[OPEN]

[belfire]

Who: Kazuya Minegishi (belfire), Hiro Kageyama (theshiningone), and YOU!
When: 17 Feb IC
Where: All over the Pleasure District and just outside of it
What: Kaz and Hiro are doing 'research' for their porn movie... and recruiting.
Rating/Warning: Sexual stuff will definitely be discussed a lot in this log, though no actual porn is planned. Will update as is necessary.

KAZUYA

[Kazuya was on poster duty. This meant there was a lot of traipsing around the Pleasure District (which he had never set foot in before), with a roll of posters underneath his arm, sticking them to whatever flat, visible surface there was. At the entrance, on the doorways to brothels (he got shouted at a lot for that one), or even just stuffing them into the hands of passer bys without so much as a hello. He even adventurously extended his area to just beyond the Pleasure District's entrance too, because if you're lurking that close to it then obviously you're old enough to be interested in the content of the posters, right?

What is this poster? Why, a recruitment ad for anyone interested in starring in an amateur porn movie! And it meant anyone, something which Kazuya took to heart. So be you man, woman, alien or otherwise, prepare to have this young man come storming up to you, practically smooshing this poster right into your face, demanding;]

Oi, you wanna be a porn star?

[...finesse is not his strong point.

Meanwhile, his partner...]

HIRO

[While Kazuya was handling work on his end, Hiro was going to be doing some scouting and social networking on his end. The pleasure district was big, so they'd have plenty of ground to cover. Maybe with his luck, he could end up meeting some porn super stars who could help them out here. And if he could gather up some porn movies on the side to help them out on their noble quest, then more power to them. After all, he was viewing this as an opportunity for Hero Brigade expansion and to add more cash in their pockets. There were moments where humans had to do filthy things in order to survive, after all.

This mission was similar to the situation where he had to find girls with sex appeal to help him summon Kama and Shiva. At this point, Hiro could consider himself a full fledged war veteran, so he knew how to approach this. He had to wonder how many times that he was going to experience deja-vu all over again. Except this time, he didn't have to be so picky with his "work material". He could aim for men, woman, alien... Whatever was on the table. It never hurt to be openminded when it came to a porn movie, after all. You'd find him lurking outside of the tea houses, host clubs or even hanging around in the sex shop as he's making some small talk with customers, putting up posters or looking around for anyone that caught his eye.

And regardless if you're male, female or whatever... Hiro will politely call you over with his sweetest smile.]

Excuse me! ♪ If I can have a moment of your time? [And suddenly, his expression shifts to one with an unusually determined intensity.]

I need you to act sexy for me. Just for a minute or two.

((OOC: This is a dual log with Kazuya and Hiro, so please place the name of who you want to tag in the header! Kazuya and Hiro can cross paths with each other as well, so if you want to do a thread with both of them, that's possible too!))

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kazuya

[gossipboy]

[ Well, that's not really a question he was expecting... ]

Only if it's off-screen.

[belfire]

[Kazuya actually paused at that, poster in mid-brandish, before he lowered it with a frown]

Well, it's for a film... [Guess this guy was another "no" on that front then] How about doing a supporting role? You can keep your clothes on for that. [beat] Er, most of them.

[gossipboy]

I'm not really an actor kind of guy.

[ Except for that he... might be... pretending to be someone he's not like 90% of the time because he has extreme trust issues and daddy issues and confidence issues and-- let's stop there and just say that he's lying his face off. ]

I can do music though. Like, guitar or piano.

hiro

[worldcup]

... But how exactly do you act sexy?

[ Good job, Hiro, you've managed to ask one of the worst possible candidates for this. ]

[theshiningone]

--Whoa, whoa, whoa! That's something you should know when you're older!

[Erk. Hiro could've sworn that he called out to a much older lady. Was this a terrible prank being pulled on him?! Now he was feeling really self-conscious...]

Also you shouldn't even be here! You look younger than Airi!

[worldcup]

And how old do you think I am?

