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Manabu Yuuki ([personal profile] siriusly) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-02-08 10:21 am

late bloomer jokes [feb catchall - open & closed prompts]

Who: Manabu & others
What: Misc hijinks
When: February
Where: Misc locations

Content Warnings: Will be marked in tls/comments as needed


February is weird. Manabu feels...weird. He's always an impatient kind of person, needing to always be moving somewhere or doing something, but this is a different kind of impatience. More and more, he's noticing the way couples interact, double-taking at public displays of affection which he'd typically fluster and look the other way at. He pines for a lot of things here in Trench: his family, his coworkers, his job... but he's not used to pining for things like...y'know, hand-holding.

So goes Manabu Yuuki's 24-year old awakening to romantic pining; it's going to be coloring a lot of the month for him! And that's weird and confusing for him, so you bet this'll be coloring the way he interacts with folks he runs into! Lots of word spaghetti, lots of hair frizzing with static, and some apple-red cheeks...at least he has the cold weather to blame for that.

...Even if he's a coldblood.

Shut up. It's nothing!!!


open prompts

o1. Willful Machine: Errands and Odd Jobs
[regardless of these roiling, blood-based feelings throwing him off his game, Manabu still throws himself into work of all sorts. he does errands and handiwork around the Roost for Diluc, but also picks up the occasional odd job for locals - Sleepers and natives alike. he's a jack of many trades and definitely master of none, but what he lacks in expertise he makes up with patience and determination.

perhaps you see him replacing tiles on a store's roof, or maybe he's hauling a wagon full of winter supplies, or part of a small squad lifting some heavy furniture by pulley up to a second floor, or simply carrying someone's groceries! either way, prime encounter opportunity.

also, Magnet is always there: that little mutt's noisy, but friendly, and always apt to bounding away from Manabu to sniff out a friend or potential friend...or at least some pets.]



o2.The Gate: Gunswordplay
[maybe it's too much to bank on, but smacking around the unsnake last month's given Manabu a boost of combat confidence (never mind the concussions)! that said, he definitely needs to get better at this gravity saber business; swords are really archaic, but seem to be quite a common thing here! and look, he wouldn't admit it, but he wants to be cool with the swords, too.

here Manabu can be found a couple hours before sundown after busy workdays, stretching and then trying to master balanced, repeated strikes on dummies with slashes or sparks of flame...boring stuff, but he knows it builds results. still, if anyone's itching to spar, he'll jump at that.]



o3. Gaze: Research
[if things are too slow as far as work goes, Manabu will veer off and go to the Archives - a place he actually hasn't made a point to visit much before! he's not a big studying kind of guy, but he knows the plans he has in mind require a lot more research and thought than just running on hunches and rumors.

also? he wants maps. an atlas feels like a reach, but if he can cobble together some maps...

so that's what he's up to: cringing and veering away from ickier aisles of oddities, picking at the spines of assorted books in increasingly lessening hope.

what's it take to find a map of the world around this place...!?]
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[personal profile] pabugotmoves 2022-02-14 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gosh no, you are just. So far from that. What a wild accusation with absolutely no foundation in fact.]

Why not? This is my brother's wedding. He never thought he'd get to have this, you know? Back home was so.. so different.

[Can he say the word 'so' any more? Let's find out.]

I'm so proud of them. I get to have two brothers now and they are so happy, that's amazing, is it?
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[personal profile] pabugotmoves 2022-02-14 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ohh below the belt. You're feisty.]

Right?? And, plus! Super important, and I know I'm bias, but I kinda feel like they're these.. pillars of the community? This is going to be such a big public thing, I think it's going to mean a lot to all us Sleepers. We're all one big family if you think about it.

[He pops a paper lantern onto it's wire frame, smiling as it turns into a globe in his hands. These feel so much like home.]

I will be so lucky if I get just half the happiness they've found.
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[personal profile] pabugotmoves 2022-02-14 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[U ok man? Bo looks over with his brows up.]

You don't sound so sure.
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[personal profile] pabugotmoves 2022-02-14 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Woah- okay.. Alright.

[He holds a hand up in defense]

You clearly have some trauma you need to unpack. But that's okay, we all have stuff. I have tons of stuff.

..do you.. wanna talk about it?
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[personal profile] pabugotmoves 2022-02-14 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
You were just saying what.. [But it's small and mostly to himself as he scratches his chin. Still, he comes over to see the plans and it's a light bulb moment. Ahhh, right.. right yeah this makes sense.]

Divide and conquer?
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[personal profile] pabugotmoves 2022-02-15 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Roger that, let's roll out!

[Which is a lot of enthusiasm to go like thirty feet away but sometimes the soldier just comes out. What can you do. Put on some music and work!

And Bolin is all about helping out this month. Even if he didn't have the warmblood status effect up his ass he would be here doing all this anyway.

Buuuuut.... alllllso.. like. He's a chatty guy and he doesn't know Manabu very well so he can only mind his beeswax for so long before he starts talking again.]


Hey Manabu, I've always wondered. How do you actually know my brother? I see you around all the time.
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[personal profile] pabugotmoves 2022-02-16 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohh, no that makes sense.

[Does it? He pops up another lantern and sets it aside. It's starting to feel like a giant ball pit over here. That would be fun..]

No offense taken, my man. Those were some crazy days. I only came in at the very end of that whole thing. I think maybe I was there before? People have said that a few times. I don't remember it, though.

If we were friends and I don't remember.. no hard feelings?
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[personal profile] pabugotmoves 2022-02-17 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Nothin', nadda, full sweep!

[He slices his hand through the air for emphasis.]

You know how like.. sometimes people here appear and then disappear? And sometimes appear again but they're different? Like they've been reset? It just happened to a friend of mine... [Which he is definitely not mourning, no siree! Not cried about that at all.]

Anyway- I think that.. maybe happened to me?
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[personal profile] pabugotmoves 2022-02-17 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah man, where have you been?
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[personal profile] pabugotmoves 2022-02-22 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Huh..

[Light bulb.]

Well maybe they did and you got wiped and now you don't remember because you had to start over like me.
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[personal profile] pabugotmoves 2022-02-22 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh. Maybe.. maybe not so helpful. Sorry, man.]

Yeah, no.. well. You know people here. They would have told you if that had happened. So you're probably fine, don't worry about it. I didn't mean to go there.
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[personal profile] pabugotmoves 2022-02-23 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, yeah that is totally true.

[He pops up another lantern. So many! Lantern mountain!]

I mean there are so many other things to be depressed about, right?

O-or good. Lots of good things. Cool magic, lots of friends to make, hey maybe a date or two? Is there a special someone?
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[personal profile] pabugotmoves 2022-02-24 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wow that- that sure is a reaction, huh buddy.

You're full of shit, ain'tcha.]


Oh huuu huuuu~ me thinks the gentleman doth protest too much! Details, Manabu. A secret affair maybe? Lamplight lovers?? Do I know them?

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