towerofanimus | Track 376

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Track 376 - Eat It [Open]

Morning - Cafeteria Kitchen

[Yosuke isn't really sure what's possessed him to come this far. It's not like he's ever had a problem eating the cafeteria food, but today? Today he finds himself in the kitchen, staring at a frying pan and with a bunch of eggs at the ready. An omelet. It can't really be that hard, right?]

[Sure, the girls all screwed it up, but that was because they were all genuinely terrible at cooking! No matter what he does, he can't do it that bad]

[Right?]

Okay, so... I crack the eggs first, right?

[Deep breaths]

Midday - Media Room

[And now that his mis-adventures in cooking are over, it's time for his usual pastime - wasting the day away in the media room! Today's choice?]

[Seems he's just kicking back and listening to some tunes. And whether it's nostalgia or something else, today's choice is certainly pop-ier than what he usually listens to. It's the upbeat catchy tunes of one Risette!]

[Approach?]

Late Afternoon - Music Room

Dammit!

[He swears after a very sharp and wrong-sounding note. Closer inspection would show that Yosuke has a guitar in hand and while it's not clear what exactly he's trying to play, he's certainly trying to play something! Judging from the look of frustration on his face, however, it doesn't seem to be going well]

Come on, I get to be on stage with Gas Chamber and now I can't play to save my life? I was never that good, but this just isn't fair!

[And yet despite his lement, there he goes again!]

[Good judgement never was his forte]

[OOC NOTE: Hi castmates I haven't had the chance to thread with yet! Sorry I haven't been around much. If you'd like to tag this post but want to work out interaction our characters should have logically had before this point, PLEASE feel free to hit me up! I can be reached via PM, on AIM at drunkkitsune, by e-mail at drunkkitsune@gmail.com, or send me a private plurk @drunkkitsune]

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In truth, Yosuke wasn't as bad off as he made out to be. He could make it through tabs with a bit of effort - he just wasn't used to them in the slightest. A teacher would have been helpful, but if she was even more lost than he was, then that was that.

"Well, then we'll just have to make do with what we've got! But since you mention it..." Yosuke glanced over at her book once more. "How did you start getting called 'The Book Girl' anyway? It's a cute nickname though."

"I guess you'll have to..although, if you put out a post on the network, you might be able to find someone with a little more information than me." Tohko offered. If she couldn't help, then she would at least tell him ways that he could find help.

Tohko grinned when he mentioned her title. "Thanks..although, it's my title." She corrected. "I'm the book girl because I know more about books than most people, and I love them more. After all, there aren't many people who can talk about how weird the first draft of Peter Pan was or how Bulgakov burned his first draft of The Mater and Margarita in despair, and there are even fewer who can solve mysteries and help others just be using books!" Once you got Tohko started, it was hard to stop her..

The guitar is momentarily forgotten as he stares. It's part in amazement, and just a little analytical. This girl certainly seems like she's got a brain with enough nerdy information in it to rival one Detective Prince - which of course means that she's clearly a nerd!

But... she also has social skills, so it's not like she must spend her entire life locked inside of libraries, right? Add in her comment about solving mysteries on top of it, and he can't help but ask.

"So, miss lovely Book Girl, are you a detective then?"

Tohko smiled at the flattery. While it wouldn't help him with anything, it was nice to be called that once in awhile. However, she shook her head. "While I did solve a mystery back home, it's not like I'm Sherlock Holmes or anything like that. I just used my books and made a few deductions that came out correctly. Helping people out with books is pretty wonderful though.."

Tohko immediatly thought of Chia. After all, she'd been able to save her from dying by just going on about Osamu Dazai's works. Tohko then chuckled a little. "How about you? Planning on being a rock star?"

"Me? As if!" The thought makes him smile though, and for a brief moment he can imagine himself on a stage in front of thousands, the spotlight shining as everyone starts chanting his name. It's a very short lived fantasy, and he's back to reality in no time.

"I'm just a wage slave, working for Junes out in the boonies. I've always loved music though, and I just sort of thought... well, the next logical step would be learning to play, right? I don't think I'll even make it to a garage band, I just figured it'd be fun, if I can get any good at it." Though maybe if he could con a few other people into it... well hell, a garage band might be do-able.

Even if Teddie was in it.