[ She gives him a suspecting look, one that doesn't seem too happy. ]

kazuya/either

[shikisha]

[ Freshly out of jail, Nonon just happens to walking through the pleasure district to get to her work at the opera house, deciding to walk the long way. She does a good job of keeping to herself, dressed in a simple blue dress and white beret, only giving dirty looks to people propositioning her for whatever reason.

And today, apparently, she needs to give an extra special glare to a teenage boy who decides he wants to tempt fate, asking her a question like that. ]

...I'm going to take that as a mistake, and not destroy you where you stand. So how about we just pretend like this never happened, and you will get to keep your life for just a little longer.

[belfire]

[Kaz blinked, briefly startled at the threat]

Wow. What crawled up your ass and died? [But Kaz obliging pulled back the poster and tucked it back under his arm. Hey, he wasn't going to pressure a disinterested person] Could've just said "no thank you". Rude...

[Pot calling kettle black there]

[theshiningone]

Huh. I'll take that as a no then. Would've killed you to humor me a little...

[Being used to grumpy people, Hiro looked mildly unfazed... But Nonon was a friend of his, so he couldn't help and feel some concerned. He could easily tell whenever Nonon was in her usual mood and whenever she was in a bad mood. Somehow, someway...]

Um, are you okay? Did something bad happen to you?

Either

[sjokolade]

[Meanwhile, Anna would just stare at them and just...continue to stare at them. Were they serious about this?]

You're...kidding aren't you? Why in the world do I have to act sexy or be in whatever kind of movie that is? It seems a little fishy to me.

[theshiningone]

Hahaha! We sound like two shady dudes when you put it like that!

[Are you sure that you should be casually laughing like that, Hiro? Anyone pitching a stranger with porn is bound to look shady!]

But they don't have those kinds of movies in your world? Looks like there's a whole new dimension of things for ya to see!

kazuya (and maybe hiro if he doesn't want his friend to die)

[dualshadow]

[This...this is not a place Miyako would have ever willingly stepped foot in on her own, but she has a (self-imposed) mission of familiarizing herself with as much of Cerealia as she could. Even if she finds the entire Pleasure District distasteful, that's no excuse for her to ignore it.

This guy, though... He had some nerve! Did she look like a... A... Well, a person who would want to be a porn star? Have a Hotsuin Glare of Contempt, amped up to twelve.]

I will assume, for your sake, that you meant to direct this question towards another.

God have mercy on kaz's soul

[belfire]

[Kazuya looked utterly unfazed. After being glowered at and browbeaten by Metatron on a daily basis, most glares slid off of him like water. He waved the poster a bit more vigorously in the woman's face]

Nope. I'm asking you, the person directly in front of me, talking to me. You. [He lowered the poster though, heaving a sigh] So, wanna be a porn star or not? No experience is required, so don't worry about that.

Hiro

[darkduelist]

[Yuto is currently looking for someone who works as a hairdresser in this district. He's wearing a black mask over his face, just in case so nobody would say later that they saw Yuya here and keeps looking around. The Pleasure District always makes him feel really uncomfortable...

And what Hiro said just now doesn't help. If anything it earns him a glare from Yuto.]

I don't even want to know why you said that.

[His voice sounds a bit muffled because of the mask.]

[theshiningone]

[Hiro would've been happy to lead him around as helping people was another priority on his list. And it's been a while since he's seen Yuto, but he couldn't help and puts a hand over his mouth as he tries not to snicker... And it looks like doing that was a failure so far.]

Y-Yuto? [Pfft-] What's with the creepy mask? You look really suspicious, dude.

kazuya!

[scenting]

[ malia's kind of startled when she suddenly has a paper shoved into her face and when it's followed by that question, well.

she's not going to threaten him, no. instead she's going to pull a hand back and... punch kazuya right in the face. immediately. he can maybe try ducking out of the way?! but she is kind of a werecoyote and it is kind of going to hurt. ]

[belfire]

[Even Kazuya's normally lightning-fast reflexes didn't save him from the punch that came out of nowhere (why was it the women that reacted so violently to his recruiting?!). As he instinctively ducked, her fist caught him in the forehead, instead of his nose, sending him reeling.

