UN: MusicologyMinor - [TEXT]

[youwouldntdownloada]

WHO: Yasuho Hirose
WHERE: Libra Network
WHEN: 3/13
WHAT: Another Normal AU with the Anime Hair-
WARNINGS: None probably

uh

So that dye you recommended? I followed all the instructions and it definitely didn't work! This isn't anything like auburn at all!

[There is an added picture of a young woman with light pink hair, holding the dye box in question- It could probably be worse.

...Of course it's after uploading the picture with the post that Yasuho realizes this isn't her usual chat client. Actually she doesn't know what this app is. Quick browsing says open forum. Open forum she can't delete from. And she can't just say 'ignore this'! That would just do the opposite!

No!!!

...

Maybe if she says nothing, all of this will Go Away. Who even recommended that dye to her anyway, she wants to throw the box at them for making this happen.]

Comments

text · un: vinviv

[mehjin]

[oh boy, that's a face viv recognizes.]

not guilty but its not a bad look for you

un: musicologyminor

[youwouldntdownloada]

[hey wait she knows that un from a Different cha-]

Viv?

[Ugh! This stinks!]

Do you know what's going on with this app?

Wait did you give me a virus app?

[It's a legitimate question,]

[mehjin]

still not guilty

tldr magic is real and the app means youre in on the secret

congrats

[youwouldntdownloada]

The point of computer viruses like this is that you don't know you're guilty until it's happened, it's how they get around. And then all of your phone data is gone.

[where does she even begin with the magic...]

That's a really big jump from 'new app, bad dye job'!

[mehjin]

you dont know the week ive had

in fact mind if i make this a video call itll be easier

[youwouldntdownloada]

[Come to think Viv's seemed a little off when she's seen her. Not Off Off, just kind of off, like there was something she was missing.

...

Squint-]

...go for it.

[Squinting harder,]

text → video

[mehjin]

[and without further ado viv does just that. as the feed turns on, she greets yasuho with a v-sign, though her face remains as neutral as ever.

her incredibly purple, clearly-not-human-at-all face.]

Yo.

text; un: STAMPEDE

[doubledollar]

I don't actually remember reccomending anyone anything, but.

hey, if it makes you feel better, I think it's a great colour. Bright and vivid, hard to miss--like a flower!

So don't feel too bad about it, okay!! Auburn is a dime a dozen! You shine!

un: musicologyminor

[youwouldntdownloada]

I was hoping for something less eye-catching...

I started from blond, how did this even set so badly?

[....She should probably acknowledge this was. Meant for. Mn.]

The post was a misfire by the way. It was going to my cousin overseas initially.

[She has acknowledged the mistake now, and she will now proceed to remove it from memory and live in a hole,

.....


....] You really think it looks nice?

[doubledollar]

If you're going to change your hair colour, why not go for something eye-catching? Unless you're trying to hide your identity, I guess.

[ he guesses if youre a well-known criminal as being a lady with blonde hair, changing your hair to auburn or black would be a good idea, but he understands now. misfires. of course that sort of thing would happen. ]

Mistakes happen! I'm sure I'm bound to do the same thing one day, I'm not used to communicators like these, yanno??

And of course I mean it!! I never give a compliment unless I'm 100% serious.

[youwouldntdownloada]

I wanted to try something that matched my eyes better.

[Auburn with green eyes seemed nice!!! Now she's just an under ripe watermelon...

....apparently a nice looking under ripe watermelon though, she'll take this.]

Aww...well, thanks then.

Honestly it's this Libra thing's fault, turning my phone on should have brought me to my usual messenger. Not this thing.

[doubledollar]

Pink goes with greens. Petals of a flower and
its leaves and all that.

But hey, there's no saying you can't re-dye over it if you get real tired of looking like bubblegum, yanno?

[ his opinion probably isn't the best, but, hey. he still thinks he's right. ]

D'ya think there was some sort'a glitch? Maybe you should get your phone checked to make sure it didn't like. default your messenger to Libra or something.

a first time mistake can be a fun joke later.
a second time and it feels malicious, right?

[youwouldntdownloada]

[Offline, Yasuho is looking in the mirror and groaning again. "It DOES look like bubblegum...."

Vash tried,]

I can still access the other app, but maybe this one opened itself after installing?

[.........................]

I might have to test this later without posting.

text; un: jcarter_news

[phoenixwiz]

Huh, that is strange. I don’t remember seeing your hair as pink before.

(This dawns on him to the realization that someone he knows at uni has been dragged into the Zodiac app madness too.)

Yasuho. Oh no, don’t tell that Zodiac got you too.

[youwouldntdownloada]

That's because it was a hair dye mistake...I thought so anyway...

[hold on, JCarter News??]

...Jamie?

Is Zodiac the reason for this phone virus then?

[it's not a phone virus, just an astoundingly invasive app,]

[phoenixwiz]

Yeah, it’s me. I got this app since the end of last December. I doubt that this is a phone virus per say, but Zodiac installs the app onto anyone’s phones and other devices.

Once you got the app installed, you’re going to get a lot of weird things coming in your way like the hair color. And also Zodiac’s customer service is pretty shady as it can be and they don’t respond to any of our complaints or questions.

[youwouldntdownloada]

That's still really suspicious.

[no yasuho don't investigate the mystery app....]

Extremely suspicious.

...You haven't turned different colors either have you?

[LISTEN. SHE HAS TO KNOW.]

[phoenixwiz]

Right now, nope. I haven’t gotten my hair color changed right now but I got a pointy wooden stick that can perform magic a month ago.

However just recently, I got cursed for accidentally annoying the Fae, so I got the ability to fly and my lungs got an upgrade.

[youwouldntdownloada]

[pointy wooden................]

Like a magic wand? Like stage magicians have, but if it did real magic?

[............................................The last thing takes a few re-reads.]

Fae?

[So, she's not an expert on mundane folklore by any means, but, she's pretty sure that you're definitely not supposed to annoy the 'fae'! That seems like a thing that you just do not do!]

un: yuureisen; text

[areyuuserious]

[Since poor Yasuho's already aware of the misfire, Yuu's going to at least spare her from another comment on that.]

It could be worse, at least. And hey, at least that's a cute shade of pink!

If anyone who didn't see you buy the dye box asks, just say you changed your mind at the last minute?

[youwouldntdownloada]

[Ughhhhhh.... ...though this is good advice actually...]

I guess I didn't exactly tell everyone *why* I was dying it...

This is as bad as when I had to cut my bangs...

[Yuu gets to have ONE! One slight overshare. Just the one, she's not a disaster like others.]

[areyuuserious]

There you go! Simple as that.

And, uh, condolences on the whole Suddenly This New App thing. Zodiac's really not winning any points with how they made it.

[youwouldntdownloada]

They made a virus. This is a phone virus, it has to be.

[no it's just magic

Though the levels of derision remain regardless,]

What does this app even do other than act as an open chat client?

[areyuuserious]

[No comment on the virus part.]

Chat's the main thing, honestly. If there's anything else, I haven't found it after having this for over a year. You start meeting the criteria Zodiac has for getting this thing (do not ask me precisely what that criteria might be as it's beyond me), it shows up, you're just kind of stuck with it.

(Seriously, there's no getting rid of it.)

Bad news is your life's probably about to get weirder than it already may or may not have been and Zodiac's tone-deaf as hell even during the best of times, but the good news is the people here are pretty great.

[youwouldntdownloada]

So a mysterious app client just installs itself onto the phone as soon as someone matches an unknown criteria...just for chatting?

If Zodiac is the company behind it, then what do they even do?