voidtreckerexpress | OTA - Ramen, anyone?

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OTA - Ramen, anyone?

Who: Senku Ishigami, Gen Asagiri, Roland Crane and open, so very open!
Where: Kitchen
When: Horseshoe 17
What: Senku misses ramen, and so in tradition, he's making some and there's definitely enough to share.
Warnings: Shouldn't be!

Locked to Roland and Gen

Ramen didn't just make itself, and while he could cut a break, it seemed unlikely that Gen was going to leave well enough alone. He was pulling out ingredients for the broth and the noodles and he grinned.

"Glad you could make it." He addressed Roland with a smirk. "Time to pay up." He said with a beckoning motion of his finger. "Come on, I'll teach you how to make ramen."

He didn't know if Roland was familiar with it or not, but most people probably couldn't make it from scratch either.

OTA - Everybody come and eat!

It may not have been their turn to cook, but Senku didn't care because he was the one missing it the most.

The ramen that is being served has a light, brown broth from soy sauce and is actually quite tasty. Gen and Senku have had a lot of practice with substandard ingredients, and so making it with the real thing?

It's pretty decent. They went with shoryu ramen because it was the easiest with the ingredients on hand, mixed with some of the garlic and ginger that they picked up, as well as served with pork - real pork they picked up on the mission, not mystery bear meat.

Both Senku and Gen were helping to serve and dress the ramen, just like they might be at home.

[Ramen free for all, grab a bowl and Senku, Gen or Roland, or any combination of the trio above.]

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Wormmon looks up at Ken with big, longing eyes at the idea of extra pork. Ken doesn't want to take pork away from anybody else, but if Gen's offering, there must be enough...

So he smiles and moves their bowls closer to the chef. "Thanks very much."

"You're welcome, my friends." Gen gave them each just a little more, and then winked. "Happy ten year anniversary. To many more!"

He's tempted to ask to pet the worm-type-Digimon, despite his normal dislike of insects. But he's speaking to him and talking to him like a person, it seemed very rude to suddenly treat it like a pet.

"Thank you!"

Wormmon tries to wink back at the nice ramen guy. Wormmon cannot wink. So he ends up looking like he has something in his eye.

....Ken stares until Wormmon pipes up again, which indicates to his partner that he does not, in fact, need help wiping anything off his face. So Ken picks up some of Wormmon's pork with his chopsticks instead. "I'm Wormmon. What's your name?"

Question asked, Wormmon opens his mandibles wide for Ken to feed him the pork. Yes, he could probably feed himself when he has his own bowl, but all food tastes better when it's from Ken-chan!

This is a proven fact of the universe.

"My name is Asagiri Gen," he introduced himself with a smile and a playfully little bow, clearly joking around. "It's a pleasure meeting you, Wormmon."

"And you are?" Gen tilted his head at Ken.

"Ken-chan, your names rhyme," says Wormmon, at the same time "Ken-chan" replies "Ichijouji Ken."

Both partners blink, look sheepish at having talked over each other.

"Sorry."

"It's fine."

And then they're smiling at each other again before turning back to Gen. "Nice to meet you, too."

"And you," Gen laughed softly. "Given how long you've known each other, I bet you finish each other's sentences all the time."

It was really very cute.

"Hm, we might."

Ken will have to think about this. Wormmon has his own take on the situation.

"I used to have to talk for Ken-chan more. But now he's grown up and can say what he's feeling."

That's what it means to be a grown-up, right?

He opens his mouth so the grown-up can feed him some ramen.

"Hmm, I guess I've always been very talkative, so if I had a partner like you, Ken," Gen looked amused, "they'd be working overtime to make certain I talked far less."

"Mmmrfffdrrr. Mmm nnnffhh mrgh!"

Wormmon probably either just encouraged Gen, informed him partnerships like that do exist, or complimented the ramen. It is difficult to tell.

"Nothing like this exists in your world?" Ken asks, to make sure: there are so many worlds. What purpose could there be for bringing people from that many worlds here? The Digital World only ever summons children from his real world. Ken had never questioned that until now. He feels rather small-minded. "Aside from in fiction."

"Animal companions who can become close friends, who can speak for themselves and be as intelligent as humans?" Gen asked, to clarify. He shook his head.

"Not in my world. There's people who have pets, certainly, but a dog wouldn't be able to tell me that he's helping his owner regain her confidence or say he wants ramen, too. Though I'd say that the bond between people and their pets is still important? It's still not the same."

Wormmon swallows his ramen, the better to agree with Gen. "We're not pets! If we were, Ken-chan would be breaking the rules by having me in his apartment. And he's a good boy!"

