THE GREATEST LOOOOVE OF AAAAALLL

[mettle]

Who: Kotetsu and Barnaby
What: barentains dei
When: Feb 11-13th
Where: Barnaby's room

[certain things were hard to grow out of, and barnaby's morning routine of waking up early was one of them. thankfully in the time he'd been in paradisa he'd learned to sleep in at least an extra half hour (maybe an hour if he was feeling particularly risky enough) but today wasn't the case. not because he'd had the urge to wake up, but because something else was making him wake up. some weird... scent?

turning onto his side and rubbing over his eyes with a sleepy groan, he attempted to squirm his way to the other side of the bed in order to reach out toward his side table. glasses, glasses... except instead of reaching the other side of the bed barnaby suddenly found himself pressed against a very warm, large, firm, almost person-sized weight.

interesting.............]

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[mettle]

[LOUD NOISES I DON'T KNOW WHY WE'RE YELLING oh wait. that...... squinting more....... cat beard???]

Ko... Kotetsu?! --Kotetsu, stop yelling!

[dad]

[ holding his face ] B-Bunny?! Oi, what are you doing here!?

[mettle]

[looking around the room quickly and-- oh good, it's still familiar. back to kotits then]

I believe I should be the one asking that question, since you happen to be in my ro--

[HOLD UP REWIND. why is there so much extra red in his room? and now that he thinks about it the sheets feel different. almost..... silky. and that smell in the room wasn't there before. like, scented candles. he almost wants to take a moment to figure out the scents on his own until he remembers there's no time for that]

...Kotetsu, give me my glasses please.

[dad]

U-Uh, yeah? ... Sure? [ shifting and getting the hell off this bed and looking for the glasses. ] S-So, Bunny.. About your red, silk sheets? When'd you put those in...

[mettle]

Red... silk? [he's almost too afraid to put on his glasses, what the hell happened to his room? snatching them up and carefully putting them on barnaby starts his investigation of the room and the more he sees the more flustered he gets, which ironically helps him to match the whole layout.

there's about three or four small tables scattered around the room with red and white candles, one table with what appears to be dozens of roses in various sized vases and bouquets, a handful of red and white balloons floating near the ceiling as well as on the ground (there's also what he thinks is rose petals on the ground but he won't be able to tell unless he gets out of bed, and when he does, he will be correct), the walls seem to be covered by weird lace curtains even though he has no windows in his room. and as for the bed... when he looks down, all he sees is red silk. and..... more rose petals. oh, and those pillows they were laying on? they're heart-shaped]

Wh-what... what happened? I didn't do any of this--!

[dad]

[ turning around and hiding behind his fingers ] Well I can't do this either!! I've never done this ever! I can't even rip out windows from walls even if I tried!

[ pointing to the walls ] Did you start ever wishing things in your sleep?! Wish for you windows back at least!! [ so he can jump outta them ]

[mettle]

As far as I know I don't even talk in my sleep so, why would I suddenly start wishing for things that way?! [okay definitely not keeping his cool during all this, and kotetsu freaking out and being so upset isn't helping out either. however, someone has to be the adult here and figure out what's happening so as he looks back over to all the flowers barnaby tries to figure out just what exactly all of this means.

red, flowers, hearts, silk sheets, candles........ this is all a little too romantic for his comfort-- and that's when he figures it out, and he looks back over to kotetsu with a mixture of shock and even more embarrassment]

I can't fix it, it's... it must be the castle. The castle did this, because it's February.

It's almost Valentine's Day.

1/2

[dad]

The castle? Is this another one of your theories on.. creepy rooms and creepy beds?! And then there's Valentine's Day..!

2/2

[dad]

[ a beat ] ... Eh? Valentines?

Wait, already?

[mettle]

[nodding hesitantly]

I think today is the eleventh, so we have three more days. I'm not sure why it would do something like this so early, but... I suppose it's difficult to explain anything the castle does.

[dad]

Eleventh.. [ he aint on year older yet. hallelu. ] Well why are we stuck in, er, this kind of room when it isn't Valentine's yet?

[mettle]

The answer is rather obvious by now. To make us uncomfortable and miserable.

At least, for those that don't particularly have a need for this sort of... setting. [staring down at the sheets, shaking them a little in order to get rid of those flower petals. he doesn't exactly look miserable but he's definitely uncomfortable]

[dad]

Okay, well. If you're sleepy still, just go back to bed. I'm.. going to look for a way out of here. So you don't ever have to worry about me climbing into your bed like this ... again.

[ moving to do oyaji escape ]

[mettle]

[are you seriously ditching the guy that has feelings for you in a valentine's themed room. really????? FOOL. borna just sort of sits there with confusion clear on his face since he doesn't really know what to do. he knows he should just let kotetsu go because this isn't his room but, still........ it's like he's being rejected and that's just not cool]

--wait, Kotetsu.

[quickly trying to climb out of bed. he's got a black t-shirt and boxer shorts, hurna]

[dad]

[ what do with feelins. stopping and covering his face, gugu. ]

Yeeees?

[mettle]

[be a man you loser, jeez. looking over at him then just deciding he's not going to bother with discussing any of this, making his way over to the door]

I'll check. More effort seems to have been put into this as compared to what happened in Paris and there's the possibility that the castle will then do just about anything to keep us here. There could even be a trap, so please at least let me handle this for the moment.

[dad]

[ turning his head to look at. kinda blooshing ] Well, you don't have to? Like I said if you were sleepy...

Plus, did you move your bathroom before this? I ... gotta use the can.

[mettle]

I assure you I'm very awake at the moment. [tugging at the door and nope, not opening. he'd attempt to use his hundred power if he actually thought it would work, instead turning over to oyaji and sighing]

The door to the bathroom was originally in the living room but I decided to include a small one here as well. The door should be-- [looking at all dat lace] Behind one of those lace curtains.

[dad]

There are such things as lace curtains? [ turning to wherever borna's looking.. all he sees is gross bed and kinda dark wall ]

... There? Like 'there', there? Where it's all dark and scary? Things could be hiding behind those curtains if there's more than one!!

[mettle]

I'm not sure, but that's what they looked like to me. Everything in this room is a bit gaudy so I supposed lace curtains would just fit.

[RETARDIA. adjusting his glasses and making his way over to the wall at the farthest side of the room]

There should be a light-switch near the door. Please turn it on.

[dad]

Is that what your doing, though? Light-switch finding? [ starts caressin the wall. why are there like no lights are they in box trapped forever or what. ]

Oi, Bunny!

[mettle]

I'm not quite sure that I'll be finding much of anything, honestly.

[looking over his shoulder]

What is it?

[dad]

Good.. morning?

[mettle]

[wh...........]

...good morning.

I apologize for waking you up the way I did. Especially the yelling.

[dad]

[ no more awkward times. too many of those already. giving up with the search, he's too oyaji to go through the wall.. again.. ] It's fine! I've been kicked out of bed for more worse.

And I can't find the switch over here. [ thumb points at his wall ] Any luck there?

[mettle]

[too much information.... not looking at him as he raises an eyebrow. thankfully when he pulls back one of the lace curtains there's a door that looks exactly like the bathroom door, and when it's openned there is in fact a bathroom in there. smaller than his other one since it just has enough room for a sink, toilet and shower but oh well.]

No switch, but the bathroom is still here. [and then he realizes there are candles in the bathroom too. but, only candles]

At least it's not as exceedingly festive as the rest of the room.