The Age Up/Down Meme

[kingshaming]

Look, most of our characters have lots of backstory to take advantage of, or headcanons for their future. This is the place to use it!

Prompts

1) People are suddenly shifting ages on the good ship Teremity! It's probably space waves and will fix itself in a day or two, so enjoy reliving your mispent youth.

2) You were always this age! Nothing bad is happening and you all already know each other and it's all cute af. A fluff option.

3) You are this age... and going through your round (or a remixed version) of your Airlocked season. Not for the REALLY young age downs!

Comments

[motherfucking_ghost]

Is that your crown? It doesn't even go all the way around your head!

[scourgingstars]

[There was something cold on Ardyn's face as he settled the accessory back into place, matched by the icy tone in his voice when he answered.]

I would tell you to take it up with my father, but that's hardly a viable option anymore.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Jesus, okay, I'll stop making fun of your little antler, Bambi. But I won't stop making fun of the fact that you need a couple good meals in you, like, c'mon, you're a king, don't you get fed like royalty? Nari or Yuuri are sure to whip you up something good.

Oh, man, hey, do you still have your armiger thing? Do you have anything cool in it? Do you have booze in it? ...Do you have weapons?

[scourgingstars]

[With the most deadpan look imaginable, Ardyn pulled out a five foot greatsword with one hand, planting it firmly in the ground and leaning on the hilt.]

Are you quite happy now?

[motherfucking_ghost]

...Hhhhhhhhooooooooly shit. Old you needs to get his weapons back like immediately. You have got to show that shit to Xander! He's a king with a bigass sword, too. Prince? King. I'm super unclear on that point, but he's fighty royalty too.

[scourgingstars]

... [That looked like it improved his mood a little, a very familiar smirk crossing Ardyn's face.]

You seem genuinely impressed.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You pulled out a sword almost as big as I am with one hand. Yeah, I'm genuinely impressed by that.

[scourgingstars]

Good. Now don't ever touch my crown again and I won't have to hit you with this.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You could hit me with a different sword and maybe I wouldn't complain.

[daughterofthemark]

[Arianna has made it her mission to be the one to get close to Yuuri. At first it was just because she totally wanted to hit that. Then P.A.L. took over, and it started also being about how befriending the Champion Survivalist seems like an obvious good idea. But after their first trial, she's come up with a third reason, one that's far more important than the others: she wants to befriend Yuuri for Yuuri's sake, because being that detached can't be good for anyone.

That's why one morning, after getting up early to exercise skills she hasn't used in years and wasting a lot of ingredients, the Champion Negotiator knocks on Yuuri's door, carrying a tray full of food.]

[tasteslikesurvival]

[Barely. Shapes, mostly. She could barely tell the other champions apart and had to ask one of them to help her read. As for the last time she ate or actually sat down for self-care, well.

Yuuri would have a heart attack if she even spoke of that. She just rubbed the back of her head in a gesture she'd be sure to remember as she moved a little closer.]

Yeah... yeah, she'd think that. That's our Yuki for you.

[serrata]

Hmmm! I'm not sure I'm all that good at smiling brightly [ she says, smiling brightly ] so I might have to go ahead and leave that to you. You're good enough at it, I think.

[ that might have been, god forbid, a compliment??? perish the thought. ]

[scourgingstars]

[oh no oh no he's been complimented by a cute girl-]

Nonsense. Your smile would rival the most vibrant of sunrises and shame even the moon and stars.

[-...too late, he can't be stopped.]

[serrata]

[ it should not be possible to wear a smile that still manages to look like she's staring into the fucking camera like she's on the office.

and yet, somehow. somehow. ]

Now you're the one talking nonsense. Is being a terrible flatterer something they teach you when they're preparing you to lead a country?

[scourgingstars]

That is a talent I picked up entirely on my own.

[serrata]

[ ... ah, good. Company. Exactly what she does not want on this fine, fine morning.

The door only just cracks open -- not enough to get a good look inside but just enough for Yuuri to hear whoever it might be a-knocking today. ]

Yes? Is something the matter?

[serrata]

[ Yuuri's silent for a moment. Eerily so. But then, with no other warning, her hand shoots out and she grabs Kurumi by the collar. ]

And what the hell would you know about Yuki-chan?! When you disappeared for however long, you think you still have any right to call her that? Did you know she used to wait up every night, waiting for you to come back? Did you know she used to cry herself to sleep when she realized you weren't going to?!

[daughterofthemark]

[Sometimes the first step to succeeding at something is just getting your foot in the door, and Arianna isn't afraid to take things literally. So have fun closing that door again. Actually please don't have fun doing that. She likes her toes.]

Indeed! I seem to have prepared an excess of breakfast, and I need assistance with making use of it.

[tasteslikesurvival]

[If you thought Kurumi was going to fight back, you're wrong. She barely moves. Her skin is also cold. Really cold.]

No. I don't have the right. [She... agrees with Yuuri. The old president had to clean up her mess in the end, after all.] I'm not going to argue any of that. Rii-san--I had to leave. Look at me! One of you would have had to kill me. I'm...I'm barely alive as it is.

Tell me if it would be worth letting Yuki go through that.

[serrata]

Oh, then why not take it down to the dining room? I'm sure some of the others would love to try it.

[ that was probably the politest "go away" ever uttered in human history ]

[serrata]

I'm impressed! It sounds like you've had a lot of practice with it.

[scourgingstars]

...Occasionally.

[you absolute whore.]

[daughterofthemark]

[Duly noted... and ignored!]

I'm afraid it's not that great an excess. The surplus is only enough for one person.

[serrata]

That's what I thought.

[ file "politely calling someone a total ho" under "things that should not be possible and yet, yuuri wakasa finds a way to do them anyway" ]

...Did they have things like that back in your world? Executions, I mean. If you're going to be a king, I expect that's the kind of thing you'd have to start getting used to overseeing.

[scourgingstars]

Crimes requiring a judgment of death are rare in Lucis, but...such things do happen, on occasion.