this is a [test] of the emergency broadcast system

[titansno]

TEST DRIVE MEME

> The Park. Man, what a nice day out. Why not enjoy it? I'm sure -- shit, yep, there's some echo monsters.
> The Mall. Exactly what it says on the tin! Dodge the hordes of teenage mallrats or take part, whichever suits your tastes.
> Rainy Day. Agh, it's fucking awful out. And is it raining those vermilion things?? Now you've got an Echo to contend with on top of everything else. Find some shelter, quick!
> PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, HOW FUN
> The most horribly kitschy Arts and Crafts Fair you can imagine.
> Wild Card! Make up your own.

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harper sutherland (kanade minamino) | suite precure♪

[duette]

A - RAIN, ACTION



[ It's like the sky is falling when Harper Sutherland steps foot outside of Starling-Chandler. All the streets and sidewalks are virtually empty, since late afternoon means most of the students have already gone home for the day. So she opens up her umbrella, sticks one earbud into her ear (a mix her brother had made, though she'd never admit it) and descends the steps into the downpour.

Harper makes down a block, when a sudden wet, squishy thump resounds from the top of her umbrella. Thinking it's the unruly kids who live in one of the highrise apartments trying to prank her, she whips a very sharp glance upwards. ]

Hey, you up there! Where's your mother?! You shouldn't be throwing things, don't you know how dang —

[ All the windows are closed. Expression smoothing over first in wonder, it then fades to worry, and not least of all... ]

— dangerous that is...? Huh?

[ Righting her umbrella, whatever had fallen on it and stuck slops down the side and lands on the pavement with a squishy flop. Then the wet little creature wobbles around and pins a wide, vacant stare at her.

Harper rears back, throws her umbrella, and shrieks like a banshee. ]

B - NETWORK, TYPED



I'm about to ask something very silly! Two things that are very silly, actually. I'll give you until the count of 3 to decide just how much silliness you want to witness today it before I ask, so I won't have to deal with any silly comments on my silly subjects. I've about had it, as it is! Here I go.

3...

2...

1...

There! Now.

Anyone who has experience with *adorable* talking cats, please check in with me. Anyone who has experience with the *paws* of *adorable* talking cats, please also check in with me. If you could. ...Thank you.

[decelerate]

talking cats.

[duette]

AHH you stay out of it! I gave you to the count of 3 and everything!

[decelerate]

cant now, you said talking cats. how can you expect me to ignore that one??

[duette]

I didn't "magically" find one that told me it belonged to me, if that's what you thought! You *were* thinking that, weren't you?

[duette]

...And even if I did, you couldn't Instagram it.

[decelerate]

yeah. it followed you home, and now its yours etc.

[decelerate]

was thinking of youtube tbh.

B

[stop_hamerutime]

um.

what kind of talking cat?

[duette]

If I can, um

[ Oh, darn it whatever. ]

She was *really* REALLY cute! Like a kitten! With these precious, soft little paws...oh, she was white of course. And pink?

Okay, so that part is a little weird.

[stop_hamerutime]

are you SURE it was a cat? not something else?

[duette]

Of course I'm sure it was cat! What else co -

[duette]

Wait, why?

A

[ladyofluminosity]

[It might seem strange that Luci would know that shriek from a mile away--or, in this case, about 100 yards--but the blond immediately recognized it and, already walking in the opposite direction, breaks into a jog toward the sound. Reaching her, she looks alarmed, looking from her friend, to the fallen umbrella, back to Harper.]

Harper, what's wrong? I heard you scream. Are you okay? You aren't hurt are you?

[duette]

L-L-L-Luci! Look! [ She points animatedly. Soaking wet and shaking like a leaf, Harper regards the creature in front of her with some mixture of affront and terror. Which is silly because it's just a soggy wet furball with big white eyes. And it's not doing much of anything offensive, besides existing in her general vicinity.

It wobbles a little more and Harper presses her mouth into a thin line, emitting a high pitched whine. ]

What is that thing? It's gross!

[ladyofluminosity]

[Harper was a girl that could fly off the handle when she got overly worked up, so Luci took it in stride, trying to calm her friend.

What was that, anyway? Some kind of weird stuffed animal?]

It looks like some little kid's toy. I'm sure it's fine.

[duette]

No, it's definitely alive! Don't you see it looking at us? [ EEP ] Ahh, it just moved again, watch!

[ Harper latches onto Luci's elbow and shuffles her forward to face it down for her. No one said her overactive imagination ever made her any braver. She wrinkles her nose. ]

...Poke it.

[ladyofluminosity]

[Luci made a face.]

I'm not going to poke it!

[Something about Harper's mood was always infectious, even when she was flipping out.]

B

[worldmother]

Her name didn't happen to be Mimi and she didn't happen to be begging you for fish, did she?

[Mimi please stop harassing strangers.]

[duette]

Unless Mimi is pink and white and looks like a cheap arcade stuffed animal...

[duette]

[ . . . ]

[duette]

YOU HAVE A TALKING CAT?

harper plz stop

[worldmother]

[This always happened when she mentioned Mimi.]

Apparently. But she doesn't look anything like that, so whatever you ran into is something different. Are you sure it wasn't a toy?

can't stop won't stop

[duette]

Umm I didn't *run into* it, per se...more like I remembered it. Pulsed it? Whatever! (Jeez, I said it was silly.) But that was 100% genuine kitten, squishy paws and all. She only looked really weird!

Oh this probably isn't making any sense.

good.

[worldmother]

So an echo then.

Squishy paws?