constellates: (★ but cruel)
Anastasia "cuddly lion pit" ([personal profile] constellates) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2017-03-05 04:20 pm

russian intensifies

[When you wake up on this fine morning and check your Retrospec feed, you'll find... Russian spam? It begins - ]

Доброе утро. Меня зовут Аня. [ - and it continues on from there, resulting in a full paragraph.

For anyone who can read Cyrillic, they'll find the following message: Good morning. My name is Anya. Is anyone able to understand this? I recognize it as Cyrillic, as Russian, however I don't recall ever being able to speak this language. I woke up and suddenly it's all I knew. If the people on here remember horses, maybe they remember me speaking differently? Properly? Maybe? Please let me know.

In an entirely separate text, she tries again. In two more languages.]


おはようございます。私の名前はAnyaです。わかりますか?これは日本語です。でも昨日でAnyaは日本語を話しません。

[ - and that also goes on. An English message, with the same approximate fluency level as the Japanese, to explain the whole situation is finally provided at the end. Third try's the charm?]

good morning. my name is anya. i am sorry to try again but i am confused. today i know how to speak russian and japanese. the russian is easy but the japanese is harder. english is also harder now. even though yesterday i only spoke english?

??? why?

if the people here remember horses do they remember the anya that did not know russian? please help. please. thank you.


[ ACTION ]

[ a: авария

Normally Anya is full of life. There's a skip in her step, there's a smile on her face, there's a whole-hearted willingness to tackle the day and everything that it brings her. It was easy to call Anya cheerful and friendly.

That doesn't appear to be the case anymore.

She avoids her friends. She ducks her head and doesn't make eye contact at school. She doesn't open her mouth to speak once, brows furrowed and lips pressed into a thin line.

Yet with her head bowed as it is, it's hard to steer clear of others, isn't it? Which is why she bumps into you - somewhere. She still wanders, even if she isn't at her best. Whether it's at school, at the dance studio, wandering around the city, she seems to have accidentally run right into you.

Startled, she exclaims in smooth Russian:]


Извините! [Then her eyes widen and she seems to pause, having to take a sincere moment to recall the words she's looking for. Even now, a distinct Russian accent colors her words.] Ah, um... I'm sorry...

[There's no helping the sad, defeated look on her face - but Anya is still a very gentle girl. Even though she wants to be by herself, she finds herself looking up to whoever she ran into uncertainly.]

Are you okay...?

[ b: секрет

Distracted as she is, Anya isn't really noticing any of the secrets that are posted around today - or her own. So there's a neat little sign posted on her back, whether it's detailing something small like:]


i ) Anastasia sometimes sneaks out to climb the rooftop of her house even though her mother has told her not to.
ii ) Anastasia used to be a cheerleader.


[Or something a little bit more telling like:]

iii ) Anastasia doesn't like to be left alone.
iv ) Anastasia is too scared to be an idol anymore.


[ ooc: anya's regain was her canon language tick! an example can be found here! complete with sprinkles of Russian and accent. an additional note is that if you hover over the different alphabets, the exact translation should come up! AND FINALLY, Anya's hair used to be the lightest shade of the blonde in the world - and now it's gone full silver, but that's the least of her problems.]
doublesmall: (i don't want you to get it on with)

network

[personal profile] doublesmall 2017-03-06 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
anya?? anya are you okay

no that's a stupid question

are english and japanese both as difficult or is one easier for you, let's start with that
alienates: art @ nymphicus (Default)

action

[personal profile] alienates 2017-03-06 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ he does not check the network until he's at school that day and karkat is, understandably, startled?? it's one thing to see this kind of thing happen to people he does not care about (which is most people). anya is not one of those people though, so her being obviously stressed is not a thing that is good??

he texts her, which she. might have ignored if she's avoiding friends?? but fine okay. he knows her schedule, so he just waits til school is out and heads straight to where her last class is in order to catch her. and-- yup. runs right into her. he immediately places a hand on her shoulder and then awkwardly drops it. ]


Jesus Christ. You look like someone murdered baby penguins in front of you.
godcards: (01.)

a!

[personal profile] godcards 2017-03-06 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
I'm fine.

