one x one | peggy_rogers and viverrinus

[ingenuity,]

this is a one x one between peggy_rogers and me.
you know the rules. no posting unless you are one of us.

Character B is an Imaginary, a creature who is assigned to a human (of the same gender and having many of the same interests) at a young age to be their friend. Only that human can see the Imaginary. However, this pairing turned out a bit different than all of the others... Character A and Character B are nothing alike and are opposite genders. No matter how hard the peope in charge try, the two cannot be separated. The bond between Imaginary and human is too strong to be broken once made until it fades at around the age of ten. The only problem is, this bond never weakened between A and B.
One day, A sees a falling star and tells B to make a wish. B, being a good friend, says that it should be A who makes the wish. So A make a wish... A wish that someday, somehow, B would be a human, too, rather than just a part of her imagination. Character A never tells B what the wish was until much, much later.
On A's sixteenth birthday, the two of them stay up late and fall asleep under the stars in the backyard. When B wakes up, they can feel the dew and the cool air... The warmth of A leaning on their shoulder... But Imaginaries can't usually feel anything from the human world or actually have contact with humans.

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my chatacter



ten y/o reference

|| Name ||
Full: Colton Nathaniel Hayze
Nickname: Cole

|| Info ||
Age: ten - sixteen
Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Birthday: January second

|| Personality Traits ||
+ practical, careful, reserved, quiet, disciplined, intellectual
- pessimistic, cold, secretive, harsh, introverted

|| Physical Traits ||
+ 5'11, blue eyes, dark brown hair, thin
- lactose intolerant, allergic to chocolate and nuts

|| Relationships ||
girlfriend: none
best friend: Maria

|| Family ||
Father: unknown
Mother: unknown

|| History ||
As an imaginary, Colton grew up by the side of a human throughout most of his childhood. He never really thought much of her. He wished he had been given a boy to hang out with, and he was jealous of other kids who had humans that were just like them. However, eventually, he grew to like this girl. He considered his friend... Best friend. It wasn't just because he had to be her friend, but it was also because she was different from other people in her own way. He had learned to understand and appreciate that. Just the fact that she would hang around him was good. Most of the others didn't like him much at all. Typically disliked, Cole turned to his friend. Even being with her helped him to get through the pain of being hated by everyone.

[Burning_Roses]

Maria Jameson

Name//Mariannete Ann Jameson

Nickname(s)//Mari, Maria, Jami

Age(//10/16

Personality//Maria is almost the definition of a complex person, from a very young age she questioned everyone and everything, reality was almost like a game that if she played it something good would happen. She tended to be a happy child, with a love for books and reading, she also loved the outdoors and was quite the adventurous type as a child. Another way she was described was determined, she constantly was driven to try and be better in everything she tried, a strong willed child. She tended to always get into some sort of trouble, people found her so adorable and used knew how to use her cuteness to her advantage

As she grew she became a bit more set in her ways and determined not to let anyone surpass her. She was a soul ready to take in the world, but deep in her heart she holds a large amount of compassion, she still retains the same personality traits as when she was younger but they have matured and refined her into who she was in this day and age.

Positive Traits//She’s got drive and talent as well as a very easy time making friends. She is a naturally happy person making people absolutely love her. People still think she is adorable and impressive and she almost feeds on the attention.

Negative Traits//She tends to second guess herself in certain decisions and can often overthink situations causing her to panic unnecessarily. Since she does feed off the attention sometimes it can come back and bite her in the butt as it boosts her ego a little to much and can cause her to become a little high maintenance

History//Born in small town in South Carolina, Mari was raised by a dancer and a lawyer. Her mother raised her as a dancer, she started so young that people were worried about her bone development, but her mother never gave up teaching her. Another lesson she was raised by was to always be careful who you made friends with, but as a child being wary of your friends made it hard to make them in the first place, so for a long time She was careful and only let her mother pick her friends. She became lonely and distant from the other girls, completely focusing on dance and dance alone. Her father was not home much, as a famous lawyer people wanted him from all over and that he provided by traveling to represent clients all over the country. He was renowned and respected by that world, but his own daughter barely even saw him. This only made herself push more towards trying to be better and better, somehow she thought if she became the best he would stay home with her and watch her dance and work and be proud of the daughter he raised, but this was ti no avail.

