Just wondering if you'll come over here per my suggestion, Mr. Catalogue.
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Anonymous2009-03-24 3:33
Sup, it's me.
Like I said earlier, the archiver probably didn't catch all his stuff, so just ask away.
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Bard of Red2009-03-24 3:36
Also, name for me
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Anonymous2009-03-24 3:36
Well, damn.
Hmm. From the beginning, I guess?
He sounds like he was a fucking amazing guy, from that Red Ranger thread I read. I mean... taking the fall for arson?
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Stilts2009-03-24 3:40
Finally got this thing working. Man, you were right, this is quite dead. Good thing for us though I suppose.
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Bard of Red2009-03-24 3:41
Indeed.
Well, let's go in chronological order, then.
The next story I heard in that timeline was the day that Blue transferred into his school.
Interested?
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Stilts2009-03-24 3:42
Shoot. I'm not going to sleep any time soon (or at all for that matter), and I enjoy a good story.
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Anonymous2009-03-24 3:42
Very yes.
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Natsume2009-03-24 3:44
Hey, this is actually really good timing with the zip server being how it is right now.
Please, do tell, Bard.
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Choros2009-03-24 3:46
I might as well take on a name, too. Join the fun and all.
>>7
I'll be staying up as long as the Bard does, for sure. I'm used to burning the midnight oil, so this'll be neat.
Stilts = Natsume?
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Bard of Red2009-03-24 3:48
Okay, so this is about 3 months after Blue starts hanging out with him.
One morning, Red wakes up and finds out that Blue is already in his house. Turns out, she's been transferred to his school and her parents decided it would be for the best to have them just carpool together, since both of them work but Red's mother is a stay-at-home.
So after they wrestle to find out who gets shotgun, they get to the school. Red, thinking that she knew where her class was, gives her a wave and goes off, but she just keeps following him all the way to his classroom, and then sits down in another kid's seat next to him.
Now, at the time, Red just assumed she was supposed to be there, but as it turns out she was supposed to be in another class. So time passes until lunch and they finally track her down. She throws this huge fit when they try to take her away, biting, kicking, screaming, the works you know? Red thinks there's something wrong here, so he joins in and beats them with a yardstick.
In the end, she got transferred to his class, and every class in public school afterward that they could share---and they both are suspended for a week.
Yeah, give it another go I suppose. If not we can move somewhere else.
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Bard of Red2009-03-24 4:03
Will do.
So what do you want to hear next guys? Because from here there are a bunch in some vague times so you'll have to kind of be genre specific.
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Choros2009-03-24 4:05
Hmm. What sort of things do we have to choose from?
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Bard of Red2009-03-24 4:09
Well, he got into a few fights around this time. And there's the Christmas party. And a story about her lost cat, and him giving up his birthday money for her.
After that we leave childhood.
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Natsume2009-03-24 4:09
To be honest you could probably just pick them at random, as long as they're in some sort of chronological order. It doesn't really matter too much to me, these are all great so far.
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Bard of Red2009-03-24 4:10
Well, he got into a few fights around this time. And there's the Christmas party. And a story about her lost cat, and him giving up his birthday money for her.
After that we leave childhood.
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Bard of Red2009-03-24 4:10
Damn this is buggy
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Anonymous2009-03-24 4:11
How about a fight story, and then the other three (Christmas, cat, birthday money) in between the other fight stories?
To mix it up a little?
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Bard of Red2009-03-24 4:12
At random, huh?
Okay, I'll do...either the cat or the Christmas party, but then I gotta get.
Or I guess I could do a fight story. Last chance to have a say or I'll just start a fight story.
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Choros2009-03-24 4:13
Oh. Never mind >>33, then.
Cat or Christmas sounds good. Christmas, maybe?
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Stilts2009-03-24 4:14
I'll go with Christmas as well.
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Natsume2009-03-24 4:17
Christmas it is.
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Bard of Red2009-03-24 4:19
Bah, I'll just go with the cat because this one made me d'aww
So Blue gets a cat for her birthday. I forget what kind it is, it doesn't really matter, but she simply adores it. Now she takes it outside with her before she goes to break her birthday pinata, and sets it down for just a second, then it darts off.
She just loses it. Red said he had never seen her this sad in his whole life, so he just takes off after the cat. He chases it down the alley but loses sight of the cat. He's not going to give up, though, so he keeps at it. Searching and going up and down each block, going out a mile or two, he said.
He kept looking until long after the sun had set, and it was rising again when he finally found the cat. He was exhausted but he still managed to take it all the way back to Blue's house and give it back to her before he fell asleep on her couch.
