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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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...okay, it's not that weird? but it's still weird. weird to him. Manabu Yuuki: never stop being weirded out by weird things.
he hesitates before asking:] This Dr. Winters guy...can he fight, too? Like, the kinds of horrible stuff the Hunters are out nightly dealing with.
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I wouldn't worry about it too much. He comes from quite the rough and tumble reality. He's always been able to handle himself. He might relish the challenge.
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[...]
If I can even...get this off the ground in a meaningful way. [he scowls around the shelves.] Seriously, not a single atlas?!
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Hidden...on purpose? [Manabu's a bit too honest and trusting, even now: rarely is his first thought that someone in authority is doing something dubious! space cops, man.] That...that doesn't seem right. I mean, people only benefit when they're able to know as much as they can about their circumstances...right?
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And they only seek to benefit themselves.
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Those crazy guys...you're right. It'd probably help them out to keep everyone in the dark, huh.
[he rubs at the back of his head, frowning.] They're not easy to track down, either...and even if you do, trying to deal with even one of them? [not a great idea.]
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And... no, I don't recommend dealing with them. I trust the maps you'll make far more than any they have.
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Right... That just means...getting out there is even more important. [he nods, expression hardening with resolve.] I gotta do this right. Or at least...get us a good head start for other, better people to see through.
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But come. No more mothering and protecting. How can I help you get lost into the hinterlands, if we have no maps, mmm?
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huff.
right...back-on task. how, indeed... he looks around, eyes lingering over at a far window, and then up...]
I wonder... if there's tools to be able to survey from the sky?
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It's not a bad idea. I'm not sure. That will depend on if someone has the power to do it. The risk I can imagine is that it will leave you more exposed in the process.
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Just like anything else, yeah. At some point, there's really nothing you can do except try.
So I'll try. And hopefully...there'll be some good to come from it.
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You might find a site for a second town to form...
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[a beat.
he scowls at the shelves.]
...And a map would've been great, but I guess...I'll just have to make up for it by training for a fight.
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