[Dual Post]

[ladyofchaos]

[Journal Post]
I am proud to announce that I am now and have always been old enough to have one of these online social media platforms and no one can stop me from posting to the internet. I have obtained true freedom. Also, that I am accepted to Duel Academy, LDS, and a few other schools that I absolutely definitely applied for and am not overwhelmed, who would be overwhelmed?

[Event]
After the slightly more strange apocalypse that may have ripped open a few holes in reality, Helen has been, well. Slightly harder to find than usual. But don't worry Domino. It's time for everyone's least favorite game besides Dungeon Dice Monsters: 'Why is Helen here, please I've done nothing wrong' Except she's... a teen now? There are competing memories when you look at her, remembering her as the creepy child and also the fact that she's always been 14, as long as you've known her.

... probably best to not think about it too hard.

She is:

1. Applying for jobs. But not like, normal teen jobs like retail or cafes. No, she's in OOPARTS, your secret labs, places she probably shouldn't be with a resume that's... just her name and birthdate, and that birthdate that wobbles and bends and hurts to look at.

2. Finalizing her paperwork at a dueling academy! It doesn't matter which one, she's there, scribbling down stuff. At DA she seems relaxed in its perplexing miasma. At LDS, she's staring at class choices and sitting down with three decks as she whispers to each, running her fingers over them.

3. She's doing normal stuff! She's drinking a coffee drink through a straw that isn't there if you look too close like a normal girl! Shopping for tattered black robes and occult objects, like a normal girl!

Comments

[Journal]

[lampluminous]

... Okay, but why did you apply for so many schools?

Re: [Journal]

[ladyofchaos]

I don't actually think I did the applying, after puberty came for me, they were just... there?

Re: [Journal]

[lampluminous]

You don't think that maybe there'll be repercussions for rapidly aging like this, right?

Re: [Journal]

[ladyofchaos]

Repercussions? What? No, that would never happen to me.

... wait, you know I did that? I mean, I've always been fourteen. Or I just... turned fourteen? Yes.

[Journal]

[redderthanred]

... Why are you like this, Helen.

Re: [Journal]

[ladyofchaos]

I didn't mean to be this way to be completely fair, I just am. Take up complaints with auntie?

Re: [Journal]

[redderthanred]

... I'm not sure whether I should groan or, be a dumbass and ask you, since you're older now... by how much?

To get things tweens aren't allowed to have.

[Journal]

[thefoxreturns2]

I've been wondering why my IDs jumped like 10 years and all my clothes became awful.

You're grounded, young lady.

[ladyofchaos]

They only should've jumped seven!

Unjust! Unfair! I didn't know it would do that! These are consequences not of my own making for once!

[thefoxreturns2]

I literally have box wine, the car is now a Mini-Van, you're signed up for soccer club, and I have pamphlets for Crystals and Chakra Classes on Saturdays now.

Grounded.

[Event 2]

[seaandsky]

*well, one of the Xyz instructors is here at LDS.

And he's looking at you like you give him an intense headache.*

Re: [Event 2]

[ladyofchaos]

That's a face I'm used to! It's everyone's face with me, especially recently.

"Oh! Hey there, are you going to be one of my instructors? I'm Helen Wakahisa-Briar, aspiring student! I duel using..." She squints at her decks, then at you

"... Decks!"

Re: [Event 2]

[seaandsky]

*oh no, I heard a Wakahisa there.*

I'd... certainly hope you duel using decks, or else I'd say you're in the wrong school.

Can you tell me what type of decks you use, so I can hopefully... Help you, here?

*he says that awkwardly, like he's not sure what to even help about you in the first place.*

[Event 1]

[thestudyof]

You're too young to be bringing an attempt at a resume to this.

*Mamoru's quick to firmly respond to realizing what you likely just handed him in the AI lab.

Thankfully for you and perhaps also the lingering threads of his sanity, your... fluxing of causality and time has gone smoothly with his perception, but it doesn't mean you're getting away with this, young lady.*

Re: [Event 1]

[ladyofchaos]

"Unfair! Trena said she helped you as a lab assistant when she was only a few years older than me!"

It's definitely for the best. Mamoru is the one person who shouldn't absolutely lose it.

Re: [Event 1]

[thestudyof]

Miss Cardozo likely didn't mention this part, but she specifically assisted with an open sign-up period for stress-testing the machinery. A consistent job requires that you at least be 16 or older... and even then, you would need to be offering something that my current assistants do not.

*which his current assistants include an alien, his nephew, and a young woman of aggressive demeanor, with possibly a robot later.*

Besides, this resume seems... Off.

[Event 3]

[itsforflavoring]

::It's off-time and I'm at whatever goth store you're at Helen, looking to see if there's goth wear for plus-sized chicks.::

Re: [Event 3]

[ladyofchaos]

Helen looks up from her shopping and tilts her head at you, having pulled a ratty black robe from a shelf that has... no black robes on it.

"... oh, hello. You are vaguely familiar seeming, I think? Maybe. Probably not."

Re: [Event 3]

[itsforflavoring]

...

Hi.

::Picks out a lycra skirt.::

[Event 2]

[knowinginthedark]

*so you're at Duel Academy, right? right??

Because someone equally cursed-feeling has come across you scribbling things down for the enrollment. there'll definitely be nothing wrong happening here.*

Oh, a new student?

Re: [Event 2]

[ladyofchaos]

Helen looks up and she recognizes a kindred wrongness when she sees one. She practically beams at the odd man.

"I will be this next term, yes. Helen Wakahisa-Briar. Are you a professor here?"

Re: [Event 2]

[knowinginthedark]

Sorta! I'm a history consultant-slash-researcher on the island. Just enough authority to give extra credit work and to move around without getting kicked off, and all that.

*points to a totally inconspicuous young man with long platinum blonde hair in the orange-tinged uniform hiding in a tree a short distance away*

And that's my stalker-slash-handler. Don't mind him, he thinks he's sneaky.

[Event 1]

[becomeanwarrior]

[ At some point during your poking around in OOPARTS, some of the newer staff have quietly paged for Chief Haita to have him come out and take a look at this weird cursed lady who seems entirely too overeager. Because that seems extremely too beyond their paycheck to interface with someone who is already that muddled in the Strange. ]

[ So while you're probably hassling some poor clerk who is doing supernatural archival duties, you hear heavy footfalls behind you. ]

...I don't think I've seen you before.

[ He has the distinct feeling his life is going to get unimaginably harder after this. ]

Re: [Event 1]

[ladyofchaos]

"Ah! The one in charge! The one, the only, Haita Onni. I've heard alot about you. I wish to work for you!"

Helen grins wide and it is... pleasant. In that she's genuinely smiling, excited like a teen meeting their hero, which she absolutely is. It is NOT pleasant to look at, it is horrible to see, too wide, the angles are wrong, and there's absolutely too many sharp teeth.

"My name is Helen Wakahisa-Briar, my parents are Wakahisa Gwen and Kaz D. Briar. It is a pleasure to meet you!"

Re: [Event 1]

[becomeanwarrior]

[ Oh. Oh. Onni feels the dread spectre of being Important wash over and through him, and also that this terrible mischief-maker of a girl clearly idolizes him. ...Also she's his niece. Dammit. ]

...I guess that makes me Uncle Onni, to you. Welcome to OOPARTS, Helen. [ He is smiling while trying to make sense of the logistics in his head. ] ... You're fairly young, aren't you? Are you enrolled in Duel Academy yet?