thefolder | HOLIDAY ARRIVALS.

HOLIDAY ARRIVALS.

Characters: Everyone! (Only new arrivals are allowed in the Terminal Room)
When: Starting December 3rd, 2013
Where: Terminal Room or all over town!
What: An open mingle log for everyone to play in!

It has been a long November, and the weather is starting to get colder, a side-effect of the worlds merging. Maybe it's welcome, maybe it's a hindrance, but a rumble rises at the start of the day, signalling new Chosen are starting to arrive. Culumon bounces about the Terminal Room, lonely after waiting so long. Stepping outside, the Chosen will find a bit of a mess before them. The city's been through a lot lately.

Outside the Main Terminal, there is a bin with pamphlets to help supplement the information received on the new Chosen's D-Terminals. The information is...a little bit outdated, with last month's troubling reveals.

OOC: Feel free to mark your characters in different locations! They can be just arriving in the Terminal Room you read about in the arrival post or anywhere on the map! Also feel free to mark the day for each thread. You can also request to play with Culumon, too! Have fun, guys!

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Chika nodded. "Yep. It's totally warm," she said. "It'd be really, well, silly if no one was turning the heat on in the buildings when it's this cold out."

Of course, she realized that maybe he wasn't from a place that had heating in the houses. It's not like everyone came from a world that had electricity here, after all. "Though I guess if it's not something you're used to thinking about it might not seem so silly after all."

It wasn't about a lack of electricity for Duo. It was a matter of not having access to it. Yes, there was the Church, but that wasn't around anymore. And certainly didn't really make up for the years of living on the streets.

Duo ducked his head some, hiding his eyes from view as he continued to follow Chika. "The Church had heat. We didn't have it before that." What's this? He's talking about home? Perhaps that chip on his shoulder was melting!

Chika didn't stop or anything like that, but she did frown a bit when she heard that. So it... well... not exactly the same, but she could tell that that meant that this boy's life wasn't really all that good before coming here.

And she knew enough to know that probably pressing for a lot of details wasn't going to be smart. Not now, anyway.

"Oh. I... well, the place we're going has heating, so we'll definitely get a lot warmer."

"Okay. So long as it's warm..." Maybe this girl wasn't so bad after all? At least she wasn't teasing him or anything like that. After a long moment of silence, he mumbles a quiet "Thank you" under his breath.

Chika blinked when she heard that last part, but she smiled. "You're welcome," she said, after she was sure enough that she actually heard it in the first place.

It didn't take them that much longer to get to the apartment building, and Chika opened the door so that he could go inside and they could start doing what they needed too to get warm. "Do you remember what apartment they said you were supposed to be living in?"

They made it inside, and Duo instantly felt ten times better. At least he was out of the cold. That made a huge difference. Still hugging himself rather tightly, he took a moment to glance around. You always looked for possible exits when in a new building. That's one of the things he was taught, after all.

But the question quickly pulled him from his task. He jumped a little, caught off guard, and Duo blushed light pink in embarrassment. He shook his head, causing his braid to whip around him.

"I...don't have anything. I just kind of dropped it all and ran..." And waiting for the chastisement in 3...2...1..

Chika doesn't say anything for a few moments, thinking about what he said for a moment. She... well, she didn't want to to be mean to him or anything by accident. But even so, she can't really blame him for freaking out like he did. It's... well, this whole thing was strange.

"Okay. I... let's get you dried off, and we can see if we can figure out which apartment is supposed to be yours after."

Wait...she wasn't going to yell at him? He looked up at her, wide-eyed.

"I--Sure. That works, I guess." Really, what else could he do? He had nothing here, but this girl apparently had a lot. He could use that, right?

Chika wouldn't go as far as to say that she had a lot, but well... she could help. And that's all that mattered. "Okay. Come on, my apartment's not far from here," she said, before she started walking towards her apartment.

And that was when she realized something important. "Oh! I didn't even tell you my name yet! My name's Chika. Chika Daimon. What's yours?"

Duo easily fell in step behind Chika. A lot or not, she still had more than him. He kept his gaze moving, checking out the rest of building as they walked. He was silent, his slippers making only the faintest of scuffing sounds against the floor. Well, until Chika asked him his name.

"I'm Duo...Maxwell." It's quiet and only slightly hesitant.

Chika smiled at him as they made it to the door. "It's nice to meet you Duo!" she said, before moving to unlock her door.

Of course, before she could really say much of anything else, Biyomon came to to door. "Chika. You're back! I thought you'd be out a little bit longer."

"Well, umm... Duo here needs to get warmed up and all of the snow off of him," she said. "Can you go get him a towel Biyomon?"

Biyomon nodded, before turning around to go find one of those. Chika turned her head back to Duo and moved to grab his hand. "Well, come on. Let's get in so we can get you warmed up."

