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deercountry2022-02-08 10:21 am
siriusly) wrote in deercountry2022-02-08 10:21 am
Entry tags:
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
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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!!!
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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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That's years past, okay?! I'm twenty-four! Twenty-four!!
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[NO, IT'S NOT.]
Anyway. It kinda sounds like you're anxious about dating because you're so inexperienced. So you're hiding behind all these extra responsibilities, while also making yourself feel better by being useful.
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Vyng hits the nail on the head, and Manabu has no way to deny it...because he has to first accept that said nail's been hit! instead he just makes a few strangled, struggling sounds before huffing again and throwing back the remainder of the tea, temperature be damned! he's a coldblood, he can take it!!!]
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[Thankfully, fully-steeped pine needle tea isn't scalding. But still.]
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muttered:] I don't know how to deal with this, okay?
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[Spoken in a gentle, nurturing tone — a sharp contrast to some of his careless teasing from before.]
Nobody knows what they're doing.
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he sighs, dragging his hands down his face before setting them back on the table, then to the edge to push himself away.]
I...I don't want to talk about it anymore. It just makes me feel stupid, you know? I don't like that feeling.
...Thanks for the tea.
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[Then, completely sincere, he adds:]
Wanna roleplay? We could have, like, I dunno...some practice rounds.
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stiffly:] Please forget this conversation...ever happened, okay?
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[Manabu is clearly carrying the shame for both of them, because Vyng is plenty relaxed in his seat.]
For what it's worth, I think plenty of people in this town would say "yes" if you just asked.
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Magnet, at least, lingers for pets.]
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[Spoken like an oblivious uncle, as he reaches down to give scritches behind Magnet's ears. At the same time, he quietly adds:]
Man. That dude needs to chill...