People pitied her as she got older, and she hated it so much so that she never let that stop her as she grew up and became the girl on the dance team, the one who could lead the team to victory. She tried and made a Name for herself as she pushed and struggle to be on top. She would claw her way from the bottom to the top, she had always told herself. Always pushing herself throughout the grades she strived to be better through the constant teasing of her peers for being uptight and snooty. She never tried to be like that but her personality seemed to fit the stereotype as she got older, this deeply saddened her as all she truly wanted or needed was someone by her side
//I hope that’s enough, if not I can detail more

[ingenuity,]

I just remembered the fact that they first meet when they're really really young... Like three or four years old. They start to separate at about ten years old, but Colton and Maria don't because something is different about them. So I'm just going to start with a random day that turns into the night that Maria makes a wish to turn Colton human. Then we can skip to her birthday where he becomes human.

I woke up in my small room to the sound of the twin boys in the room next to me yelling. If I listened, I could hear that they were fighting over a ball that their parents had given them. I sighed, slightly jealous of them. I'd never once gotten anything from my parents. I didn't even know who they were. Maybe they didn't care. Maybe they didn't know. Maybe they were dead. I wouldn't even get a chance to find out until Maria and I could no longer see each other. Despite that, I didn't want that day to come. Maria was my best- and only- friend. With this thought in mind, I left and appeared at her house to see what she was doing. I could do basically anything in the human world- it was great! I could fly, turn invisible, change into other forms- like cats and dogs and other things!- and, well, you name it! The only thing was, I couldn't actually touch anything. I could make it look like I was touching things, but in reality, I couldn't feel it at all. I had explained this to Maria before. I sat on the windowsill just outside her room and knocked on the window, waiting for a moment. Only Maria could see and hear me, but I was fine with that. As long as she was there. "Maria!" I called my friend's name, my young, high-pitched voice heard easily.
I was almost ten now, and so was Maria. I didn't know why we were still so close. I had heard that us Imaginaries are supposed to start fading away from the humans when we got to about nine or ten years old. It was only a matter of time before we never saw each other again. When would I tell my friend this? I wasn't sure I ever would. She would end up forgetting about me, anyway. I pushed the thought away and knocked on her window again. It was a Saturday and neither of us had anything to do. Well, if Maria had something to do, I'd be coming anyway.

[Burning_Roses]

I had been practicing for another recital, mom had to give me another solo. I really didn’t like the controlling hold she held but, for now all I could do was jump whenever she said. As I stretched against the bar in my room my thoughts drifted off into the rest of the day’s events, absolutely nothing. I smiled at myself in the mirror and laughed softly as I leaned over grabbing my toes. I watched myself studying every feature and nitpicking different parts of myself, unhealthy and even at 10 I knew that. I sighed again shaking my head as I went to press play on the tv starting up my music I began the program, to put it simply I hated it so much, all the spinning and jumps made quite the workout. As I spun working on lifting myself into the air to project a more lively appearance I thought I heard my name, chalking it up to my imagination a kept going before I turned around right in front of my window and fell directly onto my butt with a thud. Colton stared at me through my window and had given me a scare. Colton, my best friend, the one who I told everything even if he didn’t want to hear it he was stuck with me. That made me laugh as I sat on the window seat and unlatched the window opening it and raising a brow, “You scared the daylights out of me Cole” I was laughing which was a good sign, as I moved from the window seat I hit pause on me tv. My was decked out in light and dark blue, with dark wooden nightstands and dressers to hold outfits and games, almost everything else was blue, sheets, pillows, pillow cases and blankets. I moved back to the window seat and stared at him my green eyes looking him over studying him.

“You seem a bit sad, what’s wrong?” I knew that he was always there for me so I tried to return the favor especially when he did seem sad, it wasn’t a good look on him. We had been friends long enough for me to tell almost what we were feeling, Mom told me that he wasn’t real and that I didn’t need to be talking to him, but I enjoy having someone my age to talk to. Considering that mom doesn’t let me hang out with the girls from the studio. Snapping back to Cole I smiled, “Sorry...back to your emotions” I had a tendency to be scatter brained and to let my mind wander from one topic to the next ignoring those in front of me, mom says that’s bad and that a dancer should always focus on herself and those in front of her because that’s who she is trying to impress.