Tohko chuckled. "I wouldn't worry. If you work hard enough at it, then you can make a small band, at the very least. Besides, we don't get much music here in the Tower. If you asked around, you might find a few teachers or a few people willing to join in." She didn't know if the guy was going to make it back at his home world, but, seeing as his home world may not even exist, she didn't mention it. She didn't want to bring down his good mood.

A few people willing to join in? He can't help but laugh at that.

"It's funny you'd say that. There was a party a few months back and the band playing was Gas Chamber. It was crazy - I've listened to them back home! But here they are, young, before they ever even made it big, and they had me go on stage and play with them." He shakes his head at the memory, but there's a giant smile plastered on his face.

"I still can't believe it happened."

Tohko grinned. "Congratulations! That must have been awesome. Hopefully you'll be able to do it again while I'm here so that I can listen to you guys. Although..I've never heard of Gas Chamber before. How good is their stuff?" Tohko was a book girl for a reason. While she knew of some classical composers and had listened to a few modern tracks, her passions always rested on books.

"Well... I'll be honest. Their early stuff? It's not that great, and they're here from waaaaaay before they even made it kind of sort of big." So really, they were passable but it was nothing like being on a big stage or anything, but dammit he still got to play with famous musicians and he's going to count it!

"Still, it was awesome! I guess for you it'd be like meeting... crap, what was his name? The Sherlock guy? Man, Naoto would know."

"Ah, I see..well, at least they improved over time. And it is great that you got to play with the people you admire!" Tohko grinned and chuckled. "Arthur Conan Doyle. However, while it would be amazing to meet Doyle, he's dead now. Besides, he wasn't very fond of Sherlock anyways, so if I met him and brought it up, he'd be rather annoyed."

Though someone being dead apparently has no impact on their ability to appear in the tower, Yosuke decides now is likely not the best time to mention that, so he goes another route. "Really? Man, I never would have guessed he didn't like his own series. But if he's not an option... who's your favorite author then?" The odds of Yosuke having more than a passing knowledge of whoever she says were slim, but it was worth a shot!

Tohko smiled. "Well, it's funny that you should point that out. You see, Doyle loved writing historical books, and thought those were better than the stories in his Sherlock Holmes series. However, everyone outside of Doyle preferred Holmes over his historical novels, which frustrated him to no end. If you've ever read into Holmes, you'll see that Doyle tried to kill off the character so that he could get people focused on his other works, but due to public outcry, he was forced to try and revive him, which he did."

Tohko then thought for a moment before shaking her head. "I'm sorry, I don't have a favorite author. There's way too many people who write delicious, warm, wonderful stories!"

Huh! Yosuke never would have guessed that was the case and makes a mental note to tell Naoto before chastising himself. Of course Naoto already knows, she's Naoto. Still, it's interesting, and Tohko gets his undivided attention throughout. Even if he doesn't get any better at guitar, he can at least say he learned something today.

"No favorite, huh? Well, I guess I can understand that. It'd be pretty hard for me to pick a favorite musical artist, too. Still..." He casts another eye at her book, trying to figure out where he's seen that title before. Somewhere in Junes, right? Then it clicks!

"That one's... James Bond, I think? I always forget those movies were books, too."

Tohko chuckled. "Right. This book is You Only Live Twice. And you shouldn't forget! While the Bond movies are good, the Bond books are quite different. For instance, the first Bond film, Dr.No is actually the sixth book in the series, the first being Casino Royale.

The movie version of this book is different too. In the film, Bond is working to prevent a nuclear war from breaking out in America and Russia by going to Japan and finding out who keeps stealing their spaceships.

In the book, Bond is highly depressed, due to Bloefield murdering his wife, and he's botched two recent jobs. M, giving him one last chance, sends Bond out to Japan to get some information out of Tiger Tanaka, the leader of the Japanese Secret Service. Bond then learns a lot about the Japanese culture all while trying to get that info out of Tanaka. However, to do it, he'll have to kill a local 'botanist' and his wife, as their house is covered with poisonous plants and is driving suicidal people there in droves. It's really delicious! It tastes like a rice ball wrapped up in a strong piece of nori!" Tohko gushed.

Yosuke listens intently - it's a surprisingly interesting subject of conversation! For just being The Book Girl, she certainly knows her shit about both versions. It's quite impressive, and Yosuke is more than a little impressed at her breadth of knowledge. Not only that, it sounds like he's missing out by not reading the Bond books! And if they have them here, then why not?

... but then she calls the book delicious and he finds himself hesitating. That? That was a strangely specific description.

"The... the book tastes like a rice ball?"

