First Prayer: I'm not your only friend...[Open]

[faithfulflame]

Who: Rei Hino and you?
What: Day in the life of Rei Hino
When: Some nebulous day between 12/17 and 12/21, or whenever works
Where: Residential District, Gym, Shopping District, Research/Tech District
Warnings: None at present?


Residential District/Research District

[Rei's always enjoyed taking walks in her free time, getting to know the area around her and taking in the sites. She's been given a day off, a small thank you for a project deadline completion, and she's taking full advantage. It's different here, of course, given the alien nature of so much of the architecture but that's actually part of the appeal. She's reminded of what she's seen of her own world's future, and while the CERES logo plastered everywhere isn't entirely her favorite thing in the world it's nice to see some of the advertisements she's been working on around.

Eventually she'll make her way into the Research and Technologies District, looking around at all the sterile government buildings and ominous labs too. It's idle curiosity, combined with her family being involved in the civic system, that catches her interest. As well as possibly finding an entryway into CERES' facilities for later.

She's not paying the most attention to her immediate surroundings, though, so she might just bump into you, or brush past you. Trailing behind her, too, is a Cybuddy, this robot taking the form of a fuzzy baby panda bear. Whoever said she couldn't like cute things?]


CERES Gym:

[Next on her list is to find Abe no Sousei's kendo school. With a little help from Edgeworth, she's actually acquired a shinai of the proper size, and she'll turn up at the gym with that and a bow, wearing some pretty standard exercise clothes (scarlet and black of course) and begin warming up if he's not in yet. She'll start off with rock-climbing, an activity she finds herself actually doing pretty well at, and then move on to perform some pretty impressive gymnastic feats. After that? Archery.

Catch her taking a breather at the juice bar, or maybe watch while she's working out? Whatever strikes your fancy]

Restaurant:

[With all that done, it's time to get dinner. And that means heading out to a restaurant and then to pick up some stuff for the rest of the week. The restaurant she's hitting up claims to serve traditional Japanese dishes, and it's worth a try, she figures...though when she gets the food she orders, Rei's lips quiver in absolute disgust. She doesn't yell, but she gets up and carries the plate over to the counter, dropping the tray down hard enough to clatter and catch staff attention]

This is not Hōtō-nabe. [Ugh.] This is not even remotely close. It's green. And it smells like garlic. And since when are edamame purple? I'd like a refund.

[Naturally, she is going to be that customer. Or that fellow patron. Or...whatever.]

Shopping

[And with that fiasco out of the way, she has to settle for less familiar food, in this case a fried fish sandwich. It is what it is, and she'll eat it, but it leaves her wanting. So it's off to the store, where she goes through a little of everything she'd consider “traditional”, gathering up a rather full basket. Sorry if you were looking for that super-secret sauce or those last pickled plums, she's already reaching for the last one...]

Wild Card:

[No prompts to your liking? Watch to catch Rei in between things? Do it!]

Comments

residential district;

[unathletic]

[ Heung Soo often finds himself all over the place while he works - the circumstances of being a delivery boy. He's bringing something from the shopping district to the residential one at the moment, but before he even notices Rei, he's noticing something else - a panda CYBuddy he's almost walking into, only stopping just in time.

For a moment it seems like the thing is without owner, but then he spots someone walking off into the distance and raises his voice. ]

Ya! [ Not.. the most polite way of calling after someone, but Heung Soo is just a little rough around the edges even now.. ] You're forgetting something!

[faithfulflame]

[Rei turns sharply, noting both the accent and the tone. She'd liked Heung Soo well enough, certainly, but he definitely needed to work on his politeness. Still, he raises a point and she stops, sighing as she looks down at the CYbuddy.]

It walks so slowly. [Almost a complaint, but it's really, really cute...] And hello, Heung-Soo.

[unathletic]

[ .. oh. Whoops. He didn't recognize it from behind, but it's someone he actually knows, huh.. at least he easily realises it before she even greets him and turns like that just from the voice. It hadn't been too long since they spoke at the amusement park, after all.

The best she's going to get for a "hello" is just him nodding his head lightly, though.. he.. tr.. ies.... ]

It's since they're supposed to act like real animals. [ Or something like that. That guy at the shop sure had rattled on and on about it, and even some of the commercials here do.. ]

[faithfulflame]

[Well, she won't be giving him a gold star, but he does get a half smile. There are worse things than gruff, Heung-Soo. You could be Haruka.]

Well, yes, I think that's part of the appeal. That and they make noise. Which...is better than a quiet, relatively empty apartment I think.

[That would be why she bought one.]

[unathletic]

[ Huh. That implication -- did she feel lonely or something? Heung Soo likes his peace and quiet, but he has to admit that having his best friend here with him sure makes things a lot easier on him.

Asking that out loud would just make things more awkward though, so he doesn't. ]

Depends on how loud they get.

