AKA they talked Zed into cooperating

whooo

it would be about 10-ish nameless NPCs who would hang out in the Bastion for an IC week or two btw

yinza nidorina double-date guys would be among them

...that sounds like the perfect time for Paar to gift them with a certain pair of amulets

crying

Yaaaay /o/

dateblocked by a dragon

the worst

lmao this is the most ridiculous dating drama and I love it

RadiantWingedOne Anna might be able to hear particularly loud thoughts of "I don't trust them" and "we have no other choice"

/applause

yinza what if everyone misinterpret double-dates as "oh those two guys are dating too! So they want to go on a double-date with Zuko and Aoi!"

:c she will debate being extra adorable

it's not from the guys going with them btw, but Zed and his inner circle

even better

generic NPC Ura will be like "holy shit this place is awesome"

fucKING FANTASTIC

Ooooh. Zed is being a butt.
Anna will do her best to not be small psychic child for this week. It sounds like a good idea

ALL OF THIS DATING BUSINESS IS THE FUNNIEST SHIT I'VE EVER HEARD I'M SO GLAD

Bring the NPCs to the Volleyball court

Sports

I imagine everyone on this date will be incredibly confused

like. Zuko: /does not even realize it's a date.

Z1 & Z2: /not sure why the girls seem more into each other than them?

Aoi: /obliviously enjoying donuts and sports

nobody will know what is going on

except Ibuki

THE AMULETS, DRAGON DATEBLOCKED, EVERYONE THINKS THE NPC URA BOYS ARE DATING; IM SHRIEKING

"You know they don't seem to like each other that much, they're not holding hands or anything." "Maybe they're just shy, let's try to spice things up for them."

important: do the two guys try to hit on them the entire trip back

also I adjusted the dates of events since this one got delayed a lot

you mean their date is on the event calendar?

nidorina probably awkward hitting on, like "I think you're cute" and shit like that

yeah

like, the IC days of things

LMFAO......

basically just pushed the next events back a week or so

because. otherwise the next event stars in a few days and I think everyone needs some breathing room

im gonna be honest: straight-up "i think you're cute" is probably the only way to get it through aoi's skull that she's being hit on

Z1 & Z2: "Zone" & "Zwo"? /is incredibly creative with names bow before me

clearly it needs to be something else

like "You look really strong and awsome"

GoggleDragon they can both be Zone, because they will forever live in the Awkward Zone

same-name friends

oh my god. ohhh my god and she would definitely respond in a way that would feel way too much like flirting back but NO SHE JUST LIKES TO BE COMPLIMENTED

this is a fucking disaster

i love it

Zuzu will just be in the awkward zone with them. "thanks...???" asks several times if they're actually talking about Aoi when complimenting her

They don't realize what is really going on until at the end of the date Aoi is like "Me and Zuko had lots of fun! I hope you two had fun too!"

.... If only Anna was a shipper

LMAO LIKE

A DATE HAPPENED THER

E

NOT BETWEEN THE INTENDED PARTIES, BUT A DATE HAPPENED

. . . so THAT'S what Ibuki meant there... ;;;

god. nobody knows what they're doing and aoi is so sociable it seems like she knows what she's doing but she isn't actually doing the thing it seems like she's doing and it's DREADFUL

/just got to that point in Naegi's thread with Ibuki where they ended up getting the idea to matchmaker things with them and stuff...

everyone involved just goes

Even better: someone in the Bastion starts hitting on the two guys and they don't realize what's going on either

make this as big of a mess as possible

they're awkward teenagers they understand jack shit

(Ibuki and Zahi need to work together, for the shipping)

lmao every time zuko goes "you mean aoi right???" she's like "zuko shush you're like, super strong!!! you're totally awesome!!!" and the boys are like ok so they're friends so a double date'll wok right????

work*

(make all the couples happen)

everyone else traveling with the carts is just kind of

internaly

internally* fuck my keyboard though

heh

HEH

zahi agrees to help ibuki set up the useless lesbians if she'll help him set up his daughter and zulf. it's terrible for absolutely everyone involved

perfect

he wants grandkids okok

and Zayna likes Zulf so

Oh cool Raile's getting a stepmom now too?

