![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
goldmods) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
peacockstop2026-05-15 05:59 pm
TDM 15
【 Thank you for choosing the Golden Peacock, 5-star resort and casino. You are currently registered as a WILDCARD in our system.
★ Mating Season ★ is pleased to announce the start of nesting season in the Golden Peacock! This is a special time where guests are invited to join a series of competitive events to woo potential mates. Everyone is eager to find their perfect match and happy ending! 🍆 💦
Mating games will take place in various locations around the resort. Get ready to flash your feathers and present your courtship dance.
As a special introduction feature, all participants will be interviewed by a ★ Mating Season ★ staff member. Our sweet AI friend 🐦 CHIRPY 🐦 will generate a mate card that is likely to match your gameplay style.
Competitors will be able to browse potential mates on the ★ Mating Season ★ app to connect with those they would like to nest with!
Wildcards are an important part of nesting season. All guests that romantically match with a Wildcard during the games will be gifted a triple extra large payout for being chosen by the newest birds on the block.
Get ready to match and find love! 】
SEED ME IN THE BEDROOM
CLUCK AROUND, FIND OUT
FOWL INTENTIONS
OOC NOTES
▶ All characters on the TDM are WILDCARDS, which means they have not yet been assigned a card value. Suits will not manifest until characters are accepted into the game.
▶ All TDMs are game canon. This TDM acts as the game's May event.
▶ Current characters may top level on the TDM. Any current characters posting to the TDM should note they are current in their subject header.
▶ The top level directory is for new characters only. We want to make sure new characters are prioritized and receive attention! If you would be interested in a game invitation, you can note that in your comment header.
▶ If you aren't satisfied with these prompts, please feel free to check out our LOCATIONS to explore more of the resort!
▶ Smut threads that take place on this TDM can be used for rewards. If both parties in the smut thread join the game, you may retroactively apply the character's initial card values to your 52 bank. If one character does not join the game the thread will not be applicable toward rewards (as that character would not have a card value). The character that does join would still receive a small payout for the encounter. Hopefully it was a fun thread regardless!
▶ We ask you to kindly add content warnings to your threads as appropriate.
▶ If you do not currently have permissions and kinks listed in your character’s journal we suggest leaving a note in your top level of any limits or boundaries for other players to reference.
no subject
[He won't deny it. He couldn't deny it, no matter how much it might be easier, no matter how much it might be "nicer" than dropping so much on someone all at once.]
I'm someone who cares about you a lot. We were friends, once.
[... Or maybe closer? Kazuya thinks... He would have liked to have been more. Would have liked to have had that chance, once Minato had truly come into his own.]
no subject
Oh.
[ If this person is to be believed, they must have been rather close, close enough for him to address him with that quiet firmness from earlier. For that very reason, Minato's expression begins to cloud, brows knit in a perplexed expression. ]
But... I can't remember anything about you. I don't even know your name.
[ He shakes his head. There's no easy way to address the elephant in the cube. ]
So I can't promise that the person you knew still exists, too.
no subject
[Briefly, his gaze looks away. That's one of the harder things about this place. That people can lose their memories so, so easily. That there's always the possibility, if not inevitability that he'll be one of the ones who does the same. That he'll put the people he cares about now through the same thing.]
Minegishi Kazuya. But just Kazuya is fine. And I already know you, Arisato Minato.
["Minato", he'd much prefer. But he'll give that choice to the other boy.]
You don't need to pretend to be familiar with me. You don't have to force yourself to be the person I knew you as. It'll hurt, yeah, but I'd prefer that you were comfortable. Don't pretend to make me feel better.
[Because he thinks that Minato would do that. Try to contort himself into a shape to fit the hole where he used to reside. Kazuya doesn't want that. If he needs to know Minato all over again, if he needs to learn him all over again, so be it.]
no subject
But he shares his name, reassuring Minato that he'd already accepted any future wounds caused by Minato's memory loss. And the way that he continues to address him -- whoever this Minegishi Kazuya is, it seems he already knows that Minato habitually contorts and molds himself to whatever illusions were most pleasing to the other person. ]
...okay. I won't.
[ They must have been truly close with one another.
It leaves him at an impasse, though. Kazuya's already put a firm foot down, discouraging him from trying to scoop up traces of the old Arisato Minato. Treating someone who must have known him quite well like a complete stranger feels wrong, too. ]
Then... Minegishi-san, what should we do?
[ None of this addresses the fact that they're still trapped within the cube. ]
no subject
We could try to wait them out. If we don't give them a show, then they'll get bored. I could also try and teleport us out of here, but things like this sometimes cut off my powers.
