(closed) december catchall

[entreats]

Who: Ange (entreats), Chizuru (tealeafs), Daniel (miyagimagic) and various others.
What: December shenanigans.
When: During all of December.
Where: Locations vary.

Content Warnings: Bullying, (mild) violence, will edit to add more later.

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[miyagimagic]

Robby hasn't realised that he has unlocked a secret cheat code where he can actually say this sort of stuff - especially when he's saying it lightly - without Daniel spiralling. Mostly, anyway. And Daniel has actually let some people know about that a little earlier than he would have back home, but is he going to say that out loud?

Of course not. He's got to keep up the Miyagi-do preservation front, right. What if people decide to take a mile after he budges an inch?

"I'll have you know that no one else has called the chores shitty yet."

It's a bit of a lighter remark than anything he said a moment ago though - maybe on purpose, to show that he isn't bothered at all by Robby saying this, if Daniel is able to just lightly rib the boy in turn.

"Midoriya actually started figuring it out about a few minutes in, after he started to compare it to.." Daniel's voice trails off as he tries to recall, and he frowns a little in uncertainty of his own memory when he adds: ".. microwaving eggs?"

That sounds right. Yet still weird at the same time.

[strongroots]

...eggs? Excuse Robby as he just. Looks confused as that. He wants to ask, but Mister LaRusso doesn't sound as sure himself, so is it even worth it? There's a counter-point he has to this anyway, which is way easier to focus on than...microwaving eggs.

"Oscar was pretty sure it was a scam to get free labour and kept complaining." ...and said a bunch of weird things, but that's what the 'kept complaining' is for. But Robby's amused as he retells it, adding absently: "I never did get to ask him what I got out of helping you get the fence painted for free."

Well. "He still did it."

Said with a shrug. Time off from painting the fences for Mister LaRusso? What a weird idea. That was a guy who could've done with being told up front, buuuut--maybe Robby was up for him getting trolled a little.

With karate practice.

[miyagimagic]

There's some internal amusement, because that sure is one of the people Daniel ended up being a little bit more direct with, if not just because Oscar kept going on about it so much that he was starting to feel a little bit bad for the kid..

But rather than addressing that, Daniel has something else to say. Something very important. All that talk about the bracelet, and that talk right before Daniel got so emotionally overwhelmed he had to hug Robby? Clearly nothing in the face of this.

The face of Daniel shrugging, and then casually adding: "He said my hair was boring."

Oscar sure says Some Things, doesn't he.

[strongroots]

Didn't he say something like that to Robby too? He thinks about it for half-a-second before he actually figures to look from Mister LaRusso's face to his hair, back again....again...

...with an expression growing something close to a grimace that accumulates to Robby giving Mister LaRusso a sheepish, dragged out hum in place of a 'Weelllllllllll.'

"Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm--"

So cruel to a sensei who was just a moment ago on the verge of tears.

[miyagimagic]

.. he should have seen this coming.

After all, Robby is still very much a teenager. And of course a teenager would absolutely take this chance for this sort of teasing of a poor old man. It's a good thing that while Daniel's feelings are still a little tender after the moment they shared just now, he can recognize this for the teasing joke it is, and so he just nods, his lips tightly pressed together in wry amusement.

"I'll make sure to remember that one."

Ominous words. You never know when this will be returned to you one day, Robby.

(Probably never. Daniel is much too weak, and even more so to the kid standing in front of him right now.)

"And I also think I should also let you enjoy your Christmas dinner here," especially since this probably is a rare occasion to Robby, having it with a whole bunch of people, unlike the way it usually is busy over at the LaRusso's.. "rather than hogging you all to myself."

[strongroots]

The act breaks at the warning, a huff of laughter escaping and leaving his face smiling after; dimples pinched there from the pull of it. It's good to get to be silly, and he thinks they both need it after everything--everything this month has been, especially. It's not Mister LaRusso's own family, a Christmas dinner that he might be familiar with, but--

they can all do with good things.

"Alright," Robby agrees, even if he's enjoying himself. "You should tell Mob a story about karate. Guy gets invested in anything you tell him."

Maybe not even about karate, and it's an affectionate statement, for sure. He deserves good things, in Robby's opinion.

[miyagimagic]

"Oh, don't worry. Half his Christmas present is karate wisdom."

It's a statement that's mostly a joke, but when Daniel is the one saying it, can you ever truly be sure about that..

(It's mostly just going to be warm clothes and Daniel telling him to stay warm, let's be real.)

There's a hand reaching out, a last faint squeeze of Robby's shoulder coupled with a smile, and then Daniel is actually heading over towards Mob to make sure the kid also gets his Christmas present.