THE REALEST DOUBLE DATE

(Anna crashing Ibuki and Zahi's ships with the thoughts she has picked up-)

come help us Anna

they can be the three cupids of Bastion

Or did Zulf forget to mention he has a child

except none of them are very cupid-like and one is a middle-aged man

Zulf has not mentioned having a child no

Zulf with his head in his hands.jpeg

Whoops :3

ZULF YOU HAVE A KID WHAR

IT THE SQUIRT

"none of them are very cupid-like and one is a middle aged man" is probably the funniest sentence i have ever heard, im sitting here CACKLING

they perform the literal worst rendition of "kiss the girl" the world has ever known

TELL HER ABOUT YOUR CHILD ZULF

With Ibuki involved, it would be a death-metal version

LISTEN HE DIDNT EVEN KNOW HE HAS A CHILD OKAY

do tell

/wants Naegi to join in on setting up Zuko and Aoi now since he and Ibuki just finished discussing this... XDDDD;

No one expects tiny child to be listening and judging comparability

everyone is welcome to be involved as far as I'm concerned

Naegi can join in the death-metal background music

it will be like a Bastion-wide conspiracy

Zulf adopted the small cael child without even realizing it

Hilarious

good

did he now

See? XD

the entire bastion as all the fucking sea creatures throughout hat video

that*

emerging in small clusters at a time, joining the chorus

chorus of chocobo-squacks

every single time it's like "WHERE DID YOU COME FROM??? WHERE DID YOU COME FROM????? THIS WASN'T A PUBLIC EVENT"

It is now

Zulf is leaving, bye, he did not sign up for musicals on his nonexistant love life

zuko do you want to come with before you die of embarrassment

Zulf still has to explain the small cael child he has

too late

He's so proud of his cael child

How rude Anna can totally sing well-

ibuki is scuttle interrupting the performance with loud squawking except instead of squawking it's DEATH METAL

naegi has to very gently unplug the amp

Floogy

(And wow is mobile plurk slow)

Pretty much...

Naegi's just there to make sure Ibuki doesn't go too crazy about it...

Paar tries to sing but the Thu'um that comes out is the calming one or something

( But he secretly gives Zuko his blessing. Please take very good care of Asahina-san, okok... )

the boat gets tipped over at the end before they get to smooch and there's just this unanimous "aaawww" of disappointment

OKAY WHO DID IT WHO RUINED THE MOMENT...

the thief

it was the thief

no one actually makes any move to un-tip the boat or get anyone out of the water theyre just all disappointed

LMAO

( Unless they planned it so underwater kiss? So everything thinks they missed it... )

( And while they're all disappointed Asahina grabs Zuko and swims off into the sunset with her or something... )

Don't ask Moon to sing. Idk how raksura even sing but they can.

I was gonna say, Aoi is SHSL swimmer

she could kiss underwater

just made the most absurd squeaking noise, swimming into the sunset

RIGHT?!?!?!

carries Zuko off to her island abode

YOU'RE WELCOME.

g o o d

alternatively: boat gets tipped over, zuko almost drowns, cpr has to be performed, everyone's like "kind of a kiss???" "FUCK YOU GUYS WE COULD HAVE DIED"

only Zuko just pretended to drown since she's a pretty good swimmer

LKSJ;DFKGSH

she panics a little, aoi's so anxious about all this she IMMEDIATELY ASSUMES ZUKO IS DYING, zuko's just like shit shit shit toO LATE TO TURN BACK NOW I GUESS WE'RE KEEPING ON WITH THIS CHARADE THE WHOLE WAY

The show must go on...?

XD

XD

What'd I miss

I'm seeing a bunch of shippy talk and Ibuki helping ships

basically Ibuki needs to sing a death metal version of "Kiss the Girl" during Aoi and Zuko's double date with the Ura boys

And the entire Bastion helps.

DURING THE DATE SEEMS LIKE THE WORST TIME BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT WOULD JUST RESULT IN THE BOYS TRYING TO KISS THE GIRLS??? INCORRECT

slightly after it??

........ Ibuki's going to assume that they just want a 4-way now

no. no ibuki oh my god

omg ibuki no

IBUKI NO...

XD

IBUKI PLZ...

hahahaha

Because why would you just have a date with these 2 Ura-chans otherwise???????

She hasn't been around long enouhg to know if Aoi and Zuko have been having a long distance relationship with Ura-chans or not

I'm pretty sure they did it by accident since both girls are just that oblivious

Shame only one of Ibuki's bandmates has their instrument, she'll just have to serenade with only drums and guitar

y e a h

accidental date

pfff

Though that said, if Ibuki did try to get Ippo to help he'd probably try to stop her.

Meanwhile, if Ibuki asked Ghaleon, he would probably go along with it because it'd be funny.

XDDD

Shame, what is shame?

welp

it's ... hard to shame Ibuki

Naegi knows this too well. The only option you have with Ibuki is either telling her it's a bad idea or diverting her energy elsewhere to an equally ridiculous endeavor, I've noticed...

Or encouraging her and subtly trying to guide her.