Private Holo the Fun Be With You

[Zaiya Ceti]

Aris Noble

Well his mind was going all over the place, Zaiya thought to herself, amusement igniting her own pulse of light blue color tones over her mottled spots. Watching him ponder only to flush in embarrassment and have the Holo headband confirm his embarrassment was a hoot.

"Haha, no need to be embarassed about what your siblings would do. I'm sure they'd have fun regardless," She teased him, incorrectly assuming the reason why Aris had flushed in embarssement.

"Yeah! Should be great," Zaiya chirped back, only to notice the holo light ears melt into another color. What did that mean? She glanced down at the cheat sheet. Really there were only ten possible options. Nothing compared to the dozens of color combinations her skinshifting provided with all the glow effect nuances.

Oh. Concern flickered in her eyes as the hue labeled it as fear, unaware that it was reality nervousness. Wait, was he afraid of getting on the Ferris Wheel? No that made no sense, Aris had suggested it.

"Now it's saying you are feeling fear... Are you afraid of something?" She asked, concern in her voice, only to then frown, a grey iridescence illuminating the edges of her patterns in confusion. "At least... that's what the color label is suggesting you are feeling."

 

[Aris Noble]

".. huh? Oh. Yeah. They probably would be." Aris chuckled after what Zaiya said seemed to click in his mind. Though, that seemed to be a misunderstanding. The fact she didn't even seem to mind that he'd gotten into his own head had his smirk dip to something more actively embarrassed. Flustered more accurately. Zaiya really was someone he liked liked, without a doubt in his mind.

He stepped on board, pausing as he glanced to her. His ears showed.. Fear? Was he afraid? "Mmm.. Not scared. Nervous, but not of the wheel." He wasn't going to lie to her, though he wasn't going to fully explain either. Not yet anyway.

"Come on, though. Nervous as I am, I think I'm way more excited, you know?" The goofy grin took over as he scratched his cheek. "Today has just been so much fun."

Zaiya Ceti

 

[Zaiya Ceti]

Aris Noble

Okay, there seemed to be a lot of emotions going through there. The back and forth in hues despite the limited color selection was startling and amusing all at once.

Led by Aris, Zaiya asked with notable amusement, mischevious cyan flecks painting the light blue tones over her skin with the faintest golden biolumienence.

"Is this how it feels for others to see my color shifting? Even with a cheat sheet, it is amusing to see your emotions color coded like that." a laugh and they queue up for the Ferris Wheel.

"Okay, really really." She suddenly became serious -- well as serious as she could be when evidently displaying the silly glow effects of her skin in avid humor. A few others were looking at them, and a murmur barely heard, indicating they thought that perhaps Zaiya was wearing a special type of skin paint to have that effect. Zaiya ignored them and instead stared up at Aris with his goofy grin, a crooked grin decorated over her face.

"How well can you tell what the different colors in my colorshifting means?"

 

[Aris Noble]

How.. Well could he tell? Aris didn't hesitate. "Almost all of them. I've got a cheat sheet kinda in my head, same with how Mahsa's hair changes colors. .. I try not to use it, though. Or think more than I should on what they might mean. Doesn't feel right to just know how you feel by looking at you, though I guess that's how a lot of people normally are, right?"

He scratched his cheek, smiling a bit more sheepishly before he looked up to the pod they were about to step into. "Or at least I hope you can do the same with me, some day. I'd rather we're on equal footing in.. Everything, really."

Zaiya Ceti

 

[Zaiya Ceti]

Aris Noble

The revelation that Aris could pretty much tell almost all of them was crazy. Zaiya was equal parts flustered, embarrassed, giddy, shy and curious all at the same time. Happy that ARis could do it, but also embarrassed that he might have read and known a bit too much at times -- wait how about how she'd been reacting around him the past few months? Had he'd been able to tell then?

Zaiya felt like her brain had short-circuited, her thoughts spiraling into a tangled mess of Oh! and Wait, that's sweet. and oh no, no no!! Her skin betrayed every emotion faster than she could process them -- blushing streaks of coral blooming over her cheeks, jagged flashes of silver sparking like static, all tinted with that telltale silver shimmer of sudden, flustered panic.

Her hand came up to tug at a strand of her hair, twisting it so tightly around her finger it almost hurt. Equal footing, Aris had said. Equal footing in everything.

"Well, okay... umm, " she managed to stammer, her voice doing an awkward little squeak at the end. Great. Perfect. Definitely not weird. "I mean... I can tell and have noticed things about you already, Aris. Because, like… you're there. And I'm there. And we're best friends. So I see you. A lot."

Stop talking, Zaiya.

But her mouth clearly had other plans.

"And it's not like I'm staring at you all the time or anything!" Her hands flew up in defense, waving wildly like that would somehow erase the words from the air. The magenta flare across her face deepened into something closer to neon, little flickers of embarrassed orange dancing along her forearms.

Oh that sounded even more creepy!

Another burst of colors shot across her skin, a chaotic swirl of pinks and yellows, as she finally just gave up with a dramatic sigh, glancing away to follow the line that would lead them closer to being seated in the Ferris Wheel. "Okay. I'm gonna stop talking now."

And yet, despite all the embarrassment, there was this small, warm glow nestled beneath the chaos -- soft and golden, not from panic this time, but from the quiet, giddy realization that Aris wanted her to know him just as well as he knew her.

 

[Aris Noble]

And there they were, the flash of colors and emotions. He wasn't trying to watch her, of course, but even from the corner of his eye he could see each and every emotion coursing through her mind right now. Amusement and embarrassment flashed through the cat ears in equal spades. He didn't want to just study her, but part of him also couldn't help it. He ended up more fully laughing as Zaiya blubbered out her words and her own embarrassment grew so vividly. He kept his eyes out the window as the wheel started to move, his smile bright and warm.

"I try not to stare at you too, but, it's hard not to want to look at you. You're just, always on my mind these days." He leaned back in his seat, letting his eyes close for a moment. By the flash on the ears, what he said had really flustered him but he was trying not to let that consume his thoughts. He was already so incredibly nervous. Frightened, even.

".. Remember how you stepped on my feet when we danced? How I won that bet?" He opened his eyes then, his gaze still outside as the wheel moved. Bit by bit they made their way to the top. The park was below, sparkling with colors and brightness. It was pretty, but it wasn't really what was on his mind. "I'm going to ask you a question and I want you to answer. That's what I'm gonna say is what I get. Just a simple answer, you know?"

Simple, right. He took a breath before he glanced over towards her. His expression was.. Much more flustered now. Visible even as the only real lighting was the holoworld shifting colors.

"Do you want me to kiss you?"

Zaiya Ceti