Naturally, he missed school the next day and got detention.
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Bard of Red2009-03-24 4:22
Sorry I told you the wrong story.
Dis is a bitch to me too.
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Choros2009-03-24 4:22
Hey, Bard---can we make this long-term, maybe?
A true use of the text board?
I'd hate for it to end with this.
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Bard of Red2009-03-24 4:23
Alright, I'll do it again later tonight
For now, I gotta sleep
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Choros2009-03-24 4:23
Hey, Bard---could we make this long-term, if it's not too much trouble for you? Give the largely inactive text board some use?
I'd hate for it to just end with this, is all.
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Anonymous2009-03-24 4:24
Ah---good night, then.
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Bard of Red2009-03-24 4:27
Make sure somebody drawfaggits this, by the way.
You all DID see the screenshots of Artificial Blue right? Well, they should be in the archiver, so go get them for any prospective drawfags.
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Natsume2009-03-24 4:38
Thanks for the stories Bard, I hope we can get a good drawfag on this.
Have a good night.
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Stilts2009-03-24 4:39
I'll see you when you next return Bard, as for now thank you and goodnight.
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Natsume2009-03-24 4:48
This is maybe my favorite thing I have ever read on 4chan:
Red:"Alright then!
I guess I really have nothing to lose! I'm going to go for it, because I refuse to lose Blue to anybody else!
Tomorrow I'm going to make her mine, or watch my life crumble to pieces. This is my only path, so I'll have no regrets."
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Choros2009-03-24 8:45
It's particularly amazing when you look at how he began.
Red wholly had his heart set on Blue being the "Robin to [his] Batman," the "Gary to [his] Ash."
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Bard of Red2009-03-24 20:30
I'll tell 2 more stories tonight (probably) if you guys are here.
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Stilts2009-03-24 20:55
I'm here, and I'll enjoy the read tonight. I should be here (Unless I fall asleep). Also, just finished Claymore. It was okay, and I think the manga would've been a lot better, but the ending of the anime just turned me off to the whole series.
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 0:02
Okay, startan in an hour
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Choros2009-03-25 0:12
Exciting---it's storytime.
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 0:34
Check to see who's here.
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Stilts2009-03-25 1:12
I'm here. Sorry for the long reply, was in Taku's thread.
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 1:12
Okay, I'm starting.
What do you want to hear about today?
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Stilts2009-03-25 1:13
I think we should go with the Christmas one, since that was the verdict earlier last night.
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 1:20
Sure thing
Just a few minutes...
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Stilts2009-03-25 1:22
You've got all the time in the world, Sir Bard.
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 1:26
So it's Christmas time. They're having a party to celebrate, and Red's feeling pretty good about it.
The party is going along just fine for a while but then their parents force them together for something. Red's okay with this so he gives her a hug, assuming it's for a picture when he notices his mother hang a mistletoe above them.
They throw a tantrum and try to run away but they're eventually caught and forced to kiss. Red doesn't think it's so bad, but Blue gets mad as a hornet and runs away immediately. She doesn't show back up for a week, but when she does, she still has his present and tells him to never speak of it ever again.
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Stilts2009-03-25 1:28
Since I seem to be the only current active one here, who don't you choose the next story, based on whatever you find the most interesting?
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 1:32
I want to wait a bit for the others to show.
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Stilts2009-03-25 1:34
That's fair. Are you working on a limited time schedule though?
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 1:35
Not really. In the next 3 or 4 hours I need to go, though
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Stilts2009-03-25 1:38
Ah, okay. I've been trying to reach Choros, but he isn't responding. Oh, and as for the drawfaggots requested, I forgot entirely. It isn't like I could make a thread on /a/ though, the mods have gotten pretty prickly about relation to board.
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Choros2009-03-25 1:48
Ah, I'm here now. Apologies---got distracted somewhere between 0:55 and 1:12.
Should we have a fight story?
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Red the Bard2009-03-25 1:53
Sure sure, just a few minutes.
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 1:54
I screwed up my name in the last post, lol. I wish dis would save form information. Anyway, just a few minutes.
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Choros2009-03-25 2:01
I've got a question about the Christmas story, actually.
>She doesn't show back up for a week, but when she does, she still has his present and tells him to never speak of it ever again.
So she tells him to never speak of the incident ever again, of course, but what do you mean about his present? I assume it's Blue present to Red, so...
She never got to give it to him at the party because of the fiasco so she gives it to him the week later, or something?
