Week one

[letsplayamod]

You've all met Athena, and she's made her point quite clear. She's fully committed to making this world better, and you're the ones who agreed to lend a hand. Something she's obviously quite thankful for.

It's really not so bad around here. Despite the sky, and the state of the land, things are fairly calm. You've got plenty of time to get used to it, and each other. Maybe this'll be easier than it seems.

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[rockymountaindie]

Well, shit, man, I didn't know.

[ A beat. ]

U-uh, girl...?

[ how the fuck does this one work. ]

[treebornekettlegirl]

[There's the question she was expecting from him! Lightning rounding her answers cause she's been through the tedium of the same question that she knows what to anticipate:]

Magical curse from back home. Fell into a cursed spring in China. I change into this every time I'm splashed with water. Hot changes me back to normal. Does that cover everything?

[rockymountaindie]

...What the hell? What kinda... Is this normal for your world?

[treebornekettlegirl]

[Looks down at herself. Shrugs.]

It became normal for us after the first months?

[what is normalcy anymore man?]

[rockymountaindie]

[ Okay. That one he can understand. ]

There's not just a buncha cursed bodies of water to trip into?

[treebornekettlegirl]

Oh no, there are. Hundreds of 'em actually. Most people I know that're cursed too either slipped and fall in or got decked into one by someone else.

[latter of which she... half-intentionally/half-accidentally did to two separate people but alex doesn't need to know that!]

[rockymountaindie]

[ it's fine what he doesn't know won't hurt him!!!! ]

Shit. So you just have a bunch of people who just...turn into girls all over when they get splashed?

[ this is so surreal ]

cw for brief drowning mention

[treebornekettlegirl]

[precisely! also what he doesn't know he can't judge her for!!]

Nope.

[Beat.]

Those guys got animals. Pig, cat, duck... Like I said, hundreds of springs where buncha things drowned, not just people.

[And those are the quote-unquote normal springs. She's omitting the weirder ones like the abomination taro got or the asura, for alex's brain's sake]

[rockymountaindie]

[ 🙏 thanks dude you're a fucking pal ]

...Man... What the fuck.

[ LIKE. WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO SAY HONESTLY!!!! ]

Is there any way to break the curse, or are you just...stuck with this?

[treebornekettlegirl]

[he tries. That, she shrugs after a second of deliberation.]

I'unno. There's been 'cures', but they're all either duds, dead-ends or are destroyed before I can use 'em. Jumpin' in the spring of drowned man's supposed to cure it, but I can't drop everything and go back there on a whim, now can I?

[And the times he did, there was other things happening that kept him from using it. Finishing wringing out her pigtail and adjusting her clothes, she picks up the marshmallow kebab from the fire, now toasted a brilliant golden brown.]

[rockymountaindie]

[ All at once, no longer caught up in the shock and surprise, Alex remembers the fire, taking a few cautious steps away from it. ]

Damn. How long's it been happening?

[treebornekettlegirl]

Haven't really been keepin' track. [After the first couple months or so, she stopped thinking about it to avoid driving herself crazy.] Almost a year?

[aka tfw your char's canon is vague about how much time's passed and operates on comic book time

She pulls a marshmallow off the stick, tossing it into her mouth.]

I got used to livin' with it. Ain't the worse curse I could've gotten stuck with. [It sucks, yeah, but she's never been at threat of being eaten like Ryoga or Mousse. Ranma pulls off another marshmallow, this time holding it out to Alex.]

I mean, it ain't as bad as havin' death hound me like a bitter ex.

[She's cracking a cheeky smile with her joke.]

[rockymountaindie]

[ oh living on that comedy timeline i am so sorry

Alex doesn't smile back. It's not really something he can joke about, really. But he doesn't pull away, either. He hesitates a few moments, looking at the marshmallow as if appraising its chances of killing him.

And then, he takes it, snatching it up fluidly. ]

What was it you said? I got used to it. It became...normal.

[ Pretty fucking miserable thing to become normal, though, that's for sure. ]

[treebornekettlegirl]

[She starts to shoot him a look when he doesn't immediately take the darn snack! It's just food, it won't bite, that's what he's supposed to do! Though once he does, Ranma nods her head in commiseration.]

That's all guys like you and I can do.

[Feasting on her last treat, she wheels on her heel back to Alex's emergency buckets.]

Now, where were we?

[rockymountaindie]

[ Taking a bite of the marshmallow tentatively- ]

Well— [ dude. close your mouth. ] We kinda need to refill this bucket.