[OPEN] Settling In

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WHO: Lan Jingyi and OTA :)
WHERE: Maurtia Falls #006 & Elsewhere
WHEN: The Month of February
WHAT: Jingyi's got people to meet and places to go.
WARNINGS: Will update as needed.



Moving In
(Open to Jingyi's new roommates. :))
Jingyi is not used to the architecture of this strange new world and he's thrown a little by the townhouse he is apparently living in for the foreseeable future. Still, he is meant to stay here, and so he finds his way inside to the bottom floor and then simply...stops. He underestimated how different this would be.

Taking everything in with wide eyes, he finds himself observed by someone...not in robes and a headband, so he can tell very little about them. Immediately, a smile springs to his face. "Hello! Do you live here as well?"

Chicken Dance
The chicken costume is very large and very warm, though the overcast days in Maurtia mean that this is not an entirely bad thing. Still, he encourages people to go to eat chicken by standing on a corner of two streets and flapping his arms at them. It is very much not dignified, and Jingyi takes a well-deserved break from flapping at people to sit outside the back of ChickenYEET! and take off his head. The breeze is very nice, and in chasing it, he has made it so that he is not very well hidden.

Unfortunately, the breeze also has a mind of its own. His chicken head is caught by a sudden gust and flies its way out of the alley. All that is left is for Jingyi to chase after it. "Hey, come back!"

[ooc: poke me and I'll whip up a custom starter. :)]

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Since there's outdoor seating, Jin Ling takes over one of the tables, tying the dog leashes to the patio rail and taking a seat. "Go in and get us food. Don't get me anything gross."

Most of the food in this world is a mystery to him, so he doesn't think Jingyi can mess it up too badly. It's not like Jingyi will be doing the cooking.

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"Send Fairy to get you food," Jingyi tells him, flippant. After he has said that about Fairy, he pats Fairy herself to show he does not mean it; she might be a spiritual dog, but she does not have nearly enough hands. He leaves after to inside and find someone who knows how the coupon works. It is lucky that this place has a patio. As it is, they are getting looks from the employees for the large quantity of dogs.

Jinyi has no idea what is going on with the food of this place so he asks after two complete meals that are the person behind the counter's favorite. They give him a token with a large number on it and send him away back outside.

Returning to the table, he sets the token on the tabletop and says, "Done. Now it is time to wait."

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Jin Ling has managed to make friends with some passerby in the meantime due to his herd of dogs. As JingYi returns, the passerby gush over him, too. “Ah, your friend is even cuter than your dogs!”

Jin Ling waves his hand dismissively. “Nah, that one just got off the leash. Bad JingYi. Sit.”

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The words of the passerby startle Jingyi and he gapes at them for the time until Jin Ling opens his mouth. "You!" he says in immediate outrage and declares, "I will not. Which means that if I am one, then you are a terrible trainer."

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The passerby laughs, amused by the two of them. “You two are a cute couple! I’ll leave you to your date.” She gives the dogs a few more pats, then gets up to go.

Jin Ling chokes, turning purple. “We’re not a couple!!”

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"How could you say we are a couple?" asks Jingyi, conveniently forgetting such details as that they have come immediately from the long line before the love compatibility scanner and were just squabbling over the coupon they received for being 'highly compatible.' Is it not obvious that they have nothing to do with one another romantically? "Why would he bring so many dogs on a date?"

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"Sorry, sorry!" Blushing and laughing, the passerby quickly continued on her way.

Jin Ling fumed, comforting himself by petting Fairy's ears. "I can't believe everyone thinks we are a couple! I am obviously out of your league."

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Jingyi watched the lady go with total bafflement. "That was very odd," he told Jin Ling.

Though! The words after that! "What is this?" He demanded. "How could you say such a thing, Young Mistress! You are no better than me. I am more than worth being a couple with you or anyone else. Did I not find us both lunch we do not have to pay for?" He is, in fact, a catch; both clever and talented.

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Jin Ling smirks a little, surprisingly not taking any offense at being called Young Mistress. His sense of humor has improved a bit since coming here, and he still considers it a win that he's made Lan Jingyi so indignant.

"No better than you!" he repeats with a disbelieving scoff. "I am a Sect Leader, you are a mere second junior disciple." He lifts his chin primly, but this is more enjoyment of teasing and banter than true scorn. "And I'm a better archer."

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Outrage! Indignance! "Being Sect Leader does not make you better than me!" He will fight you, Jin Ling, because you are certainly wrong. "What does being an archer matter! I know the guquin and you do not, and that means I am much better." He says this, but brightly, because it is an argument and not while it is true, it is also not his point.

"Just because I am better, that has nothing to do with whether or not we would make a good match," he insists, and this is something he knows for certain. "Is not the point of good matches to fit together and not compete? Do not the greatest of romances have one person who can fill a hole in the other one's life?"

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Jin Ling can't argue with... any of that, actually. Lan Jingyi is right, and Jin Ling is honestly kind of impressed. But he of course can't admit that Jingyi is right, and he can't counter-argue when he knows Jingyi is right, so he can only defend with bluster.

"Huh! What would you know about romance anyway?" Crossing his arms, Jin Ling scowls.

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Jingyi opens his mouth and out comes, "Of course I know about romance!" He's an expert. "You only have to read to know how romance works. It's easy!"

The person bringing their food that both of them have entirely forgotten about arrives at their table at this point and gives the two of them an amused look. The thing with the lights is taken from them and exchanged for two meals.

It is only when the person walks away that Jingyi finishes his argument with a decisive, "You will know when someone falls in love because you can see it when they do."

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"So you don't know anything," Jin Ling huffs. Their food arrives and Jin Ling glares at the server for interrupting and for daring to look amused. But then he carries on his conversation as loudly as ever.

"You can't learn about romance from books. And what do you mean you can see it? See it how, exactly? Explain this to me."

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"Of course you can learn! How else are you going to learn! You can only fall in love with so many people." Jingyi says this with a very clear air of superiority. He has not fallen in love with anybody. But look. Look. He has had the sappiest, most ridiculous example of his life in front of him for ages. He knows.

"You can see it," he insists. "People look too long at each other. And they smile all the time even when they should not be smiling. And you can really tell. It is very obvious."

In addition to being an expert in love, he is also great at explanations.

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Jin Ling peers at Jingyi, considering his reliability as an expert on this subject. Jin Ling has no way to tell. He hasn't had either the examples or the romance books. "You're full of nonsense. Anyway, Hanguang-Jun never smiles, even when he looks at Uncle Wei, so if that's the case then you've contradicted yourself."

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"Sometimes the clues change," Jingyi says immediately, trying to recover. Jin Ling is right. Hanguang-Jun never smiles. This is a problem, but not one that he cannot overcome. "You cannot say that Hanguang-Jun is not always at Senior Wei's side," he argues. "That can be almost more important than smiling. Though--" and he says this bit quieter, half speaking to himself. "They are a little not typical in other ways. But that is to be expected because they are not ordinary."

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"I don't think you know anything," Jin Ling insists, but he turns his attention to his food. Jingyi has given him a lot to think about, and he wants to stew over it for a while.

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"I do," Jingyi protests automatically, but that was also a repeat of Jin Ling's last scold catches Jingyi by surprise. It knocks him out of their argument and makes him recall the food on his plate that he needs to try. It looks very strange and possible disgusting, but he is willing (and very hungry). "But we need to eat, because your dogs are starting to look hungry," he declares. "Eat! Then we will not pay and then you can finish with your dogs."

This is the logical progression of events after so much arguing.