[ingenuity,]

I smiled and hopped into Maria's room, laughing a little. "I guess you've got to be more... Digilant... No, Diligant... Yeah." I had learned that word by overhearing my building's guardian's conversation. All of the young Imaginaries were separated by gender and age into buildings. Each building had fifteen rooms, capable of housing two kids each. I was alone, as I had no siblings that I knew of. Anyway, my guardian, John, had been speaking to another building's guardian and I heard him say the word 'diligent.' I asked what that meant later and he told me it meant careful and graceful. I made an effort to remember the word and now I was really proud of myself for using it.
I watched as my friend turned off the tv and walked back to me, asking what was wrong. I smiled again, hiding how surprised I was at how well she could understand me. "Nothing," I lied, feeling guilty immediately. I was not an honest child like I was taught to be, and I knew John would be very disappointed if he knew I was lying, especially to Maria. I just didn't really want to talk about my issues. I was supposed to be there for Maria, not the other way around. I didn't need her to help me... I wasn't entirely sure she'd understand, anyway. My world was very different from hers. "I'm great! Just a little tired. Sam and Dylan were arguing again about something stupid like they always do. They woke me up and I had nothing to do, so I came here... Like I always do." I gave Maria another wide smile and glanced at the tv. "Practicing for another solo?" I asked, changing the subject. "Does your mom ever give you a break?" I couldn't imagine having to do anything like a solo. I was too scared to talk when there were more than four people in the room, let alone perform anything if I wasn't surrounded by a whole bunch of people. "I get why she would give you a solo, though. You're really talented." I complimented her without thinking about it much. It was so natural for me, I was just used to it. Plus it was true. Maria was talented. I wasn't. The only good things about me were that I was great at reading for my age and I liked drawing.

[Burning_Roses]

I rolled my eyes at my friend and leaned on my hands untyping my ballet shoes with a small smile in his direction. “I am diligent Cole. I spend hours up here every day practicing these dumb dances so mom can get some small sense of pride from her child.” I sighed softly and threw the shoes on my bed rolling my ankle around, “But good job with the use of the word diligent.” I brushed back my blonde hair from my eyes my green eyes studying his blue ones when he told me nothing was wrong. I raised my eyebrow and knew he wasn’t telling the truth but didn’t push the envelope, “Alright. If you say so.” I listened to him talk about why and chuckled t myself, “It sound like your basic existence is quite single minded, you’re either here or at home and when home doesn’t work out, you seek shelter here.” I tapped my foot on the ground with a small sigh, “Yeah another solo, which means more practice which means less free time” I ran a hand through my hair and shook my head lightly, “Nope, no breaks I’ve been up since six a.m”


I looked miserable and tired as I looked out the window, “It must be nice to be free and have all the stuff you can do” I dragged a hand down my face as I groaned flopping into a pillow, “I would give anything to be like that.” I smiled at his compliment, “Well when you’re shoved into ballet shoes almost straight out of the womb, you learn to get good fast.” I loved to read which gave me some of the most intelligent sounding sentences, my green eyes lit up and I watched the sun sink, “Hey let’s go hang out at the hill!” The Hill was more of a little crest in the backyard I loved to go and sit and think or just lonunge on to watch the sun drift into the night as the stars came out. I smiled and opened my door running downstairs and out the back door before mother could say anything I was already on the hill laying back staring up at the colors of the evening

[ingenuity,]

I was a little offended by being called single-minded, but I shrugged, hiding that. I didn't really want to talk about it. Every time I thought about it, it made me feel something that I didn't like. I always felt alone and that was why I came here. When I was home, it was a constant reminder that my parents never contacted me and I had no friends. I stifled a sigh and listened as my friend continued to speak about how nice it much be to be free. She had no idea... I wasn't really free. I couldn't go and do whatever I wanted. I was only here because I stayed with her. At home, I had to do homework and learn a bunch of stupid stuff. I sat by her on her bed and shrugged a little. "I dunno... It gets boring sometimes. I mean, sure, I can do this..." With a quick nod of my head, I turned into a black and white kitten that still had poofy, fine fur rather than the sleek fur of an adult. I couldn't take the form of adult animals yet, as I rarely did this. It was still cool, though. I returned back to my normal self and continued talking, "... But it's really not that great... I can't experience anything in your world. Like... If I were to go step into the freezer, I wouldn't feel it. I can tell when I'm touching something, but I just don't... I dunno, feel it." I had explained this to Maria before, but I couldn't remember when I did.

I sat in silence for a moment before my friend suddenly said we should go to the hill. "Alright!" I replied, glad to be doing something. "Race you," I challenged her with a smirk before following her down. I ran right by her mom, who looked like she was going to say something but didn't get a chance to. I knew Maria's mom couldn't see me. All she saw was her little girl running out alone as the sun went down. I followed quickly, flopping onto my back next to Maria and watching as the colours of the day began to fade into bright orange and purple. There were a few clouds on the horizon, which reflected the colours nicely. It wouldn't last long. I admired the sky in silence until the first hints of indigo and navy blue began to take over. "Twilight is always beautiful," I said, obviously not talking about the series. It wasn't long before the stars even started coming out. "I love watching the stars," I said, turning to Maria. "Did you know that the light you're seeing from a star is actually hundreds of years old? So the star could actually be dead already but we wouldn't know it because its light is still shining." I stated the fact, recalling what John had told me. He was the closest thing I had to a parent. I was the only boy in our building whose parents had never contacted him, so John had kind of favoured me. I didn't know if it was pity or just that he liked me more than the others, but I was glad there was at least one person who liked me besides the human I was assigned to. "I wonder if we'll see any shooting stars. If we do, you have to make a wish!" I returned my gaze to the sky, which was now dark. I was sure Maria's mom would call her in soon, but until then, I wanted to enjoy this moment with my best, and only, friend.