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 2:01
The first fight that comes to my mind was the time back when they were in summer vacation. Blue and him got together one day and went out to go get some ice cream. In their neighborhood, they still had an Ice Cream man who came along most days. He and Blue knew the route real well, so they waited on the corner for an hour or some such in the heat until he finally pulled up.
Just as they were going to order, they got shoved out of the way by the older kids. Blue got angry and went to pick a fight but she got knocked down in the face. Red just goes crazy on them after that. He had some long description of right hooks and shit but I can't remember. In any case not only does he beat the shit out of them, but he makes them pay for Blue's Ice Cream and forced them to apologize to her in front of the neighbors.
Yeah, she didn't give it to him at the party because she was pissed.
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Choros2009-03-25 2:05
>In any case not only does he beat the shit out of them, but he makes them pay for Blue's Ice Cream and forced them to apologize to her in front of the neighbors.
My jaw dropped somewhere along the course of this sentence. I can only imagine what went through Blue's head.
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 2:07
At the time, he claimed it was just cowboy justice.
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Choros2009-03-25 2:10
Haha. Not to derail the nicely chronological timeline we're building here, but did he ever share the actual arson story? I'm kind of curious.
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 2:12
That one is easy enough. His friend was playing with a lighter in school and ended up catching the whole room on fire like an idiot.
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Choros2009-03-25 2:15
... Oh. Wow. And Red took the fall for it? At least a nasty suspension, I'd imagine.
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 2:16
He got Alternative Education, which is prison school for a semester.
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Choros2009-03-25 2:20
Yeeesh. Did he mention anything about what became of being away from Blue for a semester like that?
Or is that where the arson story ends?
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 2:22
He didn't say anything so I guess there was nothing to it, or nothing he noticed.
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Choros2009-03-25 2:24
Huh. Disappointing, kind of.
If he didn't say anything more about the arson story, want to tell another childhood fight story or something?
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 2:30
I could. The remaining ones are just him and Blue confronting people they thought were jerks. I don't think there's anything that you might find interesting, given your tastes.
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Anonymous2009-03-25 2:35
Do you think you could get Red himself to tell some stories?
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Choros2009-03-25 2:36
Hmm. Part of me tells me that you're right, but the completionist in me is actually pretty interested in "him and Blue confronting people they thought were jerks" in case I ever convince an animation studio to put together storyboards. I'd hate to miss out on another facet of the story.
They're both pretty short, I can wrap them into one post. Just a few minutes.
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 2:44
The first one is some more Cowboy Justice. He and Blue spot this kid being picked on. Now, as Red puts it, this kid was a douchebag to them, and was frequently a bully himself. Red decides that if he helps out, the kid will quit harassing them. So he rushes in, and Blue calls him an idiot, only to come running after him a few seconds later.
The other one is when some punk cut a huge swath out of Red's hair, and so Blue and him decide to have some revenge. Blue lures him out into the open and then Red jumps him, then they cut his hair all weird and leave him there.
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Choros2009-03-25 2:44
>Red has himself said that he would have liked to see some of his life drawn.
Hmm. I haven't drawn much in ages, but I'll certainly try and draw something when I have the time.
We've got the virtual-Blue, of course, but did Red ever talk about what he himself looked like?
I've been envisioning him as Red from Pokemon Special all this time, I admit.
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 2:46
He off hand mentioned he was Irish-Catholic once, so he probably has red hair. Again, you could just make a thread and ask him, as long as it's distractingly on topic.
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Choros2009-03-25 2:52
>so he probably has red hair
Oh, is that where the "Red" moniker comes from?
I've been wondering about that.
And then "Blue" naturally from "Red"?
>as long as it's distractingly on topic
Haha, trap Red with his own thread-style. Alright. I hope that he doesn't drift away from /a/ anytime soon, I guess.
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 2:54
It comes from the first Pokemon Game they had, respectively.
He had Red, she had Blue.
Red's usually on this time of night, though you will have to tempt him with some artfaggotry.
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Choros2009-03-25 2:59
>Red's usually on this time of night, though you will have to tempt him with some artfaggotry.
Oh, I'm a really fucking slow drawer. I couldn't whip something up by tonight if I tried.
It's why I don't drawfag in the drawfag threads, actually.
I'll keep it in mind for a later date, though, definitely.
>It comes from the first Pokemon Game they had, respectively. He had Red, she had Blue.
Oh, I remember him mentioning that in one of the archived threads. Something like "We've always been like that, even with Pokemon!" I really failed to put two and two together, somehow...
