Jakuzure Nonon (蛇崩 乃音) (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fatalissimo) wrote2014-07-07 12:36 pm
fatalissimo) wrote2014-07-07 12:36 pm
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[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.]
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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?
[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.]
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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?
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I'm pretty good at understanding how other people think, though, in terms of strategy and things like that. The sort of person most don't really like playing chess against.
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I ask because I might have to introduce you to a protégé of mine, if it's something you enjoy.
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You might try asking his girlfriend, though.
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I'm not really looking for anyone right now anyway. Dating anyone who's not from my world seems like a bad idea here, and there's no way I want to date any of the boys from my world.
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By the same token, he and I are in slightly different leagues — not to mention even if we weren't, what I find cute isn't necessarily a preference shared by everyone.
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So what is it that you do here, by the way? Besides give people things and teach objectively cute boys how to play chess.
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My business back home involved a lot of world travel and the overseeing of quite a few employees in a number of different countries. The closest I get to that these days is traveling the regions and overseeing an unusually large number of Pokemon.
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That sounds kind of like what the Student Council president's mom does. She runs a pretty large corporation, it's really important worldwide.
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...Sort of. It's complicated.
I've known her for a really long time, though, so I probably know her better than anyone else.
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Still, it's good to have people. Complicated or not.
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That, and those people you'd trust with your life but don't actually like. There needs to be a word for them, too.
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They were kind enough to give us "Backpfeifengesicht", after all.
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