[ Don't want a panda screeching through your apartment, right.. ]

[faithfulflame]

[Rei values the same, but after a few years of just...having...day to day interactions with nine other girls, suddenly going back to being alone and without even her two crows to keep her company was a little jarring.]

He's not been so bad yet. The worst he's done is snuffle around the wastebins and knock one over.

[Just like a real bear.]

Do you have one?

[unathletic]

Two. [ Technically, anyway, since he's sharing with his roommate bestie.. but it's not like they've claimed either of them in particular, so he might as well mention them both. ]

It's a duck and.. [ .. just a slight pause, since he knows this is going to sound ridiculous, even though they're on display in the CYBuddy stores as well. Hell, it's still ridiculous to him and he sees that thing wandering around at his place every day now. ] .. a dinosaur.

[ A really tiny cute one though.. ]

[faithfulflame]

A dinosaur?

[Okay, that's actually cute. Rei's smile may brighten, even though Heung-soo is pretty dour.]

Well, you know I actually thought about that myself. But...Panda are more familiar.

[unathletic]

[ Don't call it cute, you'll embarrass him..!! But he can bear it for now since she's not voicing it just yet.. ]

My roommate insisted on it. [ Roommate, best friend, bastard for life.. whatever you want to call it, this or best friend is the least embarrassing way even if it doesn't really encompass it. ]

I probably would've picked a more normal one too. Now it's just like a tiny Godzilla.

[faithfulflame]

Well, you say that like it's a bad thing?

[As she says this she scoops up the panda, and it definitely wiggles a bit, trying to turn and lick her face.]

I imagine it's terribly adorable.

[unathletic]

[ It is adorable. That's exactly the problem here, because there's no way he can ever admit that out loud. So instead he's just going to be roundabout about it in his own tsun way. ]

They're robots. It'd be sort of weird to call them "adorable."

[faithfulflame]

And what's to say robots can't have a spirit of their own?

[Oh...gross, robot lickings! But there's that Shinto priestess coming out. Everything has a little soul, after all.]

[unathletic]

[ That's a little philosophical for Heung Soo, honestly. He's just used to.. well, fairly normal things and all. Not exactly to having to think about the concept of whether these things do or don't have a soul - he was more just seeing them as some sort of evolution of the cheap robot toys for kids you can get in stores, and it makes him eye the panda for a moment before he looks back to Rei. ]

Do you think they do? [ She brought it up, after all. ]

[faithfulflame]

[Rei smiles, one of those quiet, mysterious little looks that only someone of the faith can really have.]

I absolutely do.

[unathletic]

[ It leaves him to stare at the panda for another moment, as if he's expecting the thing to show signs of having a soul any moment now. What kind of signs, who even knows..

But of course there's nothing special, and he shakes his head a little. ]

If you say so. [ That's the kind of "you can have your opinion and I'll have mine" answer.. that's still more respectful than his default, okay, he's.. trying. In his own way. It's an uphill struggle. ]

A whole bunch of them malfunctioned before.

[faithfulflame]

[Rei laughs once again. As bad as it sounds, she didn't expect him to understand, but the fact that he's accepting it without being a butthead is nice. She just scritches the thing and it pants happily.]

Did they? What happened?

[Said absently. She's listening but she's got a feeling already.]

[unathletic]

[ Thank god it didn't happen to him - he didn't get his CYBuddies until later - but even if it's not about him, the secondhand embarrassment about telling this is pretty strong.. so he ends up having to glance away. It looks like him being a little stand-offish, but he's really just embarrassed.. ]

They stole people's underwear.

[ Yeah.

That's why it's so embarrassing. This place, seriously.. ]

[faithfulflame]

They...what?

[Okay, now you're just pulling her leg, buddy. Seriously. What? She eyes Lacus, eyebrow raised.]

Stole...underwear. Why? How?

[unathletic]

[ Don't give him that look. Please. This is not the hill he wants to die on, he hardly wants to defend that this was a thing but he can't not defend it or he'll look like he's making up super embarrassing lies.

So here goes nothing. ]

How do you think underwear is stolen? [ Aka don't ask him that. Please. Don't even imagine it, just accept it. ]

And "why".. as a really terrible prank to annoy us? Who knows, they never explained it other than claiming it was a malfunction. [ Sigh. ] As usually.

[faithfulflame]

Ugh...well...[She looks at the Bear.] If you steal my underwear, Lacus, I'll turn you into scrap.

[The bear covers his eyes and lets out a convincing whimper. YES MAAAAAM!]

[unathletic]

[ Okay, the sight of that is at least a little amusing. It'd be too much of a stretch to say that Heung Soo actually smiles at it, but he does seem faintly amused at the display between the two of them.. (If not just since he finds CYBuddies much cuter than he'd ever admit out loud.) ]

Seems like you've got him under control well enough.