and probably be veeery apprehensive about it at first! Especially so if he realized that Eikichi was indeed a little put off by the trouble he brought, whether in the past and/or current-day. But I think Ryuu and Eikichi starting out suspicious/sort of avoidant of each other is a fun dynamic, especially since Ryuu will not only become close with Mikako, but eventually cat-friends with Suzuka too, ha.

@Vertigo
So, first off, with regards to Ryuu’s hijinks. Chance encounter sounds great. Maybe they both encountered each other in the mountains then? This could be when they were both fairly young, so Junko would’ve still been a dainty little girl who was doing stuff like lifting small rocks or pushing/pulling trees or stuff like that. Kinda giving the image of a kiddo replicating hardcore training. Kinda like a sealed childhood memory that is vaguely incongruous to their present selves so neither of them made the connection. That being said, maybe later down the line, Junko encountered Ryuu in a scrap with some bullies/delinquents and stepped in? That’d be the incident where she broke her nose, which she treats as a badge of honor because she definitely tossed the dude into the stratosphere immediately afterwards. And maybe there’s some form of ‘fight buddies’ connection afterwards, with Junko offering a hand whenever Ryuuichi needs backup in a scrap, and Ryuuichi never taking that hand because he’s a lone alpha wolf in his head.

Oh, I definitely like the eventual fight-buddies angle! He'd bitch that he doesn't neeeeeed help but still appreciate it, secretly, probably. And yeah, chance encounter and her stepping in when some bullies outnumbered Ryuu, maybe seeking revenge, sounds pretty good. I imagine Ryuu would've tried to protect Junko as he used to do for people back then, only for her to turn the tables and do the same for him lol. I think present-day Ryuu wouldn't connect the dots of having met her in the past at first or even for a while, especially if she was dainty back then and decidedly not nowadays, but once he does realize it, there's definitely some nostalgia for him! Maybe he'll even finally join that judo club...

I think I got everything OOC there? Lmk if I missed something! Caught up on reading the IC as well, and started a post as well, though still kinda flip-flopping between a few ideas for it, hmm.

And yeah, intro posts and ones where you're by your lonesome tend to be bigger on principle, I wouldn't sweat it. I've seen people trying to pad out conversation posts by describing a mail box for three paragraphs (an oldie but a goodie, real example) so... more isn't always better, trust.