towerofanimus | Track 376

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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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."

As Tohko listened to the song, she shook her head. She had never heard it before, but the beat sounded nice, and while she wasn't able to catch all of the lyrics, she liked the singers voice.

"That doesn't sound weird at all. I've felt the same way with the right book, especially if I've had it for a long time. It soaks up the memories, and as I'm reading it, they all come back to me, and the characters all sound like actual people that I could have known, if I lived in the right time and place."

Tohko scratched her head. "That may not make much sense..but I do understand what you're feeling."

Track 376 - Eat It [Open]

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But worrying is my greatest talent!

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