This is why Digimon do not equal pets. This reason alone.

...Ken is just going to take a bite of his own ramen because he really doesn't have a follow-up for that.

Gen laughed softly. "I'm sure, I'm sure. I hope you don't mind me saying so, but you don't seem like the type who's very fond of breaking the rules, my friend."

"Aha..ha..."

Ken can't mind the truth, not really, but it being that obvious does make him slightly self-conscious. Wormmon, however, is extremely fond of this topic, and waves his legs so Gen will pay attention to him.

"Ken-chan only breaks rules to help people! We pick up LITTER when we see it!"

These times are few and far between, because on the whole, they live in a socially-conscious country. But Ichijouji Ken is not the sort of person who can jog by a discarded soda can in the park without finding a receptacle to place it in - partly because it sparks ruminations on the nature of mankind, partly because he'd feel like leaving it there would be an imposition on whoever needed to clean.

And Wormmon helps. (By tripping over the soda can. He will not mention that bit.)

Gen smiled and nodded at Wormmon, but he made sure it was a friendly expression, not making fun. "That seems like an important kind of rule to break. And nobody likes litter."

He told Ken with a wink, "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone of your rebellious, litter-cleaning ways."

Wormmon didn't quite have that right, but Ken isn't going to correct anyone here. "....Mm."

"What about you?" Wormmon can, occasionally, be curious about people who are not Ken-chan. If they like Ken-chan enough. People who like Ken-chan are good. "Are there rules on the train?"

And does Gen follow or break them? If there is a rule about feeding Digimon, Wormmon likes that one. A few people have followed it so far.

"I don't believe there's anything official," Gen noted, "but really! I think there's some common sense ones that apply. I'm pretty sure nobody wants people to go around hurting people, and if someone was stealing things from others, that'd be pretty frowned upon."

"Honestly, if anyone was to make an official set of rules, I'd propose the first and most important should simply be, 'Don't be a jerk.'" Gen grinned at them.

"That's a good rule." Ken can get behind that one, completely. It's pretty much the only thing he doesn't let slide.

Though....

"...Do you mind if I ask something about the other passengers?"

Wormmon looks over, distracted from even ramen. He has a feeling he knows where this is going, and he wants to hear it too.

Because it's been worrying Ken-chan!

Gen's head tilted a little, curious. "I don't mind at all. I'm somewhat new here, relative to other people, but I'm still happy to help if I can."

Ken thinks about this. It's odd of him, isn't it, that the person who physically wounded him on the train platform bothers him less than the person who merely spoke? But he felt like he understood what had happened when he'd been injured. The other only negative interaction he's had on the train was just...baffling.

"On the platform, I met someone who openly stated they were a villain." Ken does not mention that this "someone" was a book. Or that the book had introduced himself by a song-and-dance routine featuring exploding penguins and being lit on fire. None of this registers as reasons to perhaps not be concerned. "Is that...common?"

Except, Gen had also seen the same performance. It was ... really hard to miss. He blinked, and then laughed softly, smiling warmly at Ken.

"No, it's not common - except, perhaps, from Zetta," Gen told him, once he was done giggling. "Is that who you're referring to?"

Ken's eyebrows shoot up - got it in one. "He's always like that?"

And no one's....worried? ~~(On multiple levels?)~~

Gen heard the unvoiced question, and he shrugged a little helplessly. "I haven't been here too long, but it seems so?"

"It does seem to rub some people the wrong way ..." Gen's expression was a little bemused, "... a lot of people jokingly mentioned wanting to yeet him off the train."

Of course, he wouldn't bring up the fact that Gen was very, very worried about Zetta, and would be keeping a close eye on him. Ken seemed like a sweet boy, it's probably a good idea not to freak him out.

Ah....so.....Zetta is...unusual....

But also....

.....

......"'Yeet'?"

Ken is from 2010. "Yeet" is from 2014.

(These are the things people find themselves researching for online roleplay.)

"Ah!" Gen grinned brightly, his eyes twinkling a little. "To yeet - this is the opposite of to yoink!"

Did that clarify? Hopefully in person, Ken would realize that he's being teased in a friendly way, unlike those girls who threatened to chuck him off the train instead.

(( I giggled so much :D ))

Oh....so, then...

The light dawns. ".......Ah."

Wormmon looks up at Ken, impressed. Ken-chan....Ken-chan is so clever. Wormmon still doesn't get it, but Ken-chan does!

In short: it's a third, completely unexpected reaction, Gen!

Ken has no idea he's even being teased at all!

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