[ They weren't particularly close - but Malik recognizes the distinct shift in Anya's behavior. He's a little surprised, even! It shows on his face with his eyebrows raised as he looks down on her. Unfortunately he lacks the degree of empathy to actually follow up and make sure she's okay. ]

You should watch where you're going.
doublesmall: (and i don't have the right)

[personal profile] doublesmall 2017-03-06 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
you know I'm going to worry anyway

do you need me to come over or anything?


[keeping it short is probably best, he figures, so he's just. keeping a lid on the questions for the moment.]
notbunaga: (Default)

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[personal profile] notbunaga 2017-03-06 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
[She's seen enough of these signs to know what's going on; she'd even had one removed by someone else not too long ago, which she's holding in her hand all folded up.

So when she catches sight of the one on Anya's back, her first thought is of all the people to target with this bs, this is the most unforgivable one. Her second thought is she oughta do something about it, so...she just pats Anya on the back all of a sudden, but as she pulls her hand away tries to subtly remove the sign along with it.
]

Hey. Fancy meeting you here.
alienates: art @ nymphicus (Default)

[personal profile] alienates 2017-03-06 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ your fave is problematic: karkat, does not know how to comfort people ]

You look, uh. Upset? [ obviously. ] Murder was just the first thing that came to mind. There are no dead penguins.

[ I'M SORRY ]
notbunaga: (Default)

[personal profile] notbunaga 2017-03-06 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
[...even ignoring that.

It isn't a very Anya greeting, is it? Her head tilts a little to the side as she gives her a Look.
]

...everything okay? You seem off today.

[Don't mind her just folding up the paper she'd taken off Anya's back. Clearly it's nothing important.]
redarm: (gross)

A

[personal profile] redarm 2017-03-06 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ Being in Recolle a few weeks, Noah's already gotten used to several parts of his lie here: the subway was always down, his cousin couldn't cook at all, and his classmate Anya would always go out of the way to talk him up, no matter how surly he was. That was just how things worked.

So when that last one suddenly stopped? Even though he barely checks the retrospec, he took notice. At first it was confusing, maybe even a bit of a relief. But as the day wore on and she kept getting more into her shell? It got worrying.

Finally during break before last hour when she runs into her, he decides to express his concern the best way he could ]


Oy! What the hell's gotten into you?

[Okay, no one said he was good at expressing the concern, but the concern was still there!]
Edited 2017-03-06 01:11 (UTC)
sharplydressed: (what's the haps youth)

a!

[personal profile] sharplydressed 2017-03-06 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Kiyomitsu, normally glued to his dang phone, has been avoiding it lately...! For Reasons. But while that's solved one of his problems (kind of), it means he's missed the actual explanation of the sudden Russian spam on the network earlier.

Which means he's definitely looking surprised by Anya's sudden accent when they collide, keeping his stare fixed curiously even as he reaches down to pick up the papers he'd dropped in the bump.]


Yeah, I'm fine, don't worry. What about you, though? You sound...

[Shaken?? That isn't the way a shaken person sounds, though, people who are spooked don't just randomly develop Russian accents?!]

...Kinda unhappy.
godcards: (13.)

[personal profile] godcards 2017-03-06 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ Anya please, indeed. ]

Are you even listening?

[ Malik has his doubts. Considering. Anya hasn't even attempted to look up. ]
alienates: art @ nymphicus (Default)

[personal profile] alienates 2017-03-06 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ they're both Trying. ]

Are you free right now? Or do you have to go to your studio?
doublesmall: (and dip into when we need)

[personal profile] doublesmall 2017-03-06 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
just give me a few minutes

[let's be honest, he drives too fast even when he's not in a hurry-- so it won't take him long to get there this time. it's probably a miracle he managed not to get stopped.

Chuuya knocks to let her know he's there before he lets himself in, pausing just inside the doorway and calling out.]


Anya? Hey, it's me--
erythristic: (out.)

retrospec.

[personal profile] erythristic 2017-03-06 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
anya, i remember you, of course i do.

do you feel like anything's different, apart from the language changing?
voicelessresistance: (Hmm.)

Voice

[personal profile] voicelessresistance 2017-03-06 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
You woke up knowing two languages you didn't speak before.

[That's...well, absolutely fascinating really, to Regina. Even if it was technically impossible. Hm.]

You didn't hit your head or anything, did you? I realize I that's a strange question but head injuries might at least explain the loss of some of your English.

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