Stuck In The Wrong Place

[dammitmasa]

Same Old People, Wrong Destination

Today you get a message from the Malnosso. They’ve found a way to send you home. You’ll remember Luceti, but it’s a one way trip. You’ve said your tearful goodbyes and prepared yourself for the inevitable return home. One moment you’re in Luceti, the next you’re not.

But nobody ever said the Malnosso ever got everything right. Sure, you’re not in Luceti anymore. Yes, you’ve lost your wings and barcode. But this isn’t your world. It’s some other world and now that you’re cut off from the Malnosso, you have no hope of ever getting back home. Which means that wherever you’ve ended up, you’ll be spending the rest of your life there.

On the up-side, you’re not the only one stuck here. Someone else from Luceti, also alien to this world, is stuck with you. With the common bond of being strangers to this brave new world, it’s inevitable you’ll stick together. But for how long?

Considerations

1. You can go to any other world you want! It just can’t be one either of your characters are from. You can make up something like a fantasy world, something from a sci fi, or something just like the modern world. Or you can pick a canon neither of your characters belong to.
2. Ideally they should both be from different canons altogether. But this isn’t required!
3. There’s supposed to be no way back. Even genius characters ought to find it impossible. But does that mean all hope has to be lost? For those who have been gone from Luceti a long time, it might be fun if they were given a chance to go back to Luceti and be trapped again.
4. For an optional extra level of complexity, give consideration to your character’s appearance or to their abilities. Will they stand out in this new world? Will they have to hide what they can do? Or will they even be able to use their powers if the source of their powers is gone?


Prompts

1. Day One - You’ve both just arrived on this world and by chance, you run into each other. Two heads are better than one. Now you just have to figure out what to do next.

2. One Week Later - You’ve been in this world a week. Things are starting to sink in. So is the idea of being stuck here. It’s time to start thinking about the long term.

3. One Month Later - Now that you’ve both been here awhile, you’ve learned the ins and outs of your new home. You’re making a living and getting by, but you still think of home.

4. Six Months Later - It may not be home, but you’ve learned to be comfortable. By now, your relationship with your fellow Lucetian has certainly evolved as well.

5. One Year Later - It’s been long enough that you sometimes wonder if you ever did live in a place like Luceti. So what’s life for you like in this whole new world?

6. Other - Don’t be limited by the above. This could be two weeks later or twenty years later! Of course, you can always time skip once you’ve established what you want to do at one time period.

Comments

10 i only have a few so far so

[airbended]

[ Ikki notices the chill, too, but she's more than used to all their pokemon being around the household, and this isn't a top-secret conversation.

It is part of the aforementioned tomfoolery that comes with a seventeen year old girl, sort of.

Ikki's never been good at bushes or beating around them, so she gets straight to the point. ] I want to get a tattoo.

10 yes but they are all pretty

[stillflirts]

[Of all the thing which could come out of her mouth, that one is not what he expected. His eyes widen a bit to show this, but he also looks... well, incredulous. So far removed from the airbenders and their legacy (aside from her personally, of course) his first tattoo association is with the bikers and cueballs and other thugs which sometimes roll through town on the way to the cycling road.

Even Linda perks her ears up at this, mildly surprised.

It'll come to Masaomi in time probably, but---] ...What?

10 years megan does good work

[airbended]

[ Ikki's associated with those thugs before, in the sense that she still talks to anyone and everyone who comes her way. They're nice guys sometimes! A little rough, but...yeah, that's not at all what she meant.

The incredulous look isn't encouraging, per se, but Ikki will grip the counter under her hands and go on. ] I want to get a tattoo. I know it'd be...well, I can't get my arrows, really, 'cause there's no one to give them to me, and I can't do the ceremony here, and there's no one to really measure if I've earned them, but...I think I'm at that level.

So I want to get an arrow. Just one would be okay. It could even be small!

10 years she does, and then Pi did

[stillflirts]

[Arrow---

Aang's arrows. He distantly knew when they came here they were ceremonial and he's heard more about them since in the last ten years, and when recognition floods into his eyes, a light somber note actually also enters them and be brushes a hand over his face, feeling deeply stupid for a moment. Of course she would want those someday. Why hadn't he been expecting this? If he was expecting it he could have tried to create some approximation of ceremony, make it a bigger deal, generally tried to bring her culture, as best he could, do her... he's thinking all these things through as his palm slides down his face, getting his thoughts in order. Linda knows what he's thinking and opens one of her eyes to glance at him, but doesn't comment on it.

When his hand finally falls, he spreads his arms wide, and laughs, even] Ikki, as the greatest airbender in this world, or at least all the regions we've been to in this country, I'm going to go out on a limb and say you can pick if you've earned it, aaand... shame though it would be if you shaved your hair for it, you can get your arrows.

[Plural. She can get as many as she wants, really, he just hopes he knows a guy who can pull them off. He's gotten a few more piercings (to a total of five on each ear, which probably looks perfectly ridiculous he can't help but think, now that he's this "old") but he's never gotten a tattoo. He doesn't know a tattoo guy...

Yes, he's a fretting guy, still]