IC 🍫 Open Pawst

[chiencolat]

🍫 KENJO AKIRA OPEN PAWST 🍫

Want to play with Akira? Fetch one of the topics below and let's mix it up!

1.) Welcome to the KiraKira Patisserie! Please let this waiter assist you in choosing the perfect sweet.
2.) You looked troubled, so Akira volunteered to assist you. She'll do anything. Anything.
3.) New neighbors (or dormmates, or w/e) have just moved in next door to you. Go meet them!
4.) This amazing dessert you just finished creating has had all its tastiness sucked out of it by a monster! Can you fight back yourself, or do you have to send up a howl for help?
5.) Akira was testing a new kind of frosting and something has gone terribly wrong. What's worse, she just got knocked off-balance. Now you're stuck together!
6.) What are those sounds of despair coming from the stack of medical textbooks next to you in the library?
7.) Obligatory beach episode! Surfing, beach volleyball, watermelon breaking....tug of war?
8.) Retrieve a prompt from the fluff generator.
9.) fangsty AU: Akira is a Day Class member at Cross Academy and a vampire hunter. She's not sure how she got roped into the Disciplinary Committee too, but....here she is...
10.) Wildcard! Treat me to your own idea.

Comments

[clear_eyes]

[Rikka sighed.] We're studying the same material, you know. [Even if Rikka is the one further ahead...] Helping you would help me reinforce stuff for myself. [But wait. Magic charm? She's curious.] But oh? [She's going to try and crane her head to try and see it...]

[chiencolat]

[ Sorry for not parting the textbooks. Akira's just wrapped up in what she's doing, opening the box. ] You know I visit my family on the weekends, right? My sister made me these.

[ A hand appears over the pile, holding up something small and brown and...fluffy? ] Pomeranian bonbons.

[ Someone has painstakingly put little chocolate curls all over the outside of this candy, then given it a cute little dot face. ]

She's getting really skilled.....

[ AKIRA

AKIRA COME BACK TO EARTH

YOUR HOMEWORK NEEDS YOU ]

[clear_eyes]

[Oh no. You found the chink in Rikka's academic armor.]

Oh my. She really is! They're so cute...!

[That's an ear-to-ear grin she has. Poor homework-san, he's lost them both.]

[chiencolat]

Would you like to try one?

[ You can have this one, if you'd like. Passed right over homework-san's head. ]

[clear_eyes]

Eh? But they're a precious gift from your sister... [And now Rikka feels bad. She never offered to share those hearts and diamonds-shaped chocolates that Mana sent her...]

[chiencolat]

I think knowing they gave lots of people energy would make her happy.

[ A sister is a bit different from a Mana, to be fair. ]

[clear_eyes]

[Yeah, that's a good point isn't it?] ... Well, okay. If you insist.

[chiencolat]

There you go.

[ Here is your smol doge.

Here is her smol doge. ]

Down the hatch...

[ Mm. Miku is getting good at this. ]

[clear_eyes]

Thank you! [And Rikka pops it into her mouth!] ...Mmm! Is your sister studying to be a chef? This is really good!

[chiencolat]

I think she's in the middle of figuring that out. I help out at this sweets shop when I can, you see.

[ When it's in the right country. ...Don't worry about it. ]

It caught her interest.

[clear_eyes]

I see. She's taking after her big sister, then? [Rikka lets out a wistful sigh.] That reminds me though. It's been a long time since I hung out with Mana and the others at the restaurant...

[chiencolat]

You have a special restaurant, too?

[ Homework-san...is so lonely. Akira will have to pay it extra attention later. ]

What kind of food does it serve?

[clear_eyes]

Oh, it's Mana's family's restaurant. [Mana. Akira might recognize it as the name Rikka writes in her notes a lot, paired with her own and inside of a heart.] It specializes in western style cuisine. It's called The Pig's Tail. Her dad inherited it from her grandfather when he married her mom.

[chiencolat]

"The Pig's Tail"...That's a cute name.

[ She's....seen that, yes. It's sweet. ]

So Mana-chan's next in line?

[clear_eyes]

[Rikka laughed.] I doubt it. Cooking's just a hobby for Mana, and her dad's already taken on a pupil. Mana's dreams have always been higher than that. ["Highest office in the land" high, honestly.]

[chiencolat]

That's impressive. You must both be really proud of each other.

[ Anyone who Rikka-chan loves this much had better love her right back! ]

[clear_eyes]

I'm always proud of Mana. [And there's that dreamy look in her eyes.] She's going to be the prime minister someday... ... Do you have someone special like that, Kenjou-san?

[chiencolat]

[ --The juxtaposition makes Akira envision Kotozume Yukari, Prime Minyaster. ]

--I...do, but....

[ WHY IS SHE SUDDENLY AFRAID FOR THE NATION ]

[clear_eyes]

... What? What's wrong? [Rikka honestly looks confused.]

[chiencolat]

...Nothing. Sleep deprivation.

[ Ohohohohoho, laughs Prime Minyaster Yukari, as the capitol building is overrun with cats and whimsy. Akira shakes her head, clearing it, and smiles. ]

I do have one. A special person.

She's really unlike anybody else.

[clear_eyes]

[Rikka isn't convinced, but she smiles from ear to ear anyway.] That's how I feel about Mana! ... I just wish... that I knew how to let her know that.

[chiencolat]

You haven't told her your feelings?

[ Akira sounds concerned. That's...got to be hard. Caring for someone that deeply without them realizing it. ]

[clear_eyes]

... I've never figured out how to. To be honest, Mana has so much love for everyone, I feel like I'd be tying her down. [She sighs.] That's not on her. It's all on me. I'm not that courageous a person...

[chiencolat]

[ Akira thinks this over. ]

This might not be something I have any right to say. But if Mana-chan's heart is that big, then it's got room for lots of different kinds of love, I'd think. And would welcome new kinds.

[ Like that kind that makes someone unable to leave you alone. Or the kind that wants to be closer to people, but doesn't know how.

...Yeah. Akira does know about both of those kinds. ]

Even one that's...unlike...the ones she's felt before. If anything, discovering a new kind of love has been this close all along would probably make her really happy.

[ Akira looks down at her bonbons, closes them up. Got to savor these. ]

Love isn't something you can run out of, after all.

[clear_eyes]

[Rikka winces. Alice and Makoto have both told her this over the years. She really has no one to blame but herself.] What if I'm too late? What if there's someone else who's... important to her like that? [A red ribbon, and a head of long, blonde hair loom heavily in her mind. She's never asked either of them, but Rikka has always been her own worst enemy.]