fourteenth hit; audio

[inadvertently]

You're all pissing me off!

Say.

[ Here's the thing. Romance is something to be respected. It's something cherished and pure and seeing all of these people acting so lovey dovey is pissing Shizuo off. It's out of the blue and he's unaffected and seriously, seriously? He's not happy.

Of course he just looks like a crazy person screaming at a bunch of happy couples but you know, whatever works. ]

Say, say, say, say, say! How many of you know your date's birthday? Full name? Initials? How many of you even know the name of their hometown or the school they attended! Ahhhh?! Are you even listening! Answer me!

Comments

voice - he can't help himself

[ahappylie]

You seem angry. Maybe you need a nap.

voice -

[inadvertently]

Shut up!

audio;

[skaterbrain]

SHUT IT! SOME OF US DON'T LIKE OUR NAMES, AIGHT?! WHY WE GOTTA TELL YOU?!

audio;

[inadvertently]

[ beat no.

beat... no. don't. ]

You don't like your name

[audio]

[coolportaljumper]

You've noticed the strange stuff going on too, huh?

[audio]

[inadvertently]

Who wouldn't? Walking around like zombies, declaring they're in love when they don't know the first fucking thing about the other person. That attitude pisses me off.

[voice]

[kineticcajun]

I don't t'ink they're listenin', mon ami.

[voice]

[inadvertently]

Maybe I'll just have to make them listen.

[voice]

[kindhearted]

[Oh god this guy is scary.]

U-Um, we're still getting to know one another...

[voice]

[inadvertently]

[ ... that's logical but he's too angry to think about that right now. ]

Yeah?

[Voice]

[havemilkbro]

[Fortunately, Kasuka'e unaffected right now.]

...Brother.

[Voice]

[inadvertently]

[ STOMP STOMP STOMP.

Yeah he's pacing angrily in the living room. ]

Kasuka, you stay inside.

[voice]

[doubleppk]

Jealous?

[voice]

[inadvertently]

What did you just say?

[voice]

[musubi]

But tell us how you really feel.

[voice]

[inadvertently]

I feel like you should shut up.

[Voice]

[averybadfeeling]

"While I am inclined to agree that this particular trend is somewhat... alarming... I do not believe that accusations will help anything. These people are clearly under the influence of some mental compulsion."

[Voice]

[inadvertently]

Whatever it is it's pissing me right the hell off.

[Voice]

[semper_cogitans]

[Robert could name all of those for his partner. And for Helios.

He could name a lot of other things too: the number of subtle stripes on Don's body, the colour gradiation of Helios' wings (and the exact name of the region of his wings where the feathers start to blend from yellow to green), the name of significant people in their lives.]

... I... I kn-know.

...But I... s-suspect most people... d-do not, because it is a Shift. [His voice is overtly bitter.]

[Voice]

[inadvertently]

I don't give a fuck if it's a shift or just people being stupid, this pisses me off. You can't say you're in love and not know these things about the person you say it to!

[voice]

[paladinlost]

Of course I know all of those details. I've been married to her for nearly two decades.

[See? There is still pure and true love out there!]

[voice]

[inadvertently]

... Ahh. That's different then.

[devourthemfirst]

[OAIEHG GOOD GOD THIS GUY... HIS VOICE IS A BIT TOO LOUD]

P-Please stop yelling! You're scaring a lot of people!

[inadvertently]

[ You get a very articulate TCH. ]

Shut up.

[markofthebrave]

[Oh, it's... well. She hasn't heard from him since she had to cauterize his wing. And it's that, more than anything, which makes her want to respond to this and maybe calm him down.]

His name is Monkey D. Luffy and his birthday is May 5th. I'm pretty sure he never attended school...

[...is this someone else who thinks it's an experiment?]

[inadvertently]

[ He seems about ready to fire into another tirade or smash the table again

but he stops at that voice. dark eyebros lifting. ]

... Ah. It's you.

[novelist]

[ a chuckle ]

You could say that finding out those things is part of being in a relationship to begin with.

[inadvertently]

Yeah? If you're claiming to be in "love" then you should already know all of these things. Otherwise you're still "dating" and "in like".

