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[fatalissimo]

[PRE-POST WHATNOT]

[It's raining outside today, but for once Nonon doesn't seem to mind; she's still in the utter sinkhole that is Violet City, but for the time being, her morale is good. Her money ran out quite some time ago, and she'd been okay with sleeping outside (it was going to take more than that to get her down properly) until that freak snowstorm last week felt the need to hit; seeing as she'd never worked a day in her life (not a proper job, not something that wasn't school and training) the idea of doing that was something almost completely foreign to her, but eventually she'd caved and applied somewhere and gotten hired.

And in the time since, she's discovered the surprisingly unsarcastic utter joy in the equation that is "make muffins = get money."

Sure, she's probably never going to get the flour out of her hair again and half the time she somehow ends up with glaze on her face, but she's found a bakery and they were hiring and she's stronger than she looks, and there's something really satisfying about being able to do things with her hands and see the results, and generally she's doing really well. Singing a bit while she does it, even, and making use of her Ambipom's entirely too many hands to hold trays for her while she works.

Life is actually surprisingly good today.]


[TEXT]

This place is actually pretty mundane, for somewhere that has a bunch of magical fire-spitting animals at their disposal. It took a lot of considering it, but I don't think I can really complain about that, though. It's sort of nice to know that even in a place that has something like that, people aren't using them to burn each other's faces off.

(Usually, anyway, I've heard there are a few whackjobs that do that.)

How many of you are from somewhere like this? Where there's not much going on, I mean, and you can just kind of exist.

And if you're from somewhere that's not like this and there's stuff going on all the time, what's it like for you to be living here now? Is it boring for you, or is it sort of a relief?

Comments

[diamondo]

what kind of job
ive been working retail for awhile and most of the time it sucks
but every so often something so ridiculously stupid happens that it kind of makes me like it
i dunno that sounds pretty fucking dumb
but its not like home - if i get really bored with the job i can just quit and find something else
or go travelling or something

[fatalissimo]

I'm working in a bakery of all places. It's really satisfying to be able to make things and see them afterwards; most of what I do isn't really tangible like that. This is actually my first time trying, and I think I like it.

...God, do you think this is what normal people do? They just sit around and talk about work and life and stupid mundane things? And before you start on trying to insist you might be at all normal, you just implied you have a job you can't quit, which means you're important or something.

[diamondo]

a bakery huh?
that's definitely something different
i can see what you mean about being able to see the finished product though

did i?
well yeah that much is true
back home i was a gang leader so no i couldnt really quit
i mean i could but i made a promise to someone to keep the gang going
its not like i didnt enjoy it but it was kinda difficult sometimes

but yeah i think this is what normal people talk about
i mean its either that or school and i dunno about you but working is way more interesting than school ever was

[...except murderschool, but we don't discuss murderschool.]

[fatalissimo]

That depends on what sort of school you go to, doesn't it? School was pretty much all I ever did before coming here, and it kept me more than busy enough.

Not like gang-leader busy, of course. I never engaged in boorish activities like that. But it kept me busy.

[diamondo]

really? school was always really fucking boring for me
did you have clubs and shit you were busy with?

[no seriously how could school eat up all your time

also not even going to touch that remark on gang activity, thanks]

[fatalissimo]

[smart man.]

I was on the Student Council - I regulated all of the non-athletic clubs.

So you could say that.

[diamondo]

holy shit all of them??
i guess that would keep you busy
you couldnt pay me enough to do something like that
did you at least enjoy it?

[fatalissimo]

Well, I enjoyed the perks that came with it, anyway, and it was pretty fun on good days.

[diamondo]

what kind of perks?

[fatalissimo]

[...so have you ever just looked at something and known that whatever comes next is gonna be stupid...]

I don't know about you, but I like not living in the slums?

[diamondo]

[.............UM]

what does that have to do with your position on the student council??

[HE'S NOT GOING TO LIKE THE ANSWER, IS HE]

[fatalissimo]

It means I'm high ranking enough to not live in the slums?

[are...are you stupid, or...]

[diamondo]

why
my school didnt do shit like that
normally that shits based on what your parents do

[fatalissimo]

Well, that's not really fair, is it?

[diamondo]

how is that not fair
they worked hard in life to get where they are
or alternatively they didnt do jackshit and didnt get far

[fatalissimo]

Well, yeah, and you're expected to do nothing about it?

What sort of lazy ingrates are you?

[diamondo]

what the hell are you supposed to do about it
most people cant legally get hired if theyre in school
so unless you find a way around that theres no real way of improving your living conditions

[fatalissimo]

And that's pathetic! You're not going to be ready for the real world if you just sit on your ass all day and expect your parents to hand everything for you - what the hell are you supposed to do if there's a crisis or they die or something? You're not going to be prepared to face anything that way!

[diamondo]

i guess you have a point there
but im pretty sure thats not the way most schools are run
or neighborhoods and shit
its kind of hard to wrap my head around actually

[fatalissimo]

[...she is 1000% done, what the hell.]

What do you even do in your schools?

[diamondo]

i was gonna say "learn" but then i realized thats not really true
wait hang on do you go to a private school
that might explain things

[fatalissimo]

[... :|a ]

Sort of? We have some really strict criteria when it comes to who can stay and who ends up getting removed.

[diamondo]

well i guess that might explain things a bit better
i thought you were talking about like a public school
i dont know if theyre as shitty where youre from
but theyre pretty fucking awful

[fatalissimo]

I went to public school for a while when I was a kid. I guess they were pretty bad; I didn't really care, though, because I wanted to go so I could be in the same class as someone important to me.

[diamondo]

yeah? i guess thats as good a reason to go as any
so is this school of yours like something you have to be accepted into
or is it just something you pay a lot of money to go to or what

[But do you have a SHSL title.]