vatheon | [Open] What...what just happened?

Who: Kanji and you
Where: All over the city
When: July 11th, all day
Style: Action to start, but can match to you
Status: Open!

[He'd woken up near that strange coral thing, but he was pretty sure that he was dreaming still. Kanji wasn't a panicky kinda guy though, so he'd take his time and figure out what was going on.

This was a pretty strange place, even for one of his dreams. An underwater city? He tried to remember if he watched any strange movies about Atlantis the night before, but he was pretty sure the last thing he watched on TV was a samurai drama with his mother. And the sight of the strange fish swimming by his head as he walked around was just a bit too much for him.

He sat down near the carnival entrance and took out the Starfish Communicator that had been beside him when he woke up and the stupid paper brochure as he used the towel around his neck to dry his hair some more. The brochure called this place Vatheon and said that he was stuck here.]

What a load of shit. This's gotta be a dream. I'm gonna wake up in my bed and Mom's gonna nag me to eat before school. It's just another fucking normal day, like the others've been since Senpai left.

[He scrolled through the list of foreigners and almost dropped it when he saw familiar names. His friends were here! Sure, some were missing, but Yu-senpai, Yukiko-senpai and Naoto were here! He saw their address too and nearly dropped everything again as he jumped up and ran towards where they supposedly were.]

Yu-senpai! Yukiko-senpai! Naoto! [His voice went before him as he ran through the Nostalgia Nook to where this detective agency was situated.] Oi, where is everyone?!

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[She just offered to let him touch her cute, furry ears! But, wouldn't that be rude? Like a total invasion of personal space, yes? Cute girl with cute ears offering to let him touch them? What the fuck?!]

N-nah, I'll pass. I ain't no furry freak or anythin' like that.

["Furry freak" immediately reminds her of her brother's rambling about furries on the internet and she cringes.

Come on, Jade, no, that's not what he meant. Do not react.]

S'cool. Anyhoo, like I said, this isn't a dream. We are stuck here until whatever brought us here sends us back home. [And she just sits down next to him like it isn't a big deal at all.] I've been here for almost a whole year now, it's not bad once you make some friends and find things to do!

[He sure meant that he wasn't like those creepy people who are attracted to furry things. He just likes cute shit, okay?]

This is some fucked up shit then. I was just trying to adjust to things after Yu-senpai left and now... I'm stuck here. I dunno what to do just yet. I guess I need a minute to gather my thoughts or somethin'.

[Yes, creepy furries that want to screw cute fuzzy things need not apply for friendship, mmmkay.]

Oh! You can check on the SFC to see if people you recognize are here, then you can contact them directly! They should know that you are here, it's always exciting to have someone you know arrive in this place.

[But she knows she's going into chatterbox mode and tries to rein it back a bit.]

If you have read the brochure...then you should already know that everything here is free! Though you can take on jobs anyway just to make the time pass. My friend Kanaya even started her own business, she's a very talented seamstress!

Y-yeah? That's cool. My family runs a textile shop back home. [He's comfortable with his hobbies, but he's not going to go and announce them to a stranger. No matter how cute she appears to be.]

I'mma try and find out if some of my friends are here, but I dunno if that's a good thing or a bad thing, to be honest. I mean...This ain't home after all.

Cool! My grandpa was an inventor! [Nah, she thinks nothing of it, it's just two kids sittin' around getting to know each other.] Maybe Kanaya will appreciate some of your textile expertise around her shop.

[The look that she gives him when he says "ain't home" is an odd one.

No, not like she disapproves of his grammar, the sort of look that says "where IS home?"

But home is a different concept for other people, she knows this. Instead Jade smiles and nudges him.]

Hey, home is what you make of it. This can be considered a home away from home if you wanna work at it. Chances are, Vatheon will send you back home eventually and no time whatsoever will have passed, so you don't have to worry about your family missing you, or missing school!

[Yeah, well, he's still getting over the weird shit he felt over the way he was treated back home by the girls who found out that he liked to knit and sew, alright?]

Maybe. Where's her shop? If I ain't goin' home any time soon, might as well try to put some of my skills to use, yeah?

And this ain't ever gonna be anything but a prison for me. Sorry. I don't care how many of my friends wind up here. And missing school's never been a thing for me to worry about. [Hey, Jade, you just managed to find a really tall momma's boy! Lucky you!]

Okay, dude. [Shrug! She's chill with whatever, she's learning that a lot of people don't have a life or death game going on back at home coupled with an unkillable monster chasing them.

And since her mun can't be bothered with looking up where Kanaya's shop is, she points off in a certain direction and describes the route + how the shop looks to him.]

--By the way, my name's Jade! I hope we can be friends.

[Nah, all the drama in Kanji's life was resolved when the killer he and his friends were looking for turned out to be a cop that had too much power from a well-meaning, bored death goddess. But, after beating some divine ass, things in Inaba were calm and cool now. Normal even. Which was just how he liked it, to be honest. So, being pulled away after it had just calmed down was like a slap to the face.

But he listens intently to the directions she gives to the other girl's shop. Probably will have to talk to her sooner than later about things if he was really going to have to settle into this strange city.]</small. Name's Kanji. Nice to meetcha.

Kanji? [Well that's a name she's never heard before--actually, she's heard the word, of course, but she's never heard it used as a name] Is that a nickname or your actual name? My boyfriend's named Ryuuji but a lot of people here call him Bon, so I'm just wondering.

[She probably should have said that it was nice to meet him too, because it is! But curiosity killed the dog.]

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