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Wayne ([personal profile] howareyanow) wrote in [community profile] fandomhighdorms2019-10-21 05:21 am

Third Floor Common Room; Monday Morning [10/21].

At some point last week, Wayne had been making some notes about some of the regionally inspired breakfasts they'd been having to carry on over to his own Monday Morning Breakfasts, but, really, when all was said and done, when he actually got to making breakfast that morning, he decided, fuck, all that was gonna do was make him him miss the place. Not necessarily miss bein' on vacation, he didn't really do well with idleness and vacations and things like that, but he had enjoyed the trip, and decided maybe getting back to the more traditional stuff could be in order jus' to sort of set up the idea that it was back to the old usual grind again.

So there were pancakes and eggs and bacon and what have you as per usual, and that was all well and dandy, but then there was the whole issue with the coffee, and the fact that what Wayne got when he brewed up a pot was less of life-giving bean juice and more midnight matinee horror show. Because what he got was definitely a pot of what was absolutely fake blood (because real blood didn't really look like that).

He sniffed it, made a face, and poured the whole pot right down the sink and rinsed it out (and the sink, too, lest it look like he was up to something decidedly not breakfast related around here), and tried again. Same thing. Dumped that, figgured mebbe the third time's a charm, but no such luck. Which left him to narrow his eyes at the coffee maker, squinting at it accusingly.

"Now, look here, bud," he said, fully aware that he was standing there, talking to a kitchen appliance, "if you've got a problem with coffee this morning, then you've got a problem with me, an' I suggest you let that one marinate!"

This island had put them through a lot of terrible things, sure but no coffee on a Monday morning after a vacation? Fuck a duck, that was just a whole new level of cruelty that Wayne almost couldn't stand to contemplate.

[[ My schedule's a bit wonky this week, so a bit of SP on my end, more'n likeleh, but open breakfast is definitely open! ]]
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[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-21 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"You could, like, go stand on the beach??????????????????????" Nina said helpfully. "It's not, like, the same but it might help???????????????????????"

A beat.

"Good moooooooooooooorning, Okuyasu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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[personal profile] handystand 2019-10-21 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"But it's chilly out there!" Okuyasu said with a bit of harrumph. "Mainly I just wanted to say something nice about how the food smelled. I was trying to be nice. I don't miss the vacation that much."

He totally did.

"And good morning to you too!"
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[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-21 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Nina giggled.

"I mean, like, compliments are something Wayne deserves for breakfast," she conceded. "But vacation isn't a bad thing to miss…………………… even if you are cheerful this morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How are you doing???????????????????"
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[personal profile] handystand 2019-10-21 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, well, I'm fine," Okuyasu said with a shrug. "I was going to say things around here seemed more normal but now it seems like there's some sort of blood curse going on."

He rubbed a hand against his forehead. "I kind of miss things being exciting, I guess, if you really want to know."
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[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-21 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, a blood curse is pretty exciting?????????????" she mused, grinning a bit impishly since Nina, personally, wasn't impacted by the loss of coffee. "And there was the candy rain too???????????????? Yesterday was just—gah, I kept feeling like I was being watched………………….."
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[personal profile] handystand 2019-10-21 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"I guess it is," Okuyasu said, pulling a little bit of a face. "But I'm not so good with thinky mystery stuff. I'm better when the excitement has a face you can punch. Or erase. Trying to figure out things isn't... I'm not smart enough for that, you know?"
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[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-21 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Nina frowned.

She wanted to argue that Okuyasu was totally smart enough to do thinky mystery things but, like, she wasn't entirely sure he actually was and…

Honestly, though, that didn't really stop her from feeling a rush of affection for him.

"Maybe we'll get something you can punch later this week," she said encouragingly, instead. "Like, if the number of scary movies Prompto and I flipped through were any indicator, if this is a Halloween thing then there'll be more than enough monsters for you to hit at some point before the end of the month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

She considered that.

"I like hitting things too," Nina added. "Though thinky mysteries are also awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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[personal profile] handystand 2019-10-21 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't so much that Okuyasu had poor self esteem but that he more had a healthy grasp of his own limitations. He was perfectly happy as he was.

"You know, this Halloween thing is really weird," Okuyasu said. "I mean, I know what it is, but it's not all that important in Japan. But we do scary a different sort of way, I think."

"I leave the mystery stuff to Josuke and Koichi. Or, here, to... pretty much all the other people. There's plenty of nerds who can get that done."
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[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-21 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"It doesn't even exist in my world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina admitted. "But, like, it's pretty fun to see other peoples' holidays, don't you think?????????????????????????? And some of the stuff people do for this one is terrifying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Which she sounded gleeful about.

Unlike her brother, Nina wasn't a wimp.

"Are you doing anything for it??????????????????? Dressing up???????????????"
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[personal profile] handystand 2019-10-21 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Okuyasu sort of shrugged. "It really isn't celebrated at home," he said again. "Didn't think I'd do anything here unless someone asked. Are people dressing up here?"

He pulled a face. "Do I need to worry about fitting in?"
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[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-21 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
She made a face right back at him.

"Do you think anyone here's going to worry about fitting in?????????????????" Nina wondered. "Like, no, I just thought it'd be fun?????????????????????"

Maybe she'd throw a party…………
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[personal profile] handystand 2019-10-21 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"I mean, no one wants to be the weird kid with no friends," Okuyasu said. "It can get real lonely, like that."

Way to bring the mood down a little, buddy.

"But I can do fun! I guess I hadn't really thought about it at all."
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[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-21 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Nina's smile faded a bit.

She was the weird kid with no friends back home.

"Yeah," she said, "I get that....................."

With a shake of her head, though, she was going to soldier on with:

"Neither had I until we'd started talking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was too busy with figuring out this weekend to worry about the Thursday after it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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[personal profile] handystand 2019-10-21 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
By all accounts the only reason Okuyasu wasn't completely friendless in Morioh was because he forcibly made friends with Josuke and Koichi, two boys he had attempted to murder.

"Wait, what are you worried about this weekend? Is something happening?"
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[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-21 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes, something's happening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she said, giggling. "Something super great is happening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Look, it was Prompto's birthday this weekend and Nina was going all out.
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[personal profile] handystand 2019-10-21 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Is it a guessing game?" Okuyasu said, unsure that he'd ever actually guess what it was.
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[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-21 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Nooooooooooooo," she said, those giggles of hers going nowhere. "But, like, it's a secret for now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll be, like, sending out notification later this week--do you have a cellphone?????????????????"

Because she was also drawing up card to invite people out to this, so they'd have no way to miss the invites.

"You're like, totally invited, though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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[personal profile] handystand 2019-10-22 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"I do!" Okuyasu said, pulling out his phone. "Do you want to see some pictures of turtles?"

...It wasn't a non-sequitor if you knew he'd recently taken a lot of selfies with turtles on that phone.
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[personal profile] bookbeltof_love 2019-10-22 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Nina blinked at him.

And, like--

"You know what???????????????" she said, beaming. "I'd love to see pictures of turtles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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[personal profile] handystand 2019-10-22 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"I haven't shown anyone else yet!" Okuyasu said, getting all excited. "I tried to send them to my friend at home, but I think he can't get picture messages because it's 1999 and he doesn't have a cell phone like this."

Yeah, that's... a lot of why that didn't work.

So now Okuyasu had pulled up pictures of him with the giant turtles and was scrolling through them, smiling.

"He hates turtles."