38th ♫ | No time like the present! Let's set out on a quest!

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THE FANTASY SLICE OF LIFE AU MEME

"Okay, you know how every RPG has the grand heroes chosen by fate to become wonderful friends and stand up to the evil sorcerer/empire/corporation/monster and keep it from destroying the world? This game is not about them."

It's not always about saving the day. For every fate-changing hero running around and saving the world, there's a hundred perfectly ordinary people living out perfectly ordinary lives.

Well, for a given definition of "ordinary" anyway.

This meme is basically just an excuse to play out characters living their lives in a nice, relaxed JRPG setting along the lines of the Atelier or Etrian Odyssey series. There's no hard setting details other than "low fantasy JRPG aesthetic" so feel free to go nuts with the details!

Just drop a toplevel below with some AU details for your character (you can even pick out a character class if you're really into that), tag around and LET'S DO THIS

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[impurifies]

[ Oh, he recognizes her. She's not entirely sure if that makes things worse or better really but she can't exactly back off now. And besides, he doesn't make it sound like it's a bad thing! So she's sure it's fine. ]

Oh, yes, I think so! I think we were in the same grade even if we weren't in the same classes. I'm Yuri Ichimichi.

[ Okay. Introductions Established. That's like, the first round of combat completed, right? The rest of this should be easy. ]

You do a lot of work like that, don't you? Heading out from town and delivering things, I mean. Do you travel very far?

[photoshooter]

[Wow, she, like. Really has heard of him? Prompto rubs the back of his head, surprised--and not unpleasantly so--and makes kind of a noncommittal "ehhh" hum.]

Well, I mean, not usually. I try not to, because it's, uh, pretty dangerous out there and I'm only one guy? [And if he gets hurt, he's fucked. There's no one to take care of him out there or here in town.] But I do end up spending a lot of time not too far off the roads, I guess, looking for wild plants and pond animals and stuff.

[He tilts his head curiously.]

Why? You got a job for me?

[impurifies]

Not exactly? But um...

[ What she wants is an opportunity to do what he does and go where he goes. It wouldn't be fair to launch a request like that at him. Even if he said yes, she'd be nothing but a nuisance and then they'd both be in danger.

So what she ends up saying instead is: ]

Well, I was wondering... if you'd mind telling me about some of the things you've seen out there? I've always wanted to go myself but I'm not exactly adventurer material, am I? So I'll never get to see all that much of it myself.

I know it's a strange sort of request and um-- if you're busy, it doesn't really matter! I just... thought I'd ask...