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Who: Charlie McGee
What: Typical DITL. Charlie can be found in several locations.
When: January 8th, all day.
Where: All over.
Warnings: None at the moment

Cake Town: Attleton in the AM, Fayren in the PM

The first stop of Charlie's day is one of the Cake Town stores. She has schedules to put up, orders to place, customers and people to interact with. It's fine, she'll be fine. This is okay. When she's not busy making food for customers, she can be found seated at one of the chairs, working on the schedule and looking up new recipes to add to the menu. And while she's seated, she's eating. It's a crepe with chocolate and strawberries, one of the ones people can get at Cake Town. She really should have gone for something healthier, but none of her adults are around. This is the decision of a teenager who hasn't had much access to food until recently. She'll eat what she wants.

Axiom Games: Early afternoon - Genessia City

Charlie isn't really sure what brought her to Axiom. Maybe it was the noise and flashing lights and laughter, but she finds herself stepping in, looking around, and buying tokens to play games. Soon enough, she's playing at a First Person Shooter style zombie game, and she's not doing too well. It's kind of hard to aim the gun just right, and these damn things keep popping up before she can even take care of the first ones.

Eventually, she dies, and with a huff of frustration, she steps away from the game. Hands on her waist, a faint scowl on her face that looks more amused than angry. And then more money is put in and she decides to keep trying, mumbling herself in a tone that doesn't sound angry, despite the words.

"...stupid, god-damn exploding...piece of hairy garbage...you're gonna get it." Resting the toy rifle against her shoulder, Charlie decides to try again and does a tiny bit better this time.

Just a tiny bit.

Garden Park: Mid-afternoon - Genessia City

Charlie is taking a break from being inside. She doesn't do well with all that sitting inside a building, so she's happy to catch a much-needed respite from crowds and people. She has Andi and Victor with her, both dogs happy with chew toys and nibbling at the bowls of food Charlie set up for them so she can eat her own sandwich in peace.

She has a book nearby, too. Pinocchio. She's read it a million times over, but there's something about the soft smile on her face that may suggest this book brings her joy. Occasionally, she reaches up to pet Andi or Victor, but for the most part, she's pretty happy with reading about the little wooden boy and the trouble he gets himself into.

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It's been a while since he was at Genessia. Sure, living in Nova City is heaven for him to live out his futuristic video gaming dreams, he does admit that he has to return to reality sometime. And by reality, it means he just going to an old-fashioned arcade.

However, one thing that catches his eye as he arrives is a young woman playing a zombie FPS game and by the looks of it, she's not doing a bang-up job so far. Well, he is here for entertainment and just seeing this woman trying to beat the game is entertaining enough for him to approach her and watch her failings.

"Whoa, just how much did you wasted on this game already? I would guess you're having trouble with the zombies or just your aiming skills."

Yep, those words are enough to ignite a conflict. But Aaron doesn't care. He just wants a challenge and he may get it from that woman.

[OOC: Hi! I have a power permission post, so let me if you like to opt-in or opt-out from Aaron's mind abilities just in case.]

"Just a couple tokens," Charlie replies, calming down after she manages a couple decent headshots. "I'm not really into video games. Honestly, the last system I played on was an Atari. I was eight."

She's just barely sixteen, now, and would probably laugh at the idea that this kid thinks she's old enough to be a woman. Another couple shots, aim improving some now that she's starting to understand game mechanics, and a small smile on Charlie's face.

"This is kinda fun, though." Kinda. Still not one-hundred percent her thing.

So in other words, she's a newbie, huh? That would explain her poor aiming skills. He would try to give her more trouble, but just seeing her smile and her enjoyment to the game might be a bit too early for him to destroy it. Though upon hearing about the last gaming system she played, well...

"Atari? Are you serious? When were you born anyway? The 70's?!" Okay, maybe he just wants to mess with her a bit. "In all seriousness, I'm surprised you're not into video games. I practically lived with them every day."

"Nineteen-eighty," Charlie replies, firing and missing a couple shots. That's fine, though. She's not too terribly bothered by this. The game is fun for what it is, but video games just aren't her thing.

Losing once more, Charlie sighs and reholsters the toy gun. She's had enough.

"Why does it surprise you I'm not into video games?"

"That explains a lot." He muttered as he looks at her poor aiming skills once more before she stores it back to its holster.

"For one thing, you can play and compete with anyone and go into some fantasy and sci-fi worlds with just a joystick controller. Heck, practically anyone I know including some streaming creators is playing video games back in my world. They even made it a real sport! Isn't that the coolest?!"

"Why would I want to do any of that?" Charlie replies, shooting offscreen to reload and then aiming and firing some more. Her aim is getting better, but she still doesn't seem too into this game. So she lets herself die and reholsters the gun, letting Game Over flash on the screen.

"To each their own, but I'd rather read a book."

"Because it's fun. Isn't that the point of video games?" Apparently, Aaron has a one-track mind when it comes to one thing he loves.

However, he frowns when she mentions that she rather read a book. "And what's so fun about reading a book?"

"Not my thing," Charlie replies again, this time holstering the gun and giving Aaron a mildly annoyed look. This one-track mind thing made for a very, very boring conversation and Charlie wasn't a fan of boring conversations.

"Books are, for me, a brief escape from reality. If the book is good, it's like stepping into another world. If it's boring, it gets put away and I find a new book to read. Or, you can read to learn something new."

"Oh, really?"

He was interested in her explanation, but in reality, he's not. To him, books have limits. Unlike in video games, you are just limited in reading the other person's POV and of course, there is no interactive element except when you're reading a CYOA book. "But is it worth it on jumping through book to book just to immerse yourself in their worlds?"

Just hearing this made him mentally blacklisted her thoughts for mind reading. It's just not worth it listening to her thoughts about books all the time.

(OOC: Just giving an IC reason for your opt-out on his powers. You're welcome.)

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