Thursday DE: speed dating (or speed hating) edition

[needsmoreresearch]

You ever feel like it’s hard to meet characters? Hard to find reasons to throw two characters together, and not sure you want to commit to a whole scene? Let’s try speed dating: Comment with your characters below, and people will tag in for a speed date. To simulate the time limit, each conversation can go no longer than 7 tags from each person. Characters who come as a set can absolutely join too, nothing wrong with a three-way or more-way date! (And no, these absolutely do not have to be dating-type conversations. Speed arguing, speed hating, speed friendly chatting, those are good too. Just throw characters at each other.)

This is all off-the-record, of course, not really IC. Unless someone has a character who wants to ICly set this up.

EDIT: this is open till whenever, tag on in!

Comments

[run_barry]

[ooc: OMGOSH I want to do this so hard, but today is going to be madness here in the office. I am tossing in a few and might be sporadic, but will do my damndest to hit back tags and tag out to others. <3, Bat]


So, this is a thing that is happening and Barry is trying to hide his nerves as he sits at a table with a Coke and one foot fast tapping on the hardwood floor (but not too fast).

Meeting new people is great! He’s just not the best at it. Especially the first impressions part, and since this is basically just a first impression he has no idea how it’s going to go.

He’s just going to try really, really hard not to weird people out. That’s a good goal, right?

[lazy_but_loyal]

Pam sits down across from Barry. She appears to be wholly unimpressed, but actually--

"At least you're cute."

She can hear his pulse and it is insane.

"What did you do, drink a vat of Starbucks?"

[run_barry]

Barry sits up a little straighter and offers a smile, which quickly turns embarrassed on the compliment.

"Uh, thanks."

His foot comes to a quick stop and he smooths a hand down the front of his sweater, giving an awkward laugh.

"Just a little nervous I guess. I'm Barry. Hi." He offers his hand, and another smile.

[lazy_but_loyal]

Pam lowers her gaze to the offered hand. And then back up to his face.

Fine, she'll play along.

She reaches out and slips her hand into his. It's pale, slender, elegant, and also quite cool. Almost corpse-like.

"Pam. Don't be nervous," she drawls. "I'm not gonna bite."

[run_barry]

Her hand is cold, and he flinches just a little. By contrast Barry's hand is a little more than warm, and his pulse thrums quite a few beats too quick, if she can feel that.

"Oh, no, you don't make me nervous." Although, apparently she does to go by how awkward and embarrassed that sounded. "I just don't do a whole lot of social... stuff."

He coughs, again awkward, and tries to turn the subject.

"So what do you do where you're from?"

[lazy_but_loyal]

Okay. This just got a little more interesting. In a physiological kind of way.

"Neither do I." Social stuff. Ugh.

But he smells delicious, so she'll allow herself some amusement.

"I co-run a bar in Shreveport, Louisiana. And yourself?"

[run_barry]

"Yeah? That's cool. What's it called?"

He takes a drink of his soda before answering her question, "I'm a forensic assistant for the Central City police department."

[no_more_hiding]

"Bumfuzzle," Hank says, pulling out a chair and gesturing with a hand nearly a paw; fur and claws included. "To confuse or fluster. Funny sounding word isn't it? May I?"

[run_barry]

Barry blinks at the guy, and that paw, and then gives a laugh.

"Yeah, pretty weird." Giving a nod, he gestures at the chair. "Go for it. I'm Barry Allen."

The guy's appearance is a little startling on first look, but Barry doesn't hesitate to offer his hand with the introduction.

[no_more_hiding]

"Hank McCoy," he says taking the seat. "I apologize if my appearance is startling. I'm a mutant you see. Human, but with a slight quirk in my genetic makeup."

[run_barry]

"No, it's-- I'm sorry if I was staring or-- I didn't mean you were weird... " Barry's really hoping Hank didn't take his comment that way, especially since this is turning out to be the most awkward apology ever.

"It's cool. My world has what we call metahumans. I've heard they're kind of the same."