Duo actually managed a small smile, and nodded his agreement. He was just about to really reply when the door opened and there stood a giant pink bird. He stared at it wide-eyed, not quiiiiiiite sure what he was suppose to do or say in regards to it. It seemed to know Chika, so...that was something?

It went off to go find a towel, and Duo followed it out of the corner of his eyes before Chika took his hand. His attention returned to the girl who had brought him out this far.

"Okay, um...sure, but can I just ask what's up with the giant pink parrot?" He followed Chika into the room and pulled his cap off his head by the bill of it.

Chika blinked at Duo for a moment while she pulled him inside, before realizing just why he was freaked out. "Oh. Biyomon's my digimon partner. He's... well... kinda one of my best friends, and we work together and stuff."

That wasn't really a good explanation though, so she continued. "I mean, the whole reason that we were brought to this world was to help protect it, and helping our Digimon is how we're supposed to do that."

He remained close to Chika, knowing full well the bird was coming back. This whole mess was confusing, and he didn't trust any of them. Especially the creatures that could talk.

"I didn't wanna be here. It's just...better than the cell I was in."

Chika nodded. "Yeah. I... none of us really asked to be here. Even Biyomon and I were taken from another world and brought here. We had it easy though, since my world also had a Digital World and we already knew each other."

Though considering that Duo was saying that it was better than a cell again, he probably wouldn't want to go back home. Even if he was here, right?

"I didn't have anything like this. Didn't have much of anything." He shrugged and looked back at the door, like he's trying to keep an eye out for something. Or someone. Biyomon?

Chika was about to say something, but soon enough Biyomon came back, holding out the towel towards Duo. "Here you go!" he said, sounding pretty cheerful for a digimon who's partner went out without him and brought a strange kid that he didn't know home.

Duo accepted the towel with a quiet "thank you", and stepped back and away from the giant bird. If anything, he moved closer to Chika as he draped the towel on top of his head. He pulled his braid over his shoulder and untied it, his fingers working slowly and carefully to let the chestnut strands free.

"...Doyouhaveabrush?" Duo's cheeks turned pink, and he dropped his gaze to the floor. He hated being so reliant on her, but he knew his hair would just get tangled up if he didn't have one. He just hoped she didn't make fun of him for it.

Chika blinked when she saw Duo move away from Biyomon, wondering what was up with that. But then she's distracted by his question about the brush, and she nods, moving to go get it really quick and moving back to him. She held out the brush for him, and it was pink. Sorry if that really mattered Duo.

"I really like your hair," she said, lips curling back into a smile. "A lot of boys would be all silly and think that having long hair is only for girls, but it really looks good on you."

Pink. Blue. Green. Purple with yellow polka dots. Duo didn't mind the color, so long as it helped to get the tangles out of his hair. If it served a purpose, Duo would use it no matter the color or condition.

He started at the ends of his hair, just like Sister Helen always did, and worked his way up in careful strokes. "Thanks," he mumbled. "I like my hair long. Had it like this for a long time. The braid is just somethin' Sister Helen showed me." Even if he fought her over it the first time...

Chika nodded, not saying anything for a few moments as she watched him brush his hair. Though she had to admit, the braid part was definitely a good idea, since with hair that long it could get in the way all the time without one. "Do you usually have help with setting that braid up, or can you get it done right on your own?"

Duo stopped brushing and didn't look up at Chika when he shrugged.

"Sister always did it. I did it once..." He chewed on the inside of his cheek a moment before he set the brush down on the bed. He thought about asking Chika to help him, but this was something personal. So with a glance to her, he began separating his hair to braid it.

It's slow work, and not very neat when he finished. But it was done, and not all that bad for an 8 year old.

Chika didn't say anything in response to what Duo said when he started to braid his hair like that. She could tell that he was having a hard time, but she chose not to say anything about it.

Besides, it's not like she could do a braid with her own hair any better. There's a reason why she kept her hair in simple pigtails. And well, it didn't really look all that bad either. "So, umm... is there anything else you want to ask about while you're here?"

He let the braid go when he was finished and even cleaned out the brush before holding it out to Chika with a quiet 'thank you'. It was more out of sentimentality that he kept it in a braid. It reminded him of the only home he knew.

Oh, but she was talking to him. He looked at her for a moment, quiet, before he shrugged his shoulder. "I dunno. I mean, I dunno why I'm even here. Just that the Alliance had me and now they don't."

Chika nodded, smiling when she took the brush back, but then frowning again when he mentioned that part. That was... that was really a lot to explain. "Do you have your D-Terminal on you?" she asked, before moving to pull hers out of her purse to show him what it is. "I mean, there's really a lot to go over, and there's a guide that you can access from this that'll probably explain it a lot better than I can."

HOLIDAY ARRIVALS.

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sorry for the late, finals kinda killed me

It's okay, sweetie! I hope you did well!

Thanks, so far it looks like I did alright, at least!

\o/ WOO

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