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

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[motherfucking_ghost]

[So the day might have started with Church sleepily yelling for Junpei to get out of his bed, and it's only gone uphill from there. Or downhill. There's a hill, and Church isn't sure where he's situated on it, but this sure is happening.]

You know I've got to get a picture. Just so older-you can see. Also because I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna believe it myself when this is fixed. Like a fever dream. Like...pretty sure I dreamed this once.

[scourgingstars]

Has anyone ever told you that you are excessively strange?

[Ardyn tilted his head with a faint smile--strange, sure, but he was kind of cute.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Strange, yes; excessively, not with that word specifically. Smile! [Cuz he's whipping out Ardyn's camera and snapping one or three.] ...Wait, how am I the strange one here?

[scourgingstars]

[look at this million-gil smile that could end wars]

You're the one claiming to have dreamt about me. I know not how the customs of this world work, but in Lucis we might call that 'flirting'.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Ohhhhh, man, then you do not wanna see some of the stuff on this camera. [Or maybe he does.] I mean dream about like...young you? The you you are now? Because like--not in a weird way and not in like a super literal way! I've...let's say I've heard a lot about you?

[scourgingstars]

Are you always this stunningly articulate?

[motherfucking_ghost]

This is downright eloquent. We can't all be super classy.

[scourgingstars]

Then maybe I should compliment your astounding command of the language instead.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I get the feeling I'm being mocked. It sounds a whole lot like you're mocking me right now, and I'm one of the guys that knows what's going on in this world. Kinda. Sorta.

[scourgingstars]

Would I do that?

[motherfucking_ghost]

Does a bear shit in the woods?

...Jesus, do you even have bears? You don't have horses, you have fucked up unicorns. You don't have ducks. You have living cacti. I have no idea if you have bears.

[scourgingstars]

...What the hell is a bear?

[and there it is]

[motherfucking_ghost]

God damn it, just. Insert some other animal that, presumably, shits in the woods, or any environment in which said animal lives. It means yes. Yes you would do that.

For the record, a bear is a big furry mass of...mass. It looks cute but has teeth and claws and will run you down and maul your ass if it feels like.

[scourgingstars]

Oh--so basically something like a garulessa, I see.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You're such a nerd, and your planet is weird.

[scourgingstars]

That's quite impolite, you know.

[motherfucking_ghost]

So is making fun of how I no talk good. Guess we're just both disappointingly impolite.

[scourgingstars]

That we are. What excellent company.

[motherfucking_ghost]

See, and here you are thinking I'm the strange one. You're the young regal shit of a weird world full of supernatural malaria. Who delights in my impoliteness. Pretty sure I'm not the strange one around here.

[scourgingstars]

[Ardyn frowned sharply at the malaria comment, hands dropping to his hips.]

...I delight in anyone's lack of decorum. It gets old quickly, being treated as a saint and savior.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Good, cuz you won't be treated as that here among friends.

[scourgingstars]

...

[Ardyn raised an eyebrow at him, the look on his face defying description except for 'the visible interpretation of the sound of a record scratching'.]

What?

[motherfucking_ghost]

...Nobody's going to treat you like royalty here?

[scourgingstars]

[????????????????]

[Ardyn glanced around like he genuinely had no idea if this was a joke or not.]

I'm not...quite certain that I follow.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You're not--older you isn't a king to us. We were all in this bullshit together, and we're not his subjects, even if we...kind of made a kingsglaive around him--look, you're just Ardyn, but like, a younger kid version of the Ardyn we know, so no, we're not gonna bow or call you Your Majesty or anything. Arianna might call you Lord, but that's just because she's really polite and makes titles for people.

We're...your friends? You--jesus, god, you don't get friendship, that's right, fuck, okay.