Love Springs Eternal (??)

[bright_and_blue]

Who: ERRYBODY
What: It's Valentine's Day, and there are matchmaking notices everywhere. Here's an open log for one and all to post their shenanigans, meet ups, freak outs, and whatever else they're going to do about this.
When: forward dated to Feb. 14
Where: All over Aqures Ixen
Warnings: Ridiculousness.

[Plastering the city are notices matching up all of the Heroes of Light with one another, both the best and the worst. Moogles are having a grand old time handing them out and hanging them up, and are encouraging Heroes to speak with their top matches.

Naturally, reactions to this are mixed. Some Heroes are intrigued, some annoyed, some offended. Despite their feelings or misgivings, the rest of the city is still celebrating Valentine's Day as well, and now the thoughts of love are everywhere.

OOC: This is an open log for everyone to use for Valentine's Day stuff! Feel free to make your own prompts.]

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[charming_jerk]

[Results for Johnny D'Amico:
Jack Harkness - 99%
Reno - 94%
Yuna - 88%

Minato Arisato- 5%
Saori Nakagawa- 4%
Duster - 1%

Johnny's results were pasted to a wall near one of his favorite pubs. Sure, his moogle could have just mailed it to him, but he was sure Johnny would actually see it here first before checking his mail at home. Also his moogle was so on board for embarrassing him. Of course, this isn't the only place they were pasted, either. Got to make sure his matches see this too!

Johnny stood in front of the results, not sure if he was angry or just annoyed. He was definitely embarrassed; his face was turning red looking at those three names. Those very specific three names.]

What... what the hell's this?

[mindofathief]

[Duster looks over his own results with more confusion than horror. Who are all these people? He recognized Rialynn, who was in the bottom tier of his list, but everyone else is a mystery. He pulls his flyer off the wall and reads through the names.]

Ellie? Johnny D'Amico? I don't get it. [His best and worst match, according to what's printed.] They had to have pulled these names out of a bag.

[He folds his flyer and tucks it into a pocket before addressing Johnny.] If it's supposed to tell us who we should get with, it's doing a bad job explaining why.

[charming_jerk]

[Considering the names on his top list, Johnny can't agree with that. But he sure will pretend to, yep.]

Yeah, this is total bull-- Wait, I'm Johnny D'Amico. You got me?

[mindofathief]

Yeah. [His eyes dart to the horns for a second, then back to Johnny's face.] We're supposed to be a terrible couple.

[charming_jerk]

[He's used to that.]

We are? Are you-- [He looks at the results again.] You're Duster? Whatever, dude, this is gotta be complete bullshit. Moogles pullin' our names outta hats or some shit.

[His voice is cool, but his face is still red.]

[mindofathief]

[A slow nod. If he knew who this guy was, he might be embarrassed to see his results plastered everywhere. Despite his best platonic friend on Crystallis being on there, she's listed as one of the worst. Not bad enough to lose his head over.]

I'll ignore them for now. If anything, it's about time I went around getting to know you guys better. [Preferably not on dates, but...] Like...we're a one percent match? What does that even mean? Are they taking friendships into account?

[charming_jerk]

No idea. I'm surprised they even bothered with "worst" matches. Probably tryin' to stir shit up between friends. [Thanks to his own moogle helper, his opinion on them as a whole isn't very high.]

Whatever. I don't need 'em embarrassing me. [He goes to rip his down, when he spots his name on another, and another, and another... Johnny has shown up on both sides of people's results. He's also listed as a best match for both Reno and Jack, as well. His face gets redder when he sees that, and he starts taking all of them down too.]

[bloodynine]

You got me, friend.

[ Logen swills some beer and smiles blearily at his favorite drinking buddy. ]

[charming_jerk]

[This was really unfair. Why those names? Clearly the moogles has been spying on him and are playing some sort of joke.]

Goddamn moogles, can't they mind their own business? [Johnny looks over some of the other ones nearby, looking for Logen's name.] I bet yer name is on some of these. You better start lookin'.

[bloodynine]

Why? I don't much care. It's not like anyone's looking for a fight, and it's certain that nobody's looking to bed down with a broken old king.

[ He chuckles and finishes his beer. ]

[charming_jerk]

Yeah, I mean. I don't care either.

[HE SO CARES. LOOK AT THAT BLUSHING FACE.]

Moogles just like to stir up shit. I guess they need to do somethin' with their time when they're not going on strike.

[bloodynine]

Haha, sure you don't, friend.

[ He grins at Johnny, having some fun at his expense. ]

West is staying out of it. He's too smart and proper for anything like this.

[charming_jerk]

I thought Mogrius was too, but maybe not. [He runs a hand down his face. Ugh.]

I was gonna go get a drink, but I guess I better go find out where else they hung these things first. The less people who see 'em, the better. Then I'll get a drink or ten.

