Just a blind date

[gocoldturkey]

Who: Anyone who signed up here, but party crachers are welcome! (if you suddenly feel the urge to have a romantic dinner with someone, idefc!)
Where: Roof of Latimir
When: 14 Feb, 7.00 pm
Rating: G and up!
Summary: VALENTINE'S~
The Log:

((The message probably came around noon: hey! the blind dates will be tonight at seven. make sure you dress warm, it was pretty chilly last year. thanks for signing up! Now, for some of you might have come as a surprise: "I was signed up for what?" though others already know it was coming for them. Either way, you chose to see exactly what it was you were signed up for. Perhaps a secret lover wanted to meet up with you and were too shy to ask? Wherever you come from, the roof of Latimir is your destination.

The weather was only so-so. Winds blow over the cold roof, table cloths of low quality shutter at their touch. It seems Greece has a campfires set up in three place carefully protected by metal bases to prevent fire damage, and around each tables are set up. At the very center, Greece is sitting, and when he sees someone approach, smiles, bringing him or her to the designated spot. He'll bring the small dinner when your date has arrived! He returns to his spot, clearly attending a soup at the center of the event.

The table seems to be set with only a paper flower set in a small dish. Your number, in black, fading marker stands upright before you, and your partner's number sits across from you. Around you may be the other guests, whom you may approach and talk with if you see fit.

If you look at the other side of the card, you may find a few hints and tips to get conversation going. "Cats" "I can kick your ass" "Scones" "Flowers" and the like are scribbled onto every card.

It's a bit nerve wrecking to arrive before your date, but don't be too worried. Eventually, he or she will show up, and if you were lucky, your date and you won't already hate eachother. It's funny how things work.



The number matches are as follows:
(13 - 15) (4 - 11) (8 - 9) (7 - 14) (1 - 10) (6 - 16) (5 - 12) (2 - 3) (17 - 18)

Comment here with your number in the subject line. Make sure you look to see if your match hasn't commented already. When commenting TO your blind date at first, add your number too!!! If you want to mingle with other guests, that's TOOOOTALLY allowed! And finally, if you need to "godmod" Greece a little as far as food things go, that's fine!

And finally, if you need conversation prompts, forgot/lost your number, or have any other questions, my aim is Maypie Lord, or you can PM the account!))

Comments

[eyeforaneye]

[ The drinking? Oh no, he remembers very little of that. It's sort of disturbing for him, actually. ]

No. I thought it before. [ Sasuke shakes his head; don't make fun of his weird English, either. ] It was my first drink.

[abstruse]

((A smile and laugh.)) I should have guessed. I'm terribly sorry about what happened, but we just have to make due with our mistakes, unfortunately. ((he taps the earring.)) Let me be more optimistic about this. Perhaps it will go unnoticed if they ever do send us home. A small token or reminder of the things that have passed here.

Flora laughed.

[eyeforaneye]

She is kinder than us. [ A generic statement, maybe true, maybe not. They'd all been through different things, after all. Seeing a little bit of Clive's life before causes him to feel a mixture of distate and respect for him, oddly enough. ]

I am having it stay. [ In reference to the earring, of course. ]

[abstruse]

Likewise--Ah, I plan to do the same.

((Quiet. He's a little anxious. How much does Sasuke know? He had his own secret stash of information on the young man himself, but he could never think--as a gentleman--to bring it up.))

[eyeforaneye]

[ Sasuke is perfectly willing to let him mull it over and suffer until he gets the guts to ask. Sasuke would be asking a lot of questions himself if he knew that Clive had also seen some things. ]

All this... how stupid. [ He's looking around again, the concept of a "blind date" a little lost on him, really. ]

[abstruse]

Do you think?


((a pause...))

It's a social event to make friends. I highly doubt any of these people will actually get together at any point. The matches are almost incompetent. If you look there, we've a grown woman with a teenage boy. Hmph.

[eyeforaneye]

[ Indeed he looks. Hm. ]

Age is not a big thing. Anyway, teenage is also grown. [ Surely. But he's biased. ]

Dates are not friend... things. [ Sasuke's sure there's a better way to word that but oh well. ]

[abstruse]

They aren't always relationship-things either. I've dated plenty of women I had no attraction to, and they ended up being very useful to me as people and companions.

[eyeforaneye]

... Why did you not use your name, then? [ It's a valid question, especially if Flora was signed up too. ]

[abstruse]

...Sign up, you mean?

[eyeforaneye]

Sign up... Right. [ Mental note made. ]

[abstruse]

Because I originally thought Flora and I would be spending the evening together. This, too, is fine.

[eyeforaneye]

... You can have my person.

[abstruse]

Oh? And who would that be?

[eyeforaneye]

Turkey. You know him?

[abstruse]

I'm afraid not.

[eyeforaneye]

Good. He is an idiot.

[ Sasuke slouches a bit, just the thought of Turkey causing him to look displeased. ]

[abstruse]

I don't really need any more of those in m life. I'm rather through with them.

[eyeforaneye]

[ Sasuke will take that as a compliment. ]

I do not think you are... [ He trails off, momentarily casting about for the word. ] ... patient. Not in that way.

[abstruse]

Not with certain types, no. Naivety is fine, but ignorance is something I will not accept.

((a pause.)) That was probably too complicated?

[eyeforaneye]

[ Definitely. ]

Say it again. [ He clearly wants to make an effort to understand, even if it's frustrating or humiliating. ]

[abstruse]

Naive is someone who doesn't know any better. Ignorant is someone who chooses not to know.

Does that make sense?

[eyeforaneye]

Naive... Ignorant. Mm.

I understand those. [ Far better than he would care to admit in this lifetime, okay. ] You like naive people? [ They're easier to dupe, aren't they, Clive? Sasuke knows you have at least something of a sordid "history" now. ]

[abstruse]

Everyone starts out naive. Consequently, every naive person has potential for brilliance.

[eyeforaneye]

Are you naive still? [ A fair question. Self-analysis is important. ]