Oh no. Another person didn't take too kindly to her comparison. "J-just a comparison. It's not like I actually go around eating books. It's just how I compare them, you know?" She nervously chuckled and scratched her head.

On the one hand, it's a strange comparison. On the other hand, even if it's strange, there's nothing really wrong with it. So what if she compares food to books?

It does mean he can tease her though, and he gets a grin on his face. "So then what does your favorite book taste like? I know you said you don't have a favorite author, but I'm sure you've got a book you've read way more than any other one, right?"

Tohko grinned nervously. Hopefully this guy hadn't caught on. Hopefully, he was only joking.

"Oh, I can't pick a favorite book. There are way too many delicious stories to pick on favorite out of the pile."

Despite those words, Tohko knew that she read love stories and children's fairy tales a bit more than most. However, that didn't mean that they were her favorites.

The only things Yosuke has caught on to are that Tohko is exceedingly cute and incredibly easy to tease. As luck would have it, he's a big fan of both attributes.

"Uh-uh, no getting out of this one! Even if you can't say it's your favorite, everyone has a book or a song or a movie or something that they always go back to more than the others! So what's yours? Come on, I'll share mine if you share yours."

... that may have come out wrong, but oh well! It's out there now.

"But it's just really hard to pick..after all, who can choose between the snazzy caviar that's The Great Gatsby, or the warm, semi-bubbly bottle of apricot wine that's The Master and Margarita?! Or the pink, fruity bubblegum that is The Golden Key?!" Tohko cried. It really was hard for her to choose between so many different dishes.

"However...I suppose Gallico's The Snow Goose is just so sweet..it's like a rainbow-colored snow cone!" Tohko eventually decided. She wondered what this boy liked the most.

This is easily the strangest conversation he's ever been a part of, and he's had some doozies back home. But there's something adorably earnest about her that makes it hard to think her abnormal, even if the conversation is that in spades.

"The Snow Goose, huh? Well if that's the one you go back to the most, maybe I'll give it a read! It's the least I can do after putting you on the spot like that."

Tohko grinned.

"If you haven't read The Snow Goose yet, you're really missing out. It's all about the connection between two quiet souls, a lonely painter named Rhayader who lives in a lighthouse next to a marsh, and Fritha, a girl who appears one day carrying an injured white goose. Ah..the love that the have for each other is so pure! Words almost don't do them justice!" Tohko gushed.

"..By the way, what is your favorite thing?" She asked. After all, he had promised to tell her.

Yosuke's grin turned a bit sheepish. "I don't exactly do a ton of reading. I mean, reading's fine and all! It's just not my thing, you know? Nobody's about to call me 'The Book Guy.'"

"But even if I'm not cut out to be a musician, music's my favorite thing by far. There's just nothing like slipping on some headphones and letting the music just sort of... move through you, you know? Let it flow through you and get lost in the rhythm." Yosuke found himself blushing, and shook his head a bit. "Ugh, listen to me! It's embarrassing when I say it out loud."

"Anyway, I don't know if I could pick a favorite song, but the one I listen to the most? Well..." Yosuke trailed off, clearly trying to stall for time as he thought.

Tohko smiled. "It's not embarrassing! It's cool that you love music that much! I'm not a huge music fan, but it's great that you love it so much. Maybe we should call you 'The Music Boy'?"

This was not teasing. Tohko was actually quite serious about giving Yosuke that title. Tohko, not catching that he was just trying to stall, waited patiently for him to come up with something.

The Music Boy? He'd never hear the end of it - he could already hear his friends teasing him relentlessly about it in his head. And yet... coming from her, it didn't sound too terribly bad. Still, titles aside, he hadn't really picked a favorite song, let alone one he listened to more than any other. But after a few moments of consideration, there was one obvious candidate - a song he'd listened to quite a few times as he and his group of friends had explored that other world.

He gets up and switches the song over, a familiar tune (to him at least) filling their part of the media room.

"I think I've listened to this song more than any other one. Maybe it's the memories I've got tied to it, but there's something about it that just makes me feel... really alive. I know that probably sounds weird, but I don't think I can explain it any better than that."

But if you worry too much, you're going to get sick!

tohko_amano - 2012-12-03 04:30 (UTC) - Expand

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Sorry this is STUPID LATE, feel free to ignore orz

It's alright! Don't worry about it!

But worrying is my greatest talent!

But if you worry too much, you're going to get sick!