YOU-kai start!

[idolpro]

Who: YOU-kai
Where: The YOU-kai dorms
When: Day 355, morning

[ You all wake up in bed with your smartphone at your bedside, all of you in your sleepwear, with a message on your phone.

Good morning, newly departed guest stars! You've got new co-stars to meet, a new dorm to explore, and the television in the main room with the "names" of everyone in your unit with flashing empty boxes next to them, waiting for you to each assign yourself a personal color as well as a mythological creature (if that is available to you—some of you will have that option grayed out). Or assign them to each other, really, no one's stopping you.

Once you've chosen your color and creature (or, once it's chosen for you), your closets will unlock with 3 sets of traditional Japanese clothing fitted exactly to your size. Additionally, upon choosing your creature, you might find yourself suddenly with some new appendages (check Player Notes).

Also, the front door is currently locked. It looks like you actually have no choice but to get to know each other for an hour or two before those open up. ]

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[hasavision]

[It really is a shame he can't go invisible anymore (that he realizes), because his current pajama set screams eleven year old and while that may be true, it's frankly so mortifying he almost wishes he could just crawl under the blankets of his? room/shrine??? and stay there.

But he's dead, so that's not really an option.

So instead have a small child trying his damnedest to slip over to the TV to figure out what the heck he's supposed to do so he can get some real clothes.]

[miirai]

... Mii? What are you trying to do?

[ Here's another small child who just seems to look at him with quit a bit of confusion. ]

[hasavision]

[HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO no, it's not actually that much of a surprise. And it helps that it's just another kid.]

Uh, clothes.

[A beat.]

I just wanted to get real clothes.

[Nailed it.]

[miirai]

You have to choose a color and creature on the TV, first...

[hasavision]

Oh... okay. Thank you.

[Ahahaha...]

Where's the remote?

[miirai]

You touch the screen...

[hasavision]

...You just touch it?

[Hello dumbass 90s child here.]

[byallmeans]

[His button-up pajama set seems much less eleven years old, for all that he looks the same age as the last time Wataru saw him. He's much thinner, though, hair a little longer, face harder than before]

[His expression darkens as soon as he sees Wataru]

You, too?

[hasavision]

[It's honestly been so long since he saw Mitsuru, he doesn't immediately note the differences.]

-Ashikawa?!

[Wait... but that means...]

[byallmeans]

[Sure does]

You got out. How did you even...?

[hasavision]

[-???]

Got out?

[byallmeans]

[Sorry, more important things first]

How did you die?

[hasavision]

[I mean

to be fair that's important, yes.

He pauses for a moment because there's an NDA and all, but very carefully:]

There was a landslide.

What happened to you?

[emptymind]

[ leans down a little to talk to him, though putting herself a little closer to eye level probably doesn't do much for reassurance when her whole face is covered ]

Once you select a youkai and a color, the closet door in your own room will unlock. Are you familiar with how to operate a touchscreen?

[hasavision]

[That's. Hm.]

Touch screen?

[Sounds fancy.]

[emptymind]

[ she pulls out her phone to show him ]

If you touch this image, it will respond differently depending on where you touch. If I touch this app, then it allows me to view everyone's names and information.

[ opens the imeeji profiles app ]

And if I touch this, then it will move to a different person's name. Here, you can try to change the page yourself, if you like.

[hasavision]

[Oh... Watching, nodding, and then trying it out on his own phone.]

Whoa.

[emptymind]

The larger screen here works in much the same way. You will need to find the name you were given on this page,

[ indicates his phone ]

And then select the youkai and color beside it with touch.

[hasavision]

[Looking at his profile and making a confused face at his apparent name here before looking up at the TV to find it.]

Oh- here it is.

[And reaching up to poke the youkai section, which currently reads "ungaikyou"

...

It does not change.]

Huh?

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Oh fuck, another toddler? How many of them do we have?

[hasavision]

[>(]

I'm not a toddler!

[Great defense very convincing.]

[carrionmywaywardsun]

But you're soooo smaaaall.

[hasavision]

Toddlers are like, baby sized!

[carrionmywaywardsun]

No, no, toddlers are like this--

[gestures the shape of like, a five year old]

[hasavision]

That's a giant toddler.