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[reluctantjinrou]

Who: Natsuno Yuuki and YOU
Where: Various
When: Second half of Horseshoe
What: Natsuno is lurking here and there and trying to learn a thing or two. Please meet him he needs new friends.
Warnings: His permissions always apply - if you are looking for ideas.


[As always, there are things that can be noticed about Natsuno. He's paler than a regular human. His eyes might make him seem a little more animalistic, and if it's dark, they glow. Anyone who can pick up on the supernatural might realize there is more to him than meets the eye.]

[A] Kitchen

Natsuno found himself in a bit of a bind after the mission. He was feeling a lot more drained after the injuries he'd took and powered through, the skills he used drained away at his sources and he was hungry.

He had a pot of water on the stove, with the lid on, warming something up, but if he happened to be interrupted, he might look for something regular to snack on.

He was still keeping his nature to himself.

If he was interrupted in the moment he was pulling the now warm blood bag out of the pot, he might drop it back in and put the lid on.

It wasn't what it looked like.

[B] Cinema

He was interested in spending some time, so he settled in to watch a horror film of all things, now that he'd seen quite a few vampire ones, what was one more to laugh at on a whole new level?

Natsuno actually looked somewhat relaxed.

[C] Training Gym

He was trying to attempt to come up with some kind of fighting style, but honestly, he had no idea what he was doing. He had no grace, no natural movement and the dagger he had in his hand, he definitely wielded it like someone who looked completely inexperienced.

It wouldn't exactly be wise to bring him to a fight like that.

[D] Wildcard

[Select anyplace you want, I will roll with anything. I can also be hit up on Ammeschan or discord at Ammeschan#5385 if you want to plot/ask for anything. His powers are up for use if you want him to notice something about your character.]

Comments

I heard u have secrets

[dragula]

Tohru likes the kitchen car. Sure, it might be his first time ever on a train that had a kitchen car, or even anything more than a couple passenger cars, but that's not important.

The important thing is that, so long as he isn't interrupting meal prep, he can get food whenever he likes. And that time is right now.

Unfortunately for Natsuno, he spots his friend first, but fortunately doesn't note whatever he's doing, preoccupied with his current food quest (i.e. searching a fridge).

"Hey, Natsuno! I didn't know you cooked."

Secrets, what secrets

[reluctantjinrou]

He was a bit startled and turned away from the stove.

"Not at all. I don't cook." He shook his head. "I was thinking about a sandwich actually."

[dragula]

"Experimenting's alright too."

He's assuming for the time being that Natsuno just messed up whatever he was trying to cook and the sandwich is the backup.

"You want me to grab you anything? There's a bunch of that bear meat..."

[reluctantjinrou]

"That's fine."

He would wait until Tohru went into the fridge and then slide the pot into the sink out of sight. There, fine, he could deal with that later.

C~

[consider8]

Eight has not been wanting for keeping busy. Between exploring the train and keeping up with chores, she has not been want for things to do!

Keeping a routine and schedule is the way to go, and with the talk of going to a world soon it was important for her to keep in shape.

Which is how the octogirl, train bucket in hand, happened upon the morose boy again. What. What is he doing?

Bucket on hip, Eight stared a moment and pondered whether she should be saying anything.

[reluctantjinrou]

He'd heard her coming, it was impossible not to, but he'd decided to ignore it, in case she was just passing by.

He swung his dagger rather clumsily at a training dummy, not making contact, but his form was terrible. He was full of openings.

[consider8]

...yeah, she's not really one for melee weapons, but even she can see the problems in what he's doing. No coordination and fighting against himself... wide sweeping attacks...

"...I'm starting to root for the dummy..."

[reluctantjinrou]

"Probably a wise bet." Natsuno quipped a bit sarcastically. He sighed. He'd been an ordinary student, he wasn't built for this.

[consider8]

Well, now she's a committed. She takes a few steps toward Natsuno, resting her bucket on the ground next to her. It sloshes slightly with a bright magenta substance.

"You're thinking too much." She offered, eyes moving from his to the dummy. "And you're anticipating the impact. You need to push through your target, not try to hit them."

[reluctantjinrou]

"I'm not sure I understand what you mean." Natsuno responded. He kind of didn't, and he was a complete and utter beginner.

[consider8]

"May I?" She extended her hand out to receive the blade.

