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<IBUKI> hello!! ibuki mioda here!!! ﾟ.+:｡(≧∇≦)ﾉﾟ.+:｡
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like adding seasoning to a dish as a finishing touch, or making sure your rhymes are on point before letting them out into the world!
[This metaphor only sort of makes sense.]
a little horsey?
oh, like a kelpie, right? you're friends with kelpies??? ('◯')
is it a little kelpie? like, a teeny tiny one? that sounds totally adorable!!
ibuki's only seen really big kelpies before, like sonia! she's SOOOO TAAAAALL （○Ａ○）
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My middle initial was J but fuck that, I'm starting over there too
I wouldn't say friends, I hardly know this one, but I mean a kelpie alright!
Come to think of it the only kelpies I've run into around are Sonia and this one so I don't know how big they usually get but this one's smaller than me at least!
Wait
Actually no, I bumped into another one who wasn't the biggest guy I've seen but he mostly looked pretty human! Folks who haven't really changed probably don't count
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ibuki doesn't know many american j names! (・□・；) there's gotta be a lot more, right?
wait, josh! that's one, right???
kelpies come in a wide range of colors and sizes... so says ibuki, who's only met one in person!! (*≧▽≦)ﾉｼ))
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But, well, two of the above names are related, and NNNNGGGGGGGHHHH...]
Eh it doesn't matter
I'm picking something else.
After all, look at J names
They're fucking boring, right??
[Good save, bro.
And haw-haw...
...Nah, he -- actually does crinkle his nose 'n twitch up a smile for a scrape of a laugh through his teeth, for the last part...]
For the trip, though!
Doesn't that sound cool??? It's some really big shit!
So are you in????
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[Spoilers: she doesn't have a middle name.]
that trip does sound MEGA cool... but would there be room in the sub? and like, air???
or is it a dead person's sub, with no air?
ibuki's not so sure she could go if your sub is a one-seater with no air...
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You pretty much told me Japanese kids don't have them
[She showed her hand too early on the twist.]
Sure there's air! It was made for humans, I'm just making some improvements! It's got oxygen tanks
You and me wouldn't have to worry about it getting cramped at all if you hung out as a fox or something!
[Translation: come with meeeeee, it's gonna be great.]
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buuut hmmmmmmmmm...
is there a way to sneak some music onboard? not in the form of ibuki, of course! like, a boombox would work, right?
oh, and!! is there a way we could catch fish while in the sub!?!?
it's got windows and stuff, it wouldn't be hard to make some kinda fish catching thingy, right!??!?!
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Man though have you ever been on a road trip with a busted radio, if I can't install one in this thing by the time I head down then PLEASE god bring a boombox
And holy shit the kelpie chick said something like the fish down there have teeth or noses or whatever like KNIVES, I don't care what they look like yet I wanna hang that shit on my wall
I guess we'd need like shark bait or a net or something???
I don't know how big they are yet but something's gotta work
As long as they wouldn't weigh the sub down too much but you know what they say about crossing bridges when you get to them!
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wouldn't you need bait AND a net???
and what's shark bait made of, anyway? isn't it just other fish's guts? are we gonna have to go fishing first so we can get a lot of fish guts???
ibuki's got a whole lot of not-fish-guts on hand, but she has no idea if those fish would be attracted to it... do you think they like cow guts or pig guts or people guts?
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His hands "whoa" up steadily and claws spread back over the keyboard. Eyes fully-open again!]
I think so??
Sharks aren't picky though right?? These ones probably aren't SHARKS accounting for that this is a lake we're talking about but if they eat meat then all guts should be good guts!
Jesus catching that much fish for shark bait would be a pain in the ass anyway, I haven't gone fishing since I was a kid so for all I know Ryslig fish bite better but who'd wanna spend days standing around trying to get enough fish for guts one catch at a time
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ibuki thinks it sounds like fun! (^･ω･^=)y"
sitting out on an itty bitty boat with her all-time favorite person, singing whatever we got stuck in our heads to pass the time while we wait for fish to bite, and then bringing'em all home so we can gut and filet those bad boys...
ibuki also knows how to grill a mean fish, for the record!
her specialty doesn't lay JUST with nikujaga and horumonyaki, despite what people may tell you!!!
