manjiro "street gang conflict" sano (
invinciblemikey) wrote in
expiationnet2023-10-20 07:56 pm
(video) a lil game moment
(manjiro comes into the camera, wearing his gang uniform with the words 'president' stitched, loud and proud. he sighs a little, but there's a smile on his lips before he speaks.)
I ain't into being strangers. Let's talk about ourselves with a single word and go from there. I'll start.
Motocyclist.
I ain't into being strangers. Let's talk about ourselves with a single word and go from there. I'll start.
Motocyclist.

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Whose was it?
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Your dojo was family-owned?
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Yep. Sano-family Karate Dojo. I'm a black belt with high dan.
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[it's a nice thought! but from his room in the inn he can't do very much with the space, so. eventually.]
What is "high dan"? Skill level, or perhaps time spent in training?
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Skill level.
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And supplies are merely one part of an atelier. The space itself needs to provide adequate space and lighting, among other things. While I am at the mercy of public housing, I am tragically stuck in a rut.
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I... Ultimately, yes. For the time being, there isn't any rush.
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[but to hold his sketchbook up for this "technology"... no, he shan't.]
You would have to meet me to see them.
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(damn going out with two twinks like that)
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hi mikey. give him a minute. he'll pick a table soon.]
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but he'll wait, watching with mild amusement.)
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anyway, after a bit more of his keen observations - through his finger-square, naturally - he scoots a chair around to the side of the chosen table from which he can people-watch, retrieving his sketchbook from the seat of said chair as well. he's about to take a seat when he realizes there's even someone else here, and of course:
he holds up the finger-square again. aha.]
So you've come. Join me.
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hands in pockets, he'll follow.)
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Tragically, I arrived in this world with only one sketchbook in my possession, so my portfolio is limited. Are you interested in portraiture, or the abstract?
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(he'll show the picture soon, part of him is so worried of just handing it to a stranger, it's such a precious thing. so, instead, he'll buy time, flipping over the pages himself.)
... Pretty good.
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[ah, this is a request... in that case, he refrains from swatting mikey's hand away from his sketchbook, although he does look not-quite-thrilled about someone else just touching it. rude and invasive? still, there are plenty of drawings in there: a few of them are even fellow chosen, if mikey has managed to meet kotone or astralin yet. plenty of them are strangers. on one page he attempted several times to draw a local house, and it looks good, but he clearly hated it for some reason and so none of those are finished.
hashtag art life.]
A picture of your companions, if I could be so bold as to guess.
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Yeah.
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yes, absolutely, he would love to do this. let him do this.]
I would be honored to recreate it for you, if you'll have my work. If you're thinking of something much larger, I will first have to procure more supplies...
[like, he can do it real big. if necessary.]
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(it's all he has. the uniform, the charm-- this picture is as bittersweet as it could be. the manji was never built for malice, for crime, it'd been created for protection. kids like them, they never fit. the streets are full of danger, of other gangs, and manjiro-- manjiro's always been the stronger, able to silence even the biggest, oldest, meanest of kids. one is dead. two have been arrested.
it's really all he has.)
I'll have your work. I like it.
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he picks up his pencil, tapping it a few times as he studies the photo a bit longer, then begins to sketch out the roughest details.]
Thank you. You shall have it; I will even refrain from taking on other projects until this is finished. Such a thing deserves the full force of my focus to bloom from the photograph onto the page.
[he's dumping all hyperfocus resources into this, that is. ahem.]
If you'd prefer not to part with the photograph, I will require you to meet me here again nightly, until it is done. I wouldn't dare to hold your treasure captive.
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(it means, mostly, that his empathy will be on. his care, his caring, all of this are going to be currency, easily. if that's not enough, then he'll have takemitchy pay for it somehow, later.)
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