[ 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

[hoasen]

[But they call out to him. She's noticing that he's...not refusing? The way he's looking and thinking about it, it's not like he's walking away, or dropping the topic.

Also bring the tea, she needs to get his steam to heat it (WHOA).]

You can work at the back too, we could do with some heavy lifting. And you are very strong.

[overgrowth]

[ kanda kind of gives her a look for that last statement, but he figures it's probably because he did try to abduct her back in the hospital. ]

You don't have anyone already doing that job?

[hoasen]

[He has to make up a lot for his sins. She crosses her arms to consider this. Everyone does pitch in to help, and Mutsunokami also occasionally comes, but he's not regular staff. Those who do a lot of heavy lifting are either on the floor, or is Ookurikara, but--]

Those who try to do it often are actually meant for the kitchen. [That's where he's meant to be.]

[overgrowth]

[ kanda hesitates for a moment longer, looking critically... at everything. ]

I have a job, but it's only nights. What hours do you need the help?

[hoasen]

[The day she walks in on him giving plants loving looks is the day Thistle Do Nicely has a public holiday.]

I will only need you during the day. Will that be okay with you?

[overgrowth]

That's fine. [ ... ] When should I start?

[hoasen]

[THIS WAS faster than she thought.]

Whenever you are available to start and want to. Preferably within the next week or so, latest. You can start right now if you like. [HAHAHA she meant tomorrow. Who the hell starts immediately.]

[overgrowth]

Like... now?

[ kanda does 'cus he's dumb. ]

[hoasen]

Now.

[She's not even sure if she's joking anymore cos he dumb.]

[overgrowth]

Where, then?

[ he's not joking. ]

[hoasen]

[...He's really not joking.

Ah, now she can't tell him she was sort of joking, otherwise it will be awkward.]

I will show you to the back. [PLAY ALONG...]

[overgrowth]

[ kanda just goes with her silently. he really is serious about this... ]

So I just have to carry this kind of stuff?

[hoasen]

[He's so serious...now she feels bad. She's going to give him a good wage after this.]

Yes, just all of this. Sometimes out onto the floor as well, but it's nothing very difficult.

[Now how many people are going to think he's an assistant and ask him for help? Everyone.]

[overgrowth]

[ kanda just doesn't understand jokes or sarcasm or tone very well. pros of growing up in an underground lab. ]

Fine.

[ he's getting started on carrying these sacks of plant feed already... watch him lift, vietnam!! ]

[hoasen]

[At least it was a harmless joke, because now he's actually working for her. Amazing!]

Thank you, Kanda! I will repay you for today!

[BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T EXPECT IT. And whoa look at him go. Just lifting those so easily. Rippling muscles and all (under his clothes).]

[overgrowth]

[ one day it's going to backfire on her, but for now she just has a dude working for her! ]

You should be paying me.

[ he's just being sort of grumpy when he says that. when he comes back around, though, he has a legitimate question. ]

How do payments work here? Is there cash?

[hoasen]

[It has probably backfired on her a few times and she hasn't realised it yet. Living in Cerealia...]

After I register your name into the system, it looks like it just pays you automatically. You use credits here, through digital form, not physical cash.

[overgrowth]

That's weird.

[ he still doesn't really trust it, even with though it's just a credit system, basically. ]

[hoasen]

It's quite common in this era. Have you never encountered it before?

[She's accepted it only because she's used to it. Unsure if a full credit system is effective, but what can she do.]

[overgrowth]

Not really. Not this kind of credit, anyway.

[hoasen]

Oh? What was it like for you?

[overgrowth]

Tabs, but they keep records on paper.

[ he pats the inside pocket where he's stored his cereVICE and manages to pull it out. ]

I don't get this thing.

[ also in his inner pocket is his golem, which slips out and starts flapping around, smacking kanda in the face with its wings more than once before he grabs it and shoves it back into a pocket. ]

[hoasen]

Ah, I see. It works the same way, in that your funds are now kept on record in a digital form instead of on paper. You can easily interchange between the two, only that paper options are not available here.

[The golem (or flappy thing, in her mind) surprises her, but she didn't get a good look before he shoved it back into its place.] Goodness, are you alright? What was that?

[overgrowth]

Why... digital? [ kanda's struggling a little with that word. ] Is there no paper here?

[ he smushes his pocket down again, from which there's a brief struggling motion. ]

Some piece of shit I don't need anymore.

[hoasen]

Ah, there is, but it is much more immediate when using a digital form. For example, writing a message, I can send it to you immediately rather than mailing it?

[She blinks because it looks like his body is squirming when it's not.]

It looks...sentient?