Ow.]

Fucking- [Kazuya staggered back a step, dropping the posters and clutching a hand to his forehead, eyes squinted in pain. That actually hurt. What the hell, did this woman bicep curl stone bollards in her spare time or something?] OW! What the fuck was that for?!

Kazuya

[senseandcecilbility]

[Kevin has set foot in the Pleasure District a few times before, and every single one of them had been an unfortunate accident. Honestly, it is difficult to avoid dens of sin when one is not watching out for them from above, and the subway still confuses the heck out of him. That, he considers, may explain why earthbound humans go astray so often these days. Maybe, just maybe, they too get lost in the subway.

Wised-up by his previous and traumatic experiences, he turns around on his heels as soon as the first person (why must it always be a male?) offers him an unforgettable evening for a discount price. Alas, the drawback of trying to find one's way back to the subway stairs, while praying under one's breath and keeping eyes tight shut is that, inevitably, some kid will shove a poster into one's face with the promise of porn stardom.]

WHY?

[The question is, indeed, both pragmatical and existencial. What is Kevin Cecil's life?]

[belfire]

[Kazuya doesn't have the answer to that, and it clearly showed in his slightly bewildered stare, admittedly taken aback by the exclamation (it sounded mildly despairing to his ears). Oh no, he picked a weirdo]

Uh, because, y'know...? [He weakly waved the poster around, unsure on how to respond, before cautiously continuing;] It's sex and money combined! Those two are the most common interests amongst humans, so it's, like, y'know, a dream job or something.

[He thinks. Okay, he's just bullshitting, but still, sex and money. It's like being a rockstar without the cool]

Kazuya

[good_ideas]

[It's the muffin guy...putting up posters. Shiho's about to go up and ask him what he's doing (and possibly torment him depending on how she was feeling at that exact moment) when she gets a face full of porn poster.

Kaoru-chan's mom was (technically) a porn star, which is why Shiho is very calm as she shoves the poster right back (ripping a hole in it).]

...No.

[belfire]

[Kazuya lowered the poster, looking briefly put out at the hole ripped in it - before recognising who he had been aggressively advertising to (only Kaz would recruit people for a porno without clearly looking at them) and instantly brightened. It's the girl who bought him a muffin that one time!]

Oh, hey, Shiho, I didn't know it was you. [he flicked his wrist and the ruined poster burst into flames, dropping to the floor as smouldering ash. Hey, who needs bins when you have pyrokinesis?] What're you doing here?

either

[smokingspirit]

I have no idea what you're talking about.

[ He's lying. ]

[theshiningone]

Do I need to take out a dictionary and define what sexy is? I mean... You're not secretly five years old, right?

[Because you can never be too sure about this kind of thing.]

hiro!

[unathletic]

[ .. god.

This is his punishment for daring to go to the pleasure district, huh. But it's not even his fault, it's because he had to deliver a stupid package to one of the business there for his stupid job.. It's pretty obvious he's not here for fun anyway judging by how grumpy he looks - and the glare he shoots Hiro at that question isn't much different. ]

Are you harassing people on the streets?

[ Because that in itself doesn't sit entirely right with him either, honestly. Especially considering the shit that has been going down.. do some people just not have any sense of what's appropriate and what isn't? ]

[theshiningone]

[At this point, Hiro was slightly immune to glares thrown his way. Whenever you got glared at by people like Yamato and Miyako... You learned to build some resistance to their level of intimidation. Either way, he'll still be speaking in his usual friendly manner toward Heung Soo.]

No, no, no! I'm asking an innocent question that won't even take like a minute to do. My style of harassment is completely different, though.

[Somehow, someway... This didn't feel like harassment at all in Hiro's perspective. But something like randomly panting a person while they were carrying a box (which is something that he'd do) is on the level of harassment.]