[unyieldingspirit]

[giving this the most considering look she can from under a hat]

I… believe it is measuring people's compatibility with each other. But- with only one number, I'm not quite sure… [she turns to Johnny, spreading out a hand.] You've not seen anything of the sort before?

[charming_jerk]

Well, I mean-- Yeah I get that part, but where the hell'd this come from? I didn't sign up for anything like this. And someone's just plastering it to a wall in public?

[Johnny gets pretty easily riled up, but even this seems like a silly thing to get your feathers ruffled over.]

Damn moogles. This is them, isn't it?

[unyieldingspirit]

Whatever method they used, I can't imagine it was very reliable without anyone's actual input.

[she nods, the movement quick and short, frowning.]

None of these were up yesterday… so with the number of potential leaflet carriers and their speed at deliveries, they're the obvious candidates. Now- I've no objections to encouraging people to bring forth their feelings, but like this? [she shakes her head tail twitching.] What kind of encouragement do they think this is?

[charming_jerk]

They got their heads in the clouds, is what. Think they can just slap some names on some posters, and we're all gonna hook up now. For what, their amusement or somethin'? A sense of self-satisfaction? Whatever. They need to mind their own business.

Did they post any with your name on it?

[unyieldingspirit]

[she shakes her head, rumbling for a few moments.]

It doesn't work that way- affection does not come so simply. […said like she knows, though she's pretty terrible with her own feelings, honestly…]

[her expression is clearly displeased, but she nods.] There's one over there… [and she indicates it.] I'd understand if we were rated poorly with people we'd never spoken to- heavens know there's enough of us- but I rather liked Minato when I spoke to him…

[aside from the time he maybe-sort of ran away from her after she sold him some cookies? that was weird.]

[charming_jerk]

He's on my bad list, too. And I can agree with that not because of his looks or personality or somethin', but because he's a kid. Saori ain't, though. And I don't even know this Duster person.

[His top three are a whole other story, though. He was definitely attracted to all three. Was he that obvious about it that even the moogles caught on? How mortifying. Or maybe there really is something behind these numbers. He tried to sneak a look for the numbers of those three, but he only spots Reno's. Johnny is in his top three at a 92. His heart practically skips a beat over that. But then he spots something awful: Albel's. Johnny is his top match at a 98. Johnny's face goes from embarrassed to enraged.]

What the fuck?! Albel? I'm a top match with that crazy asshole? This has got to be a joke.

[shinra_dog]

[Reno was still flabbergasted with his own flyer. Which was here as well. Gods, was it everywhere? He tore it down -- again -- as he distantly registered Johnny's voice.]

I don't fuckin' know, man...

[Distantly, the voice registered as Johnny's, specifically, making its way through the backed-up brain traffic of flyers and hearts in Reno's mind. Johnny, who was on his list. On the high end. Reno's flyer was suddenly jerked down out of sight as he felt a bit of a flush come on. His eyes darted to Johnny, then to try to get a glance at the other man's list.]

[charming_jerk]

[And there was Reno on Johnny's list at a 92%, just under Jack Harkness at a near-perfect match. Reno has just enough time before Johnny pulls that one down, and hearing Reno as he does so.

Johnny's face is definitely red, and gets redder when he sees Reno. He tries to play it cool.]

Me neither, dude. Moogles gettin' in other people's business. Surprise surprise. And they're all over town, too!

[shinra_dog]

Yeah, yeah ri -- what?

[His blush deepened.]

All over town?

[It might have sounded a little despairing when it came out.]

Fuck...! It was bad enough at my house, and now here -- I can't fuckin' find 'em all!

[Because like hell did he need Cloud -- no, Rufus! -- seeing this!]

[charming_jerk]

Let's go. Maybe we can track 'em all down, or find the idiots who're posting these things while we're at.

[He sighs, feeling stupid for getting so riled up over something like this, as he marches off, scanning other walls or windows.]

Can't they mind their own business? Or at least ask first?

[shinra_dog]

I know, right! It's none a' their business!

[He glanced at Johnny.] You'd help me look for 'em?

[He wasn't sure how to feel about that. He appreciated the help, sure. But it meant Johnny would be seeing his list -- repeatedly. Then again, what would be so bad about knowing he was on it? They both admitted they were interested -- they'd both acted on it, plenty of times. What was the big deal with a piece of paper?]

[Probably the other names on it.]

Hey -- who's on your list?

i have to use an old icon for this, haha

[charming_jerk]

Sure. I'm goin' to look for all of mine, so why not get two birds with one stone.

[He doesn't want to answer that at first, but he will, since it's Reno.]

Um... the bottom three are Saori, Minato, and someone called Duster. The top are... [A pause] Yuna, Jack, 'n you.