B

[hisblueskies]

Alfredo, in almost picture-perfect contrast, looks genuinely disturbed by what's on the screen. And, being new to cinema as it is, not all of the film's fundamentals make sense to him either.

"How... how is he doing that?"

Someone had just turned into, not one bat, but many!

[reluctantjinrou]

"Movie magic." Natsuno deadpanned.

"Unless of course real vampires can do that, but I don't think so." He was fairly certain on that front, he hadn't seen an influx of bats around.

[hisblueskies]

"Movie... magic?"

That couldn't be like the magic he'd seen so far on the train, could it? Or maybe this was commonplace in Natsuno's world.

"I think I've seen people here change their shapes, but not into so many beings at once!"

[reluctantjinrou]

"It means, mostly, that it's a special effect." Natsuno observed, at least explaining himself.

"I haven't seen that at all."

[hisblueskies]

"... Huh. Thank you for explaining, though."

Even if Alfredo knew he was going to need a whole lot more.

"How do they make the special effects happen, then? Do they need real bats to show up?"

[reluctantjinrou]

"I doubt it." He shook his head. "They're probably puppets, or some kind of prop."

He wasn't quite up on technology to go into things like computer generated effects.

[hisblueskies]

"That... I could see that, yes."

Though if these were puppets, they certainly lacked strings!

It's probably for the best neither of these two know about computers yet. Another lesson for another day.

Silence returned for a while - more than once, Alfredo flinched at another 'prop' or jump scare - but for the most part he was just... thinking.

"Is she really dead? ... The character, not the person playing her."

He could make THAT distinction!

B

[irrationally]

Alice actually rather likes the movies. They're amusing, and it's not like she ever got to see any back home - they weren't even really invented yet. Especially not the kind of movies that show in the cinema here. So she might as well take this chance to watch some.

But she does notice that she's not sitting here by herself in the dark. It takes a bit, but then she does notice Natsuno. At first she only notices and does nothing about it, but after a while - maybe this particular movie isn't too interesting to her after all - she does move over to sit down in the seat next to him instead.

She sure remembers him. The stubborn guy from the platform.

"Settling in?" She just asks.

[reluctantjinrou]

"As much as anyone could be." Natsuno responded, glancing over at her. She might notice in the dim light his eyes had bit of glow to them, almost like he had a small ring of light in them.

"Passing the time with a collection of unfamiliar, but horrible, horror films."

That wasn't exactly a negative though, horrible horror films had their own charm.

[irrationally]

A part of her wants to remark that it's more surprising for him to be settling in, given his attitude on the platform, but.. after thinking about it and exhaling a breath, Alice decides to not hold it against him too much. Right now he seems pretty reasonable. Maybe he was just having A Moment back there and then.

"I'm not quite sure why anyone calls them 'horror' movies to begin with. They aren't even scary." Alice shrugs a little. Though it's then that she glances over at Natsuno again, seeing his eyes like that..

.. huh. Interesting.

"Also, do your eyes always do that?"

[reluctantjinrou]

"Someone probably thinks they're scary." Natsuno drawled a bit sarcastically.

He blinked. "They're not red, are they?"

They weren't, they were the usual violet just alight. Natsuno wasn't actually aware they glowed in the dark like that. The redness, he knew about.

[irrationally]

She shakes her head, though she can't help but wonder why he'd ask about them being red or not. Do his eyes sometimes change colour? Somehow it's this fact that actually makes Natsuno seem more interesting by the moment to her.

"No, not at all. But it's as if there is light in your eyes." In a way that isn't just caused by a reflection of the cinema screen. Alice has seen that in others' eyes here enough to be able to tell the difference. "Like they are faintly shining. I don't think I've seen that from you before."

[reluctantjinrou]

"Huh..must be an effect of the darkness." Natsuno commented, drawing the right conclusion at least. "It must do that all the time when I'm in the dark then."

The redness, did come and go, based on whether or not he was engaged in his powers.

[irrationally]

"Is that just something that's normal for everyone where you come from?"

She doesn't think so, judging by the fact that he apparently didn't know until now. If everyone did it, surely he would have seen it on someone else before. But then again, he does say it much too casually for someone who just found out their eyes apparently glow in the dark.

So who knows that it is. Alice is still pretty curious though. She's not even paying any real attention to the movie anymore at this point - it wasn't too good in the first place, anyway.