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Oh man Ibuki I can't even EAT
Every time I've tried I just wound up hurling all over the place
[ALSO. Guess who knows what neither of the other foods she mentioned are. 8,)b]
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oh yeah...
you mean you can't eat anything, right? is it just EATING you can't do?
can you like drink stuff???
ibuki's been thinking about taking you to a cafe that's started selling cute lil werewolf pastries and fakey "blood" tea, but if you can't have any, that'd just be sad...
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That. That second part comes in.
He's -- a bit blank and slack-jawed for a second or two! That -- that sure sounds like date stuff.
Datey-date stuff. And yeah, they're... they are dating, but hoo-hoooooo, this feels so frickin' new and weirdly in-his-chest thrilling from the girl who hasn't used the word "boyfriend"...!]
Nah I can drink stuff just fine!
It tastes better with some blood in it and if I don't down it right away it feels weird going down if I don't shake it up first but it doesn't make me sick or anything
[And as for the rest!
Well.]
You want us to go out on a date?
[Wow, now, sonny! Don't go assuming shit!]
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hey hey heyheyhey!
hey hey!
hey.
ibuki never used the d-word.
( -` 3´-)
... but yes.
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-- Flick back over to the monitor with his posture partially re-straightening, there, and HELLO, DOLLY, his grin twists back in ear-to-ear as he practically inflates straightened -- ]
Well haha oh my god what are we waiting for??????
This place is open at night, right???
When were you gonna do this??? I could stand to take a night off of the underwater ops work and YOU got something to show me!! Let's get those calendars all marked in!!!!
his face is not a dateable one.
It's not like she's taking him out sightseeing and then to a fancy love hotel or something, SHEESH --]
uhhh ibuki didn't plan that far ahead! but it's not gonna last suuuuper long, something about it being a "springtime monster combo?"
i have no idea what werewolves and vampires have to do with springtime, but it still looks super cute, and ibuki loooves her some tea and pastries!!
so maybe we could go tonight, if you're hankering for a break so bad!
[A pause, before -]
OH WAIT
maybe it's cause werewolves and vampires are always the monsters in those dorky teen romance dramedies??
springtime is the season of love, after all!! especially among the cute and perky and youthful, like ibuki!!
but don't take that out of context, of course!!!!
AND YET...
No don't worry don't worry, your secrets are safe with me!!
[What... secrets...]
But hell yeah let's go out tonight!!!
Man if we set the date ahead then I was thinking I could come up with other things we could do but all I can think of is movies, if they have horror movies out here then they're probably all the old timey ones where nothing BIG happens.
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[Another pause, like she's typing and deleting and retyping something over and over again -
Before deciding, y'know, fuck it. It's not like anyone can see their private conversations, right?
Except the Fourth God, supposedly, but fuck him.]
impromptu date night!
but you gotta come pick ibuki up and everything, okay??
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After a... couple beats? His brow knits. And skews. Right along with the slant of his mouth. Head lifts and falls in a crooked bob - "oh-kayyy...!"
Claws still hovering over the keyboard.
...'Til she finishes that sentence. Brow arches a little higher! Before, haa, well... everything sets back in...! Niiiiice and tickly-tingly warm...
A peel of his grin back on...]
The same way I always do
Or do you want the car
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theee way you always do! it'll give ibuki some time to get a little nicer than she is now!
she just got done rolling in the garden
heheheh
iiiii'll be waiting!!! ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿
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Haha you got it!!
Not too long you won't though!
Your man's coming :)
[Oh, you're coming, just not in the way you would like. (Ding!)]
Catch you before the sky gets dark!
[And with that! He...
...Pushes his laptop back. As if he's trying to pass a card or coaster across a table to skim like an air-hockey puck the rest of its way over.
It's a computer. It is too. Heavy to do that.
But no matter! All he wants is room to... sink onto his elbows. Rub his stupidly-grinning face from temple to cheekbone and back and back again...!
Sink down and cover his face with his hands, muffle something between sputtering and hissing cackles that rise and rise as his head does before the sigh out of an "OOOOooooooh...!" as he kicks his legs out and apart under the desk and... lounges!
Head lightly rockin' like a boat on a dock, aimed high, smiling with teeth bared to the gums along the upper row and a lazy look in his eyes. A heel tapping and set of claws... also tapping some invisible vertical surface.
