[ closed/semi-open ] coldest winter for me

[overgrowth]

Who: Kanda (overgrowth) & Vietnam (hoasen), and YOU (see toplevel in comments!)
When: IC 2/09 OOC 7/26
Where: Thistle Do Nicely and elsewhere in the city, and some bar.
What: kanda gets lost and is a menace to society.
Rating/Warning: alcohol consumption but otherwise none!

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[ his own belongings currently stashed in the apartment he'd been given, seeing as none of it was particularly valuable to anyone but himself—except for mugen, which is at his hip, and his clothes, which he's wearing for lack of anything else—kanda has been stalking around the colony. there's no sign of an exit, which he should have expected based on what others told him. equally discomforting is the change in setting. the technology is something like the science department would dream up, and he feels lost.

he's still walking around like he's going somewhere to commit a well-planned murder, though. his pace only drops when he glances through a window and seems something odd.

lotus flowers. he glances around and sees more, of course, but they're a different color than the ones in this shop. but maybe his hallucinations have progressed and he's now dreaming up a setting for the flowers, as well—a shop full of other flowers and a huge bowl of water for the thick-petaled lotus blooms.

so that's where vietnam will find him: glaring at her poor lotuses like he's about to pull out his sword and cut them to pieces. he's probably scaring off customers. ]

Comments

[overgrowth]

[ kanda's imagining something like a sandwich. ]

How the fuck did you not know what an address is?

[ not that kanda knows much about other things either. ]

[fortheprincess]

We didn't have addresses like these back where I'm from.

[ None of these numbers and shit, anyway. ]

They weren't this complicated.

[overgrowth]

How'd you find places, then? Wander around until you bumped into it?

[fortheprincess]

Maps, directions. The names of places didn't have numbers in them at all, they were just known as kingdoms or towns.

[overgrowth]

[ kingdoms brings up the idea of history and fairy tales. ]

How old are you?

[fortheprincess]

Eighteen.

How old are you?

[overgrowth]

Nineteen. But you'd be what, a couple hundred years old to me? And dead too.

[fortheprincess]

Probably. Can't remember the year it was when I was born, anyway.

[ He's pretty ancient compared to Yuu, tbh. ]

[overgrowth]

So you're some old fogey.

[ kanda... shh. ]

[fortheprincess]

Maybe. But as long as my good looks are in tact, does it really matter?

[ ...don't answer that ]

[overgrowth]

Good looks? [ kanda gives him a look up and down. ] You should try finding something else to depend on.

[fortheprincess]

I've got a lot of things to fall back on, don't worry.

[ HE'S PRETTY RIPPED...underneath his clothes and stuff idk. He takes another sip of his sake, and the cup's empty now. ]

One more.

[overgrowth]

I'll believe it when I see it.

[ not that... he actually wants to see it. kanda pours him another cup. ]

[fortheprincess]

You're a fighter. I can tell.

[ As if the arm muscles are any indication. ]

You in need of a sparring partner?

[overgrowth]

Only a good one.

[ kanda refuses to be even slightly modest about this. ]

[fortheprincess]

[ Only a good one, huh? Hak likes the sound of that. ]

Mind listing the requirements?

[overgrowth]

[ kanda shrugs. ]

It'd be easier to just try and see if you're worth my time.

[fortheprincess]

Careful. You might get more than what you bargained for.

[ Hak's done drinking for the night and he gets ready to pay up. ]

When should we meet up, then?

[overgrowth]

Whenever during the day. I have work most nights.

[ as for where... kanda's not familiar with the area yet, so he doesn't deal with that just yet. ]