Subject: First Impressions 206 views

[gracefulcure]

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normal tamer • crest of purity • cutemon

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"Wow..." Akiye spoke as she looked around, was this place real? no, of course it wasn't really real... It seemed too strange. She had just sat down in the pod thing and did what the employee there had told her to do... She had heard her brother talk about how it felt like you were in another world, but she never once thought it was such a literal thing.

She honestly wasn't sure if she liked it, something felt odd to her about it. Was it the fact that she knew she was laying down? It gave her a headache thinking about it. She shook it off, it was just cultural shock, she'd never experienced anything like this. She started to feel like someone who traveled in time and just learned what a television. She was understanding why he wanted to play this with her, it seemed like a magical way to escape reality, in the most literal sense possible.

She continued to listen to the 'File Island' tutorial, eventually she was promoted to choose a partner digimon. She looked at them all and tilted her head, they were all very cute. The first one was a clear lego dinosaur, the next was a pink flower creature, then a small pink bunny, then a small lion and a yellow mouse. It made her curious as to what he picked, he talked about it all the time, but she barely paid attention to him until it was too late. She sighed, "Maybe I could check his computer and see if he kept anything about this on it... I don't remember his password though."

She walked back and forth and eventually decided to choose the pink rabbit creature, who was apparently called Cutemon, "Very fitting name." She said with a slight giggle at the end.

" And this concludes your trip on File Island! We hope you enjoy your time on Digimon Online! "

She looked down at the cute little pink rabbit, "So you are a Digimon?"

Cutemon nodded, "That I am, Kyu!"

The Cutemon climbed onto her shoulder, "What is your name?"

Akiye hesitated for a second before responding, "Um, My name is Cure."

Cutemon smiled, "Cute and Cure, I like the sound of that, Kyu!"

Akiye smiled back, "I hope you are watching brother... I hope you forgive me for being a bad sister to you while you were alive, but maybe this can make up for that... if only by a fraction."

[carnivale]

Cure wasn't alone in her awe at how real this Digital World felt. Why, a few streets from her and walking about rather aimlessly with only the firearm-bearing dinosaur by her side, one Tomoe Kurosawa (although to anyone who asked, she was Carnivale) was thinking almost the exact same thing, except her thoughts were painted with much less wonder and much more distrust, perhaps even a smidgen of nervousness. She hadn't thought even she could be confused by this false reality, and having to find out that your mind wasn't as invincible as you thought it was hadn't been an easy thing.

But she was getting used to it, which Carnivale was still not sure whether or not this was a good thing. Considering the fact that her mother was unhealthily addicted to this very game, she had good reasons to fear that she was going to end up the same. For the moment, though, that hadn't appeared to be much like a problem. She'd been playing for awhile now, but Carnivale had met nobody who could possibly make her hound after the game like a crazed person. Actually she hadn't really met anybody at all, period. She wondered if it was because of how she looked, or because how Commandramon reeked of unfriendliness, but...

An unimportant problem, the girl (well, young woman now) thought and batted it aside, adding a bit more purpose into her stride even though she still had no idea where she was going. Maybe downtown. Wherever that is. Carnivale wasn't hesitant to admit to herself that she was a bit lost all around, but while she could and knew how to access the map, she wasn't going to do it now, for there were much more interesting things to see.

...Like cute pink things, for example.

Carnivale felt more than saw Commandramon gave a twitch as they walked past a girl holding a conversation with a cutemon (a player just like she was, Carnivale would wager), but she definitely heard the growl the soldier dinosaur sent at the pair and the distasteful look he sent the pink rabbit-like creature- er, data lump that looked like a creature.

Frowning, Carnivale's steps ceased. She gave Commandramon a hard look, and after a few seconds of ignoring her and staring intently at the girl and her Digimon, he obeyed grudgingly by looking away. Only then did she turn her attention fully to the other player who had unfortunately been on the receiving end of that snarl.

"I am sorry," Carnivale said, her voice curt but with a genuine note of apology behind it. "My partner is..." she glanced at Commandramon "...quirky...when it comes to strangers."

It earned her a sharp look and another snarl. Used to it by now, Carnivale ignored it. She did, however, smile inwardly at her own choice of words. "We meant you no harm," she continued to speak to the girl and even smiled slightly, something that wasn't very characteristic of she who was given much more to scowling. She rocked back on her heels, with one hand on her hip and leaning her weight on one leg. "...Are you new here? I have been around for awhile, and I have yet to see you."

Not that Carnivale herself was anything near an old seasoned traveler in the Digital World - twelfth grade did well in keeping you grounded in the real reality - but it was as good a conversation starter as she could think of. And besides, the girl before he seemed friendly enough. She might as well stick around to make sure she wasn't known of as a jerk. Based on a source of information (with dubious trustworthiness), some people hunted down jerks for PvP battles because they thought jerks would more readily accept challenges.

But because Carnivale was nice, she would stick around and make small talk. It was more productive than wandering about aimlessly, anyway. And more "fun", since that was apparently what she was supposed to have around these parts.

[gracefulcure]

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normal tamer • crest of purity • cutemon

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Akiye looked at the woman who had stopped, she had been in such a daze with everything going on she hadn't even noticed the small digimon growling at her, she was too busy trying to get use to looking at a pink rabbit and it being able to hold a conversation with her, she felt like Alice in wonderland. However Cutemon notice the look and scoffed at the Digimon.

Akiye looked at the woman, who seemed to only be a few years older as she apologized for her partner and began to make some small talk. She smiled and looked down at the digimon, it seemed to be a solider dinosaur, "Wow! That's so adorable! It's even got a gun and everything!" Akiye patted the Commandramon's helmet before looking back at the girl.

"Hello, It's alright. I just finished the tutorial thingy. My name is Cure, and this one is Cute! No... the name, It's Cute, as in Cute the Cutemon!"

Cute laughed, "It took Cure more than five minutes to understand that."

[carnivale]

Carnivale's widened in shock and alarm as the girl - Cure, wasn't it - reached out to pat Commandramon's helmet, and her hand had half reached out yank the younger girl's hand away in fear of the dinosaur soldier retaliating somehow with either his fangs or his gun when Commandeamon surprised her by merely shrinking away from the touch with a sharp growl instead of trying to bite Cure's hand off.

Blinking, Carnivale retracted her hand. That was...unexpected. Until now she had thought Commandramon a brute at best (if an admittedly quiet brute), but this show of restraint had caught her off guard...albeit in a good way. Was there more to his programming than what was visible?

Carnivale gave her digital partner a critical look, then shoved the matter to the back of her mind and returned her attention to the situation at hand.

"Just in case," Carnivale said in explanation, featuring with one hand to Commandramon, who had retreated so that he stood behind her, putting his tamer between himself and the pink rabbit and her own tamer, and steadily ignored the look Carnivale was sending him. "We've...just gotten to know each other, and he doesn't appear very friendly, so...Just in case..."

She trailed off a tad awkwardly, then shook her head and continued on. "My name is Carnivale. And this is Commandramon." A snort from the dinosaur in question, which Carnivale simply took as an affirmation. She turned her attention to Cutemon, then. It certainly lived up to its name, she thought. Or at least the programmers knew what they were doing. She was beginning to have a hard time thinking that these things were just programs.

Frightening thought, that. Carnivale.stopped.thinking about it and instead said, "Have you any ideas what you want to do now?"