[Alice] [Voice]

[shadedsunlight]

December 15th. Helios Sprensonne. He's from Hunedoara County in Romania, and it gets lots of snow and it's very nice. There's a zoo, an oak forest, and the Poiana Ruscă Mountains. When he was younger, he'd visit some caves near where he lived.

[Voice]

[inadvertently]

Then you're different from the rest of them.

[video]

[upthere]

[Well... to be fair, she doesn't know that much about Eric, either.

So, Ariel just bites her lip and shrugs for the camera. She's kind of too happy about this to think about it seriously, and besides! She'll just figure it all out later.]

[video]

[inadvertently]

What? [ if looks could kill... ]

[Voice/Filtered]

[eyesofremorse]

[Angry-sounding or not... that's actually an interesting set of questions. Joshua's heard a few people on the journals commenting on how strange people have been behaving, and while he's not too worried about being affected by an experiment if that's it - him caring about Estelle and Leonhardt was pretty normal, after all - it certainly does seem like a lot of the couples around right now don't actually know each other all that well.

Sure, people jumping into relationships is fairly normal... but it's still something worth thinking about.]

Some of us do know these things. [Though he won't mention the answers. Even if he's keeping this under a filter just to be safe, it just seems like a breach of privacy to mention things like this without the person in question agreeing to it.]

Why are you asking? [He has a feeling it's because of what a small number others already noted - that people are acting strange - but he'd rather confirm that before jumping to conclusions.]

[Voice/Filtered]

[inadvertently]

Because suddenly everyone's saying they've always been with this other person for no reason at all. But it seems to me that they don't know too fucking much about them.

[gardeningaia]

His full name is Julian Bell and his birthday was on the fourth!

[ SO THERE.

...It helps that they first spoke on his birthday and that he writes and signs his entries... ]

Besides, sometimes you just see someone and know you want to be with them. You don't have to know dry facts like that, not from the start. There's more important things to people than the name of their school. And some of us didn't even go to school! [ ...T-tangent. ]

[inadvertently]

You don't see someone and just fall in love without knowing them.

[selfinteresting]

Do you realize how many of those are things you learn through dating the individual? Unless you have already been good friends, how likely is it to know something such as the school they attended?

[inadvertently]

If you're "dating" you're not going to say "I love you" if you don't know anything about that person. On the first date you don't say "I love you" or "I can't live without you", you don't say words like that until you already know them.

[liberatedliberator]

What if we don't know because the other person themself doesn't know?

[inadvertently]

They don't know?

[cherishedmiracle]

[shizuo

shizuo

you're scaring people 8C

and making some feel bad since they don't know the answer to any of those aside from name/obviously initials--]

E-eh...? A-are you okay, Shizuo...?

[inadvertently]

[ TAAANGHNSAKJHSANNNNN

or just sort of a wordless angry snarl. ]

Video

[zelda_hylia]

[Sheik said not to use the journal this week. He said it was a bad idea, that people had strange things happen to them in the time surrounding Valentine's Day. But this guy had a point, so...]

Do you believe that all of this is unnatural, then? That's worrisome... people are going to be terribly upset when it's all over.

Video

[inadvertently]

[ You can probably hear his teeth grinding. ]

It's no different from kids being fucking stupid anywhere, but it's worse. Yeah. I think it's unnatural.

[concasse]

I didn't realize knowing the school someone attended was a prerequisite for love, shithead.

[inadvertently]

Bastard. That's not the point! I'm saying that people are going around declaring their love when they don't know the first thing about them! That's not love.

[Voice]

[tailasoldastime]

WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE? [Not that Beast knows any of these things... b-but screw that, this man's raining on his parade!]

[Voice]

[inadvertently]

YOU ARE YOU TO ARGUE? [ That's Shizuo. Just one big storm cloud. ]

[Voice] Shizuo bro you need anger management

[asobouyo]

[OKAY I AM JUST GOING TO

COWER IN FEAR OVER HERE OKAY]

Stop yelling! I-it's supposed to be a happy week!

[--wait.]

If you're sad 'cus you need a Valentine, I'll make you lots of cards, okay? Or maybe chocolate, or cookies!

[Voice]

[inadvertently]

[ ... oh it's a little girl.

The angry shout dies on his lips and even if he's still clearly seething, he's not going to curse at a small child. That registers as wrong on so many levels. ]

... Aa. Damnit.