[Open] + [Closed] DIVERSITY

[scooptimistic]

WHO: Maya and many individuals
WHERE: All over
WHEN: The month of June
WHAT: Punishment shenanigans, quests, and a catch-all for additional threads?? Closed threads will be added to the post, open prompts will be beneath the cut.
WARNINGS: Talk of nonexistent gruesome injuries, spoilers for both P2 games idk is that a warning!!!!
NOTES: If you'd like to plot anything additional, you can PM me or reach me on plurk at starswept!



[ That first week of June. ]

[ If you are a teenager or younger, regardless of whether or not this young woman has met you, she's looking incredibly upset the minute she gets a good look at you. This is a prelude to her hurrying over, gaze anxious, as she looks you over and-- ]

This is... definitely going to be a weird question, but are you actually hurt?

[ SHE MIGHT LOOK LIKE SHE'S ABOUT TO CRY. ]

[ Alternatively, she can be spotted making a much slower way around the town. Slower because she's apparently decided to use her necktie as a blindfold, and even Maya isn't about to go sprinting about an area where she can't see.

It won't stop her from bumping into someone, or-- ]

Whoops! Sorry!!

[ A tree. Or the well. Or literally anything else, but she doesn't seem keen to take that blindfold off? Wonder why???? ]

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[extrapolating]

[ Elizabeth nods, since she's well used to most people being well ahead of her, but also, well. Different times aren't that strange to her in the first place. ]

Oh, because it's 1912 where I'm from. The year someone is from can make a lot of difference for what it's like.

[scooptimistic]

-- I'll say! I would have thought we'd have a harder time understanding each other with that kind of time gap...

[extrapolating]

Well... I know at least a little about, um, the future. Enough that it doesn't surprise me?

[ It's not perfect, since she could only ever see the future through windows--at least for the past several years. But watching was at least something. ]

It's... something I can do. There are these things—Tears—and I can open them. It makes a kind of window to another world. Most of the time, I just see where I lived, but a little different, but sometimes I got to see something wonderful. A city under the sea, or just Paris in the future. So I know a little. Or I guess just enough, really.

[scooptimistic]

So it's not just other places, but other times? That's amazing, Elizabeth! Have you always been able to do that?

[ Look, she's riveted. Journalist instincts. ]

[extrapolating]

[ She nods ]

As long as I can remember, anyways. There are Tears all over Columbia, so it's been easy to find them and open them up. Years ago, I used to be able to make them, but... I don't know. Something changed.

[ She shrugs, since she really doesn't know why she's not able to anymore, but... She does have some very broad guesses. It's easy to blame Comstock for it. ]

[scooptimistic]

Mm... even so, that's still an impressive ability. The things you'd get to see when normally you wouldn't have the opportunity...

[ That's so cool?? ]

[extrapolating]

It's amazing.

[ There's a genuine enthusiasm in her voice, because seeing those wondrous sights is what gave her a reprieve from her confinement. It's what gave her a dream of Paris. Though she does add with a laugh: ]

...Though most of the time, it's just where I live. But still. To see something incredible, even if it's only one in a hundred times, it's worth it.

[scooptimistic]

I can imagine! Do you think you could show me sometime?

[ Maya... naturally curious. ]

[extrapolating]

[ She laughs a little and gives a small shrug ]

Well... I don't actually know yet. Maybe? Usually I can only show people Tears when there's one already around that I can open up, and I haven't seen one here. But when I was a girl, I used to be able to make them. I mentioned it to someone here, so I'm going to try again.

[ And it's clear that she's both a little nervous and a little excited about that possibility ]

So if it goes well... Yes, I could. But I have no idea what it might open to.