It was dusk as of that last message - he can... bask in this... victory of fate? For a minute? Keep it tuggin' muscles that aren't... actual physical muscles up on strings?
Look, the point is he has time to let 'er do as she said she was doing.
He's a vampire! He knows the way to her place like the back of his freakin' hand by now; it ain't too hard for him to book it there when he puts his mind to it!
Which he does!
True to his word, he's on over at the door, gives a quick 'n rapping "shave and a haircut" knock on the frame -- pulls away for an open-mouthed throat-clear into the side of his fist.
Which falls into his pocket to tuck as he...
...Starts to sway and "step in place" every which way in more boat-rocking tips as he awaits.]
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What he gets to see: Ibuki standing at the door, one hand behind her back, and... decidedly fancier than usual. Not too far out of her usual get-up; more accessories, nicer piercings, and what looks to be an attempt at makeup on her fur, but otherwise mostly the same.
What he doesn't get to see: her rush to make sure her hair(-mane)'s nice enough, fumbling with all those piercings to get them swapped out, fiddling with her clothing to make sure everything's straight, tripping on the way to the door --
But no matter what, she does her best to open the door as she usually would, giving him a proper smile and everything.]
Hey! You were quicker than Ibuki expected - did you make a meal out of a jogger on your way here or something?
[Heh. Haha. Cannibalism jokes.
Her free, not-hidden hand is going to be thrown out to grab his wrist after that, though, and she attempts to tug him inside.]
Here, c'mon on, let's sit for a lil bit, first! We haven't just sat on the couch and had a good jam lately, right?
C'mon, c'mon!!
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His brow lifts - mouth just barely opens. Looking her up and down, pegging and mentally diagramming the extra little flourishes to her look - there's a moment where he careens like he's... trying to look around her, or at her side, or something, before his eyes take a zigzagging course up to her face...!
A beat -- and then a crunching-into-dust "KKHHHhhehhhh...!" laugh that draws back in with the muscles of his face twisting his grin back in.
-- It half-drops out again out of some kind of hm? when she... successfully catches his wrist. Pulls it on out of his pocket as his hand hangs limp, and he looks down to... regard it for a moment.
Before with a full mechanical head-snap, he's looking her back in the face.
Smile pulling to flash again - he leans back! As if to hold... weight at a balancing point between them, or something --
A couple higher... more dusty-flute-y quick giggles!
A tiny heel-step forward - still fluting - ]
-- All riiiiight -- ...!
[Pocketed hand unpocketing with the twist of an elbow into a "jazzhand" out by his side at a back diagonal.]
IIII'm comin' -- ! [A steady-bobbing nod!] I'm comin' up right behind ya -- ...!
[And yet! It's not until the last crackle of the vowel ending dies that he does, in fact, start to stroll on up to the doorway.]
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She's decided she likes it.
But that said - she does, indeed, pull him along - not harshly, but enough for a noticeable tug on his arm - into the keep proper, leading him to where the sofa sits.
Still keeping that other hand of hers hidden as she does, of course, but she takes him over before flopping down on her own and guiding him to join her.]
Sooo~ooo, after you logged off and stuff and Ibuki ran around like a chicken with its head cut off getting herself all nice, she took a moment to think about something, aaaand -
Here!
[Without looking at him, that hidden hand of hers gets thrust toward him - revealing it to be a bag like one would get for a birthday gift, complete with tissue paper and such. All of that looks pre-loved, like it was from her own birthday party...
(It was. It was absolutely from her party that he threw her. It's completely noticeable.)
But inside it is a black jacket of sorts; a nice suede sort of fabric with nice looking hems and a sewn on decal of a skull on its shoulder.
Also noticeable is the fact that the hem of the collar is unfinished, held together with safety pins.)]
It's not done yet... Ibuki's been working on it like a madwoman the last week-or-two!
But it's done enough for tonight, right? I was thinking, y'know, if I'm gonna get all dolled up and stuff, it's only fair that you do, too!
Sooo, this got some safety pins to hold it steady, and you can wear it for tonight!
... You know, if you want.
[She'd started looking at him partway through that - but ends up turning her face away again, obviously in some awkward show of embarrassment.
Like giving someone a gift is mushy or something.]
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