THE ACADEMY AGE MEME

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The Academy Age Meme



"No, you can't eat yourself if you henge into a bowl of ramen, go sit back down"


Ah yes, another long-awaited Sunshineverse meme!

As the name suggests, this meme is fairly straightforward: bring out the cute academy aged icons, because we'll be playing everyone as their young, academy aged selves! This time it's pretty straightforward, but here's a step by step anyway.

Step one: Post a top level comment with your character's name and affiliation at the time of their academy training. You should probably include their age--again, at the time they'd be in the academy--along with it. If, for whatever reason, your character didn't go to a ninja academy, probably just post them as a child around the time other kids would have been in the academy

Step two: Given the nature of this meme, you may want to include a scenario or two for people to tag into, but otherwise, it's a good idea to include relevant information people will need if they tag your character. If during their childhood they refused to leave trees, preferred to henge into a puddle to make people slip on them, or killed people indiscriminately, these are good things for people to know.

Step three: Tag to others, and relive your high school Academy days!

NOTE: Ages in this meme are synched up. That means school-kid Karin won't be able to kick it with school-kid Kushina. But! A school-kid Karin could end up interacting with a somewhat younger than current canon Kushina!

BONUS NOTES!

1: Although it isn't required to, all tags and threads in this meme can absolutely count toward actual in-game history for the characters involved!

2: Threads that count for history also count for activity! Just like the test drive meme, if the threads count for history, they also count for activity

3: Don't forget the NPC journal! This is a great opportunity to interact with dead/distanced/etc characters that would still be around or would be prominently involved with the history of your characters, and that's what this NPC journal is there for! Use it!

4: Most important - Have fun, you cute little ninja terrors

Comments

[lostmarauder]

He hesitated for a moment... then slid around and dropped somewhat clumsily to the ground. He didn't fall, but it wasn't as graceful as a trained shinobi, properly trained that is, in spite of the height.

"Okay, I'm down. I've never been in a shinobi village before."

[pinnedbangs]

Rin took a few steps back, partially to get a better look at the older kid and mostly because he didn't want to get squished. It was ... it was like watching a fat cat fall out of a tree. Rin hadn't had much training himself, but he wondered if maybe something was wrong with this kid's ... something. Something was wrong with this something.

He acknowledged the boy's words with a long piercing stare.

"Never? Why? Aren't you a shinobi? What are ya, a cat? Cats can't be people. Unless you're a cat person from some cat village. ...I've never been out of this village and I haven't explored all of it yet. So it's really big. And dangerous. But I'm not scared. Is it really different out there? Like really different? Because I heard it's different. Like brain laundry stuff different."

There was hardly a breath taken between his words. It all rushed out as if it were a single sentence.

[lostmarauder]

Peter just... stared at him, pale blue eyes wide and baffled as he tried to track the other boys words. He couldn't for the life of him remember anyone ever thinking him as an authority on anything and it was not only baffling, but rather intimidating as well, leaving him standing there like a gaping fish for a good few minutes before he managed to get himself together to actually understand the flurry of questions.

"I don't know what brain laundry even it but no I'm not a cat, and it's plenty dangerous too I guess but I'm not a shinobi." He scowled as he said this. "I'm trying, but my parents want me to have nothing to do with it and would have left me at home if they'd been able to for this trip to keep me away from any."

[pinnedbangs]

"Oh. Brain laundry is when they take out your brain and do things to make you un-loyal and make you do things you never want to do." Maybe it wasn't laundry. But it had something to do with cleaning. Brain mopping? Brain dusting? Brain power soaking?

Rin listens attentively for his age. He hops from foot to foot as he tries to gauge just how tall this boy was compared to him. Kitty looked like such an older kid... Would Rin be that tall one day?

"Why not? Do they think it's dangerous too?"

[lostmarauder]

Peter looked thoroughly horrified by the idea of someone taking out his brain at all, let alone doing things to it, and he had to wonder if this was a common thing to do in shinobi villages. Is that why his parents like to say that it was insane? It would make a horrifying kind of sense.

No, no way.

"Yes... but, but they also think shinobi are crazy."

[pinnedbangs]

Crazy? Rin wrinkles his nose as he tries to imagine how anyone could be crazy. Shinobi were defenders, right? And they worked for the village, right? How is that crazy?

"...I've never met a crazy shinobi so there probably isn't one. My dad says that shinobi are people who do things they sometimes don't like. But he's never called them crazy."

It was such a strange concept. Admittedly it wasn't that weird so much as it was odd to hear it from someone as young as Kitty. Okay, maybe it was as weird as not knowing what to call someone.

"...What's your name?"

[lostmarauder]

He'd met plenty of people someone would consider crazy, but none he'd met that he considered so himself. He relaxed some though. "Peter. Yours?"

[pinnedbangs]

"I'm Rin! Where are you from, Peter?" Maybe, just maybe, Peter could be a friend?

[lostmarauder]

"Grass. It's pretty far away from here. It's why my parents brought me with them."

[pinnedbangs]

"Grass?"

He had never heard of such a place before. Huge misty fields of nothing but grass come to mind. Perhaps these people lived underground...

"What's it like over there? Is it bigger than here even? Are there tall buildings and underground buildings an-and mole people?"

[lostmarauder]

"Do you live in a puddle?" He huffed then shook his head. "No, it's just... Grass." He gave a helpless shrug. "It's warmer than here."

[pinnedbangs]

"Of course I don't! I live in a house!"

He huffed right back and crossed his arms. Potential new friend or not, Rin didn't take kindly to feeling insulted or embarrassed. He wasn't sure how he should feel about that comment. It sounded like a genuine question to him.

"...I wanna see it one day. Right now it's warm. D'you mean it gets even warmer? ...Can you take me with you when you go back?" And then Rin could come back home tomorrow and tell his family all about Grass.

[lostmarauder]

"I don't think my parents would let me. But you can sneak in with us if you want! You know, if they don't catch you at it?"

[pinnedbangs]

"I can?!"

That sounded too good to be true, like the beginnings of an adventure! ...But that's exactly why he seemed to wilt a little.

"What if they do catch me? Will they just take me back home? ...I can't be gone all day. I gotta be home by dinner."

[lostmarauder]

"It'll take more than dinnertime for us to get back to my home though." He shook his head at him.

[pinnedbangs]

"Oh. That's okay, I'll go another time. Will you bring me something from Grass?"

[lostmarauder]

"Next time I come here I'll be really sure to bring a present okay?"

[pinnedbangs]

"...D'ya mean it? Stick a 'undred needles in your eye 'n everthin'?"

[lostmarauder]

"Mm! My parents are merchants, I can do it! ... But it might be a while." He couldn't really help that.

[pinnedbangs]

Rin bounced in place, unable to contain his excitement for a second longer.

"Does that mean you're my friend now?" One gift doth not a friend make, but Peter seemed like a good person. And he actually spoke to Rin as if he were another kid instead of challenging him to a fight for breaking someone else's nose.

[lostmarauder]

"Ah... I guess we can be, but it might be a really long time before I see you again."

[pinnedbangs]

"...Oh." He looks younger than his age in that moment, with his quivering frown and glassy eyes. He's not going to be sad about this, no sir.

"Fine. For today only."

[lostmarauder]

"That doesn't mean I'll forget you." It's weird, actually feeling like he should do the protecting for someone. But... nice.

[pinnedbangs]

"It's okay if you forget. It happens when you get bigger." These were the facts of life, after all.

"But let's go do something now before you have to go!"

[lostmarauder]

"I won't forget!" He already had one person he had to be sure to never forget, he could make it two. Easy. "But okay. As long as I don't have to get back up a tree."