[His voice is quiet, just for them. It's always a 50/50 on whether or not the resort does, but he also has hope that maybe because it's not the resort itself, it's still possible.
He rubs the back of his neck, awkwardly.]
There's also just giving in to what they want to do, but I don't think either of us would like that.
no subject
I guess that's true.
[ Minato lets out a long breath before settling down on the floor, drawing his knees up to his chest and wrapping his arms around them. Looks like they'll be playing a waiting game, and if they're lucky, the crowd will tire of them quickly before demanding that a new pair of guests be placed within the cube. ]
Let's wait them out.
[ It's not as if either of them has any place to be. ]
...will you tell me about yourself? It sounds like you know lots of things about me, but I don't know anything about you.
[ And he can give Minato the newbie talk, too, though by now he's beginning to recognize what sort of place he's landed in. ]
no subject
[Minato takes a seat on the floor, and so Kazuya does as well across from him, leaning back on his hands. ]
Let's see... I'm from Tokyo, and from my guess and current understanding, a world parallel to yours. I say that because my Tokyo was invaded by demons, but you know them as "Persona's".
[ Again, maybe one day someone will tell Kazuya that it's supposed to be a secret. ]
Before that, I was a second year in highschool, and was top of my class. I like to listen to music, and got my headphones and mp3 player back from home here pretty recently. If I remember right, we share some of the same tastes in music? [ What else... It's hard to talk about yourself on the spot, huh? ]
no subject
You know about Personas?
[ A version of Tokyo overrun with Personas -- what a chaotic version of that city it must have been. But Minato continues to listen in silence, absorbing everything that Kazuya chooses to share: high school student (though now that he's truly observing Kazuya's face, perhaps he's a little older than that?), someone who liked listening to music. No wonder they'd allegedly gotten along well in the past.
But speaking of music and headphones... ]
Mine are missing. My own headphones and music player.
[ All he had were the lacy underwear he'd been wearing when he opened his eyes, and the strange watch that refused to come off. ]
no subject
[Always weird, considering that he is one, and that Persona's are so close to demons. He knows now they're different, that for all the similarities, they're still separate entities. Separated by a thin veneer, perhaps, but separate all the same.]
When you arrive here... You don't get to have anything from home, unfortunately. They take any personal belongings from you. I'm not sure if they're in storage somewhere, or if they kinda just... summon them? From your home, but it's possible to get them back.
[Maybe his COMP is around somewhere? He really should invest in trying to get that back... It'd definitely be helpful in a bunch of situations that he's found himself in, and would probably find himself in again at some point.
Too bad Yak is too lazy to count cards]yak you lazy beast
So they're not gone forever.
[ It's a relief, even if it's a small one given that the resort apparently had control over all of his former belongings. The headphones currently worn by Kazuya are also proof of the future ability to receive them. ]
How do you get them back?
[ Clothing is likely replaceable. If all else fails, at least he has the tuxedo from the wedding suite. The headphones and music player, on the other hand, would need to be earned back. Nothing else obtainable within the resort could possibly replace them. If possible, may as well get a head start on getting them returned. ]
adds another "yak you [adjective] beast" to my list
Does he realize it? That he does want?]
You'll have to play the game that they set for us. Not this one, [He gestures with one hand at the cube they're in.] but the broader one. The resort wants you to have sex, and have a lot of it. [The hand that he'd used to gesture is held out to Minato, showing off his own suit. A faint spades mark set within a crown on his inner wrist. It's only just starting to darken, but it's not like he hasn't been taking care of himself either.] Once you're "officially" checked in... You'll get one of these on your body somewhere. Last time, yours was on the back of your neck. The point of the game we play is to collect a full deck. I'm currently a "King" of Spades, so if we had sex, that's the card you'd get from me.
no subject
Hearing where his old mark was located though -- that gives him pause. He lifts a hand, resting the tips of his index and middle finger at the nape of his neck. ]
The back of my neck?
[ What an odd spot for something that he needed to keep an eye on. It seemed counter productive, having it someplace that he couldn't check on his own. ]
That doesn't seem very fair.
[ Then again, he'd begun to get the impression that very few things in this place were actually fair. ]
no subject
[ He still remembers, the first time Minato had come to him after having experience just that. Kazuya casts his gaze elsewhere, letting his hand drop finally. ]
The Red Cardinal is the safest place to eat, the owner won't drug any food or drink there. Everywhere else you might have to ask, or read between the lines.