Care to tell the birthday money story, then?
(I apologize if I'm sounding pushy at all, good Bard. At your leisure, if you would. We've got all the time in the world after all, I guess.)
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 3:03
You could always ask /co/ or /tg/, since he visits both boards. Just don't tell them he's from /a/.
Anyway, the birthday money story? Got it, just hang on a sec.
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Choros2009-03-25 3:07
Ah, found it.
>There used to be the Student Council President I dug, but my friend, let's call her Blue, chased her away because she was a slut who had 7 boyfriends in secret.
and then
>I'm Red and she's Blue. That's the way it's always been. With clothes, with avatars, with our Pokemon games!
... I feel like such a stalker. Gotta keep reminding myself that it's the journalistic side of me driving me on, not some creepy stalker side of me.
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 3:07
Red had just gotten a 30$ for his birthday to do with whatever he pleased. He hadn't decided on spending it yet, so he and Blue just decided to play with the toys they had. They were playing power rangers as usual, when all of a sudden, her light and sound Power Ranger Combining Weapon, a toy he very much wanted for himself, broke.
Red didn't even hesitate. He grabbed her and forced his parents to take them out to the store, where he spent every last penny on replacing her broken toy on his own birthday.
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Anonymous2009-03-25 3:09
>You could always ask /co/ or /tg/, since he visits both boards. Just don't tell them he's from /a/.
Are they familiar with Blue and whatnot over there at all, or...?
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 3:11
Blue was mentioned briefly in /tg/ as a non-specific party member in the DnD game he plays.
As far as I know he doesn't post on /co/ just lurks.
So you'll probably have to show them some D'AWWW.
The power ranger one is the best for this.
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Choros2009-03-25 3:19
Whoops, forgot my name again.
>Blue was mentioned briefly in /tg/ as a non-specific party member in the DnD game he plays.
Were you present for that thread on /tg/, too? You amaze me, sir, to be sure.
Well, that's all the childhood stories that we know of.
It's up to you again. Proceeding chronologically, maybe?
Unless there's something else that you want to share.
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Bard of Red2009-03-25 3:22
Actually, I post in /tg/ too, hence the DnD Bard reference. I just happened across him one day in a "My party fucking sucks" thread.
I think it's probably enough stories for tonight. You probably have enough to convince a drawfagging it, so you can hear the real deal from him, if you show some of his other stories. I'd probably try to lure him out with how he looks first, so you can help them out more.
To be honest, I want to see this in pictures too.
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Anonymous2009-03-25 3:25
Alright, then. Pictures it is.
Will you ever be back here to tell stories before then, yourself?
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Choros2009-03-25 3:26
>>100
why does dis not save form data
come on, shii
Sure, I'll tell what I know, but there's only so much to it. Most of them were one or two line anecdotes, so I have few long ones.
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Choros2009-03-25 3:34
>>102
Sounds awesome. Many thanks for the treasure trove of stories tonight, sir Bard.
I guess that I have no idea as to when we'll be on dis at the same time again, so see you sometime later.
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Anonymous2009-03-25 4:08
Damn, it sucks that I missed this, but at least it's archived here to read. Thank you for this, Bard.
Is me by the way. I'll be lurking here from time to time just checking for updates. Hopefully I can catch you guys later if you go on to tell more stories, and id not I apologize in advance.
Once again, thanks Mr. Bard, as well as Choros, Stilts, and all the anons that helped put this together, you guys are great.
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Mysterious Informant2009-03-26 3:19
In case you all are wondering, I have the details on how they look.
"Red" does in fact have red hair. In his youth, he wore it down to his shoulders, but in highschool on, he wore a regular guys haircut. It's a little wavy, so it curves up in the back and at the sides, so it's really unruly. He's also got green eyes and stands a bit shorter than most men.
"Blue" has straight black hair which she always wears in a ponytail and dark eyes, as well as suntanned skin. She has a mark under her left eye. It's actually a small scar, but she plays it off as a beauty mark. She's slender with B cup breasts and somewhat thicker thighs than someone of her height and weight.
This post will self destruct in 10 seconds
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Mysterious Informant2009-03-26 3:38
Ah, yes, I forgot. Both Red and Blue tend to dress conservatively, as they're both becoming teachers.
Red's got a near perpetual 5 o' clock shadow he's pretty proud of and Blue's hair tie for her pony tail is actual fabric, instead of elastic, and it's red(oddly enough)
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Anonymous2009-03-26 3:50
Oh mysterious informant, it's so obvious who you are.