[Burning_Roses]

I smiled softly watching him turn into a kitten and the went serious looking at my hands and turning them over, “I can’t imagine not feeling” I looked saddened as I ran a hand over my blanket, “Its so nice.
Hot and cold, soft and fuzzy vs. scratchy” She held up her hand as if she was studying it with a small smile, “Maybe one day you will, you’ll be able to feel and smell and touch” She jumped to her feet, “I want to be there if that ever happens, because no matter what Cole, I’ll always be here for you. No matter the time of day or the day itself if you ever need me I’ll be there and that’s a promise” My green eyes held a fire that showed I was actually serious about being there for him, then when I took of running and ran outside I looked at the sky at the nighttime pulling away the evening light.

When he brought up the stars I gazed up at the few that had begun to twinkle and smiled, “That’s amazing. To think we’ve barely even scratched the surface!” I threw my arms out and laughed as I moved some blonde hair from my eyes, more stars began to pop up around the twilight sky, constellations becoming more visible. I loved the constellations, they had interesting stories and they never let anyone hold them back, no mother no father no nothing, just freedom. I sighed and my eyes wandered the dark sky as a moon hung low. I loved spending time with Cole and always being able to have someone at my side, someone who didn’t try and push me to the very limit, someone who thought I was cool without me even trying. Then I saw it a quick shooting star across the sky and I pointed and squeezed my eyes, “I wish...you could be human and feel things” She whispered softly as the shooting star faded she looked over with a large smile, “Now we wait for it to come true” I laughed as my mom called me in, yelling that I would catch a cold and wouldn’t be able to dance and blah blah blah. I smiled at Cole, “I’ll see you tomorrow right?” I laughed softly and gave a wave running inside my hair behind me as I shut the sliding glass door to the house walking into the kitchen. She looked back at Cole quickly, she wondered if her wish would come true, she laughed softly and shook her head, what an obserd notion
((We’re timeskipping to 16 right?))

[ingenuity,]

(( He's not supposed to hear, so I'm just gonna say he wasn't paying attention
Ah, I love astrology and stars. *cough* totally not obvious *cough* my signature *cough* ))

"I know, right?" I replied, looking at the stars with admiration and wonder. I liked having these conversations with Maria. "I wish I could stay out here forever." I was focusing on the sky, looking at the horizon where the sun had disappeared. Space was the coolest thing to me. I loved astrology. The constellations, different stars, planets, moons, all of it. We were learning about it in school and it was just so fascinating. I was about to speak when I heard Maria whisper something. I looked at her, but before I could ask, she said 'now we wait for it to come true.' "Oh, you saw a shooting star? Cool! Wait- don't tell me what you wished for or it won't come true! Or that's what I've heard, at least..." I wasn't entirely sure, but I really hoped it was true. I wanted whatever Maria wished for to come true. I sat up as I heard hr mom yelling for her to come in. I nodded, slightly disappointed as she asked if she'd see me tomorrow. "Of course! I wouldn't miss a chance to see you for the world!" I watched as she ran back to her house, looking back up at the stars. Whatever magic they held, I just hoped that it was the kind of magic that could grant wishes. "Goodnight, Maria," I whispered, although she was already gone. Then I disappeared back to my own room. I was supposed to come back earlier, but I was sure John would be okay with it as long as he knew I had been with Maria.
After getting ready for bed, I laid down with a yawn. The only thing I could think of was what Maria said to me earlier that day. "No matter what Cole, I’ll always be here for you. No matter the time of day or the day itself if you ever need me I’ll be there and that’s a promise," I repeated the words to myself with a smile. "Me too... I'll always be there for you... And I'll see you tomorrow." With that, I slowly drifted off to sleep, where I was pulled into strange dreams that made no sense whatsoever.

[Burning_Roses]

((See in my family it’s a belief you say your wish out loud. I have no clue why. So we are skipping to sixteen? I just want to check before I type a reply))